Rangnar and Margaret Segerstrom have lived all but one year of their more than fifty married years on the same farm, located in Section 14, Town of Naples, Buffalo County--about six miles west of Mondovi, Wisconsin. Before coming to the Naples area in 1920, Rangnar Segerstrom, born on October 14, 1896, in the Town of Troy near River Falls, Wisconsin, graduated from River Falls Normal school and served in the U.S. Navy during World War I. Margaret Olson was born on March 13, 1903, grew up on a farm about two miles from her present residence, and worked as a hired girl for neighborhood families until she married Rangnar Segerstrom on June 15, 1921. In 1922, they began to farm one hundred and twenty acres on a share basis, and ten years later purchased the farm outright. Although retiring from active farming in 1958, both remained very active in various groups, especially farmers' organizations and cooperatives in the area. Longtime advocates and erstwhile supporters of the La Follette political tradition, the Segerstroms are out-spoken Democrats who continue to campaign actively in their county in behalf of liberal candidates. They have been staunch supporters of the Farmers Union since 1929, and have for years been among the strongest leaders in the Naples-Mondovi Farmers Union local, and hearty supporters of the Farmers Equity Cooperative in Mondovi, affiliated for the last quarter of a century with the Farmers Union Central Exchange at South St. Paul.
