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Ivar O. Rosheim

ROSHEIM, HOPPERSTAD, BOE, BREKE, KNUTSON, SOLOMISON

Posted By: Peter Gausmann (email)
Date: 12/30/2009 at 19:56:53

IVAR O. ROSHEIM.

Ivar O. Rosheim, an active, energetic farmer living on section 36, Logan township, was born in Sogn, in the stift of Bergen, Norway, April 6, 1854, his parents being Ole J. and Joroi Hopperstad. The father was an army officer and died when Ivar O. was but six months old, he being an only child. The mother afterward became the wife of Endre E. Rosheim and by that marriage there were four children: Erik, who is still upon the home farm in Norway; Sarah, the wife of G. Boe, also a farmer of Norway; Olina, the wife of Ellend E. Breke, also of Norway; and John, who died at the age of nine years.

Ivar 0. Rosheim spent the first twenty years of his life in his native land and then came to the United States alone in 1874. He first made his way to Ridgeway, Winneshiek county, Iowa, where he lived for four years, working as a farm hand. In 1878 he arrived in Worth county, Iowa, and was employed at farm labor in Silver Lake township for two years. In 1881 he removed to Logan township, Winnebago county, and invested his earnings in one hundred and sixty acres of land on section 36. It was wild and undeveloped, but he at once began to clear and improve the place and has since devoted his attention to farm work with good success. After a time he purchased one hundred and sixty acres on section 35 and one hundred and sixty acres on section 26, but since then he has deeded one hundred and sixty acres to his sons, Ole and Andrew. His has been a busy, active and useful life and he still owns three hundred and twenty acres of rich and productive land, which he has brought under a high state of cultivation and transformed into a very fine farm. He has added many modern improvements in the way of good buildings and equipment and in fact there is no feature of the model farm of the twentieth century that is lacking upon his place.

In 1880 Mr. Rosheim was united in marriage to Miss Betsy Knutson, a daughter of Elling and Mary Knutson, who were natives of Norway but were married in Dane county, Wisconsin and were among the earliest pioneer settlers of Worth county, Iowa, making their home in Silver Lake township until called to their final rest. Their remains were interred in the Lime Creek United Lutheran cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Rosheim have become the parents of twelve children: Ole, who is engaged in farming in Logan township; Elling I., a practicing dentist of Roland, Iowa; Andrew, also a resident farmer of Logan township; Knut L, a dental student in the Northwestern University at Chicago; John and Isaac, who are cultivating the home farm; Ivar T. and Mary, also at home; Jorgina, the wife of Oscar O. Solomison, of Newton township; and Sarah, Anna and Ida, who are students in Luther Academy at Albert Lea, Minnesota.

The parents are members of the North Prairie Synod Lutheran church and in politics Mr. Rosheim is a democrat. He served for several terms as township trustee, but has not been a politician in the sense of office seeking, preferring to concentrate his efforts and attention upon his business affairs. He has been prompt and faithful in the discharge of all of his duties, however, and his energy and industry have enabled him to work his way steadily upward until he is now numbered among the valued and substantial residents of Winnebago county. His life record proves that success is not the result of any especially fortunate circumstances, but is the direct reward of earnest, persistent labor, for Mr. Rosheim started out empty-handed and has worked his way steadily upward by diligence and perseverance, becoming ultimately one of the men of affluence in his adopted county.

Source: Source: History of Winnebago and Hancock Counties, Iowa, Vol. II, 1917, pg 551-552.


 

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