- REV. O. ANDREWSON, Minister of Lutheran Norwegian Church,
Sec. 24; P.O. Clinton; born
- in Bradsberg, Norway, March 2, 1818; Mr. ANDREWSON graduated
at a seminary in the old country, taught school about three years,
and came to New York City in 1841; went to Buffalo, thence to
Milwaukee, Wis., in 1844; moved to Clinton and settled on eighty
acres; now has 280 acres and a good farm well improved; Mr. ANDREWSON
is Pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in connection with
the Norwegian Augusta Synod; he entered the ministry in 1846;
has been Pastor of this church twenty-four years, and has organized
several churches in Illinois and Wisconsin; was one of the pioneers
in the ministry, and the oldest minister in the Synod; preached
in town of Newark and organized the church there, and also has
a church in Woodstock, Ill., and has a large congregation in
Leland, La Salle Co.; organized that church in 1847. Married
Rachel PAULSON, 1843; have had eleven children - Isabel (married
C. R. MATTESON, Justice of the Peace at Chicago); Paul served
with credit in the naval service on the Mississippi River and
tributaries during the war and is now at home; Andrew is living
in Clinton (married Cornelia HAWKINSON); Annie is in Chicago;
Oliver lives at home - he is the patentee of a farm gate which
is fast becoming popular; Caroline lives in Chicago; Rebecca
is at home; Louisa teaches school in Clinton; Emma Catherina
and Henry at home; Oscar N. died in infancy.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 775.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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