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