BIOGRAPHIES:  Andrew AMDALL, Dallas Township, Barron Co., WI

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Transcribed by Kate Wilson. 
Edited and submitted by  Vic Gulickson <vic@indy.net>  7 January 2004
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Andrew Amdall, who occupies an excellent position as one of the most
prominent men in Dallas Township, was born in Story County, Iowa, June 24,
1884, the son of Ove G. and Agatha (Barke) Amdall, natives of Norway. He
received a common and high school education and came to this county with
his parents in 1900. In 1906 he rented a farm in Section 15, Dallas
Township, for two years. In the fall of 1908 he purchased 100 acres in
Section 21, which he sold the next year. For a while in 1909-10 he traveled
in the southern and western states. In 1911 he purchased 120 acres In
Section 9, east, Dallas Township. There he built a modern house, silo,
granary, machine shed and other buildings. He also improved the land and
put in new fences. There, through years of hard work, he developed as good
a place as was to be found in the neighborhood. In 1919 he sold this place
and bought his present farm of 120 acres in Section 13, west, Dallas
Township. This piece of land, within the village limits of Dallas, was once
owned by his father. He has remodeled the house, fixed over the barn, and
erected a silo, machine shed and other buildings. He has also put up new
fences, further improved the land and purchased suitable tools, implements
and equipment. Here he successfully carries on general farming and
dairying. He has a good herd of high grade Guernseys headed by a
pure-blooded sire, and a good drove of Duroc-Jersey swine. His business
holdings include stock in the Farmers Store at Dallas. Mr. Amdall was
married Oct 4, 1912, to Mildred Keyes, who was born in Barron County Sept.
28, 1893, the daughter Lucius and Harriet (Fauver) Keyes. Mr. and Mrs.
Amdall have four children. Marvel J. was born July 17, 1914, Emmett F. and
Ellis B. (twins) were born Oct 12, 1916, and Lawrence K. was born May 20,
1918.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pp. 843-844.

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