Bio of Hans F. MUNDAHL (b.1844), Renville Co., MN

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The following excerpt comes from 
The History of Renville County, Minnesota, Volume I
compiled by Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge
H. C. Cooper Jr. Company, Chicago, 1916

p. 340-341

HANS F. MUNDAHL, an industrious farmer of Bandon township, was born 
in Norway, April 26, 1844, son of Fred Hanson, a farmer, who died in 
1850, at the age of forty, and his wife, Gjetlug (Knudson), who died 
in 1901, at the age of seventy-five. Hans F. Mundahl came to America 
in 1870 and worked in Fillmore county four years. In 1874 he bought 
the southwest quarter of section 36, Bandon township, where he has 
lived ever since. His first house was of sod with a sod roof and had 
no floor. He brought an ox team with him from Fillmore county and an 
old wagon and plow. The first three years were very discouraging, as 
he had no crops, the grasshoppers destroying all. He made a little 
butter, which he sold to Ft. Ridgley at six cents per pound. But 
these pioneer times passed away, and Mr. Mundahl became a prominent 
and prosperous farmer. In July, 1869, he was united in marriage in 
Norway to Syneva Mundahl, born October 31, 1844, daughter of Ole 
Mundahl, a farmer in Norway, and his wife, Anna (Thomassen) Mundahl. 
Ten children were born: Frederick, born on the ocean, died at the 
age of two weeks; Frederick, born in May 1870; Carrie, born December 
10, 1872, married to Martin Nygaard, a farmer of Astoria, South 
Dakota, by whom she has nine children; Ole, born March 12, 1874, died 
May 19, 1912; Anna Juliana, born December 15, 1876, wife of Carl 
Hanson, of Minneapolis; Henry, born October 4, 1878; Bertha, born 
September 2, 1880, died February 23, 1910, wife of Alfred Olson, a 
carpenter, in Minneapolis; Frida, born May 31, 1882, now living in 
Minneapolis; Christian H., born September 27, 1884, living in Lake 
Mills, Iowa, and Henrietta, born March 12, 1887, living in Minneapolis. 
All of the children have adopted the surname of Frickson.