Union County, SD Biographies.....Asbjeld, A. P. 1855 - 
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Author: Geo. A. Ogle & Co. (1897)

A. P. ASBJELD, the able and efficient auditor of Union county, was born in
Norway in 1855, and is a son of Peter O. and Carrie (Krogen) Asbjeld, also
natives of Norway. The former was a carpenter by trade and was engaged in
contracting and building in the old country. He came to the United States in
1870, and settled in Marquette county, Mich., where he was engaged in the iron
mines of Ishpeming. He was employed there for three years when he came to Dakota
Territory, and settled on a farm of 160 acres in Spink township, which he
entered as a homestead. Here he engaged in farming till death overtook him in
1891. His wife died in 1895. They were the parents of three children, two sons
now living, our subject and Ingebrigt, the latter residing in Spink township.
The only daughter, Mary, a promising young lady, died when she was twenty-one
years of age.

   The subject of this biography, when his parents left Michigan, went to
Minneapolis, Minn., and attended the Augsburg seminary from which he graduated
five years later. He then secured a position at teaching in Worth county, Iowa,
where he stayed for two years and then went to Decorah, Iowa, to attend the
Lutheran college at that point, where he graduated from the teacher's department
in a year. After this he returned to Worth county, Iowa, and taught for one
term, and then in 1882 came to Dakota and employed his time at teaching school
and farming till 1894, when he was elected to his present position of county
auditor. He has also been assessor of Union county for four years, and is
interested among other things in farming land in various parts of the state. He
is a strong Republican in politics and actively engaged in local affairs of the
county.

    Mr. Asbjeld was married to Miss Lava Jamtgaard, a daughter of Ole and Sigrid
(Lium) Jamtgaard, natives of Norway, who came to Dakota in 1882, and settled in
Big Springs township, where Mr. Jamtgaard is now living, his wife, who was born
in 1822, having died November 23, 1886. Mr. and Mrs. Asbjeld have three
children-Marenus, Johanna and Peter. They are members of the Lutheran church, of
which Mr. Asbjeld has been secretary for over ten years. They reside in Elk Point.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF 
Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties,
SOUTH DAKOTA.

Containing Biographical Sketches of Hundreds of Prominent Old Settlers and
Representative Citizens, with a Review of their Life Work; their Identity with
the Growth and Development of these Counties; Reminiscences of Personal History
and Pioneer Life; and other Interesting and Valuable Matter which should be
Preserved in History.

ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO.
GEO. A. OGLE & CO.
Publishers, Engravers and Book Manufacturers.
1897.


Biography is the only true history.—EMERSON.

A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
generations.—MACAULAY.


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