BIOGRAPHIES: Sigwall SEVERSON, Dovre Township, Barron County, WI

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Vic Gulickson <vic@indy.net>  18 June 2001	
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Sigwall Severson, a substantial farmer of section 13, Dovre Township, was
born in Norway, Feb. 10, 1873, the son of Jens and Mary Severson. He
attended school for a time in his native land. In 1887, then but fourteen
years of age, he came to America with his brother, Sophus, then seventeen
years old, a serious venture indeed for a boy of such tender years. For a
while the two boys made their headquarters at Chetek and worked on farms in
the summer and in the woods in the winter. In 1890 the parents and younger
children came to this country, and the family was thus reunited. In 1891
the two brothers, Sigwall and Sophus, bought a farm of 120 acres in section
12, which they placed in charge of their parents. The father died May 3,
1920, and the mother still lives on the place, which is now operated by a
grandson, Henry, who bought it in 1920. In 1894 the two brothers, Sigwall
and Sophus, still in partnership, bought 160 acres of land in section 13.
It had previously been occupied, some crude shacks had been erected and
twenty acres had been cleared. In 1900 the partnership was dissolved. The
subject of this sketch has continued to occupy the west half of the 160
acres, his brother occupying the other half. The subject of this sketch has
a good home and has built a basement barn and other structures. He
successfully carries on general farming and dairying, raises a grade of
Guernsey cattle and has a well tilled, well developed and productive farm.
Mr. Severson is a man of broad interests, is director in the Dovre
Telephone Co., has been a director in the Spring Hill Creamery Co. and is a
stockholder in the Farmers Store. As the father of children, he is
interested in education and has done efficient service on the school board.
Mr. Severson was married at Chetek to Clara Larson, who was born in Dunn
County, this state, on Sept. 19, 1879, daughter of Louis and Nettie Larson.
This union has been blessed with seven children: Henry, Anna, Inga,
Lillian, Carl, Alice and Ada. Henry, an energetic farmer, was born June 18,
1900, and as already mentioned is on the original home place in section 12,
this township. The family is highly respected throughout the community.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co.,
1922, pg. 597.