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 . rn onJanuarv 5, 1862. seventh in order of birth of the eight children born to hisparents. Christen .\. and Karen (Johnson) Sulerud, also natives of Nor-way, the former of whom was a blacksmith and farmer and both of whomspent ;dl their lives in their native land. The others of these children areCarl. Maren. Johan, Martin, Caroline, Sophia and the Hon. Christen former representative
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 . rn onJanuarv 5, 1862. seventh in order of birth of the eight children born to hisparents. Christen .\. and Karen (Johnson) Sulerud, also natives of Nor-way, the former of whom was a blacksmith and farmer and both of whomspent ;dl their lives in their native land. The others of these children areCarl. Maren. Johan, Martin, Caroline, Sophia and the Hon. Christen former representative in the Legislature from the sixty-first Alinne-sota district, who is engaged with his brother, the subject of this sketch, inthe hardware Inisiness at Halstad and a biographical sketch of whom is pre-sented elsewhere in this volume. Reared on a farm in his native land, John C. Sulerud received hisschooling in the common schools there and at the age of fifteen went into thecitv of Christiania. where he became engaged as a clerk in a store and wherehe remained until he was twenty-one years of age, when, in 1883. he cameto the United States and proceeded on out to Minnesota, his destination pm id /. CLAY AND NORMAN COUNTIES, MINNESOTA. 225 being Norman county. For the first year after his arrival here he wasengaged in farm labor and then, in the fall of 1884, he secured employmentas a clerk in a store at Ada and was thus engaged at that place for aboutnine years, or until 1894, when he and his brother, C. L. Sulerud, opened ahardware store at Halstad and have ever since been thus engaged at thatplace, long having been regarded as among the leading merchants and citi-zens of that thriving little city. Since 1914 John C. Sulerud has been thepresident of the State Bank of Halstad and in addition to his banking andmercantile interests at Halstad is the owner of a fine farm of two hundredacres, two miles north of the village, to the operation of which he gives hisinterested attention.
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