| Summary: | tunen is presently making her home at Rolla, N. D. at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Heino Herrala. John Huovinen Mr. and Mrs. John Huovinen, Rolla, North Dakota, pioneer residents, were among those that first took up homestead land. John was born in Ii province in northern Finland on January 23, 1871. He arrived in the United States in 1889 and settled in Estehene, South Dakota, living with his parents for seven years. In 1896 he moved to Rolla, North Dakota, where he started to farm a 160 acre homestead under the Homestead Act. The farm did not cost him much, only $16.00 for the entire plot. He was married to Kaisa Juntunen on June 24, 1899, and they were happily married for 60 years. Mrs. Huovinen was born in Puolanka, Finland, on June 24, 1877 and came to the United States when she was three years old to Michigan from where the family came to Estelene and later to Rolla, North Dakota. Mr. and Mrs. Huovinen lived on the farm for 42 years. They have seen difficulties as well as enjoyed success, cloudy days as well as bright days. They moved to hve in the city of Rolla in 1941 and left the farm to their chhdren to take care of. To them were born 12 chhdren, seven boys and five girls, of which two girls and one boy have died. Mr. and Mrs. Huovinen have been members of the National Evangelical Lutheran Church and were founding members of the congregation. They always were very active in church work and other community activities. Mr. Huovinen was paralized and was sick about 150 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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