BIOGRAPHIES:  Samuel GUNDERSON, Sumner Township, Trempealeau Co., WI

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Samuel Gunderson, proprietor of the Pleasant Hill Farm, section 22,
Sumner Township, is a native of this county, has spent his life on
his present farm, and has served his township as clerk since 1910 and
his school district as clerk and director.  He was born Sept. 12,
1875, was reared to agricultural pursuits, attended the district
school, and in 1900 rented the home farm, which he bought in 1906. 
In carrying on general agricultural operations he has been very
successful.  By his wife, Hannah Amundson, whom he married May 2,
1906, he has five children:  Helen, born March 27, 1907, died Aug.
12, 1917; Thomas, born Dec. 3, 1908; Ruth, born May 30, 1912;
Sigvald, born Nov. 29, 1915, and Helen Almira, born July 15, 1917. 
Mrs. Gunderson was born in Sumner Township Aug. 31, 1875, daughter of
Halvor and Ragnild (Hougen) Amundson, who came to America in 1869,
located in Dane County, Wis., and three years later settled in Sumner
Township, this county, the father, who was born in 1830, dying in
1907, and the mother, who was born in 1835, dying in 1913.

-Transcribed from the "History of Trempealeau County Wisconsin,
1917," page 666.

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