| Summary: | to Goodhue County, Minnesota. The elder Bakke's rented land there and cultivated a farm until 1876 when they moved to North Dakota and settled on a homestead 25 miles southwest of Fargo, near Kindred. This was in territorial days and they found that the task of converting wild prairie into productive land took much perserveranee. The land was taken over by the two sons, Knute Bakke and Thore Bakke after having been operated by the father for 14 years. The two sons continued to develop and improve this land for a period of three years when K. A. Bakke sold out to his brother. Mr. Bakke received his education in Minnesota and North Dakota and after having disposed of his land holdings entered the profession of teaching. He taught two vears in Cass County and five years in Richland County, making a very fine record. In 1903 he moved to Marion where he engaged in the hardware business, in partnership with O. F. Holtgard, that partnership being maintained until 1906 when Mr. Holtgard sold his interest to Mr. Tobiason. After a time Mr. Bakke bought the entire stock and later sold his business to a St. Paul firm. After a period of three years he again bought this same hardware store and in 1915 admitted John R. Trapp as a partner, whereupon Mr. Bakke bought an implement business in Nome. This he operated for 15 years and then sold to Mr. A. Prestrud. In 1906 Mr. Bakke and Mrs. Effie Olson were united in marriage. Their children, five boys and one girl, were, Arthur, Erwin, Oswald, Woodrow, Maurice and Ellen. Mr. Bakke is a member of the Lutheran Church and his political views are Republican. He served as town clerk in the Village of Marion and was a member of the school board for six years. Ole Olson and Wife Ole Olson was born in Norway and came to the United States when a young man, following his parents, the Casper Olsons, who h3d located in Ransom County, North Dakota, on the Sheyenne River, six miles north of Fort Ransom, near Preston. In 1890 Mr. Olson made a trip north near the town of Dazey, to work in the harvest fields adn do threshing. Here he met Miss Effie Root who had moved there with her parents from the state of Michigan. She was but a small child, when Adelbert and Ellen Root, her parents, located near Dazey. In 1893 Mr. Olson and Miss Root were married and in 1894 moved to Greenland Township where they filed on a homestead located on the northeast quarter of section 24. They built a sod house and occupied that same home of 11 years. Here their six children: Laura, Agnes, Pearl, Alice, Clifford and Andrew, were born. Mr. Olson died November 2, 1904, when the youngest son, Andrew was but two weeks old. continued to live in the original home until their deaths which occurred in 1926 and 1927. Their son, Emil, born in 1895, lived with his parents until their death and then continued to operate the farm, where he still resides with his wife and small son. Mr. and Mrs. Holweg endured many hardships but were completely satisfied in the home they had established. Their family of two daughters and one son are living with present addresses: Augusta (Mrs. H. H. Bennett), Bonners Ferry, Idaho; Lydia (Mrs. H. C. Powell), Prattville, Michigan; Emil, Marion, North Dakota. Mr. and Mrs. Fredrick Holweg Mr. and Mrs. Fredrick Holweg with their two small daughters came to Marion vicinity in April, 1894. They homesteaded the northeast quarter 8- 136-61. They built a small set of buildings and Charles I. Hutchinson and Sarah G- Hutchinson Charles I. Hutchinson, one of the early pioneers of LaMoure County, was born at Stoughton, Wis., on December 26, 1857. He was educated in the common schools and a normal school in Wisconsin, and his early years were spent in teaching school. Sarah G. Hutchinson was born on January 22, 1859, at Cato, Wisconsin. Her maiden name was Classon. Mr. and Mrs. Hutchinson were married on December 25, 1877. Upon leaving Wisconsin they moved first to Alexandria, Minnesota, and later on west to LaMoure County, North Dakota. Mr. Hutchinson came to Grand Rapids in LaMoure County as a grain buyer in 1885. He filed on a homestead it being the northwest quarter of Section 4 in Grandview Township, which he later proved up. Mrs. Hutchinson and family came to North Dakota in the early part of 1886. For the first few years the Hutchinsons lived at Grand Rapids in the winter time and on the homestead in the summer. In 1889 they moved permanently to the farm, where they remained until 1902, when Mr. Hutchinson was elected register of deeds of LaMoune County and moved to the county seat, LaMoure. At this time Mr. Hutchinson had acquired another section of land bordering his homestead. Shortly after moving to LaMoure the Hutchinsons sold their farm and purchased the H. S. Diesem hardware store in the city of LaMoure. Mr. Hutchinson continued to conductthis hardware store together with a harness shop and a heating and plumbing business in partnership with his son Ira, until 1926. During the early years Mr. Hutchinson taught school for several winters in LaMoure County. He attended the first session of the North Dakota Legislature as chief billing clerk. He was always very active in all local affairs, holding township and school offices and acting as postmaster as well as mayor of the city of LaMoure for several terms. Mr. and Mrs. Hutchinson raised a family of 12 children, six boys and six girls, eleven of whom grew to manhood and womanhood. They were very interested in the education of their children, and in the earlier years, before there was a county school built, school was conductd in one of the rooms of the Hutchinson house on their homestead. The Hutchinson children were educated, in the country schools, the LaMoure city school, the 71 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited in Multi-page TIFF Editor.
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