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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