Lane, Andrew 1854 – 1928

LANE, RYGG, BYE, HOFGAARD

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ANDREW LANE.

Andrew Lane owns a valuable and productive farm of eighty acres in Decorah township and has won well merited success in its operation. His birth occurred in Norway on the 19th of February, 1854, his parents being Robert and Annie (Rygg) Lane, likewise natives of that country. The father, who followed farming in Norway throughout his active business career, there passed away in 1880. The mother was called to her final rest in 1898.

Andrew Lane was reared and educated in Norway and remained in his native land until twenty years of age. In 1874 he set sail for the new world, having determined to take advantage of the opportunities which he had heard were here to be enjoyed. Making his way direct to Winneshiek county, Iowa, he was employed as a farm hand until 1879 and then started out as an agriculturist on his own account, purchasing a tract of eighty acres just over the line in Allamakee county. He devoted his attention to its cultivation and improvement for two years and then leased the property, renting a farm two miles from Decorah, which he operated for some time. Subsequently he purchased the farm of eighty acres in Decorah township which he now owns and the operation of which has claimed his time and energies continuously since. He erected a handsome residence and has made many other substantial improvements on the property, which is lacking in none of the accessories and equipments of a model farm of the twentieth century. Prosperity has steadily attended his labors as an agriculturist and he is numbered among the successful and representative citizens of the community.

On the 19th of February, 1887, Mr. Lane was joined in wedlock to Miss Maria Bye, a daughter of Ole B. and Ida (Hofgaard) Bye, both of whom were natives of Norway. The father, who passed away in that country in 1880, held an office which is similar to that of sheriff in America. His widow afterward emigrated to the United States and resided in Decorah, Iowa, until the time of her death, which occurred in November, 1909. Mr. and Mrs. Lane are the parents of four children, as follows: Ida, who is twenty-four years of age; Anna, a young lady of twenty-two; Roy, who is twenty years old; and Albert, a youth of fourteen.

Mr. Lane is a republican in his political views and has ably served in the capacity of assessor of Decorah township for a period of fifteen years. His religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Lutheran church, to which his wife and children also belong. The period of his residence in this part of the state covers almost four decades and the circle of his friends is a wide one. Coming to the United States in early manhood, he eagerly availed himself of the opportunities here afforded and has attained a substantial position as an agriculturist of Winneshiek county.

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

Transcriber's Note: Cemetery records show year of birth as 1864.

Decorah Lutheran Cemetery gravestone
 

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