BIOGRAPHIES:  Albert M. PEDERSON, Ettrick, 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,  1 June 2001      
====================================================================

Albert M. Pederson, merchant, miller and leading citizen of Ettrick, is a 
native of the village where he still resides, having first seen the light 
of day Aug. 27, 1874, in the home of his parents, Iver and Mary (Nelson) 
Pederson, the pioneers.  As a boy he attended the school of his neighborhood, 
and later was accorded the advantages of a course at Galesville University, 
now Gale College.  Still later he rounded out his education with a year at 
the Wisconsin State Normal School at River Falls.  From his earliest boyhood 
he assisted his father in his numerous business ventures, and in 1898 became 
a partner in the business.  After the father's death, the estate was 
incorporated as the Iver Pederson Company.  The subject of this sketch is 
president and manager.  This concern, which conducts the store and the flour 
and grist mill, is in a flourishing condition, and is one of the strong 
commercial assets of the village.  In addition to its holdings in Ettrick, 
it owns various tracts of valuable land throughout the county, especially in 
the Ettrick Valley.  Mr. Pederson is a public-spirited citizen, and is a 
stockholder in the Bank of Ettrick, Bank of Galesville and the Wisconsin 
Telephone Company.  He has done valuable service as a member of the school 
board for twelve years, and has served on numerous committees and 
delegations.  His fraternal association is with the Modern Woodmen of 
America.  He and his family are staunch supporters of the Norwegian Lutheran 
church.  Mr. Pederson was married May 17, 1898, to Emelia Evenson, also a 
native of Ettrick Township, daughter of Bernt and Lena (Ekern) Evenson, also 
natives of Biri, Norway, who came to America in the winter of 1868 and 
located in Gale Township, where Mr. Evenson is engaged in farming.  Mrs. 
Evenson died in 1907, and Mr. Evenson now makes his home with his daughter.

--From the "History of Trempealeau County Wisconsin, 1917," page 380.