Bio of H.E. WAHLSTROM (b.1844), Yellow Medicine Co., MN

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H.E. WAHLSTROM (1880)

H. E. Wahlstrom is a homesteader of Norman township and has spent many 
years of his life in that precinct.  He still owns the old homestead, the
southwest quarter of section 20, and owns in addition forty-six acres on
section 31.  He suffered many hardships in pioneer days, but has come upon
easier times and has reaped the rewards of perseverance.

Mr. Wahlstrom was born in Skarabor Ian, Sweden, September 26, 1844, the 
son of Johannes P. and Eva L. Wahlstrom, both of whom died in their 
native land. At the age of sixteen Mr. Wahlstrom began working in a 
sawmill in Sweden and was so employed three years.  The next five years 
he worked in a flouring mill and then took up carpenter work, which he 
followed twelve years.  At the age of thirty-six years, in 1880, he came 
to America and direct to Yellow Medicine county, arriving in the county 
in May.

Upon his arrival to Canby at that time, Mr. Wahlstrom has $60 in cash and
nothing else except the clothing on his back and a determination to found 
a new home.  He filed upon the land as a pre-emption claim, but he soon
changed the filing to a homestead and proved up in 1887.  For many years 
he was poor, and his first home, in which he lived eighteen years, was a
dug-out, or cellar.  He has lived continuously on the one farm since 1880
and has a nice home.

Mr. Wahlstrom has been married twice.  His first wife was Elizabeth 
Berger, whom he wedded in Sweden in 1876 and who died in 1887.  As a 
result of this union the following six children were born:  Ellen (Mrs. 
Martin Salte), deceased; Elenora (Mrs. Carl Salte), of Fortier township; 
Emma, deceased; Oscar, of Canby; Hilda, deceased; Warner, of North Dakota.

The second marriage of Mr. Wahlstrom occurred in Norman township in 1888,
when he married Mary Mickelson, a native of Norway.  Their children are as
follows:  Emil, Albin, Hilda (deceased) and Gust.  All the children reside
at home.  The Wahlstroms are members of the Norwegian Lutheran church of
Fortier township.

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