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Ole Bull’s America
Few younger generation Americans are familiar with the name of the great Norwegian violinist, Ole Bull. His love of American ideals of freedom which inspired a mass migration or his countrymen to the United States, won him a place in history that may be remembered longer than his musical genius.
Ole Bull was born in Norway in 1810. He first came to America in 1843 and was so enraptured , with the new land of freedom that • he soon became an American citizen. He returned repeatedly to Norway, which was subject to the Swedish king,-in an attempt to inspire his homeland with the spirit of freedom that pervaded his newly adopted country. Finally, discouraged with the possibility of reviving his own native land, he conceived the idea of moving Norwegians to America, and he purchased 11,400 acres -in Potter. ■County, Pennsylvania, for New Norway. His address of welcome to arriving Norwegian settlers 100 years ago is a stirring message
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