SHOGER, Hans F.

SHOGER, KNUTSON

Posted By: Larry Shoger (email)
Date: 12/26/2008 at 17:37:38

Hans F. Shoger first settled in Mitchell county in 1865, on section 24, township 98, range 18, now known as Rock township, which he improved and lived upon until 1880, when he sold and purchased the farm of K.E. Knutson, his brother-in-law, on section 15, township 97, range 17. He was born in Norway Feb. 1, 1841. When he was nine years of age, his parents emigrated to America and settled in Iowa Co., Wis., where his father bought a timbered farm. He remained at home, helping his father and attending school. In 1864, his father sold and moved to Dakota, taking a homestead near Yankton, hans preempted 160 acres of timber land at the junction of the James and Missouri rivers, but owing to the Indians and grasshoppers, they remained but one year, all returning to Mitchell county where his father died in 1867 (1866), his mother in 1869 (1870). He was married May 18, 1870 (1871), to Ellen, daughter of Ingebret and Carrie Knutson, Ragnille (Ellen Ragnhild Knutson). they have four children children - Cornelius, Ella, Henry and Oscar. (Their first born child, Cornelia, died at the age of nine months.) Corrections to this story are in parenthesis.

Taken from the History of Mitchell and Worth Counties Iowa, 1884, page 305.