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During the summer of 1886 we got an insurance agency that dealt entirely with horses and cattle but that only operated in New Denmark and Eaton. I was the chairman for said company from its conception to it eventual end, which was only a matter of a few years to to lack of customers. 

During the winter of 1886-87 Jørgen worked for Peter Jørgensen in Eaton and received $18 for six months where they threshed the entire harvest using flails.

Johan Hylsenberg died in the Spring of 1887 and upon his death we received the five acres of land that he had kept from when he sold the land to Peter Johansen. The contract was for fifteen years and it was running out just as he passed away. In the summer of 1887 we hired Hans Hansen to cut our wheat with his reaper but the wheat was so short that the machine couldn't cut it. So afterwards I grabbed my scythe and went over it again. That year we threshed bushels of wheat and an equal amount of other crops and it took 2-3 days to flail the entire harvest. So by the time we were done threshing both horses and men had pretty much consumed enough food in equivalent to what the harvest had brought in. 

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On the 9th of October Maria married Rasmus Larsen. She was born on the 11th of February in 1865 and was therefore twenty years and eight months of age when she got married. Rasmus was born on the 27th of February. Their son Johney was born on the 19th of September in 1887. I was in Negaunee during the Spring of 1887 with a load of milking cows that Hans Christian and Ferdinand Vittig had bought together. It was bad deal for me because I arrived too early. The winter was still going strong which meant an abundance of snow and it also meant that people weren't yet interested in buying livestock. It was election day in April and as I left home and passed by Lars's seed store, I observed Lindhart chewing out Jens Hansen because he had been over at Sofie Lindhart's place. On the 23rd of August 1888 Hans Christian got married, but I wasn't in attendance so I couldn't tell you how it went. Raymond was born on the 5th of February 1889. Florenze was born on the 11th of October 1893.