Albert Dahl Family

Albert Dahl was born in Minnesota on November 20, 1879.  He was married to Anna Jenson, whose birthday was October 29, 1882.  Mrs. Dahl died January 10, 1940 and Albert died August 7, 1957.  During their married life they lived on several farms in the area north and northeast of Cooperstown.

There were seven children in the Albert Dahl family: 

  1. Sylvan, born August 2, 1905, now living at Great Falls, Montana.  
  2. Alfred, born February 12, 1908, died at Yakima, Washington, 1961.  They had two children:
    1. Don
    2. Dennis
  3. Duane (Dewey) born in 1914, now living at Seattle, Washington.  
  4. Martin, born in 1917, died in the invasion of France in 1944.  
  5. Jeanette, born January 3, 1920, married to Don Testerman and living in Seattle, Washington.  She has two children:
    1. Marty
    2. Carol Ann
  6. There were two daughters, Mildred 
  7. and Gladys, who died in childhood.

Albert Dahl planted a half-mile of trees on Section 17 in Washburn Township.  He did it all by hand, carrying them on his back.  This was the row of cottonwoods that grew north from the Sever Sunstad farm.

Source: Griggs County History 1879 - 1976 Page 476