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

HOKEN O. BRUSVEN (1868)

Hoken O. Brusven who owns and farms a half of section 29, Normania township,
is one of the oldest settlers of that precinct; within a few years he will
have lived in the one township a half century.

Mr. Brusven was born at Coon Prairie, Wisconsin, May 29, 1860, a son of Ole
and Engebor (Hanson) Brusven, who came originally from Norway.  When Hoken
was eight years old, in 1868, he accompanied the family to Yellow Medicine
County.  His father took as a homestead claim the northeast quarter of
section 32, Normania, and Hoken assisted him with the farm work and lived at
home until he was twenty-three years old.  Then he bought 120 acres of his
present farm.  He added to his holdings and now has one of the best improved
farms in Normania.  He is a member of the Norwegian Lutheran Church.

Mr. Brusven's wife was formerly Christina Johnson, a native of Lincoln
county, Minnesota, and a daughter of Berger and Carrie (Ruberg) Johnson.
Her parents were born in Norway.  Mr. Johnson died in 1906;  Mrs. Johnson
lives in Yellow Medicine county.  The children of the Brusven family are as
follows:  Alfred, born September 7, 1887; Ida, born November 19, 1889; Cora,
born February 7, 1892;  Ella, born July 6, 1895; and Hilda, born May 17,
1900.