Translated from 'Nordmændene i Amerika' by Martin Ulvestad. 1907. Suffolk County In Boston there are 2 Nowegian churches and 3 congregations. It is The Norwegian Synod's and The Evangelical Free Church's representatives that have been particularly active there. While the Norwegians are rather numerous in the big city, I have exerted myself to get some idea if there was not one or another who had held public office. But neither the priests or other knowledgeable countrymen who I have contacted knows of any. Consul G. Lootz, for example, wrote, "In the course of the 30 years I have lived here, no Norwegian has held public office as far as I know." And there is another thing that suggests that most of them who wished to get ahead in the world and to leave their mark, have followed Horace Greeley's counsel and "went West". However, in Boston we find a number of Norwegian businessmen, artists and others of whom Mother Norway need feel no shame. (See 'Sammenstilling af norske Sambygdinger i Amerika' in the book's last part).In this city there is also a Leif Ericksen monument. It was raised in1887.