The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 760 
A portrait of Albert Stengle appears in this publication.

ALBERT STENGLE.

Albert Stengle is the manager of a ranch covering one hundred and thirty acres
for the Netherlands American Mortgage Bank, of which eighty-five acres is
planted to orchards. He has lived in the Yakima valley since 1902 and in the
United States since 1871. He was born in Norway, May 25, 1849, a son of Emil and
Paulina Stengle, both of whom have passed away. His youthful days were spent in
the land of the midnight sun and when he had reached the age of twenty-two he
determined to try his fortune in the new world. Accordingly he crossed the
Atlantic in 1871 and took up his abode in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where he
followed farming until 1892. The succeeding six years were spent in Oregon and
then he went to California, where he resided until 1902, when he removed to the
Yakima valley. The following year he entered the employ of the Buchell Land
Company as manager, thus representing them for a few years, after which he
became manager for the Netherlands American Mortgage Bank in charge of their
orchards. He is now controlling a ranch of one hundred and thirty acres, of
which eighty-five acres is planted to fruit and fifty-five acres to alfalfa.
Thereon he is engaged in raising apples, pears and peaches and his orchards are
in excellent bearing condition, so that he annually harvests large crops. He has
also had large farming interests on the Yakima Indian reservation and he
likewise developed a twenty-acre orchard of his own near Grandview which he has
now sold. In 1917 he bought another ten acres near Grandview and took up his
abode thereon in 1919.

In October, 1875, Mr. Stengle was joined in wedlock to :bliss Mary Nelson, a
native of Norway and a daughter of Nels and Mary Nelson. She crossed the
Atlantic to the United States when a young woman of twenty years and became the
wife of Mr. Stengle in Wisconsin. Ten children have been born to them but only
two survive, namely: Edward, who is married and is the owner of a garage at
Wapato, Washington; and Carrie, the wife of E. E. Norling, who is engaged in
ranching near Grandview and by whom she has one child.

In his political views Mr. Stengle is a republican and while at Butternut,
Wisconsin, he served for two terms as assessor. While in Oregon he was a school
clerk. His religious faith is that of the Lutheran church and he is a member of
the Fraternal Brotherhood. His success in life is the direct result of his
perseverance and energy, actuated by a laudable ambition, he came to the new
world to try his fortune and has made good use of his time, talents and
opportunities as the years have gone on. He is now most comfortably situated in
life and has never had occasion to regret the step that brought him from his
native country to the United States.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.