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About Søren Sørensen Hovland
Sam (Soren) and Torgon (Loftus) Hoveland, were natives of Norway, the father being a farmer by occupation. It was in 1865 that they immigrated to the United States, settling first in Goodhue County, Minn., where they remained for a year and a half. They then came to Dunn County, taking a homestead of 160 acres in Section 23, town of Sand Creek, a tract of which there was some jack pine timber. To reach the place they hired a man to drive them in a covered wagon, and he must have driven slowly, as they led their cow all the way.
Until the father had built a log house they resided with Ever Olson. He also built a log barn with a slab roof. For 14 years Sam Hoveland spent the winters logging in the woods and the summers working in sawmills, having little time himself to give to his farm, which was looked after by his wife and the elder sons. He used to walk from his farm to Eau Claire every Sunday and return on the following Saturday, carrying groceries and other supplies with him, and at one time he carried 100 pounds of flour on his back from Bloomer.
He and his family cleared the land, using oxen for the first five years and after that horses, both in breaking for himself and for others, and he continued to work on and improve his farm until his death in 1885. His wife survived him many years, passing away in 1916. They were the parents of a large family numbering 14 children, of whom 11 are now living namely:
1. Sam Soren, 2. Ole, 3. Theodore, 4. John, 5. George, 6. Sewell, 7. Oscar, 8. Martin, 9. Anna is now the wife of Charles Kitchman of Eau Claire, 10. Rena married A. A. Anderson of Colfax, 11. Gertrude is the wife of Thomas Peterson of Rice Lake, 12. One child died in infancy unnamed and the other two deceased are 13. Will and 14. Albert.
Source: Curtiss-Wedge, F.; Jones, Geo. O. (ed.) / History of Dunn County, Wisconsin (1925) pages 575-576.
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Søren Sørensen Hovland's Timeline
| 1835 |
November 18, 1835
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Hovland, Hjartdal, Telemark, Norway
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| 1859 |
July 23, 1859
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Hjartdal, Telemark, Norway
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| 1861 |
1861
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Hjartdal, Telemarken, Norway
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| 1863 |
1863
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Hjartdal, Telemarken, Norway
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| 1865 |
1865
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Hjartdal, Telemarken, Norway
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| 1867 |
1867
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Goodhue, Goodhue, Minnesota, USA
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| 1869 |
1869
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Sand Creek Wisconsin, Dunn, North Dakota, USA
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| 1871 |
January 25, 1871
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Sand Creek, Dunn, Wisconsin
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