The Hesseldahl family - Minnesota Pioneers

Nicolai Hesseldahl and his family

For students of Minnesota history, this web site may provide some insights into the day-to-day lives of early Minnesota farm families, and the rigorous and sometimes dangerous lives they lived. For family history researchers, this site will provide the information we have accumulated about the Hesseldahl and Larsen families. Ours has been a labor of love, and an act of continuing the work of the first Hesseldahl family historian, Agnes Hesseldahl Sharp. We have made every attempt to be accurate. We hope that the descendants of other Minnesota pioneers and (please God) future generations of Hesseldahl descendants, will find this information of interest.

We have also just (February 2000) added information about the Peterson and Roessler families, both also early farm families in Faribault County and at least one railroad family in Martin County. These two families became related by marriage in the 1930's. The hotlinks are kept separate to help researchers stick to one family line. For this work, we are indebted to the late Rodney Hynes, who did much of the original research some 40 years ago, and to Joan Roessler, whose exhaustive research of the Roessler family was largely completed in the late 1990's.

Other surnames found herein include (mostly anecdotal rather than genealogical):

(Hesseldahl) Amundsen, Cahoon, Castle, Christensen, De Leon, Derby, Drake, Dybevick, Gaard, Goltz, Goord, Hansen, Hartman, Hoofnagle, How (Have), Hummelshoj, Jacobson, Kennicott, Krosch, Mehl, Mikkelson, Nelson, Ogburn, Olson, Pederson, Platt, Dr. Russ, Sabin, Sharp, Snyder, Dr. Thoreson, Tiegland, Toftdahl, Warner, Whitehurst.

(Peterson) Danielson, Felt (Feldt), Jacobson, Johnson, Orstad.

(Roessler) Gerlach (Osteboe), Schroeder, Hamann, Schinke,Stewart.

Warning! I have included several historical photographs in many places, under the assumption that people patient enough to be researching family history are probably patient enough to wait a minute while a photo or two downloads. E-mail the author.

Norman L. and Laurie J. (Halvorson) Hesseldahl

 Hesseldahl - Larsen Family History

• Recollections of Lillian Hesseldahl Castle
• Recollections of Frank Hesseldahl
• Origins of the Hesseldahl family
• Children and Grandchildren of Nicolai and Magdalene Hesseldahl
• Recollections of Agnes Hesseldahl Sharp
• A Memory of Grandma Hesseldahl
• I Remember Mamma, Grandma and Grandpa
• How Nicolai Got His Name
• The New York Hesseldahls - a mystery
• Larsen Family Genealogy
• Hesseldahl Family Genealogy

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Peterson - Roessler family history

• The Petersons Come to America
• Peterson Family Genealogy
• Recollections of Myrtle Peterson
• Recollections of Clara Augusta Roessler Hamman
• The Roessler Family
• Roessler Family Genealogy