Hans N. Sande

SANDE, ERICSDATTER, TUE, HUSEBO, MOEN, OLESDATTER, OLSON

Posted By: Peter Gausmann (email)
Date: 1/17/2010 at 09:07:05

HANS N. SANDE

Hans N. Sande, who is successfully engaged in farming on section 25, Logan township, has been a resident of Winnebago county since 1878 and has therefore witnessed almost its entire development and upbuilding. His early home, however, was on the other side of the Atlantic, for he was born in Sogn, Norway, May 6, 1857, a son of Nels Hanson Sande and Bertha Ericsdatter Tue, Tue being the name of the farm on which the family resided. The parents never came to the United States and the mother died when our subject was only three and a half years old, leaving three children, namely: Uni, now Mrs. Ole Tuftedahl of Sogn, Norway; Hans N., of this review; and Erick, who died in Norway township, Winnebago county, Iowa. For his second wife the father married Gunild Johnsdatter Husebo, by whom he had three children, Bertha, Joe and Nelsma, all living in Norway, as does their mother. The father died when Hans N. was ten years of age.

During his minority Mr. Sande of this review remained in his native land but at the age of twenty-one years, he crossed the ocean and on reaching the shores of the new world continued his journey westward until he arrived in Winnebago county, Iowa. For two years he worked on the farm of Eric Moen in Norway township, and then located on a quarter section of land on section 25 Logan township, with the intention of buying the same, but as crops were a failure during the following two years he was unable to make the payments. Subsequently he purchased the north half of the southeast quarter of the same section, for which he paid five dollars per acre, and lived thereon for eight years. He was then able 'to buy the tract on which he first settled and has since devoted his energies to its cultivation and improvement with most gratifying results.

At the age of twenty-two years Mr. Sande married Miss Carrie Olesdatter, who came to this country on the same ship as her future husband and was also from the same place in Norway. Her parents were lifelong residents of that country. Mr. and Mrs. Sande have five children: Nels O., who assists in the operation of the home farm; Caroline, at home; Stephen, who is attending a theological school in St. Paul, Minnesota; Bertha, the wife of Jacob Olson, of Norway township, Winnebago county; and Emma, at home. The family hold membership in the Synod Lutheran church and are people of prominence in the community where they reside. In politics Mr. Sande is a republican and has capably filled the office of township trustee for four years and of school director for a number of years.

Source: History of Winnebago County and Hancock County, Iowa: A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, Vol. II. Pioneer Publishing Company (Chicago), 1917. pp. 454-455.