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Hendrick Eliason, one of the honored pioneers of Renville county, is one of the few men living who can elaim a residence of forty-five years in this vicinity. Ile was born in Varmeland, Sweden, Jan. 1, 1839, and came to America in 1870, locating at once on a homestead of forty acres in section 24, Hawk Creek township. Upon his arrival, he erected the log cabin which is still a part of the present dwelling. He broke and developed the land, suffered all the privations of the early settler, prospered with the years, increased his holdings until he had 320 acres and in 1895 constructed the present home and outbuildings. For many years he was one of the influential men in the community. In 1903 he retired and moved to Wright county where he lived for a year. There a longing for the scenes of his boyhood came over him and he departed for his native land. He visited many interesting points, saw many of his old friends, and then returned to America, locating in Sacred Heart village, where he is spend- ing the afternoon of life, happy in the respect of all who know him. Hendrick Eliason was married in Sweden to Lisa Lien, who was born in that country, March 8, 1843, and died on the farm in Hawk Creek township, Sept. 12, 1903. This union has .
been blessed with ten children: Emil, Marthea, Hilmer, Olaf,
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Amelia, Christina, John. Lydia, Herman and Oscar. Emil farms in Oregon. Marthea is the wife of Albert Wiglund, of Bagley, Minn. Hilmer farms in Hawk Creek township. Olaf lives in Sacred Heart. He first married Carrie Myra and after her death, Veva Arntzen. Amelia is the wife of Nels Welman. of Bagley, Minn. Christina lives in Minneapolis. John lives in Oregon. Lydia is the wife of August Salk, of Elkton, South Dakota. Her- man married Bernice Fanney. He farms in Oregon. Osear is dead.
Hilmer Eliason, an eminently prosperous agriculturist of Ilawk Creek township, was born in Sweden, May 27, 1870, son of Hendrick Eliason and Lisa (Lien) Eliason, who brought him that year to Hawk Creek township. He spent his childhood much as the other boys of his time and period, attending the district schools and helping his parents. In 1904 he rented the home farm and two years later purchased it. He now owns forty aeres in sec- tion 24, 120 acres in section 13, and forty aeres in section 14, where the residence is located. Ile has made many improvements, has sunk a 98-foot well which gives ample water supply for house- hold and farm purposes and has installed an acetylene gas plant which furnishes lights for both house and barns. Mr. Eliason is a useful member of the community and has been treasurer of the school district for eight years and is now serving on the town board as supervisor. Ile is a stockholder and treasurer in the Hawk Creek Telephone Co., of Hawk Creek.
Mr. Eliason was married March 10, 1903, to Caroline Fagerlie. who was born in Hawk Creek township, Oet. 4, 1882. daughter of Peter and Ingeborg (Lien) Fagerlie. This union has been blessed with five children: Leona Isabella, born Dec. 28. 1903: Palmer Harlam, Feb. 11, 1906: Carlton Harris. Aug. 24, 1909: Oscar Raymond, Oct. 20, 1912; Dehore Arthur, June 27, 1914.
Olaf A, Odegaard was born in Norway, April 6, 1834. His good wife, Ingeborg O. Berge, was born in the same country. Aug. 27, 1841. In the fall of 1866 they embarked on a sailing vessel and, after a long and tedious voyage, reached America. They were married in Goodhue county, Minnesota, Nov. 12. 1866, and there lived until 1870, when they came to Renville county and took a homestead of eighty acres, in section 25, Ilawk Creek township. Mr. Odegaard set to work with a will and constructed a dugout in which he and his bride lived happily for two years. This habitation was destroyed by fire and Mr. Odegaard then built a substantial log cabin in which the family lived for over a quarter of a century. Assisted by his worthy helpmate. he worked early and late, tilled his fields, planted groves, erected fences, purchased equipment and developed a splendid farm. He replaced the log cabin with a frame dwelling and constructed other buildings as necessity required and means permitted. He
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purchased an additional eighty aeres of railroad land and still later added forty more, thus bringing his holdings up to 200 arres. In 1900, after a long life filled with hard work, he retired and purebased a comfortable home in Sacred Heart village, where he died April 24, 1911, and where his widow is still living.
In the family there were nine children : Betsy, born May 18, 1867, is now Mrs. A. S. Dokken, of Yellow Medicine eounty ; Emma, born May 30, 1869. is now Mrs. O. Il. Antonson, of Hawk Creek township; Ole, born April 6, 1871, married Rosa Peterson and now lives in Taylor, North Dakota; Anna, born Iune 5, 1873, married Martin Falaas, of Brandon, Minn., and has five children : Alice, Miller, Orville, Leonard, Ina, Cheolyn: Ida was born April 29, 1875 and died June 10, 1899; Steven O. was born Jan. 10, 1878 and now conduets the home farm. Theo. Karolina was born March 29, 1880, and died Sept. 24, 1902; Olaf Alfred was born Feb. 27, 1883, and died March 11, 1903; Inga was born Feb. 27. 1885, and died Dre. 2, 1904.
Steven O. Odegaard, an enterprising and representative citi- zen of Ilawk Creek township, was born on the farm in section 25, where he now resides, Jan. 10, 1878, son of Ole A. and Ingeborg O .. (Berge) Odegaard, pioneers. He attended the district school of his neighborhood and completed his studies with a three-year course at the Willmar Seminary at Willmar, Minn. In 1900 He started out for himself by purchasing 120 aeres in the section where he was born. He also rented the old home place, which in 1912 he purchased. In addition to this, he bought another 40 acres, thus making him a splendid Farm of 360 aeres. Mr. Ode- gaard is energetie and an exeellent manager and a hard worker. He carries on his agrienltural operations along the latest approved lines and his success has been well deserved. In addition to rais- ing the nsnal erops, he makes a specialty of Shorthorn cattle and Berkshire swine. Being a thorough business man in the up- building of the community, he has taken stock in the Saered Heart Hotel Company. He has taken an active interest in publie affairs, was clerk of School District No. 16 for eight years, served for a considerable period as town treasurer, and has served as justice of the peace for the past six years.
Steven O. Odegaard was married Nov. 12, 1905, to Hilda Gun- lerson, who was born in Wang township, this county, Feb. 27, 1882, a daughter of Hans and Bergit (Myrhougen) Gunderson, pioneers. Mr. and Mrs. Odegaard have been blessed with two bright children : Otis, born Nov. 13, 1906, and Berdie Idella, born Dee. 5, 1914. The family faith is that of Our Saviour's Norwe- gian Lutheran church, at Sacred Heart.
Andrew H. Erickson, deceased, an early pioneer of Hawk Creek township, was born in Vermland, Sweden, June 11, 1857, son of Hendrick and Lisa Erickson. He came to America with
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his parents in the spring of 1869, stayed with them that summer in Carver county, Minnesota, and came with them that same fall to Hawk Creek township, where they took a homestead of eighty acres in section 2. Ile attended the district schools of the neigh- borhood and grew to manhood, assisting his father on the farm. Being of an industrious mind he saved his money, and about 1885 purchased the home farm, consisting then of 200 acres. ile paid off the rest of the heirs and became sole owner and pro- prietor. lle erected a good frame residence and a complement of barns and outbuildings in keeping with the residence. In 1893 the barn was struck by lightning and destroyed, but was soon replaced with a new one. ile beeame a prominent man in the community and took a very active part in the school and church work, and also in the township affairs, holding offices of importance in all of these. For a number of years he was presi- dent of the llawk Creek Mutual Fire Insurance Co. On account of illness in March, 1913, he moved with his family to the village of Sacred Heart, into his home which he had previously bought. He died April 29, 1913, leaving besides his wife three daughters.
Mr. Erickson was married Feb. 3, 1887, to Maria Berg. She was born in Vermiland, Sweden, JJuly 26, 1861, daughter of Hen- driek and Lisa (Thompson) Berg. She came to America with her parents in 1869 and stayed that summer with them in Carver county, coming with them that fall to Sacred Heart township. Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Erickson, three of whom are living. Hulda was born Dec. 21, 1887. She attended the district schools and the grade and high school of Sacred Heart. also took the academic course at the Jewell College and two years at the Mankato State Normal school. She taught for two years at the Austin, Minn., public schools, then for a short period at floquiam, Wash. She was also bookkeeper for a short time in a bank at Spokane. Then she taught a year at Sacred Heart, and is now a student at the Northwestern Conservatory at Minneapolis. Milda Luella was born Aug. 20, 1896. She is a senior in the 'agricultural department of the state university. Amy Eunice was born July 23, 1900. and is a student of the Sacred Heart high school. Harry Arthur was born July 28, 1894, and died May HI, 1899. Ella Lonise was born June 29. 1889, and died Oct. 12, 1889, and one died umamed.
Hendrick Erickson, deceased, a pioneer of Hawk Creek, was born in Vermland, Sweden, in 1818. He was married in his na- tive country to Lisa Hendrikson, born in 1824 in Vermland. They with their family came to America in the spring of 1869 and stopped the first summer in Carver county. In November they proceeded to Renville county and took a homestead of eighty acres in section 2, Hawk Creek township. Heavy rains had made the trails almost impassable and it took them a week to make
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the trip with their ox team. In the party were Hendrick Eriek- son and family, Andrew Carlson and family, Hendrick Tompte and wife and John Tompte. A rude shanty was their first home and straw and log sheds were put up for the stock. They ex- perienced all the trials of pioneer life, but in time prosperity came. Mr. Erickson increased his holdings by adding three 40-acre tracts of railroad land, thus making him a fine farm of 200 acres. He Followed general farming until about 1885, when he sold the farm to his son, Andrew II. However, he continued to live on the farm until his death, in 1913, at the age of ninety-five years. His wife died in 1884. Mr. and Mrs. Hendrick Erieson had the following children: Hendrick, deceased; Ole Hendrickson, of. Sacred Heart ; Maria, Mrs. Ole R. Olson, of Sacred Heart ; John Erickson, of California ; Kari, Mrs. Albert Larson, of Sacred Heart : Erick deceased ; Andrew H., deceased ; Hannah, of Wis- consin. Two died in Sweden and one died on the ocean before reaching the port of Quebec and is buried in Canada.
Hendrick Berg, deceased, was born in Vermland, Sweden, on Feb. 21, 1826, and was there married. In the spring of 1869 he set sail for America with his good wife, Lisa (Thompson) Berg, and their children. They remained in Carver county during the summer of 1869 and then journeyed on to Renville county and settled on a homestead in Sacred Heart township. Ile secured eighty aeres in section 28. At first they lived in a log cabin and endured all the trials of pioneer life, but as time passed a good home was built, barns and ontbuildings erected and general farming was carried on by these worthy and hard-working people. In 1895 they retired to the village of Sacred Heart and lived there until 1901, when they took up their home with their daugh- ter, Mrs. A. II. Erickson, in Hawk Creek township. The mother died that same fall. Mr. Berg, while walking west from Sacred Heart towards Hawk Creek on the railroad, was run down by a train and instantly killed in 1904.
Theodore A. Nellermoe, one of the early farmers of Renville county, was born in Norway, Feb. 15, 1864. He was the son of Andrew and Karen Nellermoe of Norway. His father died in Norway at the age of fifty-four years and his mother died in America at the age of sixty-five. There were eight children in the family: Trine, Christopher, Frantz, Ellen, Theodore, Anna, Jacob and Nels. Theodore's unele JJohn, his father's brother, came to America in 1866, coming on a sailing vessel, the trip taking eleven weeks, and landed at Quebec. Ile had intended to go to lowa, but went only as far south as La Crosse, Wiscon- sin, From there going to Red Wing by boat and settling in Good- hne county. Here he stayed two years, working on the farms in the neighborhood, then he went to Kandiyohi county and lo- cated in Irving township. After a year he came to Renville
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county and secured a homestead of 80 aeres in section 14, in Hawk Creek township. Here he built a sod cellar and a log stable. In the spring he bought an ox team and began working on his farm. In 1873 he returned to Norway and in 1874 he came back to- Renville county, bringing with him his two nephews, Theodore and Frantz. Hle prospered with the years, added 160 acres more to his farm and built a fine modern house and bnikdlings. He served on the township board and on the school board and helped to organize the Synod church and was a mem- ber of the conference. He died Nov. 13. 1902, at the age of sixty-nine. Theodore Nellermoe grew to manhood on his uncle's homestead. He attended school at the country school log build- ing and later was a student at St. Olaf College at Northfield, and also attended business college in Minneapolis. For a time he elerked in a general merchandise and implement store at Gran- ite Falls, then he engaged in business for himself, with his brother, Frantz, at Sacred Heart, in a general merchandise and machinery store. After fifteen years he sold his store and be- came a traveling salesman. Soon after this he was elected regis- ter of deeds of Renville county, on the Republican tieket and served in this capacity for four years. About this time his uncle John died and he returned to the home farm of 320 acres which he now owns.
Mr. Nellermoe has made extensive improvements on the farm sinee he has owned it, having erected a large barn, 36 by 100 feet, modern and sanitary, with full cement lower story. He has also built a fine hennery, 18 by 40 feet, and has done a great deal of ditehing and fencing, also has tiled nearly all the low land and has as fine a farm as one would care to see. He spe- cializes in registered "Big Type " Poland-China swine and single- comb Black Orpingtons and single-comb Brown Leghorn fowls. His farm in every way bespeaks thrift and progressiveness.
Mr. Nellermoe has also served on the township board of Hawk Creek for three years, and has been a member of the conn- eil of Sacred Ifeart, and also of the school board at Sacred Heart. He is a member of the Farmers' Elevator Company at Sacred Heart, and a member of the Swine Breeders' Association. He is president of the Farmers' Club and a member of the Pioneer Association of Renville county. He and his family are members of the Norwegian Lutheran church. Mr. Nellermo is secretary of Our Saviour's church, of the Norwegian Intheran Synod of Saered Heart, Minn.
Mr. Nellermoe was married in 1887 to Petra Gerde, born in Waseca county, Minn., Sept. 12, 1866, daughter of Peter O. Gerde and Mrs. Engeborg Gerde, who came to Renville county in 1874 and loeated in Erieson. Mr. and Mrs. Nellermoe have had ten children : Jay Clarence, born May 11, 1888: Arthur, born Jan.
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6, 1890. and died Jan. 16, 1890; Arthur Franklin, born April 10, 1891: Irene Persis, born Jan. 19. 1893; Thomas Kenneth. born April 2, 1895, and died July 6, 1903; Lawrence Delminore, born May 18. 1897 ; Harold Reuben, born April 21, 1899: Pearl Theo- lora, born Nov. 20, 1902; Alice Dorothy, born Nov. 13, 1904; and Donald Christopher. born Jan. 3, 1909.
Halvor Helgeson Golie, one of the worthy pioneers, under- went many interesting experiences in the early days and had his share in making the western part of Renville county the pros- perons land that it is today. He was born in byner. Hadlan, Norway, son of llelge Hanson Golie and Berte (Skoen; Golie, Ilalvor being the only son in a family of four children. Halvor Helgeson Gohe was married in Norway to Karrie Ogaard, and there had two children. In 1867 they set out for the new world. With them was Halvor Halvorsen Mutta and family, who were related to them. They landed at Quebee and. in time. found their way to Freeborn county, this state, where so many of their countrymen had preceded them. From Freeborn county they set out with a colony for Renville county. Mr. and Mrs. Golie walked the entire distance, their little girl riding on one of the wagons. After reaching Renville county, they took a homestead of eighty acres in section 24. Ilawk Creek township. The fam- ily was fortunate in owning a cow and a calf which they had purchased in Freeborn county. but Mr. Golie was siek during the greater part of the first year and they had to sell the cow to get food. The claim which they took was wild prairie land without a tree and absolutely unbroken. For four years they lived in a dugout and there their oldlest son. Herman M .. was born. In 1872 they erected a log cabin, hauling the logs all the way from the river bottoms. After a time they acquired a pair of oxen. Herman M. remembers seeing these oxen hitched to the old Buckeye reaper. Later they raised two yokes of oxen and traded them for a team of horses. In 1870, the father, Helge Hanson Golie, came from the old country and took a claim near- by. llalvor Helgeson Golie and family in time achieved pros- perity. They erected suitable buildings from time to time and brought the farm to a high state of development. They added eighty acres of railroad land and also another eighty. making in all a fine farm of 240 acres. Mr. Golie became a prominent man in the community and his death. March 7. 1896, was sin- cerely mourned. His faithful wife is still living on the home farm.
In the family there are four living children: Bertha is the wife of Otto Sweiven. of Sacred Heart township. Herman M. is on the home farm. Matilda is the wife of Edward Kamrud, of Makoti, North Dakota. Hans lives in Morris, Minn. Five are dead : Bertha, the oldest, died in Norway: Martha and Henry
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Martinus died in Freeborn county; Henry and Caroline died at Sacred Heart.
Herman M. Golie, one of the leading farmers of Hawk Creek township, is a true pioneer, having been born in a little dugout on the farm where he still resides, March 24, 1871, son of Halvor and Karrie (Ogaard) Golie, early settlers. He received his edu- cation in the district schools and remained with his father until the latter's death in 1896. A year later he purchased the home place, but from 1897 to 1900 he rented and operated the Bergosa farm. . Since then he has been on his present farm. He carries on general farming on a successful seale, has made many and varied improvements on the farm and makes a specialty of breed- ing pure-blooded Shorthorn cattle. He is president of the Hawk Creek Telephone Co. and a stockholder in the Farmers' Elevator Co. at Sacred Heart. He has been supervisor of the township for seven years and has been a school director of District No. 16 for twelve years. He is now doing good work as road overseer.
Herman M. Golie was married Nov. 24, 1894, to Oleane Olson. who was born in Norway, July 16, 1863; this union has been with two children, Hazel Margaret, born Ang. 28, 1895. and Clarence Mornell, born May 27, 1898.
Karenus O. Agre, one of the honored and respected early pio- neers, was born in Norway, Oet. 11. 1840, the son of Ole N. and Metta Agre, seventh in the family of eleven children, the others being Peter, Nels, Helga. Ole, Berener, Martinus, Karenus. Haaken, Ole Gusenus, Kari and Bertha. Haaken, the first of the family to come to America, left the ohl country in 1866 and settled in Fillmore county, this state. The next to come were Martinus and Karenus. They left Norway April 2, 1867, landed in Quebee, and on May 10. of the same year, reached Fillmore county, in this state. Karenus secured work, grubbing wildt land for various pioneers, securing for this arduous labor only $1 a day. sometimes less. He managed to save some of this. how- ever, and in the fall of 1868 he and his two brothers, Martinus and llaaken, and their two cousins, Simon and Tollef Johnson. went into partnership with the intention of locating in Renville county as pioneers. They purchased three yoke of oxen, and after a long journey overland reached Hawk Creek township. There they each took claims on the prairie, and purchased a place of 160 aeres, nearer the Minnesota bottoms. On this farm the young men moved into a little cabin already erected, and there they lived for a while. All the men being single, they kept house themselves and the duties of cook fell to Karenus. The winter of 1868-1869 was spent in Fillmore county. In the spring of 1869 they came back to Hawk Creek, and broke a few aeres of land on each of their claims. During the summer of 1869. Martinus, Haaken and Simon went back to Fillmore county and
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worked for farmers, while Karenus and Tollef stayed in Hawk Creek. In the fall they came back to make their permanent home here. Four of the party continued to reside in the county. Tollef died and his parents came over and took his claim. While living in the cabin on the 160 aeres, Karens had been busy making improvements on his claim on the prairie, and when everything was ready he took up his home in a sod house which he had constructed. It was to this place that he brought his bride. There they began their married life together, under- going all the hardships and privations of pioneer life. Times were hard and provisions were few, the mosquitoes, the grass- hoppers and the crows were a nuisance, trips to market were long and sometimes dangerous. But they worked hard and pros- perity erowned their efforts. As time passed. their farm became one of the best in the neighborhood, and before many years a comfortable home, suitable barns, appropriate outbuildings, and well-tilled, well-developed and well-fenced fields took the place of what had originally been an almost unbroken waste, orna- mented only by a crude sod house.
Aside from successfully working his farm, Mr. Agre found time to serve his community in various capacities, and he ever had the best interests of his township at heart. lle has served both as supervisor and as chairman of his township, and has done admirable service as treasurer of the school board. He was one of the first stockholders in the Farmers' Elevator at Sacred Heart and is likewise a stockholder in the lawk Creek Telephone Company. For many years he has been active in the Hawk Creek church. For some ten or fifteen years the services of this church were held in a log cabin located on his farm, as well as in a cabin on the Brevig Farm.
Mr. Agre was married in 1870 to Mary Hanson, born in Nor- way. Nov. 4, 1848. danghter of llans and Anna (Christopherson) Ilanson. Her parents came to the United States in 1862 and located in Fillmore county, where they remained until 1867, when they came to Renville county and located near the Chippewa county line. Mr. and Mrs. Agre have had seven children : Ole, Hans (deceased), Marthea, Halbert, Casper, Martin (deceased), and Julins. Ole Casper and Julius have purchased the home farm and are successfully operating it. Marthea married Henry K. Rude and they live in Bagley, Minn., owning a farm in Clear- water county. They have two sons, Carl Melvin and Archie Oliver. Halbert married Minnie Jacobson, and they live in Clear- water county. They have three children, Millie Adeline, Phoebe Irene and Harvey Albert Odean.
Mr. Agre has many interesting stories to tell of the early days. One particularly interesting story relates to a freshet in the early seventies which swelled Hawk creek way beyond
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its natural boundaries. Mr. Agre and other members of the colony had been to Willmar, some forty miles away, and had pur- chased three stoves, other hardware. 800 feet of lumber, and general provisions, making a very heavy load. About a mile this side of Willmar, however, they were stuck in the mud, and found that they could not make the journey through the wet earth with so much material. Consequently they returned to Willmar and unloaded the heavy material, after which they again undertook the journey with some 300 feet of lumber and some light provisions. Though the wagon wheels sank deep into the earth, they reached the east branch of the Ilawk creek in safety. There they found that the ereek had swollen and covered the prairie a wide distance in all directions. One of the men, Ole Kringsberg, took a rope and swam across the creek to the solid ground on the other side. A raft was made out of the lumber, and the rope held by the man on the further shore was tied to the front of the raft, while another rope, held by the men stand- ing on the other shore, was tied to the back of the raft. Thus. by pulling the raft back and forth from shore to shore, the young men managed to carry all their provisions and their wagon in safety to the further bank. Then the oxen were compelled to swim, and, in due time, the party proceeded on its journey.
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