BIOGRAPHIES:  Pit CARLSON, Clinton Township, Barron County, WI

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Pit Carlson, who built up a good place in Section 17, Clinton Township, was
born in Sweden. He attended school there, worked on farms and in the woods,
grew to manhood and married there. In 1888 he came to the United States,
and located in Michigan, where he worked in woods and in sawmills. In 1892
he came from there to Barron County, and located on 80 acres in Section 17,
Clinton Township. This was all wild, cut-over land, covered with stumps and
brush. He cleared up the land, erected a house and other buildings, and
here carried on general farming and dairying until 1916, when he sold the
place to his son-in-law, Bernard Hagberg, and retired. He and his good
wife, Christina Johnson, had nine children, of whom there are three living:
Ella, the wife of Bernard Hagberg; Anna, the wife of Christ Hanson, of
Racine, Wis.; and Carl of Barron County.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co.,
1922, pg. 449.