Colben Davidsen Westerim was the son of David
Nillsen Vestrheim and Brita Kolbeinsdtr Hovde, and was baptized in Voss on
December 8, 1805. He emigrated to America from Bergen on the ship
Bernadotte and arrived in New York on October 25, 1841. He made his
way to the Muskego settlement in Wisconsin where he died in 1847, an unmarried
farmer.
Source: Norwegian Immigrants To The United
States, A Biographical Directory, 1825-1850. Volume One 1825-1843. By Gerhard B. Naeseth. p.
120, #147.