Dodge-Olmsted County MINNESOTA Biographies.....Claus O. Giere April 11 1862 - 
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Mike Oiseth MOISETH@mn.rr.com March 19, 2005, 11:45 am

Author: R. L. Polk & Co.

GIERE, CLAUS O. (Bergan & Giere), hardware, Hayfield, is a native of Dane County,
Wis., and was born 
April 11, 1862. He was raised on a farm and educated in the district schools. In
1869 he came with his 
parents to Rock Dell, Minn. In 1889 he left home and bought a farm in Vernon
Township, this county. In 
1893 he came to Hayfield and engaged in his present business connections. In 1889
our subject was 
united in marriage to Caroline Fingerson, daughter of Ole Fingerson, a farmer of
Rock Dell Township, 
and to this union there are two children, of whom both are living, as follows: Cyril
and Esther. In politics 
he affiliates with the Republicans. He has been prominent in the affairs of this
county, having held the 
positions of congressional committeeman two terms, and has frequently been sent as a
delegate to 
various Republican conventions, state, congressional and county. The family are
members of the 
Lutheran Church. Mr. Giere is a son of one of the early pioneer settlers of Dane
County, Wis. His father's 
family consists of four sons and six daughters, all of whom lived in such a manner
as to reflect much 
credit to themselves and on the family name. The Rev. Nels O. Giere is a minister of
the Gospel in the 
Norwegian Lutheran Church at Sacred Heart, Minn. Erick O. Giere is a prominent
physician and surgeon 
at Madison, Minn., and Joseph Giere, a prominent druggist, died at Madison, Minn.,
in 1899. p. 106


Additional Comments:
R. L. Polk & Co. The County of Dodge, Minnesota, 1905. Topographical, Historical,
Pictorial, 
Miscellaneous. St. Paul: R. L. Pol & Co., 1905. Page 106.


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