Bio of Ellef HALVORSON (b.1860), Yellow Medicine Co., MN

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ELLEF HALVORSON (1887)

Ellef Halvorson owns and farms 240 acres of Yellow Medicine county soil, 
the same being the southeast quarter and the south half of the northeast 
quarter and the south half of the northeast quarter of section 22, Hazel 
Run township.  He also owns 160 acres near Thief River Falls, in 
Pennington county, Minnesota.

Mr Halvorson was brought up on a farm in Norway, where he was born 
September 15, 1860.  His parents, Halvor and Gunild Halvorson, died in 
that country many years ago.  For the first fifteen years of his life 
Halvor attended the public school, out of school hours assisting his 
parents at home.  At that early age he started to learn the trade of 
stone mason, which he followed a few years.  At the death of his father 
he returned to the farm and operated that until he came to the United 
States in 1885.

On his arrival in America, Mr. Halvorson first located in Columbia county,
Wisconsin, where he worked on a farm a couple of months, after which he
followed his trade of stone mason two years.  He came to Yellow Medicine
county in 1887, locating in Hazel Run.  He bought eighty acres of land and
started farming, also doing mason work and plastering when opportunity
offered.  He lived on that farm nearly twenty-five years and then sold it
and purchased his present 240 acres, made improvements, and has since lived
there.  He has two fine orchards on the place.  In addition to the raising
of a great deal of grain, considerable attention is devoted to raising 
stock for market.

Mr. Halvorson was married in November, 1890, at Granite Falls to Ingebor
Davison, who was born in Norway July 6, 1871.  She had lived in the United
States about three years at the time of her marriage.  The have ten
children, all at home except the oldest, Jennie (Mrs. Lestul), who also
lives in Yellow Medicine county.  The names of the other children are 
Mabel, Annie, Olga, Hardine, Herman, Theodore, Ella, Herbert and Tommy.

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