Bache, Søren ___ 1814-1890 ___ Norwegian ___ farmer

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Not much information about Bache is available on the internet, except that contained in his diary which is largely confined to the eight years he spent in the US. He was the son of Tollef Bache, a well-known businessman and industrial leader of Drammen, Norway, but emigrated to the US in 1839. After prospecting trips in Illinois and Wisconsin, he took possession of land west of Milwaukee, in what became known as the Muskego settlement. He stayed until until 1847 and then returned to Norway, where he spent the rest of his life. His diary is considered important because it sheds light on the life of immigrants in Wisconsin.
A biography link
No Wikipedia bio

DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1839-1847 ___ religious farming travel US

WEB TEXT LINKS
etext
good extracts

ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
The Norwegian-American Historical Association ___ possibly

SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
A chronicle of Old Muskego: The diary of Søren Bache, 1839-1847
 

November 2005, September 2008, March 2013
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IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.