BIOGRAPHIES:  Henry NEILSEN, Stanfold Township, Barron Co., WI

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Henry Neilsen came to Barron County in 1902 and bought eighty acres of
cut-over land in Section 10, Stanfold Township. Ten acres of brush had been
cut off and a small log house and log barn had been erected. With the
beginning, he started in to build up a good farm. In 1911 he erected a
comfortable frame house, and a granary and machine sheds. In 1920, he built
a large barn, with full basement, and furnished with full Louden equipment.
At that time he also built a silo and a garage. On this place he
successfully con ducts general farming, and dairying, making a specialty of
a fine herd of graded cattle, headed by a full-blooded Holstein sire. Mr.
Neilsen is one of the real leaders in his community. He is a believer in
farm organization and is especially active in the District No. 4 branch of
the American Society of Equity, in which he has been chairman for eleven
years. Fraternally, he is active in the Danish Brotherhood, in Stanfold
Township, the headquarters of which are at Omaha, Neb. He was born in
Denmark, April 13, 1867, the son of Nels Peterson and Mary Hanson,
substantial people of that country, the former of whom died there in 1886
and the latter of whom came to America in 1891, and died in South Dakota,
in 1908. He received a good education in his native country, and as a youth
worked on various farms. For two years he served in the Royal Army. In 1889
he came to America and located in South Dakota, where he worked on farms in
the vicinity of Lake Preston for some thirteen years. In 1902, he came to
Barron County, where he has since lived. Mr. Neilsen was married March 12,
1898, in Minneapolis, to Sopha Hanson, the daughter of Frederick and Karn
Hanson, both of whom spent the span of their years in Denmark. Mrs. Neilsen
was born on February 23, 1877, in Denmark, and came to the United States in
1896, locating in Polk County. Mr. and Mrs. Neilsen have six children: Axel
R., born Oct. 10, 1898, a machinist, living in Chicago; Ina L., born Jan.
13, 1902; Hazel M., Dec. 16, 1903; Otto, June 4, 1906; Anna, April 27,
1913; and Gordon, Feb. 18, 1919.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pp. 166-167.


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