BIOGRAPHIES:  Nels A. R. Anderson FROGNER, Elk Mound Township, Dunn
Co., WI

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Nels A. R. Anderson FROGNER, an active and progressive farmer of the
town of Elk Mound, whose fertile and attractive farm of 80 acres is
situated in Section 3, was born in Christiania, Norway, April 6,
1866.  His parents also natives of Norway, were Andrew Hokenson and
Randina (Hanson) Frogner, the father born in Gudbrandsdalen, and the
mother in Barrum.  They spent their lives in their native land, the
father dying in 1866 and the mother in 1874.  Their children were: 
Hans A., now of Elk Mound, Dunn County, Wis.; Martin, who died in
Norway; Axel also in Norway, and Nels R. A., of the town of Elk
Mound.  The subject of this sketch was educated in Norway in the
Gronland school and confirmed in the Gronland Lutheran Church.  He
began industrial life in the printer's trade, afterwards became a
butcher and next learned the locksmith's trade.  Not caring much for
any of these occupations, however, and being attracted by the sea, he
followed a sailor's life for tow years, subsequently driving a hack
for two years in Christiania.  In 1888 he came to America and,
locating in Eau Claire, Wis., was engaged in sawmill work there
during two summers, spending the winters in the woods as a logger. 
In 1890 he began farming, buying 80 acres of land in the town of
Colfax, on to which he moved in 1893, but resided there only one
year, at the end of which time he sold that property and bought his
present farm of 80 acres in Section 3, town of Elk Mound.  There were
no buildings on the place but 30 acres of land had been broken.  Mr.
Frogner built a good frame house, also a good set of out-buildings,
and planted oak, maple, pine and spruce trees in the yard, which have
since grown into fine shade trees.  He has broken and developed more
of the land and has made good progress as a general farmer and
dairyman.  He is a stockholder in the Colfax Produce Co. and in the
Elk Mound Cooperative Creamery.  His farm is known as Maple Grove
Farm.  Mr. Frogner was married Dec. 2, 1901, to Randi E. Sorenson,
who was born in Barrum, Norway, June 5, 1870, and came to this
country when nine years old, her family locating in Eau Claire.  Mr.
and Mrs. Frogner have one son, Conrad Rudolph, born Dec. 4, 1903, who
is his father's assistant on the farm.
 
-Transcribed from the "History of Dunn County Wisconsin, 1925," page
815


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