BIOGRAPHIES: Axel K OLSEN, MD, Ettrick, Trempealeau Co., WI

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Axel K. Olsen, M. D., of Ettrick, Wis., was born in Stavanger, Norway, 
Sept. 16, 1865, son of Peter and Bertha Elisabeth (Olsen) Olsen.  The father, 
who was a ship carpenter, died of yellow fever in South America, in 1873, his 
wife dying in Norway a few years later.  He came to the United States in 1886, 
at the age of 21 years.  He attended the high school and college in Norway and 
in the year 1885 he passed the examen artium (B. A.) at the University of 
Christiania, Norway. He went to Vermilion, S. D., where he became a student at 
the State University, taking his degree of Master of Arts in the Class of 1890.  
He commenced his medical studies at Northwestern Medical College, in Chicago, 
1892-93, attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1893-94, passed the 
Illinois State Board  examination in 1895.  In the winter of 1895-96 Dr. Olsen 
was interne in the Lutheran Hospital at Chicago, and in the following summer 
began practice in Westby, taking charge of the practice of Dr. J. Schreiner.  
In the fall he returned to Chicago and entered Rush Medical College, where he 
took his degree in medicine in 1897.  He now located in Baldwin, Wis., but 
after three months there came to Ettrick, where there was then no physician, 
and here he has since resided, having built up a good practice in the village 
and the surrounding territory.  His neat and commodious residence in Ettrick 
was erected by him in 1915.  At the present time he holds the position of 
health officer.  Dr. Olsen was first married in the fall of 1897 to Sarah 
Brager, who was born in Norway, in which country her father gained his living 
as a timber expert.  He died there and his widow came to the United States, 
locating in Blanchardville, where she subsequently died.  Mrs. Sarah Olson was 
killed in a runaway accident in 1899, leaving one child, Esther, who died at 
the age of 8 years.  May 29, 1901, the Doctor married Miss Inger Brager, who 
was a sister of his first wife, and was also born in Norway, being about 10 
years of age when she came to America.  The children of this second marriage 
are three in number:  Axel K., Jr., Erna Brager and Borge Halvard.  Dr. Olsen 
is a member of the County, State and American Medical Associations.  He attends 
the Lutheran church. He is a well-known and popular citizen, and with his family 
moves in the best society in this part of the county.

--Transcribed from the "History of Trempealeau County Wisconsin, 1917", page 521