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History of Buffalo & Pepin Counties, Wisconsin - Vol. 1
pub. H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co., Winona, MN - 1919

         [page 288-289]
         
         ENDRE E. ANDERSON, one of the hardy pioneers of Nelson 
       township, Buffalo county, who are still living, and who 
       has resided in the county for the last 60 years, was born 
       in Norway, April 16, 1831, son of ANDRE and PAULA ANDERSON. 
       The family of which he was a member numbered nine children: 
       OTTO, PAUL, ANDREW (first), ANDREW (second), MICHAEL, ENDRE, 
       RASMUS, MARTHA and HANS. The first ANDREW died young, and 
       the second of the name is also now deceased. All came to 
       the United States except OTTO. ENDRE E. was the first to 
       emigrate, which he did in 1856, with his wife, CATHERINE, 
       and two children, HANS and ANDREW. The child, ANDREW, how-
       ever, never reached America, as he died on shipboard and 
       was buried at sea. The family went first to Madison, Wis., 
       and settled in Dane county, where they remained two years. 
       At the end of that time they decided to remove farther west-
       ward, and accordingly, loading their precious household 
       possessions into a wagon, drawn by an ox team, and in com-
       pany with another pioneer, named JOHN JOHNSON, and his family, 
       they wended their slow and toilsome way through the wilder-
       ness until they arrived in Buffalo county. After a short 
       stay with ERIC ALME, until MR. ANDERSON could select a 
       suitable place for settlement, they proceeded to Cascade 
       valley, in Nelson township, where MR. ANDERSON secured 160 
       acres of wild land, to which he had to cut his way through 
       the woods. As his first task he had to build a log shanty 
       in which to house himself and family, and which was no easy 
       matter, as he was unaccustomed to the work and had nothing 
       but his hands to depend on, and perhaps a few small tools. 
       Later he built a much better log house, which served as a 
       comfortable home for the family until his son-in-law, 
       MICHAEL MIKKELSON, erected the frame residence now standing 
       on the farm. His early progress was very slow, as it was 
       about a year before he got a cow, and two or three years 
       before he got an ox team of his own, the money for which 
       he had to earn by working out. He, himself, worked as hard 
       as his team, for, in spite of cheap land, the road to pros-
       perity was no easy one for the pioneers to travel, Fortune 
       bestowing her rewards only on the strongest and most indus-
       trious. However, MR. ANDERSON had the necessary physique 
       and temperament to succeed, and succeed he did, but only 
       after many years of laborious toil. And, after all, in 
       spite of early privations, the life proved healthful, and 
       today, though in his eighty-seventh year he is a rugged
       specimen of elderly manhood, capable of doing a day's work
       that would be considered hard by many a much younger man 
       accustomed only to the indoor life of the city. Probably 
       the absence of dissipation has had much to do with his
       sturdy health, as he has always led a clean and sober ex-
       istence, and has never done anything to impair his stand-
       ing as a consistent member of the Norwegian Lutheran church. 
       In addition to the son HANS, who accompanied him and his 
       wife from Norway, they had a son, born in Dane county, 
       whom they named ANDREW, after his deceased brother, but 
       who died at the age of 43, and five children, who were 
       born in Buffalo county, namely, GUSTA, BERTHA, HENRY, MARY 
       and ELLEN, the last mentioned of whom is now the wife of 
       MICHAEL MIKKELSON, and OLE, ERIK, GERTRUDE and JOHANNA, 
       who are deceased. He and his wife have also twelve grand-
       children and nineteen great grandchildren. About fifteen 
       years ago MR. ANDERSON sold his farm to his son-in-law, 
       MICHAEL MIKKELSON, but he and his wife still make their 
       home on it. They are people of wide acquaintance, whose 
       memories are stored with many events pertaining to the 
       early history of Buffalo county.
       
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