BIOGRAPHIES: Lars GRINDE, Father of George A., MD, 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 ==================================================================== Lars Grinde, a well known resident of De Forest, Dane County, Wis., was born in this place, the son of Sjur and Bertha Grinde. He was reared in Dane County, where he acquired his elementary education, and he was an early graduate of the University of Wisconsin. As a young man he took up agricultural work on his own responsibility near De Forest. There he successfully farmed for many years, and there he reared his fine family of children. As old age came on he retired and moved to the village of De Forest, where he and his wife now live. He married Emma Engesether, who was born in Norway and brought to Dane County as a child. Mr. and Mrs. Grinde had twelve children, of whom there are living eight: Sjur; Peter; George A.; Leonard; Gertrude, wife of Jerome Norsman, of Windsor, Wisconsin; Ida, wife of Ben Bergum, a farmer of Hampden, Wis.; Mabel, wife of Theodore Erickson, a farmer near Dane, Wis.; and Eugene, who is living on the old homestead. --Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 561.