BIOGRAPHIES:   Peter HONG, Barron Township, Barron Co., WI

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Transcribed by Kate Wilson. 
Edited and submitted by  Vic Gulickson <vic@indy.net>  13 January 2004
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Peter Hong, deceased, was born in Norway, and there married Martha
Brobakken. They came to America in 1861, and farmed in Vernon County, this
state, until 1897, when they came to Barron County, and settled on section
21, Barron Township, where they acquired eighty acres a mile north of
Barron City. After Mr. Hong’s death, his widow took up her home with her
daughter, Mrs. George Gilbertson. In the family there were seven children:
Gustav; Sesele, now Mrs. Nels Gyland, of Barron Township; Anna and Ida, who
are dead, and Louis who is blind and lives with his sister, Mrs. George
Gilbertson; Pauline, now Mrs. Martin Foss, of Barron Township; and Clara,
now Mrs. Gilbertson, of Barron Township.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., &
Co., 1922, pg. 136.

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