BIOGRAPHIES: Christ MARTINSON, Menomonie, Dunn Co., WI

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Submitted by:  Laura Abood <wabood@msn.com>  11 May 2005
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Christ Martinson, who spent nearly 20 profitable years as a Dunn
County farmer, and several subsequent years as a resident of
Menomonie until death called him from earthly scenes, was born in
Nordfenmarken, Norway, June 24, 1855.  It was in the year 1865, as a
boy of ten, that he came to the United States with his parents, who
settled in the town of Wheaton, Chippewa County, Wis.  The family was
soon broken up, however, as the father died in Colby, Clark County,
in 1868, and immediately after his death his wife moved to Canby,
Minn., where she passed away many years later, in 1887.  Christ
Martinson, in March, 1884, bought a lot in Elk Mound, Dunn County,
Wis., and built a house on it.  In August, of the same year, he moved
to the village of Knapp, this county, and at that time became section
foreman on the Omaha railroad, a position in the employ of the same
railway company until April, 1893.  It was then that Mr. Martinson
began his career as an agriculturist, returning to Dunn County and
taking a farm of 80 acres in Spring Brook.  There he was engaged in
farming until Nov. 27, 1912, when he retired and took up his
residence in Menomonie, in which city he died in May, 1916.  He was a
member of the Masonic order and a stockholder in the Masonic Temple
of Menomonie.  Mr. Martinson was married Sept. 21, 1879, to Pauline
Juliana Link, daughter of John R. and Julia F. (Hurley) Link.  Of
this marriage one son was born, Jacob C., on March 28, 1884, who
later married Matilda Weisner.  He and his wife, who reside in St.
Paul, have three children, Harold, Elmira and Ralfa.
 
Transcribed from the "History of Dunn County Wisconsin, 1925" pages
750-751

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