- GUNDER K. RESTIGEN was born in Norway May 31, 1844, and is
a son of the late Knute
- RESTIGEN, who came to America in 1861 and settled first in
Spring Valley township, where he remained one year, then moved
to Avon township, where he remained until his death, which occurred
in 1870, at the age of sixty years. He had a family of seven
boys, who all came to the United States and became good citizens.
- Gunder received his education in the common schools of Norway,
and since coming to the United
- States, has lived in Avon township, where he now owns 320
acres of land, and carries on general farming and tobacco raising,
and is quite an extensive breeder and dealer in cattle and Poland-China
hogs.
- Mr. RESTIGEN was married in 1880 to Miss Caroline PIERSON,
who is also a native of
- Norway and who came to this country with her parents in an
early day and settled in Avon township, where they still live.
- Mr. and Mrs. RESTIGEN are the parents of six children, viz.:
Knute, Perry, Giles, Clara, Mabel
- and Nora.
- In politics Mr. RESTIGEN is a Republican and has taken some
what of an active part in the affairs
- of his party and has been town treasurer, supervisor and
a member of the school board. In religion he affiliates with
the Lutheran church.
-
- Taken from "Rock County, Wisconsin, Vol. II"
by William Fiske Brown, (c)1908, pp. 945-946.
-
- Courtesy of Carol
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