Berwick Biography

As I'm doing more research on the Eikeness family in ND & MN, I found the ND Biography Index at the NDSU libraries. Lo and behold Swen Eikeness showed up in, "Berwick: A Handful of Civilization Dropped In A Desert" by Milo F. Bryn. I ordered it and received the page as PDF attachment this morning. Although it doesn't give me any new information & basically says what his obituary does, it's still nice to have.

Sven G. Eikeness

Sven G. Eikeness was born on April 13, 1865, in Frederickshall, Norway. He came to the United States as a young man and worked for a number of years as a farmer north of Berwick and as blacksmith in Berwick.

In 1894 he was married to Hilda Olava Thorson Lento [sic] of Fairbault [sic], Minnesota. Their twelve children include Thor of Barton, Otto, Mrs. Ed Solem of Rugby, Mrs. Ed Larson of Tunbridge, Mrs. Ragna Carlson of Tunbridge, Mrs. Marshall Granger of East Grand Forks, Minnesota, Mrs. Theodore Rivas of St. Paul, Minnesota, Mrs. P. J. Riordan of Omaha, Nebraska, Mrs. Claude Cross of Avadore, Oregon, Helmer, Olga (deceased), and Mrs. Annie LaFavar [sic] (deceased). Mrs. Eikeness died in 1948.

He served as a village trustee for Berwick from 1834 to 1935. He was a member of the Berwick Lutheran Free Church.

Mr. Eikeness died on August 4, 1949, in Rugby and was buried in the Berwick Lutheran Cemetery.