Walsh County ND Archives Obituaries.....Hylden, Mikkel Olesen January 15, 1941 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nd/ndfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Deidre Badker berniebadker@iowatelecom.net October 29, 2013, 9:24 pm Personal research as of October 2013 Mikkel (Michael or Mike) Hylden was born February 19, 1848 at Ulvik, Hordaland, Norway to Ole Davidson Hylden (1817-1880) and Anna Olsdatter Westham (1813- 1865). Mikkel was baptized on March 26, 1848 at Ulvik. Birth/baptismal record found in the Norwegian Digital Archives for Ulvik, Hordaland, Norway, 1839-- 1853, page 62, entry # 25. His family left to emigrate to Mitchell Co, Iowa. Emigration record found in the Norwegian Digital Archives on-line for Ulvik in Ulvik, Hordaland, Norway, 1855-1868, page 129, top entry: #1 Ole Davidson Hylden age 48 yrs; #2 Anna Olsdatter age 50; #3 Ole age 20; # 4 Mikkel age 17; #5 Madeli (sp?) 14;#6 Guro age 8. Leaving April 10, 1865 for North Amerika and arriving in late May. Mikkel's mother died that same year. Mikkel married Brita Larsdatter Torblaa on February 10, 1877 at St Ansgar, Mitchell, Iowa. The couple had 7 children: Ole E (1881-1957); Lars (1883- 1961); Hannah (b `1885); Adolph Emil (1887-1967); Anna L (b July 1889); Hans Bertineus (1891-1920) and David Waldeman (1894-1955). Found in the 1880 census living at Rock township, Mitchell County, Iowa: Mikkel Helden 32, Bertha Helden 26, Anna L. Helden 2, Bentena Helden 1, Benta Oleson 52 (Brita's mother) The couple moved to Vernon, Walsh, North Dakota to homestead farm land. Found in the 1900 - 1940 censuses living at Vernon, Walsh, North Dakota: 1900: Michael Hylden 52, Brenda Hylden 46, Ole Hylden 19, Lars Hylden 17, Hannah Hylden 15, Adolph E Hylden 13, Anna L Hylden 10, Hans B Hylden 8, David W Hylden 6, August Nelson 25. 1910: Mikkel Hylden 62, Bertha (Brita) Larsdatter Torblaa Hylden 56, Hans B Hylden 18, David W Hylden 16, Birgitte Seidal 21. 1920: Mikkel Hylden 71, Ole Hylden 38, Hans Hylden 28, David Hylden 25. 1925: Mikkel Hylden age 77. 1930: David Hylden 36, Alvina Hylden 36, Myron Hylden 6, Dorothy Hylden 5, Marvin Hylden 2, Donald Hylden 5 mos, Mike Hylden 82, Harry Brazier 17, John Amundsen 42. 1940: David W Hylden 46, Alvina D Hylden 46, Myron L Hylden 16, Dorothy H Hylden 16, Duane M Hylden 12, Mikkel Hylden 92, Donald M Hylden 10.***** Mikkel Olesen Hylden died January 15, 1941 at Thief River Falls, Pennington, Minnesota and was buried at the Pleasant Valley Cemetery, Lankin, Walsh, North Dakota. Newspaper OBITUARY - Mikkel Hylden, 1848-1941, Vernon Township, Walsh County, North Dakota. Mikkel Hylden, death ends fruitful career of Vernon pioneer. Into the soil of Golden Valley, which he loved and tilled as a pioneer and farmed for more than 50 years, was interred last Saturday the mortal remains of Mikkel Hylden, 93, Vernon township homesteader who died Jan. 15 in a Thief River Falls, Minnesota, hospital, following services in the Pleasant Valley Lutheran church. Hylden, who labored long and well in the valley he chose for his home in 1881, died at 3:00 p.m., last Wednesday of the shock and injury received in a fall shortly before Christmas in the home of a son and daughter- in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Lars Hylden, Thief River Falls, with whom he was visiting. He sustained a fracture in the fall. Funeral services were held in the farm home and in the Pleasant Valley church with Rev. Leonard Nypen, Park River, and Rev. H. A. Helsen, Grafton, officiating. Pallbearers were Charles Ramsey, John Wambem, Emil Borgeson, Clarence Gaarder, Alfred Flaten and Arthur Trovatten. Native of Norway: Hylden was born near Ulvik, Norway, Feb. 19, 1848. He had seven brothers and sisters. Imbued with the spirit of his forbearers, to travel and colonize other worlds, Mikkel and his family decided to cast their lot in a new land beyond the sea, and April 12, 1865, the family except one son set sail for Bergen to board a steamer for the United States. The family landed in Quebec and there boarded a ship that took them via the St. Lawrence river to Chicago. At Chicago they boarded a slow moving train that took them to Ossian, 12 miles south of Decorah, Iowa. Their next destination was St. Ansgar, Iowa where Mr. Hylden's mother died in the spring of 1865. The father bought a farm near Albert Lee, Minnesota, in 1865, where he moved his family. There the family lived to 1871 when they moved back to St. Ansgar. In 1873, Mikkel bought his own farm and married Brita Torblaa, Feb. 10, 1877, and in the spring of 1881, Hylden, his wife and family, together with Edmund Wambein decided to seek a new home in the wilderness that was then the Dakota Territory. Come to near Grafton: At Grand Forks, then terminal of the railway, the party stopped and from there headed north toward Grafton by wagon, with a colt, two cows and a calf tied to the wagon box. At the end of the second day the party arrived at the Lars Torblaa farm, 6 ½ miles southwest of Grafton. Traveling in circuitous fashion, via Hoople, the party finally landed in Golden Valley, west of Park River, where they decided to stop and build their homes. In erecting homes, Wambeim felled trees, Hylden hauled the logs and Nels Monsebroten and Iver Strandsatern helped with the building. Thirty acres of ground were broken the first year by Hylden. From the modest beginning, Hylden built a fine home and farm in the wilderness. It was the following year, when the township was formed, that Hylden, patriotic in his Americanism, suggested the name Vernon for his township, after the ancestral home of the nation's first president on the Potomic river. The following year, Hylden was instrumental in organizing school district 53. Was church founder: As in the organization of the school, the township and other functions of government, Hylden was the moving spirit in constructing the Pleasant Valley church and providing for its Maintenance. Today in Vernon township, stand many material monuments to the labors of Hylden and his pioneering neighbors. Mrs. Brita (Torblaa) Hylden died Nov. 2, 1919. To them were born nine children, four of whom preceded him in death. Surviving children are: Lars, Thief River Falls, MN, formerly of Park River, ND; Ole, Grafton, ND; Mrs. Hannah Anderson, Fordville; Adolph E. Hylden, Fordville and David Hylden, on the home farm. There are 23 grand-children. Find a Grave Memorial #31993728. 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