BIOGRAPHIES:  Theodore 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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Theodore Amundson, pioneer of Maple Grove Township, now deceased, underwent
all the hardships of early life in a new country, he saw the county grow
from a wilderness into a prosperous dairy and farming country, and in its
general development he took his share and part. He was born in Norway, and
was there married to Mary Evenson. They came to America in 1860, and
settled in Vernon County, this state, where they bought 40 acres of land.
It was in 1871 that they came to Barron County, and took a homestead of 160
acres in Section 30, Maple Grove Township. This land was all wild, there
were no roads, the dense woods had not been cut over, provisions were
scarce and comforts few. But they persevered, they cleaned 65 of the 160
acres, they established a good home, and reared a family of eight children.
After a long and useful life, he died in 1906, and his wife, Nov. 9, 1918,
both meeting with accidental death. Their children were: Adolph, Amelia,
Bergenie, Palma, Fred, Melvin, Hjelmar and Hilda. The family faith is that
of the Norwegian Lutheran Church.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 335.


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