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• W4379804984 abstract "2 Thorstein Vehlen and the Vehlens by William C. Melton Walls cannot speak, but the Vehlen farmstead reveals a great deal about the Vehlen family, one of the most prominent Norwegian immigrant families of the nineteenth century, and its most famous member, Thorstein Vehlen.1 In addition, the many memoirs and letters left by family members - the existence of which for years has been largely forgotten or ignored - portray in great detail the family's trials and triumphs . A variety of other sources, mostly unexploited until recently, fill out the picture. The result is an account quite different from the standard view of the Vehlens, and Thorstein emerges as a more sympathetic figure than has generally been recognized. MOVING TO MINNESOTA In July, 1865, the Vehlen family left their farm in Manitowoc county, Wisconsin, where they had lived for ten years, and traveled in wagons to the port of Manitowoc, by boat to Milwaukee , by rail to La Crosse, and by steamship up the Mississippi to Hastings. There they were met by relatives who transported them and their effects in wagons the thirty miles to their new home amid a largely Norwegian settlement (subsequently named Nerstrand) in Wheeling township, on the eastern border of Rice county, Minnesota.2 The relocation was 23 24 William C. Melton the Vehlens' fourth since Thomas and Kari had arrived in Wisconsin in 1847, joined by Thomas' brother Haldor a year later. Three considerations seem to have compelled them to part with their Manitowoc county farm - by far the best they had ever had up to that time - and to start over again in Minnesota. First, the wells on the farm were a constant frustration because granite bedrock was encountered at a moderate depth. Various efforts were made to deal with the problem, including blasting and drilling, but in the end water could be obtained only through the expenditure of great effort and a lot of illspared time. Andrew Veblen, the oldest child in the Veblen family to survive to adulthood, recalled that this was the chief cause of dissatisfaction with the farm.3 In contrast, the water table in the Nerstrand area is generally only about fifteen feet below the surface, and there is no granite anywhere. Second, the land that the Vehlens could buy around Nerstrand was much more fertile than the glacial soils in Manitowoc county, and it was prairie. Substantial effort was required to break prairie sod and create a tillable field, but to Thomas and Haldor it must have seemed like a relief compared to the agony of converting a primeval forest into productive fields. Indeed, after ten years of intense labor on the original eighty acres of the Manitowoc county farm, only portions of it were free of stumps, and no farmer in the area had been able to introduce mowing or reaping machines. Instead they still were harvesting grain with hand cradles.4 Of course the stumps would have disappeared over the years, but even then the fact that the three parcels the Vehlens owned were not contiguous would have made efficient farming difficult. Third, Kari 's mother, stepfather, and three brothers had settled in the Nerstrand area several years earlier, and their proximity also added to its allure. It must have been traumatic to sell the farm on which so much labor had been expended. Kari, who by that time had eight children to tend, was understandably reluctant to leave their comfortable home. The decision to move grew out of a visit that Thomas and Kari paid to her mother and other rela- Thorstein Vehlen and the Vehlens 25 tives in Rice and Goodhue counties in 1863. The land made a great impression on Thomas. Emily Vehlen Olsen (the fourth oldest surviving child) recalled that My father had never seen the prairies before, and fell in love with them at once when he saw the Minnesota prairies. After seeing the area, Thomas would not rest until he could sell the Manitowoc county farm.5 His disquiet was understandable. Most of the area had already been settled. He had to move fast to have a chance of acquiring good land at a good price. The following year Thomas..." @default.
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• W4379804984 title "Thorstein Veblen and the Veblens" @default.
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