Bio of Ole C. WILSON (b.1865), Yellow Medicine Co., MN

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OLE C. WILSON (1878)

Ole C. Wilson is the owner of the east half of the southeast quarter of
section 24, Friendship township, where he makes his home and engages in
farming.  He also owns another quarter section in the same township, 
which he rents to his son Halvor.  He and his sons own nearly 800 acres 
in Friendship township.

Mr. Wilson was born in Telemarken, Norway, March 3, 1842.  His parents 
were Christian and Aasa (Ananson) Wilson, both of whom died in 1893.  
The family immigrated to the United States in 1845 and located in 
Washington county, Wisconsin, about thirty miles from Milwaukee, where 
they resided until 1851. They  moved to Columbia county, Wisconsin, 
where they lived until the spring of 1879.  Ole was brought up on a 
farm and educated in the country schools, but most of his education 
was received outside the school room.

On February 27, 1864, Mr. Wilson enlisted in Company C, Thirty-Sixth
Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and served until Lee's surrender April 9,
1865.  He was discharged July 12, 1865, at Jeffersonville, Indiana.  
He was in the Army of the Potomac, in the Second Division of the Second 
Army Corps.
He took part in the Wilderness campaign up to the surrender of General 
Lee and was present at the surrender, being only a couple of rods away.  
He was wounded by spent balls in the battle of Cold Harbor and at 
Petersburg.  Mr. Wilson was made a corporal as the result of scouting 
service at Deep Bottom, near Richmond, for which he and a comrade had 
volunteered.

After his discharge from the army Mr. Wilson returned to Columbia county,
Wisconsin, was married in 1867, and took up the occupation of farming.

In the fall of 1878 Mr. Wilson came to Granite Falls, Yellow Medicine
county, and in the spring of 1879 moved his family from Wisconsin.  For 
the next five years he conducted a general store in Renville and then 
moved to Ellendale, North Dakota, where he resided until the spring of 
1891, engaged in farming.  He returned to Yellow Medicine county in 1891, 
and for two or three years conducted a rented farm near Clarkfield.  He 
then bought a farm on section 26, Friendship township, which he operated 
until 1901, when he moved to Hazel Run village and ran a livery barn nine 
years.  Retiring from the livery business, he went to live with a son in 
Friendship township, and in 1912 he improved his present place, which he 
had bought a few years before.

Mr. Wilson was married March 25, 1867, in Columbia county, Wisconsin, to
Annie Hendrickson, who was born in Telemarken, Norway, January 6, 1844.
They have four children living, namely:  Emma (Mrs. C. L. Lindersmith), of
Brown county, Minnesota; Halvor M. and Henry O., farmers of Friendship
township; Josephina (Mrs. Carl Dotseth), of Tyro township.

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