YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY MINNESOTA
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Submitted to the Minnesota Biographies Project by:
Name: LaNaye Hennen
Email: henfarms@clarkfield.ruralink.com
Date: 29 June 2000
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"A History of Yellow Medicine County" by Arthur P. Rose,published in 1914

ELLEF HALVORSON (1887)

Ellef Halvorson owns and farms 240 acres of Yellow Medicine county soil, the
same being the southeast quarter and the south half of the northeast quarter
and the south half of the northeast quarter of section 22, Hazel Run
township.  He also owns 160 acres near Thief River Falls, in Pennington
county, Minnesota.

Mr Halvorson was brought up on a farm in Norway, where he was born September
15, 1860.  His parents, Halvor and Gunild Halvorson, died in that country
many years ago.  For the first fifteen years of his life Halvor attended the
public school, out of school hours assisting his parents at home.  At that
early age he started to learn the trade of stone mason, which he followed a
few years.  At the death of his father he returned to the farm and operated
that until he came to the United States in 1885.

On his arrival in America, Mr. Halvorson first located in Columbia county,
Wisconsin, where he worked on a farm a couple of months, after which he
followed his trade of stone mason two years.  He came to Yellow Medicine
county in 1887, locating in Hazel Run.  He bought eighty acres of land and
started farming, also doing mason work and plastering when opportunity
offered.  He lived on that farm nearly twenty-five years and then sold it
and purchased his present 240 acres, made improvements, and has since lived
there.  He has two fine orchards on the place.  In addition to the raising
of a great deal of grain, considerable attention is devoted to raising stock
for market.

Mr. Halvorson was married in November, 1890, at Granite Falls to Ingebor
Davison, who was born in Norway July 6, 1871.  She had lived in the United
States about three years at the time of her marriage.  The have ten
children, all at home except the oldest, Jennie (Mrs. Lestul), who also
lives in Yellow Medicine county.  The names of the other children are Mabel,
Annie, Olga, Hardine, Herman, Theodore, Ella, Herbert and Tommy.