In May 1859, Olof Olson Haugen, his wife Bergeret, and son Frederick homesteaded in section 32 of Dovre Township. Over the next three years, the family worked to establish a new life by building shelter, raising crops and animals, and developing relationships with people who came before them. On August 21, 1862, Haugen traveled to Green Lake to get the mail and do trading. Dakota warriors probably overtook him about seven miles northeast of his home. A burial party led by the Rev. Andrew Jackson found his body floating on West Twin Lake. After suffering his wound, Haugen apparently stuffed it with grass and hid in the brush by the lake, where he died.