BIOGRAPHIES:  Sam DAHL, Elk Mound Township, Dunn Co., WI

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Submitted by:  Laura Abood <wabood@msn.com>  11 May 2005
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Sam Dahl, a well known pioneer of Dunn County, still living on his
farm in the town of Elk Mound, was born in Christiania, Norway, Feb.
2, 1838, son of Solie Elefson and wife, the latter's maiden name
being Guri Johanson.  Both parents died in Norway, their native land.
Sam Dahl was educated in the Lutheran school and confirmed in the
Lutheran church of his parish and remained in his native land until
the year 1857.  Then, at the age of 19 years, he came to the United
States, settling first in Chicago, and, except in winter, following
the life of a sailor on the lakes.  One year, however, he spent in La
Crosse, but subsequently resumed a sailor's life and spent three more
seasons at it.  He then became connected with the lumber industry,
running lumber rafts from Reads' Landing down to Mississippi River to
St. Louis, but later held a stationary position as watchman in the
lumber yards of Knapp, Stout & Co. at Read's Landing.  After being
thus occupied for three years, he came to Dunn County, Wis., and
engaged in agricultural pursuits in the town of Elk Mound, but later
selling that farm, he bought land on Poplar Creek, in the town of
Grant, where he farmed for several years, developing the property,
which he subsequently gave to his children.  Then returning to the
town of Elk Mound, he bought a farm of 105 acres in Sections 8 and 9,
on which he erected a good set of buildings, conducting it until
1920, when he rented it to his son, Delbert.  While living in the
town of Grant he served for some years as constable and as a member
of the town board.  He owns and occupies a nice bungalow residence in
Colfax, where he has other village property.  Mr. Dahl was married,
April 28, 1866, to Marn Olena Anderson, who was born in Norway, April
3, 1848.  He and his wife became the parents of seven children: 
Stena, Henry, Sam and George (twins), Ida, Alfred and Delbert, of
whom the four first mentioned are now deceased.  Ida is the wife of
Martin Christianson of Eau Claire and the mother of three children,
Mabel, Melvin and Luella.  Alfred, elsewhere mentioned, is a
prominent farmer in the town of Elk Mound, and Delbert, who is
unmarried, is living on the home farm.

Transcribed from the "History of Dunn County Wisconsin, 1925" page 710


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