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

B.A. AAKVIK (1883)

B. A. Aakvik is one of the big farmers of Yellow Medicine county, owning and
operating a farm of 480 acres on section 16, Tyro township.

Mr. Aakvik is a son of Andrew and Elerine Olson, both natives of Norway, and
he was born in Helgeland, Norway, in 1858.  His father died in the old
country; his mother still makes her home there.

Mr. Aakvik was brought up and educated in Norway, spending the first
twenty-five years of his life in that country, the latter years of that time
as a fisherman.  He came to the United States in 1883, coming direct to
Yellow Medicine county, and for five years worked out at  farm labor in
Stony Run township.  He then bought his farm in Tyro township and has lived
on it ever since.

The marriage of Mr. Aakvik and Mary Matheson was solemnized in Stony Run
township.  Mr. Aakvik was born in Norway in 1853.  They have two children:
John, born July 5, 1884; and Elmer, born August 23, 1889.