Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Evenson, Andrew 1817 - 
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   ANDREW EVENSON, an enterprising farmer residing on section 7, Greenleaf township,
is a son of Hans and Christine Evenson, and a native of Norway, born October 30,
1817. A full sketch of his parents, who were prominent old settlers of Meeker
county, will be found elsewhere in this volume. Andrew came to the United States
with his parents in 1857, and they first settled in Scott county, Minn., and
remained there and in Wright county for three years, and at the expiration of that
time located in Meeker county. The father took a claim on section 8, in what is now
Greenleaf township, where Andrew spent his youth, in the same industrious and frugal
manner common to the youth of his nationality. He was with the family through all
the horrors of the Indian outbreak, and shared the dangers and privations of those
terrible times with the hardiest of men.

  In 1876 he was married to Matilda Bjorhus, a daughter of Ole K. and Mary Bjorhus.
She was born in Norway, September 23, 1854, and came to the United States in 1871.
Five children have blessed their union — Hans O., born March 22,1877; Martha C.,
born August 6, 1878; Frederick E., born April 4,1881; Petra Anette, born November
25, 1883, and Olga M., born January 25, 1886. Mr. Evenson is at present (1888)
chairman of the board of township supervisors, and is also a member of the board of
directors of the Farmers’ and Merchants’ Cooperative Elevator Association. He has
taken an active interest in all public matters, and is to-day one of the leading
citizens of his township. He has a valuable farm where he devotes his attention to
general farming and stock-raising, in which he has been very successful, as he has
accumulated a comfortable property through his own industry and careful management.
In his younger days Mr. Evenson had but slight educational advantages, only having
the privilege of attending school twenty-three days. His natural ability and
self-educational efforts, however, have not been in vain, and he has thoroughly
mastered the English language, and acquired a varied and general fund of useful
knowledge.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888


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