From the book History of Walworth County Wisconsin, by Albert Clayton Beckwith, 
publ. 1912 - Pages 658 - 659
 
H. T. HALVORSEN.  It is interesting to note from the beginning the growth and 
development of a community, to note the lines along which progress has been 
made and to take cognizance of those whose industry and leadership in the work 
of advancement have rendered possible the present prosperity of the locality 
under consideration.  The HALVORSEN family, of which H. T., of Whitewater 
township, Walworth county, is a very creditable representative, belong to that 
class of enterprising citizens who promote the general good of a community and 
they are therefore worthy of a place in the history of the same.
 
H. T. HALVORSEN was born on the old homestead in this township, March 22, 
1852.  He is the son of Tosten and Jane (LINOS) HALVORSEN, both born in Norway, 
where they grew up and were educated.  The father left that land in 1846 and 
emigrated to Walworth county, Wisconsin, the mother not coming until 1849, in 
which  year she reached Dane, this state.  The father got possession of a farm 
before he was married and on this they began housekeeping and soon had a 
comfortable home, their place of one hundred and sixty acres in Whitewater 
township, making them a very comfortable living, but they worked very hard in 
developing it, for the land was new and the country roundabout a wilderness.  
Here they spent the balance of their lives, the father dying in October 1909, 
having survived his wife many years, her death occurring in 1874.  They were 
the parents of six children, five of whom are living.  Politically, he was a 
Republican and a member of the Lutheran church.
 
H. T. HALVORSEN, of this sketch, was reared on the home farm where he worked 
hard when a boy and received that education he could in the early schools of 
the home district.  He has devoted his life to general farming and raising live 
stock.  He has a very productive and well-improved farm on one hundred and 
twenty acres.
 
Politically, Mr. HALVORSEN is a Republican and for three years he served his 
township as assessor.  He and his family are members of the Lutheran church.
 
Mr. HALVORSEN was married in 1879 to Anna NELSON, who was born in Lagrange 
township, this county, the daughter of Nels and Martha NELSON, a highly 
respected family here.  To the subject and wife seven children have been born, 
namely: Nettie, Theodore, Jessie (deceased), Emma, Arthur, Alice, and Howard.

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