BIOGRAPHIES:  John HAGNA, Stanley Township, Barron Co., WI

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Submitted by:  Vic Gulickson <vic@indy.net>  24 February 2004
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John  Hagna, a well-to-do farmer owning 280 acres of good land in Section
35, Stanley Township, was born in Norway May 17, 1870, the son of Ellef and
Margaret  Hagna, who lived all their lives in the old country. The children
in  the  family were Olaf, Ambrose, Turgrim, Johanas, Ole and John. Ambrose
and  Turgrim came to the United States in the eighties and located in Iowa.
In  1886  came  John, Ole and Johanas. John, who remained in Iowa, did farm
work  for  seven  months, then worked in the woods for Moren & Gallaway two
years  and  eleven  months  continuously. In 1889 he came to Barron County,
Wisconsin,  and  bought 80 acres in Section 35, Stanley Township. This land
had  been cleared, but no buildings had been erected. Mr. Hagna started his
farming  operations  here  by  planting  potatoes. He put up the buildings,
bought  equipment  from  time  to  time and successfully carried on general
farming  there  for many years. In 1920 he came to his present place of 280
acres  in the same section. He remodeled the house, repaired the buildings,
and  erected  a new barn. He has a good farm and carries on general farming
and  dairying,  his cattle being good graded Guernseys. He is interested in
the  Norwegian  Lutheran Church and is serving the congregation at Pokegema
as  treasurer.  Mr.  Hagna  was married March 29, 1902 at Pokegema, to Tuna
Halverson,  who was born in Norway May 22, 1885, and came to America in the
nineties  with  her  parents,  Ole  and Anna Halverson, who located in Rice
Lake,  this  county.  Mr.  and Mrs. Hagna have seven children: Alma, Alvin,
Arthur, Clifford, Malda, Dora and Lorne.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 775.


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