Recollections of Two Immigrant Sisters

Authors

James D. Iversen

Keywords

emigration, family, opportunity, Danish

Abstract

My father's family were among those thousands of Danes who made their decision to emigrate to America in the last decade of the nineteenth century. On March 28, 1893, Peter Iversen and wife Kirstine and children Christine, 12 years, Karen, 10, Katherine, 8, Marie, 6, Mikkel, 5 and Laura, not quite 3 years old, sailed from Copenhagen on the "Thingvalla." The came first to Sioux CIty, Iowa, where Kirstine's brother Graves Mikkelsen had settled earlier. Times were not prosperous in 1893 in Sioux City, however so the family soon moved to a homestead site in Buffalo County, South Dakota, about 200 miles to the northwest. My father, Alfred, the youngest of the family, was born at the homestead less than three months after their ship had reached New York.

Recommended Citation

Iversen, James D. (1988) "Recollections of Two Immigrant Sisters," The Bridge: Vol. 11: No. 1, Article 9.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/thebridge/vol11/iss1/9