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FERINAND K. HABERMAN
(1872) is one of the successful farmers and
pioneer settlers of LaCrosse township. He owns 280
acres of well improved farm on section 20 and has
given to his sons 320 acres of farming land in the
vicinity. Having had absolutely nothing when he
arrived in the county, by hard work and frugality
he has accumulated a small fortune and is in
prosperous circumstances.
Mr. Haberman was born in
Austria April 7, 1853 the son of John and Anna
Haberman. The former
lives in LaCrosse township; the latter died when
Ferdinand was seven years of age.
Our subject learned the
weaver’s trade in Austria and in 1872 came to
America. After stopping a few weeks in Wisconsin
he came to Jackson County. While on the road here
he ran out of money and was obliged to walk from
Winnebago City to Heron Lake, arriving in the
latter village on the third day. He at once went
to work in the harvest fields and by saving his
money was soon on his feet again.
The first two years Mr.
Haberman lived with his parents on section 30
LaCrosse township: then he married and took as a
homestead claim the east half of the northwest
quarter of section 20—a part of his present
farm—erected a sod shanty thereon, and began
farming. Later he built
a sun-dried brick house with a straw roof. Because
of crop failures during the grasshopper times he
was obliged to work out in neighboring counties to
make a living for himself and family. Staying with
the country through the dark days, he weathered
the storms of adversity and in time came upon
prosperous times, and today is rated as one of the
well-to-do farmers of the neighborhood. Mr. Haberman
served as treasurer of school district No. 33 for
sixteen years. He and his family are members of
the Catholic church of Heron Lake.
Our subject was married in
Nobles county in the fall of 1874 to Mary
Ninnerzhter also a native of Austria. To this
union have been born the following named children:
Florian. born 1875:
William, born 1877: Carl, born 1878: Mathilda,
born 1881: Mary, born 1884; Regena born 1886:
Ferdinand, born 1891; Frederica born
1897.
JOHN B. HABERMAN (1872).
Among the oldest settlers of LaCrosse township and
one of the most successful farmers of that
precinct is John B. Haberman, whose home is on
section 10. He owns 400 acres of land on sections
19 and 20, 240 acres on section 25, Graham Lakes
township, Nobles county, and 160 acres in
Cottonwood county. He farms three-quarters of a
section of his land and rents out the rest.
Mr. Haberman was born in
Austria March 31, 1855, being one of a family of
children born to John and Annie (Hager)
Haberman. The father of
our subject, who is now 79 years of age, resides
in LaCrosse township. The mother of our subject
died in her native land when John B. Haberman was
six years of age.
The subject of this biography
was brought up on a farm and received his
education in Austria. At the age of seventeen
years he accompanied his father to the new world,
arriving in America on August 10, 1872. After
spending one month in Watertown, Wisconsin, he and
his father came to Jackson county and they have
ever since been residents of La-Crosse township.
When he reached his majority our subject took as a
homestead claim the west half of the southwest
quarter of section 20, and when twenty-three years
old he began farming the place, having worked for
his father and other farmers before that time. He
met with success in his ventures and later added
to his holdings by purchase. Besides his
farming operations Mr. Haberman is interested in
other lines of business.
He is a stockholder of the
First National Bank of Heron Lake, of the Heron
Lake creamery and of the Sontag Lumber company of
Heron Lake. For twenty years he served as a member
of the township board of supervisors and was
chairman of the board for twelve years of that
time. He is a member of the M. W. A. lodge of
Kinbrae.
PETER HAFER (1902), a farmer
and breeder of thoroughbred stock of Ewington
township, was born in Germany April 7, 1865, and
two years after his birth accompanied his parents
to the new world.
Until he was twenty-two years
of age he worked on the farm for his father in
LaSalle county, Illinois. After his
marriage in 1887, Mr. Hafer rented his father’s
farm and conducted it five years. He then rented
another farm in LaSalle county, which he conducted
until 1902.
That year he came to Jackson
county and rented of George W. Patterson the west
half of section 11, Ewington township, upon which
place he has ever since lived. During the first
year of his residence in Jackson county, because
of the wet season, Mr. Hafer lost the thousand
dollars he brought with him from Illinois, but
since that time has encountered more prosperous
times. In 1909 he harvested 3,000 bushels of oats,
1,500 bushels of flax and 1,500 bushels of
corn.
Mr. Hafer raises full blooded
Hereford cattle and has been very successful in
their breeding and in getting fancy prices for
them at private sale. He also raises thoroughbred
Berkshire hogs. He is interested in the farmers’
store and elevator at Brewster. He is a member of
the Catholic church of Brewster.
Peter is one of a family of
two boys, a brother, William, having died at the
age of twelve years. The parents of our subject
were William and Gertie Hafer, who were born in
Germany and came to the United States in 1867.
They bought a farm in LaSalle county, Illinois,
upon which they lived until their death.
Mr. Hafer was married at
Richland, Illinois. October 8,
1887, to Gertrude Shoenenboun, who was born in
Germany in 1866. To them have been born the
following children: Francis A., born January 22,
1890; Peter, born April 25, 1892; Henry, born
December 17, 1893; William P., born January 30,
1895; Anton, born February 7, 1897; John, born
February 7, 1899; Rosy J., born February 7, 1901;
Bennie .J., born January 22, 1903: Robert A., born
February 7, 1905: Dorothy M., born January 30,
1907; Edward W., born September 3, 1909.
In 1892 Mr. Hafer and family
made a trip to Germany to visit with the relatives
of his wife. They remained five months and visited
many of the large cities of Europe. While abroad
their son, Peter, died at the age of ten months.
Mr. Hafer was called back to the United States by
the death of his mother.
JOHN HAGERSON (1879), grain
buyer at Okabena, has been a resident of Jackson
county since he was two years of age. He was born
in Goodhue county, Minnesota, October 14, 1877,
the son of Edward E. and Ambuhe Berg. In April, 1879,
the family located in Jackson county, and our
subject lived in the village of Lakefield from the
time of its founding until 1901. He bought grain
at Granada one year, and since that time has been
engaged in the same business at Okabena. Mr.
Hagerson owns a quarter section of land in
northern Minnesota. He is a member
of the M. W. A.
lodge.
WILLIAM HAMLON (1892) is a
resident of Jackson. He is the son of the late
John Hamlon and Mary Hamlon. John Hamlon was born
in Albany, New York, September 10, 1841, and when
two years old moved with his parents to Chicago,
where his father was drowned in 1844, and his
mother died in 1848. John Hamlon was then “bound
out” for eleven years. In 1850 he
started out for the gold fields of California in
company with a brother and a party, but before
getting out of the state he gave up the
undertaking and settled in Mendota, Illinois.
There he lived until 1869 and then moved to Ford
county, Illinois, where he resided until 1892.
Coming to Jackson county that year Mr. Hamlon made
his home here until his death, which occurred
December 17, 1896. His wife now makes her home
with her son in Jackson.
William Hamlon was born to
these parents at Mendota, Illinois, November 28,
1865, one of a family of four children, all
living. The other children are Chauncey, a dentist
of Lamberton, Minnesota; Minnie (Mrs. William
Lynn) and Emma (Mrs. William Baker).
When he was four years old
William accompanied his parents to Ford county. He
spent his winters attending the district schools
and his summers working on his father’s farm. He
came to Jackson county with his parents in the
spring of 1802 and located in Middletown township,
making his home with his parents. He assisted in
the management of the farms—his father having
purchased 1040 acres in Middletown and Des Moines
townships. After his father’s death in 1896 Mr.
Hamlon worked part of the farm on his own account,
and then moved to Jackson, where he has since
resided. Mr. Hamlon owns
the southeast quarter of section 5, Middletown. He
is a member of the M. W. A. lodge. Mr. Hamlon has
never married.
PETER HANSEN (1886) is the
proprietor of one of Jackson’s department stores.
In addition to managing that business he engages
in the real estate business and looks after his
farms, being the owner of four hundred acres of
land on sections 4, 5 and 7, Enterprise township.
Mr. Hansen was born in Denmark November 29, 1861,
the son of Hans Peterson and Marion (Larson)
Peterson.
Both his parents died in
Denmark and from the time Peter Hansen was eleven
years of age he made his own way in the world. He
spent his boyhood days in his native land,
attending school and working for wages. At the age
of nineteen years, in the spring of 1880, he came
to America and located in McHenry county,
Illinois. Three years later he moved to Chicago,
and in that city, he resided until his arrival in
Jackson county, in the spring of 1886. The year
before his arrival Mr. Hansen had purchased the
southeast quarter of section 12, Wisconsin
township, and when he arrived he located upon that
property. He engaged in
farming there five years and then moved to
Jackson.
Mr. Hansen at once engaged in
the mercantile business in a small way in a little
building where the Olsen saloon is now
located. His business
increased and in 1896 he erected his present
handsome store building, in which he conducts his
large and increasing business. For nine years
Mr. Hansen served as a member of the Jackson board
of education. He is a member of the K. P. and M.
W. A. lodges.
On May 10, 1885, in Cook
county, Illinois, Mr. Hansen was united in
marriage to Laurine Larson, also a native of
Denmark. To Mr. and Mrs. Hansen
have been born seven children. The eldest
daughter, Mamie, died in February, 1907. Those
living are Henry O., of Albert Lea; Raymond P., a
student at a Mankato school ; Lawrence C, a school
teacher of Des Moines township; Mabel L., a
student in the Jackson high school; Dallas and
Arthur, twins.
PETER HANSEN (1891) owns and
farms the east half of the northeast quarter of
section 15, Wisconsin Township where he has
resided for the last eighteen years. He is a
native of Denmark and was born September 15, 1868,
the son of Hans Christianson and Fredericka
(Hansen) Christianson.
Peter Hansen came to America
at the age of fourteen years, after having
received a common school education in his native
country, and settled in Brown county, Minnesota.
He came to Jackson county in 1891, bought his
present farm, and has since made his home on it.
He has a good farm and a fine set of buildings He
owns stock in the Farmers Elevator company of
Alpha. He has served four years as a member of the
board of supervisors of Wisconsin township. He is
a member of the Presbyterian church, of which he
has been an elder for two years and a trustee for
six years. Mr. Hansen was
married May 2, 1898, to Miss Anna E. Christianson.
To them has been born one child, Harold E., born
August 15, 1899.
JONAS HANSON (1866),
deceased, lived upon his farm on the south bank of
Independence lake, on section 4, Belmont township,
for forty-three years. He was born in Norway
December 23, 1823, the son of Hans Ellingson and
Anna (Asskerd) Ellingson.
Mr. Hanson resided in his
native land until he was past thirty-two years of
age. He came to America in 1850, arriving in the
city of Chicago on the nation’s birthday. He
located in Rock county, Wisconsin, which was his
home until his arrival to the wilds of Jackson
county. Upon the
breaking out of the civil war Mr. Hanson enlisted
as a member of company I, of the 22nd Wisconsin volunteer
infantry, and served until his discharge on July
9, 1865. During his army
service he was injured in a train wreck in
Virginia, and drew a pension on account of his
injuries.
After his discharge from the
army, Mr. Hanson spent one winter in his old home
in Wisconsin. In June, 1866,
he arrived in the county of Jackson and
homesteaded the northwest quarter of section 4,
Belmont township, where he resided until his death
on December 15, 1909. He built a little cabin on
Independence lake, in which he lived until lie
built the present house. He experienced all the
vicissitudes of pioneer life and had many trials
to contend with. In his younger years he took part
in the local affairs of his precinct and served as
a member of the board of supervisors.
Mr. Hanson was married in
Jackson county in June, 1872, to Maret Larson, who
was born on board ship off the Newfoundland banks
while her parents were on the way to the new world
from Norway. She died in October, 1907, aged 51
years. Fifteen children were born to Mr. and Mrs.
Hanson, of whom the following eight are living:
Mary Ann, Hans T., Elesias, Mondus, Julius, Thore,
Tina and Lena.
NELS HANSON (1891), Heron
Lake township farmer, was born in Sweden July 3,
1858, the eldest of a family of four children born
to Jens and Elna (Nelson) Hanson, now
deceased. Until 1882, at
the age of twenty-four years, Nels lived in his
native land. He began working out at the age of
ten years and followed several occupations.
He came to the United States
in 1882, lived one year in Connecticut, one year
in Livingston county, Illinois, and seven years in
Ford county, Illinois, during which time he worked
as a farm hand and as an employee of tile
factories. Mr. Hanson came to Jackson county in
1891. He farmed a rented place in Heron Lake
Township two years, and then moved onto his own
“farm, the west half of the southeast quarter of
section 26, which he had bought before coming to
the county. He has resided upon that farm ever
since. In addition to the eighty acres he owns he
farms rented land.
Mr. Hanson was married in
Chicago, Illinois, October 5, 1887, to Matilda
Bjork, who was born on March 28, 1863. The
following four children have been born to this
union: Ernest, a graduate of the Globe Business
college of St. Paul, now a resident of St. Paul;
Ledia (Mrs. Frank Palmer), of Lakefield; Annie, a
high school student; Harry, residing at home. Mr. Hanson is a
member of the A. O. U. W.
lodge.
OTTO HANSON (1871) is one of
the very earliest settlers of Weimer township. He
was born in Norway June 12, 1842, the son of Hans
Olson and Marian Olson, both of whom died in their
native land. Otto is the oldest child in a family
of three boys and one girl, all living in the
United States. The others are A. C. Hanson, of
Mendora, Wisconsin; Matt Vaunebo, of Montana ;
Hannah Knudson, of Mendora, Wisconsin.
Until he was a young man Otto
lived with his parents in his native land. He then
took a position on a farm, where he was employed
until he came to America at the age of
twenty-seven years. He worked on a farm near
LaCrosse, Wisconsin, two years and then, in 1871,
came to Jackson county. He took as a tree claim
the southwest quarter of section 20, Weimer
township, located on the place at once and began
its improvement, erecting a little shack, 12x18
feet, in which he lived for several years. He has
ever since resided on the place.
Mr. Hanson was married in
LaCrosse county, Wisconsin, in December, 1870, to
Annie Lorneen, also a native of Norway, Three
children were born to this union: Peter, a
machinist at Okabena; Anker, a Weimer township
farmer; Hans, of Minneapolis, Mr. Hanson is a
member of the Norwegian Lutheran
church.
PETER T. HANSON (1872) is the
expert machinist and repair man employed by J.
M. Johnson at
Okabena. According to the records, he is the
second child born in Weimer township, the date of
his birth being June 22, 1872. He is the son
of Otto and Annie (Lorneen) Hanson, natives of
Norway, who were early settlers of Weimer township
and who still live in that precinct.
Peter has always made his
home in the county of his birth. He was brought up
on the old homestead not far from the village of
Heron Lake and he was educated in the public
schools of that village. Until he was twenty-five
years of age he lived on the farm with his
parents. Then he married and located in Heron
Lake, engaging in the shoe business in partnership
with John Rafdal. He was a partner in the business
until the spring of 1899, but all his time was not
taken up with his duties in the store. He was
janitor of the Heron Lake School building two
years, was engineer on a steam dredge three years
and was engineer of the Heron Lake brick yard one
year.
Mr. Hanson sold his shoe
business in May, 1909, having accepted a position
the first of the year with the Western Implement
company in its branch at Okabena. He moved to
Okabena and that has since been his home. The branch at
Okabena was bought by J. M. Johnson in June 1909,
since which time Mr. Hanson has been
in his employ. Mr. Hanson is a member of the
Norwegian Lutheran church and of the M W. A.
lodge.
In Weimer township June 2,
1897, occurred the marriage of Mr. Hanson to
Minnie Johnson, a native of Iowa, and a daughter
of M. B. Johnson, of Weimer township. Seven
children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hanson, as
follows: Odvion, Andrew, John, Palmer, Alta,
Mildren and Maurice.
JOHN HARM
(1888) is a Belmont township farmer who owns the
southwest quarter of section 23, upon which he has
lived twenty one years. He is a native of Germany
and was born August 17, 1854. His parents were
Fred and Mary (Engelbrecht) Harm, and he is the
only living child, a brother and sister, Fred and
Reka, having died.
At the age of nine years, in
1863, John accompanied his parents to America and
lived with them in Wheeling, Cook county,
Illinois, until 1888. That year the family came to
Jackson county and located upon the farm Mr. Harm
now owns. He lived with his parents until their
death, which occurred fourteen years ago. He then
fell heir to the farm and has since conducted
it.
In Cook county, Illinois, in
1887, Mr. Harm was married to Dora Prihs, a native
of Germany, and to them have been born five
children: Helen, Millie, Lizzie, Otto and
Lillie. The family are
members of the German Lutheran church. He served
six years as a member of the township board and
has been director of school district No. 70 for
the past four years.
OLE SEVERSON HARSTAD
(1871) is a homesteader and one of the very early
settlers of Christiania township. He was born in
Norway July 22, 1831, and spent the first
thirty-six years of his life in that country. He
received a common school education and learned the
mason’s trade. Later he engaged in the fishing
business and while so employed made trips as far
as the Russian coast. In 1867 Mr.
Harstad came with his family to America and
located in Minneapolis. There he worked winters
building piers and booms, while he engaged in
farming during the summer months. In May, 1871, he
drove from Minneapolis to Jackson county, being
nine day’s on the road with his yoke of oxen. He
took a homestead claim on section 26, Christiania
township, upon which he has ever since lived. He
owns a farm of 260 acres and has stock in the
Jackson Telephone company and in the Christiania
Mercantile company. He has served as road overseer
and as supervisor of his township. He and his
family are members of the United Lutheran
church.
Mr. Harstad was married in
Norway in July, 1858, to Mary Engan, who died in
1900. There are five children, named as follows:
Betsy and S. 0. Harstad, who reside on the home
farm; Julia (Mrs. Gilbert Sogge), of Christiania
township; Tom O., who for several years has been
manager of the Christiania Mercantile company’s
store; Anna Mabel (Mrs. Peter Schjei),
of Christiania township.
S. O. HARSTAD (1871).
Christiania township farmer, has lived in Jackson
county ever since he was five years of age. He is
the son of Ole Severson Harstad and Mary (Engan)
Harstad and was born in Norway August 8, 1866.
When our subject was eleven
months of age the family came to America and from
1867 to May, 1871, he lived with his parents in
Minneapolis; then he accompanied them to Jackson
county. He received a primary education in the
district school and completed his education in the
Breck school at Wilder. He received a second grade
certificate and engaged in teaching, being so
employed during the years 1896 to 1900, inclusive,
and during 1907 and 1908. Mr. Harstad now has the
management of the home farm and engages in stock
raising quite extensively.
Mr. Harstad has taken an
active interest in local business and political
affairs. He has been secretary of the Christiania
Creamery company for ten years, and has stock in
the Farmers State Bank of Windom and in the
Christiania Mercantile company. He was the first
postmaster of the Bergen office and officiated
eight years. He has been clerk of Christiania
township for the past eight years, was supervisor
two years and constable one
year.
FRED W. G. HARTMAN (1898)
is a Petersburg township farmer and stock raiser
residing upon the southwest quarter of section 20.
He was born in Bleckendorf, Germany December 3,
1861, the son of John and Teresa (Rust) Hartman,
both deceased.
The first thirty years of the
life of our subject were passed in Germany, where
he secured his education and where he worked in a
tile factory after reaching manhood. After
reaching that age Mr. Hartman decided to try his
fortunes in the new world and in January, 1892,
arrived in this country. He located first in the
town of Renwick, Wright county, Iowa, and five
months later went to Goldfield, in the same
county, where for five years he lived, working in
a tile factory four years and engaging in farming
one year. He moved to Jackson county in March,
1898, and has since been engaged in farming in
Petersburg township.
Mr. Hartman was married in
Germany on the first day of the year 1884 to Miss
Mary Koenig. To this union have been born the
following children: Mary, born October 8, 1884;
Dora, born June 6, 1886; Elesbeth, born December
1, 1887: Emma, born June 10, 1890; Hulda, born
August 17, 1892; Paul, born July 6, 1894; Ida,
born July 14, 1897; Martha, born February 10,
1902. The family are members of the German
Lutheran church.
MAX HARTNECK (1896), owner
of a dray line in Heron Lake and local agent of
the Standard Oil company, is a native Minnesotan,
having been born in New Ulm June 19, 1867. His
parents were Joseph and Rosa (Rach) Hartneck who
came to Brown county Minnesota from Chicago in
1855 making the trip in a small steamboat up the
Mississippi and Minnesota rivers. The father died
in Brown county about thirty-seven years ago and
the mother in 1907 at the age of 70 years.
Max secured his education in
the schools of New Ulm and made his home there
until he was nineteen years of age. Then he moved
to Tracy, Minnesota, where for the next eleven
years he worked in a butcher shop and ice plant.
He moved to Heron Lake in 1896 and that village
has since been his home. He worked in a butcher
shop one year and four years in a lumber yard. In
1901 Mr. Hartneck became local agent for the
Standard Oil company and one year Inter he engaged
in the draying business and has since been so
engaged. Mr. Hartneck has
served as constable of Heron Lake for the last two
years and has been a member of the Heron Lake fire
department for the last eleven years. He holds
member ship in the M. W. A., K. P., M. B. A. and
Pioneer lodges.
Mr. Hartneck was married in
Heron Lake in 1897 to Mrs. Annie Hopkins, who was
born in Nobles County. They have no children of
their own but have an adopted daughter Mamie R. by
a former marriage Mrs. Hartneck is the mother of
one child, Frank Hopkins.
CHARLES HASBARGEN (1888)
is one of the prosperous farmers of Wisconsin
township. He owns the
northeast quarter of section 33 a few miles
southeast of Jackson.
Mr. Hasbargen was born in
Germany April 3, 1870 the son of Ralph A. and
Weeke (Grunholf) Hasbargen. At the age of thirteen
years he came to the United States, lived four
years in Iroquois county, Illinois, and one year
in LaSalle county. He received a high school
education and while in LaSalle county attended a
college. He came to Jackson county in April 1888,
and has since been engaged in farming in Wisconsin
township. Our subject has
stock in the Alpha Creamery association and in the
Alpha Horse company. He has taken an
active part in the management of the creamery and
for the past nine years has been secretary of the
association, and before that served two years as a
director. He was a member of the township board
ten years, was a school director eighteen years
and has been secretary of the German Lutheran
church of Jackson for eighteen years.
Mr. Hasbargen was married to
Theresa Buck January 22, 1893. As a result of this
union have been born the following named children:
Willie, born March 4, 1894; Alma H., born January
3, 1896; Rudolph D., born November 11, 1897; Lena
M., born April 14, 1900 died September 28, 1901;
Albert D., born June 19, 1902; Vikcara F., born
September 28, 1904; Hiram, born September 19,
1906.
DANIEL R. HASBARGEN (1890)
is a grain and dairy farmer of Wisconsin township.
He owns a 320 acre farm on sections 34 and
27. He was born in
Germany January 0. 1861, the son of Ralph A. and
Wate (Greenhoff) Hasbargen and the eldest
of a family of eight children. Two sisters and one
brother of this family are living, namely,
Frederieka (Mrs. Henry Saathoff), Harmena (Mrs. C.
Eeisken) and Charles.
The father of our subject died
in the old country at the age of 30, in 1872,
leaving his wife with a large family of children.
She and the children came to America in 1882,
lived in Iroquois county, Illinois, several years
and then came to Jackson county. Mrs. Hasbargen is
now seventy-seven years of age and makes her home
with her son, Charles, in Wisconsin township.
The subject of this biography
immigrated to America in 1880 and for ten years
engaged in farming in Iroquois county,
Illinois. Then he came to
Jackson county, bought the first quarter section
of his present farm, and has ever since made his
home in Wisconsin township. He is a member
of the German Lutheran church. For six years he
was a director of school district No. 9.
Mr. Hasbargen was married in
Iroquois county, Illinois April 10, 1888, to
Anchen Tholen, who was born in Germany. Ten
children have been born to this union, of whom
Ralph, Hattie and an infant have died. Those
living are Ralph, Henry, Carl, Johannes, Walter,
Martin and
Katie.
FRANK J. HASSING (1892) is
the proprietor of a wagon maker’s shop at Alpha,
of which village he is one of the oldest
residents. He was born at
Easton, Faribault county, Minnesota, May 14, 1867,
the son of John H. and Koeine
(Kerser) Hassing.
In his native county Frank
Hassing grew to manhood, residing with his parents
until he reached his majority. In 1888 he went to
Albert Lea and worked out one year. Returning to
Easton, he worked at the carpenter trade for a
year and a half. In August, 1892, he became a
resident of Jackson county. For two years he lived
on a farm southwest of Jackson, then lived a few
months in the village of Jackson, and early in
1895 located in the village of Alpha, then just
started. He worked at the carpenter trade in Alpha
for eleven years, and in 1906 bought the wagon
maker’s shop from Theodore Jasper and has since
conducted it.
Mr. Hassing was married
January 8, 1895, to Catherine Steiner, of Jackson.
To them have been born four children. Charles A.,
who was the first child born in the village of
Alpha, was born November 6, 1895. The other
children are John C, Clara M. and Lawrence H. The family are
members of the Jackson Catholic church and Mr.
Hassing is a member of the Catholic Order of
Foresters of Jackson, of which organization he has
held some of the principal offices. He owns a
quarter section of land in St. Louis county,
Minnesota. Mr. Hassing was
president of the Alpha village council three
years.
HENRY HASSING (1891). who
owns the southeast quarter of section 16
Middletown township, is a native Minnesotan,
having been born in Faribault county April 12,
1865. Henry is the third of a family of nine
living children. His parents were
Henry and Rosina (Kiser) Hassing, native Germans
who came to America early in life, lived a short
time in Wisconsin, and then settled in Faribault
county, Minnesota, where they homesteaded and
resided until their death.
Henry resided with his parents
until he was twenty-three years of age attending
school and working on the farm, After working out
a short time after leaving the parental roof, he
rented a farm and conducted it until he came to
Jackson county in 1891. Arriving in this county,
he located upon his present farm, which he had
bought the year before. At the time of purchase
the land was raw prairie and he has made all the
improvements on it. Mr. Hassing was
director of school district No. 92 for nine
years, and was road overseer for three years. He
is a member of the Catholic church and of the C.
0. F. lodge.
At Easton, Minnesota Mr.
Hassing was married January 29, 1894, to Frances
Paul, a native of Wisconsin. They have seven
living children: Johanna, Angus, John, Lawrence,
Ernest, Loretta and
Eddie.
JOSEPH HAYOSTEK (1897).
Hunter township farmer, was born in Hungary in
March, 1801, the son of Matt and Mary Hayostek,
both of whom died in their native land. Joseph was
brought up on a farm and lived in Hungary until
1886. That year he emigrated to America and for
the next eleven years was employed at railroad
work and in factories in Elk and other counties of
Pennsylvania and in Ohio.
He came to Jackson county in
1897, bought a farm on section 33, Hunter
township, lived there four years, and then bought
his present farm, the southeast quarter of section
32, where he has ever since resided. He is a
member of the Catholic church and is a director of
school district No. 113.
Mr. Hayostek was married in
Youngstown, Ohio, in 1886, to Mary Buday, who died
in March, 1892. As a result of this union three
children were born, named as follows: Steve, Mary,
Annie. The second marriage of Mr. Hayostek
occurred in Elk county, Pennsylvania, in November,
1892, when he wedded Annie Kubis. Three sons have
been born to this marriage, as follows: Frank,
Mike and
Joseph.
AUGUST HECHT (1901) is a
Ewington township farmer. He was born near Karlin,
Germany, December 3, 1864, the son of William and
Henrietta (Beuge) Hecht. Both parents died in
Illinois, his father in the spring of 1897, his
mother in 1895.
Our subject spent the first
nineteen years of his life in his native land,
having been brought up on a farm and having been
educated there. In the spring of
1884 he came to America with his parents, worked
in the city of Chicago a little over one year,
spent a part of the next year in Livingston
county, Illinois, and then located permanently in
LaSalle county, of the same state. He lived in
LaSalle county until 1898, working out by the
month for the first six years of this time and
thereafter farming rented land. He located in Clay
county, Iowa, in 1898 and lived there three years,
engaged in farming rented property. Mr. Hecht came
to Jackson county in 1901, rented a Ewington
township farm one year and then bought his present
place—the south half of the southeast quarter of
section 13—where he has since lived. Besides his
own land he farms a rented quarter.
In the city of Streator,
Illinois, on the twenty-third day of February,
1887. Mr. Hecht, was united in marriage to Amelia
Junker, daughter of Frederick Junker, of Ewington.
Mrs. Hecht was born in Hintern, Pomern, Germany,
May 25, 1867, and came to the United States when
six years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Hecht have seven
children, named as follows; Louisa, born December
28, 1887; William, born June 28, 1889; Caroline,
born March 8, 1891; Bertha, born November 29,
1892; Charlie, born July 6, 1896; Mabel, born July
17, 1900; Elmer, born March 6, 1903.
The family are members of the
German Lutheran church of Ewington and Mr. Hecht
is a director of school district No.
91.
CHARLES HECHT (1895), a
Petersburg township farmer, was born in Germany
April 21, 1851, the son of Carl and Josephine
(Radvow Winkel) Hecht. At the age of thirteen
years he came to America and located in the city
of Chicago, where he lived five years and where he
learned the butcher trade. Mr. Hecht moved
from Chicago to Taylor and in that vicinity
engaged in farming many years. He came to Jackson
county on the last day of February 1895, located
in Petersburg township, and there he has since
lived. He owns 400
acres of land.
Mr. Hecht was married April
10, 1877, to Anna Loocks, who was born February 9,
1858. Ten children
have been born to this union, as follows: Laura,
born March 16, 1878; George, born July 17, 1879,
died October 8, 1903; Martha, born June 4, 1881;
Henry, born June 4, 1883: Minnie, born September
6, 1885; Charley, born October 15, 1887: Anna,
born November 15, 1889; Jennie, born December 23,
1891; August, born October 3, 1895; Milton, born
September 2, 1897. The family are members of the
German Lutheran church.
S. E. HEIDLEBAUGH (1890),
rural free delivery mail carrier on route No. 1,
out of Lakefield, was born in Tama county, Iowa,
July 5, 1865, the son of John and Mary (Merick)
Heidlebaugh. He received a
country school education and lived in his native
county until twenty-one years of age. In 1886 he
moved to Nobles county, Minnesota, and engaged in
farming two and one-half miles northeast of
Worthington.
Mr. Heidlebaugh became a
resident of Jackson county in October, 1890, when
he moved onto a farm in West Heron Lake township,
five miles northwest of Lakefield. One year later
he moved into Heron Lake township, farmed there a
year and a half, and then moved back to West Heron
Lake. In 1895 he located on a farm five miles east
of the present village of Wilmont, in Nobles
county, and lived there a year and a half. Then he
went to Legrand, Marshall county, Iowa, remained
there two years, and in 1899 located in Lakefield.
He remained there only a short time, when he again
located on the farm near Wilmont. He sold out
there and in 1900 again located in Lakefield,
where he has ever since lived. He worked at
various kinds of labor for a year, and on December
16, 1901, was appointed to the mail service as
carrier for route No. 1. Mr. Heidlebaugh
owns eighty acres of land in West Heron Lake
township and eighty acres in Heron Lake township,
as well as property in the village of Lakefield.
He is a member of the German Lutheran church and
of the I. O. O. F. and M. W. A. lodges.
On March 24, 1891, Mr.
Heidlebaugh was married to Miss Jennie Johnson in
Heron Lake township. One child. John Franklin, was
born to this union on March 10,
1898.
LARS HELVIG (1904),
Christiania township farmer, was born in Norway
October 10, 1803, the son of John and Mary
(Larson) Helvig. Both parents are
living and will soon celebrate their golden
wedding, the father is 72 years of age, the mother
73.
Lars’ father followed the sea
in the early days, and when our subject was
fifteen years of age he became a sailor, at which
he was employed five years. At the age of twenty
he came to America and located in Story county,
Iowa, where he engaged in farming twenty years. In
the spring of 1904 he moved to Jackson county and
began farming the south west quarter of section 4,
Christiania, and that has since been his home. In
addition to his general farming Mr. Helvig raises
blooded stock and has a fine herd of Chester White
hogs.
Mr. Helvig was married
September 22, 1892, to Carrie Sampson. As a result
of this union there have been born the following
named children: Oscar C, born July 28. 1893; May,
born October 30, 1895; Louis, born .July 19, 1898;
Allie, born February 3, 1903; Arthur, born
February 6, 1906; Ruth, born February 2, 1909. The
family are members of the Lutheran
church.
CHRIS L. HEMMING (1907),
proprietor of a saloon at Heron Lake, is a native
of Denmark and was born July 18, 1879 the son of
Robert and Caroline (Brown) Hemming. He
accompanied his parents to the United States in
1882 and located in Minnesota. The family resided
one year in Glencoe, two years in St. Paul, and in
Kenyon, Minnesota, from 1885 to 1894. Chris
receiving a public school education in the last
named town.
In 1894 Mr. Hemming, then a
boy of fifteen years, set out in life for himself.
He was employed on a work train on the Soo line
out of Minneapolis two years and in 1896 went to
Pennington, Wisconsin, where he spent the next
winter. After spending a short time in South Park,
St. Paul, and in Oelwein, Iowa, he went to work
for Swift & Company, in St. Paul, and was
employed by that company one year. The next year
he tended bar in St. Paul, and in
1890 went to Escanaba, Michigan, where for a year
and a half he was a fireman on the Northwestern
railroad. Returning to St. Paul in 1901, Mr.
Hemming took a position as fireman on the Great
Western and on June 1, 1902. was made an
engineer. He moved from
St. Paul to Plum City, Wisconsin in 1905 and was
engaged in the saloon business there two years,
still owning the property. He arrived in Heron
Lake in the spring of 1907 and has since been
engaged in the saloon business in that village. He
owns 110 acre’s of land in Dunn County,
Wisconsin.
Mr. Hemming was married in St.
Paul in June, 1900, to Miss Mayme Bergeon and to
them have been born two children: Marie V., born
at Escanaba, Michigan, March 12, 1901; Ruth I.,
born in Heron Lake March 15, 1907. The family are
members of the Catholic
church.
EDWARD F. HEWETT (1887)
owns a 120 acre farm on sections 12 and 1
Delafield township, a short distance south of
Windom, He is the son of an Episcopal minister
Rev. John Prowse Hewett, and Elizabeth (Upcott)
Hewett was his mother. Both parents are
deceased. Edward is one of
a family of five sons and was born in Norton Fitz
Warren, near Taunton, the county seat of Somerset,
England, March 19, 1869.
Until eighteen years of age
Edward lived with his parents in England; then he
took up the life of a sailor and for the next
three years was an apprentice on board ship. On
his second trip of eighteen months he made a tour
of the world. In 1890 he located in Cottonwood
county, Minnesota, and for two years engaged in
farming in Lakeside township on a farm left him by
his father. Mr. Hewett married in 1893 and
returned to his old home in England. A little over
three years later, in 1897, he returned to the
United States and became a resident of Jackson
county. After farming five years in Enterprise
township, he sold out and moved onto his present
place, where he has since lived with the exception
of a year and a half spent in California. This was
from the fall of 1907 to June, 1909, when he
resided near San Jose.
Mr. Hewett was married in
Cottonwood county October 21, 1893, to Carolina M.
Christensen, who was born in Delafield township
June 5, 1874. She is a daughter of the late Peter
Christensen, who was one of the county’s early
settlers and who died January 28, 1906. Eight children
have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hewett, as
follows: Francis F., born December 30, 1894:
George E., born June 7, 1896; John C. born March
21, 1898; Arthur P., born June 19, 1900, died
April 16, 1902; Clarence W., born August 22, 1902;
Lawrence B., born August 20, 1904; Elizabeth A.,
born November 18, 1906; Ethel M., born February
27, 1909. Mr. Hewett is a
member of the Episcopal church at Windom and of
the I. O. O. F. and A. O. U. W. lodges, and Mr.
and Mrs. Hewett are members of the Degree of Honor
lodge.
JOHN L. HOFLAND owns a 120
acre farm on sections 14 and 13, Delafield
township, where he has lived his entire life,
having been born on that farm. His parents were
Andrew and Carrie (Thompson) Hofland, natives of
Norway and Wisconsin, respectively. His parents
homesteaded the farm in 1870 and spent the rest of
their years on the place.
There John grew to manhood and
in the district school he was educated. His father
died when John was nine years of age, and soon
thereafter he took the active management of the
place, continuing to make his home with his mother
until her death July 13, 1907. He now has charge
of the estate. John is the oldest of five
children, the other children being Sophia Dahl of
Canada; Lena Matson of Jackson county; Augusta
Hanson of Edgerton, Minnesota; Emma, who resides
with her brother.
Mr. Hofland is unmarried. He
is a member of the Norwegian Lutheran church of
Windom and of the M. W. A. lodge. He served one
year as road
overseer.
JOHN O. HOFLAND (1872) is
one of the prosperous farmers and stock raisers of
Delafield township, owning 280 acres of land on
sections 14, 12 and 13 and farming a rented tract
in addition to his own land. He is quite an
extensive feeder of cattle and has a herd of 300
sheep.
Mr. Hofland is a native of
Norway and was born in March 1866, the youngest of
a family of three children born to Ole and
Christie (Hagen) Holland. The family came to
America and to Jackson county in 1872 and the
father of our subject took as a homestead claim
the north half of the northeast quarter of section
14, Delafield township, the present home of our
subject. The father of our subject died on the
place May 2, 1896, aged 58 years. The mother, who
is now eighty years of age lives on the farm with
her son. The other members of the family are
Carrie, who makes her home with her brother, and
Susie (Mrs. Andrew Loken) of Delafield
township.
John H. Hofland was only six
years of age when he came to Jackson county with
his parents in 1872. He grew to manhood on the
farm he now conducts and was educated in Jackson
county. Until his father’s death in 1896, he
worked for his parents; then he took charge of the
place and has since managed it, having added to
the original farm by purchase. Mr. Holland is
unmarried.
MARTIN B. HOFSTAD (1881)
is a Delafield township farmer residing only a
short distance from Windom. He was born in Norway
January 3, 1862, the son of Benjamin and Ingar
(Houghdal) Hofstad and one of a family of five
boys and two girls. The father of our subject died
in Norway December 17, 1892, aged 82 years; his
mother lives in the old country and is 80 years of
age.
Martin came to America and to
Jackson county in 1881 when nineteen years of
age. For several
years he worked for farmers in the vicinity of his
present home and then he spent several years in
Minneapolis and in the northern pineries. He spent
one year in Alaska, and returning to the states,
again came to Jackson county. He conducted a
restaurant in Lakefield four years and then
located on his present place and has since been
engaged in farming. His farm consists of 160 acres
on section 2.
Mr. Hofstad was married in
Delafield township December 4, 1898, to Albertina
Olson Saxhaug, daughter of Claus Olson Saxhaug,
who homesteaded the farm upon which Mr. Hofstad
now resides in 1870 and resided there until his
death December 25, 1885. Mrs. Hofstad was born in
Norway June 23, 1864, and came to the United
States when two years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Hofstad
have no children of their own, but they have an
adopted daughter, Mariah, born October 16,
1896.
Mr. Hofstad is a member of the
A. F. & A. M., the I. O. O. F. and the
Maccabee lodges and the Norwegian Lutheran
church.
F. G. HOKANSON (1882) owns
and farms the northeast quarter of section 28.
Delafield township, upon which farm he has lived
over twenty-seven years. He was born in Lutarp,
Jonkoping Lar, Smoland, Sweden, February 28, 1848,
the son of H. Monson and Lena (Johnson) Monson,
both of whom died in Sweden.
Our subject was brought up on
a farm and worked for his father until he was
twenty-one years of age. He then came to the
United States, landing in the new world May 2,
1869. He spent the
following summer in Chicago, worked on the
railroad at Effingham, Illinois, six months, and
then located at Lafayette, Indiana, where he
resided three years, working as a coachman and at
other occupations. In 1873 Mr. Hokanson returned
to his old home in Sweden and for the next seven
and one-half years was engaged in farming.
Returning to America in 1882, he came to Jackson
county with his family, consisting of a wife and
two children, bought eighty acres of his present
farm and his since made his home on the
place. Three years
after his arrival he bought the other eighty acres
of his present farm.
Mr. Hokanson’s first wife died
in 1893. Eight children were born to them, of whom
three have died. Mr. Hokanson was married the
second time in Delafield township in the spring of
1902 to Louisa Anderson, who was born in Sweden
and who came to the United States in 1883. They
have no children. Mr. Hokanson is a member of the
Free Mission church of Windom. He served as
treasurer of his township three years and was
clerk of school district No. 29 for the same
length of
time.
PETER P. HOLDEN (1868),
of Petersburg township, is one of the oldest
settlers of that precinct, having resided there
nearly forty-two years. He is a Norwegian by birth
and was born August 30, 1845, the son of Peter and
Lilly (Olson) Olson.
Our subject resided in his
native land until he reached his majority. Then he
emigrated to America, arriving in May, 1868, and
located in Lafayette county, Wisconsin. He spent
two winters working in the pineries of northern
Wisconsin and then came to the new country of
Jackson county, where he arrived in March, 1808.
He located on land in Petersburg township, and
that has been his home ever since. For several
seasons he spent his winters on his place and his
summers working in Fillmore and Winona counties.
He suffered many hardships during the trying times
of pioneer days, in storms and the terrible
grasshopper scourge. Like everyone else he
endeavored to raise a crop every year during the
time the grasshoppers were here, thinking that
each year must be the last of the pests, and each
year lost his crops. Fortunately he early turned
his attention to stock raising, and so weathered
the storms of that never to be forgotten
period.
Mr. Holden owns the northwest
quarter of section 36, Petersburg, and has stock
in the Jackson Telephone company and in the
Petersburg Creamery company. He has been a member
of the township board of supervisors and of the
school board and has held the office of road
overseer. He is a member of the Norwegian Lutheran
church.
On September 14, 1874, Mr.
Holden was married to Annie Bottleson, of
Petersburg. This union has been blessed with the
births of the following named children: Olef B.,
born October 23, 1876; Ida, born August 14, 1879;
Genton P., born June 23, 1881; Lillie, born
September 22, 1875, died January, 1908; Esther,
born March 16, 1883; Henry, born September 1,
1888.
JESS A. HOLM (1890) is one
of the successful farmers of Wisconsin township
and has been a resident of the county twenty
years. He is of Danish birth and first saw the
light of day July 18, 1863. He is the only child
of the late Peter Holm and Annie (Scott) Holm. His
father died in Jackson December 14, 1905, aged 68
years. His mother makes her home with her son and
is 75 years of age.
Jess received his education in
Denmark and spent the first seventeen years of his
life in his native land, residing with his
parents. He came to the United States with his
parents in 1S80 and located at Burlington, Iowa.
From the time of his arrival until 1890 he worked
in the shops of the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy railroad. In the last named year he came to
Minnesota, and, after living six months in Martin
county, became a resident of Jackson county. With
the exception of three years, when he was engaged
in farming in Enterprise township, Mr. Holm has
resided upon his present farm ever since coming to
the county. He farms 585 acres of land, raises
considerable stock and milks twenty-five
cows. He is also quite
an extensive hay dealer, shipping from twelve to
fifteen cars annually.
Mr. Holm was married at
Burlington, Iowa, October 10, 1884, to Amanda
Selburg, a native of Keokuk, Iowa. Her parents
were both natives of Sweden and both are dead.
Mr. and Mrs. Holm
are the parents of four children: Emma, born June
21, 1886; Hans, born August 20, 1888; Nellie, born
April 12, 1890; Bennie, born January 24, 1892. Mr.
Holm is a member of the Danish Brotherhood lodge
and for the past four years has been treasurer of
school district No.
14.
MARTIN HOLSTEN (1874) was
born in Belmont township May 5, 1874 and has spent
his entire life on the old family homestead on
section 34. He is engaged in farming the place for
his mother, having 200 acres in sections 34 and 33
in his charge.
Martin Holsten is a son of the
late Holsten Olson and Ingebor (Slaabaken) Olson.
These parents were born in Norway, came to America
when young and were married in Wisconsin. They came to
Jackson county with the Norwegian emigrants of
1861 and homesteaded the northwest quarter of
section 34, Belmont township. Holsten Olson and
his family lived at Spirit Lake one year after the
massacre and then returned to his claim. He lived
on the old homestead until his death, October 1,
1903, at the age of 73 years. Mrs. Olson lives with
her son and is 75 years of age. There were eleven
children in the family, of whom four sons and
three daughters are living.
Martin assisted in working the
home farm until his father’s death in 1893; then
he took the management of the farm and has since
conducted it for his mother.
Mr. Holsten was married at
Brownsburg, Belmont township June 30, 1900. to
Mary I.illeberg. who was born in Belmont township
June 22, 1874. She is the daughter of Ole
Lilleberg who came to Belmont in 1866 and who
still resides in the township. Four children have
been born to Mr. and Mrs. Holsten. Osmund, the
first born, died in infancy. The surviving
children arc named Edwin, Osmund and Milton. The
family are members of the Norwegian Lutheran
church.
NELS HOLSTEN (1862). of
Heron Lake township, is one of the few residents
of Jackson county now living in the county who
were present at the Belmont massacre. He came with
his parents a few months before that memorable
event, and with the exception of a couple of years
spent in northern Iowa because of fear of the
redskins he has been a resident of the county ever
since.
Holsten Olson, the well known
pioneer settler, was the father of Mr. Holsten. He
came from Norway in 1833 and settled in northern
Illinois. There he married his first wife, who
died in 1857, and there he engaged in farming
until he came to Jackson county. A year after the
death of his first wife Holsten Olson married
Ingebor Olson Slaabaken, who is now a resident of
Jackson county, making her home with her son,
Martin Holsten, in Belmont township. Holsten Olson
died in Jackson county October 1, 1893. at the age
of 73 years. Nels is the
youngest of his father’s first family and the only
other child living is Mrs. Betsy Thompson.
Holsten Olson had six children by his last
marriage, of whom the following are living:
Olosus, Martin, Edward, Tena and Helen.
Nels was born in Illinois,
near the Wisconsin line, June 25, 1854. He came to
the wilds of Jackson county with his father and
stepmother in 1862. The Indian attack of August of
that year drove them from the county, and refuge
was sought at Estherville, Iowa. The family
returned to their home in Belmont in October,
spent the winter on the frontier, and then fled to
Spirit Lake, Iowa, because of threatened Indian
uprisings. They came back again in 1864 and
located upon the homestead on the northwest
quarter of section 34, Belmont township. Nels
resided on the home farm until twenty-three years
of age, then he started in life for himself,
working at various occupations for several
years.
In 1891 he married and bought
his present farm, the southwest quarter of section
24, Heron Lake township, and upon that he has ever
since lived. The farm was wild prairie land when
he bought it, and all the improvements it now has
are the result of his labors.
In Belmont township, on July
2, 1891, Mr. Holsten, was
married to Julia Frantsen, who was born on section
12, Belmont township, the daughter of John and
Johanna (Halverson) Frantsen. To this union have
been born two children: Harry, born August 23,
1892; Josie, born February 2, 1900. Mr. and Mrs.
Holsten are members of the Norwegian Lutheran
church.
HENRY J. HOOVEL (1865),
proprietor of a hardware store at Jackson, is one
of the pioneer settlers of the county, having made
his home here since he was five years of age. He is the son of
John C. and Sophia (Holden) Hoovel, of Petersburg
township, and he was born in Wiota, Wisconsin,
October 18, 1860.
Henry accompanied his parents
in their overland trip to Jackson county in the
spring of 1865. His father homesteaded a quarter
section of land in Petersburg township, and on
that farm Henry lived until he was twenty-one
years of age, assisting with the farm work and
attending the district school. He left the farm
and moved to Jackson in 1881 and during the next
five years clerked in a general merchandise store.
In 1886 he bought a half interest in the hardware
store of H. G. Anderson and for
three years was in the hardware business, the firm
name being Anderson & Hoovel.
Disposing of his interest in
the hardware store in 1889, Mr. Hoovel bought a
half interest in the general store of O. E. Olsen
and for the next six years he had charge of the
store, which was conducted under the name of Olsen
& Hoovel. He sold out in 1895 and again went
into the hardware business, forming a partnership
with Louis Iverson under the firm name of Hoovel
& Iverson. Three years later he bought out his
partner and has since conducted the business
alone. Mr. Hoovel has
served as a member of the Jackson village council.
He is a member of the Lutheran church and of the
Masonic order. He was married
at Spring Valley, Minnesota, December 24, 1885, to
Caroline Kummer.
JOHN HOVELSRUD (1874). in
partnership with his brother Bernhard, owns and
farms 240 acres of land on section 27 Heron Lake
township, a short distance northeast of
Lakefield. He is a native
of the county, having been born on his father’s
homestead on section 34, Heron Lake township,
October 22, 1874. His parents,
Mathias H. and Ingeborg (Lunde) Hovelsrud were
born in Norway and came to America in their youth.
They were early day residents of Minnesota and
came to Jackson county in 1873, taking a homestead
a little east of the present village of Lakefield.
The father died there in June, 1899, aged 57
years. The mother still
lives on the old homestead. Eight children were
born to them, as follows: Julia (Mrs. A. J.
Christy), of Okabena; Hilda (deceased), John,
Bernhard, Gilbert, Julius, of St. Paul; Ever
(deceased) and Halmar, of Story City, Iowa.
Until he was twenty-one years
of age John lived with his parents, securing an
education and working on the farm. After reaching
his majority he engaged in school teaching and in
1900 he and his brother bought their present farm
on section 27 and have since farmed the place in
partnership. Neither of the brothers is married.
During the summer of 1909 they erected a
commodious residence on the farm. John Hovelsrud
has served as a member of the school board of
district No. 80 since 1900.
 H. HENRY
HUGHES (1878), real estate dealer of Jackson, is
one of the well known residents of that village,
having made his home there nearly all the time
since 1878. He was born in Oneida county New York,
February 4, 1845, the son of Richard and Anna
(Williams) Hughes. His parents were natives of
Wales and came to America when children. His father died
in Wisconsin October 14, 1872, at the age of 57
years; his mother died October 20, 1892, at the
age of 74 years. When our subject
was twelve years old he moved with his parents
from New York state to Columbia county, Wisconsin,
and was brought up there on a farm. He received
his education in the common schools of Columbia
county and completed it with a course in a select
school at Fox Lake, Wisconsin. After his father’s
death in 1872 our subject, being the only son and
the eldest of a family of five children, took the
management of the home farm and conducted it until
the fall of 1877.
Mr. Hughes came to Jackson in
the spring of 1878 and in October entered the
employ of the C. L. Colman Lumber company, and a
month later took the position of manager of that
company’s yard at that point, having superintended
the building of the yards. He retained his
position with the firm until the summer of 1891—a
continuous service of thirteen and a half years.
Mr. Hughes had previously invested quite heavily
in the implement business and after selling out he
moved to St. Paul in the spring of 1892 and for
one and a half years was traveling salesman for
the Plano Manufacturing company. Then he took a
position as traveling representative, with power
of attorney for loaning money and collecting, for
the First National Bank, of Whitewater, Wisconsin,
and was so employed until March 31, 1907, covering
four states for the bank. That year he returned to
Jackson and engaged in the real estate and
insurance business, in which he is still engaged,
in addition to looking after his farm lands. He
owns 400 acres of Jackson county land, which
include two farms. He is a member of the
Presbyterian church and of the A. F. & A. M.,
I. O. O. F., M. W. A. and M. B. A. lodges.
At Cambria, Columbia county,
Wisconsin, on September 19, 1872, Mr. Hughes was
united in marriage to Estella Wilcox, a native of
New York state. To this union have been born the
following named children: Ainslie H., Harriett A.
(Mrs. Ed. Parker), Clark R. and Arthur
B.
CHARLES M. HUMPHREY (1893)
farms the southeast quarter of section 34, Des
Moines township. He was born in Rensselaer county
New York, August 17, 1864, the son of German and
Phydelia (Wyant) Humphrey, the former of English
birth, the latter a native of the state of New
York. His father died when our subject was two
years of age; his mother died in 1894. There were
eight children in the family: Edward, William,
Libbie, Melvina, Cornelia, Mary, Allen and
Charles.
Charles lived with his mother
in his native county until he was sixteen years of
age. In 1880 he located at Masonville, Delaware
county Iowa. For several years he worked as a farm
hand and then started learning the barber trade.
He worked at the trade three years in Superior and
Iowa Falls, and in 1893 moved to Jackson, where he
established the Ashley house shop, which he
conducted nine years. In 1901 he rented the
Albertus farm, where he has since been engaged in
agricultural pursuits.
Mr. Humphrey was married at
Superior, Iowa, March 29, 1893, to Addie Lush, a
native of Waucoma, Iowa. To them has been born one
child, Irma, born August 21, 1896. Mr. Humphrey is a
member of the A. O. U. W.
lodge.
WILLIAM HUNT (1880) is a
farmer and landowner of Middletown township and
has lived in the county over twenty years. He is a
native of London, England, and was born August 4,
1870, the son of Frederick J. and Isabelle (Dick)
Hunt. His father was also a native of England and
died in his native land in 1873. The mother of our
subject is of Scottish birth, having been born at
Kelso. After the death of her first husband she
married Thomas Sinclair, of Rockford, Illinois,
having come to the United States in 1881. Mr. Sinclair died in
1908 and his widow, the mother of our subject, now
lives at Spirit Lake.
William Hunt is one of a
family of four children. He spent the first
fourteen years of his life attending school in his
native country. He came to the
United States in 1885 and located at Rockford,
Illinois, where he resided three years, learning
the printer’s trade. He came to
Jackson county in 1889 and for years lived with
his step-father on section 15 Middletown township.
He then started out in life for himself and has
since been engaged in farming in Des Moines and
Middletown townships. He located on his present
farm, the northeast quarter of section 6,
Middletown, in the spring of 1908. While a
resident of Des Moines Mr. Hunt served as
treasurer of school district No. 11 and he is now
clerk of district No. 55. He is a member of the A.
O. U. W. lodge.
In Middletown township on
November 26, 1894 Mr. Hunt was united in marriage
to Minnie Muir, who was born in the county April
9, 1875 and who is the daughter of that pioneer
settler, R. C. Muir. Seven children have been born
to Mr. and Mrs. Hunt, as follows: Robert B.,
Edward W., Isabelle, Marie, Gordon, Roy and
Beatrice.
JAMES W. HUNTER (1868),
deceased, was an early day merchant of Jackson and
a man who took a prominent part in the affairs of
the county. He was a native of Scotland and was
born August 10, 1837, the son of James and Agnes
Hunter.
When eighteen years of age, in
1855, Mr. Hunter came to
America. He spent three years clerking in Dubuque,
Iowa, was a short time at Wilton, Minnesota, and
then returned to Scotland for a short visit.
Returning to America, he located at Waseca,
Minnesota, where he built a store and engaged in
business with his brother. Selling out there, he
engaged in business in Estherville, Iowa, two
years, and in 1868 located in the new town of
Jackson. In partnership with a brother he engaged
in the general merchandise business under the firm
name of Hunter Brothers. He continued to live in
Jackson until his death, which occurred August 13,
1900.
Mr. Hunter served two terms as
county auditor, having been elected first in 1870,
and was a member of the Minnesota legislature from
Jackson county. He was married in Scotland August
19, 1870, to Bessie Ross. There are three children
in the family, namely : Mrs. H. B. Gillispie,
William D. Hunter and Agnes
Grace.
GUNDER A. HUSBY (1868),
member of the firm of T. H. Stall & Co., which
owns one of the general merchandise stores of
Jackson, is an early day settler of the county. He
was born in Trondjam, Norway, January 22, 1863,
the only son of a family of five children born to
Gunder and Sarah (Kyllo) Husby. The father died in
1882; the mother now lives on the old farm in
Belmont township and is eighty-two years old.
The family emigrated to
America in 1866, and located in Goodhue county,
Minnesota. They came to Jackson county in the year
1868, and the father took a homestead claim on the
north half of section 26, Belmont township. On that claim
our subject grew to manhood. He received an
education in the district school and upon the
death of his father when the son was eighteen
years of age he took the management of the farm.
He conducted that until he moved to the village of
Jackson and entered the mercantile business,
having purchased an interest in the store two
years previous.
Mr. Husby was married in
Belmont township October 7, 1885, to Lena
Peterson, who was born in Norway and who came to
the United States when a young woman. She is the
daughter of Peter Peterson, an early Jackson
county settler. To this union have been born seven
children, as follows: Mark, Sena, Plume, Gilmore,
Alice, who died at the age of one year; Blanch and
Hazel.
Mr. Husby owns a farm in
Belmont Township and property in Jackson. He
served four years as clerk of school district No.
79. He 13 a member of the Lutheran church and of
the A. O. U. W., the E. F. U. and the Sons of
Norway lodges.
MARK HUSBY (1884). of
Belmont township, was born in that township May
20, 1884, the son of Gundor and Paulina (Peterson)
Husby. of Jackson, and
the eldest of a family of seven children. On the
farm upon which he was born Mark has spent his
entire life. He secured an education in the school
in district No. 79 and until he was twenty years
old worked for his father on the farm. Then he
married and rented the home farm, which he has
since conducted. Mr. Husby was
married in Belmont township December 9, 1903, to
Carine Leen, a native of Emmet county, Iowa, and a
daughter of Christ and Thora Leen. Mr. and Mrs.
Husby are members of the Norwegian Lutheran
church.
CONRAD HUSSONG (1900) is
one of the prosperous and successful farmers of
Alba township. He owns 240 acres of choice farming
land and rents an additional eighty. His place is
well improved with fine buildings and other
improvements and he is putting in a complete
system of tiling on the farm. Mr. Hussong is
of German birth and was born August 25, 1870. He
came to America with his father when nine years of
age, lived seven years in Tazewell county,
Illinois, and then located in Iroquois county of
the same state, where he resided until coming to
Jackson county in 1900.
He received his primary
education in his native country and after coming
to America completed his schooling in the English
schools. Until he was twenty-one years of age Mr.
Hussong resided with his father. Then he married
and engaged in farming on his own account. Upon
his arrival to Jackson county Mr. Hussong bought
the southeast quarter of section 23, Alba, then
bare of improvements, and engaged in farming. In 1907 he added
to the dimensions of his farm by buying the west
half of the southwest quarter of section 24, known
as the Freer homestead.
The parents of our subject
were Louis and Louisa (Golzer) Hussong, of whom
the latter died in Germany in 1879. Mr. Hussong
later married Margaret Weber and they came to the
United States and settled in Illinois. Mr. Hussong died
there in 1900, aged 58 years.
Conrad Hussong was married in
Iroquois county, Illinois. February 17, 1892, to
Martha J. Krowas, who was born in LaSalle county,
Illinois, December 24, 1873, the daughter of Carl
Krowas. To Mr. and Mrs. Hussong have been born the
following children: Charles L., born March 4,
1894; Edward 0., born January 10, 1897: Louis H.,
born October 18, 1901; Raymond W., born May 16,
1904: Minnie A., born April 7, 1907; Hilda M.,
born February 24, 1909.
Mr. and Mrs. Hussong are
members of the German Lutheran church and he
belongs to the M. W. A. lodge. For six years he
served as a member of the school board of district
No. 85, and for two years was road
overseer.
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