Notes for Andrew Gilbertson
The Family of Gulbrand Gulbrandsen Lunde & Anne Andersdatter Putten
Andrew was a pioneer in Towner, North Dakota and worked as a banker and a rancher.
1865
State census Newburg Twp, Fillmore Co., Minnesota (lists only names and sex)
Gilbert
Gilbertson -male
Ann -female
Gilbert -male
Andrew -male
Ole -male
Ellin
-male
Caroline -female
Ann -female
Elizabeth -female
1870 census
Preble, Fillmore Co., Minnesota
#1
Gilbert Gilbertson, age 55, farmer, b.
Norway
Ann, age 48, keeping house, b. Norway
Andrew, age 18, b. Norway
Ole,
age 16, b. Norway
Ellen, female, age 15, b. Norway (error, should be Elling,
male, age 9)
Isabel, age 13, b. Norway (error, should be age 6 if it is Ingeborg.
)
Ann, age 12, b. Norway
Mary, age 7, b. Minnesota (Is this Ingeborg or
another daughter who died young???)
Matilda, age 3, b. Minnesota
1875
Minnesota Census, Preble, Fillmore, Minn.
#128......................Age.............Born.......Father
b.. ...Mother b.
Gilbert Gilbertson.....54 male......Norway...Norway.......Norway
Anna
A...................51 female...Norway...Norway.......Norway
Andrew...................23
male......Norway...Norway.......Norway
Elling......................14 male.......Norway...Norway......Norway
Ingebor...................11
female...Minn........Norway......Norway
T.C..........................7 female....Minn........Norway......Norway
1880
1900
1910
census Towner, McHenry Co., ND
#90
Andrew Gilbertson, age 58, single, Norway/Norway/Norway,
imm 1858, naturalized, Banker
Annie, mother, age 87, widowed, md 60 yrs, 10
births, 5 surviving, Norway/Norway/Norway
Tilley Housker, sister, age 41, widowed,
md 17 yrs, 2 births, 2 surviving, MN/Norway/Norway, House Keeper
Silley, niece,
age 17, MN/MN/MN
Alford, nephew, age 9, MN/MN/MN
February 26, 1912 - Andrew married Alice Ness in Eureka, California
1920 census Towner, McHenry
Co., ND
#90/94
Andrew Gilbertson, age 68, Norway/Norway/Norway, imm 1864,
naturalized 1870, President, Bank
Alice, wife, age age 32, MN/Norway/Norway
Annie,
daughter, age 6, ND/Norway/MN
Andrew died on January 22, 1929 in Towner, McHenry Co., ND.
1930
Alice died on February 23, 1954 in St. John's Hospital, Fargo, ND.
From: Vivian Gullickson White [mailto:vivian.white@telus.net]
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 12:07 PM
To: Kari Northup
Subject: Ole
and Gilbert
A copy of an email from Dennis Spande.
Martin Ulvestad
collected data on Norwegians in the U.S. and Canada in the 1890s-1900s. He published
two large volumes in 1907 and 1913. The original was printed in Norwegian using
Gothic script. A new edition appeared later, again in Norwegian but with the script
we use today. The first volume is partially geographic, and notes the earliest
settlers in the area, it also lists office holders, war veterns, etc., and covers
churches, newspapers, etc. The second volume is a biographical dictionary with
notation of if and where they are found in volume one.
Ulvestad, Martin.
Nordmaende i Amerika, deres Historic og Rekord, vol 2.
Minneapolis, 1913,
page 642:
"Gulbrandsen, +Gulbrand, emigrated from the Lunde farm, Aadelen,
Ringerike, 1861; farmer near Riceford, Wis. [sic]. His son, Ole Gilbertson, pioneer-farmer
near Towner, N.Dak., from 1884; also a business man; one of the organizers of
McHenry Co., N.Dak., 1885; County commissioner 1885-1891; County cashier for four
years; member of State legislature 1899-1900. Another son Andrew Gilbertson, banker
in Towner, N. Dak."
-[my translation]
The cross after Gulbrand's name signifies he was deceased before publication. Ringerike was an area in Buskerud; the early settlers often gave their birth place this way. The Riceford, Wis., should have said Riceford, Minn. On census reports the children most often gave 1862 as the year of immigration. It could have been either year. The information most ikely was provided by Ole.
Helsin,
Dennis
