Served ministry 1915-1966
See Mollie
Children:
1. Borghild Alida Sterner (1916-1999) of LA, CA
2. Mildred Ovidia Conlan (1918-1999) of St Paul, MN
3. Joseph Bernard Kleven (1922-2012) of Oregon and AZ
4. Ruth Marie Staber (1925-2008) of MN
5. Esther L Prestegard (1928-2015) of Madison, WI
Rev. Ole M. Kleven, Rice Lake, a clergyman of the Norwegian Lutheran faith, is pastor of the Bethany Congregation of Rice Lake, Our Saviour's Congregation in Doyle Township, Stanfold Congregation in Stanfold Township, and Long Lake Congregation at Long Lake, Washburn County.
He was born in Strum, Trempealeau County, Wis., Sept. 28, 1885, the son of Knute and Anna (Olson) Kleven, natives of Norway, who came to America when young people, were married at Strum, and are still engaged in agriculture on a farm near that village. They are people of probity and piety and are highly regardedby all who know them.
In the family there are six children (siblings):
1. Rev. O. M.,
2. Tillie, now Mrs. Andrew Orlid;
3. Christophine, now Mrs. Otto Larson;
4. Emil,
5. Palmer
6. Julia.
The subject of this sketch attended the public schools of his nativevillage. As a boy he determined to devote his life to the ministry, and inorder to secure funds to educate himself for that work he secured employmentfor six years with a lumber yard at Stanley, Wis. In 1906 he entered St. Olaf College at Northfield Minn , and after taking the preparatory and classicalcourse was graduated with the class of 1912 He then entered the United ChurchTheological Seminary at St Anthony Park Minn , from which he was graduated May 28 1915. On June 13 he was ordained at Minneapolis by T. H. Dahl, D. D.president of the church. He was called by the mission committeeto the mission field having seven congregations near the border line betweenMinnesota and Ontario: the Zion Congregation at International Falls, the SilverCreek Congregation at Boudette, Minn., the Rainy River Congregation inOntario, Canada, the Lake-Wood Congregation at the Lake of the Woods, OurSaviour's Congregation at Stratton, Ontario, St. Peter's Congregation at Black-hawk, Ontario, and Fort Francis Congregation at Ft. Francis. His excellentwork there resulted in his present call in 1916. Here the Rev. Mr. Kleven iskept busy ministering to the spiritual needs of his people, and taking hisrightful share as a leader in all uplift movements. The Bethany Congregation has 142 families, Our Saviour's Congregation 22, Stanfold Congregation26, and Long Lake Congregation 24. In Bethany Congregation alone in 1920 heheld 68 services, 30 in English and 38 in Norwegian, in addition to theservices in the other three congregations, and the usual pastoral duties of study, calls, baptisms, catechism classes, marriages and funerals. As a part of the permanent work of the congregations, the pastor has inaugurated a system by which every family in each of his parishes is fully recorded in the church archives. He is a member of the National Young People's League of the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America. Mr. Kleven was married Sept. 11, 1915, to Mollie Stensby, who was born in Hale Township, Trempealeau County, this state, June 3, 1888. There are two children in the family, BorghildAlida, born June 23, 1916, and Mildred Ovidia, born Aug. 8, 1918. Abstracted from pages 255/256 of The History Of Barron County, Wisconsin, published in 1922, by H.C. Cooper, Jr. & Co., Minneapolis, Minnesota.
See Mollie
Children:
1. Borghild Alida Sterner (1916-1999) of LA, CA
2. Mildred Ovidia Conlan (1918-1999) of St Paul, MN
3. Joseph Bernard Kleven (1922-2012) of Oregon and AZ
4. Ruth Marie Staber (1925-2008) of MN
5. Esther L Prestegard (1928-2015) of Madison, WI
Rev. Ole M. Kleven, Rice Lake, a clergyman of the Norwegian Lutheran faith, is pastor of the Bethany Congregation of Rice Lake, Our Saviour's Congregation in Doyle Township, Stanfold Congregation in Stanfold Township, and Long Lake Congregation at Long Lake, Washburn County.
He was born in Strum, Trempealeau County, Wis., Sept. 28, 1885, the son of Knute and Anna (Olson) Kleven, natives of Norway, who came to America when young people, were married at Strum, and are still engaged in agriculture on a farm near that village. They are people of probity and piety and are highly regardedby all who know them.
In the family there are six children (siblings):
1. Rev. O. M.,
2. Tillie, now Mrs. Andrew Orlid;
3. Christophine, now Mrs. Otto Larson;
4. Emil,
5. Palmer
6. Julia.
The subject of this sketch attended the public schools of his nativevillage. As a boy he determined to devote his life to the ministry, and inorder to secure funds to educate himself for that work he secured employmentfor six years with a lumber yard at Stanley, Wis. In 1906 he entered St. Olaf College at Northfield Minn , and after taking the preparatory and classicalcourse was graduated with the class of 1912 He then entered the United ChurchTheological Seminary at St Anthony Park Minn , from which he was graduated May 28 1915. On June 13 he was ordained at Minneapolis by T. H. Dahl, D. D.president of the church. He was called by the mission committeeto the mission field having seven congregations near the border line betweenMinnesota and Ontario: the Zion Congregation at International Falls, the SilverCreek Congregation at Boudette, Minn., the Rainy River Congregation inOntario, Canada, the Lake-Wood Congregation at the Lake of the Woods, OurSaviour's Congregation at Stratton, Ontario, St. Peter's Congregation at Black-hawk, Ontario, and Fort Francis Congregation at Ft. Francis. His excellentwork there resulted in his present call in 1916. Here the Rev. Mr. Kleven iskept busy ministering to the spiritual needs of his people, and taking hisrightful share as a leader in all uplift movements. The Bethany Congregation has 142 families, Our Saviour's Congregation 22, Stanfold Congregation26, and Long Lake Congregation 24. In Bethany Congregation alone in 1920 heheld 68 services, 30 in English and 38 in Norwegian, in addition to theservices in the other three congregations, and the usual pastoral duties of study, calls, baptisms, catechism classes, marriages and funerals. As a part of the permanent work of the congregations, the pastor has inaugurated a system by which every family in each of his parishes is fully recorded in the church archives. He is a member of the National Young People's League of the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America. Mr. Kleven was married Sept. 11, 1915, to Mollie Stensby, who was born in Hale Township, Trempealeau County, this state, June 3, 1888. There are two children in the family, BorghildAlida, born June 23, 1916, and Mildred Ovidia, born Aug. 8, 1918. Abstracted from pages 255/256 of The History Of Barron County, Wisconsin, published in 1922, by H.C. Cooper, Jr. & Co., Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Served ministry 1915-1966
See Mollie
Children:
1. Borghild Alida Sterner (1916-1999) of LA, CA
2. Mildred Ovidia Conlan (1918-1999) of St Paul, MN
3. Joseph Bernard Kleven (1922-2012) of Oregon and AZ
4. Ruth Marie Staber (1925-2008) of MN
5. Esther L Prestegard (1928-2015) of Madison, WI
Rev. Ole M. Kleven, Rice Lake, a clergyman of the Norwegian Lutheran faith, is pastor of the Bethany Congregation of Rice Lake, Our Saviour's Congregation in Doyle Township, Stanfold Congregation in Stanfold Township, and Long Lake Congregation at Long Lake, Washburn County.
He was born in Strum, Trempealeau County, Wis., Sept. 28, 1885, the son of Knute and Anna (Olson) Kleven, natives of Norway, who came to America when young people, were married at Strum, and are still engaged in agriculture on a farm near that village. They are people of probity and piety and are highly regardedby all who know them.
In the family there are six children (siblings):
1. Rev. O. M.,
2. Tillie, now Mrs. Andrew Orlid;
3. Christophine, now Mrs. Otto Larson;
4. Emil,
5. Palmer
6. Julia.
The subject of this sketch attended the public schools of his nativevillage. As a boy he determined to devote his life to the ministry, and inorder to secure funds to educate himself for that work he secured employmentfor six years with a lumber yard at Stanley, Wis. In 1906 he entered St. Olaf College at Northfield Minn , and after taking the preparatory and classicalcourse was graduated with the class of 1912 He then entered the United ChurchTheological Seminary at St Anthony Park Minn , from which he was graduated May 28 1915. On June 13 he was ordained at Minneapolis by T. H. Dahl, D. D.president of the church. He was called by the mission committeeto the mission field having seven congregations near the border line betweenMinnesota and Ontario: the Zion Congregation at International Falls, the SilverCreek Congregation at Boudette, Minn., the Rainy River Congregation inOntario, Canada, the Lake-Wood Congregation at the Lake of the Woods, OurSaviour's Congregation at Stratton, Ontario, St. Peter's Congregation at Black-hawk, Ontario, and Fort Francis Congregation at Ft. Francis. His excellentwork there resulted in his present call in 1916. Here the Rev. Mr. Kleven iskept busy ministering to the spiritual needs of his people, and taking hisrightful share as a leader in all uplift movements. The Bethany Congregation has 142 families, Our Saviour's Congregation 22, Stanfold Congregation26, and Long Lake Congregation 24. In Bethany Congregation alone in 1920 heheld 68 services, 30 in English and 38 in Norwegian, in addition to theservices in the other three congregations, and the usual pastoral duties of study, calls, baptisms, catechism classes, marriages and funerals. As a part of the permanent work of the congregations, the pastor has inaugurated a system by which every family in each of his parishes is fully recorded in the church archives. He is a member of the National Young People's League of the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America. Mr. Kleven was married Sept. 11, 1915, to Mollie Stensby, who was born in Hale Township, Trempealeau County, this state, June 3, 1888. There are two children in the family, BorghildAlida, born June 23, 1916, and Mildred Ovidia, born Aug. 8, 1918. Abstracted from pages 255/256 of The History Of Barron County, Wisconsin, published in 1922, by H.C. Cooper, Jr. & Co., Minneapolis, Minnesota.
See Mollie
Children:
1. Borghild Alida Sterner (1916-1999) of LA, CA
2. Mildred Ovidia Conlan (1918-1999) of St Paul, MN
3. Joseph Bernard Kleven (1922-2012) of Oregon and AZ
4. Ruth Marie Staber (1925-2008) of MN
5. Esther L Prestegard (1928-2015) of Madison, WI
Rev. Ole M. Kleven, Rice Lake, a clergyman of the Norwegian Lutheran faith, is pastor of the Bethany Congregation of Rice Lake, Our Saviour's Congregation in Doyle Township, Stanfold Congregation in Stanfold Township, and Long Lake Congregation at Long Lake, Washburn County.
He was born in Strum, Trempealeau County, Wis., Sept. 28, 1885, the son of Knute and Anna (Olson) Kleven, natives of Norway, who came to America when young people, were married at Strum, and are still engaged in agriculture on a farm near that village. They are people of probity and piety and are highly regardedby all who know them.
In the family there are six children (siblings):
1. Rev. O. M.,
2. Tillie, now Mrs. Andrew Orlid;
3. Christophine, now Mrs. Otto Larson;
4. Emil,
5. Palmer
6. Julia.
The subject of this sketch attended the public schools of his nativevillage. As a boy he determined to devote his life to the ministry, and inorder to secure funds to educate himself for that work he secured employmentfor six years with a lumber yard at Stanley, Wis. In 1906 he entered St. Olaf College at Northfield Minn , and after taking the preparatory and classicalcourse was graduated with the class of 1912 He then entered the United ChurchTheological Seminary at St Anthony Park Minn , from which he was graduated May 28 1915. On June 13 he was ordained at Minneapolis by T. H. Dahl, D. D.president of the church. He was called by the mission committeeto the mission field having seven congregations near the border line betweenMinnesota and Ontario: the Zion Congregation at International Falls, the SilverCreek Congregation at Boudette, Minn., the Rainy River Congregation inOntario, Canada, the Lake-Wood Congregation at the Lake of the Woods, OurSaviour's Congregation at Stratton, Ontario, St. Peter's Congregation at Black-hawk, Ontario, and Fort Francis Congregation at Ft. Francis. His excellentwork there resulted in his present call in 1916. Here the Rev. Mr. Kleven iskept busy ministering to the spiritual needs of his people, and taking hisrightful share as a leader in all uplift movements. The Bethany Congregation has 142 families, Our Saviour's Congregation 22, Stanfold Congregation26, and Long Lake Congregation 24. In Bethany Congregation alone in 1920 heheld 68 services, 30 in English and 38 in Norwegian, in addition to theservices in the other three congregations, and the usual pastoral duties of study, calls, baptisms, catechism classes, marriages and funerals. As a part of the permanent work of the congregations, the pastor has inaugurated a system by which every family in each of his parishes is fully recorded in the church archives. He is a member of the National Young People's League of the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America. Mr. Kleven was married Sept. 11, 1915, to Mollie Stensby, who was born in Hale Township, Trempealeau County, this state, June 3, 1888. There are two children in the family, BorghildAlida, born June 23, 1916, and Mildred Ovidia, born Aug. 8, 1918. Abstracted from pages 255/256 of The History Of Barron County, Wisconsin, published in 1922, by H.C. Cooper, Jr. & Co., Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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