BIOGRAPHIES: Albert K. AXNESS, Arcadia Township, Trempealeau Co., WI

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Albert K. Axness came to his present farm in 1872 with his mother and step-
father, and has thus been a resident of this county for forty-five years.  
He was born in Norway, near Christiania, July 29, 1861, son of Knute and 
Carrie (Tostenson) Axness.  The father died in Norway in 1863, and 
subsequently four of the sons, Tosten, born in 1844; Julius, born in 1847; 
Knute, born in 1851, and Ole, born in 1855, came to America in 1867, three 
locating near Winona, Minn., and one near Madison, Wis.  In 1868 the mother, 
accompanied by the son, Albert K., and a daughter, Mary, born in 1858, came 
to this country and joined her sons near Winona.  In 1870 the mother married 
Ole Larson.  Mr. Larson soon came to Trempealeau County and bought the 
homestead rights of Hans Talaken to a tract of wild land in section 6, 
Arcadia Township, within the limits of Newcomb Valley.  On this place he 
built a small shanty, to which in 1872 he brought his wife, and his step 
children, Albert K and Mary.  In the fall of that year they built a small 
frame house, which is now a comfortable eleven-room structure.  Barns, sheds 
and the like have been erected as necessity has required.  Albert K. was 
reared to farm pursuits and finished his education in the schoolhouse of the 
Penny district near his home.  At the age of nineteen he started for himself 
by securing winter employment in the lumber woods of Clark and Jackson 
counties, still continuing to do farm work during the summer seasons.  In 
1898 he brought his bride to the home place and here has since continued to 
live.  He carries on general farming and dairying, 90 acres of his 174 acres 
being under plow, and the rest being in woodland and pasture.  His political
affiliations are with the Republican party, and his fraternal relations are 
maintained with Arcadia Camp, No. 769, M. W. A., of which he has been a member 
for the past eighteen years.  Mr. Axness was married Jan. 1, 1898, to Minnie 
Olson, daughter of John and Mary Olson of Homer Township, Winona County. She 
died Sept. 9, 1914, at the age of 37 years.  Mr. and Mrs. Axness have had five 
children:  Cora, who died in infancy; Carl, born in 1900; Ernest, born in 1902; 
Myrtle, born in 1907, and Orlon, born in 1909, all of whom are at home.  The 
mother of Mr. Axness died in 1907 at the age of 84 years, the stepfather died 
in 1905. 

--Transcribed from the "History of Trempealeau County Wisconsin, 1917", pages 
691-692