Lars O. Bue
Lars O. Bue is postmaster and general merchant at Bue post office, Nelson County. He was born in Bergenstift, Norway, April 8, 1861, the youngest of 5 children born to Ole and Christie (Davidson) Bue. The father still lives on the farm in Winnishiek County, Iowa where he first located on coming to the United States in 1866.
At 19, Lars O. Bue began clerking in a store. In the spring of 1881, he landed at Valley City and then started for the "Big Bend" of the Sheyenne River. About 60 miles north he located land he now owns and built a 6' x 6' loghouse and held the land as a squatter. During the fall of 1881 he worked in the Red River Valley, and in 1882 in Goose River Valley. By the spring of 1883 he had a yoke of oxen and filed on his land and began farming.
In May 1882 a post office was established and named Bue in his honor and he became the first post master. In 1892 he started his store.
Mr. Bue married in 1883, Miss Olina Mikkelson. Their children: Clara, Oscar, Gilbert, Albert, Nels, Clarence, Oliver and Ludvig, twins and Oliver. Clara, Clarence and Olive (one of the twins are now deceased.
Bibliography condensed from Compendium of History and Biography, 1900, page 1035.