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Albert Solberg, born Alert Iversen Solaas emigrated to the United States
in 1909 from the Hyllestad municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county in
southwestern Norway. After staying in Wisconsin for a few months,
he went to live with his
uncle, Ole Waagseth, near Dogtooth, North Dakota. In 1912, Albert moved to north of
Dodson, Montana where he homesteaded and lived for most of the rest of his life. When he
visited Norway in 1925 he met Olga Skaar Eikelid who had been only
a toddler in Skor Valley when he'd left Norway in 1909. On 23 April, 1929,
Olga and Albert were married at
the Norwegian Seamen's Church in Brooklyn, New York. Albert and Olga expanded on the
homestead north of Dodson and raised ten children, Ingwald, Sarah,
Arthur, Selma, Norman,
Harold, Edward, Sidney, Carl and
Ralph.
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