Faulk County, SD Biographies.....Loken, Ellef 1835 - 
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Author: C. H. Ellis



    ELLEF LOKEN was born March 26, 1835, in Norway and emmigrated to the United

States in 1872, and located in Wisconsin in July, 1873.



    In 1879 he removed to Hancock county, Iowa, and in 1883 he moved to Faulk

county, South Dakota. He now resides in Pulaski on his farm of 320 acres of

valuable land. 150 acres under cultivation, with good farm buildings, and farm

machinery, nine horses and twenty head of neat cattle.



    Mr. Loken married Miss Carrie Guttenburg, and to them have been born three

children. She died in 1887 and a second marriage was contracted with Miss Ida

Olson in 1889. To them has been born five children. Mr. Loken is one of the

successful pioneers who experienced the hardships of the early settlers of this

county and now enjoys the prosperity that has come to them in later years.





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HISTORY OF

FAULK COUNTY

SOUTH DAKOTA

CAPTAIN C. H. ELLIS



TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PIONEERS AND PROMINENT CITIZENS



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