BIOGRAPHIES:   Andrew O. ERSTAD, Rice Lake, Barron Co., WI

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Transcribed by Kate Wilson. 
Edited and submitted by  Vic Gulickson <vic@indy.net>  02 September 2003
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Andrew O. Erstad, proprietor of a well-established tailor shop in Rice
Lake, 17 North Main Street, was born in Norway, July 23, 1870, son of Ole
and Olive (Martison) Erstad, the former of whom is still living in Norway
and the latter of whom died in 1883. Andrew O. attended school in his
native land and was apprenticed to a tailor at the age of fourteen. He came
to America in 1888, and secured employment at his trade in Beloit, Wis. He
came to Rice Lake in the winter of 1891 and entered the employ of Nels
Haugen. In 1894 he went to Minneapolis, where he was employed six months by
the Plymouth Clothing House. Then he went to Duluth, and for two years was
employed at his trade with J. S. Lane. In 1896 he again came to Rice Lake
and again entered the employ of Mr. Haugen. He started business for himself
in 1904. He is an excellent tailor, and has a good trade, making suits and
overcoats, and doing renovating, mending and pressing. He has been
secretary of Valhalla Lodge No. 7, Scandinavian-American Fraternity, for
six years past. Mr. Erstad was married Oct. 6, 1896, at Rice Lake, to Anna
Ruud, daughter of Gilbert and Eliza Ruud. Mr. and Mrs. Erstad have four
children: Lillian M., Linmore G. O., Arman M. and Wendell W. Lillian M. was
born Nov 13, 1897, and was graduated from the local high school in 1917 and
for the past four years has been employed as a stenographer and bookkeeper.
Linmore G. O. was born Jan. 3, 1901, and was graduated from the Rice Lake
High School in 1921. Arman M., born May 18, 1903, and Wendell W., born Dec.
26, 1905, are both attending school.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co.,
1922, pg. 186.


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