Houg

Family/Spouse: Kolle. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Cause of Death (Facts Pg): Stroke
• Location: 204 North Sheridan
• Occupation: Barber for nearly 40 years on Washington Avenue in Fergus Falls, Ottertail County, Minnesota.
• Education: 1924, Graduated from the Fargo Barber College

Notes:

Goodwin was a member of the Bethlehem Lutheran Church. He belonged to the Elks Club and served as a member of the Fergus Falls Fire Department for 20 years.

Notes for Goodwin Houg
Goodwin Houg, 57, Dies After Brief Illness

Goodwin O. Haug, popular, well known barber in Fergus Falls for nearly 40 years, died at Lake Region hospital Saturday at 8:55 p. m. His death at 57., followed a stroke suffered Friday evening.

A son oj Mr. and Mrs. Ole Houg, he was born in Carlisle township Feb. 18, 1906. He graduated from the Fargo Barber College in 1924 and had been a barber in Fergus Falls since then. He operated his own shop on Washington avenue.

He was married to Esther Moen Aug. 29, 1928, at the Rothsay home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Moen, by the Rev. Fjaere. In Fergus Falls they made their home at 204 North Sheridan.

Mr. Haug was a member of the Bethlehem Lutheran Church. He belonged to the Elks club and served as a member of the Fergus Falls fire department for 20 years.

Surviving are his wife, two daughters, Mrs. Roy L. (Normal) Henry of Hearne, Texas, and Mrs. Duane (Geraldine) Kolle of Fergus Falls, and five grandchildren. He also leaves four sisters and two brothers. They are Mrs. Andrew Bakken, Mrs. Olga Nelson, Mrs. Frances Mobraten, Regina Houg and Otto Houg, all of Fergus Falls, and Arnold Houg of Kennewick, Wash.

Funeral services will be held at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church tomorrow at 2 p. m. with the Rev. Otto Dale officiating. Interment will be in Knollwood. Friends may call at the Glende Johnson Funeral Home.

Taken from: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mmoen/Rothsay/ps04/ps04_022.htm

Goodwin married Moen Esther on 29 Aug 1928 in Esther's parents home in Rothsay, Minnesota by Rev. Fjaere.. Esther was born on 13 May 1906 in Rothsay, Minnesota; died on 27 Dec 1977 in Lake Region Hosipital, Fergus Falls, MN; was buried in Knollwell Cemetery, fergus Falls, MN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Location: 204 North Sheridan, Fergus Falls, Ottertail County, Minnesota.

Notes:

Obituary - Esther grew up in the Rothsay area and attended high school in Moorhead. She took nurses training at St. Barnabas Hospital at Minneapolis and had worked for many years at Wright Hospital in Fergus Falls. She did a great amount of private duty nursing and had also been on the nursing staff at Lake Region Hospital following the merger.

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

Other Events:

• Confirmation: 20 Aug 1843, Ringsaker, Hedemarken, Norway
• Out-Migrants: 13 Feb 1863, Ole is leaving the Smedstad farm in Ringsaker. His destination is the Houg farm in Furnaes, Vang, Hedmark, Norway.
• Emigration: 8 Jun 1869, At age 41 with his wife and son and daughter from the Houg farm in Furnaes, Vang, Hedmark, Norway.

Notes:

Another source listed his parents as:

(SmedstadNedre) Ole Olsen
Halvorsdatter Gurie

and his marriage as:

(Graesby) Karen Gunnaar Fredriksdatter - I0023 (F013)
Married: Furnaes, Vang, Hedmark, Norway

Need to check this

(http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=SHOW&db=bakkenlerbakken&recno=0)


Ole Olsen immigrated from Norway to the USA with his wife and son and daughter in 1869. They arrived in New York on June 8, 1869. The name of their ship was the "Britannia". It sailed from Glasgow, Scotland and Londonderry, Ireland. (Line 27, Microfilm serial M237, Microfilm Roll 312, List Number 612) They went originally to a settlment near Salem, Wisconsin. It was there that Ouden Olsen Houg was born on February 17, 1870. In the spring, with an ox team, they made the long journey of some four hundred miles and immigrated to Oscar Township, Ottertail County, Minnesota. Ole homesteaded one hundred and fify-four acres of land in sedctions 26 and 27 of Oscar township.

Ole married (Graesby) Karen Gunnaar Fredriksdatter on 19 Feb 1863 in Furnes. Karen (daughter of Grosby Frederick Jorgensen and Ruud Ragnold Jorgensdtr) was born on 17 Sep 1840 in Gaarden Grosby, Furnes, Hedemarken; died on 14 Jun 1879 in Oscar Township, Ottertail County, Minnesota at 10 o'clock.; was buried in Hedemarken Cemetery, Carlisle, MN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Baptism: 30 Oct 1840, Furnaes, Vang, Hedemarken, Norway
• Emigration: 1869, At age 29, with her husband and son and daughter, from the Houg farm in Furnaes, Vang, Hedmark, Norway.

Other Events:

• Emigration: 6 Jul 1869, At age 33, from the Massinglokkken farm in Kvikne, Nordre Fron, Oppland, Norway, he and his wife and daughter boarded the "Schandinavia" to Glasgow, Scotland.
• Emigration: 24 Jul 1869, Boarded the SS. Columbia in Glasgow, Scotland and arrived in New York on July 24, 1869. Next, went to Coon Valley, Wisconsin, and then in 1871 moved to Oscar Township, Ottertail County, Minnesota.

Notes:

A second marriage is listed for him:

Halvorson Betsy - I2358 (F633)
Married: 18 MAR 1898


There is a farm listed for Nord-Fron, Oppland, Norway called Vistad og Tune sondre

Amund married Graupehaugen Karen Andreasdatter on 26 Jul 1859 in Kvikne, Nordre Fron, Oppland, Norway. Karen (daughter of Bakken Andreas Olsen and Volden Anne Olsdtr) was born on 1 Apr 1837 in Kvikne, Nordre Fron, Oppland, Norway; died on 21 Sep 1896 in Oscar Township, Ottertail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Baptism: 15 May 1837, Kvikne, Nordre Fron, Oppland, Norway
• Emigration: 6 Jul 1869, At age 32, from the Massinglokkken farm in Kvikne, Nordre Fron, Oppland, Norway, boarded the "Schandinavia" in Oslo with her parents and her husband and their daughter and landed in Glasgow, Scotland
• Emigration: 24 Jul 1869, Boarded the SS. Columbia in Glasgow, Scotland and arrived in New York on July 24, 1869.

Notes:

There are two farms listed for Nord-Fron, Oppland, Norway:

Graupe nedre and Graupe ovre