Biographies:  Ole O. JORSTAD, Rice Lake & Stanley Townships, Barron Co., WI 

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Ole 0. Jorstad, early settler of Rice Lake and Stanley Townships, now living
retired in Cameron, was born in Norway April 8, 1851, oldest of the ten 
children of Ole and Martha Jorstad, who were natives of Norway, and spent 
their latter years in St. Croix County, this state. He was reared and 
educated in his native land, and there grew to adult years. In 1868 he came 
to the United States, found his way to Menomonie, in Dunn County, this state, 
and there identified himself with the lumbering industry.  At first he worked 
in the mills there. Then for eighteen winters he was cook in lumber camps 
throughout this part of the state. He married in 1873, and he and his wife 
took a homestead of 160 acres in Rice Lake Township, this county. He built a 
log cabin and started farming With a team of oxen and two cows. But this 
region proved too lonely for his wife who was left alone winters. There were 
almost no neighbors, travel in the cold season was almost entirely suspended, 
and the Indians still swarmed about in large numbers. So they moved to 
Stanley Township where they secured 160 acres in Section 17. There they 
developed a good farm. Mr. Jorstad took a deep interest in the affairs of the 
township and served three years as  town supervisor and six years as town 
treasurer, in addition to many terms on the school board. He also held office 
in the Norwegian Lutheran Church at Cameron. In 1916, after a long and useful 
career on the farm, he and his wife retired and moved to Cameron where they 
now live. They are well regarded, they have reared a good family, and they 
delight in keeping their hospitable home always open to their friends and 
neighbors. Mr. Jorstad was married March 9, 1873, to Frederica Frederickson, 
who was born Dec. 22, 1863, the daughter of Lars and Gunhild (Olson) 
Frederickson, who came to America in the late sixties and secured 160 acres 
of wild land in Section 28, Stanley Township, being the first white settlers 
in that vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. Jorstad have had nine children: Marie, Albert, 
William Arthur, Thomas  Edgar, Hannah Amelia, Hulda Walborg and Floyd Oswald, 
living; and George Lien and Florence Louise who died in infancy. Marie is 
the wife of Eugene Nehls, of Phillips, Wis. Albert lives in Rice Lake, Wis. 
William Arthur is operating the home farm. Thomas Edgar farms in Stanley 
Township. Hannah Amelia is the wife of C. H. Museus of Cameron. Hulda Walborg 
is at home. Floyd Oswald is an electrical engineer in New York.

--Taken from History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co., 1922,
  pg. 763.