Administrative/Biographical History
Gunder Salverson was born September 6, 1834, in Valle, Aust Agder, Norway, to Salve Gundersen Flateland and Thorbjør Olsdatter Hægland. In 1846 Salve and Thorbjør moved to the United States with Gunder and his three siblings and settled in Wisconsin. On October 7, 1863, Salverson enlisted as a private in the 1st Battalion, California Mountaineers, to fight for the Union in the Civil War. He was honorably discharged June 9, 1865, and lived in Fort Jones, Siskiyou County, California. On September 1, 1890, Salverson applied for and received a veteran's pension due to his rheumatism and heart disease. Beginning March 23, 1907 until March 2, 1908, he lived in the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Sawtelle, California. He then moved to Bygland Township, Polk County, Minnesota, where his younger brother Amund (Ed) Salverson resided. Gunder Salverson remained in Bygland until his death on February 20, 1909, at the age of seventy-four. He is buried in the Bygland Lutheran Cemetery.
