Iver O. Haugen Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1240-1241 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				IVER O. HAUGEN. 

	Iver O. Haugen, a resident of Minnehaha county, South Dakota, for 
the past thirty-six years, is widely known as one of the substantial 
agriculturists and foremost citizens of Dell Rapids township. His birth 
occurred in Norway on the 6th of September, 1855, his parents being Ole 
and Sarah Haugen, both of whom passed away in that country. 

	Iver O. Haugen was reared at home and attended the common schools 
in the acquirement of an education. In 1873, when a young man of 
eighteen years, he crossed the Atlantic to the United States, locating 
in Goodhue county, Minnesota, where for about five years he was 
employed as a farm hand. In 1878 he removed to Minnehaha county, South 
Dakota, and the same year homesteaded the south half of the northwest 
quarter of section 34, Dell Rapids township, where he erected a small 
frame house and where he lived for about seventeen years. In the spring 
of 1894 he purchased and located on his present home farm of one 
hundred and sixty acres on section 27 and has resided thereon 
continuously during the intervening two decades. He likewise still owns 
his homestead and enjoys all enviable reputation as one of the 
successful and enterprising agriculturists of the community. He is a 
stockholder in the Baltic Cooperative Lumber Company and also a member 
of its board of directors. 

	In 1879 Mr. Haugen was united in marriage to Miss Dora Johnson, a 
native of Norway and a daughter of John Stenmoe, who emigrated to the 
United States in 1869, locating in Goodhue county, Minnesota. 
Subsequently he removed to Todd county, Minnesota, and there spent the 
remainder of his life. His daughter Dora came to South Dakota in 1879 
and about three weeks later gave her hand in marriage to Iver O. 
Haugen. To our subject and his wife have been born six children, four 
of whom survive, as follows: Oliver, at home; Sophia C., who is the 
wife of Emil Hanson, a homesteader in Montana; Julia, who is the wife 
of Hilmer Wilkinson, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and George, at home. 

	Mr. Haugen gives his political allegiance to the republican 
party, believing firmly in its principles. He has ably served as a 
member of the town board and for about eighteen years has been a member 
of the school board, of which he acts as chairman at the present time. 
Fraternally he is identified with the Modern Brotherhood of America and 
in religious faith is a Lutheran, his wife and children also belonging 
to that church. Mr. Haugen is a man of high moral character, 
industrious and enterprising, and his honesty and integrity have always 
merited him the confidence and respect of his neighbors. Coming to the 
new world as a young mall of eighteen years, he eagerly availed himself 
of the opportunities here afforded and has now long enjoyed the 
prosperity which was his goal.