BIOGRAPHIES:  Lars LEE, Barron Township, Barron Co., WI

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Submitted by:  Vic Gulickson <vic@indy.net>  14 January 2004
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Lars Lee is one of those men who, coming to America with no financial
resources and compelled to work for some years at anything he could find,
has, by industry and frugality, acquired a good farm and become one of the
substantial men of the community. He has served on the town board of Barron
Township and on the school board of District No. 7, Barron Township, and in
other ways has done his duty as a good citizen and taxpayer. He was born in
Bergen, Norway, Nov. 2, 1871, the son of Elling and Torbgor (Skaalheans)
Lee, who spent the span of their years in Norway. He came to the United
States in 1889 and found work at Montevidio, Minn. The next year he came to
Rock County, this state, and the next went to Chicago, Ill., going from
there to Dane County, this state. In the spring of 1904 he came to Barron
County. Four years later he bought 40 acres of wild land in Section 16,
Barron Township, cleared 20 acres, erected tobacco sheds and engaged in
tobacco raising. While thus employed he boarded for six years with the
family of Thomas Osterhus, the neighbor on the east. In the spring of 1914
he sold his tobacco farm, and in the fall of 1915 purchased the Osterhus
farm of 40 acres. This is a good place, with a farm house, barns and silo,
and with 25 acres under the plow. Here Mr. Lee carries on general farming.
He is well liked in the community and has passed through the chairs of
Barron Colony, No. 38, of the Beavers. He attends the Norwegian Lutheran
Church.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 147.

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