BIOGRAPHIES:  Norval Severud, Dallas, Barron County, WI

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    Norval Severud, garage man of the firm of Severud & Johnson, Dallas,
was born Feb. 18, 1886, in Maple Grove Township, son of Ole and Lena (Arinson)
Severud, natives of Norway, who came to America in 1869 and settled in
Dane County, Wisconsin, from which in 1872 they came to Barron County and
took a homestead of 160 acres in Section 36, west, Maple Grove Township.
They cleared eighty acres and built a good set of buildings and there farmed
until 1912 when they rented the place to their son, Norval, and moved to Dallas
where the father still resides, the mother having died in March, 1910. In the
family there were fourteen children: Henry, Emma, Nora (deceased), John,
Nora, Anna, Norval, Matilda, Inga, Oscar, Albin, Ella (deceased), Ella and
Clifford. Norval received his education in the district schools and remained
with his parents until 1906, when he rented the home place and carried on
farming, spending his winters working in sawmills. In 1912 he came to Dallas
Village and bought ten acres just outside the village limits where he did
truck farming and worked on the roads. In 1913 he purchased a clothing store
in Dallas, but sold out two years later. Then until 1919 he sold farm implements.
In that year he engaged in his present business. The company handles
the Chevrolet motor cars, Allis-Chalmers tractors, and the Sunbeam light system.
It is doing a constantly increasing business and both of the partners
stand high in the community. While in the township Mr. Severud served on
the school board. He is a member of Norwegian Free Church. Mr. Severud
was married Oct. 30, 1908 to Hannah Wahl, daughter of Ole and Olena (Johnson)
Wahl, for many years residents of Dallas, but now deceased. Mr. and
Mrs. Severud have had five children: Ruth, born May 25, 1910; Esther, born
April 20, 1913; Lloyd, born May 23, 1916; Chester, deceased, who was born
May 20, 1917, and Neva, born April 16, 1919, who died April 23 the same year.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., &
Co., 1922, pp. 828