Andrew P. Brende Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1185-1186 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was 
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				ANDREW P. BRENDE. 

	Andrew P. Brende, a representative agriculturist and foremost 
citizen of Minnehaha county, owns and operates a farm comprising three 
hundred and eighty acres of valuable land on section 9, Mapleton 
township. His birth occurred in Norway on the 4th of June, 1863, his 
parents being Paul and Ingri Brende. The mother passed away in that 
country, and in 1869 or 1870 the father emigrated to the United States 
with his two sons, locating first in Goodhuc county, Minnesota. At the 
end of about a year, however, he came to South Dakota, homesteading a 
quarter of section 21, Mapleton township, Minnehaha county, lying in 
the Big Sioux valley, which has the richest and most fertile land in 
the state. On that farm Paul Brende spent the remainder of his life, 
passing away about 1909, in the eightieth year of his age. The period 
of his residence in Minnehaha county covered almost four decades and he 
gained an extensive and favorable acquaintance throughout the 
community. 

	Andrew P. Brende was reared at home and in the acquirement of an 
education attended the common schools. "Temples of learning" in this 
state were yet but primitive and he received only three months' 
instruction yearly in a log building belonging to James Berg. In the 
fall of 1884, when twenty-one years of age, he was united in marriage 
to Miss Ellen Husby, a native of Norway. In the following spring he 
started out as an agriculturist on his own account, purchasing one 
hundred and twenty acres of his present home farm in Mapleton township. 
Subsequently he extended the boundaries of his place by additional 
purchase and now owns three hundred and eighty acres of some of the 
finest land in Minnehaha county. He has managed the property 
practically and intelligently and in his undertakings as an 
agriculturist has won well merited and enviable success. The Baltic 
Cooperative Lumber Company numbers him among its stockholders. 

	To Mr. and Mrs. Brende have been born ten children, as follows: 
Ida; Minnie; Emma, who gave her hand in marriage to Bennie Moe, an 
agriculturist of Sverdrup township; Maria; Peter; Alma; Amelia; Clara; 
Inez; and Elmer. 

	Mr. Brende gives his political allegiance to the republican party 
and is now serving for the seventh year as a member of the town board. 
He has also been a member of the school board for several years, ever 
proving a conscientious and capable public official. His religious 
faith is indicated by his membership in the Norwegian Lutheran church, 
to which his wife and children also belong and which he served for some 
years as a member of the board of trustees. His many excellent 
characteristics have given him high standing in the community, and he 
is accounted a substantial and leading citizen.