"Portrait & Biographical Record of the Willamette Valley Oregon." Chapman Publishing Company, 1903. p. 1534. OLE MYRIND was born in Trondhjem, Norway, January 18, 1857. He was the son of Angrim Myrind, a native of the same , location, whose occupation throughout his life was that of a shoemaker. He died in his native land in 1898, at the age of eighty-seven years, his wife, also a native of Norway, having passed away in 1869, when fifty-one years old. Of the four sons and one daughter which were born to his parents Ole Myrind was the youngest in age, and his education was received in the common schools of his native country. When of a sufficient age he was apprenticed to learn the trade of a shoemaker, serving for three years before taking up the business for himself. Until 1888 he remained in Norway, when he took passage in a ship bound for Boston. Upon his safe arrival he went at once toward the farming lands of the country, locating first in Mitchell county, Kans., where he, engaged as a farm hand, in the fall of the same year proceeding to Nebraska. In the latter state he became employed in a rock quarry at Bennett, Lancaster county, where he remained until the following year, when he went to Colfax, Wash., and worked on the construction of railroads. Until February, 1900, he continued in that work, and he then came to Portland, Ore., and engaged in fishing in the Columbia river, located at Astoria for two years. In 1892 he came into the Siuslaw valley and bought the right to eighty acres of land located two miles east of Mapleton, and has since been engaged in general farming and stock-raising. Meeting with success in his work he has added eighty acres to the original purchase and has now one hundred and sixty acres. He has made all improvements upon the farm, erecting dwelling, barns and outbuildings, etc. Another source of income beyond the profits of his farm is his fishing in the Siuslaw river each fall. In politics Mr. Myrind adheres to the principles advocated in the platform of the Republican party, and socially belongs to the Grange of Mapleton. ******************* Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in August 2007 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.