Bio of Iver Iverson VIGEN (b.1856), Yellow Medicine Co., MN

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IVER IVERSON VIGEN (1880)

Iver Iverson Vigen, farmer and land owner of Norman township, resides 
only a short distance from the city of Canby.  He has many years' 
residence in Yellow Medicine county to his credit and is a successful 
farmer.  He owns a 200-acre farm on section 17 and has a quarter section 
farm in Marble township, Lincoln county.  Mr. Vigen raises Shorthorn and 
Hereford cattle and Poland China and Duroc-Jersey hogs.

The gentleman whose name heads this review was born in Bagnadalen, Valders,
Norway, March 21, 1856, the son of Iver G. Vigen, who died in his native
land in 1903, aged seventy-eight years, and Thora Vigen, who still lives 
in Norway and is over ninety years of age.

Iver Vigen was brought up on a farm in his native land, where he resided
until 1880.  That year he came to America and direct to Yellow Medicine
county, arriving in Canby on May 17.  He worked as a section hand at Canby
four years and then bought from the railroad company eighty acres of his
present farm.  It was then raw prairie land, without improvements of any
kind.  His first home was a board shanty, 14 x 16 feet with twelve foot
posts, which constitutes one room of his present house.  Mr. Vigen has 
ever since had his home on that farm.  He prospered and has added his 
other lands by purchase.  For the past ten years Mr. Vigen has been 
treasurer of school district No. 91.  He and his family are members of 
the Norwegian Lutheran church of Canby.

The marriage of Mr. Vigen to Gertrude Finsand occurred in Canby December 
28, 1880.  His wife was born in Aadealen, Ringerika, Norway, November 3, 
1857, and came to the United States in the same party which her husband 
came.  Mr. and Mrs. Vigen have the following named seven children:  Thea 
(Mrs. M. Halstenson), of Fortier township, born September 13, 1882; Ole, 
who resides at home, born January 25, 1885; Tillie (Mrs. Oscar Wahlstrom), 
of Canby, born November 21, 1888; Inga, born June 19, 1894; Alma, born 
June 17, 1897; Ida, born July 31, 1899; and Norma, born September 8, 
1904.  One child of the family, Ingwald, is deceased.

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