BIOGRAPHIES:   Andrew N. ANDERSON, Maple Grove Township, Barron Co., WI

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Andrew N. Anderson, one of the representative farmers of his neighborhood,
owning 98 acres in Section 30, east, Maple Grove Township, was born in
Norway, Dec. 10, 1853, son of Iver and Runug (Peterson) Anderson, natives
of Norway, who spent the span of their years in that country. Andrew N. was
educated in his native land, and in 1873, when twenty years of age, started
out with courage and high resolve to carve his fortunes in the New World.
He landed at Portland, Me., and from there came to this state and located
at Janesville. In 1875 he went to Iowa, and worked as a carpenter, but two
years later came again to this state and located in Dunn county, where he
alternated farm work with lumbering. He bought his present place in 1883,
cleared 60 acres, erected a good set of buildings, and has since, for
nearly forty years, continued successfully to carry on general farming and
dairying, making a specialty of a good grade of Guernsey cattle and
Poland-China swine. He found the county a wilderness, still a place of
flourishing lumber camps, and has seen it develop into the rich dairy
region of the present day. In this development, by building up a good farm,
he has had his part. For some years he has been a member of the school
board of his district and has endeavored to give his large family a good
training in study and in work. He was married July 14,1883, to Augusta
Johnson, daughter of John and Sophia (Greenquist) Johnson, natives of
Sweden, who came to America in 1881, and settled in Maple Grove Township,
this county, where the father died July 14, 1896 and the mother March 12,
1899. In the family there are five children: Anna (deceased), Matilda,
Minnie, Justen and Augusta. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson have ten children: Ida C.
was born March 31, 1884, and is the wife of Even Erickson, of Dallas
Village, this county; Rena S. was born Jan. 4, 1886, and is the wife of
Bernard Jacobson, of Minnesota; Alfred W was born June 3, 1888, and is
farming in Maple Grove Township, this county; John O. was born Dec. 18,
1890, and is in Spokane, Wash.; Walter A. was born Oct. 27, 1893, and is in
North Dakota; Isaac A. was born Oct. 14, 1896, and is farming in Maple
Grove Township; Clarance R. was born Oct. 27, 1899, and is at home; Geneva
O., born July 14, 1902; Ethel A., born March 6, 1907, and Helen A. born
July 16, 1910, are all at home. The family worships at the Norwegian
Lutheran Church.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 463.

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