Johan CLAUSEN

                   Services in the Congregational Church of Pemberton, Minn 2:00 June 3,
1934.   Henry's father died when he was but a young lad.  He then had to
help support the rest of the family.   When he was 12 or 13 years old, he
migrated to the U.S with his mother and sister.  He first settled near Winona City, then moved to
Rochester, Minn. where he met Christina Schiltz Stelgelham (???) whom
he married in 1879.  When he wished for a home of his own, he moved to or near
Tyler, Minn., where he lived for two years.  He then moved to Pipestone,
Minn. where he filed for a homestead.  Here their three sons John, Conrad,
and Henry jr. were born.  Because of severe wind and hail storms in
westen Minnesota, he moved with his family in 1894 to a farm two miles
south of Pemberton, Minn. His mother, who was living with him, had died in January of 1894 before the move to Pemberton.    His sons married and he turned the home farm over to Conrad, who soon purchased it.  Conrad said:  Henry came to the
U.S. when he was about 12.  He never mentioned his father but spokeabout his uncle who was a shipbuilder or in charge of shipping.  Young Henry slept in the sails sometimes.  They traveled to London to the shipyards apparently, before sailing for the U.S. and arriving in NYC June 1967
Death info from Mankato courthouse:  Henry's death was from senility, nheumonia, and chronic nephritis  He had bright's disease (kidneys) lasting two years one month, according to records from the Mankato courthouse (5-19-97).  He was 78 years 7 months and 30 days.   His parents are listed as John Clausen and Katherine Stolz, born in Denmark.  Attending phys. J.C. Vezina.
                  

                   Cathrine Clausen died age 28 in a miscarriage near Tyler (Section 33, Marshfield Township)
Lincoln, Minn. where the family had gone to farm.    This spelling of Cathrine is written in her own hand in
her Lutheran Bible passed to her husband and then to Maria Cathrine
Henrietta Hagedorn (Mary)grandmother of Joyce Goodman.  It is in the possession of Joyce Goodman.  She was called Katie (spelling?).
She was small-boned.   Her husband said he could span her waist with his hands.
Family tradition says she came to America with her brother and mother
in 1867, settling in Minnesota somewhere near Winona and then living with the Higgs family as a domestic in the second ward, City of Winona in 1870 (1870 census). Family tradition says she moved to Rochester, where she met
her husband, William Fredrich Hagedorn, jr.  They were married in Rochester 21 Sept. 1872 and moved to Potsdam, Olmstead County.
   There may have been a child born before the two who lived, since first children in the Hagedorn family were usually named after the father.   There would have been time for a child before Charles Martin (1875) and Maria (1877).   When weather ruined the crops, the little family moved to the southwestern part of the state in Lincoln County.   In her first months of carrying this last child, Cathrine (called Kati) slipped from a wagon.   They were far from medical help and both she and the baby died  .It seems they were living in a dugout until the husband could build a home.   The grandparents moved to help their son with his two small children.  Maria, called Mary,  remembers her grandmother to be very strict and very religious.

Info from: W.F.Hagedorn obit., 1875 census, 1880 mortality schedule, marriage records, Olmstead Co., Minn.

Occupation:   keeping house
Birthplace:  Only clue is on mortality schedule stating Schleswig as birthplace, in Schleswig-Holstein.