 Isak is admired by many, his farm is very developed compared to his neighbors.He has many sheds, fancy tools such as gift from Geissler and a mining operator, good land, an advanced irrigation system, and more things which gains him the admiration of many.Inger is the wife of Isak described as being "a big, brown-eyed girl, full built and coarse, with good, heavy hands, and rough hide brogues on her feet as if she had been a Lapp..." She is the mother of Eleseus, Sivert, Leopoldine, and Rebecca and another child whom she had killed.