Bio of B.A. AAKVIK (b.1858), Yellow Medicine Co., MN

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B.A. AAKVIK (1883)

B. A. Aakvik is one of the big farmers of Yellow Medicine county, owning 
and operating a farm of 480 acres on section 16, Tyro township.

Mr. Aakvik is a son of Andrew and Elerine Olson, both natives of Norway, 
and he was born in Helgeland, Norway, in 1858.  His father died in the old
country; his mother still makes her home there.

Mr. Aakvik was brought up and educated in Norway, spending the first
twenty-five years of his life in that country, the latter years of that 
time as a fisherman.  He came to the United States in 1883, coming direct 
to Yellow Medicine county, and for five years worked out at  farm labor in
Stony Run township.  He then bought his farm in Tyro township and has lived
on it ever since.

The marriage of Mr. Aakvik and Mary Matheson was solemnized in Stony Run
township.  Mr. Aakvik was born in Norway in 1853.  They have two children:
John, born July 5, 1884; and Elmer, born August 23, 1889.

Source: "A History of Yellow Medicine County" by Arthur P. Rose
Published 1914