Buffalo, our town on the prairie, 1880-1980

• Format: Text
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• Published: North Dakota State Library
• Subjects: Adolph; Edith; Homestead; Ida; Norway; Pacific; Hammerfest
• Online Access: http://cdm16921.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/ndsl-books/id/24592

Mr. Peter Andersen Mrs. Peter Andersen were married and lived for twenty years on their homestead. Seven of their eight children were born there: Hans, Clover, Fred, Dora, Gustave, and two children who died in infancy. Being interested in a larger farm the Andersens sold their homestead in 1902 and bought land seven miles south of Buffalo in the area known as "Little Denmark." In their new home their daughter, Ida, was born. In 1908 Mr. and Mrs. Andersen, with their youngest daughter, Ida, visited their homeland. A few months after their return Peter Andersen died. Metta, with Fred and Hans, continued to farm until she retired to Buffalo. In 1922 Metta moved to Fargo where Gustave and Ida attended college. Metta died in 1926. In 1910 Clover, the oldest daughter, married Jens Jensen of Nome, North Dakota. They farmed at Nome until retiring in 1955 to Valley City, North Dakota. They had two children, Peter of Minneapolis, Minnesota, who worked for Deere and Weber Company, and Catherine (Mrs. Garold Schroeder) of Valley City. Clover died in 1968 and Jens died in 1974. Gustave Andersen married Laura Fernow of Enderlin. He was a veteran of World War I. He and his family lived in Minneapolis where he was an undertaker until his death in 1930. His son, Clark, is a graduate of Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, and lives at Williamsburg, Massachusetts. Ida, a teacher, married Galen Oderkirk in 1927. They live at Lafayette, Indiana, where Mr. Oderkirk is retired from the staff of Purdue University. They had four daughters: Alice (Mrs. Robert Yaw) of Santa Rosa, California; Edith (Mrs. Ben James) of Atlanta, Georgia; Jane (Mrs. Sidney Thompson) of West Lafayette, Indiana; and Judith who died in 1973 at age thirty-six. Dora was born in Highland Township, fourteen miles south of Buffalo, May 31, 1894. She later moved with her family to the farm they bought in 1902. She attended high school in Buffalo for three years before her untimely death. Dora had been ill for three weeks with measles, but was not considered dangerously ill until a few days before her death. ADOLPH A. ANDERSON and MARIANNE CORBY Adolph Anderson came to Buffalo, North Dakota, from Oslo, Norway, in 1896 at the age of eighteen. He worked for The Adolph Anderson Family Erling, Harold, Gordon Ralph, Arthur Adolph, Elise, Marianne his uncle for approximately two years to repay him for the fare from Norway which was $67. He worked for T.A. Quirk for seven and one-half years after which he farmed until 1941. The farm was located in Section 20, Buffalo Township. Adolph married Marianne Corby, a native of Hammerfest, Norway, in 1903. They had six children: Erling E. Anderson, Sun Valley, Arizona; Elise (Mrs. Matt Diemert), deceased; Harold E. Anderson, Fargo, North Dakota; Arthur M. Anderson, West Bend, Iowa; Gordon N. Anderson, Santa Rosa, California; and Ralph A. Anderson, Arthur, North Dakota. When Ralph was a baby, the family home burned. Adolph and the boys rebuilt the farmstead. The farmstead is now owned by Robert Larson. Mrs. Anderson died in 1933 and Mr. Anderson died in 1960. ANDREW M. ANDERSON The farmland north and east of the town of Buffalo is on Section 19, Buffalo Township. Abstracts reveal that J.C. Strong acquired the land from the Northern Pacific Railroad. It was not fully released to the Strong Estate until 1913. S.G. More purchased the land in 1918 and sold it to Frank Sproul in 1923. Mr. and Mrs. A.M. (Andrew) Anderson built the present house and barn, grainery about 1905 and had the "livery stable" moved from its townsite location to the farmstead on the northeast corner of the town of Buffalo. The stable was built in 1884 and still stands. Many coats of paint have covered the "Livery Stable" lettering; these were removed in 1979 and repainted white. Anderson children were Eugenie, who married Louis Lareau, and Garnet, who married a Farr girl from Fargo, North Dakota. In 1923 the Andersons moved to the SWlA of Sec. 20 Buffalo Twp. and built a farm home there. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson and Eugenie Lareau are buried in the Buffalo Cemetery. 125 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.