Liquin, Hans T. 1860 – 1933
LIQUIN, MOBERG, LEKVEN, THORBEY, HARRISON, WILLIAMSON
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Date: 4/7/2015 at 07:49:14
HANS T. LIQUIN.
No farmer in Winneshiek county has won greater success in agricultural pursuits or stock-raising than Hans T. Liquin, whose fine property lying on section 2, Pleasant township, is a visible evidence of his life of industry and thrift. He was born in Os Po Bergen, Norway, on the 9th of August, 1860, and is a son of Torsten Nelson Moberg and Guro Knudsdotter Lekven, who spent their entire lives on a farm in Norway. They were the parents of eleven children, three of whom came to America; the subject of this review; Carrie, who married Peter Johnson Thorbey, who died in Nebraska; and Dena, the widow of Ossef Harrison, a resident of Sheldon, North Dakota. Two sons in this family died in Norway. The name was Lekven in that country and is taken from the title of the farm held for many generations by representatives of the family. Hans T. Lekven's mother bore the same name and she was a sister of his wife's father, who came from the same farm in the mother country.
Hans T. Liquin remained in Norway until 1882 and then crossed the Atlantic on the State Line ship the State of Nevada, pushing westward immediately upon his arrival and settling in Winneshiek county, where he worked as a farm laborer for Knudt K. Liquin, who afterward became his father-in-law. For one year he was employed in Plymouth Rock but after his marriage he and his wife rented Knudt K. Liquin's farm for two years, afterward going to Tama county, where the subject of this review worked in an elevator for some time. Returning he took up his residence upon his present farm on section 2, Pleasant township, and he has given practically all of his attention to its development since that time. In 1908 he erected upon it a fine modern residence and he has built good barns and outbuildings and installed the necessary labor-saving machinery. Everything about the place reflects his careful supervision and intelligent management and both the general farming and the stock-raising departments are important sources of income to him.
In 1886 Mr. Liquin was united in marriage to his cousin, Annie C. Liquin., born in Pleasant township, June 23, 1857. She is a daughter of Knudt K. Liquin, whose birth occurred in Norway on the 4th of March 1824, he being a son of Knudt and Rachel Liquin, whose entire lives were spent in that country. Knudt K. Liquin and his brother Christian both came to America, the former arriving in 1852 and the latter two years later. In Norway Knudt Liquin had for a number of years followed the life of a fisherman off the coast of that country but upon his arrival in the United States turned his attention to farming in Wisconsin, this occupation engaging his attention during the remainder of his active career. After a short period of residence in Wisconsin he came to Pleasant township, Winneshiek county, Iowa, locating on a farm of two hundred and forty acres, to which he gave his entire attention until his death, in 1901. He married in Illinois in the year of his arrival in America, Miss Carrie Williamson, who had made the journey to the United States upon the same ship. She was born in Norway in 1811 and died on the Liquin farm in Pleasant township in 1904, when she was ninety-three years of age. In their family were two children: Knudt, who lives in Montana; and Annie C, wife of the subject of this review. Mr. and Mrs. Hans T. Liquin became the parents of six children. Carl was born March 1, 1887, and died September 25, 1910. He had completed a business course in the Upper Iowa Business College. George was born on the 6th of November, 1889, and died on the 14th of February in the same year. Cora's birth occurred on the 19th of July, 1890. Oscar was born May 2, 1893. Lily was born September 27, 1895. Fritchof, who completes the family, was born February 12, 1898.
Although Hans T. Liquin has been in America since he was a young man and has proven himself a loyal and patriotic citizen, he is nevertheless interested in the affairs of his native country and keeps abreast with its political and social development. At the time of the coronation of King Haakon he made the journey across the Atlantic in order to witness that event. He is a devout member of the Norwegian Lutheran church and he gives his political allegiance to the republican party, taking an active interest in everything relating to the growth and advancement of the community where he has so long resided. In the course of years his contributions to the general agricultural development have been many and substantial and his successful career has only added to the high regard and esteem in which his name has long been held in this community.
Source: History of Winneshiek County, Iowa Vol. II Chicago the S. J. Clark Publishing Company 1913
Big Canoe Norwegian Methodist Cemetery gravestone
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