Dahle, Anton O. 1866 - 1943

DAHLE, HELLEN, IVERSON, VOID

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Date: 4/19/2014 at 16:43:20

ANTON O. DAHLE

Madison township numbers among its worthy and valued citizens Anton O. Dahle, who has worked diligently and persistently to develop his fine farm of three hundred and sixty-five acres on sections 12 and 13, and in so doing has won a place among representative and substantial agriculturists. He was born in Winneshiek county on July 28, 1866, and is a son of Ole and Aase (Hellen) Iverson Dahle, natives of Norway. The father came to America and located in Winneshiek county, Iowa, about the year 1855. He purchased a farm in Madison township and began improving and developing this property, operating it until his death in 1868, his wife surviving him many years, dying in 1911.

Anton O. Dahle was reared at home and acquired his education in the district schools of Madison township. He remained with his mother and operated the homestead until he was thirty years of age. At twenty-one he had purchased eighty acres of land and this he developed for nine years thereafter, while still residing at home. He then rented a place close to the eighty acres which he had bought and stayed there for three years. The next year after buying the eighty acres he came in for forty acres of the homestead and then also rented his brother's place of one hundred and twenty acres. He subsequently bought the eighty acres which is part of the farm on which he now lives, on sections 12 and 13, Madison township, and gradually added to this tract until he owns today three hundred and sixty-five acres of well improved land, in the cultivation of which he is successful. He is in addition a stockholder in the Farmers Creamery Company and the Farmers Hog Buying Company of Decorah. His business interests are all carefully controlled, so that he has now reached a plane of affluence and is numbered among the representative citizens of his township.

In March, 1895, Mr. Dahle was united in marriage to Miss Lizzie Void, the adopted daughter of Elling and Mary Void, natives of Norway. When the father came to America he turned his attention to farming in Winneshiek county, buying land which he operated until his death in 1901. His wife survived him several years, passing away in 1909.

Mr. and Mrs. Dahle became the parents of seven children: Olaf, who was the first born, and died in 1896, when he was one month old; Odin, born May 14, 1897; Elmer, whose birthday was October 4, 1899; Arthur, whose natal day was October 30, 1901; Idella, born May 27, 1904; Lawrence, whose day of birth was August 23, 1906; and Julia, born October 6, 1909.

Mr. Dahle gives his political allegiance to the progressive party. He is a member of the Lutheran church and his entire life has been characterized by devotion to manly purpose and honorable principles. In all his business dealings he is straightforward and reliable, and he enjoys to the fullest extent the confidence and good-will of those who know him.

Source: History of Winneshiek County, Iowa Vol. II Chicago the S. J. Clark publishing Company 1913

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