Person:Hans Stuve (3)

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• • • «u»Stuve family history told to Sheri Stuve by Almira Stuve Helwig«/u»:

Howell and Margaret Stuve came to the US (left Norway May 13, 1877 and arrived in the Port of NY on June 1877. They came with their 8 children: Martin, Lars, Hans, Mattie, Gilbert, Edward, John, and Hattie. They settled in Jackson County, WI near the area of Northfied (Timber Creek) and were farmers. One of the sons may have come later as it is believed he served in the Norwegians Army. The family came from the area of Oslo, Norway. Hans came to the Humbird area and worked for Carter, who owned the Carter's Mill. Hans, Lars (Louis), and Ed went west to Harrison, Idaho area. Gilbert went too, but the other three brothers owned and operated a shingle saw mill. Martin stayed in the Fairchild area and the youngest child, John, stayed on the home farm, and it eventually became his. Hans went to school to learn the English language and while out west he wrote to a girl back home, (he worked with her father at Carter's mill). Emma Jenkins and asked her to marry him. He was 33 and she was 18 when they were married. Emma had been born and raised in Humbird and when a child had scarlet fever which left her eyes crossed. After being married at her sister Mary Almira's in Depere, WI., they went to stay at one of Han's sister's in St. Paul , MN (Mattie's and then she had her eyes straightened. She had taken a test and would then be qualified to teach school out west. They went to Clark Ford, Idaho and worked at making a home and their first child, Howell Archie Stuve was born there at Sept. 22, 1890. A couple years later they moved to Harrison, Idaho. Hans' brother Louis married the girl who helped Emma with housework, Emma Glover. These were the only two brothers to marry English mates. The rest married Norwegians and the other families could all speak Norwegian. Six more children were born while they were in Harrison: Raymond, Margaret, Manley, Almira, Earl, Mamie. Mamie died when she was just two months old in 1904. Emma did the cooking for the men that worked at the shingle mill and this is why she engaged Emma Glover to help her with the children and housework. Louis then became interested in her and married her. In 1904 there was a depression and the Stuve brothers (Ed, Louis, Hans) decided to sell the mill and go into fruit farming in southern Idaho. Hans then received a telegram that the furniture that they shipped to southern Idaho had burned in a warehouse fire. He turned to Emma and said they might as well go back to Humbird, WI to the home Jenkins farm which Emma had inherited when her mother died in Dec. 1899. Mr. C.B. Travis had been in charge of renting it out for them. Hans had come back in 1899 with his mother-in-law's remains when she died and buried her in Humbird. She had come to live with Emma and Hans when the children were small. Almira Stuve (Helwig) was only one year old when her Grandma Almira Stetson Jenkins died, but her mother told how she hung around the bed where Almira was. The other two brothers did go to southern Idaho to the area of Payette and New Plymouth. Hans and Emma came back to Humbird in 1904 and one more son was born to them when they returned: Martin. Three years later Hans received a letter from the state of Idaho that the timber claim or homestead that he applied for (the state turned it down for school purposes) would now be open for him to prove up on if he still desired to do so. "This wonderful timber! It is worth $40,000 or more, I can not overlook it" he said. At that point he left Howell and Raymond, his two oldest sons to dispose of the very good horses, cattle and farming equipment...with the rest of the family to follow in the spring...then he went ahead to get things ready. In the spring of 1907...was March with flooding rivers which held up the train. Hans met the family in Spokane, WA. and then took them to Harrison, up the St. Joe River. There the family went on horseback up to the homestead on Marble Creek. Hans had built a large cabin which was heated by the fireplace. The snow was so deep in the winter they took pictures of Howell and Raymond shoveling it off the roof wile Manley and Almira made steps in the snow down to the ground. Emma took many school books along and taught daily lessons so they didn't lose any grades...Almira was in the 4th grade at the time. Howell was 21 when he finally graduated from high school and valedictorian at that! Almira's friend, Clara York didn't want her to get ahead of her so she agreed to go into the 5th grade and Manley had been studying with her so he did too. Lulu Hepburn of Chippewa Falls was there in Harrison that year and was the teacher. Howell and Raymond did attend high school in Harrison , Idaho, but Howell worked in the sawmill too and played basketball and won the Northern Idaho Championship in basketball. While back in Idaho at the homestead on Marble Creek near Remington, Idaho, the 9th child was born on Sunday at 7:30 am with Hans delivering her, Helen Esther Marble Stuve was born. The family returned to Humbird in 1912 and Howell graduated from high school there. Their 10th and last child, John Ivan Stuve was born May 9, 1912. Manley and Almira were finishing 8th grade that year. Howell, Almira (changed her spelling to Almyra), and John all graduated as valedictorians of the family and Raymond and Manley as salutatorians. When Hans was delivering Helen, the rest of the family was out in the lovely flower garden that had been developed. When they went into the cabin, Martin who was almost three and had not seen anyone smaller than himself...stretched and said, "My! I'm big!" Living about 40 miles from where others lived they did not see many other people except six surveyors who came in for a few days once during the year and a half that they were there. Almira didn't remember the family ever talking Norwegian while she was growing up since her mother didn't know the language.

1. ↑ (Oppland, Norway). Parish register (located at Regional State Archives of Hamar, Norway). Digital images.. (The National Archives of Norway. \i Arkivverket DigitalArkivet\i0 . http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read?idx_reset=nytt.)
   "Torpa, Nordsinni, Østsinni 1847-1859," Births 1856 page 46 #58.
2. ↑ Svein-Erik Ødegaard. Boka om Land VIII Nordsinni, Grend - Bosted - Familie, Volume VIII bygdebok. (Nordre Land Kommune (Township), Oppland, Norway: Nordre Land Kommune, 1997.)
   Halla (Stuvehalla): page 394, #2.3.
3. ↑ Family Accounts
   Hattie Stuve (Martin's daughter).
4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 Stuve, Hattie. Birthday Book of Martin Stuve Family (copied by Hattie). Privately held by (possibly a descendant of Bernard D.
5. ↑ ^5.0 5.1 Stuve, John Ivan. Supplied by compiler . to Delano Kahlstorf, who added this on 12 Sep 2008. "Family Record from John Ivan Stuve's Memorial Book.".
6. ↑ ^6.0 6.1 Family Source of Data*
   "Descendants of Hans Stuve" compiled by Dorothy (Stuve) Kostlevy, sent to S. Lemley 21 Aug 1982. (This compilation contains only names, birth, marriage and death dates; the only locations are residences).
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6} \i Obituary\i0.. (N.p.: n.p., n.d.)
   Hans H. Stuve.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2} (Oppland, Norway). Parish register (located at Regional State Archives of Hamar, Norway). Digital images.. (The National Archives of Norway. \i Arkivverket DigitalArkivet\i0 . http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read?idx_reset=nytt.)
   "Torpa, Nordsinni, Østsinni in Land 1847-1859," Births 1856, page 46, #58 Hans Christian.
9. ↑ Family Accounts
   Hattie, Martin's daughter.
10. ↑ Del Kahlstorf. Database, Ancestry.com, \i Ancestry.com Family Trees\i0  . ((http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/))
    ), Hans Christian Hovelsen Stuve.
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3} Family Source of Data*
    Stuve family history told to Sheri Stuve by Almira Stuve Helwig probably in 1970's, sent in e-mail from Sheri Stuve to Sharon Lemley, January 14, 2001.
12. ↑ ^12.0 12.1 Svein-Erik Ødegaard. Boka om Land VIII Nordsinni, Grend - Bosted - Familie, Volume VIII bygdebok. (Nordre Land Kommune (Township), Oppland, Norway: Nordre Land Kommune, 1997.)
    page 394.
13. ↑ (Oppland, Norway). Parish register (located at Regional State Archives of Hamar, Norway). Digital images.. (The National Archives of Norway. \i Arkivverket DigitalArkivet\i0 . http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read?idx_reset=nytt.)
    "Nordre Land 1872-1881," Emigration 1877 page 302, #58-64.
14. ↑ "Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild," database, Created Maintained by the ISTG™Immigrant Ships Transcribers Gu. ((http://www.immigrantships.net/ : 1998-2009))
    ), # 132 Hans Hanvelsen; Volume 3 (New York)- 1877 - SS Devonia 15 June.
15. ↑ Wisconsin, La Crosse. 1880 U.S. census, \i Heritage Quest\i0, Digital images. (http://persi.heritagequestonline.com/hqoweb/library/do/census/search/basic: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.)
    T9, roll 1432, ONALASKA, enumeration district (ED) 51, p. 437, dwelling 315, family 325, Line 21. indexed as STOWE, HANS.
16. ↑ Family Source of Data*
    "Timeline" from North Idaho Centenial magazine 1890-1990, sent by Elizabeth Kirk, letter of 11 Jan 1993 to S. Lemley.
17. ↑ Bureau of Land Management. "GLO Records." Database and images.. (\i General Land Office Records\i0 . http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/.)
    Patentee: HANS H STUVE, Document #0354 (http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/).
18. ↑ He died on Wednesday, and burial was on Saturday, July 12 in Mentor Cemetery, Humbird, Wisconsin.
19. ↑ Hans died there at his farm home.
20. ↑ His wife, Emma, had inherited the home Jenkins farm when her mother died in Dec. 1899. They farmed there from 1904-1907 and (supposedly) after 1912. The farm had been rented out during their time in Idaho before 1904 (and probably between 1907 and 1912, as well).
21. ↑ The birth date is very clearly recorded as the 27th in the Norwegian church book birth records. [However, the pastor could have misunderstood and recorded the 27th instead of the 7th because the 27th was closer to the baptism date].
22. ↑ 1880 > WISCONSIN > LA CROSSE > ONALASKA
    Series: T9 Roll: 1432 Page: 437
    Name: STOWE, HANS
    Age 23
    Race W
    Birthplace: NORW
    State, County, Location: WI, LA CROSSE, ONALASKA
    Year: 1880
    (Single White Male, Boarder in the household of Ole Bergerson. Occupation: "Work -- R???? R???????") [writing is unclear].
23. ↑ There he worked in the shingle mill business, returning to Wisconsin in 1889 to marry Miss Emma Jenkins. They returned west, where with his three brothers, he operated a shingle mill, first at Clark's Fork and later at Harrison, Idaho.
24. ↑ Hans owned a shingle mill in Harrison, Idaho and at Bonners' Ferry. According to the 1900 US Census, his brother, Gilbert, and four boarders lived with Hans and family in Harrison, Idaho in 1900. Two of the boarders were laborers at the shingle mill, one was a cook, and one was an engineer at the shingle mill.
25. ↑ where they remained for two years before again returning to Idaho, locating on a homestead near Harrison.
26. ↑ the family took the train west to Spokane, Washington. Hans, who had gone ahead probably the previous fall, met them there and then took them to Harrison, Idaho. They traveled up the St. Joe River, then went on horseback up to the homestead on Marble Creek. Hans had built a large cabin which was heated by the fireplace. The snow was so deep in the winter they took pictures of Howell and Raymond shoveling it off the roof wile Manley and Almira made steps in the snow down to the ground.
27. ↑ Land description: NW Section 34, T45-N, R3-E, Boise Meridian (Land Office at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho). Patent #100060 signed by President William H. Taft 3 Jan 1910.
28. ↑ from their homestead on Marble Creek in Idaho. ((1911 in Hans' obituary; 1912 in Stuve family history told to Sheri Stuve by Almira Stuve Helwig probably in 1970's).
29. ↑ (9 July 1930 is more likely the accurate date. The 7th was likely miscopied because he was born on the 7th, although in a different month).