Bakken

Family/Spouse: Murray Ray Elvin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Murray

Other Events:

• Community Service: Past commander of the Fergus Falls VFW Posst 612 and past district commander of VFW District 9. Member of the Fergus Falls American Legion Post 30, the D.A.V. and the Elks.
• Occupation: National T Packing Plant; Mail Carrier for the U.S. Postal Service; and Ottertail County Motor Vehicle Department.
• _MILT: BET. 1942 - 1945; in the U.S. Navy during W.W.II and was stationed in the South Pacific.
• Retired: 1975

Arthur married Olson Ruth Melinda on 24 Jun 1945 in Hedemarken Church in Oscar Township, Ottertail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Quartette Singer: With Philip Fjestad, Bernard Lein, and Severin Olson
• Occupation: Farming in Oscar Township, employed as Assistant Manager at the Carlisle Co-Operative Elevator, the Park Region Bakery and Ebersviller Implement.
• Clerk: BET. 1917 - 1935; For School District # 125 in Oscar Township, Rothsay, Ottertail County, Minnesota. The School was established in 1896. Both Morris and Arthur Bakken went to school here.
• Retired: 1947; from farming in Oscar Township, Ottertail County, Minnesota and moved to Fergus Falls, Ottertail County, Minnesota.

Notes:

Note Written by Elizabeth Olson. "I met some interesting and very nice people in the short while I lived near Carlisle. My folks lived on the Haldorson farm for a little over 3 years. I was in school in Fergus Falls a good part of that time and also did housework. But I was also home on that farm with my folks during the summer and one winter. We had nice neighbors - north of us a 1/2 miles two bachelors the Faldalen Brothers were. They were cozy men to visit. The one brother baked the most delicious white bread. They were jolly and fun. Then around us were farmers like Saterns, Fosse's, Nelsons, Laugens - but a 1/4 mile or so south of us lived the Andrew Bakken's. They loved music and singing. Andrew sang with a quartette for years and they were popular and requested to sing in many churches. Morris, too, loved to sing. I first met "Morrie" after he came home from Gillette Hospital in Mpls. where he took treatment for after affects of Polio (I understood). While he was in the hospital he was so lonesome and asked the young folks of the Hedemarken Church to write to him. A few of us did. We often got together somewhere to practice, or sing for fun. The quartette (my dad was one of the quartette) also Philip Fjestad and Bernard Lein, plus Andrew and my Dad, Severin Olson. One afternoon "Ma" Bakken called and said come over right away. So I went - and everyone was so excited and singing because Bakken's had just got a new piano!! So we sang and played till late and many evenings after that - many happy hours. My cousin from Sisseton, South Dakota came to visit us. Morrie was so sociable he called and took us to a lovely Park - north and east of Pelican. He was always so generous and loved company - so did Andrew, Ma, and Arthur. We got together at the Haldorson farm and played games and sang too. In those days we didn't have private lines on our phones. So if your "ring" came (maybe one short and 2 long or so) you would answer and you would also hear a soft klick here and another, etc. If it was an interesting conversation - sometimes Ma Bakken would join in. It was fun sometimes. And at the end of the day - when the sun was sinking lower in the west - there came a welcome inviting, home-coming call from "Ma" to Andrew to "come in now for supper and the evening rest." It put a smile on many a face that heard that call - you couldn't help but hear it and smile - hear it for several miles! When my brothers came to visit me from Washington D. C. we went to visit Art - the only one left of the family. He(Art) was in pain but very cheerful and happy to see friends.

Fergus Falls Weekly Journal, February 10, 1920 - Mr Andrew Bakken tells how Oscar Township go it's name. In looking over his father's (Mikkel Bakken's) old books, who was one of the first settlers, he found an account of the first township meeting. Some of the people wanted to name it after Ole Sletvold, the first settler, others suggested Christiania, after the capital of Norway. They finally decided to name it after King Oscar, at that time, the King of Norway and Sweden.

Andrew married Houg Clara Mabel on 24 Jun 1909 in Hedemarken Church in Oscar Township, Ottertail County, Minnesota. Clara (daughter of Houg Ole Jr. Olsen and Massinglokken Ane M. Amundsdatter) was born on 17 Jun 1888 in Oscar Township, Ottertail County, Minnesota; died on 19 Jun 1972 in Fergus Falls, Ottertail County, Minnesota and buried at Hedemarken Cemetary in Oscar Township, Ottertail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Retired: 1947, from farming and moved from Oscar Township, Ottertail County, Minnesota to Fergus Falls, Minnesota.

Mikkel married Sorhagen Ingeborg Anne Johansdatter. Ingeborg was born in 1851 in Jevnaker, Oppland, Norway; died in 1920 in Oscar Township, Ottertail County, Minnesota ; was buried in Hedemarken cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Cause of Death (Facts Pg): Cancer of the Intestines.
• Location: Oscar Township for 5 years and then Marshall County near Rosau on a farm for three years and then on the original Houg farm in Oscar township until 1926.
• Emigration: 8 Jun 1869, At age 5 years and 1 month, with his parents and sister from the Houg farm in Furnaes, Vang, Hedemarken, Norway.

Notes:

1900 US census lists the following additional people living with Ole and Anne Houg:

Randine: b: 3/1867, sister
Martin Spigdalin: b:7/1879, farmlaborer
Mathilde Berg: b:9/1870, servant


Baptismal sponsors:

Borne Nilsen Stange
Johanna Fredriksdtr
Ole Johannsen

Ole married Massinglokken Ane M. Amundsdatter on 3 Jul 1885 in Hedemarken Lutheran Church, by Rev. M. Langeland, Oscar Township, Ottertail County, Minnesota. Ane (daughter of Vistadeiet Amund Mortensen and Graupehaugen Karen Andreasdatter) was born on 18 Mar 1865 in Kvikne, Gudbransdalen, Nordre Fron, Oppland, Norway; died on 8 May 1955 in Oscar Township, Ottertail County, Minnesota and is buried at Hedemarken Cemetery in Oscar Township, Ottertail County, Minnesota.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Possessions: Lived on the Houg farm until her husband died. She and her daughter, Regina, then moved to Fergus Falls.
• Baptism: 25 May 1865, Kvikne Church in Gudbransdalen, Norway.
• Emigration: 6 Jul 1869, At age 4, with her parents, from the Massinglokkken farm in Kvikne, Nordre Fron, Oppland, Norway and boarded the "Schandinavia" from Oslo and landed in New York.
• Confirmation: 26 Oct 1879, By Rev. S. Svennungensen at Hedemarken Church near Carlisle.

Notes:

Massinglokken: little place with a fence around it that is part of the Massing farm.

Source: Ragnhild Kjorstad