daunted perseverance won his way to the responsible position he now occupies.He was born in Palestine township, January 19, 1874, a son of John and Engebor Maland. The parents were both born in Norway and were married in their native country, coming to the United States in 1860. They spent one year at Morris, Illinois, and then located in Story county, Iowa. The father purchased eighty acres of land on section 36, Palestine township, on which he resided until his death in 1895. The mother is still living, having arrived at the age of seventy-five years, and makes her home in Slater.
Andrew Maland was reared under conditions that early acquainted him with hard work. He possessed limited advantages of education in the district schools but was ambitious to study the higher branches, believing that if he had a good mental training, he could better perform his part in the world. When sixteen years of age he was in attendance at the State Normad School at Cedar Falls, working for his board and in various ways earning money to pay his expenses. That he succeeded is shown by the fact of his coming home after the first term with fifteen dollars in his pocket. He also attended Highland Park College and at nineteen years of age began teaching at Renwick, where he continued for two years, then going to Humboldt, where he taught for one year and from that place to Huxley, teaching for three years in that vicinity. He completed his training at the State Normal School in 1899, but, having come to the conclusion that the remuneration for educational work was too small, he gave up teaching. Going' to Slater, he formed a partnership with O. J. Viland and purchased the furniture business of Halverson Brothers, the new firm being known as Maland & Viland. In 1902 they purchased the Slater News, a weekly newspaper, and Mr. Maland continued its publication under the same title, also remaining in the furniture business. In 1906 he was appointed postmaster of Slater, and the printing plant and postoffice demanding his entire time, he and Mr. Viland mutually agreed to sever their business relations, Mr. Viland taking the furniture store and Mr. Maland the printing plant, of which he has since had entire charge. He has also been successfully identified with other business enterprises, being secretary and manager of the Farmers' Cooperative Creamery Company for five years, carrying the concern through its early struggles and placing it on a substantial basis.
On the loth of October, 1900, Mr. Maland was united in marriage to Miss Bessie Wald, a sister of S. O. Wald, an attorney of Slater, and previous to her marriage a popular teacher of that vicinity. Two children blessed this union, Ella B. and Obert J. Mrs. Maland was called from earthly scenes on the loth of January, 1909. She was a woman of many estimable qualities and her death was the severest loss Mr. Maland has ever known.
Politically he has from the time of casting his first ballot been in thorough sympathy with the republican party. Since the age of fifteen years