BIOGRAPHIES: Martin BRYNGELSON, Maple Grove Township, Barron County, WI ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, or the legal representative of the contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Vic Gulickson 18 June 2001 ==================================================================== Martin Bryngelson, an active and efficient farmer of Maple Grove Township, has an 80-acre farm in section 16, east, and is carrying on mixed farming and dairying along modern scientific lines. He is a native of this township, born of pioneer stock, and son of Knut and Sarah (Stevenson) Bryngelson. He attended the public schools of his neighborhood, and learned farming with his parents, remaining at home until 1910. In that year he bought his present farm, broke and cleared some of it, and made general improvements, which he is still keeping up. Mr. Bryngelson was married June 8, 1919, to Cordelia Fostvedt daughter of Knut and Carrie (Christianson) Fostvedt, the former of whom is a blacksmith in Waushara County, this state. Mr. and Mrs. Fostvedt have five children: Julius, Clarence, Inga, Johanna and Cordelia. --Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 463.