Bio of BUTENHOFF, Clarence and ERICKSON, Ellen, Clay Co., MN

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CLAY COUNTY FAMILY ALBUM

A History of Rural Clay County, MN, 1976



CLARENCE & ELLEN BUTENHOFF



  Albert G. Butenhoff came to this country from Iowa and farmed near the 

town of Baker. Clarence is the second to the youngest of 9 boys and 2 

girls. As a young boy going to a country school, he received the nickname 

of "Mutt." He doesn't remember how or why or by whom this handle was laid 

on him, but he has had it ever since. Although, he still will answer to 

the name of Clarence. In June, 1939 he married Ellen Erickson from Fargo. 

They moved to their present farm in 1941. They had the usual assortment 

of farm animals, cows, horses, pigs, chickens and at one time or another 

even had turkeys, ducks and sheep. Clarence farmed and raised grain and 

potatoes. Eventually all that was left in the way of livestock were 

chickens, cats and a dog. Then the chickens left and they were busy with 

just grain and potatoes and two girls, Shirley Ann, who was born in 1946, 

blue-eyed and blonde and Beverly Jean with her brown eyes and brown hair, 

who was introduced to the world in Nov. 1948. Shirley went two years to 

country school then to Barnesville thru all the grades, graduating from 

High School; then going to the University of N. Dak. To earn her B.S. in 

Nursing. From there she went to Calif. And received her M.S. She married 

Dr. Neil Scott in 1971: they are now living in New Orleans where she is 

going to Medical School at Tulane U. Beverly also went to the Barnesville 

schools and graduated from there. She went to M. S. for about three years 

but that wasn't her thing so she went to work. She learned to operate a 

PBX and that is what she is doing in Huntsville, Ala. She and Clay 

Kaufman were married in 1971 and moved to Huntsville, where they are 

buying a home. Back on the farm, Mutt has retired and rented out the 

land, sold the machinery and is going back to fishing.



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