. History of Clayton County, Iowa : from the earliest historical times down to the present : including a genealogical and biographical record of many representative families, prepared from data obtained from original sources of information. postmaster. As a sterling and honored citizen andinfluential man of affairs he well merits recognition in this publi-cation. Mr. Embertson was born in Norway, on the 27th of July,1849, and in the following year his parents, Ole and Goso (Larson)Embertson came to America. They were numbered among thepioneer settlers in Wagner township, Clayton county, Iowa,
. History of Clayton County, Iowa : from the earliest historical times down to the present : including a genealogical and biographical record of many representative families, prepared from data obtained from original sources of information. postmaster. As a sterling and honored citizen andinfluential man of affairs he well merits recognition in this publi-cation. Mr. Embertson was born in Norway, on the 27th of July,1849, and in the following year his parents, Ole and Goso (Larson)Embertson came to America. They were numbered among thepioneer settlers in Wagner township, Clayton county, Iowa, wherethe father passed the remainder of his life as an energetic and sub-stantial farmer, his wife likewise having died on the old homesteadplace, and both having been earnest communicants of the Lutheranchurch. Of their children the subject of this sketch is the eldest;Lars is now a resident of the State of Montana; Annie is deceased;Johanna is the wife of W. Louis Larson and they reside in Minne-sota; Knute maintains his home at St. Olaf; Gunnell became thewife of Jacob Larson and is now deceased; Henry is a prosperousfarmer in Wagner township; Oscar is a resident of Riceville, f THE NEW Y(iH,h PUWLIC LlBliAiiV ISrOt, AND I. ERNEST ENDEEES AND WIFE BIOGRAPHICAL IO9 Mitchell county; and Ludwich is a representative farmer of Wagnertownship, Clayton county. Reared under the conditions and influ-ences which marked the pioneer epoch in the history of Claytoncounty, Ember Embertson attended the local schools when oppor-tunity afforded and in the meanwhile he gained invaluable experi-ence in connection with the work of the home farm, with the opera-tion of which he continued to be associated until he had attained tothe age of twenty-two years. He then opened a modest generalstore at St. Olaf, and from a small inception he built up a largeand prosperous business, to which he continued to devote his atten-tion for a period of about twenty years, when he retired from thisline of
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