Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....Lilleodden, Ole C. 1852 - 
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Author: L. A. Fritsche

OLE C. LILLEODDEN.

    One of the enterprising farmers of Lake Hanska township, Brown county, is
Ole C. Lilleodden, who was born on September 12, 1852, in Gulbranddalen, Norway,
a son of Christian J. and Ingleborg Lilleodden. The father was a carpenter by
trade, being known as a timber man, because of the class of work he did. His
death occurred when Ole C. was four years old. Ole C. Lilleodden attended school
until he was confirmed. He then did railway construction work. He immigrated to
the United States in 1880, arriving in New Ulm, Minnesota, April 15, of that
year. He soon went to work as a farm hand in Stark township and continued the
same for some time, in fact, worked out for eight years. Having saved his
earnings he then purchased one hundred and twenty acres of railroad land, for
which he paid ten dollars per acre. He soon erected a small log cabin on this
land and began improving it, living for twelve years in this shack, then having
prospered by close application and good management, he erected his present
comfortable home, to which he later added another apartment or two. He has also
erected a large barn and substantial outbuildings and has done some tiling. He
was the first settler to build a modem residence south of the Little Cottonwood
river in Brown county. He is a general farmer and keeps good stock.

    On February 12, 1880, before setting sail for the new world, Ole C.
Lilleodden was united in marriage to Carrie Hanson, a native of the same
locality in Norway in which he was born, their families having lived about
fourteen miles apart, he being born at Lom and she at Vaage. She did not come to
America for a year after her husband sailed. To their union six children have
been born, five of whom survive, namely: Emma, born on October 27, 1880, married
John Hanson and lives in White Earth, North Dakota, and they have five children,
Harry, Oscar, Gilbert, Raymond and Clifford; Christena, born on March 16, 1883,
being a twin to Gena, who died in infancy; Hans, born on November 3, 1885;
Gusta, born on November 20, 1888, married Matt Botheim and they live in Midway,
North Dakota; Oscar, born on February 7, 1892, attended the Minnesota State
Agricultural College one term and is now assisting his father on the home farm.
Ole C. Lilleodden and family are members of the Norwegian Lutheran church.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
HISTORY OF BROWN COUNTY MINNESOTA
ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS

L. A. FRITSCHE. M. D.
Editor

With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records
of Many of the Old Families

VOLUME II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana


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