History of Clay and Norman counties, Minnesota : their people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families . .\gency at Glyndon, a sub--slantial landowner and one of the best-known men in this section of the RedRiver valley, is a native of the kingdom of Norway, hut has been a resi-dent of this countr\- and of Minnesota since he was fourteen years of was born at Faersdalen, two Norwegian miles from the \illage ofMeraker, in the stift of Trondjhem, October 8, 1851, son of Guttorm Olsenand Ingebo


History of Clay and Norman counties, Minnesota : their people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families . .\gency at Glyndon, a sub--slantial landowner and one of the best-known men in this section of the RedRiver valley, is a native of the kingdom of Norway, hut has been a resi-dent of this countr\- and of Minnesota since he was fourteen years of was born at Faersdalen, two Norwegian miles from the \illage ofMeraker, in the stift of Trondjhem, October 8, 1851, son of Guttorm Olsenand Ingeborg ( Kirkeby) Farsdale, the former of whom also was bom atFaersdalen and the latter at .Meraker. who became pioneer residents ofMinnesota and in this state spent their last days. Guttorm Olson harsdale was a road builder in his nati\e land, in1865 he crossed the .\tlantic with his family, the voyage requiring sevenweeks in the making, and landed at Quebec, from which port he came tothis state and settled on a farm in Goodhue countv. where he spent the restof his life, one of the substantial and influential pioneers of that county. THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR. LENexI riLD£^ f OU.^.-PATIONS. Jd OS P5


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