Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Olson, Charles 
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Author: Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County

CHARLES OLSON, proprietor of the Sunrise Dairy, established a milk route in 
Joliet in 1891 and soon built up a good business in his line. After five years 
he started the Sunrise Dairy, renting a farm of one hundred and twenty acres 
near the city, where he keeps twenty-five milch cows of a fine grade and has 
his land divided into pastures of convenient size and fields for the raising 
of grain. In 1899 he sold the milk route and has since devoted himself to the 
wholesale milk business. He is a man of excellent judgment and has been quite 
successful in his chosen occupation.

The next to the youngest among six children, three of whom are in the United 
States, Mr. Olson was born in Orebro, Sweden, March 16, 1873, a son of Olas 
Gustav and Johanna Anderson, the former a large farmer now living retired; the 
mother died there in 1898. Both early united with the Lutheran Church and 
afterward lived faithful to its teachings. When fifteen years of age, March 
19, 1888, Mr. Olson came to the United States, at once settling in this 
county, where for a year he was employed on a dairy farm near Mokena. In this 
way he obtained his primary knowledge of the business in which he has since 
successfully engaged. Later he spent two years as an employe on a dairy farm 
in New Lenox Township, after which he embarked in the business for himself. He 
is an enterprising young man, full of energy and enthusiasm, and withal a 
tireless worker and a man of sound judgment. In addition to his dairy 
interests, for one year he was interested in a grocery and meat 
business on the corner of Jackson street and Park avenue, but sold out in 
order to give his attention wholly to dairying.

In common with many of his countrymen in Joliet, Mr. Olson holds membership in 
the Swedish Republican Club. He is connected with the North Star Association, 
the Fraternal Alliance and the Independent Order of Svethiod. He contributes 
to the maintenance of the Lutheran Church, to which his wife belongs. He was 
married in this city to Emma, daughter of Philip Drion, a native of France and 
an early settler of Joliet, where she was born. One son blesses their union, 
Clarence Philip Sylvester.

Additional Comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900


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