BIOGRAPHIES:  Andrew GRUND, Pepin, Pepin Co., WI

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Andrew Grund, farmer, P. O. Pepin, was born near Gefle, Sweden,
December 11, 1839.  His parents are Louis and Anna (Peterson) Grund,
and to them were born seven children:  Louis, who died in Andersonville
prison, August 31, 1864; Peter; Christine, Mrs. P. Lewis; Breeta, Mrs.
O. Faline; Anna, Mrs. J. Johnson; Andrew and Carl.  At the age of
eleven years Andrew began to learn his father's trade, tailoring, but
afterward abandoned it, and worked in a cotton factory.  At the age of
eighteen he came to America, stopping first at McGregor, Iowa.  In 1859
he came to Pepin township, and worked on a farm; later he ran down the
river on a raft to Burlington, Iowa, and thence went to Columbus, Ky.,
where he was engaged in chopping.  Thence he went to Louisville, and
hired on a steamboat, running between Pittsburgh and St. Louis.  This
he followed but a short time, and, after working on a farm in Peoria
county, Ill., he came to Burlington, Iowa.  At the latter place he was
married, February 15, 1862, to Caroline Matilda, daughter of Jacob and
Carrie (Hanson) Jacobson, and to them have been born eight children: 
Carl W., Christine (Mrs. H. L. Mosher), Louis L., Andrew A., Annie M.,
Mary J., Hulda C. and Amelia J.  Shortly after his marriage Mr. Grund
removed to Prairie du Chien, Wis., where he was employed on the
railroad.  In the spring of 1863 he removed to Stockholm township,
Pepin county, and in 1867 to Pepin township, where he owns a farm of
120 acres, and is engaged in breeding Holstein cattle.  January 4,
1864, Mr. Grund enlisted in Company I, Fifteenth Wisconsin volunteers. 
When this regiment was mustered out he was transferred to the Twenty-
fourth, and later to the Thirteenth Wisconsin regiment.  He took part
in engagements at Rocky Face Ridge, Dalton, Resaca, New Hope Church,
Altoona, Kenesaw Mt. and Atlanta, Ga.  In August, 1864, he was sent to
the hospital, but in two weeks he returned to his regiment.  After the
capture of Atlanta the regiment was sent back to Chattanooga.  On
arriving there, he was again sent to the hospital.  Later, he marched
with is regiment through eastern Tennessee, and thence to San Antonio,
Tex., where he was honorably discharged, November 25, 1865.  In
politics Mr. Grund is a republican, though formerly a democrat.  He is
not an office seeker, but has served as supervisor in Pepin township. 
He is a member of the Lutheran church, and of U. S. Grant Post No. 204,
G. A. R.

-Transcribed from the "Historical & Biographical Album of the Chippewa
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2," pages 744-745.


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