Andreas Kristoffersen Dahl was born on 5 Apr 1825 in Ostre Gausdal, Oppland, Norway, died on 9 Apr 1901 in Grafton twp. , Walsh Cty., ND at age 76, and was buried in North Trinity Cemetery, Walsh County, North Dakota.63

Andreas traveled north from Gausdal north of Lillehammer in the Gudbrandsdal to the region of Steinkjerl Sparbu, arriving in 1851. On the way, he worked on the Harstad farm, and passed through Trondheim. He settled down as a land tenant under the farm of Hegstad, some kilometers to the south of Aalberg. In 1871, he married Anna Haugen in Norway, and they came to America via Quebec, Canada. They homesteaded in St. Olaf Township. He did blacksmith work for the community until he moved to Grafton, North Dakota, where he lived the last two years of his life. Andreas Dahl and his wife were the parents of nine
3, 4 children: Christian: Matheas, Olaus, Caroline, Anna, Martine, Fredericka, Carl and Albert.