| Summary: | Their only fuel was wood. They would chop great piles which were hauled from the Sheyenne River to their home every fall. At first Portland was the nearest town where they could get supplies so every once in awhile all the settlers would go together to town. They went in wagons drawn by oxen. Mr. and Mrs. Kindso were the parents of five children Martin, born in Sweden, Hilda in Sacred Heart, Minnesota, Minnie, Oscar, and Effie who were born on the homestead farm. Martin died when he was 27 years old and Mrs. Ernest (Minnie) Nelson at the age of 29 years. Oscar died in infancy. Hilda married Albert Anderson and they farmed in Steele County. After so many years, Mr. and Mrs. Kindso and daughter Effie went to Sweden in May 1911 staying till August to visit relatives. Mr. Kindso died February, 1920, and was buried with two sons and a daughter in the cemetery of Hofva Lutheran Church. They were among the founders of the Swedish Hofva Lutheran Church which is still in existence. Mr. John H. Anderson started farming in 1921 after Mr. Kindso's death and continued to improve the homestead with more buildings and a shelterbelt. Mrs. Kindso continued to live with her youngest daughter Effie, who had married John H. Anderson in 1922. He had come from Sweden in 1912. Mrs. Kindso died in 1938. The Kindso homestead is still owned by his daughter- Mrs. John (Effie) Anderson and is presently farmed by her son, Clifford. KINGSLEY FARM A squatter is one who settles on a new or uncultivated land without a title. One of the many squatters in this area was William A. Kingsley. A Civil War veteran, born in 1833 in Lebanon, New York. He was an eighth generation American. His Puritan ancestor, John Kingsley, emigrated to Boston, Mass., in 1634. William married Harriet Sherman of Sherbourne, New York, in 1853. In 1865, he moved west in search of the best homestead land available. He found what he wanted in Griggs County on land not yet surveyed. He moved there with his family in 1883. William and Harriet's children were Helen, Tyla, Alice, and Frank. Their oldest son, Fred, was killed while working as a brakeman on a railroad in Michigan. All their children homesteaded in Griggs County. In 1899, he died as a result of injuries suffered in the Civil War. Harriet died in 1912. They are both buried in the Cooperstown Cemetery. Frank Kingsley was born in 1877 in Michigan. He was William and Harriet's youngest son. He married Marie Falla Stoneburg, a widow with three children. They were Milo, Vanetta, and Avelow. Frank and Marie's children were Fred, Frank, Harriet, Burton, Evelyn, Ira, and Alger. Frank farmed the old homestead, his own land and other land for forty years. He believed in aquiring large acreage and the latest farm machinery. In 1906, he built a modern grain elevator on his farm. It had a weigh scale, a dump pit, cleaning mills, a storage capacity of 25,000 bushels. He owned a huge gasoline Twin City tractor that pulled a sixteen bottom plow. He operated steam engines and threshed his own crops as well as those of many of his neighbors. At one time, he farmed in excess of six sections of land. Frank drove a white Paige touring car, about a 1920 vintage. It had a collapsible top and side curtains. The car was large enough to take the whole family of ten on a drrve. The great depression of the thirties left Frank disillusioned and unwilling to reacquire the land he lost. He died in 1938. Marie died in 1967 at the age of 90. Both are buried in the Hartman Cemetery at Sutton, N. Dak. The next Kingsley to own and operate the homestead was Ira, son of Frank and Marie. He was married to Helen Honey. Ira is also deceased, and at this time the homestead belongs to his widow. Their son Dennis is the present Kingsley to farm this homestead which is located one and one-half miles west of the town of Sutton, on SEVi, 32-146-61. KLUBBEN FARM Elling and Soneve Klubben were the parents of Walde- mar Klubben. Elling made his living as a fisherman till he died when Waldemar was four years old. His home was in Nordfjord, (near Bergen) Norway. After the death of his parents, Waldemar was reared by an aunt, but had to make his own living at an early age. In this part of Norway fishing was the main occupation. He found the ocean made him sick, so he moved south to Stavanger and worked on the railroad. He married Maria Pernilla Johansen of Sonmore June 9,1878 and they lived at Hoiland Station, near Stavanger. Mr. and Mrs. Waldemar Klubben. In the winter of 1881, The Waldemar Klubben family, together with the families of Ola Westley, Sven Loge, Sven Lunde, Knut Haaland, Ola Stokka, Andreas Vatne, Sven Lima, Carl Herigstad, Lars Herigstad, and Tobias Thime made plans to move to America. They were ready to leave when the children contacted whooping cough, which made it necessary for the mothers and children to remain in Norway until the children recovered. The men began their journey April 10, 1881. In England they boarded the ship "The Palmyra". The ship's propeller broke near Newfoundland. Many ships passed them, but did -84- Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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