K. K. Sagen

SAGEN

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 9/21/2005 at 20:31:12

K. K. Sagen is a well known citizen of Fertile township, He is a native of Norway, born Dec. 17, 1844. In 1845 his parents emigrated to Jefferson Co., Wis., where they lived eight years. They then removed to Iowa county, in the same State, where K. K. grew to manhood and received a common school education. He also attended a Commercial College at Madison, Wis., one winter. On Aug. 15, 1862, he enlisted in company B, 39th regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers, and served until Sept. 20, 1865. He remained one year in Wisconsin, and was afterward a soldier in frontier service against the Sioux, under Gen. Sibley. He was discharged at Louisville, Ky., after which he went to Wisconsin, and was there married March 30, 1867, to Carrie Simondson, born in Norway, Feb. 2, 1848. In the fall of 1878, they went to Mitchell Co., Iowa, and located in Cedar, remaining one and a half years. He then came to Fertile township, where he now resides. Hr. Sagen is a republican, and has held the offices of town clerk, justice of the peace, and is now a clerk of the school board. He is the father of six children – Sophia, Cornelius, Regina, Gustaf, Mary, and Norman. The family attend divine service at the Lutheran church.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, page 766.