J. G. Brende Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1170, 1172 in "History of Dakota 
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				J. G. BRENDE. 

	J. G. Brende is actively engaged in business at Baltic as a 
dealer in hardware and automobiles and has won well merited success in 
that connection. He was born five miles south of Baltic, a son of 
Gudmund and Lisbet Brende. The father crossed the ocean to the United 
States in a sailing vessel and made his way to Goodhue county, 
Minnesota Two years later he migrated with his family to South Dakota, 
using a yoke of oxen as a team, and locating in a section where only 
two others had preceded him. He preempted a tract of land and devoted 
his attention to general agricultural pursuits throughout the remainder 
of his active business career. He was one of the organizers of the 
Nedaros Lutheran Congregation and was always an active member thereof. 
He passed away in 1902 but is survived by his widow. Gudmund Brende was 
an extensive landowner at the time of his demise, and in his passing 
the community lost an honored pioneer and a prosperous and esteemed 
citizen. 

	J. G. Brende acquired his early education in the public schools 
and was subsequently graduated from the Lutheran Normal School of Sioux 
Falls in 1900. He then turned his attention to the profession of 
teaching and was thus engaged for a period of seven years, proving an 
able instructor who imparted clearly and readily to others the 
knowledge that he had acquired. He taught three years in Pope county, 
Minnesota, and four years in Minnehaha county, South Dakota, teaching 
in both public and parochial schools. At the present time he is engaged 
in business at Baltic as a dealer in hardware and automobiles and in 
both connections is enjoying a gratifying patronage that has come as 
the result of his enterprise, reliability and progressive methods. 

	On the 13th of May, 1906, Mr. Brende was united in marriage to 
Miss Karen J. Brendsel, a daughter of Andrew I. and Bertha Brendsel, by 
whom he has three children, namely: Godtfred Ingemann, Lisabeth 
Ingeborg and K. Adelsten. 

	Mr. Brende is a republican in politics and has served in the 
position of town trustee for two years. He is a devoted and consistent 
member of the Lutheran church and has spent considerable time 
instructing church choirs. He does not belong to any clubs or 
societies, being a lover of home and family. Outdoor sports afford him 
recreation and pleasure. With the exception of three years in Minnesota 
his entire life has been spent in this state, so that he has many 
friends here, and his record is a highly creditable and commendable 
one.