- CHRISTIAN K. NEWHOUSE, who has passed his whole life as a
farmer in Rock county,
- Wisconsin, was born on a farm in Clinton township, where
he now resides, on June 12, 1849. He is the second of a family
of four children, three of whom are now (1907) living, born to
Kittill and Kari (NATESTA) NEWHOUSE, both natives of Norway.
They came to the United States in the spring of 1839, before
their marriage, in company with a number of their countrymen
induced to come hither by Austen Natesta (a brother of Ole Knudson
NATESTA, the first Norwegian settler of Wisconsin), who returned
to Norway after first coming to this country to organize and
bring hither a colony of his countrymen. Kittill NEWHOUSE entered
from the government a tract of land, being a part of the farm
now owned by our subject, married and there made a home and reared
his family. He was a successful and model farmer, a king-hearted
man and an upright citizen., whose death occurred on November
26, 1874, when he was sixty-five years of age, and was mourned
by a large circle of friends. He was a Republican in politics
and with his wife was connected with the Norwegian Lutheran church.
His widow, who was a sister of Ole Knudson NATESTA, died some
four years later, and the remains of both are interred in the
Norwegian cemetery at Bergen, Wis. After the death of his father
Christian K. by purchase came into possession of the family homestead,
comprising 167 acres of fine, fertile land richly improved in
sections 20, 21 and 29, Clinton township, where he has always
been engaged in general farming and stock raising.
- Mr. NEWHOUSE has always given close attention to his affairs
and is highly esteemed for his
- manly qualities and justly counted among the representative
men of his community. He is a Republican in politics and for
some time has held the office of deacon in the Norwegian Lutheran
church, of which his family also are honored members.
- On April 21, 1881, Mr. NEWHOUSE married Miss Ragnihld LARSON,
a native of Norway,
- who came to this country when a child. They have three children,
viz.: Cora, unmarried and living in Denver, Colo., and Charles
and Nettie, who live with their parents on the family homestead.
All the children were born in Clinton township and received
their education in the public schools of Clinton.
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- Taken from "Rock County, Wis." by William Fiske
Brown, (c)1908, pp. 991-992.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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