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Source:
HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY, ILLINOIS
Together with Sketches of it's Cities, Villages and Towns,
Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political
History, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and
Biographies of Representative Citizens.
VOLUME I.
Also containing
History of Illinois Embodying Accounts of Prehistoric Races,
Aborigines, Winnebago and Black Hawk Wars, and A Brief Review
of its Civil and Political History.
- Illustrated -
Chicago:
Interstate Publishing Co.
1886.
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A. A. Klove |
Adams Twp. -
ANDREW A. KLOVE, farmer and stock-raiser,
Adams Township was born near Bergen, Norway, May 30, 1828, a son of
Andrew Klove, who brought his family to the United States in
1843 and settled in Racine County, Wis. In 1854 Mr. Klove
came to La Salle County, Ill., and located in Leland, where for
eleven years he was engaged in the mercantile business. In 1865 he
began farming, and in that vocation has been very successful and now
owns 440 acres of valuable land. He is a self-made man, the
only assistance he ever had being $700 from his father, when a young
man. Mr. Klove is a successful stockraiser, paying
special attention to Holstein cattle. He was married Mar. 9,
1855, to Randvei Grover, born in Norway, Dec. 14, 1835.
She came to America with her parents in 1837, and the first three
years lived in Chicago; then moved to Kendall County, Ill., and in
1850 settled in Adams, La Salle County. They have had sixteen
children, seven are living - Julia, Andrew, Clara, Lydia,
Josephine, Martha and Noah. Julia is the wife of
Henry Hansen, of Lee, Ill., and has three children - Ada,
Ruba and Orville. Andrew married Hannah Mosey,
Oct. 8, 1885. He is a member of the mercantile firm of
Petersen & Klove, of Leland, Ill. Mr. Klove
and his family are members of the Lutheran church. He has held
the position of Township Collector two years, and was assessor for
the same length of time. Was Justice of the Peace four years,
and Supervisor ten years. He has held the office of Notary
Public for twenty-six years. He was a member of the first
Board of Trustees for the village of Leland, which position he has
since frequently filed. He is Secretary of the Adams Mutual
Fire Insurance Company, which office he has held since its
organization in 1875.
Source: History of La Salle County, Illinois - Vol. I - Publ. 1886 -
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