Mobraten Julius

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Notes for Julius Mobraten
Carlisle Farmer Dies In Burning Meadow

Son Finds Body Of Julius P. Mobraten When
He Failed To Return Home for Dinner

Suffered Heart Attack -
Fell Into Flames-
Manager Of Carlisle Elevator 30 Years

Julius P. Mobraten, 64, life long resident of Oscar township, was found burned to death in a small meadow fire a mile north of his home shortly after noon Wednesday.

Mr. Mobraten had gone out about 10:30 in the morning to burn off old grass in the meadow. When he failed to return for his dinner at noon, his son Julius Jr., went to see what was delaying his father, and found his body, the clothes burned off, and the body indicating severe burns. Mr. Mobraten had suffered from heart trouble recently and it is believed he suffered a fatal heart attack or stroke and fell forward into the flames.

.Julius P. Mobraten was born March 4, 1885, in Oscar township, the son of pioneer settlers. He spent all his life in that community with the exception of eight vears when he was manager of the elevator at Lundsvalley, N. D. He was married June 27, 1922 to Miss Frances Houg, at Rothsay, and they were the parents of eight children, all of whom with their mother are left to mourn the tragic death of a beloved and devoted husband and father.

Mr. Mobraten took an active interest in the community and was highly regarded, being one of the outstanding men of Carlisle township. He was manager of the Carlisle and Oscar Farmers Grain Elevator for thirty years, and a director of the Carlisle Telephone Company. He also services as treasurer of School District 111. In his tragic death the community and county have lost a good citizen. He was a member of Hedemarken church.

The surviving children are: Mrs. Wm. E. Johnson (anna) of Minneapolis; Mrs. Gene Duffy (Florence) Austin; Phyllis and Genevieve attending school in Minneapolis; Julius, Jr., Marie, Arthur and David at home. He also leaves to mourn his tragic death four sisters -- Mrs. Theo Moen and Mrs. Emil Moen, of Lundsvalley, N. D.,; Mrs. Peter Paulson, Stanley, N. D., Mrs. A. E. Skolrud, Hermiston, Ore; and two brothers, Oscar of Culver City, Calif., and Peter on the home farm. His parents and two sisters - Mrs. Otto Tweter and Mrs. John Ugstad preceded him in death.

Funeral services will be held Monday, May 2, at the Hedemarken church with Rev. E. Salveson officiating. Burial will be in the Hedemarken cemetery

Taken from: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mmoen/Rothsay/ps04/ps04_198.htm

Julius married Houg Frances. Frances (daughter of Houg Ole Jr. Olsen and Massinglokken Ane M. Amundsdatter) was born on 9 Mar 1896 in Oscar Township, Ottertail County, Minnesota.; died on 23 Jan 1978 in Fergus Falls, Ottertail County, Minnesota.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Location: 11 Apr 1930, Carlisle Township, Ottertail County, Minnesota.

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Notes for Peter J. Mobraaten
Peter J. Mobraaten

The late Peter J. Mobraaten, who for years was one of the most active residents of Oscar township, this county, came to America from Norway in 1869. He landed at the port of New York and almost immediately thereafter started for Minnesota . Upon arriving in this state, he located in Fillmore county, where he remained for one year, at the end of which time, in 1871, he came to Otter Tail county, where he homesteaded a quarter of a section of land in Oscar township and there he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring on July 27, 1913. Mr. Mobraaten was a fine farmer and a sturdy citizen , who was held in high regard in the neighborhood which he had done so much to help improve and he was widely mourned at the time of his death.

Peter J. Mobraaten was born in the kingdom of Norway on December 2, 1839, and there spent his youth and early manhood. In 1869 he decided to try his fortune in the promising land across the Atlantic. He came alone, landing at New York, proceeding thence to this state, where for one year he conducted a boarding house in Fillmore county . The next winter he spent in Alexandria, this state, and in the spring of 1871 he came to this county, entering one hundred and sixty acres of government land in sections 26 and 27, in Oscar township, which he proceeded to clear and make habitable. It was in that year, simultaneous to his coming to Otter Tail county, that Mr. Mobraaten married Bertha Spaberg, was born in Norway on December 5, 1845, daughter of Peter P. and Carrie (Torjet) Spaberg, and who, during the years they were engaged laboriously in making a home in the then wilderness, proved a most valuable and competent helpmate. Their home presently was made and as the years went by they accomplished the full task of bringing to a high state of cultivation their excellent farm, at the same time making themselves useful in many neighborly ways in that community, so that they came to be regarded as among the leaders in that particular locality, their influence ever being for good.

To Peter J. and Bertha (Spaberg) Mobraaten were born nine children, Peter P., Mary, Carrie, Julia, Minnie Bessie, Julius, Oscar and Petrine of whom, Mary, Julia, Minnie and Oscar are married. Mr. and Mrs. Mobraaten ever were active members of the Norwegian Lutheran church and their children were reared in that faith all growing up to be useful members of their community. Since the death of her husband, Mrs Mobraaten has continued to maker her home on the homestead farm, which is now cultivated under the active management of her eldest son, Peter P. Mobraaten, who was born on the homestead on December 20, 1871, and who is doing well his part in the community life of Oscar township and the Fergus Falls locality generally, he being held in high regard by all who know him, as are all the members of the late Peter J. Mobraaten. The Mobraaten farm was enlarged during the occupancy of the late owner by the addition of eighty acres adjoining, which Mr. Mobraaten purchased, the present farm of two hundred and forty acres being well kept and improved in a substantial manner

Taken from: History of Otter Tail County Minnesota, James W. Mason,, Illustrated 1916, Volume 2, Reproduced from the Collection of the Otter Tail County Historical Society?s Archives, Fergus Falls, Minnesota.

Peter married Spaberg Bertha. Bertha was born on 05 Dec 1845 in Norway; died on 02 Feb 1928; was buried in South Friborg Cemetery, Oscar Township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 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.

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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