Verne Clifford Olander Biography


	This biography appears on pages 978, 979 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				VERNE CLIFFORD OLANDER. 

	Verne Clifford Olander, a successful young agriculturist residing 
on section 11, Split Rock township, Minnehaha county, is busily engaged 
in the management of the family homestead. His birth occurred thereon, 
April 24, 1889, his parents being Charles and Milma (Bowman) Olander, 
both of whom were natives of Sweden, the former born in Stockholm. They 
emigrated to the United States as young man and young woman, Charles 
Olander sailing in 1867 or 1868 and Miss Bowman in 1869. The father of 
our subject found employment in the mines at Marquette, Michigan, and 
was there married. In 1871 he removed to Minnehaha county, South 
Dakota, and in the same year homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of 
land on section 11, Split Rock township, also taking up an eighty-acre 
tree claim in that township. There he successfully carried on 
agricultural pursuits until the time of his death in 1910, at the age 
of sixty-five, after a residence of almost four decades in Minnehaha 
county. His widow still resides on the homestead with her son Verne and 
is well known and highly esteemed throughout the community. 

	Verne C. Olander acquired his early education in the common 
schools and continued his studies for one year in the high school at 
Rock Rapids, Iowa. Subsequently he spent three years as a student in 
the Gustavus Adolphus College at St. Peter, Minnesota, from which he 
was graduated with the class of 1908. He then followed the profession 
of teaching for a year, but subsequently turned his attention to 
agricultural pursuits and during the past three years has operated the 
home farm, which embraces an entire section of land in Split Rock 
township and is all under his management. Mr. Olander makes a specialty 
of the stock business, raising shorthorn cattle and Duroc-Jersey hogs. 
In the conduct of his agricultural interests he has displayed excellent 
business ability and has won a measure of success that entitles him to 
recognition among the substantial and representative young citizens of 
his native county. Fraternally he is identified with the Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows, belonging to Valley Springs Lodge, while his 
religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Swedish Lutheran 
church. He has already won a gratifying measure of prosperity for one 
of his years and his many friends feel that a bright future lies before 
him