BIOGRAPHIES:   Ludwig A. TILLESON, Menomonie, Dunn Co., WI

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LUDWIG A. TILLESON, proprietor of a meat market in the city of
Menomonie, who is an experienced man in his line of business, and who
is well known throughout Dunn County, owing to having formerly held
public office, was born in the town of Elk Mound, this county, June
7, 1871, son of Arne and Betsy (Anderson) Tilleson. His parents were
farmers and as a boy he attended district school and when old enough
helped his father to cultivate the parental acres. Afterwards he did
farm labor for others and also for several winters worked as a logger
in the woods. It was in 1891 that Mr. Tilleson first got into the
meat business, entering the employ of A. O. Strand of Menomonie, with
whom he remained for nine years, learning all branches of the
business. At the end of that time, in 1900, he changed his
occupation, becoming a member of the Menomonie police force, on which
he served for three years. He then went to Barron and resumed his
former occupation of meat dealer, conducting a shop there for two
years. Then, being offered the position of chief of police of the
city of Menomonie, he accepted, disposing of his market, and for the
next two years he held the position above mentioned, at the end of
that time going to work in the market of C. G. Tilleson. In 1915 he
was elected sheriff of Dunn County and served one term of two years.
During the next two years he was under-sheriff and was then once more
elected sheriff, and after that under-sheriff, serving two terms of
two years each in each position, alternately. In the fall of 1922 he
established the market he is now conducting, situated at the corner
of Sixth Street and 13th Avenue, and has since built up a good trade.
Though too old to be accepted as a soldier in the war with Germany,
Mr. Tilleson has seen some home military service. He was formerly for
eight years a member of the Ludington Guard, holding successively the
rank of corporal and sergeant, and during the war served in the
Reserve company, and was lieutenant of Company E, which was formed
from members of the Reserve force. He is fraternally affiliated with
the Knights of Pythias and the Maccabees. On Aug. 19, 1893, Mr.
Tilleson was married in Menomonie to Bertha Walstad. Her father came
to this country in 1885, and after working here for some years, sent
for his family in 1891. Before coming to Dunn County he was employed
on the old Oakland Stock Farm, which was owned and operated by
Captain Tainter. Mr. and Mrs. Walstad both died in Menomonie, the
former on Nov. 17, 1916, and the latter on July 4, 1920. Mr. and Mrs.
Tilleson have been the parents of six children, but have been
deprived of three by the hand of death, those deceased being Julia,
Lawrence and Arnold. The survivors are: Ernest, now manager of the
Wisconsin Telephone Co. at Elsworth, Wis.; and Lawrence (second) and
Julia (second), who are residing at home with them. The family are
members of Our Saviour's Lutheran Church in Menomonie, Mrs. Tilleson
being an active member of the Ladies' Aid Society, of which she
served as president for two years.

-Transcribed from the "History of Dunn County Wisconsin, 1925," page 920

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