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 M. WILSON (1891)

Halvor M. Wilson farms 240 acres of land in Yellow Medicine county which he
rents from his father, the same being 160 acres on section 26 and the west
half of the northwest quarter of section 36, Friendship township.

Mr. Wilson was born in Columbia county, Wisconsin, November 3, 1874, and is
a son of Ole C. and Annie Wilson, both of whom are living and are residents
of Friendship township.

In 1879 the family came West and located in the village of Renville, where
they lived six years.  They then went to Dickey county, North Dakota, where
they lived until April, 1891, when they came to Yellow Medicine county and
located in Friendship township, near Clarkfield.

Halvor M. lived at home until twenty-one years old.  He lived in Hazel Run
one winter and then located in Hanley Falls, where for one year he was
engaged in the restaurant business.  He then located at Foley, Benton
county, Minnesota, and for a year and a half was engaged in the saloon
business at that point.  He returned to Hazel Run and for three of the next
five years tended bar.  This was followed by two years in the draying line.
In March, 1911, he rented the farm from his father and has since been
engaged in its operation.

Mr. Wilson was married August 15, 1896, at Hanley Falls, to Selina Anthony,
who was born in Hazel Run township September 6, 1876.  She is a daughter of
Edwin and Betsy (Olson) Anthony, both deceased, early settlers of Yellow
Medicine county.  Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have three children, namely: Oral,
born November 23, 1897; Elnora, born July 6, 1899; Arda, born January 23,
1909.