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Author: L. A. Fritsche

HALVOR HALVORSON.

    Halvor Halvorson, well-known farmer of Linden township, this county, and one
of the pioneers of that section of the county, was born near the city of Skien,
Norway, March 8, 1846, son of Ole Halvorson and Johanna Marie Johnson, farming
people, who came to America in 1855, landing at Quebec after an ocean voyage of
seven or eight weeks. After remaining in Quebec for a few hours, they went on to
Buffalo, New York, from there to Niagara, New York, by rail, then to Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, by boat, remaining there but a few hours. Upon leaving Milwaukee they
went by rail about sixteen miles, and owing to the railroad not extending any
farther, had to walk ten miles to the home of Tolef Waller, a cousin of Ole
Halvorson, who lived in Waukesha county, Wisconsin.

    The family lost little time in becoming settled in Waukesha county,
Wisconsin, where kinsfolk had preceded them, and for fourteen years they made
their home there, Halvor in 1868, coming to Brown county, Minnesota. The next
year, 1869, Ole Halvorson and the others of the family also came to Brown county
and the father bought two hundred acres of railroad land in section 11, Linden
township, paying seven dollars an acre for the same, and there he established
his home and spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in 1879.

    Halvor Halvorson was about nine years old when he came to this country, and
he grew to manhood on the farm in Waukesha county, Wisconsin, where his parents
had settled. In 1868, he came over into Minnesota and located in Brown county,
for some time thereafter working at various occupations until presently he
became connected with a bridge-building crew and for some time was thus employed
in southern Minnesota and Iowa. In 1876 he married and purchased the homestead
rights to eighty acres of land in section 20, Linden township, this county, and
a "forty" adjoining, and lived there until 1882, in which year he moved over to
his father's estate and finished paying for all of it, with the exception of
eighty acres that his brother, John, had bought, and there has lived ever since,
he and his family being very comfortably situated. Mr. Halvorson has erected all
new buildings on the place, which is well improved. The original homestead house
was destroyed by fire in 1891, together with almost all of its contents. Mr.
Halvorson takes an active interest in neighborhood affairs, and was one of the
organizers of the Linden Creamery Company. He has served in the public capacity
of constable and township supervisor, and in other ways has done his part as a
citizen in the service of the public.

     On October 1, 1876, Halvor Halvorson was married to Caroline Olson, who was
born in Rock county, Wisconsin, daughter of Thor and Betsy Olson, natives of
Norway, who came to the United States in 1853, settling in Rock county,
Wisconsin, where they lived until 1856, in which year they moved to Minnesota,
locating in Brown county, thus being among the very earliest settlers of this
county. During the time of the Indian troubles the Olsons were forced to flee
for their lives, their crops were destroyed, but their home was not burned.

     To Mr. and Mrs. Halvorson ten children have been born, two of whom died in
infancy, the others being as follow: Oscar T., a farmer of Linden township, who
married Lena Larson, and has one child, Edna; Bessie J., who married Nels L.
Lien, of Superior, Wisconsin, and has three children, two daughters, Stella L.
and Mildred C., and a son, Chesley H. B.; Lawrence S., who lives at home; Emma
L., of Superior, Wisconsin; Ella M., the wife of Clifton Hepworth, of
Minneapolis, Minnesota; Henry Clarence, at home; Albert, at home, and Lula L.,
also living at home. Mr. and Mrs. Halvorson and family are earnest members of
the Lutheran church at Linden.


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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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