BIOGRAPHIES:  Ole GREGERSON, Dovre Township, Barron County, WI

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Ole Gregerson, an estimable farmer of section 34, Dovre Township, was born in
Manitou Island, off the northern arm of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan,Sept.
1, 1864, the son of Greger and Asloug, who brought him to Barron County when 
he was a small boy. He was reared on the home farm, learned farming from his 
father and attended the old log schoolhouse on the farm now occupied by John
Knutson. He now owns eighty acres of the home place. He built a good house, a
barn 34 by 60 feet, and other buildings, and has purchased suitable tools,
implements and equipment. He successfully carries on general farming and has 
the respect and esteem of all who know him. He is a stockholder in the 
Farmers' Store Co. at Chetek. He also has other interests. Mr. Gregerson was 
married at Sand Creek Dunn County, Dec. 2, 1892, to Ingeborg Dahl, who was 
born in Norway Sept. 24, 1862, the daughter of Erland and Marit Dahl, and 
came to the United States in 1889. This union has been blessed with four 
children, Marie, Gerhard, Adella and Edna. Marie lives in Evanston, Ill. 
Gerhard is at home. He is a popular and energetic young man, and his father's 
assistant on the farm. Adella is the wife of Egbert Anne, of New Auburn. 
Edna is at home.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., &
Co., 1922, pp. 664-665.