Albert N. Quale Biography


	This biography appears on pages 702 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904) and was scanned, 
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	ALBERT N. QUALE has well equipped offices in the Minnehaha 
building, at the corner of Ninth street and Phillips avenue, in the 
city of Sioux Falls, and conducts an extensive enterprise under the 
title of the Quale Land Company, buying and selling farm lands in both 
North and South Dakota, handling wild land, improved farms and stock 
ranches, negotiating exchanges and managing estates, while he also 
deals in improved and unimproved realty in the various cities and towns 
of the state.  

	Albert N. Quale was born in Minnehaha county, South Dakota, on 
the 30th of September, 1878, this being many years prior to the 
segregation of the two Dakotas, which then comprised one vast 
territorial division of the national domain. He is a son of Torgeli T. 
and Agatha (Estenes) Quale, who came as pioneers to Dakota territory in 
the spring of 1878, the father taking up a homestead claim in Tarpi 
township, Minnehaha county, and having become one of the prominent and 
honored farmers and stock growers of this section. He and his wife 
still reside on the homestead, on which he has made the best of 
improvements, and he is now the owner of a valuable landed estate of 
one hundred and sixty acres. Both he and his wife are native of the far 
Norse land, having been born in Norway, where they were reared to 
maturity. In 1876 they set sail from Bergen, Norway, and started forth 
to seek their fortunes in America, landing in the port of New York in 
due course of time and thence making their way westward to Iowa, 
locating in Winneshiek county, where they remained until coming to 
South Dakota. Of their six children five are living, and the family is 
held in high estimation in the county, with whose history the name has 
been identified for a quarter of a century.  

	The subject of this review passed his youthful days on the 
homestead farm, early beginning to assist in its work, while his 
educational training was- secured in the public schools. He remained on 
the farm until 1897, when he secured a clerkship in a mercantile 
establishment at Baltic, while later he was successfully engaged in 
selling farming machinery and implements at Colton and Dell Rapids. 
Finally he became identified with the real-estate business, as an 
employee of a firm in Brown county, and his success in this field led 
him to engage in the same line of enterprise on his own responsibility. 
Accordingly, in the winter of 1902, he came to Sioux Falls and 
established the Quale Land Company, being in sole control of the 
business. In politics Mr. Quale is a staunch advocate of the principles 
of the Republican party, and fraternally he is identified with the 
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He enjoys marked popularity in 
business and social circles and is one of the prominent and rising 
young men of his native state.