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A farm boy from eastern South Dakota, Carl Ogren traveled a diverse path to arrive in Colfax. He was raised on a farm where the family grew wheat, barley, corn, flax, hogs, dairy, beef and sheep (the latter until Carl was seven). During World War II, the sale of cream paid for the groceries for their family of seven, but they were sophisticated for the time because they used milking machines.

Carl’s father was of Swedish stock, while his mother was a member of the Wing family, English settlers who were early immigrants to the “colonies.”

Merle, his mother’s little brother, worked for them when...