Biography of
A. E. Fass
(From HISTORY OF MITCHELL AND WORTH COUNTIES, IOWA, 1883, Page 730)
A. E. Fass has been a resident here only a short time. He was born in Rock Co., Wis., in 1852. His parents are Elling and Lillie (Kettleson) Fass, natives of Norway. They emigrated to Rock Co., Wis., about the year 1848, where they lived until 1854, when they removed to Winneshiek Co., Iowa, where they still reside. When seventeen years of age A. E. Fass went to Hennipin Co., Minn., and in 1873, in company with his brother, Ole E., went to Washington territory, where he remained until 1879, then reurned to Hennepin Co., Minn., and a year later came to Worth County, locating in Danville township. In the fall of 1882 they came to Brookfield township, where they are now engaged in farming.
Ole E. was born in Winneshiek Co., Iowa, in 1860. He was married in the spring of 1883 to Anna Fatness, born in Wisconsin, in 1861. The farm comprises eighty acres. Both brothers and their families are members of the Lutheran Church.
Transcribed by Gordon Felland, August 2005