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Born 1850
From History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota : its people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families (1916)
CHARLES O. OLSON.
Charles O. Olson, a native of Sweden, was born on January 1, 1850. The parents of Mr. < >ison, < )le Carlson and Ellen Swenson were born, grew up and were married in Sweden where the father farmer on his own land until his death in 1895, being followed by the death of his wife in 1905. He never enlisted in military service. There nine children are as follow: Charles O.; Mary, who married and died in Sweden; Swen also passed away at the age of sixteen: Andrew, a butcher, living in St. Paul. Minnesota; Ocke, a Swedish farmer; John, a bricklayer living in Chicago; Swen. a St. Paul merchant; Hilda, who lives in Sweden, and Esther.
Charles O. Olson went to school in his native land and farmer and was thirty years old when he decided to seek his fortune in America. lie came to this country and at once settled in Otter Tail county. In r88o he purchased two hundred acres of land in section 29, of Elmo township. This land was practically a wilderness at that time ami Mr. Olson was compelled, at first, to live in a dugout while he began to clear and improve the property which was to become his future home. On the site of his present home he later built a log cabin and began his career as general farmer.
In is<)4 he and Amanda Anderson, a native of Sweden, were united in marriage, she being a daughter of Ander Swenson. To them five children were born, Adolph, Obert. Aldo. Esther and Ellen.
Besides being a successful farmer. Mr. Olson is a stockholder of the Almora Creamery Company and of the Fanners Elevator Company at 1 Lenning. I le is a member of the Republican party and both he and his wife belong to the Elmo Norwegian Lutheran church. Mr. Olson has also served as school director.
As printed in History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota : its people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families (1916). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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