BIOGRAPHIES:  Andrew C. HOLST, Bloomer, Chippewa County, WI

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Andrew C. Holst, farmer, P. O. Bloomer, Chippewa county, was born in Eker, 
Norway, June 28, 1841, a son of Christopher N. Holst and Annie Evenson, 
natives of the same place.  He attended school until fifteen years of age, 
then worked at the tailor's trade until twenty-one years old, when he sailed 
from Swellvegan, Norway, to Quebec, Canada, on the sailing vessel Askur, and 
was ten weeks on the water.  Then he went to Montreal, Detroit, Mich., 
Chicago, Ill., Read's Landing and Eau Claire, Wis., remaining a short time 
only, in each place, and finally located in Tilden township, Chippewa county, 
on a farm of eighty acres, where he has since resided.  February 26, 1864, he 
enlisted in Bloomer, Chippewa county, in Company K, Fourth Wisconsin cavalry, 
but was afterward transferred to Company F, of the same regiment, and was 
discharged May 28, 1865, at Brownsville, Tex.  He took part in several minor 
engagements, and is now drawing a pension of six dollars for a disability, 
contracted while in service.  After the war he returned to Tilden township, 
Chippewa county, where he is now engaged in farming.

September 3, 1876, Mr. Holst married Miss Annie Larson Corstad, who was born 
in Hudeland, Norway, March 1, 1849, a daughter of Lars Corstad and Martha 
Erickson, also natives of Norway.  Seven children have been born to this 
union:  Nettie Matilda, August 23, 1877; Louise Christina, November 19, 1879, 
and died February 27, 1880; Hilda Christina, January 3, 1878; Nels Edward, 
February 20, 1882; Karl Ludwig, April 29, 1884, died June 18, 1884; Karl 
Ludwig, the second, April 23, 1885; Christian William, August 15, 1887.  Mr. 
Holst is a member of the G. A. R. at Bloomer, Chippewa county, and also of 
the Farmers' Alliance.  Politically he is a republican, and in religion 
believes in the doctrine of the Lutheran church.

-Transcribed from the "Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa 
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2," pages 648 & 649.