Hi, I own both Vol. I and II. Your James Lamm appears in Vol. I, PP 125 & 163. Text as follows: P. 125 "THE NEXT SETTLERS There may, possibly, have been a few others, but certain it is that the following named persons constituted the principal first settlers in what is now Nicollet County: James Lamm and Louis Hanson, in Lake Prairie township; L. D. and S.D. Parsons and Frank Mason, in Belgrade township; Joshua Post and Jack Hamilton, in Nicollet township; Martin Walser, Alexander Harkins, John and James Robinson, in West Newton township; Jacob Harmon , in Courtland township." p. 163 This section is about Lake Prairie township. "FIRST EVENTS It is generally believed that the pioneer settler of the township was James Lamm, who came in the summer of 1853. In August, of the same year, came Louis Hanson, and in July, 1854, Nelson Norman, Elias Larson, Binnell Nelson and Mr. Lubliff, with their families. The settlers then came in quite rapidly for a time, but the Civil War hindered such settlement. The first Norwegian Lutheran church in Nicollet county was organized in this township in 1858. The first school was taught by James Lamm in the autumn of 1856." James Lamm must have taught my ancestors who arrived in October 1857 from Illinois! Linda Miller Louden/Hughes Family History Web Page is at the following address: http://www.genealogy.com/genealogy/users/m/i/l/Linda-S-Miller/index.html