Carl J. Gunderson Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1206-1207 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	CARL J. GUNDERSON, the capable and popular young manager of the 
Union lumber yards at Irene, Turner county, is a native of Norway, where 
he was born on the 30th of November, 1876, being a son of Hans 
Gunderson, who came with his family to America in 1882, so that the 
subject of this sketch has been reared under the influences of our 
national institutions. The family came to South Dakota in 1883 and 
located in Spring Valley, Turner county, where the father provided a 
home and turned his attention to farming and stock growing until June 
20, 1885, when death called him away. Carl J. received such advantages 
as were afforded in the country schools in the vicinity of his home and 
continued to assist in the work of the farm until he had attained the 
age of fourteen years, when he began an apprenticeship at the 
carpenter's trade, becoming a capable workman and continuing to follow 
this vocation to a greater or less extent for the ensuing ten years. On 
the 1st of March, 1903, he was chosen manager of the Union lumber yards 
in Irene, and in this capacity has given most efficient service, while 
he has so ordered his course as to gain and retain the confidence and 
respect of all with whom he has come in contact, and is known as an 
energetic and progressive young business man. In politics he gives his 
support to the Republican party, and both he and his wife are members of 
the Norwegian Lutheran church. 

	On the 6th of March, 1901, Mr. Gunderson was united in marriage to 
Miss Emma Bruget, who was born in Yankton county, this state, on the 7th 
of April, 1878, being a daughter of Jorgen and Olina Bruget, who were 
numbered among the first settlers in the Mission Hill district of the 
county. Mr. and Mrs. Gunderson have two children, Olive and Esther.