Translated from 'Nordmændene i Amerika' by Martin Ulvestad. 1907. Lyman County An O. G. Johnson, who is now dead, was the first Norwegian settler in this county. He settled in the vicinity of Presho, but the year is not known. Next after him came Nels Haagensen from Aal, Hallingdal and Gudmund P. Hillmoe from Tydalen. The county's most significant source of income was cattle raising. Teacher Svein Halvorsgaard from Aal, Hallingdal, now living in Cavite, writes that they were in Chicago on their way from Norway, when everything they owned was stolen - even the liitle boys' caps. From his cash ($19.00) he had loaned a friend money so he could get a railway ticket and continue the trip with them from New York to Dakota. So now the whole group was short of money and everything else. They had nothing to eat on the way from Chicago to Canton, S.Dak. where they also spent a night on an empty stomach, since they did not have the courage to beg - and they did not wish to try the credit system, strangers as they were. The first Norwegian congregation in Lyman county was established at Presho in 1893 by Pastor O. O. Landbo of The Norwegian Synod. The first - and until now the only - church was built at Presho in 1896 by the White River Congregation, established in 1894 by Pastor Henry Solem, belonging to The United Church. Now there are 4 congregations and 2 churches, 2 of them belong to The Norwegian Synod and 2 to The United Church. Norwegian C. Myhre of Oacoma has been a County Judge. Lund post office has possibly gotten its name from Norwegians.