Obituary: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Kittle KNUDSON

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Winneconne Local June 12, 1913 p.1

Respected Citizen Gone

Kittle Knudson, one of the best known and highly respected citizens of
Winneconne, passed away at his home early Friday morning, June 6th, after a
five month battle with rheumatism of the heart.

Mr. Knudson was born in Norway on April 25, 1851.  When he was a lad of two
and one-half year his parents came to this country, stopping for a short
time at Koskonony, Wis., and later moving to Winchester, where they took up
homestead.  When he was about twenty years of age he attended the Dakota
College at Dakota, Iowa, where he took a general course.  Returning he
engaged as a clerk for Mr. Tonneson in a store on the East side, where he
learned the druggist trade.

In 1878 he was united in marriage to Miss Anna Lea of Winchester, and it
was about this time that he started into business for himself with a drug
and general merchandise store in the building now owned by Miss Helen
Scott.  Early in 1893 he moved his stock to this side of the river and
conducted a large double store in the building now occupied by Robt. Wolter
and the bowling alley, later he sold the building and moved his good across
the street into the building now occupied by August Krueger.  In 1901 he
closed out his business and for five years served as game warden.  In 1905
he moved to Winchester and started a general store in partnership with
Oscar Anderson, his nephew, closing out there in 1909.  In January of 1910
he returned to Winneconne and opened a drug and general store in the
building occupied by Carl Halvorson, until January of 1912, when he sold
the grocery department to Mr. Halvorson and moved his drugs to this side
and purchased the Matt Becker store in the Odd Fellow building, where
continued in business until his health failed, and several weeks ago he
sold the business to C.W. Hughes.

The funeral was held from the home in the village at 10 o'clock Monday, and
from the  Norwegian church at Winchester at 1 o'clock.  The remains were
laid at rest in the Winchester cemetery.  He leaves to mourn his loss two
sisters, Miss Gunell Knudson and Mrs. Ole Anderson, at Winchester and three
children Herman B. and Clarence A., both of Minneapolis, and Miss Grace L.
of this village