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Barent Anton Emil “Emil” Bagstad

Birth	:	14 Oct 1851 Dane County, Wisconsin, USA
Death	:	20 Dec 1930
Burial	:	McGrew Cemetery, Anneta, Grayson County, USA
Coordinate	:	37.3622300, -86.2547600
Plot	:	Plot is Block 34, Lot 2, Grave 6
Description	:	History of Dakota Territory IV, By George W. Kingsbury, 1915 In the southern part of the state not to know B. A. E. Bagstad, or Emil Bagstad, as he is usually called, is to argue oneself unknown. It has been customary to think of the pioneers largely as those who have claimed the land and converted it into productive farms or founded the cities and promoted their commercial enterprises, but there are few whose lives so closely touch the lives of others and work for advancement and improvement in so great a degree as that of the educator. To the work... Read More	History of Dakota Territory IV, By George W. Kingsbury, 1915 In the southern part of the state not to know B. A. E. Bagstad, or Emil Bagstad, as he is usually called, is to argue oneself unknown. It has been customary to think of the pioneers largely as those who have claimed the land and converted it into productive farms or founded the cities and promoted their commercial enterprises, but there are few whose lives so closely touch the lives of others and work for advancement and improvement in so great a degree as that of the educator. To the work of teaching Mr. Bagstad devoted many years and aided in establishing the intellectual standards of the state, of which South Dakota has every reason to be proud. He was but a youth in his teens when the family came to Dakota territory. His birth occurred in Dane county, Wisconsin, October 4, 1851, and he there attended the country schools until his removal to the northwest. His parents were Peter and Maren (Iverson) Bagstad, who were born at Biri in southern Norway. They came to America in 1849, sailing from Tonsberg to New York on the vessel Flora. After three days at sea a storm so wrecked a mast of the ship that they had to return to Tonsberg for repairs, which delayed them many weeks, as it was necessary to wait until a suitable tree could be found, felled and dressed for use. They left Norway the first time on the 12th of April and they did not reach their destination - Dane county, Wisconsin, until the 12th of September, having spent five full months on the way, seven weeks of which were passed on the sea. For eighteen years the family lived in Wisconsin and in the fall of 1867 the father brought his wife and children to Dakota territory, crossing the boundary at Sioux City on the 30th of July. The father filed on a homestead between the present sites of the towns of Volin and Mission Hill in Yankton county and his older sons also filed on land in that vicinity as soon as they became of age. In the family were the following children: Annette, now the widow of Daniel Hopkins and a resident of San Diego, California; John, who died in Mississippi, in 1860, at the age of twenty years; Iver and Matthias, both of whom settled in Yankton county, between Volin and Mission Hill, and are now deceased; Emil, the subject of this review; and Thea, who married Charles Olson and lived between Volin and Mission Hill but is now deceased. The father passed away in 1886, while living retired in Gayville, and the mother died in 1891. B.A.E. Bagstad, on attaining his majority, secured a claim, entering the land, which was situated twelve miles northwest of Volin, in 1873. In the fall of '87 he returned to Wisconsin on a visit, but the next spring he came again to Dakota, a short time before the memorable snow storm of April, 1873, in which Custer and his men reached Yankton just before the worst of the storm broke. Several years before attaining his majority B.A.E. Bagstad began teaching and for eighteen years was thus connected with the schools of Yankton county, some times filling engagements in two or three different districts in a season, owing to the scarcity of competent teachers at that time. He was one of the pioneer educators of the southern part of the state and he is widely respected and revered by hundreds of men and women of the great northwest whom he has helped and inspired to something higher and better than they might have known under an educator of less exalted ideals. He took a most helpful interest in his pupils and did everything in his power to stimulate a desire for useful knowledge such as uplifts humanity and develops latent talents. After proving on his homestead Mr. Bagstad filed on a timber claim southwest of Volin. Subsequently he purchased a nearby farm and later sold his timber claim. He has owned several fine tracts of land but has now disposed of most of his property. For four years he lived on a forty acre tract which he bought in Turner county, but with that exception he has continuously resided in Yankton county. In 1872, when it was discovered that grasshoppers destroyed young groves of cottonwood which settlers had planted, Mr. Bagstad was, so far as is known, the first to introduce into Dakota the honey locust, which he discovered to be immune from the ravages of that insect. He purchased ten pounds of seed and raised nine thousand young trees, from which most of the groves of honey locust throughout the northwest have been grown. He suffered the loss of the young trees on his timber claim by grasshoppers and he at once began thinking about and studying upon the situation. He observed that the grasshoppers gave the box elder a wide berth and while they seemed to be especially fond of tobacco, they would not eat peas. Mr. Bagstad's observations were utilized in the development of his place and box elders and honey locust took the place of the cottonwoods. At the time of the great flood he was teaching at his homestead beyond the reach of the waters, about ten miles northwest of Volin, but his parents and brothers were in Gayville, where they were rescued by James Long and his brothers. Mr. Bagstad was employed in the Bruget district No. 40 and had but two pupils at three o'clock on the day when the southern section of the state was swept by a blizzard that is never to be forgotten. He took his pupils by the hand, one on each side of him, and started for their home, but they could not follow in his tracks, he held the girl by the hand and the boy held hers and thus in single file they made their way along the fence to the house. With every phase of pioneer life and experience Mr. Bagstad is familiar and he has been an interested witness of the changes which have occurred as the county has emerged primitive conditions and taken on advantages of a modern civilization. In the spring of 1914 Mr. Bagstad purchased a small tract of land near Volin, on which had been established a nursery, and which, in consequence, is well covered with fruit and forest trees and shrubs. There he is living and still remains an active, forceful factor in the community, honored and respected by all who know him and most of all where he is best known. Mr. Bagstad has always been rather independent in politics, supporting men and measures rather than following strictly party lines. He has never had any inclination for office seeking but has been forced into a campaign occasionally. In 1872, when only, twenty years of age, he was nominated by the republican party as their candidate for the legislature, the election occurring only four days after his twenty-first birthday. In 1894 he was again forced into the race, this time as the candidate of the peoples party, and while he practically made no campaign, he was defeated by only four votes. Church record for birth is 10/14/1851. Write up is 10/4/1851 and stone is 1852

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Latitude: 37.3622300
Longitude: -86.2547600

Family Members:

Parent

Peder Bagstad

(1808 - 1886)

Maren Iverson Bagstad

(1816 - 1890)

Siblings

Annette Bagstad Hopkins

(1836 - 1927)

Iver Pedersen Bagstad

(1843 - 1913)

Mathias Pedersen Bagstad

(1846 - 1907)

Thea Louise Bagstad Olson

(1858 - 1888)

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Coordinate: 37.3622300, -86.2547600

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