BIOGRAPHIES:  John B. HALLANGER, Hegg, Trempealeau Co., WI

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John B. Hallanger, a well known farmer of Hegg, Ettrick Township, was born 
in this township, Feb. 5, 1866, son of Knut K. and Symoa (Bgotveit) 
Hallanger.  He acquired a district school education in Ettrick Township and 
at the age of 18 years began to work out for others at threshing, sawing 
lumber and whatever he could find to do.  He also spent some of his winters 
cutting timber in the woods, and with his brother operated the homestead 
farm for a number of years.  In 1909 he made a trip to the Pacific coast, 
for pleasure only, spending the time in sightseeing.  The following winter 
he bought his present farm at Hegg, consisting of 204 acres, in addition to 
which he has 20 acres of timber land lying six miles farther east.  Mr. 
Hallanger, besides raising various crops, is engaged in dairying, keeping 
good cows for milking purposes, and is conducting his farm on a profitable 
basis.  He is also a stockholder and director in the Ettrick Lumber Company, 
a stockholder in the Home Bank at Blair, the Ettrick Telephone Company and 
the Farmers' Exchange at Blair.  He belongs to the United Lutheran Church at 
Hegg, and in politics may be termed an independent Republican.  He has never 
married.

--From the "History of Trempealeau County Wisconsin, 1917," pages 373 - 374.