Mrs. Borge lived in Dundee Township until after he NELS died. She moved to Park River, resides there. Lydia is at Nels Fedje, born in Fios, , , April 15, a rest home in Osnabrock. 1860, spent his early life in that country, came to America Mr. and Mrs. Hans Finstad and six children are when he was 27 years old, stopping first in Minnesota. He buried at Park Center Lutheran Church cemetery. Hans came to Walsh County in 1888. His early days in America was born in 1849, died in 1933. Karen Finstad was born in were spent at the Lars Fedje farm. 1857, died in 1941. In 1890 he and Syneva Fedje were married by the Lester Markel, grandson, lives on the homestead. Rev. J. T. Langemo of Edinburg. His wife was born at Hans Finstad was a charter member of the Park Northfield, Minn., Dec. 9, 1871, and came to the Hoople Center Church. area in 1880. After their marriage they at first occupied a Submitted by Heimer Borge. log cabin seven miles west of Hoople. There they ex­ perienced the usual hardships of pioneering, gradually GISLE GUNDERSON improving their status as conditions improved. In 1904 Gisle Gunderson homesteaded on SW'A, Section 24, they built a frame house. Dundee Township. They had a family of eight; Gilbert, They reared a family of five sons and five daughters: captain of an ocean liner; George, also a sailor; Howard, Minnie, Arthur, Edwin, Nichelos (died in infancy), Erwin and Clifford in the states; Mary, Carrie and Ellen, Louise, Myrtle, Nora, Selmer, Ernest, and Bernice. They at home. The family moved away about 1907. were members of Park Center Lutheran Church. During Submitted by Thomas Walker. their residency in Walsh County, they were active in church and school activities. Nels Fedje served as TORGE GUNDERSON supervisor of Dundee Township and president of the school board. In 1921 they moved to a farm in Glenwood Township, two miles east of Hoople. In 1937 they moved into the village of Hoople. Nels Fedje died in June, 1941. Mrs. Fedje died in June, 1957. Submitted by Mr. and Mrs. Sam Fedje.

Mr. and Mrs. Torge Gunderson, pioneers in Dundee Twp. Torge (Skritvedt)Gunderson was born March 5,1843, at Houston, Minn. Here he received his grade school education. His parents, Ingeborg Listul and Gunder Skritvedt Gunderson, had come from Telemarken, Nels and Syneva Fedje 50th Wedding Anniversary Norway. In 1880 he came to Dakota Territory with a team of oxen and his household possessions. He settled on a HANS FINSTAD homestead in Dundee Township. Here the family lived Hans Finstad came from Lofoten, Norway, with his until they retired from farming and moved into Hoople in parents and one brother when he was seven years old. 1918. When they arrived in the States, belongings had been In the spring of 1884, he married Signe Listul in lost, all they had was the clothing they were wearing. He Dundee Township. She was a native of Sandahl, Norway. lived in Wisconsin until he came to North Dakota to Gunderson walked to Grand Forks for flour which he homestead in Section 7 in Glenwood Township west of carried back to his home. He served as a member of the Hoople. Hans Finstad went back to Wisconsin in 1886 and board of the Dundee School and a member of the church married Karen Void. They returned to North Dakota to board of the Park Center Lutheran Church. They were his homestead. members of the Republican Party. In the 1893 Plat Book, Finstad is listed as a farmer Nine children were bom to the Gundersons: Twin and breeder of Golden Laced Wyandotte fowls from boys, Gunder (1888-1910) and Kittle (1888-1891); Annie imported stock. Gunderson Midtun, died Dec. 29, 1963; Ida Gunderson Hans and Karen Finstad had eight children; Harry, Midboe, died Aug. 2,1974; and Clarence Gunderson died Theodore, Lawrence, Gena, Edna (Mrs. Peter Borge), Jan. 12, 1967. Surviving are Tillie Gunderson Johnson of Clara (Mrs. Jacob Kalgard) and twin girls, Lily (Mrs. Hoople; Henry, Grand Forks; Oscar, Erskine, Minn., Daniel Markel) and Lydia. and Josie of Hoople.