O. Mons Monson was born 1869 in Alamakee County, Decorah, Iowa. He came with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Evan Monson, to a homestead in Greenview Township, near the Griggs-Steele County line. He spent his boyhood years in this area and played the fiddle at many neighborhood gatherings. He went to Hampden, North Dakota where he acquired land. He married Anna Jensen from Norway. There were four boys in the family:

Allen, Arthur, Kenneth A. and Lloyd. Mr. Monson died in March, 1926 and Mrs. Monson died a short time later, leaving the four boys, the oldest being twelve years old.

Allen stayed with friends at Hampden; Arthur lived with relatives at Northwood; Kenneth and Lloyd at Cooperstown. All four boys served in the Armed Forces during World War II.

After their discharges from the Service, two of them began farming in Washburn Township. Kenneth A. and Mrs. (Mae Haugen) Monson live in Section 14. They have two children

Roger, Finley and Leona, Bakersfield, California Lloyd and Mrs. (Olive Erickson) Monson reside in Cooperstown and farm in Washburn Township. Arthur resides in Cooperstown and Mr. and Mrs. Allen Monson reside at Vallecito, California

Source: Griggs County History 1879 - 1976 Page 486