October 19, 1941 was the day that Harley Alfred Fogderud, son of the Alfred Fogderuds, took as his bride - Beatrice Lola Lende, daughter of the Thorvald Lendes, Cooperstown. They moved to a farm, two and a half miles east and three-fourths miles south of Hannaford. This was the old Nels Hemmingson farm. The house they lived in for the first five years was the first house built from lumber in the entire community. It was a small three-room house, the west side was built into a large hill and the closet space on the west was quite damp. On July 3, 1935 a tornado had destroyed the bam.
On this hill west of the house, there is a 240 foot drilled well that has a windmill to pump water to a large cistern which is then piped to the house and the bam. The water is soft and good drinking water. For many years water was hauled from this well to many people in the Cooperstown and Binford areas, pumping about 20 barrels of water a day. In the early days this well supplied three threshing rigs with water.
In 1945 a new house was moved to the farmstead but the old house remains there also. In the hayfield east of the farmstead, the original trail from the Sibley Expedition still shows. Harley joined the Gideons International in 1959 and together with his wife, Beatrice, travel all over the state, presenting the work of the Gideons in various churches. In the past they have hosted two statewide Gideon picnics and also many Homemaker picnics. There were over 200 people at the Gideon picnics.
There are five children in the family:
The whole family has been active in 4H work, the children as members, Harley as a leader of 20 years and Beatrice as a leader for 10 years. As a musical family, they all enjoy singing and have presented programs in churches all over the state with instrumentals, quartets, trios, duets, solos and short meditations by Harley. Timothy Wayne plays the Baritone horn and the piano as a duet. The baritone horn is held in his left hand and fingered backwards and he plays full accompaniment on the piano with his right hand. Another novelty number he does is playing two trumpets at the same time in harmony. Besides farming, Harley worked at Melroe Mfg. Company in Cooperstown for 81/2 years and this past year has been an instructor in the Vocational Center at Cooperstown, teaching welding.
Source: Griggs County History 1879 - 1976 Page 294