Lacrosse-Dane County WI Archives Biographies.....Evenson, Ouden 1830 - 
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OUDEN EVENSON, farmer, Sec. 30; P. O. West Salem; born in Norway in 1830. He 
came to the United States with his father, Even Oudenson, July 6, 1847; family 
consisted of father and three sons. They came to Dane Co., where his mother 
died soon after his arrival; father married again, and settled in the town of 
Hamilton in 1852, where he died March 24, 1869. Mr. Evenson came to La Crosse 
Co. in May, 1850, making him one of the very earliest settlers of the county. 
He worked several years in the pineries of Wisconsin, and made a claim of a 
farm in the town of Hamilton. This claim he lost, not having yet attained his 
majority. In about 1853, he made a claim in Sec. 32, where he lived three 
years, and then purchased his present farm. He was married in La Crosse Co.; 
has 241-1/2 acres, and is engaged in general farming. Mr. Evenson is a 
successful farmer; has a finely-improved farm, with good buildings. There were 
no improvements on his farm when he settled upon it.

Additional Comments:
From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 821.

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