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T*o accompanying picture shows the log built by Mr. Cui hjup’s father In 1M0. The loo barn was built shortly after the houeeu Th*f *• •tul ,0 house liveatask, a*d ir In goo* cond.tlo n In spite of Its long use.*n i Log building* built on the A'unf Gulhnug form back in S**when kit father A' S'. township ot Eaton •-.i lerenty-.'krre year’ ago s'iif *fffiri|iii? '.11 t' ‘ fnnu. A'- -7- ...IE m*'5 .11 (ho original building’ am still doing trrritt on (hr pine’ in' :~r £; J' omr farm or other. [iBHSyBET■Knut Gulhaug. a man now .‘if 11 for* old. irn* born on a . ._lt;■ '-• - »ff7farm 0 the town ,d Liberty '-» 2. 2tSS. the same year hit Jgfather fended ea:/nin, G'dm Gcmcnu. A‘mrl »i*second eldest in a family of ninr children. and rfcolls (hr 3 * *‘1 a rig pioneer dog* of Hot on and the *UuggW of the family to nil get a start in the new roiiniry.i'j H'Ann be 1 co* four years old hi* father purebaeed forty no acre* of land in the Inun at Haten that iva* covered with II) treea, brush and slump*. A two-room log house no* erected IM at once to shelter the family, and hi* father started to make it clearing. .4* roav as the children were old enough they •1 1 cere given on or and put 0 w ort atsittiug with the clearing.1” This meant that Knut didn't hove much opportunity to at-oV tend school. He relates that hi* entire schooling consistedof tico weeks he attended the Sites school when he was ten*» or twelve years old. He woe needed to badly at home that ir. he tcilhdrew from school after the two 1 recks and went to bf work, he stale*.|U Three year* after hi* father purchased the first forty acres, another eighty arre* was purchased from Mr*. Siler. nd His father died when he was twcnlu year* old and Knut icas •*,' given full management of the farm and continued to run it Bn up till seren years ago. All hough Mr. Gulhaug never marts. vied, be brought up some who t of a family.' Hi* sister died In toung and left n family of young children. The haby was » taken by him and has lived with him ever since. She is now jfjj Mrs. Oscar Thompson, and she and her husband operate the lid form and make 0 home for their uncle.The abore pl«to*e thowt Knut Gulhaug. M-yetr«ld piensar o’ tha town e' Eaton and hit g'and-naphaw, HUI# Claylen Thompton. M« it 6ha»n teated in front of the two-room la* hoveo in which hit early endanoed w*l tpent. The houte It Pflll uted ’or a turn-m*r kitchen. Ill health ha made it rather difficult for Mr. Gulhaug fe take an active pari in farm work of late, but he Mill llkoe to talk of old tlmtt. and hit keen memor, makee him an Intcreallag con. veriaftonaiitt.i*ram onl.v IhroiiBh •tr.h rant uni nnd*r-bflnc IstMtOln*. ...........rrn»or will liw ot th»ni ih« *-nnfr»»nce. whtrhKNUT GULHAUG, 76-YEAR-OLD TOWN-OF-EATON PIONEER LIKES TO REMINISCE OF THE EARLY DAYS IN COUNTY
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Manitowoc Herald News
Manitowoc, Wisconsin, US
Mon, Dec 21, 1931
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