Bio of Ole C. OLSON (b.1834 d.1898), Yellow Medicine Co., MN

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OLE C. OLSON (1880)

Ole C. Olson, deceased, was an early settler of Sioux Agency township 
and a man who took quite a prominent part in the affairs of his 
community.  He was born in Norway December 23, 1834, and came to the 
United States and Minnesota in 1860.

Upon the outbreak of the Civil War, Mr. Olson enlisted in Company H, 
Ninth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, and served four years.  After the 
war he located near Norway Lake, in Kandiyohi county, and resided there 
until 1880. 
That year he moved to Sioux Agency township, and he resided on a farm 
until his death, which occurred October 11, 1898.  For a number of years 
he was a supervisor of his precinct.  Son after his discharge from the 
army Mr. Olson was married to Bertha Anderson, who is now deceased.

The second marriage of Mr. Olson occurred in January, 1883, to Martha
Anderson, nee Peterson, also a native of Norway.  The first husband of 
Mrs. Olson was Johannes Anderson.  He came to the United States in 1880 
and settled at Willmar.  His wife (now Mrs. Olson) came from the old 
country two years later to join her husband and had been in Willmar only 
three days when Mr. Anderson was killed in a railroad wreck at Atwater.  
She was left with a child three years old, Tilla, now the wife of 
Torvald Iverson.

Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Olson, named as follows: Milton
Bernhard, of Northern Minnesota; Clara (Mrs. Theodore Knutson), of Sioux
Agency; Peter Olaf, of Sioux Agency; Carolina Amanda (Mrs. Frank Johnston),
of Minnesota Falls; and Lena Christina (Mrs. Carl Falkingham, of
Saskatchewan, Canada.

Olaf Olson, who conducts the home farm, was born there in November 22, 
1887. He was educated in the district school and conducted the farm for 
his mother until the spring of 1913; since that time he has rented the 
farm.  Mr. Olson was married June 2, 1912, to Guor Finnes, who was born 
in Yellow Medicine county September 22, 1893.  The have one child, Owen, 
born December 30, 1912

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