BRENDEN, Halvor Olsen 1835-1912

BRENDEN, ANDERSON, CHRISTIANSON, GROVE, HALVORSEN, HAUGEN, JOHNSON KIRKEBY, MAUDAHL, OLSEN, ROTHE, TORGRIMSDATTER

Posted By: Deidre Badker (email)
Date: 11/20/2011 at 12:51:36

Halvor Olsen Brenden was born March 21, 1835 at Sor Aurdal, Oppland, Norway to Ole Halvorsen and Olaug Torgrimsdatter (Brenden under Storruste). Birth record found at Norwegian Digital Archives on-line for Sor Aurdal, Oppland, Norway 1825-1840, pg. 130, entry # 30. Baptized June 21, 1835 at same.

Emigrated 1857 to York County, Wisconsin.

Halvor was a soldier who fought in the Civil War. Halvor enlisted in Company E, Wisconsin 15th Infantry Regiment on December 17, 1861. His rank was Private. He survived the War. Mustered out on December 20, 1864. Years later, he and his wife collected a Civil War Pension. (Sources: Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers: War of the Rebellion)

Married Jorand Olsdatter Haugen on October 4, 1866 at York, Green, Wisconsin.
They had 10 children:
Ole (born November 1867, York, WI, married Julietta Andersdatter Grove May 24, 1896 WI, died 1936 Fertile, Worth, IA);
Karine (born April 11, 1870 York, Green, WI, married Levi Oscar Olsen January 2, 1890 York, WI.; married Julian Christian Schoger June 6, 1923, died May 10, 1953 Mason City, Cerro Gordo, IA);
Oline Marie (born April 24, 1873 York, WI, married Johannes Bernard Johnson March 31, 1893 Cedar, Mitchell, IA, died April 18, 1904 Silverton, Marion, Oregon);
Thonetta (born 1877 York, WI, married Karl Lewis Anderson, died 1941 Osage, Mitchell, IA);
Christopher (born July 13, 1878 York, WI, died May 13, 1957 Nora Springs, Floyd, IA);
Henry (born July 26, 1881 York, WI, died March 20, 1949 Mitchell, IA);
Julia (born May 1884 York, WI, married Knute Rothe);
Sophia (born July 1886, married Morris Maudahl February 15, 1914 at Meroa, Cedar, Mitchell, IA)
Rady Randolph (born July 1887 York, WI, died May 18, 1929) and
Olga (born October 4, 1891 Mitchell, IA, married Clarence Kirkeby June 27, 1915 at Meroa, IA, married Ed Christiansen, died November 19, 1970 Osage, Mitchell, IA).

Family found living at York, Green, Wisconsin from 1857 to 1880 census. Owned about 161 acres of land (two - 80 acre parcels) in 1873 in York County, Wisconsin.

Appear in the 1880 census at York, Green, Wisconsin: H.O. Brenden 45, Joren Brenden 31, Ole Brenden 12, Karina Brenden 10, Olina Brenden 7, Thoneta Brenden 3, Christopher Brenden 2, Knut Knutsen 60.

Found owning land in 1890 at Perry, Dane, Wisconsin, about 80 acres.

Found in the 1895, 1900, 1905, 1910 censuses at Rock, Mitchell, IA on a farm:
1895: Halvor Olsen Brenden 61.
1900: Halvor Brenden 65, Jane Brenden 50, Julia Brenden 16, Sophie Brenden 13, Rady Brenden 12, Olga Brenden 8.
1910: Halvor O Branden 75, Gjoren Branden 60, Olga Branden 18.

Halvor Olsen Brenden died April 6, 1912 at Rock, Mitchell, Iowa and is buried at the Rock Creek Lutheran Cemetery, Meroa, Cedar, Mitchell, IA.

(Censuses copied as found, obvious spelling errors not corrected.)