Stengrim Hinseth Biography 1332-1333 STENGRIM HINSETH, a practical and enterprising agriculturist of Yankton county, was born on the 27th of March, 1842, in Thronhjem Stift, Norway, in which country his parents, Ingebrigt and Maret Hinseth, spent their entire lives. In their family were nine children, the subject being the next to the youngest. He remained in Norway until after reaching man's estate and was there married in 1868 to Miss Carie Sesager. One child was born to them in that country and in 1870 the young couple with their baby came to the new world, their destination being Yankton county, South Dakota, where Mr. Hinseth took up one hundred and sixty acres of government land two miles west of Irene. Their first home here was a little dugout, where the family lived in true pioneer style, while Mr. Hinseth converted the wild land into well- tilled fields, breaking the sod with ox-teams. The grasshoppers destroyed his crops on more than one occasion, but he steadily and persistently worked his way upward to the goal of success and is today one of the wealthiest men of his community. In 1878 he secured a timber claim of one hundred and sixty acres and has since added to his property until he now owns six hundred acres of fine land, worth fifty dollars per acre. Two hundred acres of this is devoted to pasturage, as he is extensively engaged in the raising and feeding of stock of all kinds, including horses, cattle, sheep and hogs. He is also financially interested in a creamery and elevator at Irene and a flouring mill at Volin. Upon his farm he erected an elegant frame house in 1901 and has also built a fine barn and other outbuildings, which stand as monuments to his thrift and enterprise. Mr. Hinseth's first wife died on the 15th of September, 1877, leaving three children, and in 1878 he wedded Miss Mattie Christine Stoem. by whom he has six children. The family consists of Maret, now the wife of John Ellifson, a farmer of Yankton county; Ingeborg, deceased; Hannah C.; Albert and Olive, both deceased; Albert O., Ole S. and Ida M., at home. The children have had good school privileges, and the daughters have taken lessons on the piano. Mr. and Mrs. Hinseth are members of the Lutheran church and he affiliates with the Republican party. He has held some minor offices and gives his support to all measures calculated to promote the moral, educational and material welfare of the community in which he lives.