Biographies:  Esten JORSTAD, Dovre Township, Barron Co., WI 

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Esten Jorstad, Section 22, Dovre Township, stands well among the prosperous 
and industrious men of the community. He was born in Norway July 20, 1858,
the son of Arne and Anna Jorstad, and was but eleven years of age when they
brought him to Portage County, this state, in 1873, and but thirteen when 
they brought him to Dovre Township in 1875. He has therefore seen the county 
develop from a wilderness, and in its development has had his full share and 
part. As a boy he worked on the farm and at the age of eighteen had his 
first, experience in the woods, when he worked for Knapp, Stout & Co. for 
$14 a month and board, half his wages being received in cash and half in 
trade. In 1888 he bought 160 acres of his present place for $600. A log 
shanty had been built and a few acres had been cleared. He has erected a 
good set of buildings, has broken up the land, added forty acres more, and 
now successfully carries on general farming. His place is one of the best 
that is to be found in the neighborhood. In addition to his other farming 
operations he makes a specialty of raising full-blooded sires, for which 
there is a wide demand. A believer in everything that is for the best
interests of the community, he helped to organize the Farmers' Shipping
Association of Chetek, he helped to build the store occupied by the Farmers
Store Co., and he is a shareholder in the Spring Hill Creamery which he
helped to organize. Mr.Jorstad was married in June, 1890 on the farm, to 
Hilda Wade, who died May 12, 1899, at the age of 27 years, leaving three 
children: Arthur, Anna (deceased), and Helga (deceased). On Dec. 19, 1900, 
he married Julia Nelson, who was born at Drammen, Norway, Dec. 25, 1865, and 
this union has been blessed with one child, Myrtle. Arthur lives in Chetek, 
where he is a prosperous garage man. Myrtle is at home. The family attends 
the Norwegian Lutheran Church at Dovre, on the board of which Mr. Jorstad 
served for many years.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co.,
1922, pg. 819.