Biographies:  Andrew WOLD, Dovre Township, Barron Co., WI 

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Andrew Wold, for nearly thirty years a prominent and successful citizen of
Trempealeau County, in this state, and now an estimable resident on Section 
36, Dovre Township, this county, was born in Christiania, Norway, Jan. 1, 
1859, the son of Andrew Larson and Karn Wold, and was there reared and 
educated. In 1881, at the age of twenty-two, he came to the United States, 
and started work on a farm in Rock County, this state, near Beloit, where he 
arrived with practically nothing. There he worked for two years and there he 
was married. In 1883 he went to La Crosse County, and there stayed a year, 
going from there in 1884 to Trempealeau County, where he located in Etrick 
Township, near Blair. That vicinity had been settled for some thirty years, 
and was well populated, and Blair was a good-sized village, but the 
particular forty acres upon which Mr. Wold settled was practically all wild. 
In time he developed it into a good place, and added more land. He put up a 
good set of buildings, and there carried on general farming about twenty-
eight years. During his early period in this state Mr. Wold worked in the 
woods nine winters, and was west threshing 19 falls. For seven springs he 
worked on the Mississippi river and for two years as a fireman in the lumber 
mills at La Crosse. In 1912 he sold his farm near Blair and came to Barron 
County, where he bought 120 acres in Barron Township, three miles north of 
the village. This was wild, the only building standing on it being a school
house, and less than three acres being broken. He put up a good house at a 
cost of $4,000, suitable barns, and broke some of the land. In 1919 he came 
to his present place of 160 acres. He has a good house, two substantial 
barns, 42 by 26, and 60 by 36 feet; a silo, 36 by 16 feet, and other suitable 
buildings. Here he successfully carries on general farming and stock breeding.  
His cattle are of the Holstein breed. Since coming here, Mr. Wold has taken 
his share in the general affairs of the community, and he is regarded as
an upright and useful man. For some years he has been one of the officers of 
the Norwegian Lutheran Church at Barron, Wis. He is a stockholder in the
Barron Creamery Co. Mr. Wold was married, May 17, 1882, at Oxfordville, Rock
County, this state, to Mary Ingeborg, who was born in Norway, July 2, 1860, 
and came to this country alone in 1882. Mr. and Mrs. Wold have five children: 
Clara, John, Albert, Isaac and Edwin. Clara is the wife of Bert Dalhol of 
Barron County. John is a farmer in Barron Township. Albert is working in 
Barron. Isaac and Edwin are on the home farm, and own an interest in it. Both 
are good farmers and hard workers, and both are popular among the young 
people of the community.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co.,
1922, pp. 601-602.