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LARS GULBRANDSON

    Among the Norwegians who have come to Brown county and made good, not only
establishing comfortable homes but becoming desirable citizens in every respect,
is Lars Gulbrandson, manager of the elevator at Hanska. He was born in the
parish of Romdal, Norway, August 17, 1863, and is a son of Gulbrand and Martina
(Anderson) Larson. The father was a laborer in the old country where he still
lives at the age of eighty years. His family consisted of ten children, Lars of
this sketch being the eldest, and as a boy he received a very limited education,
for his father being very poor he had to rustle for himself at an early age and
help make the living for the family. When only eight years of age he began doing
teaming of a light sort, outside of school hours. He worked as a laborer in
Norway until he was twenty-two years of age when he came to America, landing in
New York in 1885, but came on at once to Iona, Murray county, Minnesota, where
he had relatives. In the spring of 1886 he went to Heron Lake, where he worked
as a section hand for the Omaha division, from Minneapolis and St. Paul of the
Chicago & Northwestern railroad, with which road he remained for five years,
then secured work as a "jack-of-all-trades" in an elevator in St. James, where
he remained from 1895 until 1900. At that time elevators were being built on the
Minneapolis & St. Louis railroad, and Mr. Gulbrandson secured a position as
manager of the Eagle Roller Mills at New Ulm, in their Hanska elevator. At first
the firm bought grain only, later adding flour and feed, and finally added coal.
He has remained here to the present time, giving eminent satisfaction to the firm.

     Mr. Gulbrandson was married on November 13, 1888, in Heron Lake, Jackson
county, Minnesota, to Ida Lundberg, who was born in Skane, Sweden. She is a
daughter of Hans and Truan (Olsen) Lundberg, also natives of Sweden in which
country they spent their lives, their daughter, Ida, coming to the United States
in 1886, with some friends, the party locating at Heron Lake, where she secured
work in a shoe store in which Mr. Gulbrandson was working at the time. To Mr.
and Mrs. Gulbrandson five children have been born, namely: Gilbert, born October
19,1889, married Maud Daniels and they live in Mankato, where he is employed on
the Mankato Free Press; Tilda, September 29, 1892, teaches in the schools of
Wantonwan county, near Butterfield, having previously taught for three years in
Brown county; Mattie, February 8, 1895, who has also taught school in Brown
county is now teaching near Butterfield, Minnesota; Harry, February 18, 1898, is
a graduate of the Mankato high school and is now employed on the Hanska Herald;
Lewis, November 2, 1900 was a member of the graduating class of the Mankato high
school in 1916.

     Politically, Mr. Gulbrandson is a Republican and is a director on the
Hanska school board, being president of that body. He has never sought or held
political office. He has done much to encourage better schools in this locality,
and was a member of the school board when the new school house was built in
Hanska. The family were members of the Methodist church in Norway and he has
since held to that faith. He belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America.

     Lars Gunderson, subject's grandfather, was born in Norway about 1812 and he
spent his life in his native land. Lars Gulbrandson had been assigned to a
cavalry regiment in the Norwegian army, but never got to serve. It was planned
that he should enter a military school, which would have fitted him for an under
officer. After deciding to come to the United States he secured a permit from
the government, and was thus excused from military service. He took out his
first naturalization papers in Murray county, Minnesota, and secured his last
papers in St. James, this state.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
HISTORY OF BROWN COUNTY MINNESOTA
ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS

L. A. FRITSCHE. M. D.
Editor

With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records
of Many of the Old Families

VOLUME II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana


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