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Born 1863
From An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912)
AMUND H. AMUNDSON (1882) owns and farms the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 20, Monroe township, besides renting and farming additional land. For the past five years he has been a director of the Garvin Farmers Independent Elevator Company.
Hallingdal, Norway, was the boyhood home of Amund Amundson, and he was born April 14, 1863. The lad was brought up, on a farm and received his education in the public schools and also received several months' schooling in America after he immigrated to this country in May, 1882. During his first year in the United States Amund made his home with an uncle, Ole Amundson, on section 20, Monroe township, Lyon county. The next year his parents came to this country and rented land in Lyon county, and Amund made his home with them. In 1888 the father took a homestead in Monroe township, the place which our subject now owns and which he bought from his mother in 1910. He has farmer the place himself since the father's death in 1895.
Helge Amundson, father of our subject, was born in Norway March 5, 1835. Amund's mother, Sigrid (Anfindson) Amundson, has lived on the farm and kept house for her son since the father's death. Amund Amundson is clerk of Monroe township, a position he has held ten years. For seven years he has served as clerk of school district No. 33, and he was for several years one of the supervisors of the township. Mr. Amundson is affiliated with the Holand Norwegian Lutheran church and is a member of the Sons of Norway organization of Tracy.
As printed in An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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