Bio of H. L. KOLHEI (b.1876), Yellow Medicine Co., MN

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H.L. KOLHEI (1876)

H. L. Kolhei is one of the big land owners of Normania township and a man
who has won deserved success.  He is the owner of 204 acres on section 26
and 240 acres on section 35.

Mr. Kolhei is a product of Yellow Medicine county, having been born on the
farm he now conducts October 6, 1876.  He was educated in the district
school and in St. Olaf College, Northfield, from which he was graduated in
1899.  Prior to 1904 he lived on the farm and worked for his father.  Then
he went to Saskatchewan, and near the town of Hanley took a homestead and
engaged in farming five years.   Returning to the county in 1909, Mr. 
Kolhei purchased his present farm from his father and has since been 
engaged in its management.

The marriage of Mr. Kolhei to Mable Anderson occurred in Minneapolis
February 23, 1907.  His wife was born in Vallers township, Lyon county,
August 27, 1882, the daughter of Ole Hovdesven Anderson, deceased.  Her
mother died when Mrs. Kolhei was a small child.  Mr. and Mrs. Kolhei have
two children:  Odin, born May 14, 1909; and Monica, born October 18, 1911.
The family are members of the Norwegian Lutheran church of Normania
township.

The parents of our subject were among the very earliest settlers of Yellow
Medicine county.  Ingebret L. and Karina (Haraldson) Kolhei came from
Norway, resided a while in Wisconsin, later lived in Iowa, and in 1867
located in that part of Redwood county which was later set off as Yellow
Medicine.  The family took a homestead in Normania township when there 
were only a few other whites in the vicinity.  Their first home was a log 
hut.
For several years all the trading had to be done at New Ulm, and the 
nearest railroad station was at Janesville, in Waseca county.  In 1869 
the Great Northern railroad was built to Willmar, and the elder Kolhei 
on several occasions hauled grain to that distant point.

In 1909 Ingetbret Kolhei sole his Yellow Medicine county farm to his son 
and moved to Cottonwood.  In 1897 he helped organize the Cottonwood State 
Bank, of which he is now vice president.  After moving to Cottonwood he 
engaged in several other business enterprises.  He is interested with his 
sons in the Eickschen-Kolhei Mercantile Company and is treasurer of and 
one of the founders of the Norwegian Mutual Fire Insurance Company, 
organized many years ago.

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