Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Bensen, O B 1856 - 
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Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1890

O. B. BENSEN, dealer in coal and ice at Joliet, established himself in his 
present business in 1884. He is still a young man, having been born February 
3, 1856, and his native place was on the other side of the Atlantic, in 
Sweden. His parents were Benjamin and Jennie (Hawkinson) Bensen, who died when 
their son, our subject, was a small child. He thereafter made his home with 
his grandparents, but at an early age struck out for himself and has fought 
his own way in the world. He came to America when a lad of fifteen years, 
landing in the city of Quebec, Canada, in the year 1871. Mr. Bensen did not 
sojourn very long in the Dominion, but coming to Bureau County, this State, 
located in Princeton and employed himself as a clerk in a grocery store, 
remaining in Bureau County about eighteen months. Thence he came to Joliet, 
and for a period of ten years was in the employ of J. D. Paige, the well-known 
soda water manufacturer. At the expiration of this time he embarked in the 
grocery business, in which he was engaged two years successfully, but 
believing there were better returns in coal and ice, transferred his interests 
accordingly to the latter. He is looked upon as one of Joliet's live business 
men, being possessed of temperate habits and the straightforward methods which 
can hardly result otherwise than in success. Mr. Bensen is an admirer of fine 
horses, having a number in which he justly takes pride.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890

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