Lacrosse-Polk County WI Archives Biographies.....Stephenson, John 1848 - 
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JOHN STEPHENSON, proprietor of the Tremont House, corner Pearl and Second 
street; was born in Norway, in 1848; came to America in 1867, and has been in 
La Crosse Co. since. In the summer of 1868, he built the Scandinavian House in 
La Crosse, and kept it about a year, then sold out, and went into the 
commission business for a time. He then put up three dwelling houses in the 
city, and soon after exchanged them for a farm of 120 acres in Onalaska, La 
Crosse Co., and followed farming till March 18, 1880, and since that has been 
in his present business. He was married in St. Croix Falls, in 1868, to Anna 
Ulrikke, and has five children - Berntine, Henry T., Wilhelmina, Axel, Johan 
and Luise Charlotte. He has accommodations for 200 guests, and stabling for 
forty teams. Terms, $1.50 per day.

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From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 796 - 797.

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