Jon Huso

In the early spring of 1878, Jon (Oddson) Huso and Engeborg Urbo were married in Telemarken, Norway.  Following the ceremony word came that someone passed up his ticket to go to America.  The ticket had been sent by a relative of Jon's.  Jon accepted and left for America immediately.  He earned enough during the summer to send his wife a ticket.  She joined him in Minneota, Minnesota in the fall.

The next few years they bought cows, yoke of oxen, wagon, stove, a breaking plow, chickens and a shotgun (to shoot game along the way West).  In the spring of 1883 they, and their two sons, Adolph (1880) and Torger (1882) joined a caravan going West.  They came to Lenora Township and homesteaded on the SW quarter of Section 12.

At this time Portland, North Dakota was the closest town.  As time went on, the NP railroad came to Cooperstown, which opened a market for buffalo bones.  The prairie around was covered with bones, which the settlers gathered and sold for $12.00 a ton.  This helped them raise money to purchase seed wheat, barley and oats.  The Lee Mill was erected near the county line.  This is where they had their wheat ground for flour.

Two more children were born to this family, Oscar (1884) and a daughter, Tillie.

TORGER J. HUSO grew up in the Aneta vicinity, farmed in the area, purchasing the E1/2 of Section 23 in Lenora Township.  In 1923 Torger married Cora Johnson.  They had three boys: 

John Eberg, Curtis Torger and Thomas Jerome.

Torger J. Huso died in 1952 and his wife, Cora, died in 1962.

OSCAR J. HUSO married Signe Engen and started farming in 1918 on the SE quarter of Section 1 and NE quarter of Section 2, Lenora Township.  They had three children: 

Eunice, Donna and Oscar, Jr.

Oscar Huso, Sr. passed away in 1970.  Oscar Huso, Jr. and his wife Nola (Westman) now own and operate the farm.

Source: Griggs County History 1879 - 1976  Page 341