In the time between 1850-1900 Dalsland experienced a wave of emigration, mainly small scale farmers trying to flee poverty and famine. The number of people leaving Dalsland for Norway or America was estimated at 64,000. Otto emigrated to Pennsylvania in the United States of America in 1881 at age 23. ®3789 He worked in the coal mines. They married on 3 September 1881 in DuBois, Pennsylvania and their first child, Charles was born there on 27 March 1882. ®3789 They had moved to Silver Creek, Michigan by 16 January 1884 when Albert was born and Otto became a naturalized United States citizen on 27 May 1885. ®162. They moved to Ashland, Wisconsin in 1887 where Otto became engaged in logging. They opened a Swedish boarding house for lumberjacks, the Otto Anderson Hotel, which on 1 June 1900 had sixteen boarders at 609 St. Clair Street, Ashland, Wisconsin. ®3788 ®3789 ON 15 April 1910 they had moved to Sanborn, Wisconsin, where Otto was the walking? boss of a cord wood camp. ®4053He died on the farm at Andersonville (Sanborn), Sanborn Avenue, Ashland, Wisconsin in 1914 at age 56 years. ®185

Did he die in 1928? There are two Högsäter’s in the Swedish Gazetteer in the approximate area: 1) is a locality near Färgelanda in Dalsland län (prior to 1998 was northern Alvsborg lan and since is in Vastra Gotaland lan where the family probably lived), and 2), a built up area in Eda in Värmland län . ®3793 Soken means parish.