Ole G. Brende Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1227-1228 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				OLE G. BRENDE. 

	Ole G. Brende, residing on section 22, Sverdrup township, is one 
of the substantial agriculturists and representative citizens of 
Minnehaha county, where he has resided for forty-four years and where 
he owns five hundred and twenty acres of valuable land. His birth 
occurred in Norway on the 13th of November, 1863, his parents being 
Gudmund O. and Lisbet Brende, w ho emigrated to the United States in 
1868 and took up their abode in Goodhue county, Minnesota. Three years 
later, in 1871, they came to South Dakota, locating in Sverdrup 
township, Minnehaha county, where the father homesteaded the far. on 
which our subject now lives. On that property he spent the remainder of 
his life, passing away in 1902. His demise was the occasion of deep and 
widespread regret, for he had gained many friends during the long 
period of his residence in the community. 

	Ole G. Brende, who was a lad of eight years when he came to this 
state with his parents, attended the district schools in the 
acquirement of an education and assisted his father in the work of the 
home farm until the time of his marriage, It was in 1885 that he wedded 
Miss Brynhild L. Renaa, a native of Norway, and subsequently he took up 
his abode on eighty acres of his present farm, which was then owned by 
his father and was afterward deeded to him. From time to time Mr. 
Brende has augmented his landed holdings until they now embrace five 
hundred and twenty acres in Minnehaha county and one hundred and sixty 
acres in Brown county, South Dakota. In the conduct of his agricultural 
interests he has followed modern and resultant methods that have 
insured his success and have gained him recognition among the leading 
and enterprising farmers of his county. 

	Mr. and Mrs. Brende are the parents of eight children, namely: 
Gust, Christina, Gilbert, Adolph, Gida, Olga, Pauline and Oscar, all at 
home. The parents and children are devoted members of the Lutheran 
church. They are widely and favorably known and have an extensive 
circle of friends throughout the community.