BIOGRAPHIES:  Ole G. FOSS, Barron Township, Barron Co., WI

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Transcribed by Kate Wilson. 
Edited and submitted by  Vic Gulickson <vic@indy.net>  3 January 2004
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Ole G. Foss was born near Christiania, Norway, Oct. 23, 1867, the son of
Gudmund and Caroline (Larson) Foss. He was brought to Columbia County,
Wisconsin, in 1869, and came to Barron Township, this county, in 1881. For
many years he spent the winters in the woods engaged in the lumber
industry, continuing his farming in the summer. In the fall of 1892 he
purchased 120 acres of wild land in section 17, Barron Township, built a
small frame house, and with his wife, started housekeeping. Other buildings
were erected as necessity required and means permitted, and the farm was
gradually broken, developed and cultivated. Like so many others, they lost
their all in the fire of 1898, a disaster which affected them so seriously
that for five years they had to live on a rented farm to get a new start.
But in the spring of 1903 they moved back onto the old place and continued
its improvement. In 1903 the present home was erected. It is a sightly
structure, as good as any in the neighborhood, and with the good barn, and
well-tilled acres, breathes an air of prosperity and success. A stave silo
has recently been erected, 14 by 24 by 10 feet. Mr. Foss has served his
school district as treasurer and clerk. His interest in the general
industrial life of the community is shown by the fact that he is a
stockholder in the Rice Lake & Barron Consumers’ Store. He worships with
his family at the Barron Norwegian Lutheran Church. Mr. Foss was married
May 25, 1892, to Tillie Jorgenson, of Barron City. They have three
children: Cora, born March 19, 1893, now wife of Joseph Richards, of
Clinton Township, this county; Olga, born Oct. 1, 1895, wife of Theodore
Tvedt, of Barron Township; and Mabel, born Nov. 20, 1897, who is living in
Minneapolis. All the buildings on Mr. Foss’s farm are lighted by his own
electric plant. He has a good hot air furnace, a bath room, and running
water in both house and barn.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., &
Co., 1922, pg. 134.


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