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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 535-536]

    LAWRENCE M. ULSTAD, a native of Norway, was born July 6, 1848, and is
    a son of MICHAEL and HENDRIKKNE (TOBIESEN) ULSTAD.  He passed his
    boyhood and youth in his native land, content with his surroundings
    until he was nineteen years of age, when he determined to emigrate
    to America, and seek the fortune there might be in store for him. On
    reaching this country he settled in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, where
    he hired out by the month at $12.  After six months had elapsed he went
    to the pineries of Michigan, and remained there in the employ of one
    company for seven and a half years.  In 1876 he came to Cherokee County
    and purchased eighty acres of raw prairie land in Tilden Township, and
    set about making a home in the new country; his nearest neighbor on the
    south side was nine miles distant, and the nearest one on the west was
    seven miles away.  It was just at this time that grasshoppers came, and
    for four seasons they destroyed crops. One less courageous than Mr.
    ULSTAD would have given up in despair, but his pluck held out longer
    than the grasshoppers, and since that time he has been prosperous in
    his agricultural pursuits.  He has added 100 acres to his first pur-
    chase, and now is the proprietor of 280 acres of finely improved land.
    He has a good farm residence, ample accommodations for live-stock, and
    cribs for the protection of grain; he has planted three acres of grove,
    adding at the same time beauty and value to his land.  All the indi-
    cations are that in spite of adversity in the beginning of his resi-
    dence in the county, Mr. ULSTAD has met with a generous degree of
    success.  When he landed in America he had only $10 in his pocket,
    and it is from this small beginning that he has accumulated his present
    property.  Mr. ULSTAD is an active worker in the interests of the
    Republican Party, and has held the offices of constable, road super-
    visor, school director, and is the present trustee of the township.
    August 9, 1874, occurred the marriage of LAWRENCE M. ULSTAD and EMMA
    GOODMANSON, who was born in Norway, September 6, 1851.  They are the
    parents of seven children: ETTA M., HATTIE, EDDIE T. L., GYDA, LILLIE,
    OLIVE and EBBIE.  Mr. and Mrs. ULSTAD are members of the Lutheran
    Church, of which the former is a trustee.

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