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Mr. Aarnes was united in marriage at Racine, Wisconsin, to Kari Semmingsen Andraae, of Norway, who came to America on the same boat as Mr. Aarnes did. She was born May 3, 1843. Seven children have been born to these parents : Carl (deceased) ; Samuel, a graduate of Luther College of Decorah, Towa, who is now living with his parents on the home farm; Henry, an elec- trician, now of Minneapolis ; Karen, now Mrs. Albert Slattum, of Viking, Minnesota, who has two children, Harold Clifford and IIelen Maria, also a stepson, Arthur Morris; Rikka, a student of Sacred Heart high school and teacher of eight years' experience, now in the photographie work in Minneapolis: Ida, a student of Sacred Heart high school and a teacher of twelve years' experi- ener; and Christian, who died in infancy. In addition to the publie school teaching of Rikka and Ida, Rikka, Ida and Karen have all tanght parochial school.
Engebret Hanson Docken, a worthy and honored pioneer, was born in Norway, Dee. 7, 1839 and, in 1866, determined to try his fortunes in the new world. After a long voyage and a difficult trip overland he reached Fillmore county, this state, where he was contented to remain three years. In 1869, with an ox team, he started for Renville county, and after looking about for a time took a homestead of eighty aeres in section 8, Hawk Creek township. For a year he lived with Peter Simonson. During
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that period he ereeted his log cabin and a sod stable and started breaking his land. The family moved into the eabin and there remained for seventeen years. Like the other pioneers, he and his family underwent many hardships and privations. Times were hard, money was scarce, provisions were high, the black- birds and the grasshoppers devoured the crops, the blizzards often kept them confined in their cabin for weeks at a time, the nearest market for their grain was at Willmar, and that also was the nearest place where they could secure supplies. But they toiled ahead, year after year, made many improvements on the place. set out groves, erected a frame house, a good barn and suitable outbuildings, and there found prosperity and happiness. Mr. Doeken took an interest in the progress of the community, served for a member of years on the school board. After his death, in 1905. his widow continued to conduet the home place until 1911, when she rented it to her sons. Albert and Otto.
Engebret Ilanson Docken was married June 3, 1869, at Winona, to Anne Stavne, who was born in Norway, Oet. 27, 1840, eame to America in 1867 and located in Fillmore county, this state. Mr. and Mrs. Doeken had nine children : Ilans, Olena, Hannah, Mar- tin, Clara, Albert, Emma, Otto and an mmamed infant. Hans was born Sept. 13, 1870, and died May 9, 1872. Olena was born Sept. 20, 1871. Hannah was born Dec. 28, 1873, married C. H. Romo. of Hawk Creek township, and has three children : Alice, Harold and Esther. Martin was born Feb. 16, 1876. Clara was born Oct. 21, 1878. married John Romo, of Wang township, and has two children, Gladys and Eveline. Albert was born May 29, 18SI. Emma was born Feb. 28, 1884. Otto was born May 29. 1885. The youngest was born July 19, 1888, and died the same day. Olena and Emma keep house for their mother and brothers. The family faith is that of Our Saviour's Norwegian Lutheran church at Sacred Heart.
Einar Nelson was born at the Hunsager Farm, Hoff Solar, Norway, on Sept. 8. 1829, and died April 18, 1915. At the age of fifteen he was confirmed in Hoff church, Norway, and he re- mained a true Christian all his life, attending services whenever his health permitted. July, 1865, he immigrated to this country, locating in Wisconsin, where he remained for only a short while, going from there to Preston, Fillmore county, Minnesota. Here he took up the trade of blacksmith, working at same for about three years, and then went to St. Paul and worked as foreman on the Ames Farm near there for about one year. During the early days in this seetion Mr. Nelson followed the oeeupation of blacksmith, as well as that of farming, and until Fairfax be- eame a village. large enough to support a blacksmith shop, he worked at his trade and enjoyed a good business, being looked
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upon as the best workman of his kind in this section. Mr. Nel- son was of a kind and imassuming nature, and was loved and re- spected by all who knew him. Being a pioneer, he suffered many of the hardships of the early days. Mr. Nelson was married July 13, 1868, to Thea Johnson. Shortly after their marriage they moved to a homestead in Ridgely township, Nicollet county. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson had the following children: Eliza, Mrs. Simon Hongly, of Camp township; Nellie, Mrs. Peter Hornseth, of Thief River Falls, Minnesota ; Nels E., a farmer of Cairo town- ship; Palma, Mrs. Andrew G. Loftness, of Thief River Falls, Minnesota; Einar, died in infancy in 1878; Einar E., member of Nelson Brothers at Fairfax; Peter, on the old home farm in Nicollet county ; and Ole E., member of the Nelson Brothers firm at Fairfax.
Einar E. Nelson, a successful young man of this county, was born in Nicollet county on June 2, 1878, son of Einar and Thea (Johnson) Nelson. At the age of twenty-five he bought the home farm in Ridgely township, section 8, Nicollet county, and, with his brother, Peter, engaged in the buying and feeding of cattle and hogs, and getting them ready for the market. They have been very successful in this work and are still engaged in it. Mr. Nelson is also a member of the firm of Nelson Brothers, who con- duet a large garage in Fairfax. June 6, 1912, he was married to Ella Hagestad. Iler parents, Mathias and Martha (Berg) Hagestad, live on a farm in Camp township. Mr. and Mrs. Nel- son have one child, Eldred Merrell, born Aug. 7, 1913.
Ole E. Nelson was born in Ridgely township, Nicollet county, July 12. 1882, son of Einar and Thea (Johnson) Nelson. He grew up on the home farm and later attended the Luther College at De- eorah, lowa, for three years. From 1902 to 1904 he remained at home. June 20, 1904, he secured a homestead in Marshall county, near Thiel River Falls, where he remained for five years. Then he spent four years at Highland Park College, at Des Moines, taking up the civil and electrical engineering courses. For three months he worked in a garage at Minneapolis and now is in a garage with his brother, Einar E., at Fairfax, under the name of Nelson Brothers. During 1914-1915 a fine briek build- ing. 44 by 130 feet, was erected. It is a one-story building with part basement, and costs about $17,000. They handle Studebaker cars and all accessories, and have a well-equipped repairing shop.
Nels E. Nelson, a successful farmer of Cairo township. was born in Nicollet county, this state, May 21, 1871. son of Einar and Thea (Johnson) Nelson. He attended the district schools and the Mankato Business College, and farmed at home until 1902, when he bought 160 aeres in section 33, in Melville town- ship, this county, where he lived for nine years. Then he sold
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this farm and, in 1911, bonght 200 acres in section 20, in Cairo township, where he is still living, having just completed a fine modern residence and all new outbuildings.
Mr. Nelson was assessor in Melville township for two years and supervisor in Cairo township for three years, and is still serving. lle is a stockholder in the Farmers' Elevator at Fairfax and also in the Renville Rural Telephone Company of Fairfax. May 22, 1902, Mr. Nelson was married to Alma Bergley, born Jan. 31, 1879. Her father, Andrew Bergley, a farmer on see- tion 23, Camp township, came to Renville county in 1873. Her mother's maiden name was Lena Johannasen. Mr. and Mrs. Nel- son have two children, Arthur. born July 12, 1903, and Tillie, born March 5, 1905. The family are members of the Norwegian Lutheran church.
Michael Holden, a pioneer, was born in the province of Quebec, Canada, Jan. 25, 1849, son of James and Catherine (MeGinley) Holden. James Holden was a farmer, who came to Minnesota in 1868 and homesteaded eighty aeres of land in section 26. Henryville township, and lived there until 1892. Then he moved to Morton, where he died March 10, 1905, at the age of seventy- eight. He served on the township board for three years and on the school board four years. His wife died in 1907. at the age of eighty-one years. Michael HIolden homesteaded eighty acres in section 6, Henryville township, in 1868, and moved there from St. Peter, Minnesota. He built a log cabin and then worked on the railway and in the pineries for four years. Ile remained on the farm until 1900, when he moved to Olivia. After eight years he moved to Morton. He served as chairman of the town- ship board for eleven years ; was assessor nine years and school clerk twenty-six years. For four years he was a member of the village council of Morton and served on the school board six years. He buys and ships stoek in Olivia and Morton. Ile also owns 240 acres of land. He is a member of the K. of (. MIr. lIolden was married June 29, 1872, to Bridget Barkey, born March 18, 1850, and died Dee. 10, 1888. She was the daughter of Patriek and Mary Barkey. Eleven children were born : Mary A., born March 22. 1873, and died Oct. 6. 1881; Thomas M., born Sept. 29, 1874, at Montevideo; James P., born Jan. 6, 1876, of Spokane, Wash .; John C., born Nov. 30, 1877, and died Oct. 4, IS81: Catherine E., born Dee. 1, 1879, wife of John Ilanmaher. of Fargo, North Dakota ; Francis J., born Oet. 28, 1881. of Min- neapolis : Anna J., born Oet. 2, 1883, wife of Albert Barmer, of Fargo, North Dakota ; William H., born Nov. 8, 1884. of Colorado Springs; Agnes, born Nov. 3, 1885, and died the same day : Bridget M., born Feb. 6, 1887, wife of John Ivers, of Minneapo- lis; and Agnes M., born Dec. 5, 1888, wife of John Hopman, a farmer of Henryville. He was married a second time to Mary A.
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Williams, on July 15, 1889. She was born July 15, 1859, and was the daughter of Michael Williams, a farmer of Norfolk, and his wife, Margaret (Foley) Williams. By this marriage there was one child, Mary Angela Margaret, born May 16, 1891, now of Minneapolis. The family faith is that of the Catholic church.
Henry A. Peterson, one of the influential farmers of Sacred Heart township, was born in Sweden, March 1, 1861. His step- father, John Peterson, came to Goodhue county in the early six- ties and in 1868 located in section 20, in Sacred Heart township, where he secured a preemption right to 160 acres, later relin- quishing it for a homestead of 80 acres. Here he built a log rabin and began breaking the land with an ox team. He used to bring his produce to New Ulm and later to Wilhar. Coffee, tea and such luxuries were dispensed with, and in their place were substituted ground wheat for coffee, or toasted bread crumbs and berries were used in making tea. He had two cows which he had brought with him from Goodhme county. He improved his farm, bought more land, increasing it to 280 acres and built new buildings.
Mr. Peterson was interested in the public affairs of the town- ship and held the position of supervisor several terms. He also served on the school board. He was a member of the Norwegian Lutheran church and the first services of that church were held in his cabin. John Peterson died in 1883, at the age of forty- six years, and his wife died at the age of sixty-six years. Henry Peterson grew to manhood in the township of Sacred Heart, and received his early education in the country school held in the old log school house. He remained on the home farm and, after his father's death, took upon himself the responsibility of the home. After his marriage he moved to his present location, which he had purchased in 1891, moving the next year. It was a traet of 240 acres. It lias since been increased to 300 acres and is a well-kept and fine looking farm, known as the "Altamont Farm." He raises a good grade of stock and carries on general farming, using the most modern machinery. Mr. Peterson has held sev- eral township offices and has served on the school board. He has been greatly interested in all the co-operative movements of his county and is a member of the Co-operative Milling Com- pany, the Co-operative Elevator, and the Co-operative Creamery. He was the secretary and manager of the creamery when it was organized. In 1881 he represented his district in the State Leg- islature on the Alliance ticket. He came before the people on the People's ticket later, but was not then eleeted. Mr. Peter- son was united in marriage to Bertha Kringsberg, born in Swe- den. She came to America in 1869 with her parents, who located in Hawk Creek township, becoming pioneers of that section. Five children were born to this marriage: Mabel, a graduate of the
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Sacred Heart high school and now studying music ; Spencer, who is attending high school; Ethel C., who is attending the state university ; Bertram, a student at high school, and Thelma, who attends the rural schools.
Olof Kringsberg, deceased, an early pioneer of Hawk Creek township, was born in Vermeland, Sweden, Sept. 9, 1836. He came to America in 1869, locating at Hawk Creek the same year, where he took a homestead in section 2, of eighty acres. Ile. first lived in a dugout and later built a log cabin which, in time, was replaced by a frame house. lle planted groves, erected buildings and became one of the representative farmers. At the time of his death he had 360 acres. He died Sept. 29, 1901. Ile was married in Sweden, Aug. 9, 1865, to Martha Peterson, born in Vermeland, Sweden, March 20, 1847, and died in Sacred Heart village, Nov. 1, 1913. Twelve children were born to these par- ents : Bertha, Matilda, Ole, Albert, Emelia, lda, Hilmer, Emil, Peter, Peter, Mathilda and Ludvig.
Johannes Haug, better known as John Hang, was born in Norway, Jan. 13, 1844, son of Johannes and Bertha (Gjerdrum) Ilaug, who were farmers in Norway. There were eight children in the family: Severen, Martin, Arne, Karnelius, Johannes, Johan, Bertha and Lena. John was the only one of the family who came to America, coming to Quebec in 1866 and going im- mediately to Minnesota. He located at Northfield and for three years worked around among the farmers. In 1868 he secured a homestead in Renville county, in section 28, in Sacred Ileart township. He did not move upon his elaim until 1869, after his marriage. Ile built a log cabin, 14 by 16 feet, and, with one cow and an ox team, began farming upon this tract of 80 acres. All supplies were hauled from New Ulm. The land was wild prairie land without a tree on the place, no roads, but in time Mr. Haug set out groves of trees, built modern buildings and barns and in- creased his farm to 450 acres. Mr. Haug has held the township offices of supervisor and treasurer, having held the latter posi- tion for twenty-five years. He is also a member of the church in his neighborhood and helped organize the first church and was one of its first trustees.
In 1868 Mr. Haug was married in Rice county to Bertha Hoff, born in Norway, Feb. 13, 1851, daughter of Christopher Hoff. She came to Minnesota with her uncle when she was fourteen years old. Mr. and Mrs. Haug have had twelve children : Idan, born Sept. 24, 1869, is now in the machinery business at Win- nipeg. Canada. He married Selena Johnson and has four chil- dren, Jesse, Esther, Florence and Winfield. Minnie, born May 3. 1871, and died Jan. 30, 1904, was the wife of John Listerud, and left the following children: Hjelmer, Morris, Edna, Eva and Ruth. Barbara, born Jan. 9, 1873, is the wife of Hans Braun,
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of Minneapolis, and has three children: Blanchard, Edgar and Cyril. Kaia, born Nov. 6, 1875, now Mrs. Nels Nellermoe, of Winnipeg, Canada, has three children : Blanche, Alpha and Noel. Lauritz, born June 23, 1878, is in the machinery business with Idan, in Canada, with headquarters at Regina. He married Jo- sepha Thornby. Clara, born July 9, 1880, was married to Enge- bret Enestvedt, a farmer of Sacred Heart township. Their chil- dren are Odin, Albertha and Johannes. Sigvart, born May 27, 1882, is now on a homestead in Alberta, Canada. Bertha, born Ang. 20, 1884, is now Mrs. Joseph Jacobson, of Sacred Heart village. Ilarold, born Dec. 5, 1886, is at home. Conrad, born Feb. 19, 1889, is on a homestead in Alberta, Canada. Laura, born May 9, 1891, is at home. Odin, born Dee. 23, 1893, is at home. Mrs. John Hang died May 26, 1912.
William Henry Tillisch, one of the pioneer farmers of Sacred Ileart township, was born April 21, 1840, in Norway, son of Ditlev and Ann Elizabeth (Furstenberg) Tillisch, and grandson of William Henry and Sophia Tillisch. William Henry Tilliseh, the grandfather, was born in Denmark, moved Sept. 19, 1811. to Norway, became a keeper of the State forest, and died at the age of seventy-five years. His children were: Ditlev, Christian, Rudolph, Paul, William H., Ludwig, Hedrick, Edna and Louisa. The oldest son, Ditlev, entered the military service of Norway, became a captain, and continued until he was eighty-one years of age, when he was honorably retired. He died in 1906 at the age of ninety-four years. His wife was born in 1806 and died in 1899. They were the parents of five children : Frederick, Wil- liam Henry, Jaeob and two who died in infancy. William Henry Tilliseh, the subject of this sketch, came to the United States in 1864, locating in Chieago, where he remained one year, and then coming to St. Peter, Minnesota, where he worked in whatever employment he could seeure. In the fall of 1870 he came to Ren- ville county. Ile had owned a homestead near St. Peter, but gave this up for a preemption elaim of 80 aeres in section 26, in Sacred Heart township. A log building was on the place, and here he started farming with two cows and a team of oxen. The nearest market was Willnar. He suffered many hardships in those early days from the storms and grasshoppers. When he started farming he borrowed money and had to pay an interest of 25 per cent. In 1881 he moved to section 36, where he se- eured 80 acres, later adding 40 aeres more. There were no build- ings on the land and he erected frame buildings and improved the land.
Mr. Tillisch has been school clerk for several years. He is a member of the Norwegian Lutheran church and has been the secretary for many years, and also helped build the churches at Renville, Saered Heart and Updahl.
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Mr. Tillisch was married to Sophia Matilda Peterson, who was born July 5, 1853, daughter of Andrew J. and Ann Sophia Peterson. Iler father died in Sweden and her mother came to the United States in 1871. Mrs. Tillisch died Sept. 24, 1904, and, in 1910, Mr. Tillisch decided to live with his sons in sec- tion 36. Five children were born to these parents: Johan Fred- eriek, born Aug. 30, 1871, farms with his brother, Jacob, in see- tion 36, Sacred Heart township. They raise a good grade of stock, having full-blooded Poland-China hogs, full-blooded Percheron horses, and Holstein cattle. Johan Frederick is a member of the Farmers' Elevator at Renville and of the Sacred Heart Con- solidated Telephone Company. He also is a member of the Horse Breeders' Association. Ile has served as the clerk of School Dis- triet No. 11 . Jacob Sophus was born Dec. 30, 1873; Amelia, May 22, 1876; Julius, July 6, 1878, who died in infancy ; Nanna, May 11, 1880.
Joseph Anderson, deceased, was born in Sweden, near Wen- ersborg, Dee. 13, 1842. In 1866 he came to the United States on a sailing vessel, the trip taking eighteen days, and landed at. New York. He traveled on to Indiana, where he remained for one year, then he went to St. Peter, Minnesota, where there was a Swedish settlement. He worked on the railroad between Man- kato and lanesville for two years, being foreman of a crew of men. However, he had always desired to have a farm of his own, and, in 1870, he moved to Beaver Falls, where he secured a homestead. He and his wife drove from St. Peter with an ox team and a covered wagon, and lived in the wagon until he could build a log cabin. After a year they decided to move to Saered Heart township and located on section 24, where they obtained 80 aeres. No improvements had been made on this land and they moved the log cabin up from Beaver Falls. The land was broken with the ox team and all supplies and material had to be hauled from Willmar, which was the nearest market. At first he had only one cow, but as time passed he improved his farm, bought 80 acres more, built good buildings and erected one of the most modern houses in the county. Mr. Anderson never aspired to any township offices. He was a great lover of trees and flowers and became the pioneer hortienlturist of the eounty and of this part of the state. Hle not only beautified his own home with shrubs, trees and flowers, but inspired others to do likewise. He believed that fruits of many varieties would thrive in Minnesota and propagated a seedling apple called the "Victoria." During the last years of his life he made a specialty of top-working on hardy trees, thereby growing many choice varieties that could not be grown otherwise. During the time of his early plantings of apple trees, neighbors and others told him he never could grow apples in Minnesota, but he lived to
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see the day when his orchards fruited by the hundreds of bushels; and also to see his neighbors following his example by planting trees. He grew during his time more apples and strawberries for market than any man in Renville county.
Mr. Anderson was a member of the Swedish Lutheran church of Sacred Heart and was its first trustee.
In 1870 he was married at St. Peter to Anna Louise Holm- berg, born in Smoland, Sweden, Jan. 20, 1841, and died June 11, 1914. Mrs. Anderson was a kind and loving wife and mother, and, as other pioneers, had to work very hard during early days of the county. Mr. Anderson died Sept. 12. 1914. There were seven children, three deceased : Victoria, a graduate of the Ren- ville high school and also of the University of Washington, at Seattle, Wash., and now a teacher in high school at Stanwood, Wash .; Bertha, a graduate of the Central high school in Min- neapolis, and now a student at the Bellingham State Normal school at Washington: Eva, who is married, and lives at Seattle, Wash .. and Gustaf A., who lives on part of the old homestead.
Gustav Adolph Anderson, a well-known farmer of Sacred Heart township, was born April 8, 1878. on his father's farm in Sacred Heart township. Mr. Anderson has always remained on the home farm, except two years spent in clerking. lle now owns 40 acres of the old homestead, where he specializes in fruit- raising. lle has erected a fine. all modern cottage home across the road from the old home and there he now resides. He makes a specialty of apples, plums and strawberries, and this season (1915) put on the market over 1.200 bushels of apples. At this writing he owns the largest apple orchard in Renville county. lle received his early education at the district schools and com- pleted his studies at the Renville high school. Hle learned the art of horticulture from his father. Mr. Anderson has been a member of the school board for fifteen years and is a stockholder in the Farmers' Elevator at Renville. He is a life member of the State Horticultural Society, where much information is gath- ered pertaining to Iruit growing.
Mr. Anderson was married May 22, 1912, to Louis Stensrud, daughter of Ole Stensind, of Sacred Heart township. She was born Feb. 27, 1886.
Gunder Borstad was born in Norway, Nov. IS, 1840, came to America in 1866, located in Goodhue county, remained there for three years, and, in 1869, came to Renville county and located on a homestead in Camp township, where he died Jan. 2, 1894. He was married Feb. 6, 1864, to Annie Kvaal, who was born in Norway. Dec. 27, 1842, and who lived on the home place until September, 1915. In the family there were seven children: An- drew, who was drowned at the age of nine years: Nels, who died at the age of two years; Inga, who married Olaus Dahl, a Farmer
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of Camp township: Sarah, who married Lonis Dahl, a black- smith of Dawson, Minn .; Andrew, who operated the home farm until September, 1915; Gurina, who married A. II. Peterson; and Louisa, who married A. C. Wells.
Andrew Borstad, successful farmer and thresher, was born on his father's farm in the southeast quarter of section 16, Camp township, July 31, 1875, son of Gunder and Annie (Kvaal) Bor- stad. He was reared on the home farm, educated in the public schools, and has devoted his life to agricultural pursuits. In September, 1915, he and his mother left the home farm and moved to Franklin, where they purchased a pleasant home in which they now reside. For several years he has devoted his attention every fall to threshing. He has a complete ontfit and has been very successful in this line. He is a well-known man and is widely respected. While on the farm, Andrew Borstad and his mother made a home for the mother's sister, whose maiden name was Niekolina Kvaal. She was born Feb. 27, 1848, and was married May 15, 1881, to Hans Peterson, who settled in section 10, Camp township, in 1860, and died there in 1910 at the age of eighty. The family faith is that of the Norwegian Lutheran church.
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