Andrew Henryson

HENRYSON

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 7/24/2005 at 22:50:12

Andrew Henryson has a farm of 260 acres on section 15, of Brookfield township. He is the only son of Henry and Carrie Aslackson. He was born in Norway in 1839. They emigrated to America in 1845, settling in Rock County, Wis. The father died two weeks after their arrival. July, 1856, Andrew came to Worth Co., Iowa. Being a minor he could not enter land, but made improvements on a claim on section 29, in Hartland township. This being jumped he took a claim in Silver Lake township, and returned to Winneshiek Co., Iowa, where his mother resided. He then removed his mother and family to his new home. In 856 he sold this, and purchased where he now lives in Brookfield township. He was married July 3, 1863, to Isabel Oleson, a native of Norway, born April 18, 1840. She was the first girl to come to the township. The have three children – Carrie, Henry and Ole. He is a republican and has held local offices. His mother is still living at the age of eighty-one.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, page 724.