Albert Hoiland was born April 23, 1869 at Rushford, Minnesota, the son of Aadne
and Johanne Hoiland. The family came to Dakota and settled on a farm south of
Valley City in Barnes County. In the 1890's he farmed in the Kathryn area, and
later at Nome, North Dakota he became a distributor of windmill feed grinders.
Mr. Hoiland became an active inventor, his first being a shutter for automobile
radiators. In 1912 he developed his wild oats separator for which be received a
patent. In 1914 he moved to Fargo and began to manufacture this and other inventions. During his career he received some 26 patents. He continued to live in Fargo except for a short employment during World War II in the tool room of Nash-Kelvinator Company at East Lansing, Michigan. On June 6, 1897 he married Paula Horland of Fingal, North Dakota. She was born at Lanesboro, Minnesota on April 7, 1876. They had two children. Mr. Hoiland died on September 11, 1957 while visiting at Lansing, Michigan, and was buried at Riverside Cemetery in Moorhead, Minnesota. Mrs. Hoiland died July 11, 1959.
 
 
 

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