Bio of OLSON, Olof Theodor (b.1877 d.1960) Kandiyohi Co., MN
(Family Bio)
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The following information was compiled from family bible records, books 
and records provided to me by the Kandiyohi Historical Society, Norwegian 
census documents, a contact  at the University of Tromso in Norway, and 
Janet Grey in St Cloud, Minnesota who had alot of family records on the 
Johnson/Nilson family.

OLOF THEODOR OLSON was born in Willmar April 1877.  He moved to Seattle 
with his family and in 1898 he and his sister Marie travel to the Yukon 
to join his brother Adolph and father John Olson in their search for 
gold.  Olof left the Yukon in 1910 and moved to Flat Alaska.  In Flat, he 
was involved in mining with his partner Ben Cedermalm.  Olof never 
married.  He spent his last few years at the Old Pioneer Home in Sitka.  
He died February 1960 and is also buried in the Old Pioneer Cemetery in 
Sitka.