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

HALVOR G. HOMME (1883)

Halvor G. Homme is one of the prominent younger business men of Granite
Falls, where he is the proprietor of an exclusive grocery store.

Mr. Homme was born in Grafton, North Dakota, September 12, 1883.  He came
with his parents to Yellow Medicine county when one month old and located in
Sioux Agency township, where his father bought the historic land on which
the Indian monument is now located.  Halvor lived on the home place until
sixteen years of age, when the family moved to Granite Falls.  He finished
his education, begun in the country schools, with the high school course at
the Granite city.  He then taught school one year, after which he attended
the National Business College of Minneapolis two years.  He then took a
position in a bank at Granite Falls, remaining with that institution six
months.

In January, 1908, Mr. Homme was appointed by Congressman A. J. Volstead to
the position of assistant clerk in the House, a position he held three
years.  Returning to Granite Falls, Mr. Homme bought a grocery store and has
since conducted it.  He runs an exclusive grocery, has a fine stock, and is
making a success of the business.

Mr. Homme has held the office of deputy sheriff, under his father, ever
since his twenty-first birthday.  He is a member of the Knights of Pythias
order and belongs to the fire department and the improvement league.

Halvor G. is a son of G. O. Homme, sheriff of Yellow Medicine county, who is
now serving his seventh consecutive term.  The father was born in Norway and
came to the United States when nine years of age.  He was married in
Minnesota to Sarah Erickson, also a native of Norway, who died in 1909, aged
fifty years.  After their marriage they went to North Dakota and
homesteaded.  In 1883 they came to Yellow Medicine county, locating in Sioux
Agency township, where Mr. Homme secured land, which he still owns.  There
are twelve children living, as follows:  Gertrude (Mrs. Bert Loe) of Granite
Falls; Ole, on the old farm; Halvor G., of this sketch; Anna (Mrs. Olaf
Quasager), of Norway; Knut, of Granite Falls; Thora (Mrs. John Fjelstad),
missionary to Madagascar; Mary, Peter, Rena, Inez, Bessie and Thelma, who
live at home.