BIOGRAPHIES: Ole P. NAESS, Doyle Township, Barron County, WI

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Ole P. Naess came to Doyle Township in 1903 and bought 80 acres in Section
15, a tract which was then covered with heavy standing hardwood timber. He
put up a frame house, and a barn, and suitable sheds, and started clearing
up the land. In the years that have since passed, he has built up a good
place. The buildings are adequate, the land is well tilled and well fenced,
and the equipment and stock are excellent. Mr. Naess successfully carries
on general farming, and dairying, and sells the cream from his herd to the
Campia Cheese & Butter Association, in which he is a stockholder. He is
also a stockholder in the Consumers' Store at Rice Lake. He has been
treasurer of the township three years. Fraternally, he is well liked in the
Scandinavian Fraternal Association. Mr. Naess was born in Norway, Aug. 30,
1871, son of Peter and Male Naess, natives of that country, the former of
whom is dead and the latter of whom is still living there. He received a
common school education, and as a youth, worked with his father at the
tailor's trade. He also did factory work and farm work. In 1891, at the age
of twenty, he came to the United States, and located at Frankford,
Michigan, where he worked in a sawmill for the summer. That winter he
worked in the lumber woods with headquarters at Menomonie, this state. Then
he went to Duluth, Minn., and after working on the lake docks for the
Northwestern Fuel Co., for a while, entered the employ of the Street Car
Company. It was from there that he came to his present location. Mr. Naess
was married in Duluth, June 6, 1913, to Lena Orsund, born in Norway in
April, 1880, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Orsund, both now deceased.
Mr. and Mrs. Naess have three children: Margaret G., born June 5, 1909;
Gunda A., born July 18, 1912; and Ellen O., born Jan. 25, 1919. The family
faith is that of the Norwegian Lutheran Church.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co.,
1922, pg. 729.