Henry L. Grangaard Biography


	This biography appears on pages 882-883 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was 
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				HENRY L. GRANGAARD. 

	Henry L. Grangaard, a farmer and stock-raiser residing on section 
11, township 94, range 52, has followed agricultural pursuits in South 
Dakota for nearly three decades and is now the owner of four hundred 
acres of valuable land in Clay county. His birth occurred in Allamakee 
county, Iowa, in 1864, his parents being Ole and Ingebord Grangaard, 
both of whom were natives of Norway. They emigrated to the United 
States in the middle '40s, immediately following their marriage, and 
first took up their abode in Wisconsin but some years later removed to 
Allamakee county, Iowa, where they spent the remainder of their lives. 
In that county the father proved up a claim and successfully carried on 
general agricultural pursuits. To them were born nine children, five of 
whom survive, as follows: Arne, who resides on the old family homestead 
in Iowa; Andrew, a resident of Cass county, North Dakota; Ole, who 
makes his home in Willmar, Minnesota; Lewis Olaus, living in Allamakee 
county, Iowa; and Henry L., of this review. 

	The last named acquired his education in the public schools of 
his native county and when a young man of twenty-two years removed to 
Clay county, South Dakota, purchasing one hundred and sixty acres of 
land on section 11, township 94, range 52. Since that time he has 
devoted his attention continuously and successfully to the pursuits of 
general farming and stock-raising and now owns four hundred acres of 
well improved land in Clay county, more than three hundred acres 
thereof being in a high state of cultivation. He is likewise a 
stockholder in the Farmers Elevator Company of Wakonda and has long 
been numbered among the substantial, representative and esteemed 
citizens of his community. 

	In 1888 Mr. Grangaard was united in marriage to Miss Caroline 
Sevatson, a native of Allamakee county, Iowa, and a daughter of Sevat 
and Inge Sevatson, both of whom were born in Norway. Mrs. Grangaard is 
one of their four surviving children and by her marriage has become the 
mother of three children, namely: Ida I., born in 1889; Oswald, whose 
birth occurred in 1892; and Ella C., deceased. 

	Mr. Grangaard gives his political allegiance to the republican 
party and has held most of the township offices, while at the present 
time he is acting as chairman of the town board. For a period of four 
years, from 1898 until 1902, he served as treasurer of Clay county, 
making a most creditable and commendable record in that connection. His 
religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Lutheran church, 
to which his wife and children also belong. Public-spirited and 
progressive, he is one of the citizens of Clay county who always can be 
relied upon to give his cooperation in promoting the interests of every 
movement, the adoption of which will be beneficial to the state.