Knud Savre

SAVRE

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Date: 11/8/2022 at 19:17:18

Knud Savre

K. Savre has lived in Worth co., Iowa since 1862. The first four years of his residence in the county was in Northwood township, but since that he has resided on his present home, in Kensett township, section 33, where he has 120 acres of good land well improved. He is engaged in raising stock and grain of all kinds. he was born in Norway in December 1842, He left his native land, coming to America in 1851 and making his first settlement in Rock Co. Wis., where he followed farming until 1862, at which date he settled in Iowa. In 1871 he married Maggie Larson who was a native of Norway, born in 1848. They have five children - Loius, Edward, Samuel, Clarence O. and Bertha M. Mr. Savre and family are all members of the Norwegian Lutheran Church. Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1884, p.778