Ingvart was born in Nordland, Norway in 1842. He immigrated to Wisconsin in 1871 and to Greenland Township, Barnes County in 1882. In 1878 he married Beret Mattison, daughter of Mathias and Maren Mattison. She was born at Otterota, Norway in 1852. She had come to America in 1870. They lived in Wisconsin for three years and came to Buffalo, North Dakota in the fall of 1881, the next spring they came to live on a homestead and tree claim in Greenland township. They lived in a sod house, the first settlers in that township. Their nearest neighbor was Tom Tryler, who lived seven miles away in Sheridan Township, LaMoure County.
They had nine children,
two died in infancy,
Celia died at the age of ten, and
Mary (Mrs. Magnus Bakken) died in 1926,
Helga (Mrs. Gilbert Berg),
Inga (Mrs. Willie Olsen),
Gotttred,
Emma (Mrs. Enus Severson, Mrs. Magnus Bakken), and
Mabel (Mrs. Carl Lindstrom, Mrs. Martin Martinson),
Ingvart died in 1916. Beret died in 1932. Their homestead is now farmed by a grandson, Albert H. Berg.
Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 37