DINGMAN, WILLIAM AND HYLDA   William and Hylda Dingman moved to the Aaron and Mathilda Korppas’s farm on Bark Point Road around the mid 1930’s, now known as Dingman Road. Hylda, born September 1, 1907 was the daughter of Aaron and Mathilda. She had one brother, Victor, and two sisters, Anna and Fanny. Hylda had…

CHRISTENSON, ANDREW AND MARY Andrew Christenson 1888-1953 Mary (Peterson) Christenson 1888-1980   Andrew Christenson and Mary Peterson were both born in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 1907 they met on a ship as they were both bound for Chicago. They married and had two daughters, Rose (1910) and Violet (1915), while in Chicago. In 1917, Andrew and…

BUCKLEY, DANIEL AND CATHERINE   Daniel and Catherine (Keane) Buckley moved to Herbster from Chicago in March of 1918. Catherine Agnes Keane was born in Cloonfad, Ballyhaunis, County Mayo, Ireland in 1889 and immigrated to Chicago in 1908. Daniel Joseph Buckley was born in Chicago in 1884, the son of Charles Kennedy Buckley and Mary…

DANA, CLAYTON AND SIGNE   Signe was born on July 23, 1919 to Charles and Marie Forsberg in Herbster. She went to Ashland County Normal to become a teacher and taught school in Herbster for a time. She married Clayton Dana on June 22, 1946. He was born in Iowa and had served in North…

DeGIACINTO, CHARLES AND PAULINA   Everyone called her “Grandma D” and some people might not even have known Paulina’s last name was DeGiacinto. The DeGiacinto family claimed Herbster as their home in 1921. They came to Herbster to become landowners and raise a family. The DeGiacintos continued to live in Herbster and became a positive…

  BIOLO, JOHN AND HILJA   John Biolo was born April 22, 1911 in Winsted, Connecticut to Sylvester Biolo and Angelina Fagino who came to this country from Italy. They moved to Herbster, Wisconsin where they had a home on Highway 13 east of town. Hilja Katherine Korhonen was born November 8, 1914 in Brule,…

BEEKSMA, ONNE AND SYBIL   In 1902, in the town of Sneek, Holland, in the province of Freisland, Onne (Anne) Beeksma married Sybil (Sibbetie) Elzinga. They left Holland with their first born, William (Gabe) in 1905 and settled in Winnipeg, Canada for nine years. During this time, they farmed, gardened and peddled milk door to…

  BECKMAN, CLAYTON AND LOUISE   Louise Erickson Beckman was born on October 15, 1935, in Herbster, Wisconsin, the youngest daughter of Andrew and Fanny Erickson. Clayton Beckman was born in Cloverland, Wisconsin on December 30, 1933, son of Ailie and William Beckman. Clayton and Louise were married in Duluth, Minnesota on October 16, 1954.…