THE STORY OF MARKKULA PROPERTY Young couples from Finland claimed land on Bark Point and settled their homesteads several years before the date when Clover Township was formed. Their story, their names and the names of their descendants, is well told in The Cranberry Chronicles by Robert Uedelhofen. Henry and Wilhelmina Markkula came from Finland…

WILLIAM AND ANN LUTTMAN   William Luttman came to the U.S. sometime in the late 1920’s from northern Germany. He was born in 1903. He lived and worked for a while in Chicago and then bought land sight unseen in Northern Wisconsin near a town called Herbster. Around this time, he went back to Germany…

WILLIAM AND VIOLET LARSON   William Larson 1906-1997 Violet (Christenson) Larson 1915-2001   William (Bill) was born on Bark Point in Herbster. His family moved to Cornucopia in 1916. William married Violet in 1940 and adopted her son, Victor Allen Korppas. They resided on Bark River Road. In 1941, they had son, John Andrew Larson.…

  THE ARNE & ELSIE KUSEL FAMILY   Elsie Forsberg Kusel was born on August 29, 1907, the oldest of five children born to John and Marie Forsberg, who were of Swedish descent. John and Marie Forsberg had emigrated from Vasa, Finland in 1900 and 1902 and were married on July 4, 1902 in Duluth,…

THE HISTORY OF THE CARL AND MARTHA HAARSTAD FAMILY This is a sketch of the Carl and Martha Haarstad family as recalled and reflected by their eldest daughter, Carlene. Carl and Martha (Erickson) Haarstad settled in Herbster in 1944. Carl was the son of Amanda and Conrad Haarstad who resided in Duluth, Minnesota.  Martha was…