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

         [page 260]
         
         LOUIS ANDERSON, a substantial citizen of Nelson, Buffalo
       county, where he is engaged in the painting and repairing 
       business, was born on a farm in Norway, Oct. 19, 1860, son 
       of ANDRES LARSON and INGEBROG PETERSON. The parents, who 
       lived and died in Norway, had six children: LOUIS, GENA, 
       MARTINA, PAULINE, who died young, OTTO, and PAULINE, second. 
       The only member of the family to come to the United States 
       was LOUIS, the subject of this sketch. It was on June 3, 
       1882, that he arrived in Misha Mokwa, Buffalo county, Wis-
       consin, a young man in his twenty-second year, equipped with 
       a good education, including a knowledge of bookkeeping, and 
       also a practical acquaintance with the trades of blacksmith 
       and machinist, which he had learned in Norway. He found, 
       however, that his best opportunity for immediate employment 
       lay in the direction of agriculture and the lumber industry, 
       and for two years he worked on farms, and for nine years was 
       engaged in rafting logs during the spring season. He then 
       entered the store of A. H. DeGROFF at Nelson, remaining in 
       his employ for eighteen years. In the meanwhile, however, 
       he made two trips to Norway, each of which made him resolve 
       more firmly to make the United States his permanent home. 
       In 1906 he bought the store of A. H. DeGROFF, and while con-
       ducting it was postmaster for nine months. He then resigned 
       in 1907, went to the Pacific coast, where he spent six years, 
       engaged in mercantile business. At the end of that time MR. 
       ANDERSON returned to Buffalo county, which he has always 
       regarded as the best locality he has ever seen, and took 
       up his present business of painting and repairing, residing 
       in the village of Nelson. He is also the owner of a farm in 
       Nelson township, and is sufficiently identified with the 
       public affairs of that township to be now serving in his 
       fourth term as town clerk. His fraternal society affilia-
       tions are with Tamarack Camp of Modern Woodmen at Nelson, 
       and religiously he is a member of the Lutheran church. MR. 
       ANDERSON was married, April 10, 1898, to ANGELICA STENLUFF, 
       who was born in Tromsa, Norway, daughter of FRITZLOFF and 
       HANSENA STENLUFF, her father being a German and her mother 
       a Norwegian. Her family, on coming to the United States, 
       located in La Crosse, Wis. Mr. and Mrs. ANDERSON have eight 
       children: INGEBORG HELEN, GENA THERESA, PAUL OTTO, ANNA 
       SAMONIA, LOUISE, EILENE, DOROTHEA, and NEIMAN MAX.
       
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