| Summary: | William Dunn and Henry Hosterman arrived from Pelican Rapids, Minnesota, in 1903 and built their homestead shacks. In 1905 Mr. Dunn returned to Pelican Rapids where he was married to Alberta Hosterman. They lived on the homestead in Riverview until 1936 when they moved to Washington. Three children were born to the Dunns; namely, Ruby (Mrs. Harold Quale), Russel and Glenn. Mr. Dunn passed away in 1941. Henry Hosterman married Pearl Mathason of Pelican Rapids. They had five children. Mrs. Hosterman passed away in 1916 and Mr. Hosterman then moved back to their old home. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Vangen came to McKenzie County in 1904 from Frost, Minnesota, tol settle on a homestead four miles east of Charlson. The Vangens with their children, Ruth (Mrs. Edwin Hendrickson), Stella (Mrs.; F. A. Martin), Clarence, Gerhard and Alvin, lived in a sod hut until they could haul logs from the river bottom to build a house. While the sod hut was being built the family lived in the shacks of their nearest neighbors, W. H. Dunn and Henry Hosterman. To attend their first church service the family drove four miles to the T. E. Charlson home where Rev. Winters was conducting services. Until the Hitland School was built, the Vangen children first went to school in the home of their uncle, Erick Hamre. Other members of the Vangen family are Ralph, Reuben, Willard and Ina (Mrs. Charles Hecla). Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ward were not unaccumstomed to pioneering. Their parents came to the Red River Valley at the time Caledonia in Trail County was a Hudson Bay Post in Dakota Territory. There Katherine Madigan and Roy Ward spent their childhood and youth and were married at Crook- ston, Minnesota, in 1900. While living in the Valley they became the parents of three sons, Ray, Rex, and Roe. The latter passed away in infancy. The Ward family moved to Hampden, North Dakota, where Ralph was born. In 1907 Mr. Ward decided to go farther west and in July of that year filed on a homestead located on the Goodall flat about four miles from the Goodall ranch. In the early fall Roy built a log house and in December Mrs. Ward and the three boys came to White Earth. Roy met his family with horses and sleigh and they made the forty mile trip to the homestead on a sunshiny winter day. 27 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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