Translated from 'Nordmændene i Amerika' by Martin Ulvestad, 1907. Sheridan County Peter T. and Knut T. Johnson from Holta near Stavanger as well as John H. Jacobsen and Tollef Sand, who came from Holstein, Ida Co., Iowa and settled here at Rushville in 1885 were the first Norwegians in this (Sheridan) county. (This report does not agree with all this county's people. One of my correspondents says that Henry Cleven came here in 1884. Auth) They settled on the prairie, built dugouts as usual and began growing wheat and potatoes. The settlement's nearest marketplace was Valentine, 100 miles away. A congregation was established in that settlement in 1889 by Pastor P. T. Hilmen of The Norwegian Synod.