| Information | Pioneer; came with a group of settlers in 1854 - most from Wisconsin; was the first white man with family in the Township; Mrs. Ole Bakke, the first white woman in Holden told that she left her child lying alone in bed when she went out for water, and when she came back, the child was gone. She hurried out and heard the child crying from a nearby grove, and ran there as fast as she could. An Indian woman had stolen the child, but when she heard the mother come, she laid the child down and ran away. |
