BIOGRAPHIES:  Knut A. KNUDTSON, Whitehall, Trempealeau Co., WI

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**Posted for informational purposes only. I am not related to the subject 
of this biography, nor do I have any further information on this family.

Knut A. Knudtson, a retired farmer of Whitehall, and owner of the
Overland Farm of 160 acres in section 28, and the Ada Stock Farm of
240 acres in sections 4 and 9, all in Pigeon Township, was born in
Telemaarken, Norway, June 24, 1852, son of Andrew and Margaret
(Halvorson) Knudtson, born in Norway in 1827 and 1832, respectively,
who came to America in 1869, and located in Preston Township, this
County, where they died, the father in 1909 and the mother in 1886.
After coming to this country Knut A. worked about among the farmers
of the neighborhood until 1874, when he bought the Overland Farm on
Fly Creek.  This farm he operated about 30 years.  In 1903 he took up
his residence in Whitehall.  But he still longed for farm life, so in
the fall of 1909 he purchased the Ada Stock Farm, on which he lived
until 1912, when he again took up his home in Whitehall.  For three
years he served on the town board and for 15 years on the school
board.  He is a stockholder in the Whitehall Creamery, the Pigeon
Grain and Stock Company, the People's State Bank and Whitehall
Hospital.  Mr. Knudtson was married Nov. 6, 1874, to Julia Knudtson,
daughter of Aslak and Hannah (Hendrickson) Knudtson, of Pigeon
Township.  This union has been bless with 10 children:  Amanda, Ida,
Hannah, Ella, Tina, Clara and Grace, living, and Ada, Adolph and
Clara deceased.  Amanda is the wife of Ira Thompson, farmer of
Preston Township.  Ida married Patrick Murphy, a stonecutter of
Waterbury, Vt.  Hannah married E. E. Deppe, a real estate man of
Duluth, Minn.  Ella married Theo. Stendahl, a farmer of Pigeon
Township.  Tina married Luther Quackenbush, of Whitehall.  Clara and
Grace are at home.  Ada died at the age of 2 years, Adolph at the age
of 18 years, and Clara at the age of 11 years.  The family faith is
that of the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America. 

-Transcribed from the "History of Trempealeau County Wisconsin,
1917," page 607.


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