Union County, SD Biographies.....Ringsrud, Amund O. 1854 - 
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Author: Geo. A. Ogle & Co. (1897)

HON. AMUND O. RINGSRUD, who is engaged in the general mercantile business in the
city of Elk Point, and who has one of the finest and best equipped stores in the
county, came to Dakota territory in 1867 and has been a resident of Elk Point
since 1870. He was born in Norway in 1854, a son of Ole O. and Carrie (Amundsen)
Ringsrud, who emigrated to the United States with their four children and
settled in Dakota territory, homesteading 160 acres of land in Brule township
where they followed farming. Mr. Ringsrud's death occurred in 1S76; his wife
still resides on the old homestead. They were members of the Lutheran church.

   Amund O. Ringsrud received his early education in the excellent schools of
his native land until he was thirteen years of age, when he came with his
parents to this country. In America he worked on the farm and attended school a
portion of the I time until 1870, when he came to Elk Point, as stated above,
and was employed as clerk till 1879. That year he was elected to the office of
register of deeds which position he held continually for six years. In 1885 Mr.
Ringsrud made his initial start for himself in the mercantile business in which
he has been eminently successful. His patronage has been constantly increasing
in volume and he now does a large business, enough to keep four men busy. He has
taken quite an interest in the local political affairs of the city, county and
state, and besides being register of deeds, was elected county treasurer in 1885
and served till 1889, when he was elected secretary of state and re-elected in
1890, serving until January 1, 1893, since which time he has devoted most of his
attention to his private business and affairs. Many of the city offices in the
gift of the people he has held; was a member of the constitutional convention of
1889, and also has served at various times as delegate to the state conventions
of the Republican party, the principles of which he strongly adheres to and
supports. In the fall of 1896 Mr. Ringsrud was the candidate of his party for
governor of South Dakota, and was barely defeated by the combined efforts of the
fusionists, it requiring an official count of the ballots to decide the election.

   Mr. Ringsrud was united in marriage, in 1876, to Miss Emma F. Snyder, of
Lawler, Iowa, and to this union have been born three children—Grace E., Stella
May, and Alfred H. The eldest daughter is now completing her education at the
excellent college at Oberlin, Ohio, the two younger children being at home. Mrs.
Ringsrud was the eldest of a family of five children. Her parents, Abraham and
Susan (Bender) Snyder, were natives of Pennsylvania, Mr. Snyder coming west when
a young man and engaging in the mercantile business at Freeport, where he was
married, and then removing to a farm in Chickasaw county, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs.
Snyder now reside at Lawler, Iowa.


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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