BIOGRAPHIES: Lewis O. INSTENES, Blair, Trempealeau Co., WI

====================================================================
USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information 
on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as 
this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may 
NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other 
persons or organizations.

Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes 
other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file 
contributor, or the legal representative of the contributor, and contact 
the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent.   The submitter 
has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently 
for free access.

This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by:  
Nance Sampson, Trempealeau Co. WIGenWeb Coordinator,  27 December 2001      
====================================================================

** Posted for informational purposes only -- the poster is not related to 
the subject of this biography.

Lewis O. Instenes, who is prosperously engaged in the jewelry business in 
Blair, Trempealeau County, is a native of this county, having been born in 
Ettrick Township, Nov. 25, 1880, son of Sever and Anna (Instenes) Instenes. 
He was educated in the district schools and spent his early life on his 
parents' farm.  Graduating from the Minneapolis School of Watchmaking in 
1905, he acquired experience by working in various shops until he came to 
Blair in 1907.  Here he bought out the jewelry stock of Ed. Bersing and 
established his present business.  He handles a general line of jewelry, 
does expert watch repairing, and also deals in clocks, silverware, Edison 
phonographs and similar goods.  He has built up a good trade and won the 
confidence of his patrons by honest dealing and courteous attention to 
their wants.  Thus established on a firm basis, his future prospects are 
as favorable as his present prosperity is gratifying.  Mr. Instenes was 
married Oct. 5, 1910, to Nettie Dale, who was born in Ettrick Township, 
Jan. 12, 1885, daughter of Sam and Catherine (Herreid) Dale.  Her father, 
a native of Norway, was a pioneer of Ettrick Township, and is now carrying 
on business as a stock buyer in Galesville.  Mr. and Mrs. Instenes have two 
children:  Stanley LeRoy, born Sept. 2, 1911, and Ardyce Catherine, born 
March 22, 1916.

--Transcribed from the "History of Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, 1917," 
pages 542-543.