Ole SEVERTSON

Abt 1847 -

• Name	Ole SEVERTSON
  Birth	Abt 1847	Norway
  Gender	Male
  Notes	Via Renae, this is Ole’s entry in "THE HISTORY OF ROCK AND PIPESTONE COUNTIES", by Arthur P. Rose, published 1911: OLE SEVERTSON (1872) is one of the early day homesteader of Martin township who has maintained a continuous residence of nearly forty years on the land he filed claim to in the early seventies. A native of Norway, he was born at Sigdahl, Prestegjeld, on the twenty-fourth of February, 1847. When a two year old child he departed from the scene of his nativity and with his parents, Severt and Guri (Gunhus) Severtson, took passage for the new world. The Severtson family passed their first summer in America at Rock Prairie, Rock county, Wisconsin, where the father secured employment at farm labor. In the fall he bought land near New Glarus, Green county, Wisconsin, where the family home was permanently established. Ole was educated in the district schools and took an active part In the management of the home farm until twenty-five years of age. In 1872 he journeyed to Rock county, Minnesota, and homesteaded the southeast quarter of section 8, Martin township. The first summer he broke ten acres of the land, but the next season's wheat crop sown thereon was totally destroyed by the grasshoppers. With optimistic spirit, Mr. Severtson stayed by the country, moving his family to the prairie farm in 1875, which has since been developed into a beautiful farm home, substantially improved. Mr. Severtson raises considerable .stock. He is an ex-director and treasurer of school district No. 39, and has also served his community as r oad overseer. He is a stockholder in the Cooperative Creamery and Rural Telephone companies of Hills, and with his family belongs to the United Lutheran church. Jackson county was the place and May 30, 1876, the date of the marriage of our subject to Anna Peterson Berge, who was born in Selbo Prestegjeld, Trondhjem, Norway, February 12,1855, the daughter of Peder and Beret (Rosaeth) Berge. Mrs. Severtson immigrated to this country with her parents in 1867 and settled with them in Olmsted county, Minnesota, later going to Jackson county, where the Berges still make their home. To Mr. and Mrs. Severtson have been born the following named children: Julia, born April 22, 1877; Christine, born July 3, 1879; Marie, born October 24, 1885; Severt O., born June 29, 1887; Alma Otilde, born June 7, 1889; Peder O., born April 23, 1892; Edwin G., born December 17, 1893.
  Person ID	I15794	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	12 Oct 2016

  
  

  Family	Anna BERGE
  Children	1. Peter O SEVERTSON,   b. 23 Apr 1892, Minnesota d. 26 Apr 1959, Rock County, Minnesota (Age 67 years)
  Family ID	F8986	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart