Erich Torstensen LIEN
- Born: 3 Jul 1820, Rollag, Buskerud, Norway 2
- Baptized: 23 Jul 1820, Veggli, Rollag, Buskerud, Norway 2
- Marriage: Christi Knudsdatter HØYSET on 15 Nov 1843 in Veggli, Rollag, Buskerud, Norway 1
- Died: 13 Aug 1883, Fillmore County, MN at age 63
Other names for Erich were Erik Torsteinssen LIEN and Erik Tostensen LIEN.
Death Notes:
the date is hard to read - possibly June
Noted events in his life were:
• Immigration: from Norway, 1846, America. 3 4 Leaving Rollag
2 Jun 1846
74 Erik Tostensen Bøhler J. Lien 26
75 Kristi Knudsdatter 31
76 Margith 2
77 Tosten 1/2
Port of Departure: Hamburg, Germany
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Ship Name: Genio
Arriving in New York 16 Sep 1846
131 Eric Thoretenson 26
132 Christi 30
133 Margit 2 1/2
134 Thoreten 3/4
• Residence: Jefferson Prairie near Clinton, 1846, Rock County, WI. 5 Dei drog til Jefferson Prairie, Wisc. til svogeren Ole Nattestad. Sjå Nattestad og O. Høyset of Numedalslagets Årbok og mange andre publikasjoner of historieverk.
[They went to Jefferson Prairie, Wisc. the brothers Ole Nattestad. See Nattestad and O. Song of Numedal team yearbook and many other publications of historical work.]
• Reference: History of Rushford: The First Decade, 1853, Fillmore County, MN. p34
In June of 1853 [...]
The following month Erik T. Lien came into the valley from Boone County, Iowa and claimed land just north of the Root River bridge midway Rushford and Peterson on the farm now owned by Marvin and Robert Brand. At this time Peter Peterson Haslerud [Erik's first cousin] claimed land which later became the townsite bearing his name, while Hellick Gliem claimed the Robert Highum farm and Even Reishus selected the present Isberg farm as his new home.
p41
In July, 1853 Erick T. Lien came to the Root River Valley from Boone County, Iowa with three yoke of oxen and procured a claim in Sections 16 & 21 on the farm now owned by Robert and Marvin Brand, near the Root River Bridge. Oliver Wilson accompanied him driving a span of oxen for him. Oliver was a lad of seventeen and too young to pre-empt land so he returned to Iowa and hired out as a farm hand until 1856 when he returned to the valley and purchased 160 acres in Section 20. He later acquired more land and a great deal of this worlds goods and retired a wealthy man.
Jurie Lien was born on her fathers farm in October, 1853, being the first white child born in the valley and probably the first in Fillmore County. However, she died at the age of eight years and was buried on the Styrk Isberg farm (probably in the old section of the Lutheran Cemetery).
• Land: section 21, 1856, Fillmore County, MN. Rushford and Peterson
7 Oct 1856, Erick Lien, 21
• Census: Township 104, 1857, Fillmore County, MN. line 34
36 50 Errick Lee 36 Norway Farmer
Christie Lee 38 Norway
Margarit " 6 WI
Gura " 4 MN Terr
Charity " 2 MN Terr
Lars Knudtson 62 Norway Farmer
Margarit Knudtson 22 Norway
[page 25 of 58]
• Notes: unlikely in Rushford, 1860, Fillmore County, MN. line 1
538 513 Erick Leen 40 Norway
Ann 38
Isabell 12
John 10
Marie 8
Helena 6
Ole 4 MN
Knut 2
Ann 1
[page 9 of 12]
• Census: Rushford, 1865, Fillmore County, MN.
109 Erick T. Lien
Christie "
Margit "
Mary Gulbrandson
[page 6 of 17]
• Census: Rushford, 1870, Fillmore County, MN.
98 98 Lien Erick 50 Norway
" Christy 54 Norway
[page 23 of 29]
• Census: Rushford > District 65, 1880, Fillmore County, MN. 49 49 Johnson Carl 36 Norway
--- Margaret 28 wife WI
--- Christian 11 MN
--- Inger 9
--- Frederick 5
--- Martin 3
--- Caroline 1m
Lein Erick 60 father-in-law Norway
--- Christina 65 mother-in-law Norway
Ellingson Isabel 18 servant Norway
[page 26 and 27 of 38]
• Cemetery: Rushford Lutheran Cemetery, 1883, Fillmore County, MN. tall, white monument
ERIK TOSTENSEN LIEN
1820 - 1883
• Reference: Norsk Emigrants to Rock Prairie. Name: Erick Torsteinsen Lien
Year: 1846-1856
Place: Wisconsin
Family Members: Wife Christie
Source Publication Code: 2775.60
Primary Immigrant: Lien, Erick Torsteinsen
Annotation: Date and place of settlement. Place of origin in Norway, date of baptism, and date of confirmation may also be provided.
Source Bibliography: GREGERSON, MERLE W. "Norsk Emigrants to Rock Prairie." In Norway Family Farm Surname and Emigrant Lists for Norwegians. Onalaska, WI: the author, nd.
Page: 17
• Reference: History of Fillmore County, Minnesota, 1912, Fillmore County, MN. pp259-260
Early Settlers. The Root river valley was the first part of the town to be settled, the pioneers being Norwegian, who came directly from Wisconsin by way of McGregor and Decorah, Iowa, with ox teams. The first came in 1853, and were Ole Olson Tuff and Halver Goodrich. Mrs. Tuff took a claim in sections twenty-sic, twenty-three, and twenty-seven. It is south of the river and southwest of South Rushford. [...] In the same month of July came Erick T. Lien, who drove in with three yoke of oxen and procured a farm in sections sixteen and twenty-one. [...]
Erich married Christi Knudsdatter HØYSET, daughter of Knud Gundersen HØYSET and Guri Olsdatter WEDHUUS, on 15 Nov 1843 in Veggli, Rollag, Buskerud, Norway.1 (Christi Knudsdatter HØYSET was born on 29 Mar 1815 in Rollag, Buskerud, Norway 6, baptized on 9 Apr 1815 in Veggli, Rollag, Buskerud, Norway 6 and died on 5 Mar 1903 in Minnehaha County, SD.)
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