From HISTORY OF MITCHELL AND WORTH COUNTIES, IOWA, 1883, Page 624.

Amos Leverson was among the first settlers in Brookfield township. He located on section 14 in 1856. He was born in Norway in 1830. He emigrated to America in 1850 and settled in Rock Co., Wis. Here he worked as a day laborer six years; then came to Worth Co., Iowa, in the spring of 1856. October 27, 1857, he married Isabel Temanson, born in Norway in 1838. In 1873 he purchased his present home on section 21, and removed to it. He has 468 acres of well improved land. They have eight children-Betsy, Clara, Teman, Levi, Knut, Oliver, George and Same. They are members of the Lutheran Church. Mr. Leverson is a republican and township trustee. In February, 1873, he had the misfortune to be out in a severe storm, and losing his mittens, had his hands so badly frozen that he lost his fingers from both hands.

Transcribed by Gordon Felland, April 24, 2008