BIOGRAPHIES:  John A. OLSON, Maple Grove Township, Barron Co., WI

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Submitted by:  Vic Gulickson <vic@indy.net>  24 February 2004
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John A. Olson, Section 7, west, Maple Grove Township, was born in Clinton
Township, this county, June 29, 1890, son of John and Anna (Olson) Olson,
natives of Norway, who came to America in the early eighties, located for
two years in Tracy, Minn., where the father worked as a section hand for
the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, and then came to Cumberland, this
county, where the father was employed in the sawmill of the Sprague Lumber
Co., later locating on a farm in Clinton Township, where they still reside.
In the family there were eleven children: Engwart, Bessie, Annard, Mary,
Tillie, Lizzie, Johannas (deceased), John, Ellen, Albert and Thomas
(deceased). John A. Olson attended the district school and was reared to
farm pursuits. As a young man he did farm work in North Dakota a year and a
half and then went to Racine, in this state, where he worked in the machine
shops another year and a half. With this experience he returned home and
worked with his father for a while. In 1916 he rented a farm in Arland
Township. In 1917 he bought his present place of 60 acres. Buildings had
been erected and the land partly cleared. Mr. Olson repaired the buildings,
cleared more of the land and purchased new tools, equipment and machinery.
He carries on general farming and dairying and makes a specialty of
Holstein cattle and Chester White swine. He has served as clerk of his
school district and is a stockholder in the Consumers' Store at Barron. In
religious faith he is a Baptist. Mr. Olson was married in November, 1916,
to Martha Stagstad, daughter of Jacob and Carrie (Broud) Stagstad, of this
county. Mr. and Mrs. Olson have two children: Lloyd J., born Feb. 9, 1918,
and Bernadine, born Feb. 1, 1920.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 1015.


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