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From History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota : its people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families (1916)
EDWARD T. LUND.
A prominent and well-known man of Otter Tail county and of the town of Vining is Edward T. Lund, who as a man of business and as a citizen interested in the public welfare has been of valuable aid to the community in the development of its life and in the advancement of its measures. Edward T. Lund is a member of one of the most noted ami highly-esteemed families of the entire district and has demonstrated himself to lie a man capable of handling the more important matters presenting themselves totsolution at the hands of the citizenship of the township and county.
Edward T. Lund was born at Lund, near Namsos, Norway, on May 11, 1853, and following his education in the public schools of his native land he was engaged as a sailor and fisherman until 1889, when he came to America and joined his brother. Andrew T. Lund, at Vining, Minnesota, with whom he lived until the death of Andrew T. Lund, in 1908. Edward T. Lund, following his emigration to this country, engaged in the business of a carpenter and a contractor, which vocation lie has followed since. Edward T. Lund, duringthe early days of his residence in Otter Tail county, bought a farm, which he later --old and moved to the state of North Dakota, where he took up a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres of land, on which he lived for some time and then sold his holdings and returned to Otter Tail county, Minnesota, where he invested in eighty acres of land m Folden township, a place which Innow owns.
During tinyear [906 Edward T. Lund purchased a house and lot in the town of Vining, where he now lives.
On luly 26, mi" Edward T. Lund was married to Isabella Olson, who was born in Norway, and when three years of age came, with her parents, Elaf Olson and wife, to America, where they settled in Folden
MR A.ND township. Otter Tail county, where Elaf Olson now lives. To the marriage of Edward T. and Isabella Lund was born one daughter, Boletta Margaretta, whose birth occurred on October 15, 1910.
Edward T. Lund and his wife are members of the Lutheran church, where they take a leading part in the activities of that congregation. Tn political affiliation, Mr. Lund is a Republican.
By his pleasing ways and genial personality, Edward T. Lund has won a host of friends in Vining, and he is conceded to be one of the leaders in all moves for the betterment of life and general conditions in the locality. He is a man of various and broad experience in life, and from the benefit of these things he lends to the community a valuable element which is of appreciable value.
As printed in History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota : its people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families (1916). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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