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From An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910)
OLE J. OLSON (1862). There are few residents of.Jackson county who have a period of continuous residence of greater length than Ole.J. Olson, of this sketch, who owns a farm on sections 34 and 35, Belmont township. He is the son of John Olson and Anna (Ellingson) Olson, whose arrival in the county and adventures in this frontier region have been told in the historical part of this volume.
John and Anna Olson were born in Tolen, Norway, and soon after their marriage in 1851 they came to America. They resided in Rock county. Wisconsin, several years, and came to Jackson county in 1862. where they took a homestead — the land upon which the son now resides..John Olson died in 1879. His wife, who is now 84 years of age, resides with her son on the old homestead. They were the parents of seven children, five of whom are now living, as follows: Christie, Anna, Lena (Mrs. P. H. Berge), of.Jackson; Ole J., Peter J., Petria (Mrs. Lojiis Ellingson), of Polk county. Wisconsin; Mrs. Ingebor Hoaas, deceased; Peter, deceased.
Ole J. Olson was born to these parents in Rock county, Wisconsin, December 17, 1858,
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After the massacre the family fled south and for a year lived at Spirit Lake. Then they returned to Belmont. Ole was a njemhcr of the party which met disaster in a prairie fire on the return while near the present villafre of Jackson, a detailed account ot which is to be found in the historical section of this volume. He continued to make his home with his parents and as a child and young man encountered many hardships and adventures incident to the settlement of a new country. After his father's death in 1879 Mr. Olson conducted the farm a fewyears for his mother and then bought the place and has since operated it on his own account. Mr. Olson has never married. He makes his home with his mother and a sister. He is a member of the Norwegian Lutheran church.
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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