Bio of Hans F. MUNDAHL (b.1844), Renville Co., MN ========================================================================= USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. If you have found this file through a source other than the MNArchives Table Of Contents you can find other Minnesota related Archives at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/mnfiles.htm Please note the county and type of file at the top of this page to find the submitter information or other files for this county. Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by: Kathryn Kelly ========================================================================= 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.