Alfred J. Moxness Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1150-1151 in "History of Dakota 
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				ALFRED J. MOXNESS. 

	Alfred J. Moxness, cashier of the State Bank of Andover, was born 
in Elizabeth, Minnesota, December 4, 1882, and is the eldest in a 
family of nine children, eight of whom are living. The parents are Nick 
and Marine Moxness, natives of Norway, born in 1860 and 1861 
respectively. They were married in that country and soon afterward 
crossed the Atlantic, settling in Elizabeth, Minnesota, where the 
father worked as a laborer. During the pioneer epoch in the history of 
Day county, South Dakota, they made their way to Bristol and the same 
year, 1885, the father homesteaded land, after which he bent his 
energies to the development and improvement of the farm which he 
occupied and successfully operated until 1909. Since that year he has 
been engaged in buying grain in Bristol and success in gratifying 
measure has attended his efforts. He and his wife are consistent 
Christian people, holding membership in the Lutheran church. His 
political views accord with republican principles and he has served as 
county commissioner and otherwise taken part in political activity. 

	In his youthful days Alfred J. Moxness divided his time between 
attendance at the district schools and work upon the home farm, giving 
his father the benefit of his services until he attained his majority. 
He then turned from agricultural life to become bookkeeper in a bank, 
where he was employed from 1904 until 1911. In the latter year he 
removed to Andover, accepting the position as cashier of the State Bank 
of Andover, which is a growing and reliable institution capitalized for 
ten thousand dollars, with surplus and undivided profits of forty-five 
hundred dollars and average deposits of seventy-five thousand dollars. 

	In 1907 Mr. Moxness was united in marriage to Miss Serena 
Aadland, a native of Day county and a daughter of Hans Aadland, who was 
an early settler of Day county, this state. Our subject and his wife 
have two children, Harley and Alfred, Jr. 

	Reared in the faith of the Lutheran church, Mr. Moxness has 
always adhered to its teachings and is one of the faithful members of 
that denomination in Bristol. He belongs to the Masons, the Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of the Maccabees and to the Elks 
lodge of Aberdeen. In politics a republican, he is now serving as town 
clerk and was also deputy treasurer of Day county in 1907 but at the 
end of a year resigned his position and resumed active connection with 
the banking business, in which he has made a creditable record. He has 
carefully studied every phase of the business and contributes in large 
measure to the success of the institution with which he is now 
connected and which finds in him a most popular and obliging official.