BIOGRAPHIES: Ebert S. EVERSON, Preston Township, Trempealeau Co., WI

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Ebert S. Everson, one of the thriving agriculturists of Preston Township, 
is a native of Wisconsin, having been born in Springfield Township, Jackson 
County, Oct. 24, 1858, son of Syver and Helene (Pederson) Everson.  He was 
reared to agricultural endeavor and to that line of work has since given his 
attention.  For seventeen seasons he devoted his time to threshing, and for 
thirteen years he conducted two cream routes.  In 1887 he purchased 40 acres 
of his father's farm, and to this he has since added until he now owns 186 
acres of fertile and highly improved land in sections 26, 27 and 34, Preston 
Township.  He has christened his place the "Fairview Farm," and here he now 
carries on general farming and dairying with good financial results.  Mr. 
Everson is a director in the Preston Creamery Company and a stockholder in 
the First National Bank of Blair.  For three years he did good service as 
town supervisor, and for twelve years as school clerk.  He is a charter member 
of Camp No. 2576, Modern Woodmen of America at Blair.  Mr. Everson was married 
June 4, 1884, to Anna Kjelson, who was born in Pierce County, Wisconsin, Feb. 
14, 1861, daughter of Arne and Karen (Pederson) Kjelson, natives of Norway, 
the latter of whom died in 1909.  Mr. and Mrs. Everson have a family of five 
children:  Sevilla, who died when 10 days old; Mabel Elvira, born July 13, 1888, 
who graduated from the Blair high school with the class of 1907 and has been a 
teacher for nine years; Alice Selmine, born April 21, 1891, who graduated from 
the Blair high school with the class of 1910, and was a teacher for seven years; 
Elmer Alfred, born April 18, 1894, who is a student in the agricultural college 
at Onalaska, Wis., and resides at home, and Myrtle Constance, born Aug. 16, 1896, 
who graduated from Blair high school with the class of 1915 and resides at home.  
The family are members of the United Norwegian Church, of which Mr. Everson is a 
trustee.

--Transcribed from the "History of Trempealeau County Wisconsin, 1917", 
pages 659 - 660