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Born 1880
From An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910)
OLE R. OLSON (1880), Christiania township farmer, is a native of that precinct, having been born April 26, 1880, the son of Ryar and Gertie Olson. His parents came from Norway and to Jackson county in an early day and homesteaded land on section 12, Christiania township. They are still residents of the county.
Our subject has spent his entire life in Christiania township. He received a common school education and until he grew up worked for his father. Then he engaged in farm* ing for himself. He farms 200 acres of land, the home place being the northeast quarter of section 22. Besides his farming operations he has conducted a threshing machine for the last fourteen years.
Mr. Olson was married March 12, 1903, to May Hjony, of Des Moines township. Mr. Olson is a member of the Norwegian Lutheran church and of the Sons of Norway lodge.
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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