BIOGRAPHIES:   Claus W. CARLSON, Crystal Lake Township, Barron Co., WI

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Claus W. Carlson, an energetic and useful citizen of Crystal Lake
Township, where he is engaged in agriculture, was born in Sweden Sept. 20,
1880, son of Carl Gustofson and his wife Eva, whose maiden name was
Johnson. Both parents are deceased, the mother having passed away in 1912,
and the father in 1882. Claus W. was educated in his native land, where he
remained until 1898. Then a young man of eighteen years, strong and
ambitious, he emigrated to the United States, coming directly to Comstock,
Barron County, Wis. For six years thereafter he worked for others, doing
farm work in summer and lumbering in winter. During this period he saved
what he could of his earnings, so that about 1904 he found himself able to
purchase 80 acres of wild land in section 35, Crystal Lake Township, on
which he made a start for himself. He has cleared and broken 40 acres and
erected all the buildings, including a barn 34 by 62 feet, provided with
the James equipment. In mixed farming and dairying he is doing a successful
business, keeping Durham and Shorthorn cattle with pure bred sires at the
head of his herd. In addition to his farming interests he is a stockholder
in and director of the Comstock Creamery, and treasurer of the Comstock
Community Club; also treasurer of the Comstock Cow Testing Association and
a member of the Farm Bureau. For five years he has been clerk of District
No. 4 school board. His industrial activity and intelligent comprehension
of local needs have marked him out as a man well qualified for public
office, and in 1914, therefore, he was elected township assessor, in 1918
supervisor, and in 1919 chairman of the town board, in all of which
positions he rendered good service. He is a stockholder, director and
secretary of the Comstock Co-operative Mercantile Company. Mr. Carlson gave
up bachelor life on March 29, 1903, when he was united in marriage with
Hulda E. Johnson, who was born in Center City, Minn., Feb. 4, 1885,
daughter of Frank and Eva (Ryd) Johnson, natives of Sweden. But one of her
parents is now living, the mother being deceased. The father resides at
Center City, Minn. The revolving years have enlarged Mr. Carlson's
household through the birth of five children, namely: Marie A., born May
16, 1904; Edla V., November 17, 1905; Lilly E., July 9, 1908; Clara V., May
8, 1912, and Mildred E., Sept. 12, 1914. The family circle is a happy one
and typical of that high grade of citizenship that has made Barron County
one of the most prosperous and advanced divisions of the state.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co.,
1922, pg. 801.

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