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

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Sophus Severson, an estimable farmer of Section 13, Dovre Township, was
born in Norway, Oct. 30, 1870, the son of Jens and Mary Severson. He was
but seventeen years of age, when in 1887, with his younger brother,
Sigwall, then but fourteen, he came to America. For a while the two boys
made their home in Chetek, working in the woods in the winter and on farms
in the summer. In 1890, they sent for their parents and the younger
children, who located on a farm in Dovre Township, where the father died in
1920 at the age of eighty-four, and where the mother is still living. In
1894, the two brothers purchased a tract of 160 acres in Section 13, Dovre
Township. Many years previous, twenty acres had been broken, and some crude
shacks erected. But the land had grown over again, and the buildings were
not fit to occupy. Sophus, for seventeen years in all, continued to work in
the lumber woods winters, and on the river drives in the spring, putting in
long hours of hard work. In the summer he operated the farm in partnership
with Sigwall. They erected a good set of buildings, cleared up a part of
the land, and carried on general farming. The partnership was discontinued
in 1900. The subject of this sketch now owns 120 acres. He has put up a
comfortable home, and suitable barn and sheds, and does general farming and
dairying, making a specialty of Jersey cattle. He believes in concerted
effort on the part of the farmers. Mr. Severson was married at Chetek on
July 11, 1900, to Emma Thompson, who was born in Dovre Township, on March
28, 1880, the daughter of Louis Thompson. This union has been blessed with
six children: Louis, Mabel, Helmer, Norris, Charlotte and Earl. The family
faith is that of the Norwegian Lutheran Church at Dovre, in which Mr.
Severson has held office.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co.,
1922, pg. 669.