DAHL, Henry Gustav b: 1871

DAHL, VOLSTAD

Posted By: K. L. Kittleson
Date: 4/8/2008 at 16:46:31

b: 1871
d: 1956

Henry G. Dahl, business man in Lyle more than 50 years, was born in 1871 at Rock County Wisconsin and died in 1956 at Lyle, Minn. He began his business career as a peddler traveling with a horse and buggy. He sold notions, handkerchiefs, and lace from door to door to raise money to finance his business education at St. Ansgar Seminary.

His first job in Lyle was in the drug store for $12.50 a month. After six and a half years working in the hardware store which he later purchased, he was earning $55 a month and was “the highest paid man in town”.

In 1898 he married Emma Volstad. They made their home in Lyle where they reared a family of four boys and two girls.

He went into his own hardware business in 1898. He is remembered for giving jack-knives to his customers when they paid their accounts.

[Lyle Centennial 1870-1970 Pg 34 ]

[Henry Gustav Dahl and his wife Emma (Volstad) Dahl are buried at Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Mona Iowa]

Transcribed by K. Pike, April 2008