BIOGRAPHIES:  Lars AMUNDSON, Maple Grove Township, Barron Co., WI

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Submitted by:  Vic Gulickson <vic@indy.net>  24 February 2004
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Lars Amundson, now deceased, was for many years a substantial and respected
citizen of Maple Grove Township. He was born in Norway, July 5, 1847, and
there received his early education. He came to America in the late fifties
and settled in Wisconsin. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted and
served until the close of that conflict. Some years afterward, he came to
Barron County, took a claim in Maple Grove Township and developed a good
farm. In his old age he retired and took up his residence in the Soldiers'
Home in Milwaukee, where he died July 3, 1912. Mr. Amundson was married
July 3, 1870, to Margaret Tollefson, daughter of Turie and Gertie
(Tollefson) Peterson. Mr. and Mrs. Amundson had seven children: Tollef
Albert, Lewis, Gina, Andrew, Olaf and Anna, the four youngest of whom are
dead.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 336.


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