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REV. AMANDUS NORMAN.

    Contented to be an humble follower of the lowly Nazarene, Rev. Amandus
Norman, of Brown county, has accomplished much good as a minister of the Gospel.
He was born on January 5, 1865, in Hamar, Norway, and is a son of Erick and Anna
Marie (Fjedre) Norman. The father was a farmer. His family consisted of six
children, five sons and one daughter, Amandus being the youngest child. Amandus
attended school in Norway until he was about fourteen years old, then immigrated
to the United States, with a relative, and located in Fargo, North Dakota, where
he worked on a farm for over a year, then was employed as clerk and in time
became a partner in a general store in Reynolds, North Dakota. While there he
was given the privilege of attending school during the winter months, and
eventually by hard study he managed to master the English Language, and was
graduated from the high school in the spring of 1885. He then went to
Minneapolis where he studied privately with the poet-preacher, Krintofer Janson.
In the fall of 1886 he entered the Unitarian College at Meadville, Pennsylvania,
from which institution he was graduated with the class of 1891. He made an
excellent record and received the Kraft scholarship to Harvard University, where
he spent the next two years, after which he began his work as minister, having
charge of the church of his denomination in Minneapolis, Hanska and Underwood,
this state. He resided in Minneapolis until 1906 when he removed to Hanska,
where he has since made his home, although he still fills the pulpit at
Underwood occasionally. In 1907 he helped organize the Norse Unitarian
Association of America and was elected president of the same, and still holds
this responsible position and has been the prime motive force in the same from
the first. Since coming to Hanska he was active in the organization and building
of the Liberal Union Association and hall in Hanska, and is president of the
association. He is also an active and influential temperance worker.

     Reverend Norman was married on June 15, 1895, in Minneapolis, to Corrine
Kvam, who was born in Toten, Norway, and is a daughter of Auders Paulseth. This
union has been without issue, but they have taken two children into their home
to raise. He is a diligent student and owns a large and well-selected library,
containing about two thousand and five hundred volumes, and he spends a great
deal of time among them; but he is not selfish and likes to loan his books to
those who appreciate them. He is interested in astronomy and has a small
observatory on the roof of his dwelling in which he has some very fine
instruments. He is an earnest, logical and forceful pulpit orator and a prolific
writer, especially on religious and social subjects.


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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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