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

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Arne Jorstad, an early settler of Dovre Township, was born in Norway, and 
was there  reared, educated and married.  In 1873 he and his wife, Anna, 
and five children, Esten, Ole, John, Agnes and Petra, came to America, and 
joined his father, who had come the previous year. For a time the family 
lived in Portage County, this state.  In 1875 they came to Barron  County 
and settled on a homestead of 160 acres in Dovre Township. There Mr. Jorstad 
built a log cabin for his family and a shed for the two cows that he had 
brought with him. In the fall he got a yoke of oxen. For a time conditions 
were hard. The market places were far away  at Chippewa Falls and Eau Claire. 
But as time passed the region developed and the Jorstads shared in the 
general prosperity. Feeling the need of religious instruction in the 
neighborhood, Mr. Jorstad and his wife assisted in organizing the Norwegian 
Lutheran congregation at Dovre and he served as one of its early officers. 
Both he and his wife are now dead.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 
1922, pp. 818-819.