BIOGRAPHIES: John A. OASE, Arland, Barron County, WI

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  John A. Oase, who ranks well among the foremost farmers of Arland
Township, was born in Norway, Oct. 7, 1862, the son of Alfred and Jonetta
(Johnson) Oase, the former a native of Sweden, and the latter of Norway,
and both now deceased. He received his education in Norway, and did farm
work there for some years, beginning as a youth. In 1882 he came to
America, landed at New York and went directly to Fargo, N. D., where he
stayed for two years. He came to Wisconsin in 1884, and with headquarters
at Menomonie, Dunn County, worked for Knapp, Stout & Co. for twelve years,
in camps and on river drives, in Chippewa, Barron and Washburn Counties. In
the meantime he farmed summers. In 1896 he purchased the old homestead of
Ole Gravle, consisting of 80 acres in section 34, Arland Township, this
county. The place had been partly improved at that time. Mr. Oase put up a
good set of log buildings. As time passed he erected frame buildings. He
has cleared 25 more acres of the land, and has made the place a well
cultivated and prosperous farm. He successfully carries on general farming
and dairying, and has a good herd of mixed Durham and Guernsey cattle.
Believing in taking his part in everything that is f or the good of the
community, he has taken stock in the Prairie Farm Co-operative Association
and in the Hillsdale Northwestern Telephone Co. He is active in the Arland
unit of the Barron County Farm Bureau. Mr. Oase is a fine type of the
modern farmer, upright and just in all his dealings, and having the best
interests of the community deeply at heart. He was married June 3, 1896, to
Emma Holman, who was born in Menomonie, Wis., Oct. 1, 1869, the daughter of
Ole E. and Anna (Gravle) Holman. They are members of the Lutheran Church.
 
--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pp. 917-918.