YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY MINNESOTA
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Submitted to the Minnesota Biographies Project by:
Name: LaNaye Hennen
Email: henfarms@clarkfield.ruralink.com
Date: 29 June 2000
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"A History of Yellow Medicine County" by Arthur P. Rose,published in 1914

BERT S. AAS (1884)

Bert S. Aas is a native born son of Yellow Medicine county.  He rents and
farms a half of section 15, Lisbon township.

The birth date of Mr. Aas is May 24, 1884.  His father, Ole Aas, was a
native of Norway and came to the United States in 1873, first locating in
Goodhue county, Minnesota, where he lived one year.  He came to Yellow
Medicine county in 1874 and located on the southeast quarter of section 15,
Lisbon township.  A little later he purchased the adjoining quarter, giving
him a half section, and there he lived and farmed until his death, which
occurred in 1908.  The mother Ambjer (Dokken) Aas, is also a native of
Norway. She makes here home on the old farm in Lisbon.

Bert S. Aas was educated in the schools of Yellow Medicine county.  At the
age of twenty-one years he went to North Dakota, where he farmed a few
years.  In 1910 he returned to Yellow Medicine county and has since lived on
the old home place.  He and the family are members of the Norwegian Lutheran
church of Stony Run.

Mr. Aas was married December 4, 1912, to Martina Sorem, who is also a native
of Yellow Medicine county.  They have one child, Oliver E.