Edward E. Olson

As printed in 1910

EDWARD E. OLSON (1869), a Jackson grain buyer, was born in Belmont township forty years ago, on December 6, 1869, and with the exception of a few years spent in Cottonwood county has spent his entire life in the county. His father, Ole E. Olson,.\Tme from Sweden when thirteen years old, and at the age of nineteen enlisted in the Unitekl States army and fought for the preservation of the union. He located in Belmont township in (he sixties and took as a homestead a piece of land that had been taken by one of the settlers who was killed in the massacre of lS(i2. He was a resident of Belmont township until his death. Our subject's mother was Clnistiiia (Anderson) Olson, who was present at the lime of the massacre.

Edward Olson, who w-as one of a family of ciglit children, lived with his parents until 1890. He worked on the farm and received an education in the district school and in the Breck school at Wilder. He bought a farm in Cottonwood county in 1890 and for eight years lived there, engaged in farming. Selling out in 1898, he located in Jackson and built an elevator in partnership with Lee Brothers, which they conducted three years. Thereafter Mr. Olson bought grain for the Hyde Elevator company five years, for James Lowe one year and since that time for M. H. Lee. Mr. Olson owns a home in the village. He is a member of the Lutlieran church.

In Des Moines township March 20, 1897, Mr. Olson was married to Emma J. Lee, a daughter of Oliver Lee and a native of the township in which she was married. Two children, Hayes and Clark, have been born to Mr. and Jlrs. Olson.

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.