Martin Gulbransen

Anna Mathea Olsen (1859) fifth child of Ole Larsen Toppen Marking and Maren Olsdatter Brustuen was born in Biri, Norway, and married Martinus Gulbransen in Norway. Mrs. Gulbransen had been a nurse in Norway and tended the children in the household of Ole Bull, the famous violinist. She with her husband and two daughters, Mathild and Gina, emigrated in 1866 to Minnie Lake Township, Barnes County.

Mathild married Ole Stemhagen and had eleven children:

  1. Mary Ann married Andrew Olson and had five children;

  2. Milton married Anna Vold and had four daughters;

  3. Edwin married Renda Bjerke;

  4. Ida married Albert Schroeder;

  5. Mingel;

  6. Jennie married Lewis Benson;

  7. Oscar married Helen Crankers;

  8. Hilda married Clarence Moe;

  9. Olga married Ralph Rude;

  10. Walter married Alvina Quitchscriber;

  11. Esther married William Galloway;

Gina married Andrew Moe and had 8 children;

  1. Amanda married Manfred Lee Martin -five children;

  2. Alfred Milton Moe;

  3. George Axel married Laura Beleal - five children;

  4. Clarence Oscar married his cousin Hilda Stemhagen;

  5. Louis married Clara Ramberg;

  6. Alma Gerdone married W. Olson - four children;

  7. Ethel married Tilford Severtson,

  8. Otto Moe.

Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 86