Halvor Egeberg

	This biography is from "Memorial and biographical record; an illustrated
 	compendium of biography, containing a compendium of local biography,
	including biographical sketches of prominent old settlers and 
	representative citizens of South Dakota..." Published by G. A. Ogle & 
	Co., Chicago, 1898. Pages 415-416

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HALVOR EGEBERG is an honored resident of Brookings township, where he is 
living, retired from active business. He is one of the earliest settlers 
of Brookings county, South Dakota, formerly being one of its successful 
farmers; and is now passing the evening of his life enjoying the fruit 
of his labor.

	Our subject was born near Christiana, Norway, August 16, 1830, a 
son of Halvor Myhrud, a farmer, who lived and died in Norway. Halvor 
Egeberg was employed in the construction of log houses in Norway until 
1867, when he came to America and settled on a farm near Rochester, 
Minnesota, and three years later moved to Brookings county, South 
Dakota, and took a homestead claim on section 30, Brookings township. He 
then built a log house on the bank of the Sioux river, also made a few 
other improvements, and began the business of stock raising. The first 
several years he spent on the frontier the grasshoppers destroyed all of 
his crops, but as there was grass for the cattle, he fared very well. He 
has since made several additions to this farm and also improved it and 
still makes it his home.

	Mr. Egeberg was married to Miss Olive Thoreson, a native of the 
same locality as her husband, born December 16, 1834. She died in 
Brookings county, South Dakota, January 16, 1893, leaving six children, 
of whom we have the following record: Casper, a farmer of Brookings 
township; Hildus, now living on the homestead; Lettie, wife of Prof. 
Halvor Solberg, Brookings, South Dakota; Otto, Omaha, Nebraska, a 
soldier in the United States army; Ole, living on the homestead; and 
Noah, a student of South Dakota Agricultural college.

	HILDUS EGEBERG was born near Christiana, Norway, August 22, 1864, 
and came to America with his parents, being five weeks en route from 
Christiana to Quebec. From thence they went by the way of Chicago to 
Minneapolis. He attended the State Normal school at Madison, South 
Dakota, and later took a course in the South Dakota Agricultural 
college, from which he graduated in 1890. In the fall of 1 89 1 he 
entered the State University of Iowa, at Iowa City, completed the law 
course in this institution in June, 1893, and was admitted to the bar of 
Iowa the same day, and the following year was admitted to the bar of 
South Dakota. He has practiced but little as yet, but intends to make 
that his profession. At present he and his brother are engaged in 
farming, and are operating a five-hundred-acre farm, which includes the 
old homestead.

	Although the subject of our sketch was pressed on all sides with 
straightened circumstances in his youthful days and had little 
opportunity for attending school until twenty years of age, he has been 
able to acquire a brilliant education by working his way through 
college. He is a man of large intelligence, of careful business habits, 
and is one of the prominent and influential citizens of the township. In 
politics he affiliates with the Free Silver party, and is an active 
participant in all matters pertaining to the welfare of the community.