BIOGRAPHIES: Ole JOHNSON, Arland Township, Barron County, WI

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Ole Johnson, father of Mrs. Ingebrigt Ween, was a pioneer of Arland
Township, where he settled nearly half a century ago, when most of Barron
County was a wilderness. He was born in Norway and when a young man was
there married to Helen Hanson. In 1871 he came alone to the United States,
landing in New York and coming west to Menomonie, Wis., where he entered
the employ of Knapp, Stout & Co. In 1873 he was joined by his family and in
the following year they came to Barron County and took a homestead of 80
acres in section 22, Arland Township, which is the farm now owned by
Engebrigt Ween. Here Mr. and Mrs. Johnson lived out the rest of their
lives, the former dying March 19, 1906, and the latter in March, 1890,
sixteen years before her husband. They were people widely known and
esteemed.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co.,
1922, pg. 906.