History of Clay and Norman counties, Minnesota : their people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families . or four years before Normancounty was organizd as a civil unit. He was born at Haakadalen, in Nor-way. January 2^, 1855, son of John and Marie ((.runimenson) Hellerud,also natives of Norway, who came to the United States with their familyin 1871 and settled in Fillmore county, this state. There John Helleruddeveloped a good piece of farm property and continued to make that placehis home until h
History of Clay and Norman counties, Minnesota : their people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families . or four years before Normancounty was organizd as a civil unit. He was born at Haakadalen, in Nor-way. January 2^, 1855, son of John and Marie ((.runimenson) Hellerud,also natives of Norway, who came to the United States with their familyin 1871 and settled in Fillmore county, this state. There John Helleruddeveloped a good piece of farm property and continued to make that placehis home until his retirement in old age and removal to Norman county,where his last days were spent. He and his wife were members of theNorwegian Lutheran church and their children were reared in the faith ofthe same. There were nine of these children, of whom the subject of thissketch was the fourth in order of birth, the other being Olena, Gustav,Andrew, Bertha. Johanna. Nettie, Carl and Jens. As noted above. Hans J. Hellerud was sixteen years of age when hecame to this country with his parents and his .schooling was completed inthe schools of Fillmore county, this state. He took an active part in the ^^*^4B. I jHE MEW VuKK ARY ASIOR, i-ENSXTILDEN FOUNDATIONS j CLAY AND NORMAN COUNTIES,, MINNESOTA. 561 work of developing and improving the home farm in that county and remainedthere until 1877, in which year he came up here in the Red River valley andhomesteaded a quarter of a section of land in section 4 of what later cameto be organized as Hague township, Norman county, where he establishedhis home and proceeded to develop and improve the place. From the verybeginning of his operations here Mr. Hellerud prospered and he graduallyadded to his land holdings until he became the owner of an entire sectionof land. In 1906 he traded four hundred acres of that place for a clothingstore at Tw^in Valley and in 1908 moved to that village and has sincemade his home there, acti\ely engaged in business.
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