HOVELSON, Hover

HOVELSON, JAMES

Posted By: Larry Shoger (email)
Date: 12/26/2008 at 18:06:39

Hover (Hovel) Hovelson is a resident on section 20, of township 98, range 17, locating in 1873. His farm contains 160 acres under excellant improvement, a good residence, with a barn 36x52 feet, and a corn-crib 20x24 feet.

He was born in Norway, April 1, 1844. In 1850, his parents emigrated to America and settled in Iowa Co., Wis., where they lived until 1864, when they removed to Dakota, his father having purchased a claim in Yankton county, of which he disposed, and moved to Mitchell Co., Iowa, in 1865, where he bought on section 24 of Rock township, where he still lives. Hover (Hovel) made his home with his parents until 1871, when he married Sarah James, a native of Wisconsin. They have four children - Martha E., Leon E., Edwin J. and Alice M. Mr. Hovelson is an enterprising man and regarded as an excellant citizen. Corrections are made in parenthesis.
Taken from History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1884, page 308