Union County, SD Biographies.....Johnson, Oluf 1859 - 
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Source: MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties, South Dakota. (1897)
Author: Geo. Ogle & Co.

OLUF JOHNSON, the present treasurer of Union county, and one of the popular and
widely-known young men of the southern part of the state, is a native of Norway, and
was born in 1859, a son of John A. and Gertrude (Haaven) Olson. He received a good
education, and remained with his parents till eighteen years of age, when he engaged
in bridge building for Lynch & Desparois, railroad contractors, of Sioux City, by
whom he was employed for two years. Mr. Johnson then returned to Dakota territory,
where his parents lived, and accepted a position with C. W. Beggs, in whose general
store at Elk Point he clerked for five years. Mr. Beggs sold out to A. O. Ringsrud,
and our subject remained with that gentleman a little over nine years, when he was
elected to his present office of treasurer of the county. This was in 1894, and that
he has discharged his duties since to the entire satisfaction of the people is
evidenced by the fact that he was re-elected to that office in the fall of 1896. Mr.
Johnson has a nice home in Elk Point, and outside his official duties he is also
interested in farming land in Union county.

Mr. Johnson and Miss Mary Anderson were united in marriage in 1885, and they have
been blessed with two children - Leonard J. and Milton E. Mrs. Johnson was one of a
family of eight children and a daughter of Lars Anderson, a native of Norway, who
emigrated to this country and settled in Wisconsin in 1858. In 1870 he, with wife
and children, located in Union county, where the family still resides, Mr. Anderson
having died in 1882.

A few words regarding Mr. Johnson’s parents, who are also residents of Union county,
will probably be of interest. Mr. and Mrs. John A. Olson were engaged in farming in
the old country, and when they emigrated to this country with their four children
they came direct to Dakota territory. Mr. Olson homesteaded 160 acres in Brule
township at that time, which property he has brought from a wild piece of land to
its present state of cultivation. He has improved it with some fine buildings, and
is engaged in general farming. He has taken an active interest in school matters,
and giving his children good, practical educations. The family are members of the
Lutheran church, in which Mr. Olson has held various offices. He has been chorister
for many years. Mr. and Mrs. Olson were the parents of eleven children, nine of whom
still survive.


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