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CLEMENT HALVORSON.

    Clement Halvorson, former county commissioner of Brown county and for the
past thirty-five years clerk of Linden township, one of the best-known farmers
of that township and a man whose interest in education has done much to advance
the standards of the schools in his neighborhood, is a native of the kingdom of
Norway, having been born in Lower Telemarken, about two Norwegian miles from the
city of Skien, December 10, 1853, son of Ole and Johanna Marie (Johnson)
Halvorson, also natives of Norway and early settlers of Brown county.

    Ole Halvorson was the supervisor of a large estate in Norway and in 1855 he
and his family came to America, landing at Quebec, whence they proceeded to
Wisconsin. They had kinsfolk in Waukesha county, that state, and there they
settled, remaining there until 1869, in the spring of which year they came to
Minnesota, settling in Brown county. Here Ole Halvorson established his home and
here he spent the remainder of his life. He and his wife were the parents of
seven children, of whom the subject of this sketch is next to the youngest.

    Clement Halvorson was about one and one-half years old when he came to this
country with his parents and was about sixteen when he came to this county with
the family. He had received excellent schooling in Wisconsin and upon coming
here entered the Normal School at Mankato. He presently was licensed to teach
school and in 1874 taught his first term, the same being in district 20. For
seven successive terms he presided over that school and then taught three years
in Freeborn county, two terms a year. In 1878 he bought a quarter of a section
of railroad land in Linden township, his present home farm, paying for the same
from seven dollars to eight dollars an acre, according to quality, and the next
year married and established his home on that farm, where he ever since has
lived and where he has reared his family. In addition to the farm thus owned by
Mr. Halvorson, his wife is the owner of a fine farm in the same township and the
family is thus very well circumstanced.

     On May 21, 1879, Clement Halvorson was united in marriage to Anna Johanni,
who was born on a farm in section 14, of Linden township, this county, April 26,
1859, daughter of Johannes and Christina (Darnutzer) Johanni, natives of
Switzerland, who came to the United States in 1854, locating in Wisconsin, where
they lived until 1858, in which year they came to Minnesota, locating in Brown
county, where they homesteaded a tract of land in Linden township and thus
became numbered among the very earliest settlers of that township. Johannes
Johanni enlisted in the Fifth Minnesota Cavalry for service during the Civil War
and did valiant service during the Indian uprising, receiving his honorable
discharge at Ft. Snelling.

     To Clement and Anna (Johanni) Halvorson ten children have been born,
namely: John O., born on January 17, 1880, now an instructor at Queens
University, Kingston, Canada, married Emma Evenson and has one child, a
daughter, Edna M.; Christina J., September 24, 1881, who married Theodore
Laingen, a Linden township farmer and has four children, Rudolph, Hulmer, Arnold
and Richard; Alfred E., September 24, 1884, also of Linden township, who married
Emma Olsen and has one child, a son, daughter, clare; Ella M., October 8, 1887,
who married Samuel J. Harbo, of Linden township and has four children, Chesly,
Adel, Sylva and Myrtle; Lillian, September 7, 1889, a graduate of the University
of Minnesota and of the University of Missouri, and a former teacher in the
schools of Brown county, who married Vern E. Lewis, of Antrim, this state, and
has one child, a son, James Clement; Edward M., October 11, 1891, who is
assisting his father in the management of the home farm; Cora A., January 22,
1895, a graduate of the Madelia high school, who also attended the University of
Minnesota and is now a teacher in the public schools of the neighboring county
of Watonwan; Willard H., June 24, 1897, a student in the Medalia high school;
Lucile M., July 14,1899, also a student in the Medalia high school, and Verna
E., October 31, 1902. Dr. John O. Halvorson, first born of the above children
and one of the most distinguished scholars ever reared in Brown county, was
graduated from the Medalia high school, after which he entered Minnesota
University, from which he was graduated with high honors, receiving the degrees
of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science at that institution. He then took a
course at the Missouri State University, following the same by a course in the
University of Chicago, after which he spent a year in post-graduate work at Yale
and now has the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. For some time he was an
instructor in the Missouri State University, occupying a chair there under the
auspices of the United States government, and for four years served as deputy
dairy commissioner for the state of Missouri; now a member of the faculty of
Queens University. Mr. and Mrs. Halvorson are members of the Lutheran church and
their children are adherents of that faith.

     Mr. Halvorson was one of the organizers of the Linden Creamery Company and
has been manager of that concern since the plant was installed in 1894. He also
has taken an active part in local political affairs and was elected a member of
the board of county commissioners in 1892, serving during the period 1893-97. In
1881 he was elected clerk of Linden township and has held that office
continuously ever since.


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Extracted from:
HISTORY OF BROWN COUNTY MINNESOTA
ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS

L. A. FRITSCHE. M. D.
Editor

With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records
of Many of the Old Families

VOLUME II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana

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