BIOGRAPHIES: Gabriel O. TILLESON, Menomonie Township, Dunn Co., WI ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. Submitted by: Laura Abood 13 January 2004 ************************************************************************ GABRIEL O. TILLESON, a well known farmer and respected citizen of the town of Menomonie, was born in the town of Elk Mound, Dunn County, Wis., June 23, 1878, son of Ole and Louise (Ludvigson) Tilleson. He acquired a district school education in his native town and lived and worked for the first 20 years of his life on the home farm with his parents, learning all the practical business of agriculture. After that he worked for others at ordinary farm labor, usually in the vicinity of his home, and this spent some 12 years. In 1906 he rented a farm in the town of Grant, which he operated until 1910. Then he started in for himself, buying an 80-acre farm in Section 17 of the town of Tiffany, which he operated until 1920. Selling it in that year, he purchased his present farm of 126 acres in Section 15, town of Menomonie, known as the old Bird Farm, and here he is successfully carrying on general farming and dairying, having a herd of grade Guernseys with a pure bred sire. He is a director of the school board of his district. Mr. Tilleson was married March 10, 1900, in Elk Mound, to Gunde Stang, daughter of Hans and Helen (Westby) Stang, and four children have been born to them, namely: Irene, now Mrs. Adolph Thompson of Eau Claire, who has two children, Ione and Eugene; Orrin, who is on the home farm; Edna, a graduate of the Dunn County Normal School, now teaching in Caryville, and Leona, who is a pupil in the grade school. Mr. Tilleson and his family are members of Our Saviour's Lutheran Church at Menomonie. They are good representative people of the agricultural class whose work is contributing to the wealth and prosperity of the county. -Transcribed from the "History of Dunn County Wisconsin, 1925," page 582 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm