Clark, Robert Carlton, Ph.D. "History of the Willamette Valley Oregon."  Vol. 3.
Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company, 1927. p. 301.
 
PETER VIIG

     Peter Viig, one of the successful and substantial farmers of Linn county,
was born near Riben, in south Denmark, in 1865, and was reared on a farm, his
father being the owner of seven acres of land. At the early age of seven years
he was assisting his father in the farm work and had but little opportunity for
a school education, though he had eighteen months of military training in the
national army. In 1880 he came to the United States and located in Illinois,
where he remained for some time, and then went to Dakota, where he lived until
1891, when he came to Oregon. Though he had but thirty dollars in cash, he was
able to buy horses, cattle and seed, with which to begin farming, and he put in
one hundred and twenty acres to wheat, oats and hay in 1892-3. He first rented
his present farm, two hundred and fifty acres of it being the old Henry K.
Skooling donation claim, which he later bought and to which he added by purchase
two hundred and fifty acres in 1899, giving him a fine farm of five hundred
acres. In 1895, on this five hundred acres Mr. Viig threshed thirteen thousand
bushels of grain, the average price of which was forty-seven cents a bushel.
These results were gained only through the hardest and most persistent labor,
and in the busy season he spent the night sleeping in the fields in order to
expedite the work. In 1902 Mr. Viig became a director of the First National Bank
of Harrisburg, and in 1906 he brought the first automobile to Harrisburg. He has
made many permanent and substantial improvements on his farm, which ranks among
the best in this section of the valley, and now he is able to look across his
broad acres with complacency, while his Liberty bonds work for him. Mr. Viig has
never married and his sister, Mary is keeping house for him. There were also
three brothers in the family, namely: Peter Peterson, who remains in Denmark;
Hans, who lives in Nebraska; and one who was burned to death in North Dakota.
Although Mr. Viig is comfortably situated, beyond the necessity of hard work, he
is a stranger to idleness and prefers to keep busy, rather than get old through
inactivity. A man of quiet and unaffected manner, he is true and loyal in all
his engagements and through his sterling honesty and straightforward manner has
won the respect of all who know him.

     
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