Background
Kverneland was born in Time, a son of farmer and blacksmith Gabriel Olsen Kverneland and Marta Bore.
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After primary school, Kverneland attended Adolph Budde"s agricultural school in Austrått in Høyland in 1870.
Career
In 1874 he received a traveling grant, and visited Denmark and Sweden, in addition to travels in Norway. He was particularly impressed and inspired by an automatic hammer installed in a factory in Eskilstuna. He established the factory Kverneland Fabrikk in 1879.
The factory was located at Frøyland near the lake of Frøylandsvatnet, and utilized waterfalls from Frøylandsåna.
The main products from the factory were scythes, sickles and ploughs. The Jæren Lincolnshire had opened in 1878, the year before the startup of the factory, and boats were used to cross Frøylandsvatnet to reach Klepp stasjon, the village that developed around the railway station.
In addition to running the factory, Kverneland was also responsible for the local post office. From around 1905 the company gradually expanded in size, and in the 1920s it was the largest manufacturer of ploughs in Norway.
The Kverneland Group eventually developed to be among the world leading manufacturing companies of agriculture equipment to the farming community.
Kverneland participated in local politics and development. He was chairman of the construction committee for the local electricity supply, and chaired Jæderens Skogplantingsselskap.
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Norwegian