The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 971 

KNUTE IVERSON.

Among the substantial citizens furnished to America by the land of the midnight
sun is Knute Iverson, whose birth occurred in Norway on the 14th of June, 1867,
and who is now a well known rancher in the Zillah district of Yakima county. His
parents were Iver and Hilda Iverson, both now deceased. The father followed
carpentering and also engaged in farming.

Knute Iverson obtained a public school education in his native country and was a
young man of nineteen years when he bade adieu to friends and home and sailed
for the new world, taking up his abode in Minnesota in 1886. Two years later, or
in 1888, he came to Washington, settling in Tacoma, and in 1901 he removed to
Lester, Washington, where he engaged in the dairy business. In 1906 he arrived
in the Yakima valley, where in 1903 he had purchased sixty acres of land a
quarter of a mile southwest of Buena. Here he entered the dairy business and
also engaged in the raising of hay and various crops. He likewise raises some
pears upon his place. He had eighty acres on the Yakima Indian reservation at
one time and pastured thereon one hundred and seventy-five head of fine cattle,
which, however, he sold in 1918. In 1911 he built a fine home upon his ranch
near Buena and is most comfortably and pleasantly situated in life.

In 1891 Mr. Iverson was married to Miss Ellen Strom, a native of Norway, and
they became the parents of three children, of whom two have passed away. The
surviving son, Ungell, now twenty-six years of age, has taken a course in civil
engineering in the State College at Pullman, Washington, and for two years gave
his attention to the work of the Agricultural College there. He is now a member
of the United States army.

Knute Iverson has membership with the Woodmen of the World and is also connected
with the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company. In politics he is a republican.
His time and attention, however, are mostly given to his business affairs and
the thoroughness which he has displayed in the conduct of his interests has been
a dominant element in the attainment of gratifying success.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.