BIOGRAPHIES:   Edward M. HAGEN, Pigeon Township, Trempealeau Co., WI

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Edward M. Hagen, proprietor of a farm of 300 acres in section 5,
Pigeon Township, known as Hagen's Farm, was born in Biri, Norway,
Jan. 12, 1864, son of Mathias Olson and his wife, Annette Thompson. 
The father died in Norway in June, 1865, and his wife in Norway in
1884.  In 1881 Edward M. emigrated to the United States, coming to
Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, and locating at Pigeon Falls, where he
resided until the spring of 1892, working out and saving his money. 
Having by that time accumulated a fair sum, he purchased his present
farm and has since resided on it, engaged in its development and
cultivation, in which he has made great progress.  The previous
period of 11 years was spent in the employ of P. Ekern, for whom he
worked seven years as buttermaker at Pigeon Falls.  As a progressive
farmer Mr. Hagen has sought to increase the value of his property by
making substantial improvements.  In 1910 he rebuilt his residence,
which is a two story building of 18 rooms and basement.  In 1916 he
rebuilt the barn, which measures 44 by 60 by 16 feet with basement,
and has an ell, 26 by 50 by 16, with basement, both furnished with
concrete floors and installed with 40 steel stanchions and litter
carrier.  The silo, built in the center of the barn, measures 14 by
31 feet.  All the buildings are electrically lighted and furnished
with running water from a spring, the house having hot and cold water
and bathroom.  Mr. Hagen plants six acres of his land with tobacco
and has a tobacco shed, 26 by 130 feet in size.  His herd of
Shorthorn cattle numbers 65 head, all high grade animals of which he
milks 25.  He also has a flock of 30 sheep and 50 acres of his land
is planted in clover.  He is a stockholder in the Pigeon Grain &
Stock Company, and for six years has served as a director of the
school board of his district.  May 16, 1891, Mr. Hagen was united in
marriage with Jennie Moe of Pigeon Falls, in which place she was born
May 4, 1873.  Her parents were John and Antoinette (Peterson) Moe,
the former of whom, born in Norway, Sept. 17, 1841, came to America
in 1869, settling in Pigeon Township, this county.  In 1872 he bought
the farm on which his son-in-law, Mr. Hagen, now lives, and still
resides here.  His wife, whom he married at Pigeon Falls, Aug. 28,
1872, was born in Norway, March 27, 1846, and is also now living and
residing on the Hagen farm.  Mr. and Mrs. Hagen have ten children: 
Aletta, wife of Alfred Nelson, a contractor of Pigeon Falls; Adolph,
living at home; Elvina, who graduated from the La Crosse Normal
school in 1914 and is now a teacher; Amanda, a student of the
Whitehall high school, and Harold, Hilmer, Ansel, Delia, Milfred and
Raymond, who are residing at home on the farm.

-Transcribed from the "History of Trempealeau County Wisconsin, 1917," 
pages 444-445.


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