Lommen, Anders O. 1825 – 1906

LOMMEN, BERGH

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 12/5/2021 at 16:09:09

Source: Decorah Republican March 8, 1906, P2 C4

OBITUARY
ANDERS O. LOMMEN

Born in Valders, Norway, June 10th, 1825, and died at his home in Decorah March 3d, 1906, aged 80 years, 8 months and 23 days.
County history reports the arrival here of the first body of Norwegian settlers in the latter part of June, 1850. Of this party Mr. Lommen was a member; and a written record he made in 1876 says he came on the 12th day of June, in 1850, and was at the time a resident of Springfield town (1876), still living on land he pre-empted as soon as he could acquire title. This was on the northwest quarter of Section 2. It was there that Ole A. Lommen, now at Nehalen, Oregon the first child born in that township, came, to his home. He was married in Norway, and immigrated to the United States in 1848, when only twenty-three years old. He and his wife tarried in Wisconsin for two years before coming to Iowa. Besides this eldest son, there are the following surviving children:
E. E. Lommen, Crookston, Minn.
A. A. Lommen, Burlington, Wash.
Mrs. Olaf Bergh, Red Rock, Mont.
Elizabeth Lommen, Crookston Minn.
Minnie Lommen, Los Angeles, Cal.
Two other daughters have gone on to the better life.
Mr. Lommen was a man of the strictest integrity; a church member all his life, and communicant of the Methodist Episcopal church of Springfield, so long as he lived in its vicinity, and of the Decorah M. E. church since coming into the city to reside some twenty or so years ago. His daily “walk and conversation” was one of strict purity and honored the faith he professed.
During his life time he held numerous township offices, and during the few years in which the Board of Supervisors consisted of one representative from each township he was the chosen one from Springfield. In 1869 he was elected a member of the House for the 13th General Assembly. His associates were H. C. Bulis in the Senate and Horace H. Williams, as the senior representative—the county being entitled to two representatives at that period. Mr. Lommen was twice married, and his second wife survives him. He had lived a long useful, honorable life. To this fact all who knew him will bear cheerful testimony. He has reached his grave, as was said to Job of old, “like as a shock of corn cometh in his season.”

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