Bio of Oluf C. JACOBSON (b.1856), Yellow Medicine Co., MN

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OLUF C. JACOBSON (1872)

Oluf C. Jacobson, is a pioneer of Yellow Medicine county.  He went through
the grasshopper scourge, fought prairie fires, and remembers the time when
in a blizzard he had to crawl from the house to the barn, guided by a
clothes line, to do his chores.  On one occasion he and a sister were 
snowed in three days.

Mr. Jacobson is a prominent farmer of Normania township and owns 320 acres
of land on sections 12, 11 and 2, of that precinct. When he bought the farm
the only improvement it boasted was a little log cabin of pioneer days.
Today he has one of the fine homes of the county, surrounded by a handsome
grove and a fine orchard. Not alone in farming operations has Mr. Jacobson
been successful;he is interested in a number of other business enterprises.
He has been president of the Farmers Cooperative Creamery Company of Hazel
Run for the past two years, and he has stock holdings in the farmers store
and elevator of that village. In all of his business ventures he has been
successful. He was a director of school district No. 45, having been chosen
when the district was organized, and for several years he was constable of
Normania.

The subject of this review was born in Iowa June 22, 1856. His parents, Ole
and Carrie (Doctey) Jacobson, came from Norway in an early day, lived in
Iowa until 1872, and thereafter until their deaths, in Yellow Medicine
county.  The father died here in 1899;the mother on April 5, 1909, at the
age of eighty-six years.

Oluf came to Yellow Medicine county with his parents in 1872 and grew to
manhood in this frontier region.  When he was twenty-five years old he
bought his farm, and he has since conducted it.  He and his family are
members of the Norwegian Lutheran church.

Mr. Jacobson was married in Normania township June 23, 1881, to Annie
Halverson, who was born in Winnebago county, Wisconsin. She is also an
early settler of Yellow Medicine county. Her parents came from Norway in
1859 and lived in Wisconsin and in Houston and Faribault counties,
Minnesota, before their arrival to this county. Her father died here in
1899; her mother died October 31, 1913, aged seventy-eight years.

To Mr. and Mrs. Jacobson the following named nine children have been born:
Henry, born October 6, 1883; Alfred, born December 16, 1884; Tiena, born
February 22, 1887, died March 15, 1887; Alex, now of Montana, born March 23,
1888; Mary (Mrs. S. S. Mickelson), born August 18, 1890; Herbert, born July
26, 1892; Clara, born November 27,, 1894; Clarence, born January 28, 1897;
and George, born March 31, 1901.

Source: "A History of Yellow Medicine County" by Arthur P. Rose
Published 1914