BIOGRAPHIES:  Sever ANDERSON, Arland Township, Barron County, WI

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Sever Anderson, proprietor of the Riverdale Guernsey Farm, is one of the
prominent men of Arland Township, and is taking his part in those modern
movements which have for their object the agricultural progress of this
community. He is doing most efficient work as clerk of the Arland Township
unit of the Barron County Farm Bureau, he is active in the Barron County
Guernsey Breeders Association, and he is a stockholder in the Barron
Creamery Co., and in the Hillsdale Telephone Co. He has also served with
credit as a member of the school board of his district. He was born on the
place where he still lives, Sept. 11, 1874, the son of Andrew 0. and Anna
(Severson) Wold, early settlers. He was reared on the home place and
attended school in the old log schoolhouse in District No. 4. At the age of
sixteen he started out for himself, and worked in the woods and on farms
for awhile. In l892 he bought l2O acres of the old homestead. To this he
has added so that he now owns 160 acres. He has cleared 5 acres more, has
rebuilt the buildings, and has installed modern equipment including the
Westinghouse system of electric lighting. He has a good place and
successfully carries on general farming and dairying. His fine herd of
Guernseys is headed by a full blooded sire and some of the cows are also
full bloods. Mr. Anderson was married at Prairie Farm Jan. 9, 1905, to
Gertie Bustgaard, who was born in Norway, May 30, 1874, the daughter of
Lars and Mary (Thalberg) Bustgaard, natives of Norway, and both now
deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson have a fine family of five bright children:
Andrew, Hawkin, Martin, Gunde and Lars. The family faith is that of the
Norwegian Lutheran Church.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co.,
1922, pg. 899.