Elvern K. Haugen was born to Carl and Elsie (Haugland) Haugen on October 27, 1925, on the homestead farm in Greenfield Township, Griggs County, North Dakota. He was the eldest of five children and attended grade school in the Haugen and Stromme schools. He farmed, worked a short time in Montana and returned to the Hannaford, North Dakota, area to farm.
He married Margaret J. Seim in June 1972.
Margaret J. Simenson was born to Lenus and Anna (Prostad) Simenson on a farm in Kingsley Township, Griggs County, the youngest of nine children, four boys and five girls. She grew up on the farm and attended Kingsley School through the eighth grade. She then lived with a sister and her husband, Irvin and Cora Shelstad at Finley, North Dakota, while attending high school. After graduation, she attended New York Hairdressing Academy in Fargo, North Dakota, and worked in beauty salons until her marriage to Leonard Seim, Sr., of Finley, North Dakota. They lived in Texas and California where he was stationed with the U. S. Tank Destroyer Unit. She returned to North Dakota when his unit was sent overseas to France and Germany. Leonard returned to the estates and was discharged in September 1945. He continued living in Cooperstown for one year, then moved to a farm at Finley. From there, they moved into Finley in 1960. Leonard died after a short illness on June 7, 1967. They were the parents of three children: Janice (Mrs. Gary Paulsen) lives in Fargo and teaches at Lewis and Clark School, there. Peggy (Mrs. Boyd Himebaugh) lives in Bowman, North Dakota, and has two children, Dawn and Brent. Leonard P. Seim, Jr., is farming with his parents, Elverne and Margaret Haugen.
Margaret married Elverne Haugen in June 1972, and moved to Hannaford in May 1974. She is a member of Union Church, Past Worthy Matron of the Finley Order of the Eastern Star. She was also a member of the Homemakers at Finley.
Leonard P. Seim was born February 1952, in Griggs County Hospital to Leonard and Margaret (Simenson) Seim and lived on the farm in Finley Township, Finley, North Dakota, and moved into Finley with his parents in 1960. He attended grade and high school at Finley Public School, graduating in 1970. He is a member of the Sheyenne Valley Lutheran Church. And he attended Wahpeton State Science School, worked for Twin City Testing and Engineering, St. Paul, Minnesota, until moving to the farm at Hannaford, North Dakota
Leonard is a Certified Scuba Diver, Past Master of the Wimbledon Masonic Lodge, and member of El Zagel Shrine.
Source: Hannaford Area History North Dakota Centennial 1889 - 1989 Page 135