Edward R. Haugland

HAUGLAND, SUNDERLAND

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 5/5/2006 at 03:43:56

Edward R. Haugland is one of the most successful business men of Lake Mills and the meat market which he conducts is a model establishment of the kind, no expense having been spared to secure the most complete, up-to-date and sanitary equipment. He was born in Center township, this county, August 21, 1882, and is a son of Rasmus and Sarah (Sunderland) Haugland, a sketch of whose lives appears above. Until sixteen years old he attended the common schools and subsequently for seven years gave his time and attention to helping with the work of the home farm. When twenty-three years old he rented that place and operated it on his own account for three years, after which he went to Ward county, North Dakota, where be purchased a quarter section of land. Three years later he sold that place and returned to Winnebago county. For a year he was employed as a butcher by M. G. Johnson, of Lake Mills, and then engaged in the butchering business for himself in Rowan, Wright county, Iowa. Upon selling that business he, in partnership with M. G. Johnson, bought a meat market at Lake Mills from Bang & Mortenson. Two years later his brother, Helmer C. Haugland, bought out Mr. Johnson's interest and the two brothers have since conducted the market, which is one of the leading business enterprises of Lake Mills. The sales room is finished in white and there is also a specially constructed cooling and freezing room supplied with the modern type of ammonia refrigerating system. They do their own killing and their methods of preparing the meat for the market are the best known. At every step the utmost care is taken to ensure absolute cleanliness.

Mr. Haugland makes his home with his parents. In religious faith he is a United Lutheran and his political views are in accord with the principles of the republican party, whose candidates he supports at the polls. In the management of his business he displays unusual progressiveness coupled with sound judgment and his continued success is assured.

Source: History of Winnebago and Hancock Counties, Iowa, 1917,Vol II, page 116