Benjamin Moe

MOE, JORDRE, MONSON, ODEGARD

Posted By: Peter Gausmann (email)
Date: 2/3/2010 at 04:50:38

BENJAMIN MOE

Among the progressive and enterprising young fanners of Winnebago county is numbered Benjamin Moe, who lives on section 24, Logan township. He was born on the 29th of September, 1889, in the home of his parents, Herlang P. and Elizabeth (Jordre) Hoe, who were natives of Norway, but were married in Winneshiek county, Iowa, on the 9th of June, 1871. The following year they removed to Winnebago county and the father purchased eighty acres of land on section 24, Logan township, and eighty acres on section 19, Norway township, a part of which was sold for the townsite of Scarville. With characteristic energy he began to clear his land and transform it into productive fields. The work of plowing, planting and harvesting was carried on and his labors resulted in making this a valuable and productive farm. He was long identified with the agricultural interests of the community, continuing to cultivate his land to the time of his death, which occurred April 9, 1915, when he was laid to rest in Bethel cemetery in Logan township. His success was of a substantial character and was entirely the reward of his persistent, earnest labors. In his political views he was a republican and his religious faith was that of the Lutheran church. His widow still resides upon the home farm with her son Benjamin, and there she reared her family of ten children. The father had been married before, his first wife dying in Norway. There were two children by that union: Anna, who passed away in Norway; and Peter H., who actively assisted his father in the development of the home farm in Logan township and passed away at the age of forty-five years. The ten children born to Herlang P. and Elizabeth Moe were as follows: Anna, Dorothea and Elizabeth, all of whom are deceased; Hannah, who is the wife of S. O. Monson, of Scarville; John, deceased; Thea, who gave her hand in marriage to A. S. Odegard, of Spokane, Washington; Louise, who has passed away; Benjamin; Maria, who is the wife of A. I. Rosheim, of Scarville; and Helena, deceased.

Source: History of Winnebago County and Hancock County, Iowa: A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, Vol. II. Pioneer Publishing Company (Chicago), 1917. p. 516.