Maybe also know as Oliver Wendall Kofoed.

Extract from the Bingham County History book:

OLIVER LEROY KOFOED
Oliver Leroy Kofoed, born January first of 1883 at Trenton, Utah, was


the son of James Hans Kofoed and Ellen Elmira Quigley. he married
Mabel Byington, daughter of Joseph Henry Byington and Rosetta Hunt,
at Logan, Utah on June 22, 1904. He engaged in dry farming and sheep
raising, first near Downey, Idaho and later at Preston. As a young
man he worked under his father in building some of the canals and
railroad beds between Wapello and Firth. The spring of 1917, he
traded his farm near Preston to Daniel Olmstad and moved to Riverton
near Blackfoot, Idaho. He began to build a two-roomed house, which
was painted a plum color. This house has stood to this time. The
cement foundation was set and walls going up, when the Snake River
over-flowed the banks, causing all the farmers in lower Riverton to
move temporarily to higher ground, bunking their families in with
more fortunate neighbors. Those families, as I remember, were the
Willard Kofoeds, the Edgar and Ezra Fjeldsteds, the Hafners, the
William Enoch Hansens, the Harry Spencers, and Molly and Bill Miller.


The river was "rip-rapped" with much effort and team-work. World War
I began and then ended. Oliver moved for about four years to Lava
Hot Springs and farmed up Dempsey Creek. Besides farming he and his
wife raised a good family of boys and girls. He moved back to
Riverton again. In 1934 Oliver moved to Moreland, Idaho, where he
purchased the old Hyrum Grimmett place. Three daughters had married.
Five boys remained the five boys represented Bingham County in World
War 2. The Kofoeds made a mark in Bingham County. Their word was
their bond. Their home was ever open to family and friends. They saw
the change in Idaho from the little Green one-roomed school at
Riverton to the proud two class-room brick and then to consolidation
with Blackfoot schools. The old wooden L.D.S. chapel at Moreland was
replaced by the modern brick edifice. A patriotic citizen, loyal tax-
payer, Oliver always voted for progress whatever the cost to himself.


His eight surviving children (two were deceased before him) have also


made marks on our good Bingham County. The children of Oliver and
Mabel: Lial Leroy, (dec); Kenneth, (dec); Truly Vella, Ora May, Neita


Rose, Walter, Glen, Clyde, Dean, and Keith.