Carl N. Urdahl

URDAHL

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 1/4/2005 at 16:59:32

Since the 1st of May, 1909, Carl N. Urdahl has filled the office of auditor of Worth county and has made a most excellent record in this position, discharging his duties with marked promptness, capability and fidelity. He was born on the 14th of February, 1881, in Brookfield township, Worth county, and is a son of Sever and Gunhild (Mostrom) Urdahl, who are of that substantial quota of citizens that Norway has furnished to Iowa. Both were born in the vicinity of Bergen and the father took up the profession of school-teaching in early life. He came to the United States in 1872 and crossed the country to Iowa, establishing his home in Brookfield township, Worth county, where he purchased a tract of land of one hundred acres. With characteristic energy he at once began to develop and improve the property and converted it into productive fields. Upon this farm he lived until October, 1911, when he removed to Northwood and purchased a residence on Fourteenth street which he still occupies. He has since lived retired, enjoying a rest which he has truly carried and richly deserves. He is now sixty-nine years of age and his wife is sixty-seven years of age. They are among the valued and highly respected citizens of Northwood.

Carl N. Urdahl spent his boyhood upon the old homestead farm in Brookfield township and at the usual age began his education as a district school pupil. He afterward had the benefit of more advanced educational training, attending the Nora Springs Seminary and later becoming a student in the St. Ansgar Seminary at St. Ansgar, Mitchell county. He was graduated from the latter institution in 1906, after which he returned to his home and took up the profession of teaching, which he successfully followed, imparting clearly and readily to others the knowledge which he had acquired. He also operated the farm until 1909, in which year he was appointed county auditor, taking the office on the 1st of May of that year. He has since acted at that capacity and his record is one over which there falls no shadow of wrong or suspicion of evil, for he has been systematic and methodical in all of his works and thoroughly reliable.

On the 24th of November, 1915, Mr. Urdahl was united in marriage to Miss Ernestina Buth, a daughter of Otto and Agusta (Ostwald) Buth and a native of Grove township, Worth county. Her parents were natives of Pomerania, Germany, and came to the United States with their respective parents, the family home being established in Northwood, Iowa.

Carl N. Urdahl is s Mason and is numbered among the exemplary representatives of the craft. He belongs to the Eastern Star and also to the Sons of Norway. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and while he a politician in the usual sense of office seeking he has served on the school board and has made a most creditable record in his position as county auditor his course winning for him the endorsement and the confidence of the general public.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1918, Volume II, Pages 9 & 10.