WAMSTAD, Brede O. 1856-1938

WAMSTAD, OLSON

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 8/1/2010 at 20:49:17

[NOTE: Brede was born 21st December 1856 in Gran, Oppland county, Norway. Parents: Ole Larsen and Berthe Torstensdatter Hvamstad.

(Source: Parish records for Gran)

Gran is in the Hadeland area.

Tove DJ]

Brede O. Wamstad, 1856-1938

Brede O. Wamstad was born at Gran, Hadeland, Norway on December 11, 1856. He came to America in 1887 and lived for some time in the Rock Creek community. He received his education in the school of Norway and also at the St. Ansgar Seminary.

After finishing his schooling, he taught for a few years in the parochial school of Rock Creek Lutheran Church. Later he was employed by the Cargill Elevator Company for thirty-five years at Clifford, North Dakota, and in Minneapolis, Minnesota until retiring about ten years ago.

While in North Dakota, he was married to Christina Olson of Aberdeen, South Dakota.

The nearest surviving relatives besides his widow, are two brothers: Ole, of Parma, Idaho and Iver, of Oslo, Norway.

After a lingering illness, a stroke of apoplexy terminated his active and useful life at his home in Minneapolis on July 18, 1938.

Funeral services were conducted at the Rock Creek Lutheran Church by his pastor, O.S. Reigstad, of Minneapolis, assisted by the local pastor, O.C. Myhre, on July 21, 1938. Interment was in the Rock Creek cemetery.

[Contributed 2004, Steve Norby]