SOREN P. DAUGARD.
One of the highly-respected farmers and citizens, who is now living retired on his farm in Oakfield township, is Soren P. Daugard, who owns a farm of one hundred and twenty acres in this township and also one hundred and sixty acres in South Dakota. Born on May 19, 1857, in Denmark, Soren P. Daugard is the son of Swenton and Christena (Birk) Daugard, the former a native of Sweden and the latter a native of Denmark. Swenton Daugard, a farmer by occupation, lived upon a farm in Denmark until he came to America in 1887, after which he lived retired with his children until his death. His wife is also deceased. They had six children: Soren P., Dorothy, Ellen, Hans, Anna and Anna Marie. The father was a veteran of the Danish-Prussian War.
Soren P. Daugard came to America seven years before his parents. Before coming to this country he had been in school for some time, and after leaving school had learned the blacksmith's trade, having worked in a shop from the time he reached maturity until he came to America. Upon coming to this country in 1880, he located on the farm where he now lives, purchasing at first forty acres of land, which he has gradually increased to one hundred and twenty acres. During the active period of his career, he was engaged in general farming and stock raising, but is now living retired on the farm.
In 1880, the same year in which he came to America, Soren P. Daugard was married to Anna Knus, the daughter of Chris and Anna Margarett (Ivisen) Knus. Nine children have been born to this marriage: Margaret, Christen, John, Fred, Henry, Theodore, Christena, Mary and Serena. Only one of the children, Margaret, is married. She married John C. Larsen and has five children: Soren, Louis, Anna, Catherine and John. The remainder of the children are living at home and are unmarried. The mother of these children is a native of Germany, as were her parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Soren P. Daugard are members of the Danish Lutheran church, and Mr. Daugard is a trustee of the church. A Republican in politics, the only office which he has ever held is that of school director, an office, however, he filled with rare efficiency.
Mr. Daugard is a man of modest and unassuming manners, who has lived a quiet life and enjoyed a satisfactory measure of success. He is comfortably situated and is well prepared to enjoy his declining years in ease and comfort.
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Transcribed from History of Audubon County, Iowa Its People, Industries and Institutions With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, by H. F. Andrews, editor, Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen & Company, 1915, pp. 690-691.
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