BIOGRAPHIES:  John HALVERSON, Durand, Pepin Co., WI

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JOHN HALVERSON, merchant, Durand, was born in Tins, near Christiana,
Norway, Oct. 17, 1826. His father came to the United States and settled
in La Salle Co., Ill., in 1837, and followed farming. In 1846, he
commenced to learn the carpenter trade, at which trade he has since
worked, until about a year ago. He came to Pepin County in 1855, and
located at the mouth of Bear Creek, about a mile above the present
village of Durand. In addition to working at his trade, he helped
settlers to select lands, and followed surveying. Mr. H., in 1864, went
overland to California, where he worked most of the time, at his trade,
in the San Jose Valley. At the end of two years, he returned by the
Nicaragua route and New York to his home in Durand. In 1873, he paid
California a second visit, this time by railroad. He was married, Oct.
7, 1879, to Mrs. R. J. Haman, of Durand. Mr. Halverson has been Town
Clerk eleven years; Chairman of Town Board, one year; County Clerk, one
term, and Deputy County Clerk, one term.

-Transcribed from the "History of Northern Wisconsin, 1881," page 701


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