Biographies:  Nels EVERSON, Mikana, Barron Co., WI 

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Nels Everson, station agent at Mikana, is an excellent railroad man, has the
confidence of the company which employs him and of the people he serves,
and is in good favor with the traveling and shipping public. He was born in
Norway, Aug. 8, 1844, son of Everson and Ellen (Larson) Everson, who spent 
the span of their years in Norway. For some years after leaving school he 
worked with his parents and then became a farm foreman. In 1872 he came to 
America and found his way to Menomonie, this state, where he entered the 
employ of Knapp, Stout & Co.  In this employ he remained for forty years, 
working in various places in northern Wisconsin. Mainly, he worked in the 
woods winters and in blacksmith shops summers, but he was also an all around  
handy man, and there are few positions connected with lumbering operations 
that he has not occupied. He also farmed for many years. In 1912 he took up 
his home in Mikana, and was made janitor of the public school building. Six 
years later he took up the duties of his present position.  While he has been 
too busy to mingle actively in public affairs, he is much interested in good 
roads and from 1901 to 1912 was road commissioner in Cedar Lake Township. Mr. 
Everson was married Aug. 6, 1882, in Cedar Lake Township, this county, to 
Nellie Dale, daughter of Andrew and Christina (Tolle) Dale. This union has 
been blessed with three children, William, Alfred and James. William was 
born May 20, 1883, and lives at Mikana. He married Anna Asmassen and has 
three children, Jessie, Morris and Nora. Alfred was born March 4, 1887, and 
was designated for United States service but did not pass the examinations.  
James was born July 23, 1893. He served in France with the American 
Expeditionary Forces, being overseas seven months, as a member of Company E, 
309th Infantry. 

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co.,
1922, pp. 797-8