Berit Olsdatter EGGE

Notes:

I13104 Valdres Slekt

Jim claims that Berit and Torstein lived on Bunde 97/1. The bygdebok (p. 182, Vang C) implies that their farm was 97/4.

Berit and Einar lived on the Bonde farm for 14 years before emigrating in March of 1849.

Berit married Torstein Øysteinson BUNDE on 18 Jul 1819 in Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Torstein (son of Øystein Torsteinson HELLE and Kari Olsdatter FRAMSTAD) was born in 1796 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1830; was buried in Lillehammer, Gudbrandsdal, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Berit married Einar Halvorsen GROVEN on 29 Jun 1835 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Einar (son of Halvor Halvorsen HØYME and Aaste Einersdatter KVIEN) was born on 22 Dec 1799 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 27 Aug 1875 in Rice County, Minnesota; was buried in Valley Grove Cemetery, Wheeling Twp, Rice County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Bonde in Høre according to the French Family Tree.

Died:
Bonde in Høre according to the French Family Tree.

Family/Spouse: Sigrid Olsdatter FRAMSTAD. Sigrid (daughter of Ole Olsen FRAMSTAD and Ragnild Thoresdatter SKEIE) was born on 25 Sep 1823 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 2 Apr 1902 in Swift County, Minnesota; was buried in West Norway Lake Lutheran Cemetery, Sunburg, Norway Lake Twp, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Emigrated.

In the 1900 census he is in Goodhue County.

Family/Spouse: Marit Gulliksdatter RISTE. Marit was born about 1826 in Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died about 1904. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She had 12 children, eight of whom survived and led remarkable lives. They had the advantage of a tutor at home and all were exceptionally bright.

Birth:
Bunde 97/ (either 1 or 4)

Family/Spouse: Thomas Anderson VEFLEN. Thomas (son of Andris Haldorsen ØDEGÅRD and Gjartrud Thomasdatter TØRSTAD) was born on 25 Oct 1818 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 18 Aug 1906 in Nerstrand, Rice County, Minnesota; was buried in Valley Grove Cemetery, Wheeling Twp, Rice County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Came to the U.S. with her brother Ole.

Died at Fertile, Minnesota, on 11 Jun 1889.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 26 Feb 1843, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

He became a successful farmer and community leader. He married Ingebor Haugen in 1867 and stayed on the Bonde farm all of his life. He built a much-admired stone house in 1875 and kept a journal, written in Norwegian.

Of his 11 children, seven survived to adulthood.


The Tosten E. Bonde Farmhouse, built of locally quarried limestone in 1875, is one of the oldest structures of its kind in Wheeling Township, Rice County. The Bonde family emigrated to Minnesota in 1849 and homesteaded land in 1855. The private home was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

In 1849, Einer and Berit Bonde emigrated from Vang, Valdres, Norway, with their two sons, Tosten and Halvor. Berit’s daughter, Kari, from a previous marriage, and her husband, Thomas Veblen, had immigrated to the United States two years earlier in 1847. The Veblens were the parents of famed sociologist and economist Thorstein Veblen. According to family history, the Bondes “dreamed of following Kari’s footsteps to the new world.”

The Bonde family lived in Port Washington, Wisconsin, before moving to Winneshiek County, Iowa, in the spring of 1854. The following year, on June 9, the family settled on 160 acres in section 11 of Wheeling Township in Minnesota Territory. In 1866, the Veblens moved from Mount Vernon, Wisconsin, to a farm in Wheeling Township, Minnesota. The rural community of primarily Norwegian settler-colonists was composed of respected farmers and civic leaders, including Halvor Quie and Osmund Osmundson, founder of Nerstrand.

From 1855 to 1875, the family resided in a log home. In 1865, Tosten, who was described as a “very able young man,” purchased the farm from his father. His brother Halvor, a Civil War veteran, had settled in Swift County, Minnesota. Two years later, Tosten married Ingebor Hougen on April 3, 1867. They had eleven children, born between 1868 and 1887. Tosten’s family lived with his parents until the stone house was completed in the summer of 1875. His father, Einer, passed away on August 27, 1875, and Berit died on March 12, 1877.

In a diary started in 1888, Tosten Bonde noted the improvements to the farm site: a barn was added in 1870, the stone farmhouse in 1875, a machinery shed in 1883, a granary in 1886, and a milkhouse in 1887. The two-and-a-half-story, L-shaped farmhouse was built on a small rise and constructed of locally quarried limestone from the Nerstrand and Faribault area. Situated near a well-traveled highway approximately one mile from Nerstrand, the gabled farmhouse became a focal landmark in rural Rice County after its completion in 1875.

The farmstead, which is still owned by Bonde family descendants in 2020, is in many respects a “living” document to rural agricultural heritage and practices by a single family dating back to Minnesota’s territorial days. Tosten’s diary offers glimpses into late-nineteenth-century farm life with entries like: “The year, 1887, was very dry and the chinch bug destroyed all the wheat and part of the oats. The hay crop was very short.” In his entry for April 12, 1891, he wrote: “Horses are sick from distemper.” The family history noted that Oscar, a son, remarked they cured the horses by “burning rubbers and had the horses inhale the fumes.”

The family history also tells of tragedy within the farmhouse’s stone walls. When an epidemic of black measles occurred in late March and early April of 1882, three sons died in one week: Edward, who was fourteen, Ingebrit, who was six, and Albert, who was barely a year old, fell victim to the disease. According to family lore, when Ingebor worked in her garden, “she would look to Valley Grove Cemetery and long for her little ones buried there on the distant hill.”

In 1890, Tosten was elected to the Minnesota State Legislature; he was reelected the following year. By early 1895, he developed stomach cancer, and he passed away at his home on October 14, 1897. The fifty-four-year-old was survived by his wife and seven children. One obituary noted he was “a good citizen and highly esteemed and respected in the community.”

In February 1981, Britta Bloomberg’s submission for the Minnesota Historical Properties Inventory Form stated, “The Bonde Farmhouse is significant both for its association with a prominent immigrant family and for its notable limestone construction and outstanding integrity.” In April 1982, the private home was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

From the Faribault Republican, Oct. 20, 1897, via Find A Grave:

Died at his home in the town of Wheeling on Thursday evening, last, Oct. 14, of cancer of the stomach, with which he had suffered for two and a half years. The funeral was held on Monday, with services conducted by Rev. N. A. Quammen, and the remains were buried in the cemetery connected with Valley Grove church. Mr. Bonde was born in Norway, Jan. 12th, 1843. In 1849 he came with his parents to America and first settled at Port Washington, Wis.; five years later removed to Winneshiek County, Iowa, and in 1855 came to Rice County and located on section no.11, in Wheeling, which has ever since been his home. April 3d, 1867, he married Miss Ingebor Haugen, who survives him, and to them were born eleven children, four of whom are dead, and seven are living; Thomas, Bernhard, Anna, Alfred, Oscar, Edward and Carl, all of whom are at home, except Thomas, who is in St. Paul. Mr. Bonde was a good citizen and highly esteemed and respected in the community in which he lived so long, and was honored by election to various offices in the town and as a representative in the legislature, in which he served during the session of 1891.

Died:
cancer

Tosten married Ingeborg Thomasdatter HAUGEN on 3 Apr 1867 in Rice County, Minnesota. Ingeborg was born in 1847; died on 15 Apr 1932 in Rice County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 14 Sep 1845, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Served in the Civil War as part of the 2nd Minnesota Cavalry.

He has a great-granddaughter named Nina.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 26 Dec 1847, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Grew up on the Framstad farm of her maternal grandparents.

Mother of 10.

Birth:
Bonde in Høre according to the French Family Tree.

Berit married Tosten in 1867. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Had five children in the 1900 census.

Family/Spouse: Sigrid ALFSON. Sigrid was born about 1866 in Minnesota; died on 8 Oct 1939 in Benson County, North Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Attended Carleton College.

Professor of Physics at the University of Iowa.

Long-time president of the Valdres Samband.

Family/Spouse: Kirsti HOUGEN. Kirsti (daughter of Thomas Olson HOUGEN and Anna Aslaksdatter VESLEDAL) was born on 25 Jul 1851 in Hallingdal region, Buskerud, Norway; died on 4 Sep 1908 in Washington County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Knut Nilsen VIKEN. Knut was born on 4 May 1849 in Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 18 Jul 1936 in Renville, Renville County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Emily married Lars Johan Sigurd Johansen Olsen VEBLEN on 27 Jun 1888 in St. Ansgar, Mitchell County, Iowa. Lars was born on 25 Oct 1860 in Oslo, Norway; died in 1946. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The famous economist.

Jim’s notes: PROFESSOR THORSTEIN B. VEBLEN Det er risikabelt a være dogmatisk i slike ting; men om jeg skulde nevne den mann av Valdresætt som har nådd høiest som videnskapelig tenker, vilde jeg ikke betenke mig på å utpeke prof. THORSTEIN VEBLEN. Som alle fremragende, særmerkte ånder ha r han gått sine egne, ikke mengdens veier, og de førte ham inn på stier som ligger fjernt fra den slagne jernbanerute til heit betalte og betrodde stillinger ved landets store universiteter. Men i de tenkningens stille verksteder, hvor i socialpol itiske ideer veies og tumles med ærlig og uforfærdet uten skjelen til Rockefelers millionpensjonsfond for utslitte professorer, der undlater man ikke å regne med forfatteren til "The theory of the leisure class" og andre social-økonomiske verker. Som sin bekjente bror, prof. Andrew Veben, blev han født på en farm i Manitowoc County, Wis., av foreldre Thomas Andersen Veblen (udv. fra Vevle i Yang 1847 og Kari Bunde. Det var ikke rart bevendt med almueskolen, men lærelystne som de var, fik k de tak i bøker, og den eldre bror forteller at Thorstein viste tegn på skarp iagttagelsesevne og tilbøielighet til å løse de små problemer der forefalt, på sin egen vis. 23 ar gammel blev han student fra Carleton college, gikk derpå til Johns Ho pkins universitet, Baltimore og senere til Yale, hvor han fikk doktorgraden i 1884. De følgende fem ar tilbrakte han for det meste på landet på grunn av forbigaende mindre god helbred, men fortsatte sine sociologiske studier og la sig ved siden de rav særlig efter oldnorsk. 1 1891 fikk han sa en lærerstilling i nationalekonomi ved Cornell universitet og ved slutten av 1892 en lignende post ved Chicago universitet. Fjorten år senere utnevntes han til assisterende professor ved Leland Stamfor d junior universitet, hvor han virket til 1909. Dernæst finner vi ham som lærer ved Missouri statsuniversitet; men eftersom båndene på den akademiske lærefrihet mere og mere strammedes, blev universitetsatmosfæren ham tilsist uutholdelig, og efte r nogen måneder å ha utført statistisk for regjeringen i Washington fant han endelig i 1917 et friere virkefelt som professor ved The New School for Social Research i New York, en organisasjon der ikke er avhengig av bakstreverske politikere elle r maktsyke millionærer. Ved siden av sin virksomhet som lærer har prof. VEBLEN utfoldet en fruktbar forfattervirksomhet. Hans første større verk "The Theory of the leisure Class", vakte med ett slag opmerksomhet ved den originale og rammende måte hvorpå han analyserte de n moderne parasitt-type i samfundene og det beundringsverdige system den har utviklet for a hevde sig som en æret overklasse der ikke behøver å besmitte sine fingre med arbeide. Det er med sin stillferdige han og flengende ironi en bok der har hat t enorm innflytelse i vide kretse. En ven av mig har fortalt at en kjent professor ved Kristiania universitet anså den for en av de aller betydeligste verker der har sett lyset i de siste femti ar, og her tillands kan man vanskelig støte på et nat ionaløkonomisk verk av rang der ikke har en henvisning til "The Theory of the Leisure Class. Senere har prof. VEBLEN utgitt flere vektige verker inn en sin videnskap; "The Theory of Business enterprise", 1904, "Imperial Germany and the Industrial revolution", 1915, "An enquiry into the Nature of peace", 1917, "The Higher Learning in Ameri ca", 1918, The Vested Interests", 1919, "The Place of Seience in modern Civilization", 1918 og endelig "The Engineers and the Prize System", 1921. Ved siden derav var han 1896-1905 redakter av tidsskriftet "Journal of Political Economy". Sine ferier tilbringer VEBLEN gjernest i en sommerhytte som han har bygget sig på Washington Island, Door County, Wisconsin, og der er han ofte best oplagt til forfatterarbeide. Han har avlagt minst tre besøk i gamle Norge. Skrevet av bibliotekar Juul Dieserud

Birth:
near Cato

Family/Spouse: Ole T HOUGEN. Ole (son of Thomas Olson HOUGEN and Anna Aslaksdatter VESLEDAL) was born on 6 Oct 1857 in Goodhue County, Minnesota; died on 24 Jun 1934 in Rice County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He and his wife raised five children on the Bonde farm.

From the Faribault Daily News, Jan. 13, 1971:

Funeral services for Oscar Albert Bonde, former resident of Nerstrand, were held at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 7, at the Grace Lutheran Church in Nerstrand with the Rev. V. A. Jensen officiating. Mrs. Conrad Gaasedelen sang a vocal solo and one vocal selection was sung by the grandchildren. Victor Radtke, Wilhelm Vesledahl, Helmer Mohn, Harold Mosher, Ingebrit Engeseth and Harris Quie were pallbearers. Interment was in the Valley Grove cemetery. Oscar Albert Bonde passed away at the Kenyon Sunset Home on Sunday, Jan. 3, after an extended illness, at the age of 87 years.

The son of Tosten and Ingeborg Hougen Bonde, he was born at Nerstrand, on March 3, 1883. He attended the public school at Nerstrand. June 19, 1919 he was united in marriage to Clara Severson. They resided on the Bonde Homestead until his retirement in 1954, continuing to live in the Nerstrand community until 1965 when he became a resident of the Kenyon Sunset Home where he resided until his death. One granddaughter preceded him in death.

He is survived by his wife Clara, three sons, Earl and Harold of Nerstrand, Robert of St. Louis Park; two daughters; Alice (Mrs. Herman Stenbakken) of Kenyon, and Helen (Mrs. Richard Lodmill) of Edina, also, twenty-two grandchildren.

Oscar married Clara Bertine SEVERSON in 1919. Clara (daughter of Johannes Olsen SEVERSON and Anna Severine VOLD) was born on 21 May 1896 in Goodhue County, Minnesota; died on 14 Mar 1979 in Goodhue County, Minnesota; was buried in Valley Grove Cemetery, Wheeling Twp, Rice County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Casper OVERLAND. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Emma Idella SIMONSON. Emma was born in 1903 in North Dakota; died on 4 Jun 1981 in Pierce County, North Dakota; was buried in Bethany Lutheran Cemetery, Esmond, Benson County, North Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Mathematician

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth RICHARDSON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elling married Mary Eliza HITCHCOCK on 14 Jun 1916 in Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa. Mary was born about 1893. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Christian Sorenson OCKWIG. Christian was born on 28 Aug 1884 in Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 4 Jun 1972 in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Anna Carolina HAGLUND. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 29 Aug 1897, St. Ansgar, Mitchell County, Iowa

Notes:

At the time of his marriage to Hattie in 1921, he was assistant cashier of the Kittson County State Bank in Hallock.

In the 1930 census, he was an assistant cashier at a bank in Hallock. He had not served in WWI.

In the 1940 census (mis-indexed as Vellen), he was a real estate agent in Hallock. The family lived in the same house on 5th street in which they had lived in 1935.

At the time of the marriage of his son Rod in 1949, he and his wife lived in Hallock.

At the time of Mimi’s marriage, he and is wife were “of Santa Barbara, California, and Hallock, Minnesota.”

He lived in Santa Barbara, California, in 1962.

Baptism:
First Lutheran

Edgar married Hattie Miriam LUNDGREN on 10 Aug 1921 in Minnesota. Hattie was born on 26 Mar 1902 in Hallock, Kittson County, Minnesota; died on 12 May 1983 in San Diego County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Julius Ferdinand Wilhelm RADTKE. Julius was born on 8 Apr 1877 in Germany; died on 21 Dec 1953 in Rice County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Alice Irene Stenbakken 87, of Kenyon, died Sunday, January 31, 2010 at the Kenyon Sunset Home.

She was born January 27, 1923 in Wheeling Township, Minnesota the daughter of Oscar and Clara (Severson) Bonde. She grew up on the family farm by Nerstrand. Alice graduated from Faribault High School, and then graduated from Deaconess School of Nursing as an RN in 1947. Alice married Herman Stenbakken June 19, 1948, and the couple later divorced. She then worked as a RN at the Northfield Hospital, and then at the Kenyon Sunset Home, where she later became the director of nursing. She enjoyed playing cards, scrabble, and visiting with family and friends.

She is survived by her daughters Carol Stenbakken, Diane Rasmussen, and Elaine Kraling all of Kenyon, six grandchildren Ann, Michael, and Jenny Kraling, Eddie, David, and Sarah Rasmussen. She is also survived by one sister Helen (Richard) Lodmill of Seattle, three brothers Earl (Charlotte) Bonde of Nerstrand, Robert (Carol) Bonde of Minneapolis, and Harold (Anne) Bonde of Nerstrand.

Notes:

Earl Bonde, 86, of Nerstrand died Wednesday, April 6, 2011, at his home due to complications from a rare disease called Amyloidosis.

Funeral services will be held at Grace Lutheran Church, Nerstrand on Monday, April 11, 2011, at 10:30 a.m., with the Rev. Judy Gustafson officiating. Interment will be at Valley Grove Cemetery, Nerstrand.

Visitation will be at the Boldt Funeral Home, Faribault, on Sunday, April 10, 2011, from 2 to 6 p.m. and also at the church for one hour prior to the service on Monday.

Earl was born Feb. 22, 1925, the son of Oscar and Clara (Severson) Bonde. He was baptized on April 12, 1925, Easter Sunday, at home by the Rev. Rolf Rosenquist. He was united in marriage to Charlotte Houglum on May 22, 1954, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Medford. He grew up on the family farm in Nerstrand, which he farmed with his brother Harold, and later with son Bill and nephews Gary and John. Earl was involved in many community organizations, including Grace Lutheran Church, Lenten Community Men's Choir, Valley Grove Cemetery Association, Farm Bureau, Federal Land Bank and Nerstrand Elevator Board. He loved spending time with family and friends. His life was richly blessed with many loving stories and memories. Earl loved his Norwegian heritage; both he and Charlotte enjoyed traveling several times to their native country. He was a longtime bowler still trying to achieve the perfect game in his early 80s. Earl loved to read, play games with his grandchildren and Freecell on the computer.

He is survived by his wife, Charlotte; six children, Steve and (Linda) Bonde, Bill and (Barb) Bonde, Gerald and (Denise) Bonde, Pete and (Julie) Bonde, Karen Bonde (Carla Kennedy), and Kris Bonde; 11 grandchildren, Marcus, Kyle and Angie, Nate and Nicole, Blake, Evan and Merri, Jacob, Karl and Luke; two brothers, Robert and (Carol) Bonde, Harold and (Anne) Bonde; one sister, Helen and (Dick) Lodmill; and many nieces and nephews.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his sister, Alice Stenbakken and a grandson, Hans Bonde.

Family/Spouse: Charlotte HOUGLUM. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Nerstrand

Died:
Minnetonka

Family/Spouse: Carol Ann WICKTOR. Carol was born on 6 Jun 1932 in Stearns County, Minnesota; died on 27 Oct 2017 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]