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 HISTOKY OF GOODHUE COUNTY 893 hoard many terms. Aside from his farming interests lie owns stock in the elevator and lumber companies as well as in the financial institution of which he is president. He was married October 30, 1868, to Emma Bakkertun, daughter of Siverl and (Jure (Onstad) Bakkertun, natives of Norway, who settled in Rock county. Wisconsin, in 1858 and in Leon township, this county, in 1861, engaging' in farming operations for the remainder of their days, the father dying in 1866 and the mother in 1891. To Mr. and Mrs. Follingstad have been born eight children: Olaf is dead, passing away in 1897 at the age of twenty-six years; Mary, born in 1872, is the wife of Deafin Goplin, of North Dakota ; Julia is the wife of the Rev. Thomas Hanson, of Franklin, Minn. ; Oscar, Ida, Matilda and Lewis are the next four children ; Henry, the youngest, is a graduate of the agricultural department of the State University, and is now in North Dakota. The family faith of the Follingstad family is that of the Norwegian Lutheran church. Mr. Follingstad is one of the substantial men of the township and his influence is strongly felt in the village where he has contributed both his efforts and his money to assist in the upbuilding of the business interests. Ole I. Haugen owns a w r ell cultivated farm in "Wanamingo township, known as Highland Brook Farm, and carries on agri- cultural operations along the latest approved lines. He is a native of this county, born in Holden township, September 28, 1862. After receiving his earlier education in the schools of his neighborhood, he attended the high schools of Farihault and Northfield, and subsequently clerked in a store for one year. In 1884 he w r ent north to Polk county, this state, and purchased 160 acres which he farmed one year. The fall of that year saw him again on the old homestead in Holden tow T nship, and in the following spring he sold his Polk county farm and purchased eighty acres of the home place, remaining there until 1898. It was in that year that he came to AVanamingo township, pur- chased 175 acres, and started general farming, altering and im- proving the buildings and developing the farm, upon which he now raises the usual crops and makes a specialty of dairying, having a fine herd of Holstein cattle. To this farm he has recently added fifteen acres, and in addition ow T ns the remaining eighty acres of the old homestead in Holden township. An inde- pendent voter in politics. Mr. Haugen has served as justice of the peace and is now clerk of school district 61. He w^as mar- ried, November 16, 1892, to Carrie Dalbotten, daughter of Iver and Anna (Trove) Dalbotten, natives of Norway, who came to this country in 1857 and settled in Holden township, where they both died. Before her marriage Mrs. Haugen was a teacher of instrumental music. She has borne to her husband seven chil-