OLE C. HOUGEN

HOUGEN, SANDERS, MALMIN, THORSON, PHILLIPS, WALLACH, BAUMGARDNER

Posted By: Tamara Jorstad (email)
Date: 9/15/2002 at 22:15:21

Published in the 1969 McCallsburg Centennial booklet:

Ole C. Hougen

Ole C. Hougen and his brother John purchased the farm one mile west and one mile south of McCallsburg (No. 1/2 of the N.E. 1/4 of Sec. 28) in October, 1892 from James E. Sanders. The following spring they moved from Benton County to the farm upon which Ole C. Hougen resided until his death in 1954. Mr. Sanders entered upon this farm in 1872. Until 1957 the only occupants of this farm were the Sanders and Hougen families. This denotes that the settlement of Warren Twp. was not too far in the distant past. It was a fact the last township in Story County to be inhabited.

Ole C. Hougen married Carrie Malmin in 1897, the daughter of Mauritz Malmin a pioneer of Warren Township. They were the parents of eight children, all presently living, born and reared on the farm and graduates of the McCallsburg High School. They are Jeffrey, former County Attorney of Story County, Maurice K. and Harold W. still having farming interests in this community; Chester, presently a State Senator from Black Hawk County, Kermit of Radcliffe, Mildred (Mrs. Roy Thorson) of Hays, Kansas, Hazel (Mrs. Harold Phillips) of Story City and Vivian (Mrs. Aaron Wallach, Ft. Worth, Texas).

In later years the Hougen family purchased the Fred J. Baumgardner farm (N.E. 1/4 Sec. 29). In passing it may be noted that this farm has been owned by the respective above named families since Mr. Baumgardner first entered upon and occupied the same in the approximate year of 1872.