BIOGRAPHIES:  Andrew Greenwold, Maple Grove Township, Barron County, WI

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Andrew Greenwold, a representative farmer of section 20, East, Maple Grove
Township, was born in Norway Jan. 27, 1883, son of Martinus and Nickolena
(Nelson) Greenwold, being one of their large family of nine sturdy
children. He was reared and educated in Norway and there grew to manhood.
He left the land of his birth and boyhood Sept. 15, 1903, and after
reaching America located in Beloit, in Rock County, this state. From there
he went to Rusk County, also in this state, and located on a piece of land
near Ladysmith. From there in, 1910 he came to Barron County and rented a
farm near Hillsdale. Then he rented a farm west of Barron. In 1917 he
bought a farm of eighty acres in section 12, West, Maple Grove Township.
Three years later he sold and bought 80 acres in section 22, Chetek
Township. There he improved a good place. In 1920 he sold that place at a
good figure and acquired his present farm, to which he is now devoting his
attention. He carries on general farming and stock raising and has a fine
herd of Guernsey cattle. He is active in the Guernsey Breeders' Association
and is a stockholder in the Co-operative Mercantile Co. of Chetek. Mr.
Greenwold was married in Norway on March 13, 1901, to Agnes Knutson, and
one child, Martin, was born there Dec. 29, 1902. Seven children: Milton,
Nellie, Myrtle, Esther (deceased), Ruth, Alfred and Hjalmer, were born in
Barron County.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co.,
1922, pg. 348.