BIOGRAPHIES:  Normand M. Strand, Doyle Township, Barron County, WI

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  Normand M. Strand, a well-known and enterprising farmer of Section 17,
Doyle Township, is a native of this township and son of Andrew C. and Belle
(Oleson) Strand. He was reared in this township, and as a youth began working
on farms in the neighborhood. Like so many of the other young men of
the neighborhood, he spent one winter in the lumber woods. In 1909 he rented
a place in Doyle Township and started farming on his own responsibility. Two
years later he purchased 80 acres in Section 17, Doyle Township, which was
mostly wild, but some of which had been improved. There he made general
improvements and farmed until 1919. Then he sold and bought 80 acres in
Section 17. This place has good buildings and was well tilled. On this place,
Mr. Strand carries on general farming and dairying, making a specialty of a
good herd of cattle headed by a full blooded Holstein sire. As a native of the
township, he is interested in everything that is for the best interests of the
community and does his share as a good citizen in every public endeavor. He
and his wife delight in keeping open house to their friends and their home is
a place of joy and contentment, brightened by the presence of happy children.
Mr. Strand was married at Rice Lake, May 2, 1912, to Olga Skar, the daughter
of Christ and Sarah (Olson) Skar, natives of Norway. The children are: Morris
A., born Aug. 31, 1913; Inez, born Oct. 1, 1914; Edna, born June 20, 1916; and
Merene E., born Oct. 1, 1920. The family faith is that of the Norwegian
Lutheran Church.

-Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., &
Co., 1922, pp. 1017