Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Benson, John 1826 - 
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JOHN BENSON, contractor and stone-mason; was born in 1826 in Norway, where he 
learned his trade, and came to the United States in 1861, since which time he 
has resided in La Crosse. He was married in 1866, to Sarah Ann Iverson, 
daughter of Iver Iverson; she also was born in Norway, and came to the United 
States in 1860; they have two children - Ida Benson and Jacob Bernhart Benson. 
John's father, B. Benson, came to the United States in 1871, and now lives in 
Douglas Co., Minn.

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From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 737.

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