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Personal data Canton Benard Haug 

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  • He was born on November 21, 1905 in Pennock, Kandiyohi, MN, USA.
  • He was christened on December 26, 1905 in St. John's Church, Pennock, Kandiyohi, Minnesota, United States.
  • Profession: Automobile and Truck Sales - Owner.
  • Religion: Lutheran.
  • Resident:
    • in the year 1910: St John, Kandiyohi, Minnesota, United States, St John, Kandiyohi, Minnesota, United States.
    • in the year 1920: Saint Johns, Kandiyohi, Minnesota, United States, Saint Johns, Kandiyohi, Minnesota, United States.
    • in the year 1930: Edwards, Kandiyohi, Minnesota, United States, Edwards, Kandiyohi, Minnesota, United States.
    • in the year 1935: Raymond, Raymond Village, Kandiyohi, Minnesota, United States, Raymond, Raymond Village, Kandiyohi, Minnesota, United States.
    • in the year 1940: Raymond, Raymond Village, Kandiyohi, Minnesota, United States, Raymond, Raymond Village, Kandiyohi, Minnesota, United States.
  • (Record Change) on February 5, 1996.
  • He died on September 25, 1995 in Hennepin, Minnesota, United States, he was 89 years old.
  • He is buried on September 29, 1995 in Vinje Memorial Cemetery, Willmar, Kandiyohi, Minnesota, United States.
  • A child of Gunder C. Haug and Bertina Greenfield

Household of Canton Benard Haug


Notes about Canton Benard Haug

In sales and repair of motorized vehicles longer than any other person in Kandiyohi County. Sold the Chyrsler/Plymouth dealership in Raymond MN.

The following was written onAugust 20, 1990 by Karen Haug Smith, Canton's daughter:

"It is more than a lifetime ago since Aletta and Christian Haug resided in their small, quiet, neat frame house in Pennock, Minnesota. Just down a rural block from the elderly Haugs, was the home of their son, Gunder. It was contrasting with

the bu tling activity of a family that was to have eleven children in its entirety.

Gunder and Bertha's eldest child, Canton Benard Haug, for perhaps the obvious reason that his own family, needing more living space, and his grandparents needing a helpmate, was elected to live, not in his own home, but in the home of his

grandparents, Christian and Aletta. After all, there was an upstairs bedroom available and the two houses were just ashort distance from one another so that errands could be easily run between the two.

Canton, now almost 85 years old recalls this time as a lad, not yet in his teens, living with his immigrant grandparents. Although Aletta and Christian spoke only in their native Norwegian language, and Canton spoke English, communication

would flow freely through the mutual, receptive understanding of the two different languages of the two generations.

Christian Haug was tall and erect and Aletta short and slight. He was strong and she was gentle and soft spoken. Canton cannot remember his grandmother being anything but light hearted and happy. She was a wonderful cook, often baking home

made bread and Norwegian delicacies like ostkake and rommegrot. Aletta's cooking and baking were done on the big, black woodstove that stood in the corner of her kitchen. The stove was fueled with split railroad ties that Christian would

purchase from Jurn Anderson that he and Canton had cut into usable stove lengths with a bucksaw. There was no refrigeration for any of the food that was prepared in Aletta's kitchen, so the butchered meat would be "canned" and preserved in

glass jars.

Grandpa Christian would butcher pigs, the meat would be canned or smoked, and the pork blood would be savedfor "blood polsa". Canton's job would be to stir the blood in order to keep it from coagulating, as it was poured out onto the winter

snow.

During summer, Christian and Aletta's big garden required their efforts and those of Canton too. Insecticides were not available, so Canton was to hand pick potato bugs off the plants, one by one and drop them into a pailof kerosene. Organic

gardening indeed!

Back inside of the little house, the parlor had a stove in its center, and through the isinglass, Canton could see its flame, and through a hole in the top, he would feed it coal from the coal bucket. The parlor stove heated the house as far

as it's warmth would radiate. Next to the stove, Grandpa Christian would rock in his personal rocking chair and smoke his pipe. Aletta's rocker accompanied his close by.

Canton pumped water from the well in the yard and carried it into the house in a pail. The household plumbing included the ubiquitous outdoor toilet.

Kerosene lamps provided the house with light. It was not until several years later that Canton, as a young adult, hired Chapin Electric to come out from Willmar to wire the house with electricity.

A barn that housed a cow or two stood in the backyard, just a short distance from the house. After milking the cow, Canton would bring the milk through the back door to Aletta, who would pour off enough for her household use, then he would

carry the remainderof the milk to his mother, soon to be consumed by the ten other younger Haug children.

Back by the barn stood Christian's grindstone. When his versatile scythe occasionally became dull from use, Canton remembers helping his grandfather sharpen the blade on the large stone. Its shape was big and round, and it took the hands of

two to sharpen that scythe.

Another of Grandpa Christian's contributions to his son Gunder's large family was to make, not only leather shoes for the children, but cross-country snow skis as well. The shoes were made on wooden shoe forms. The long, three inch wide skis,

were shaped and formed by soaking the thin boards in a boiler on the kitchen stove.

"Rat Trapping" was a winter time adventure when Grandfather Christian and young Canton would walk five or six miles through the countryside to "Happy Home" to check Grandpa's trap line for muskrats. If the line yielded "rats", Alfred Bergman,

the local mail carrier, would buy them for a sum of 10 or 15 cents each. Canton remembers the disappointment and frustration of the two "trappers" after havingtrudged that distance in the winter cold, only to find that some unknown thief had

beat them to where their traps were set, taking not only the "rats", but their entire trap line too!!

Meanwhile, it has been said many times, that Gunder Haug, Christian's son, and his wife, Bertha nurtured, supported, and cared for their family with the skill of an efficient corporation.

Trina Johnson was paid to help with some of the household tasks, but idleness was not the standard at the Haugs. The mounds of family laundry were washed in a washing machine powered by a gas engine. The water was soft rain water collected in

the cistern.

Each morning before school, after the customary breakfast of oatmeal,that had been prepared in a double boiler that night before and placed on the back of the stove, everyone in the family would be seated at the large table, each in his or her

own designated place. The two parents assumeed the "heads" of the table, and the baby in the high chair, at Bertha's side. The beds had all been made, the house was to be dusted, and the kitchen floor was to be scrubbed. Rugs, mops, and dust

cloths flew. This was the daily routine; everyone had responsibility, and all before anyone left the house.

Gunder Haug supported hisfamily by running a meat market, shipping cattle for over 30 years, and of course eventually starting the successful John Deere farm implement business that remains in the family to this day.

It was weekly that Gunder Haug had 6 or 7 train car loads of cattle to be shipped to St. Paul from the stock yards in Pennock. Both Canton and Grandpa Christian Haug would help with the process of cattle shipping Canton remembers being told

by his father that he would have to ride on the cattle train to South St. Paul and return the next day; a somewhat frightening experience for a young man travelling that far from the security of little Pennock into a city, whose lights could be

seen stretching out forever across the horizon, as the train arrived late in the evening. Young Canton wondered if he'd ever find his way out of the maze of lights.

It is from these times and these tales that the Haug family finds it's roots. Life was less complex, but the elements that create a strong people were passed on through the generations to those of us who are proud to be decendents of this

exceptional family.

"THERE WERE GIANTS IN THE EARTH IN THOSE DAYS; AND ALSO AFTER THAT, WHEN THE SONS OF GOD CAME IN UNTO THE DAUGHTERS OF MEN, AND THEY BARE CHILDREN TO THEM, THE SAME BECAME MIGHTY MEN WHICH WERE OF OLD, MEN OF RENOWN.:

GENESIS V.4"

OBITUARY (Sep. 28,1995)

WILLMAR - Canton Haug, 89 of Willmar died Monday night at Rice Memorial Hospital.

Funeral Services are 11 a.m. Friday at Vinje Lutheran Church in Willmar with the Rev. Steven Knudson Officiating. Burial is in the church cemetery

Visitation is 5 to 8 p.m. today at Harvey Anderson Funeral Home in Willmar and one hour prior to services at the church Friday.

He was born Nov. 21, 1905, in Pennock to Gunder and Bertha (Greenfield) Haug. He attended school in Pennock.

He liven in Raymond until 1964 when he moved to Willmar. He co-owned and operated Carlson & Haug, a Chrysler-Plymouth automobile dealership, until it was liquidated in 1968. He later worked for Town & Country Motors in Willmar and Nelson

International Trucking Corp.

On Aug. 10, 1933, he married Harriet Kiland. He was a member of Raymond Lions, Raymond Fire Department, served as Raymond city clerk, school board member, Masons, Shriners, Willmar Golden K.

In 1992 he moved to Bethesda Pleasant View.

He is survived by one son, James (and Bonnie), of Bloomington; one daughter, Karen (and Lance) Smith, of Brainerd; two grandchildren; one great-grandchild; four sisters and two brothers, Rosella Burmaster of Minnetonka, Myrtle Thielen, of

Brooklyn Center, G. Beth Peterson, of Edina, Violet Dunning, of Spicer, Luverne Haug, of Tonka Bay and Francis Hill of St. Paul.

He was preceded in death by his parents, wife, one sister, and three brothers.

In sales and repair of motorized vehicles longer than any other person in Kandiyohi County. Sold the Chyrsler/Plymouth dealership in Raymond MN.

The following was written on August 20, 1990 by Karen Haug Smith, Canton's daughter:

"It is more than a lifetime ago since Aletta and Christian Haug resided in their small, quiet, neat frame house in Pennock, Minnesota. Just down a rural block from the elderly Haugs, was the home of their son, Gunder. It was contrasting with

the bu tling activity of a family that was to haveeleven children in its entirety.

Gunder and Bertha's eldest child, Canton Benard Haug, for perhaps the obvious reason that his own family, needing more living space, and his grandparents needing a helpmate, was elected to live, not in his own home, but in the home of his

grandparents, Christian and Aletta. After all, there was an upstairs bedroom available andthe two houses were just a short distance from one another so that errands could be easily run between the two.

Canton, now almost 85 years old recalls this time as a lad, not yet in his teens, living with his immigrant grandparents. Although Aletta and Christian spoke only in their native Norwegian language, and Canton spoke English, communication

would flow freely through the mutual, receptive understanding of the two different languages of the two generations.

Christian Haug was tall and erect and Aletta short and slight. He was strong and she was gentle and soft spoken. Canton cannot remember his grandmother being anything but light hearted and happy. She was a wonderful cook, often baking home

made bread and Norwegian delicacies like ostkake and rommegrot. Aletta's cooking and baking were done on the big, black woodstove that stood in the corner of her kitchen. The stove was fueled with split railroad ties that Christian would

purchase from Jurn Anderson that he and Canton had cut into usable stove lengths with a bucksaw. There was no refrigeration for any of the food that was prepared in Aletta's kitchen, so the butchered meat would be "canned" and preserved in

glass jars.

Grandpa Christian would butcher pigs, the meat would be canned or smoked, and the pork blood would be saved for "blood polsa". Canton's job would be to stir the blood in order to keep it from coagulating, as it was poured out onto the winter

snow.

During summer, Christian and Aletta's big garden required their efforts and those of Canton too. Insecticides were not available, so Canton was to hand pick potato bugs off the plants, one by one and drop them into a pail of kerosene. Organic

gardening indeed!

Back inside of the little house, the parlor had a stove in its center, and through the isinglass, Canton could see its flame, and through a hole in the top, he would feed it coal from the coal bucket. The parlor stove heated the house as far

as it's warmth would radiate. Next to the stove, Grandpa Christian would rock in his personal rocking chair and smoke his pipe. Aletta's rocker accompanied his close by.

Canton pumped water from the well in the yardand carried it into the house in a pail. The household plumbing included the ubiquitous outdoor toilet.

Kerosene lamps provided the house with light. It was not until several years later that Canton, as a young adult, hired Chapin Electric to come out from Willmar to wire the house with electricity.

A barn that housed a cow or two stood in the backyard, just a short distance from the house. After milking the cow, Canton would bring the milk through the back door to Aletta, who would pour off enough for her household use, then he would

carry the remainder of the milk to his mother, soon to be consumed by the ten other younger Haug children.

Back by the barn stood Christian's grindstone. When his versatile scythe occasionally became dull from use, Canton remembers helping his grandfather sharpen the blade on the large stone. Its shape was big and round, and it took the hands of

two tosharpen that scythe.

Another of Grandpa Christian's contributions to his son Gunder's large family was to make, not only leather shoes for the children, but cross-country snow skis as well. The shoes were made on wooden shoe forms. The long, three inch wide skis,

were shaped and formed by soaking the thin boards in a boiler on the kitchen stove.

"Rat Trapping" was a winter time adventure when Grandfather Christian and young Canton would walk five or six miles through the countryside to "Happy Home" to check Grandpa's trap line for muskrats. If the line yielded "rats", Alfred Bergman,

the local mail carrier, would buy them for a sum of 10 or 15 cents each. Canton remembers the disappointment and frustration of the two "trappers" after having trudged that distance in the winter cold, only to find that some unknown thief had

beat them to where their traps were set, taking not only the "rats", but their entire trap line too!!

Meanwhile, it has been said many times, that Gunder Haug, Christian's son, and his wife, Bertha nurtured, supported, and cared for their family with the skill of an efficient corporation.

Trina Johnson was paid to help with some of the household tasks, but idleness was not the standard at the Haugs. The mounds of family laundry were washed in a washing machine powered by a gas engine. The water was soft rain water collected in

the cistern.

Each morning before school, after the customary breakfast of oatmeal, that had been prepared in a double boiler that night before and placed on the back of the stove, everyone in the family would be seated at the large table, each in his or her

own designated place. The two parents assumeed the "heads" of the table, and the baby in the high chair, at Bertha's side. The beds had all been made, the house was to be dusted, and thekitchen floor was to be scrubbed. Rugs, mops, and dust

cloths flew. This was the daily routine; everyone had responsibility, and all before anyone left the house.

Gunder Haug supported his family by running a meat market, shipping cattle for over 30 years, and of course eventually starting the successful John Deere farm implement business that remains in the family to this day.

It was weekly that Gunder Haug had 6 or 7 train car loads of cattle to be shipped to St. Paul from the stock yards in Pennock. Both Canton and Grandpa Christian Haug would help with the process of cattle shipping Canton remembers being told

by his father that he would have to ride on the cattle train to South St. Paul and return the next day; asomewhat frightening experience for a young man travelling that far from the security of little Pennock into a city, whose lights could be

seen stretching out forever across the horizon, as the train arrived late in the evening. Young Canton wondered if he'd ever find his way out of the maze of lights.

It is from these times and these tales that the Haug family finds it's roots. Life was less complex, but the elements that create a strong people were passed on through the generations to those of us who are proud to be decendents of this

exceptional family.

"THERE WERE GIANTS IN THE EARTH IN THOSE DAYS; AND ALSO AFTER THAT, WHEN THE SONS OF GOD CAME IN UNTO THE DAUGHTERS OF MEN, AND THEY BARE CHILDREN TO THEM, THE SAME BECAME MIGHTY MEN WHICH WERE OF OLD, MEN OF RENOWN.:

GENESIS V.4"

OBITUARY (Sep. 28,1995)

WILLMAR - Canton Haug, 89 of Willmar died Monday night at Rice Memorial Hospital.

Funeral Services are 11 a.m. Friday at Vinje Lutheran Church in Willmar with the Rev. Steven Knudson Officiating. Burial is in the church cemetery

Visitation is 5 to 8 p.m. today at Harvey Anderson Funeral Home in Willmar and one hour prior to services at the church Friday.

He was born Nov. 21, 1905, in Pennock to Gunder and Bertha (Greenfield) Haug. He attended school in Pennock.

He liven in Raymond until 1964 when he moved to Willmar. He co-owned and operated Carlson & Haug, a Chrysler-Plymouth automobile dealership, until it was liquidated in 1968. He later worked for Town & Country Motors in Willmar and Nelson

International Trucking Corp.

On Aug. 10, 1933, he married Harriet Kiland. He was a member of Raymond Lions, Raymond Fire Department, served as Raymond city clerk, school board member, Masons, Shriners, Willmar Golden K.

In 1992 he moved to Bethesda Pleasant View.

He is survived by one son, James (and Bonnie), of Bloomington; one daughter, Karen (and Lance) Smith, of Brainerd; two grandchildren; one great-grandchild; four sisters and two brothers, Rosella Burmaster of Minnetonka, Myrtle Thielen, of

Brooklyn Center, G. Beth Peterson, of Edina, Violet Dunning, of Spicer, Luverne Haug, of Tonka Bay and Francis Hill of St. Paul.

He was preceded in death by his parents, wife, one sister, and three brothers.

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Birthday November 21, 1905

  • The temperature on November 21, 1905 was between -5.5 °C and 0.7 °C and averaged -1.5 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1905: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
    • January 26 » The world's largest diamond ever, the Cullinan weighing 3,106.75 carats (0.621350kg), is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa.
    • April 17 » The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York, which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
    • June 27 » During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin.
    • June 30 » Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
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    • December 30 » Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell.

Christening day December 26, 1905

  • The temperature on December 26, 1905 was between -2.3 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 0.8 °C. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1905: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
    • April 4 » In India, an earthquake hits the Kangra Valley, killing 20,000, and destroying most buildings in Kangra, McLeod Ganj and Dharamshala.
    • May 5 » The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
    • October 5 » The Wright brothers pilot the Wright Flyer III in a new world record flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes.
    • October 26 » King Oscar II recognizes the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden.
    • November 18 » Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.
    • December 9 » In France, the law separating church and state is passed.

Day of death September 25, 1995

  • The temperature on September 25, 1995 was between 10.3 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1995: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 15.4 million citizens.
    • June 26 » Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup d'état.
    • July 9 » The Navaly church bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force killing 125 Tamil civilian refugees.
    • July 11 » Yugoslav Wars: Srebrenica massacre begins; lasts until 22 July.
    • August 24 » Microsoft Windows 95 was released to the public in North America.
    • November 5 » André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door.
    • November 12 » Erdut Agreement regarding the peaceful resolution to the Croatian War of Independence was reached.

Day of burial September 29, 1995

  • The temperature on September 29, 1995 was between 6.4 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 6.1 mm of rain during 3.7 hours. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1995: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 15.4 million citizens.
    • January 17 » The 6.9 Mw  Great Hanshin earthquake shakes the southern Hyōgo Prefecture with a maximum Shindo of VII, leaving 5,502–6,434 people dead, and 251,301–310,000 displaced.
    • February 17 » The Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador ends on a ceasefire brokered by the UN.
    • June 26 » Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup d'état.
    • June 29 » The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho District of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
    • July 27 » The Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C..
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