BIOGRAPHIES: Knut BRYNGELSON, Maple Grove Township, Barron County, WI

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Knut Bryngelson, the pioneer, now deceased, was born in Norway. He came to
America in 1875, and after living in Chicago for a year, was married to
Sarah Stevenson of Capron, Ill., and came to Barron County in 1876, among
the early settlers, and took a homestead of 160 acres in Section 21, east,
Maple Grove Township. The county was then a wilderness, with lumber camps
scattered here and there, and with but few settlers. The only roads were
the "tote" roads of the lumber companies and the trails of the pioneers.
Mr. Bryngelson cleared 65 acres of his land, erected buildings, built
fences, and developed a good place. After a long and honored career he died
in January, 1920. His wife died Jan. 17, 1921. The children in the family
are Clarence, Stephen, Carrie and Martin. One daughter, Irene, died in
infancy.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co.,
1922, pg. 462.