BIOGRAPHIES: Henry BERGESON, Stanley Township, Barron County, WI

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Henry Bergeson, who has developed a good farm in Section 8, Stanley
Township, was born in Sweden, Feb. 7, 1864, second of the three children of
Berger and Sophia Carlson. He was reared and educated in his native land,
and there married Anna Christina Anderson, daughter of Andrew and Anna
Anderson, who lived in the same neighborhood. The subject of this sketch
came to America in 1893 and for ten years worked in the mills at
Minneapolis. Then he sent for his wife and two children, Selma and
Josephine. With them he came to Barron County in 1903, and bought 80 acres
in Sections 17 and 18, Stanley Township. This was wild land, covered with
stumps, rotting logs and brush. He moved into the log cabin on the place
just before Christmas, and started to clear the land. At first he had
little to work with. The first year he bought a cow and the second year a
horse. He kept on, year by year, working hard, and gradually developed a
good place. He now has a sightly house, a good barn and sheds, and an
excellent herd of cattle. He and his family are well thought of in the
community. They attend the Swedish Lutheran Church at Rice Lake, and are
liberal in their support. Mr. Bergeson is a stockholder in the Farmers'
Shipping Association at Cameron.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co.,
1922, pg. 751.