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Haagen O. Agre, whose work in Renville county since the earliest days has had an important influence in the growth and development of the comunmity, was born in Rendalen, Oster- dalen, Norway, Jan. 31, 1843, son of Ole Nelson and Martha Peterson, natives of that locality, where they devoted their lives to agrienltural pursuits. The father died about 1868, and the mother abont 1876. Haagen O. Agre received a good edneation in the schools of his native parish, and worked in the timber and lumber business until 1866, when he set out with high hopes and a courageous heart to try his fortunes in the new world. He embarked on a steamboat, which encountered a bad storm just after leaving Christiania, and was tossed about on the North Sea a week before reaching Hull, England. After a ten days' trip out of Liverpool, he landed at Quebee, and there took the railroad for Chicago and from there to La Crosse, where he took a boat up the Mississippi to Winona, going thenee by team to Fillmore county, where he worked among the farmers for two years. In 1868 he started with four others for Renville county. From Fillmore county they went to Chatfield, and thence to Waseca by railroad, from there going to St. Peter on foot. Then they came by team to Renville county. Thus arrived in this vi- cinity Haagen O., K. O. and M. O. Agre, and Tollef and Simon Johnson. They had been told to follow the trail, to Yellow Medi- eine, but by keeping to the government road they found them- selves in a different direction from that in which they intended
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to go. Night was coming on, so they wrapped themselves in their blankets, which had been ent with a hole for their heads, thus giving the men much the appearance of Indians. It was in this garb that they approached the shack of Joseph Myer, an early pioneer. He was a German and could not understand Nor- wegian. They could not understand German. He mistook them for Indians and was badly frightened, the more so beeanse all he could understand of what they said was "Yellow Medicine, " and Yellow Medicine was, in those days, the headquarters of the Indians. He pointed out the direction and slammed the door in their faces. The next morning Myer started for the shack of his neighbor, Joseph Schaffer, and told him Indians were in the community, declaring that he had himself seen five individuals whom he was sure were Indians because they wore blankets and spoke an unknown language. The young men, after leaving Myers, found that they were practically lost, but as a prairie fire was raging, they decided to stay in the vicinity all night. Nearby they saw a black object, dimly visible through the dusk. Making their way to the place they discovered that the black objeet was a log barn in which were a pair of oxen. Making the oxen move over to the side of the barn, the men brought in hay, and made themselves a comfortable bed for the night. The next morning they were on their way early. A light snow had fallen through the night. With nothing to eat, they made their way up the prairie, approached a cabin, and noted a young woman in the yard, attending to the farm chores. They still had on their blankets, and when they approached the young woman and asked her the way to Yellow Medicine, she, like the German the previous night, mistook them for Indians. She ran into the house and, hugging her little boy to her breast. determined to meet death bravely. But the men soon made themselves known to her as fellow countrymen. Her joy at meeting some one from home who could talk the dear old tongue of her fathers was equalled only by the fright that she had previously felt. She explained to them that she was Mrs. Maria Rude, and that her husband was working on the railroad near St. Peter. Soon she had a meal set out for them on a wash tub turned upside down. Her stories of the locality were so attractive that all five young men determined to take claims in the vicinity. Haagen O. Agre took a claim of 80 aeres in section 10. Ile built himself a ernde shack of logs and rails, with a sod roof, just sufficient to hold the claim. He did not live therein, but returned with the other young men to Fillmore county to get their oxen. There the weather turned cold, and as it did not seem advisable to make another trip to Renville county amid such conditions, the young men spent that winter in Fillmore county. The next summer they drove to Renville county. and, until they could make suitable
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quarters for themselves, lived in a log cabin in the timbers on 160 aeres, which, in addition to their claims on the prairie, the young men had acquired nearer the Minnesota bottoms. During that fall and winter they continued to live in this cabin, and in the meantime drew logs to their claims on the prairie and erected cabins. During these trips to the prairie claims, the young men often stopped at the home of Nels Bakke. father of John Bakke. for meals, and sometimes they spent the night there. In the spring of 1870. the young mien moved onto the prairie claims. Haagen O. Agre took up his home in the neat cabin which he had built in section 10. In this cabin his family lived for several years, after which they erected a frame house, 16 by 24 feet, which is a part of the present sightly dwelling. As time passed he made many other improvements. He broke the land, erected necessary buildings, constructed fences, and planted groves and a good orchard of some 130 apple trees, and brought the place to a high stage of development. Mr. Agre passed through all the hardships of pioneer life, suffering intensely during the grasshopper raids and the hail which soon followed. The nearest trading point was Willmar, and provisions were searee and high- priced. But with undaunted courage, Mr. Agre pushed ahead. determined to succeed. Ile worked early and late, managed his affairs with frugality and shrewdness, and in time acquired 600 acres, the larger part of which has been divided among his chil- dren, leaving him the eighty aeres on which the cabin originally stood. In 1897 he ereeted what was then one of the largest barns in the community, its dimensions being 44 by 64 with 16-foot stud- dings. This building was destroyed by fire on Oct. 26, 1901. They were shredding corn with a Cyclone husker and had the blower going into the barn, when suddenly they saw the barn on fire. Another was erected on the same basement, but this one had 12 instead of 16-foot studdings. Then came a wind storm, which turned the building on its foundations and bent it almost bow-shaped. A wrecking crew straightened it up. but a year later came a great cyelone, which swept the barn to de- strnetion and killed a horse and four head of cattle. On the afternoon of the cyclone the family had been visiting. Upon their return, although it was chore and milking time, they de- cided to have supper before doing their evening work. While eating supper the storm came up. Had they been doing their chores at the usual time, instead of eating supper as they were. several members of the family would doubtless have been killed. Since that time. however. Mr. Agre has erected a fine complement of barns and outbuildings, which form a picturesque background to the pleasant home.
Mr. Agre has been prominent in the affairs of his township for many years. For fifteen years he was a member of the Hawk
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Creek Mutual Fire Insurance Co. and, during this period of mem- bership, he served both as secretary and president. He is a stoek- holder and director in the Farmers' State Bank of Sacred Heart, and for a considerable period was a stoekholder and director in the Farmers' Elevator at Sacred Heart. As town treasurer for many years, he did good service, and was on the town board as supervisor and as chairman. In the church he has been active, being chairman of the building committee when the Hawk Creek Norwegian Lutheran church was erected, and he was also the man designated to purchase the lumber. the reasonable price at which it was obtained being a tribute to his shrewdness and busi- ness ability.
Mr. Agre was united in the holy bonds of wedlock in JJuly, 1871, to Inge Marie Johnson, born in Norway, Feb. 24, 1846. daughter of John Thoroson and Marit Peterson, who came to America in 1871. located in llawk Creek township, on the home- stead of their son. Tollef Johnson, and spent the remainder of their lives in that neighborhood, the father dying in 1875 and the mother in 1888. Mr. and Mrs. Agre have had eight children : Martha, Ole, John, Martin, Hannah Maria, Theoline Bertha, Han- nah Olava, and Harold. Martha was born April 26, 1872, mar- ried Oluf Kvistero, of Yellow Medicine county, and has five chil- dren, Esther, Julia. Harold, Melvin and Peter. Ole was born Oct. 26, 1873, and is one of the leading farmers of Ilawk Creek township. He married Mary Lindquist. John was born April 8. 1875, and is also a leading farmer in Hawk Creek township. He married Amelia Hanson, and they have three children, Oral, Hazel and Arbie. Martin was born Nov. 22. 1876, and success- frilly conduets the home farm, of which he is now the owner. Hannah Maria was born Dec. 20, 1878, and died in May, 1886. Theoline Bertha was born Sept. 29, 1882, and died Sept. 18. 1914. By her husband, Ole K. Imes, she left one child, Myrtle Hen- rietta. Hannah Olava was born July 27. 1887, and resides at home. looking after the welfare of her parents. Harold was born Feb. 10, 1889, and died March 2, of the same year.
Ephraim McBroom, a retired farmer of Renville, was born in St. Lawrence county, New York, June 16. 1856, son of William and Maria ( Miller) McBroom. William McBroom, son of John, was born in Ireland, Jamary. 1814, and died in 1885. He came to America when he was twelve years old, the family loeating in St. Lawrence county. In 1869 William and his family moved to Illinois, there being six children: John, Thomas, William. Ephraim, Margaret and Mary. They located in Mellenry county, where they lived on a farm, later moving to Woodstock, where he remained until his death. two years later. He was a member of the Presbyterian church. Ilis wife died in 1889, at the age of seventy-three. Ehpraim MeBroom received his early educa-
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tion in New York state and in Illinois, where he attended the dis- triet school. For a time he farmed on the home place. Later he moved to Woodstock, where he remained for two years, then coming to Minnesota in the spring of 1890, and locating five miles northwest of Renville, in Erieson township, where he secured 320 acres. Here he built a small frame house, 12 by 16 feet. About thirty aeres were broke when he took charge of the farm. Ile also built a rude barn and here the family lived until the spring of 1914, when they moved to Renville. During this time he improved the farm, built good buildings and developed the land. Mr. MeBroom held many township offices, being super- visor and chairman of supervisors, and school officer for many years. Hle is a stockholder in the Farmers' Elevator Company of Renville. In 1899 a cheese factory was started on his place. which was known as the Ericson Co-operative Cheese Factory, Mr. MeBroom being the treasurer for a long time and also the salesman. Fraternally, he is a member of the I. O. O. F. of Ren- ville. Mr. MeBroom was married Sept. 6, 1882, in Illinois, to Alice MeLean, born in Clayton county, lowa, May 30, 1861, daugh- ter of John and Allison .(Binnie). MeLean, both natives of Seot- land, the father coming to America when he was twenty-six years old and the mother when she was eleven years old. John Melean was born June 13, 1826, near Glasgow, and settled in Dundee, Kane county, Illinois. He was a veteran of the Civil war. having enlisted in the fall of 1864, in Company K .. in the Fifteenth Towa Regiment. and was discharged July 24, 1865. Ile accompanied General Sherman on his famous march to the sea. Ile died Jan. 20, 1907. Allison MeLean was born Feb. 23, 1837, at Airdrie, near Edinburgh, Scotland, and they were married Sept. 7, 1852. Iler parents also settled in Kane county, later moving to Benton county, lowa, and then to Clayton county. Then they returned to Ilinois, where they settled in Seneca township, MeHenry county. Mrs. McLean died June 29, 1906. Fifteen children were born to Mr. and Mrs. MeLean : James, born Sept. 11, 1853; Robert, born Sept. 30. 1854: John, born Feb. 14, 1856; Agnes, born April 21, 1857; Maggie, born May 9, 1858; Albert, born Nov. 27, 1859; Alice, born May 30, 1861 ; Mary, born April 5, 1864: William, June 21, 1866; David, born July 15, 1867; Christian, born Jan. 11, 1869; Jessie, born March 11. 1870; Henry, born Sept. 13, 1877, and one who died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. MeBroom have had eleven children: Roy : Harley and Charles, twins, Charles dying at the age of twenty years : George, a veterinary surgeon at Atwater, Minnesota; Winnie, Harry, Allison, Howard, Margaret, Guy and Mary. Roy is in charge of the farm in Erieson township.
A. T. Ellingboe was born in Norway, Aug. 13, 1852, and was brought to America in 1861 by his parents, Thrond I. and Kjirsti
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Kjirtsen, with his three brothers, Iver, Henry and Thom, and his four sisters, Veljer, Kjersti, Soneva and Berit, the voyage taking eleven weeks. The family came to Goodhue county, July 4, and made their home there. Here A. T. received his edn- cation at the common school and then spent one year at St. Olaf's College at Northfield, Minn. In 1873 he moved to Ren- ville county, where he secured a homestead in section 4, Wang township, where he has lived ever since. Mr. Ellingbor has held many positions of publie trust. In 1876 he was elected town clerk of Wang, which position he has hell ever since. In 1877 he was elected justice of the peace, which office he also has held ever since. In 1878 he became clerk for School District No. 44. In 1880, 1890 and 1910 he was appointed enumerator of the census of Wang, Ilawk Creek and Erieson. In 1902 he was elected treasurer of the llawk Creek Farmers' Mutual Insurance Co., and has held the office ever since. He was postmaster of New Lisbon for eighteen years.
Mr. Ellingboe was married Dec. 16, 1876. to Berit E. Lien, daughter of Endre K. Lien and Berit (Gjevre) Lien, natives of Norway, who came from Norway in 1866. Nine children were born to this union, six of whom are living. Thom, born Oct. 6, 1877, died Sept. 18, 1913. Bertha, born April 10, 1879, married Gilbert Strand in 1914 and has one child, Bertha lola Marie. Christine, born Feb. 13, 1881, has been a teacher for ten years. Endre, born June 10, 1883, is a farmer in section 10, Wang town- ship, and married to Gina Lofsgorden, June, 1912. Iver, born June 10, 1885, is a farmer in section 10, Wang township. Andris A., born Sept. 16, 1887, is a land owner in North Dakota. Clara, born -July 16, 1890, is a teacher. Two children died in infancy. Mrs. Ellingboe died Ang. 26, 1895. Mr. Ellingboe was married a second time to Marit G. Gjevre, Aug. 1, 1897. She was a cousin of his first wife, and daughter of Gunder and Gro (Ilelgeson) Gjevre, natives of Norway, who came to America on the same ship as the parents of his first wife. Three children were born by this marriage: Esther, born in 1898, a student at Madison, Minn .; George, born Sept. 25, 1899, at home on the farm, and Agnes, born Sept. 3, 1901, student at Maynard publie schools, Maynard, Minn.
John Gens was born in Germany and there married Caroline Rhofult. They came to America in 1869, the voyage taking thir- teen weeks, and landed at New York. Then they traveled on to New Ulm, where they located for a time, Mr. Gens finding work in the lime kim. In 1871 they came to Renville county and se- cured a homestead, in section 34 of Emmet township, of SO aeres of prairie land. There were no buildings and no roads. A sod hut was built and money was borrowed to buy a cow and a steer. A piece of a wagon was also obtained and breaking of the laud
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was begun. Mr. Gens gradually prospered so that in time he was the owner of 620 aeres and was able to erect new and mod- ern buildings on his farm. Mr. Gens held several township offices, serving on the school board, and helped start the first school. Ile was also a member of the Lutheran church and held the position of trustee. He also was instrumental in helping build a new church building. Mr. Gens, as noted, was married in Germany to Carolina Rhofult, and one child, Amelia, was born in Germany; Anna was born in New Ulm, and the following in Renville county : Ida, August, John and Henry. Mr. Gens died in 1896 at the age of sixty years and his wife died in 1906 at the age of sixty years.
John H. Gens, a snecessful farmer of Emmet township, was born Feb. 4, 1873, son of John and Caroline (Rhofult) Gens, na- tives of Germany. He received his early education in Emmet township schools and lived on the home farm until he was twenty- six years of age, when he was married and located on a farm of his own, in section 29, Emmet township. He bought 160 acres and planted trees and erected buildings, as there were no im- provements on the place when he came into possession of it. He built a barn, 70 by 48 feet, with a cement basement, and raises full-blooded Durham cattle. He has also added 80 acres more to his farm. Mr. Gens is a stoekholder in the Renville Farmers' Elevator. He has also held several township offices, having been supervisor, assessor, road overseer and clerk of the school board. He is also a member of the Luthern church and has held various offices in the church. Nov. 11, 1898, Mr. Gens was married to Ida Rachild, born in Emmet township, July 1, 1877, daughter of Albert and Minnie (Britine) Rachild. Eight children were born to these parents, all of whom are living: Alma, Mattie, Esther, Herbert, Louis, Cora, Clarence and Walter.
Paul C. Brevig who, for many years, has taken an active part in the development and progress of Hawk Creek and vicinity, was born in Kalverids, Prestigjeld, North Trondhjims Amt, his boyhood name being Paul Christian Pettersen Brevig. His father was Petter Jacob Loeretsen Brevig and his mother Olava Nels- datter Brevig. P. C. Brevig was born June 24, 1840, baptized .July 26, 1840, and on July 15, 1855, was confirmed by the Rev. Jolin Ludwig Lampe. He attended school and grew to manhood, and on June 17, 1866, was married at Folderieds Kirke, by the Rev. Knute Torkelson, to Anna Sophia Benjaminsdatter. daugh- ter of Benjamin Nielsen Bjoraa and Sophia Berthilsdatter. Anna Sophia Benjaminsdatter was born in the same neighborhood as her husband, Sept. 27, 1847, was baptized Oet. 30, 1847, and was confirmed Ang. 16, 1863, by the same minister who married her. She died May 31, 1909. On May 8, 1867, Mr. and Mrs. Brevig left Norway, determined to seek their fortunes and establish
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their new home in America. They reached Olmsted county, in this state, July 29, 1867, and there stayed some two years. There their oldest child was born. In May, 1869, they set out with a party of home-seekers from Olmsted county. and in due time reached Hawk Creek township. Mr. Brevig homesteaded a claim in section 4, and started life as a Minnesota pioneer. There were many privations to endure and hardships to overcome, but with true courage, he and his good wife worked together, and, as the Years passed, developed one of the best farms in the community. They raised a large family and gave them a good education, giving them a sound Christian upbringing. It was in 1904 that Mr. Brevig retired from the farm and moved to the village of Sacred Heart, where he engaged for a time in the banking busi- ness. He is not now actively engaged in business. He has erected a number of houses in Sacred Heart, and now lives in a sightly home which he ereeted some years ago, facing the high school building. For many years, Mr. Brevig occupied a prominent position in the township, having served both as chairman of the town board and as township treasurer. For many years he was director in School District No. 42. He was on the board of the first Farmers' Club organized in Hawk Creek. He has also been on the boards of the farmers' creamery, mill and warehouse at Sacred Heart. Possibly his most active publie work has been done in the church. Early services of the Vestre Sogn congre- gation were held on his farm, and he helped to organize that congregation. He was on the committee when the church was erected. He has been treasurer of the congregation 44 years. When he became treasurer he also beeame the "kjerkesanger," and has since retained that position, now serving in that capacity in the Norwegian Lutheran church in Sacred Heart.
Mr. and Mrs. Brevig have been blessed with ten children. of whom four are dead. Neils Jorgen was born Feb. 10, 1869, and is now cashier of the American Scandinavian Bank at Fargo, North Dakota. He married Mina Melsness. Ohif Leonard was born May 19, 1872, and is pastor of the Norwegian Synod church at Plaza, North Dakota. He married Lena Ellison and has two children : Samuel Bernhof was born Oet. 6, 1874, and is cashier of the State Bank of Baker, North Dakota. He married Thora Larson and has five children. Petra Julia was born April 19. 1876, and is now the wife of Rev. I. B. Kilness, pastor of the Norwegian Lutheran Synod church of Westby, Montana. They have seven children: Anna Christina was born Ang. 13, 1877, and died Aug. 16. 1886. Sehna Lonise was born July 6. 1879, and died Aug. 12, 1886. Otto was born Feb. 1, 1882, and died Nov. 13, 1882. Emma Ovida was born Aug. 25, 1883. and died Ang. 6, 1886. Ilanna Maria was born Oet. 26, 1885, and died Feb. 16, 1903. Anna Christina was born Jan. 5. 1888, and is
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now Mrs. Vietor Peterson, of Hawk Creek township. They have three children.
Paul G. Berg, one of the early settlers of Hawk Creek, was born in Norway, Nov. 23, 1832, son of Gulbrand and Anna Berg, farmers for many years in Norway, the former of whom died at the age of forty-four, but the latter of whom lived to the good old age of nearly ninety-three years. Of the four sons and one daughter in the family, three sons and the daughter came to America. Paul Berg attended school in Norway, grew up to farm work, and there married. In 1869 he and his wife and three children made the great venture into the new country. Few people can realize the terrors of that trip. Everything was new and strange, sea voyages aboard sailing vessels in those days were fraught with dangers, the food was poor and searre, ill- ness broke out, and the poor mother saw two of her children die and sadly watched them silently lowered over the side of the vessel to their last resting place. But the voyage was finally concluded and the family landed and found their way to St. Peter, where they remained for about a year, Mr. Berg in the meantime working about on farms to pay the $40 which he had borrowed to make the trip. Then he began to save a little and. in 1870. he had enough to hire a man with an ox team to bring him and his family to Hawk Creek township, where he secured a home- steam of eighty acres. This was in the wilderness, and the land was all wild prairie. All the live stock he owned was a cow. which he brought with him. In order to build a cabin, he was compelled to hire a man with a pair of oxen to haul timber from the bottoms. Later he bought a pair of four-year-old oxen, but even then he owned no wagon, and had to do his work under a great handicap. But as times changed he prospered and became one of the substantial men of the community. To his original farm he added fifty acres : he brought all his farm under a high stage of cultivation, and erected a good honse and suitable barns. For many years he has carried on general farming in a success- ful manner. He has served as treasurer of the school board and has been chairman of the town board. In the affairs of the Hawk Creek Norwegian Lutheran church he has taken all espe- cial interest, the first services being held in his log cabin and the first baptism being performed there.
Mr. and Mrs. Berg have had eleven children: Christian, Ole. Anna, Odina. Olaf, Petra, Olaf, Petra, Paul, Hans, and Hannah. Christina was first married to Christian Olson, now deceased. by whom she had six children, of whom there are living : Carrie. Lizzie, Emily and Christian. By her present husband. E. A. Hendrickson, of Roy. Washington, she has had four children. Ruth, Esther and Edgar, living, and Henry (deceased ). Ole lives in Granite Falls, this state. He married Anna Hanson and their
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children are: Ruth, Huldah, Arthur and Elvin, living. and Harold and an unnamed infant (deceased). Anna married Henry Sten- son. of Starbuck. Minn. Their children are: Paul, Melville, Arnold. Herbert, Ruth, Ernest, Ralph, Gladstone, Mildred and IIenry, alive: and Herbert and Ruth (deceased). Odena, Anna's twin. died in Norway. Olaf and Petra died on the ocean. Olaf lived in Mt. Horeb. Wisconsin. He married Minnie Peterson and their children are: Ruth. Paul. George, Ralph and Helen, living, and Roy (deceased). Petra is the wife of Ilerman Skalbeck, of Sacred Heart. Their children are: Ruth, Arthur, Hilma, Mabel, Roy and Edna. Paul and Hans are dead. Hannah is now the wife of Louis Nelson. They own and conduct the Paul Berg tarm in Hawk Creek township. They have three children, Ruth, Florence and Hazel. In addition to these children, there are five great-grandchildren. Coral Swenson, Norma Swenson, Paul Ed- ward Swenson, Robert Anderson, Geraldine Anderson. There are five great-great-grandchildren, Harold Helgeson (deceased), Arnold Helgeson, Vera Helgeson, Merill Sneezby and Nora Sneezby. Mrs. Paul Berg died in 1913 at the age of seventy-nine Years.
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