The history of Renville County, Minnesota, Volume II, Part 32

Author: Curtiss-Wedge, Franklyn; Renville County Pioneer Association
Publication date: 1916
Publisher: Chicago : H.C. Cooper, Jr. & Co.
Number of Pages: 986

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Ole E. Berge was born in Hardanger, in the bishoprie of South Bergen, Feb. 9, 1826, where he secured a fair common school education, and grew to manhood. He learned the blacksmith trade and became a master in the manufacture of edge tools. At the age of twenty-six he married Ceeelia Hanson in Granvin of Hardanger parish. In 1854 he immigrated with his family to the United States, coming on the "Condor" and landed at Que- bec. From thence he came by steamboat and rail to Chicago and then moved to Stoughton, Wis. After he had found a home for his family he engaged in farm work among the farmers of Dane county. During the latter part of 1855 he secured work with the Mandt Wagon Manufacturing Company of Stoughton. In the spring of 1856 he and a few relatives concluded to move with their families to New Centerville, St. Croix county, Wis., where he purchased 60 acres of land and also started a black- smith shop. He remained there two years. During that time his erops were killed by frost and times were hard. In the spring of 1859 he sold his little farm and immigrated to Trempeleau county, Wis., locating in Beaver Creek valley, or the township of Ettrick, where he took up a pre-emption claim of forty acres of government land, later securing eighty acres adjoining. In connection with his farming he also carried on the blacksmith work and times began to look brighter. In 1869 he sold his farm in Ettriek, Wis., and moved west to Ft. Ridgely, purchasing 160

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acres in Camp township, Renville county, Minn., where he en- gaged in farming and stockraising. He died June 7, 1891. Mrs. Berge is still living and enjoying good health despite her old age of eighty-eight years and now makes her home with her youngest daughter, Mrs. P. J. Berg, of Madison, Minn. Mr. and Mrs. Berge had six children: Nels O., who is engaged in general farming and stockraising near Fairfax, Minn .; Elling O., who is in the milling business at Madison, Lae qui Parle county, Minn., and also condnets a farm of over 1,900 acres; Hans O., who is engaged in hardware, harness, wood and eoal business at Madison and also at Marietta, Lac qui Parle county, Minn .; Louis Cor- nelius, who died when two and a half years old ; Mrs. M. O. Hage- stad, of Fairfax, and Mrs. P. J. Berg of Madison, Minn.

Nels O. Berge, one of the pioneers of Renville county, was born in Norway, June 15, 1851, son of Ole E. and Ceeelia (Han- son) Berge. Nels O. Berge eame to Renville eounty in the spring of 1868 and took up land but returned to Trempealeau county, Wis., in the fall and returned to Renville county in the spring of 1869 when he squatted on the northeast quarter section of 23, Camp township, which he seenred by pre-emption in 1873. The land which he took in 1868 was deeded to his father and consisted of 120 acres in sections 23, and 40 aeres in section 22. Nels O. Berge had many and varied experiences in those early days. When he first located on the claim, he had a yoke of oxen, a wagon and a breaking plow. His first habitation thereon was a log house, 12 by 14 feet. He ent hay with a scythe and cradled his wheat by hand. He was out in the storm of Jan. 7, 1873, and suffered severely. As time passed, prosperity came to him and he owns 334 acres of good land, and the whole farm bespeaks the thrift, energy and intelligence of the owner. He carries on general farming and raises Duroc Jersey swine. Two aeres of his land are set out in fruit trees. Mr. Berge makes a specialty of breed- ing Percheron horses and Shorthorn cattle. Ile owns two lots and two buildings in the city of Fairfax. For fourteen years he was postmaster of Camp, the office being in his own house. Ile has been justice of the peace for over thirty years, school clerk eighteen years, and township assessor four years. Ife also served in other positions of public trust and private honor.

Mr. Berge was married May 29, 1869, to Caroline Hagestad, who was born May 24, 1843. daughter of Ole O. and Martina Hagestad. Mr. and Mrs. Berge have had six children: Minnie, born Feb. 23, 1870, was the wife of E. J. Berg, a ranchman of Washington, and died Sept. 25, 1895; Clara, born Nov. 20, 1871, now lives at home: Otelia, born Jan. 31, 1874, married N. H. Samuelson, of Minneapolis; Edward, born March 13. 1877, died June 26, 1905; Fred, born July 4, 1879, and Ole, born Mareh 8, 1884, are at home.

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Gustav A. Boemmels, a well-to-do farmer in Cairo township, was born July 27, 1879, in the township where he still resides. His father Gotthard Boemmels, died in 1904 at the age of 64, and his mother, Emma (Sell), died in 1914, at the age of 63. Ilis parents owned a farm in section 36, Cairo township, which they bought in 1871. They were married in 1871 and had seven chil- dren, William, Edward (killed in a train wreck in 1909), Ernest, Gustav, Adolph, Lydia and Rhudy.

In 1907 Gustav A. Boemmels purchased the home place. He carries on general farming, and makes a specialty of Duroc- Jersey hogs and Hereford and Holstein cattle. He has a barn 50 by 50, with room for fourteen horses and thirty-five cattle, and forty tons of hay. He has also a large hog barn 36 by 50, with conerete foundation with room for 150 hogs. The granary is 28 by 30 and has an elevator holding 4,000 bushels of grain. The chicken house is 16 by 43. The house is a large two story building, 18 by 34, with an ell, 18 by 26, with a basement under the main part ready to equip with steam heat. The farm is thoroughly tiled, four and a half ears of tile having been used at an expenditure of over $1,000. There are 340 acres of land of which 160 are in section 25. The land is all level, slightly rolling prairie land. the buildings being on the west side of the farm in a niee grove. Both Mr. and Mrs. Boemmels have attended the St. Paul Park College for two years, and Mrs. Boemmels gradu- ated from the Music department in the spring of 1907. Mr. Boem- mels has been the township treasurer for four years. Mr. Boem- mels was married June 14, 1911, to Verna Bothe, daughter of Henry Bothe, aged 58, a farmer living near St. Paul Park, and Louisa (Bang) aged 49. They have one son, Cyrus, born De- cember 5. 1912, and one daughter, Murlies, born March 26. 1915.

Martin D. Brown, postmaster of Fairfax, was born in Bullitt county, Kentucky, Jan. 7, 1857, second of the eight children of Michael and Katherine (Welsh) Brown. His parents were farm- ers, the father died in 1907 at the age of eighty years, and the mother in 1884 at the age of fifty years. Martin D. Brown at- tended the Taylorsville High school and St. Joseph's College at Bardstown, Kentucky, coming to Minnesota in 1879 and teach- ing country school in Renville county for three years. In 1882 he engaged in the real estate and insurance business at Fairfax and has continued in that business ever since. His wife's father, -Jolm Welsh, owned the farm on which Fairfax is now located and Mr. Brown bought 120 acres in section 5, Cairo township, which he platted into lots and ealled Brown's Addition to Fair- fax. A part of these lots were sold and are now a part of the village. Mr. Brown has held several important positions in Fair- fax, having been the justice of peace sinee 1890, village assessor

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for ten years and elerk of the school board for sixteen years. He was postmaster from 1894 to 1898 and on March 13, 1915, was again appointed to the position by President Woodrow Wilson.

Sept. 2, 1891, Mr. Brown was married to Bridget Welsh, daughter of John Welsh and Mary (Burke) Welsh. They have no children, but have raised the daughter of Mr. Brown's dead brother, Kathry L. Brown. She is now married to Ben. S. Kanfer, living in Sherman, near Los Angeles, California. Mr. Brown's wife was born Feb. 2, 1852. Her father, John Welsh, died in 1896 at the age of 84 years and her mother died in 1910 at the age of 70 years.

John Swendby, deceased, was born in Norway and died in Renville county in 1886 at the age of forty-five years. He came to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, and from there moved to Renville county where he located in section 34 of Crooks township, where his widow, Mrs. Simon Hanson, now lives. Ile secured 80 acres of wild prairie land and built a small frame house 14 by 16 feet. Here he and his wife moved after their marriage in 1878. He used a team of horses to clear up the land and began improv- ing his farm. He was a member of the Norwegian Lutheran church. His wife, Mina, was born in Norway Oet. 24, 1859. daugh- ter of Hans Gunderson and Anna (Jacobsen) Gunderson, who had eight children : Gunder, Martha, Johan, Mina, Hannah, Hel- ena, Anna, and Hogan (deceased). Of these Mina, Johan, and Helena came to America in 1879, coming to Minnesota and settled in Renville county. Mr. and Mrs. Swendby had three children : Anna. Oscar and John. Anna is now Mrs. Guren Kurnes of Crooks township and has five children, Alfred, Martin, Theodore, Gudrun and Inez. Oscar lives in Cavalier county, North Da- kota, and married Mary Nelson. They have two children, Morris and Joel. John also lives in Cavalier county and married Anna Idlen. They have one childl, Myrtle.

Simon Hanson, deceased, was born in Norway, March 10, 1852, son of Hans Stromenson and Randi Hanson, who came to America with their two sons Ole and Simon, in 1867, coming by sailing vessel. The father Hans took a homestead in section 34, Crooks township, Renville county, where he seenred 80 acres of wild prairie land. Here he built a log cabin which is still stand- ing and which was the first in that section. Many of the early gatherings were held in this cabin. Ile had no money and worked out among the other farmers to earn enough to buy an ox team with which to begin improving his land. He bought 40 acres more and here he and his wife lived for the rest of their days. He died June 6, 1893, at the age of sixty-seven years and his wife died July 9, 1889, at the age of seventy-seven years. They were active members of the Norwegian Lutheran church and helped organize the church in that section of the county.

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Simon Hanson was married to Mrs. JJohn Sweudby. November. 1888, and located in Day county, South Dakota, on a homestead of 160 acres. They remained here for nine and a half years and then moved back to Renville county, loeating in Crooks town- ship, on section 34, on the homestead of Mrs. Hanson's first hus- band, John Swendby. Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Hanson : Henry, Randi, Sena, Anton. Gena and Harry. The family are members of the Norwegian Intheran church. Mr. Hanson died May 6, 1903.

Bryngel Anderson was born in Sweden, the son of Anders Nero Bryngelson, a Swedish farmer who had the distinction of having served in the Swedish army. Aside from Bryngel there were two sisters in the family, Catherine and Mary. Bryngel Anderson grew to manhood in Sweden, became a tenant farmer and was married in 1864 to Lisa Olson, born July 13, 1838, daughter of Ole O. and Stena (Johnson) Olson. In the Olson family there were five children: Johan; Anna M., now Mrs. Gustave Chilstrom, of Ogden, Utah; Erick: Anders. and Lisa. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson were blessed with seven children, all born in Sweden: Olof, John, Elizabeth (deceased). Carl (de- eeased) ; Anna, at home; Gustave who married Lanra Hergren. has one child and lives in Mora, Kanabee county : and Tillie, who married Anton Holmar, has two children, and lives in Minne- apolis. Bryngel Anderson and other members of the family came to the United States in 1893. He died in Crooks township. Jan. 16, 1904. at the age of seventy-nine years. His widow makes her home with her sons Olof and John.

Olof and John Bryngelson, sueeessful farmers of Crooks town- ship, were born in Sweden, Olof. Aug. 17, 1865, and John, Jan. 14. 1868, sons of Bryngel and Lisa (Olson) Anderson. Of the family, Olof was the first to start for the United States, coming in 1886, and locating in Sibley county, this state. where he began working on farms. He earned enough to pay back the money loaned for his fare to America and then sent money to his brother John so that he could come. John eame in 1888 and in 1893 all the rest of the family eame except Elizabeth. who came in 1903. Olof and John formed a partnership and rented land. In 1893 they moved onto 160 acres of wild land in section 15. Crooks township, which had been purchased in 1889. At once they set about improving and developing the farm and it soon became one of the best in the neighborhood. In 1896 they built a barn and in the spring of 1897 a house. 16 by 16 feet and 12 feet high. The entire family moved into this house. It has since been remodeled and is now a modern eight-room home. The brothers also began planting fruit trees and set out a windbreak. They now carry on general farming and raise a good grade of stock. and have

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enlarged their farm, until now it contains 320 aeres. Olof owns 240 acres and John eighty acres.

John Bryngelson has been road overseer a few years and is the treasurer of School District No. 119. He has been a member of the board of directors of the Clover Line Farmers' Telephone Company. Olof Bryngelson is a member of the Renville Farmers' Elevator Company. The brothers are members of the Swedish Lutheran church and helped to establish the church built in 1897, known as the Freedsburg church. They both hold office in the church Olof being a trustee and John a deaeon. Their sister Anna and their mother make their home with them.

Louis C. Shanahan was born Feb. 28, 1876, in Blue Earth county, Minnesota, son of John and JJohanna (Kelley ) Shanahan. His parents were of Irish ancestry, and the family were pioneers of Blue Earth county. Louis C. attended the distriet school and later became a Farmer. Coming to Renville county in .hme, 1901. he bought his present farm in Crooks township in section 23 of 160 aeres, locating on the same in spring of 1902. It was partly improved and here he began farming and has now one of the best improved farms in Renville county. Mr. Shanahan is also a stock raiser besides raising all kinds of grain, such as corn, oats, wheat and barley, and is a most successful farmer in every way. Mr. Shanahan was united in marriage to Emma Taylor, Sept. 17, 1902, daughter of Solomon and Elizabeth (Williams) Taylor. She was born in Mankato. Minn .. Dec. 29, 1879. Sol- omon Taylor was born in Massachusetts, son of William Taylor and was of English ancestry. His wife was born in Oak Hill, Ohio, daughter of Hon. Evan Williams, a native of Wales. They were married in Minnesota and were pioneers of Mankato. Mr. Taylor served in the army during the Sioux uprising. Mr. and Mrs. Shanahan have had two children, a boy, Adrian Williard, born June 22, 1913, and one child who died in infancy.

Henry Haen, a prosperous farmer of Crooks township, was born in Sheboygan county, Wis., June 18, 1856, son of John Henry and Barbara (Reise) Haen. He received his early education in the district schools of Lima and Wilson townships in his native state, and later attended the St. Francis Academy at Milwaukee, where he took up a short course of studies. He remained at home on the farm until he married and then he moved to Minne- sota to look for a new home. He came to Renville county in 1887 and located in Emmet township in section 1, where he seeured a traet of 200 aeres, all wild prairie land with no improvements. Here he built a small frame house and remained on this place until 1896 when he became the manager of the Farmers' Elevator of Renville, renting his farm. It was then greatly improved and in a fair state of cultivation. He was one of the first stoek- holders of this organization which was established in 1890 and

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served for six years on the board of directors before becoming its manager. While manager of the elevator he purchased his present farm in Crooks township, section 31, a traet of 376 acres, and in section 32 a tract of 200 acres, which lies across the road from the rest of his farm. ITere he moved on leaving the manager- ship of the elevator. This l'arm was partly improved when he moved upon it and he has developed and put it into a fine condi- tion. He was one of the first to enter the sugar beet industry in this section. He raises the best grade of stock and has a nice orchard. Mr. Haen is at present the president of the Farmers' Elevator Company of Renville. He has served on the Crooks township board ever since moving here and is at present the chairman of the board. He was also a member of the Emmet township board for a number of years. He is a member of the Catholic church and helped organize the Church of the Holy Redeemer of Renville. Mr. Haen was united in marriage Jan. 27, 1884, in St. George's parish, Wilson township, Sheboygan county, Wisconsin, to Anna Wildgrube, born in Sheboygan county, July 31, 1860, daughter of Eidman and Christiana (Wach- muth) Wildgrube, both natives of Germany, where they were married and located in Sheboygan county in about 1851. They are now both deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Haen have twelve children : Anna, Clara, Henry and Rosa (twins), Frank, Margaret, William, Joseph, Mary, Georgia, Leonard and Jerome. Anna was married to Jesse Smith and lives at Mandador, North Dakota. Their daughter, Lela Clara, a former teacher, married to -Joseph R. Dvorsha and they live at Mandador, North Dakota. They have three children : Loraine, Erma and Arline.

John Henry Haen, a Wisconsin pioneer, was born in Prussia, Germany, his parents being farmers and tavern keepers.

John Henry and his brothers, Peter and Matthew, came to America in 1848 in a sailing vessel. It was a three-master and during a severe storm two of the masts were lost, the passengers finally landing at New York after ninety days on the water. These brothers made their way to Wisconsin and here worked out on the farms. John H. finally bought a tract of 80 aeres in Lima township, Sheboygan county, all heavy timber land. Here he built a log house and began to elear the farm using an ox team. He and his family lived about twenty years on this place and made many improvements. They also operated a tavern four miles south of Sheboygan where they also had a farm. They made their home in Wisconsin through life. He was a member of the Catholic church and helped start the first church which was built of logs and was known as the St. George's Congregation, located on the township line of Wilson aeross the road from Lima township. He was for a number of years a township officer.

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Barbara Reise. His wife had come from Bavaria, Germany, with her parents and settled in Sheboygan county, Wiseonsin. He died in July, 1904, but his wife is still living at the age of eighty- four years. They had eleven children: Adeline (deceased), Mary, Henry, Dorethea, Sophia, Johanna, Emma, John, Frank, William and Rosa.

James C. Fullerton, one of the early settlers of Renville county, was born Ang. 8, 1859, in Fillmore county. His father. James T., was born November 3, 1822, near St. Louis and moved to Ren- ville county in 1871, where, wishing to engage in farming, he bought 200 acres in section 16, Cairo township. He died October. 1908. The mother, Mrs. Mary (Van Buren) Fullerton, born in England, died in 1892 at the age of seventy. James T. Fuller- ton was one of the soldiers of the Civil war and was with Sher- man on his famous march to the sea. He enlisted with Company K., Fourth Minnesota, in 1863, and served nine month. James C. Fullerton left home at the age of twenty-two and worked out for three years. He learned the bottler's trade with Samuel Stone at Jordan, Minnesota, and started the firm of Stone & Ful- lerton in 1884 on his father's farm in Cairo township, keeping this in operation for two years. Then he moved to Fairfax and opened a bottling factory under the name of J. C. Fullerton, and supplied bottled goods to territory adjoining Fairfax within a radius of seventy-five miles. Mr. Fullerton is greatly interested in matters pertaining to the welfare and advancement of the village. Ile has been a member of the village council for ten years and has served on the school board for seven years. Ile owns several farms and is a stockholder in both the Farmers Elevators in Fairfax. He is also a member of the State Fire Department. October 6, 1887, Mr. Fullerton was married to Dora Voght, who was born Dec. 17, 1869, in Illinois. Her par- ents were Christian Voght a farmer on section 16, in Cairo town- ship, who came to this county in 1870 and died in 1903 at the age of seventy-two, and Margaret (Vollertsen) Voght. who is still living in Fairfax. Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Fullerton have eleven children, Harry, born Jan. 6, 1889; Steve J., born Dee. 13. 1890; Edith, born Dee. 24, 1892, who is now a teacher in Renville county : Harvey, born Sept. 2, 1894; Clara, born May 9, 1896, also a teacher in Renville county ; Carrie, born Dec. 20, 1898; Floyd, born Feb. 21, 1901 : Roy, born Jan. 22, 1903; Ethel, born August 19, 1904: Mildred Eva. born Sept. 19, 1908. died Nov. 17, 1908: Leora, born Dec. 5, 1909.

Daniel Herring was born in Clarion county, Pennsylvania, Oct. 21. 1832, and died Nov. 20, 1865. Ile married in 1849 Nancy Jane Dunbar, born July 5, 1832, in Clarion county, Penn. They drove by ox team from Pennsylvania with their two children, George and Sophia, coming in company with others who intended to

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settle in Minnesota. They located on a farm close to Caledonia. in Houston county. where a cabin was built and a elearing started. At this time the Sioux Indians became hostile and Mr. Herring enlisted in the Tenth Minnesota Vol. Inf. He accompanied the Sibley expedition against the Indians and was present when the thirty-eight Sioux were hanged at Mankato. Later he was sent south and served throughout the Civil war until he received his honorable discharge in 1865. He died in 1865 in Houston county. In the fall of 1866 his widow and children moved to Faribault county and took a widow's homestead of 80 acres in Laura town- ship, section 14. It was all wild prairie land. The Iumber for the house was hauled from Waseca, forty miles away, and the family lived in the wagon until it was completed. Daniel Her- ring's father had come with the family. The widow managed the farm and here the children grew up. She died Feb. 18, 1893. She was a member of the Free Methodist church. Six children had been born to Mr. and Mrs. Herring: George, born Dee. 10. 1849; Sophia, born April 8. 1852 : Henry J., born August 8. 1854; Joseph M., born March 16. 1857: Daniel W., born Sept. 28. 1859: and Melvin, born Sept. 2. 1862.

Melvin L. Herring was born in Houston county, Minn .. Sept. 2, 1861, son of Daniel W. and Nancy J. (Dunbar) Herring. He was educated in Faribault county, attending the country school held in a frame building located on his mother's farm. On the home farm he grew to manhood, his mother making her home with him as long as she lived. In 1897 he moved to Brown county where he lived until 1900 when he moved to Crooks town- ship. Renville county, and . located on 320 acres in section 28. He has made extensive improvements on this farm and built good buildings, barns and sheds, and carries on general farming. He raises full-blooded cattle. specializing in Shorthorn cattle. Ile has also some fine fruit trees. He is a member of the Farmers Elevator of Renville, Ile is treasurer of his school district and he was also a member of the school board when in Brown county. He attends the Methodist Episcopal church. Sept. 2. 1891, Mr. Herring was married to Effie Rosetta Baker, born in FaribanIt county. Feb. 2, 1866, daughter of Abijah and Laura :Waite) Baker. Mrs. Baker was born in the state of Vermont. Washing- ton county, town of Waren. . Mr. Baker was born in the state of New York. Steuben county. They were married in the Past and drove to Fillmore county in 1855, locating there for a time and then coming to Faribault county in 1863 where they secured a homestead and lived the remainder of their life. Mr. and Mrs. Herring have seven children : Raymond M .. Ethel G., Esther ( .. Guy C., Ruth M., Hazel A., Paul M., all living at home.

Wilhelm Loock, deceased, was born in Pomerania, Germany. July 28, 1839. Ile learned the trade of a tailor in Germany and

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after his marriage to Mary Ohm, daughter of Joachim Ohm, he and his family and also his wife's father set out for America in 1864, coming by sailing vessel, the voyage taking three months. He came to Dodge county, Wisconsin, and located at Watertown, where he engaged in his trade as tailor. After a time he bought a farm in the township of Libbenon, Dodge county. In 1887 he came to Renville county locating in Crooks township in section 35 on a tract of 160 aeres which he purchased. It was all wild prairie land. Ile built a granary and here the family lived until a house could be built. This house has since been remodeled by his son William who now owns the place. Ile had six horses to start with but no other stock. He gradually increased his farm until he owned a whole section. Mr. Look was an active mem- ber of the German Lutheran church and held the office of trustee for several years. He helped establish the church in Renville. Ilis wife died July 16, 1915, at the age of seventy-four. Mr. Looek died Dee. 16, 1911, at the age of seventy-two years. The following children were born to these parents: Emil. Anna, Julins. John. Emma, Louisa, William A., Rosetta, Mary and Carl.

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The history of Renville County, Minnesota, Volume II, Part 32

Author: Curtiss-Wedge, Franklyn; Renville County Pioneer Association Publication date: 1916 Publisher: Chicago : H.C. Cooper, Jr. & Co. Number of Pages: 986

Author: Curtiss-Wedge, Franklyn; Renville County Pioneer Association
Publication date: 1916
Publisher: Chicago : H.C. Cooper, Jr. & Co.
Number of Pages: 986