EVENSON ANGUS
The Evenson family of Hettinger, North Dakota, started out with a dairy. Today, they run one of the largest registered Angus herds in the upper Midwest.
The Evenson family homesteaded in the Hettinger area in the early 1900s. Will Evenson first lived there in 1907 but moved away following the death of his first wife. However, in 1930 he returned. This was the first of four generations on the ranch. Ernest and Lillian Evenson purchased what is now Evenson Angus from A.O. Brown in 1945 and began raising dairy cattle. Not even a decade later, they bought 12 registered Angus cows from Henry Hanke Angus. This acquisition was the beginning of Ernest Evenson and Sons Registered Angus.