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Born 1866
From An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910)
ANDREW C. OLSON (1SC8) is county commissioner of Jackson county and one of the most successful farmers of Christiania township. He is one of the oldest settlers of the precinct and has resided there since he was two years of age. He owns and farms 240 acres of land on sections 8 and 9 and has other business interests.
jNIr. Olson was born in Winneshiek county, Iowa, Marcli 30, 1866, the son of Carl Olson, who died December 21, 1881, and Ingeborg (Simonson) Olson. His parents came to the new world from Norway in 1858 and located in Iowa, from which state his father enlisted and fought with the union forces during the civil war. He was with General Sherman on ids famous march to the sea and was wounded in tiic service. Andrew accompanied his parents to JacksoTi county in 1808 at the age of two years, and his home has ever since been in Christiania township. His father homesteaded land on the south bank of Fish lake, and there our subject lived until he was twenty'-two years of age, securing an education and working on the farm.
At the age of twenty-two Mr. Olson was married and began farming on his own account, locating on a farm on the west side of Fish lake. In 1890 he bought the farm he now owns and in 1897 he moved onto the place.
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As printed in An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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