Albert Norby Biography This biography appears on pages 897-898 in "History of Dakota Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, OCRed and edited by Maurice Krueger, mkrueger@iw.net. This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the SDGENWEB Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://usgwarchives.org/sd/sdfiles.htm ALBERT NORBY. Albert Norby, well known as a representative of real-estate interests in Fort Pierre has been at different times connected with newspaper interests and is now a factor in financial circles as one of the stockholders of the Fort Pierre National Bank. He was born at Sioux Rapids, Iowa, August 13, 1881, a son of Ole Olson and Augusta Norby, both of whom were natives of Norway. Leaving the land of the midnight sun, they came to the new world and at the time of the Civil war O. O. Norby joined a Wisconsin regiment and did active service in behalf of the Union as one of the Seventeenth Wisconsin Infantry, serving under General Sherman in the Atlanta campaign, participating in the celebrated march to the sea and was also in the battle of Gettysburg and other memorable engagements. He was later a resident of Iowa for a number of years but in the spring of 1882 removed to Redfield, South Dakota. He married Augusta Brandvold, a daughter of Arnold P. Brandvold, who was a captain in the Norwegian army. Coming to the United States, he was one of the early pioneers of western Iowa. At the usual age Albert Norby became a pupil in the public schools of his native town and passed through consecutive grades until graduated from the high school at Sioux Rapids, Iowa, on the 7th of June, 1898. He afterward spent a year in Luther College at Decorah, Iowa. From an early age he has been dependent upon his own resources, for when a lad of thirteen years he began work in a country printing office at Sioux Rapids. He devoted a number of years to journalism and was editor and publisher of the Bee at Harris, Iowa, in 1902. He established a number of papers in Stanley county, South Dakota, and edited the Stock Growers, News at Fort Pierre in 1912. At the present writing he is engaged in the real-estate business and is well informed concerning property values. He is also a stockholder in the Fort Pierre National Bank and he owns considerable land in Stanley county, having made judicious investments in real estate, from which he now derives a substantial annual income. On the 14th of July, 1908, at Guttenberg, Iowa, Mr. Norby was united in marriage to Miss Martha M. Stoecker, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John George Stoecker, natives of Germany and of Switzerland respectively, and early settlers of Clayton county. Mr. and Mrs. Norby have a daughter, Dorothy Katherine. In religious faith Mr. Norby is a Lutheran and is interested in the welfare and upbuilding of the church. He has been identified with the republican party and keeps well informed on all questions and issues of the day. In the fourteenth general assembly of the South Dakota legislature he represented Stanley county in the lower house and served as a member of the important appropriations committee. Since 1902 he has been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and was secretary of Harris lodge at Harris, Iowa, in 1903, while at the present writing he is vice grand of the Odd Fellows at Fort Pierre. For three years he was a member of the Twelfth United States Infantry and spent two years of that time in active duty in the Philippines. His has been an active and useful life. He is yet a young man but has already attained a creditable position in business circles and one in which his sound judgment has brought success.