BIOGRAPHIES:  Albert HALVORSON, Sumner Township, Barron County, WI

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Albert Halvorson, an energetic and highly regarded farmer of section 8, 
Sumner Township, was born in an old log cabin on section 5, this township,
July 20, 1881, the son of the pioneers, Olaus and Ellen (Jorgenson) Halvorson. 
He grew to manhood in the years when the place was developing from a
wilderness to a well-kept farm, he helped his parents with the farm work and 
he attended the schools of the neighborhood. As the years of responsibility 
came, he rented the home place in partnership with his brother, William. 
After his marriage in 1911 he sold out to his brother and moved to a tract of 
160 acres in Stanley Township. A set of buildings stood on the place and 
60 acres of the land had been broken. He remodeled the house, fixed over the 
barn, built a good stave silo and there farmed for four years. In 1915 he 
sold out and came to his present place of 148 acres in section 8, Sumner 
Township. Thirty-five acres of this land was cultivated, the rest being in 
woodland, and no buildings had been erected. To the task of building up and 
operating this farm, he has since devoted his attention. He has erected a 
modern home, put up a good barn, 36 by 100 feet, a tile silo, 16 by 41, and 
other buildings. He has cleared the land and put it under cultivation.  Not 
only had the timber to be cut off and the stumps cleared, but some hundreds 
of loads of stones had to be gathered up and carted away. Mr. Halvorson has 
taken pride in his work and has developed a good farm of which he has reason 
to be proud. He carries on general farming and makes a specialty of a good 
herd of pure bred Guernsey cattle. He is an officer of the Guernsey Breeders' 
Association.  He stands well with all who know him and is regarded as one of 
the substantial and representative men of his township, and an example to the 
younger generation. Mr. Halvorson was married June 29, 1911, to Mary Bandli, 
who was born in Doyle Township, this county, Oct. 7, 1879, the daughter of 
Christian and Elsbeth Bandli, the pioneers. They have one bright boy, 
Laurence, born Feb. 13, 19l7.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., &
Co., 1922, pg. 716.