Swedes in Winnebago
Did Rockford have a large Swedish population around 1850 to 1870?My 2nd great-grandmother's obit states she 'came to America and arrived in Rockford, IL' in Oct 1865.I don't have her naturalization papers yet, but I'm working on figuring that out.She married the following year to a man from Sweden who had been in Illinois much longer, 1853, but I can't find him in the 1860 anywhere, just musing, I suppose I should recheck Winnebago Co for 1860.Did IL have a state census in 1865?