Bio of Osmund IVERSON (b.1874), Yellow Medicine Co., MN

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OSMUND IVERSON (1874)

Osmund Iverson, of Sioux Agency township, owns and occupies one of the
earliest settled farms in Yellow Medicine county--the west half of the
southeast quarter of section 32.  He also owns a timber lot of eleven acres
on the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of the same section,
eighty acres on section 18, and fifty-three acres on section 7.  Osmund
Iverson was born on the farm he now conducts March 14, 1874.

His father Brede Iverson, was born in Norway September 30, 1826.  He came to
America in 1862, and worked at the blacksmith's trade, in timber, etc.,
until 1866, at LaCrosse, Winona, and other points.  In 1866 he went to
Winneshiek county, Iowa, where for four years he was engaged in farming.  In
1870 he came to Yellow Medicine county, driving through in a prairie
schooner drawn by oxen, arriving in the spring.  Upon arrival he purchased
from Judge Powers the farm on section 32 and erected a log house on the
place.  His first market place was New Ulm, and flour was secured from New
London.  Brede Iverson lived on that farm all the rest of his life and died
there April 6, 1911.  Osmund's mother, Gunhild (Homme) Iverson, was born in
Norway March 25, 1829, and came to the United States in 1861.  She was
married to Brede Iverson in Fillmore county, Minnesota, in 1865.  She died
May 2, 1912.

Osmund Iverson has spent his entire life on the place where he was born.  He
was educated in the district schools of Sioux Agency township, the high
school at Madison, Minnesota, and the Minnesota Business College of
Minneapolis.  He lived at home and worked for his father until 1900, and
then he began farming the place for himself, an occupation at which he has
since been continuously engaged.  He is now the owner of the old farm.  He
is extensively engaged in stock raising.  Mr. Iverson is a member of Rock
Valley United Norwegian Lutheran Church. He is a stockholder of the Farmers
Elevator company of Echo.

Hanna Rolla, a daughter of Ole and Johanna Rolla, was married to Mr. Iverson
in Sioux Agency township March 11, 1900.  Mrs. Iverson is a native of
Wisconsin and was born in Barron county June 24, 1882.  They have five
children, born as follows: Gyda, April 22, 1901; Bennie, September 6, 1903;
Alma, July 21, 1905; Olive, August 1, 1908; and Lester, December 6, 1913.

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