Bio of Halvor M. WILSON (b.1874), Yellow Medicine Co., MN

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HALVOR M. WILSON (1891)

Halvor M. Wilson farms 240 acres of land in Yellow Medicine county which 
he rents from his father, the same being 160 acres on section 26 and the 
west half of the northwest quarter of section 36, Friendship township.

Mr. Wilson was born in Columbia county, Wisconsin, November 3, 1874, and 
is a son of Ole C. and Annie Wilson, both of whom are living and are 
residents of Friendship township.

In 1879 the family came West and located in the village of Renville, where
they lived six years.  They then went to Dickey county, North Dakota, where
they lived until April, 1891, when they came to Yellow Medicine county and
located in Friendship township, near Clarkfield.

Halvor M. lived at home until twenty-one years old.  He lived in Hazel Run
one winter and then located in Hanley Falls, where for one year he was
engaged in the restaurant business.  He then located at Foley, Benton
county, Minnesota, and for a year and a half was engaged in the saloon
business at that point.  He returned to Hazel Run and for three of the 
next five years tended bar.  This was followed by two years in the 
draying line.
In March, 1911, he rented the farm from his father and has since been
engaged in its operation.

Mr. Wilson was married August 15, 1896, at Hanley Falls, to Selina Anthony,
who was born in Hazel Run township September 6, 1876.  She is a daughter of
Edwin and Betsy (Olson) Anthony, both deceased, early settlers of Yellow
Medicine county.  Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have three children, namely: Oral,
born November 23, 1897; Elnora, born July 6, 1899; Arda, born January 23,
1909.

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