FLEMING, RUEL AND DONNA   Ruel and Donna moved to Herbster in the fall of 1952 with a one-year-old daughter, Kathy. Their son, David, was born in 1954. A second son, Tim, was born in 1956. Ruel was employed by the South Shore District as an Industrial Arts Teacher and Coach. However, his duties were…

FORSBERG, JOHN AND MARIE (MARY)   John Forsberg and Marie (Mary) Flinkfelt were both of Swedish descent and grew up and went to school together in Vasa, Finland. John, a hard-working and ambitious young man, came to America in 1900 landing in northern Wisconsin where his brother was already settled. Marie, an adventurous and brave…

  FORSBERG, CHARLES AND MARIE   The (Wiks) Forsbergs were Swede-Finns (Swedish People) living in Finland. Charles was born May 3, 1881 and his wife Marie (Rabin) was born in 1885. They came to the United States on February 13, 1907 and bought 80 acres on Bark Point for $420.00. Charles received naturalization papers on…

ERICKSON, ANDREW AND FANNY   Andrew Erickson was born in Vaasa, Finland on May 18, 1885. At age nineteen, Andrew came to America on the ship Virginian departing Finland on May 3, 1905. The destination for the Virginian was Duluth, Minnesota. Fanny Korppas came with her family when she was eight years old. The Korppas…

DRIESSEN, IRA AND EVELYN   Ira Driessen originally from Balfour, North Dakota met Evelyn Touve in Duluth, MN where they were both employed. They were married in 1929 and moved to Balfour, ND. In 1937, they returned to Wisconsin. They bought the Reynolds’ place on Cranberry River Road where they had a dairy farm. They…

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…