BIOGRAPHIES: Nels ARENSON, Dallas Township, Barron Co., WI ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. Transcribed by Kate Wilson. Edited and submitted by Vic Gulickson 29 October 2004 ************************************************************************ Nels Arenson was born in Norway and there married Alena Larson. They came to America in 1866 and settled in Dane County, this state. In 1871 they came to Barron County and took a homestead of 120 acres in section 10, west, Dallas Township. They cleared 60 acres, built a set of log buildings and there farmed for fifteen years. Then they sold to their son and bought 80 acres in the same section where they lived until 1895 when they retired and moved to Dallas Village. There they both died, Mr. Arenson in 1910 and Mrs. Arenson in 1905. They were the parents of nine children: Arney, (deceased), Nels, Ole, Lewis, Lena (deceased), Anna, Julia, Nellie and Carrie. The year that General Grant was elected president of the United States for the first time (1869) Mr. Arenson walked from his home in Chippewa County, where he was then working, to Rice Lake in Barron County in order to cast his vote. --Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 853. © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm