Howard Garfield Jaeger

Notes:

!SO: D-023, MRIN-1047 letter, D-024, D-025.

Howard married Marie Adline Hays [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. James Garfield Jaeger
2. Howard Roy Jaeger
3. Dorthy Kay Jaeger

Notes:

!SO: A-023, MRIN-547.
OCCUPATION: FGR-1040 Funeral Business.
PROBLEM: D-025 lists death date as July 1909 at Spokane, WA.

Halfdan married Minnie Arloine Mathews on 26 Dec 1911 in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States. Minnie was born on 7 Apr 1877 in Tracy, Lyon, Minnesota, United States; died on 14 Feb 1959 in Fairfield, Spokane, Washington, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SO: A-023.
D-025 gived dd and place.
OCCUPATION: (FGR-1040) Nurse.
PROBLEM: MRIN-1047 lists birthdate as 1884.

Notes:

!SO: D-006, D-023, MRIN-547.
BIRTH: Probably Strand, Norway (to confirm). D-025 lists Strand, Norway.
CHILDREN: D-006 lists 5, no names given . . . D-023 lists 4 with names, dates.
NOTES: Nils' parents were Ditev Ephraim Jaeger (1802-1866, d. in Norway) and
Catherine Dorothea Bergfeldt (1803-1861, d. in Norway).
NOTES: Nils was the first postmaster of Minneota, Minn. (D-012 p.11)
The original settlement, now called Minneota, was called 'Pumpa',
Norwegian for 'pump'. The Chicago Northwestern trains stopped to take
on water. Nils had come from Norway and had had a better education than
most of the pioneers. His father was a preacher. Nils had the first
store and post office in Minneota. The post office was established in
1871 and the town took on the name, Norland, reason not known but might
have been because so many Norwegians living in the area had emmigrated
from Norland, Norway. Because mail destined for Norseland often ended
up in Norland and mail to Norland would often be sent to Norseland, the
Post Office Department notified Nils Jager that it would be necessary
to change the name of the town. An election was held and the name that
got the most votes was 'Jagersville'. However, a certain resident of
town, named Doc Seals had contacted the Senator from Minnesota, H. B.
Strait and he had was influential in having the town named Minneota.
The day after the local election, Nils Jager recieved notice from the
Post Office Department that the town had been named Minneota. (D-012
p.11)
Jeanne (Jaeger) Horsey (in documentation attached to MRIN-547) explains
that the origional spelling in Norway was Nils Winther LUTH-JAEGER with
a hyphen. Reason: When Nils' parents, Ditlev LUTH and his wife,
Claudine Marie WINTHER died in June and August 1774, Nils was adopted
by Ephraim JEAGER and JAEGER was added to Nils' name. Ephram Jaeger
was an unmarried relative, a pastor. It followed that the first Nils
Winther Lars-Jaeger named his son Ditlev Ephraim Jaeger (dropping the
LUTH). Then Ditlev's son was named Nils Winther Luth Jaeger and he
named his son Ditlev Ephraim Jaeger (Jeanne [Jaeger] Horsey's uncle)
D-023 (an Ancestry Chart) lists 2 more generations of ancestors for Nils.
Jeanne Jaeger Horsey of Seattle has information on this line.
D-023 lists year of emegration from Norway to America as 1868.

Nils married Christine Dahl on 7 Feb 1877 in Minneota, Lyon, Minnesota, United States. Christine (daughter of Nils Tobias Dahl and Tori Haaversdatter Ovedal) was born on 9 May 1858 in Coon Prairie, Vernon, Wisconsin, United States; died on 7 Jan 1919 in Connell, Franklin, Washington, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SO: D-006; m. date from D-012 p.9; b. also D-014;
MARRIAGE: Christine and Jager together with her cousin, Ole Dahl-1488 and
Amelia decided to have a double marriage ceremony. They were
married by Rev. Olaf Hoel, who came from Canby on a hand car to
officiate at the wedding. This was the first wedding to take place
in Minneota, Minnesota. (D-012 p.10)
D-022 indicates they had 5 children.
D-025 gives marriage data.
DEATH: Place from D-023.

Notes:

!SO: D-031, D-014 b. place. D-023 d. place.
D-031 lists name Nils Tobias Dahl (Nils Tobias Pedersen Oksendal)
EMMIGATION: D-031 from Norway to America in 1851.
PROBLEM: D-022 lists name as Neils (nils) Tobias Dahl.
D-024 spells name Niels Tobias Dahl.
D-025 lists b. place as Oxendal, Bakke, Vest-Agder, Norway.
D-029C spells name, Nels.
D-014 list bp as Oksendal, Bakkesogn, Norway.
NOTES: Extractions from "CHRONICLES OF A MINNESOTA PIONEER" (D-012) by
Tilla Regina Dahl Deen-1734, daughter of Nils Dahl-1293.
She spells her father's name, Niels Tobias Dahl. (also D-013 & D-014)
And spells her mother's name, Tori Hoverson.
"When father came to America he was the only member of his family to
come. Later two of his brothers with their families came to our
Dunn County home. As all homesteads near there had been taken,
the brothers moved on to Blue Earth County, Minnesota." She is
referring to Hans P. Dahl-482 and Tonnes A. Dahl-1294 who
emmigrated in 1867 and 1868 respectively. " The villiage of
Pemberton is located on land homsteaded by my uncle Tonnes Dahl."
Nils came from Norway at the age of 20. As soon as he was of age
he homesteaded a farm in Coon Prairie, Wisc. and lived there until
May 1865 when he moved to Dunn County, Wisc. The villiage of
Colfax is on the farmland they owned there. In May 1870 he moved
his family by covered wagon to Blue Earth County, Minn. where he
lived for 3 years. D-012, by daughter Tilla, describes her
memories of growing up and life on the homestead in Cottonwood,
Minn. Nils sold the farm about 1878, soon after baby Herman died
from chickenpox, and moved to Minneota, Minnesota in August, 1879.
Nils had bought a farm a mile east of town and the children
attended school in Minneota. "The school year 1948 was the first
one in the history of Minneota when the public schools of the
villiage had no member of the Dahl family among its pupils". (D-012
p.12)
D-014 describes the emmigration of Niels Dahl and the early years
in America. Niels left Norway April 26, 1851, crossing the
Atlantic in a small ship, (the passengers had to furnish their
own provisions on the ship) landing in New York eight weeks later.
From New York they travelled up the Hudson on a horse drawn canal
boat (which was merely an open barge with no shelter from the
weather) to Albany, and through the canal to Buffalo, N.Y. where
they boarded a small sailboat and landed at Milwaukee, Wisc.
There they bought ox teams and drove across the sparsely settled
state to Vernon County, arriving in August. They settled on
homesteads on Coon Prairie, near what is now Westby, Wisconsin.
Niels was the only member of his family to come at that time.
Tori came a year later with her family, via the same route,
and arrived in Coon Prairie about September 1852. She was 14
years old. Tori remained in Milwaukee for 2 years wih friends so
she could go to school, learn English and the American way of
housekeeping, finally arriving in Coon Prairie by ox drawn wagon.
After marriage Niels and Tori lived on the land he had
homesteaded as soon as he had become of age, until May 1863 when
they moved to Dunn County, Wisc. The village of Colfax is on the
farm they owned there. The moved to Minnesota and back to Wisc.,
then to Blue Earth Co., Minn again for about three years and
then in 1873 homesteaded in Lyon Co., Minnesota on the west side
Cottonwood Lake. After 7 years, in Aug. 1879, they moved
again and bought a farm in Eidsvold Township. They lived one mile
east of Minneota until Feb 22, 1897 when they moved to Minneota
where they lived until their death
D-025 says, Niels Tobias Dahl is the way it is listed on his
tombstone.
BAPTISM: Bakke Church in Norway, also confirmed there. D-014.
MARRIAGE: County from D-023.
OCCUPATION: Farmer
NOTES: D-023 lists year of emigration from Norway to Wisconsin as 1851.
LR: D-006 lists Minneota, MN.

Nils married Tori Haaversdatter Ovedal on 3 Jun 1857 in Coon Prairie, Vernon, Wisconsin, United States. Tori was born on 9 Oct 1837 in Oftedal, Bakke, Vest Agder, Norway; died on 9 Jul 1919 in Minneota, Lyon, Minnesota, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SO: D-031. (D-031 lists name Tori Haaversdatter Ovedal (Tori Hoverson). Amy Van Hining lists Tori Haversdatter Aavedal.
EMMIGRATION: D-031 lists she came from Norway to America in 1852.
PROBLEM: D-006 lists name as Tori (Hoverson) Haaversdatter; b. place as
Aavendal, Bakkesogn, Norway..
D-022 lists name as Tori Hoverson.
D-014 lists name as Tori Haaversdatter Aavedal; b. place as Aavedal.
"When the family came to the United States, the double 'a' in
Haaverson was probably dropped and the girls assumed the surname,
Hoverson, as well as the boys. (S. D. Abbott)"
D-014 lists the names and b. and d. dates of her 5 brothers and 3
sisters and names her father, Haaver Haaverson Sansmark.
BAPTISM: in the Bakke Church in Norway. Also confirmed there. D-014.
NOTES: D-023 (ancestry chart) shows one more generation of her ancestry. Lists
parents as Haaver Aavedahl Sandsmark (1806-1881) and Karen T.
Frederiksdatter Oftedahl (this listing is not certain). Jeanne Jaeger
Horsey of Seattle, WA has information for this line.
D-025 lists b. place as Oftetal, Bakke, Vest-Agder, Norway.