Bio of Henry FRICKSON (b.1878), 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. 341

HENRY FRICKSON, a successful farmer of Bandon township, was born on 
section 36, in the township where he still lives, October 4, 1878, son 
of Hans F. Mundahl and his wife, Syneva Mundahl. He remained at home 
until 1904, when he went to Red Wing, Minn., to attend the Red Wing 
Seminary, remaining there until 1907. During the summers of 1905-1910 
he taught parochial school. From 1904 to 1909 he rented a farm from 
his uncle, Hans I. Mundahl, which he worked with hired help. From 1911 
to 1914 he rented his father's farm in section 36, Bandon township, 
and in the fall of 1914 bought 80 acres of this farm on which he 
erected a fine eight room house and substantial barn, 28 by 40. He 
has served as township clerk for five years and has been treasurer of 
school district No. 66 for three years. He is a stockholder in the 
Farmer's Elevator at Fairfax and director of the new creamey there. 
He is a member of the Hauges Norwegian Lutheran church of Camp township, 
is president of the Young People's Temperance Society of that church, and 
has been president and is now treasure [sic] of the Excelsior Young 
People's Society of the same church. Henry Frickson was married June 
26, 1912, to Anna Distad, born in Norway, September 12, 1888, daughter 
of Kjel Distad, a retired farmer of Norway, and his wife, Gertrude 
(Eithune) Distad. Mr. and Mrs H. Frickson have one child, Gladys 
Constance.