BIOGRAPHIES:  Ole F. LOVLIEN, Pigeon Township, Trempealeau Co., WI

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OLE F. LOVLIEN.

One of the best-improved farms of Pigeon Township is that known as Pine 
Grove Stock Farm, of which Ole F. Lovlien is the proprietor. Mr. Lovlien 
is a native of this township, having been born on his parents' farm in the 
southwest quarter of section 33, April 23, 1873. His father, Fred Lovlien was
born in Norway in 1840 and married Guri Nilson. They came to this country and 
for a number of years made their home on the farm above mentioned, in section 
33, where Fred Lovlien died in 1913. His wife is still living on the 
homestead (1917). Ole F. Lovlien was reared on his parents' farm, on which 
he resided until reaching the age of 23 years. Then deciding to start in for 
himself, he purchased his present farm and has since been actively engaged 
in its cultivation and improvement. It contains 120 acres, two "forties" 
lying in section 28 and one "forty" in section 27, town 23 north, range 7 
west. In the work of improving this farm Mr. Lovlien has been highly 
successful, and his barn and houses are, in particular, excellent buildings. 
The former, erected in 1905, measures 34 by 64 by 16 feet, with basement, 
and an addition 22 by 20 feet. The house was built in 1913, and is a brick 
veneer structure, two stories and basement, containing eight rooms, with oak 
finish and maple floors downstairs and finished in fir upstairs. It is 
installed with hot water heat, with hot and cold running water, bath and 
toilet, and is located in Fuller Cooley in a nice grove of pines, whence it
derives its name of "Pine Grove" stock farm. On a hill near the house is 
a cistern, 10 by 11 feet in diameter, which is filled by a windmill. Mr. 
Lovlien is a stockholder in the Pigeon Grain and Stock Company and the 
Whitehall Hospital. For nine years he has been a director of the school 
board of his district. He was married to Lena Lindberg, who was born in 
Norway Aug. 11, 1879, daughter of Martin and Johanna (Tosaktil) Lindberg. 
Her father, born in Norway, April 1, 1847, came to this country in 1883, 
locating at the head of Fly Creek, on the north side of Preston Township, 
where he resided until he was killed at Ingram, Wis., Feb. 20, 1906. He had 
homesteaded his farm and for 18 winters worked in the woods. His wife 
Johanna, who was born in Norway in 1854, is still living at Fly Creek (1917).
Mr. and Mrs. Lovlien have had four children: Oswald, who died when only 6 
days old; Mabel, born Sept. 27, 1901; who died July 13, 1915; Oscar, born 
April 9, 1908 and Gerhard, born Nov. 29, 1911. The family are members of the 
United Norwegian Lutheran Church.

--From the "History of Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, 1917," pages 532-533.