Translated from 'Nordmændene i Amerika' by Martin Ulvestad. 1907. Buffalo City One of Buffalo's old, well-known citizens, engineer S. Munch Kielland from Stavange writres, "As you naturally know, a number of the Sloop emigrants settled near here. That was in 1825 they came and settled at Kendall, Orleans Co. On a visit there in 1881, I met several of these Sloopers or their descendants, more correctly. I recall I spoke to Messrs. Johnson, Larson, Aarsland, Danielsen and Roes. The Americans here think highly of the old Norwegian immigrants and their families. Mrs. Martha Larsen, the widow of Lars Larsen Jeilene, one of the leaders of the Sloopers, I met in Rochester in1887. She was then eighty-some years old. She knew many of my relatives in Stavanger very well. When she heard that I was going tomake a trip home, she exclaimed, "Oh no, Oh no, Kielland, that's as though you are taking a trip to Heaven!" She could not forget her childhood home at Ryfylke's fjords. One of the oldest Norwegians in Buffalo is Hans Holst who has been here for over 40 years. He is a son of old Captain Per Holst of Chicago. The Holst family (which came from Skien) are well known. In Buffalo we also find some remnants of the Ole Bull Colony that was founded in Potter County, Pa. at a place known as Oleana. (See Pennsylvania). Mr. N. Nielsen, who has lived in Buffalo for a long time was one of Bull's followers. Nielsen's son is the Treasurer of the First National Bank here. Also here is Mrs. Bergh (ca. 90 years old) and her daughter Mrs. Kate Parker. Nor can we forget Ole Snyder, Oleana's first child* who has for a long time been one the City of Buffalo's leading lawyers and who recently was the Democratic Party's candidate for the U.S. Congress; that he lost is not his, but the Party's fault. Otherwise it cannotbe said that there are many Norwegians in this city. Nor are there many in other parts of the State with the exception of Greater New York, as already mentioned. *His father was called Anderson and emigrated with his wife from the Kværnmoe farm in Elverum to Ole Bull's colony in Pennsylvania in 1852. There he (Ole Snyder) was born, but his mother died (in childbirth) and he was adopted by a German family whose name he bears. His father enlisted in the Civil War where he advanced to Captain - and fell. See 'Norwegians in American wars'