Came from Lillehammer, Oppland and Gudbrandsdalen Valley areas of Norway.
Kristian Peterson Dahl was born in 1856 and died in 1941 at age 85.63

Family records show Christian and Sedsel getting married and immigrating to the US the same year arriving Sept 1879 (New York, Castle Garden). 1900 Census shows year of immigration as 1883 (17 years in the US)

We travelled from Lillehammer Tuesday 5th September and we arrived in Christiania Friday 5th September at 05:00 in the afternoon. Then we came to Christiansand at 07:00 Saturday morning. We stayed there about an hour or so before we went out onto the wild sea. We arrived in Hull (England) Tuesday morning. From there we travelled by train, and arrived in Liverpool the same evening at 05:00. We stayed there until Thursday afternoon at 05:00. Then we travelled on the sea and arrived in Ireland Sunday the 14th where many people came onboard. Shortly afterward, we travelled on and arrived New York early next morning. We were in Castle Garden until Monday evening and travelled on by train to Chicago, where we arrived Wednesday at 09:00 in the evening. We spent the night there and travelled again by train to Santa Paul where we arrived Friday morning at 06:00. We stayed there almost the whole day until we left at 05:00 p.m. and arrived at Herman Station Saturday morning at 02:30. We stayed there for a while and then we rented a ride from a farmer who was on his way to sell wheat. He travelled by ox so it moved very slowly. We travelled the whole day and most of the night until we arrived at the home of a farmer named Johannes Andersen, the brother of the one we rode with. We spent most of the Sunday there because the weather was bad. In the evening the weather cleared up so we decided to travel on. When we reached a school nearby, we almost lost track of the road because of the fog, but at last we arrived at Børe Dahl at 10:00 Sunday evening. By the way we also had some fog on the North Sea. The best weather was when we were on the Atlantic Ocean, except a few days with a little wind.

We are now at Andreas, where I’m writing this letter. Our brother Karl is staying with Karoline, daughter of Andreas, and is staying there for some weeks. I haven’t found anything to do yet, but I’m thinking about taking a trip down to Fergus Falls and look for work there. If I can’t get into any business there, we’re supposed to stay there through the winter. I haven’t yet visited Johannes, but I spoke to him at Børe, yet I didn’t recognize him. Anders has now arrived America. As you probably have heard, he is at Børn’s. I have greetings to you from our parents and siblings, they are all well, and everything was as usual when we left. It’s now been a month since we left home. 64

Will settle in Otter Tail county Minnesota and stay, at first, with his mothers brothers and sisters who had already settled there.

1880 Census - Tumuli, Otter Tail MN with wife, was married within the current year, age 24.

In 1883 the family moved from Dalton, Otter Trail, MN to Crary. Originally lived in a sod home two miles north of Crary.

Land records show Christian P. Dahl acquiring one tract in 1889 and three tracts in 1894 in Ramsey County, near Dalton North Dakota.