Bio of Henry A. HAMRE (b.1864), Yellow Medicine Co., MN

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HENRY A. HAMRE

Henry A. Hamre, county coroner and furniture dealer of Granite Falls, is a
native of Norway but has been a resident of the Granite city nearly
thirty-five years.

He was born in Norway April 10, 1864, where he passed his young boyhood 
and secured his early education.  At the age of fifteen years, in 1879, 
he came to the United States, locating at that time in Renville County, 
just across the Minnesota river from Yellow Medicine county, on land of 
his uncle, Helge Hamre.  There he lived two years and then he moved to 
Granite Falls and began working in Tasker's hardware store, which at 
that time was situated the present site of the new Granite Falls Bank 
building.  A little later he clerked in a drug store for a time and then 
took a position with C.A. Stoppe, with whom he remained two years.  
Later he took a position with the firm of Sorlien Brothers, with whom 
he remained five years.

Then, in company with O.B. Thorpe, Mr. Hamre started a general store in 
the corner building now occupied by H. S. Lampman, under the firm name 
of Thorpe & Hamre.  After a business life of about three years, Mr. Hamre 
sold his interest to his partner, and for two years traveled for the 
Morse Produce Company.  In February, 1898, he bought the F. W. Dodge 
stock of furniture and undertaking goods, since which time he has been 
in continuous business in that line.  He took a course in the 
Massachusetts College of Embalming and also attended the State School 
of Instruction at St. Paul, securing his state license for the conduct 
of the business.

Mr. Hamre is a son of Amund H. and Dorothy C. (Lerohl) Hamre, both natives
of Norway who came to the United States in 1881.  They located in Renville
county, Minnesota, where they now reside, he being eighty-one and she
seventy-two years of age.  There are seven children -- five boys and two
girls-- as follows:  Henry A., Christopher, Thomas, Amund, John, Margaret
(Mrs. Nicholas Dunn) of Renville county; Christine (Mrs. Andrew Strum), of
Seattle, Washington.

Mr. Hamre was married in Renville county May 1, 1902, to Anna Marie 
Knutson. She was born on the farm of her father, Knute Knutson, in that 
county.  They have two sons--Arba Kenneth Henry and Clyde Lester Nathan.

Mr. Hamre is a member of the Blue Lodge and Chapter of Granite Falls and 
the Consistory and Shrine of Minneapolis.  He is also a member of the 
Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Eastern 
Star and the Rebekah lodges.  He was elected coroner in 1912.

Source: "A History of Yellow Medicine County" by Arthur P. Rose
Published 1914