BIOGRAPHIES: Abram K. YNDESTAD, Prairie Farm Township, Barron County, WI

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Abram K. Yndestad, a respected citizen, now living in retirement in
Prairie Farm Township, was born about ten miles north of Bergen, Norway,
Sept. 4, 1847, the son of Caston and Kari Yndestad, who spent the span of
their years in that country. He was reared on the home farm and attended
school. In 1886 he came to America, and joined a cousin, Andrew Johnson,
who had already settled in Prairie Farm Township, this county. Here he
worked on farms for six years and this earned the money to send to Norway
for his wife and seven of his children. In 1888 he secured 80 acres in
Section 7, Prairie Farm Township, and to this later added 40 acres more.
When he purchased the land it was all wild. For a while he found it hard to
get along. But he had strength and courage and ambition, and he had his
good wife and children to help him. The second year he got a pair of horses
and two cows, and after that the work of developing the place went along
faster. In time he built-up a good farm, with a suitable set of buildings,
and well-tilled land. He here successfully carried on general farming until
1920, when he sold the place to his son-in-law, Hugo 0. Gould, with whom he
still lives. In his active years he did his share in public work as a good
citizen. He is a stockholder in the Cooperative Creamery of Prairie Farm.
Mr. Yndestad was married in Norway in 1868 to Anna Andrewsdatter, who was
born in that country, Dec. 26, 1846, and died on the farm in Prairie Farm
Township in 1903. The children, born in Norway, were: Colburn, David,
Peter, Albert, Ledvald, Anna and Matilda, who came to this country; and
Carrie, Patrina and Dorothea, who remained there. Olivia, the youngest
child, was born on the farm in Prairie Farm Township.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co.,
1922, pg. 610.