BIOGRAPHIES:  Knut S. KNUTSON, Beaver Creek Valley, Trempealeau Co., WI

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Knut S. Knutson, has been one of the leading citizens of the ocunty
for many years.  As an agriculturist he developed a good farm in the
Beaver Creek Valley, as a merchant he assisted in the progress of
Blair by building up an important store, and as county, village and
school official he has done most efficient service to the community
at large.  Mr. Knutson is a native of Ulvik, Hardanger, Norway, born
Feb. 20, 1856, the son of Urians and Brita (Severson) Knutson.  The
parents, born, respectively, July 6, 1823, and Dec. 13, 1830, brought
the family to America in 1869, and settled on a homestead in the
Beaver Creek Valley, in Ettrick Township, where the father died Feb.
15, 1901, and where the mother now makes her home with her daughter,
Mrs. O. T. Johnson.  As a young man Knut S. Knutson secured a farm in
the Beaver Creek Valley, which he owned and operated for a number of
years.  Having attained success in this line, he determined to seek
broader fields of opportunity, and in 1903 moved to Blair, where,
with his sons, Julius O. and Edwin B., he purchased the hardware and
implement store of Charles Johnson and established the firm of K. S.
Knutson & Sons, which was succeeded in 1909 by the son, Julius O.
Knutson.  The subject of this sketch now devotes his time to looking
after his various interests and to public service.  As a member of
the county board he has the advantage of eight years' experience, and
he is regarded as one of the influential men of that body.  For
twenty years in Ettrick and for three years in Blair he has been a
member of the school board.  For two years he was on the village
council of Blair.  His fraternal relations are with the Independent
Order of Foresters.  His business holdings include stock in the Home
State Bank, of Blair, of which he is a director, and in the
Minneapolis (Minn.) State Bank of Commerce.  Mr. Knutson was married
June 8, 1878, to Anna Skaar, who was born in Ettrick Township, Dec.
23, 1858, daughter of O. N. and Engeborg Skarr, the former of whom
was born June 27, 1822, and died Oct. 16, 1909, and the latter of
whom was born Feb. 10, 1822, and died July 12, 1908.  The union of
Mr. and Mrs. Knutson has been blessed with four children:  Julius O.,
Edwin B., Irvin N. and Ida.  Julius O. is the leading hardware and
implement dealer in Blair.  Edwin B. organized the State Bank of
Commerce at Minneapolis and of this institution he is now cashier. On
June 23, 1903, he married ADah Pooler, of Onalaska, Wis.  Irvin N. is
cashier of the Coon Valley (Wis.) State Bank.  He married Minnie
Neprud, of Coon Valley, and they have two children, Genevieve and
Irvin N., Jr.  Ida is the assistant cashier of the Coon Valley State
Bank.  In addition to his holdings in this county, and in Grant
County, N. D., Mr. Knutson and his two sons, Julius O. and Edwin B.,
own a 240-acre farm in Imperial County, Cal. 

-Transcribed from the "History of Trempealeau County Wisconsin,
1917," page 393.


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