History of Dane County, Wisconsin, Part 170

Author: Butterfield, Consul Willshire, 1824-1899; Western Historical Co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Chicago : Western Historical Company
Number of Pages: 1304

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P. O. BAKER, Sec. 26 ; P. O. Belleville ; born June 16, 1838, in the valley of Hallingdal, Norway. His father, Ole Baker, died in Norway, and in 1850, his mother brought him, her only child, to America ; arrived in Primrose in September, having spent the summer on the voyage and land journey. Mr. B. lived in the east part of the county until 1860, when he rented a farm in Primrose, gradually working his way up to the purchase of his 120-acre farm. He married in York, Green Co., 1861, Julia Johnson, born near Bergen, Norway ; they have six children-Mary, Rosa, John, William, Albert and George ; all except the oldest (born in New Glarus) were born in Primrose ; the father began as a laboring man, working in Green, Rock and Walworth Counties for about thirteen years. Mr. Baker is a Repub- lican ; has been Constable, Supervisor and Justice of the Peace, and is now serving his second term as Chairman of Primrose.

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OLE O. BARTON, Sec. 8; P. O. Mt. Vernon ; born in Norway, Dec. 20, 1840 ; in 1848, bis parents, Ole and Ingeborg (Rulang) Barton, came to America, first settling on Government land in Blue Mounds ; their son, our subject, was educated in this town, and taught several terms of school here ; also in Perry and Primrose. Enlisted, 1862, in Co. D, 23d W. V. I .; participated in the Red River expedition ; was in Texas in 1864, and helped reduce the forts at Mobile; was mustered out in Mobile ; returned to Blue Mounds and began farming in 1867; he settled on his present farm of 182 acres. Married, 1863, Miss Mary A. Tvedten ; she died Aug. 16, 1879, leaving Isaac O., Emma M., Albert O., Anna C. and Ella A. ; all except the eldest were born in Primrose, he was born in Perry. Mrs. Barton was born in Norway, and came with her parents to America in 1852. Mr. Barton is a Repub- lican ; was elected Justice of the Peace and Town Clerk in 1870; has been Justice of the Peace since ; served three terms as Town Clerk ; was a Supervisor in 1874 and 1875, and has been Town Clerk since 1876; is a member of the Norse Evangelical Lutheran Synod.

LAURENZ BOWAR, Sec. 7; P. O. Mt. Vernon ; born Sept. 3, 1828, in the Canton of Argal, Switzerland; came to America in 1852, settled in Perry, Dane Co., Wis., and for three and a half years worked for his brother-in-law, Michael Gobel. He married, Oct. 11, 1855, Isabella Schlimgen, born Nov. 25, 1832, near Koen], Rhenish Prussia; the family settled in Primrose,. where the wedding took place, in 1854; 1856-57 were spent in Perry ; they then settled on part of their present farm, and lived eleven years; then returned to Perry, where he owned a large and valuable farm, which he sold in the spring of 1880, then settled on his present farm of 210 acres. Mr. and Mrs. Bowar have ten children-John, Mathias, Lorenz, Joseph, Charles, Henry, Mary, Josephine, Christina and Frank ; the two eldest and two youngest were born in Perry, and the others in Primrose ; the eldest is a landlord in Scotland, D. T., and Mathias and Lorenz are farming near there. Mr. B. is a Catholic and a Democrat.

BOWER BOWERS, Secs. 23, 22 and 26 ; P. O. Primrose; born Oct. 19, 1851, in Primrose, where his father, Knudt Bowerson, settled in 1850. He married Margaret Gunhus, and emigrated in 1844 ; they had eight children-Bower, Caroline, Julia A., Polly A., Emily A., Betsy E., George and Agnes ; the father died Jan. 21, 1871, and his widow, marrying again, now lives on the homestead ; the grandfather, Bower Nelson, came with the family, and Bower inherited his estate of 200 acres; he died Jan. 11, 1872, and his wife in March, 1869; he was a member of the Norse Evangelical Lutheran Church ; he arrived in America with $14, and left 680 acres at his death, of which George Bowers has 200. The brothers are Republicans, as were their ancestors, and are members of the Hauges Evangelical Lutheran Synod, as was their father. The farm is devoted to stock, and for the past eight years Mr. Bowers has bred Clyde and Norman horses, grade short-horn cattle and Cotswold sheep ; also has 110 Poland-China hogs.

SYVER CHRISTIANSON (Engen), Sec. 32; P. O. Primrose; born in Buskeruds, Amt Aggershuus Stift, Norway, Oct. 20, 1826 ; worked with his father as a farmer and tailor until he came to America in 1848 and settled in Plymouth Rock Co .; worked at his trade and as a farm hand ; made a visit to Michigan and two to Minnesota; in 1854, he bought a farm in Perry, and, eighteen months later, removed to Sec. 32, Primrose, where he bought 138 acres ; in 1875, he bought the A. Mickleson eighty, and now owns 228 acres. He married, in Rock Co., Wis., Betsy Gulleckson ; she was born in the same place with him, came to America when 10 years of age, and settled in Plymouth, where they were married in Sep- temher, 1854; they have seven children-Christian L., Guleck S., Syver S., E. Christiana, Jane, Helena and Olena; the eldest was born in Perry, and the others in Primrose. Mr. Christianson and family belong to the Norse Evangelical Lutheran Conference ; he is a Republican, and was District Clerk several years. He began in Wisconsin with just $1, and has earned every cent and every acre.

CHARLES DANIELSON, Sec. 14; P. O. Primrose ; was born Oct. 9, 1852, on the home- stead in Primrose ; his father, Ole Danielson, came to America in 1846, and, after settling in Illinois, came to Primrose in 1850, bought the homestead, and lived on it until 1875 ; he now lives in Green Co., Wis .; his son bought the farm of 191 acres in 1872, giving a $4,100 mortgage ; has paid off every dollar, expended about $300 on the house, and improved things generally. He married Julia Ann Bowerson, born in Primrose in 1854 ; they have five children-Emma, Knudt O., Benjamin Franklin, Maggie and Jane-all born on the same home farm. Mr. Danielson is a member of the Hauges Synod, and is a Republican. He has stocked down all but 35 acres, and keeps from twenty-five to thirty head of cattle ; be has a few pure-bred Poland-China swine, and usually keeps from fifty to seventy-five head in all.

CHARLES DIXON, farmer and stock-raiser, Secs. 19 and 20; P. O. Primrose; born Feb. 16, 1825, in Warwickshire, England; came to America at 15, and finished his apprenticeship as a black- smith, at which he worked in New York until 1853, when he came to Monroe, Wis .; farmed it ten years

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and worked five years at his trade in the village ; settled on his farm of 355 acres in 1870. He married Barbara Smith, of County Cork, Ireland, in New York City; she died in 1850, leaving two sons-George (died in his 6th year) and Thomas H. Married again, Mary Martin, who died Nov. 12, 1866, in Mon- roe, leaving five children-Charles I., Lucy L., Joseph J., Kate and John G .; Joseph J. was killed by a runaway team in September, 1875. His present wife was Mrs. Charity Muzzy, of Wabash, Ind. Thomas H. Dixon married Janie Hollar, of Knox Co., Ohio; she died Feb. 18, 1875, leaving two chil- dren-Mamie E. and Jennie (died in September, 1875). He married again, Sarah Colbertson, of Wiota, Wis. ; owns 165 acres, which was the site of the first settlement in Primrose ; the old hotel barn, built by Robert Speers, the first settler, is still doing service. The Dixons are now Greenbackers, formerly Repub- licans; are also Odd Fellows; the father was twice a Supervisor of Primrose ; the large farms are chiefly devoted to stock, all the grain being fed on the farms.

D. H. EASTMAN, Secs. 17 and 18; P. O. Mt. Vernon ; was born in Stowe, Oxford Co., Me., Dec. 21, 1835 ; his parents, Jeremy and Cynthia Eastman, came to Wisconsin in 1862, where his mother died Dec. 29, 1867 ; the father, at 77, lives with his son, our subject; he came West in October, 1856 ; began as a laboring man and teacher ; taught four terms of district school; settled, in 1861, on the present Barton farm, on which he built a log house; sold out here, and, during the next four years, lived on the La Follette farm, then bought the present farm of Ole Pederson, where he lived until 1873, when he settled finally on the La Follette farm, which he leases, owning 80 acres adjoining it. He mar- ried, March 17, 1859, Miss Ellen, daughter of Alexander Buchanan ; he died, and his widow, formerly Mary Ferguson, has since buried two husbands-Josiah La Follette and John Saxton; she now resides in Mad- ison, where her son, Robert M. La Follette, is now a rising young lawyer, and the Republican nominee for District Attorney. Mr. and Mrs. Eastman have seven children-Orville J., Flora C., Charles S., John W., Walter D., Bert L. and Mamie B., all born in Primrose, as were May D. and an infant, who died. Mr. Eastman is a Greenbacker; has been Clerk of his school district many years; Chairman in 18 -; Supervisor in 1877 and 1878; Assessor three years; and under the old system was Town Superintendent of Schools ; is a member, with his wife, of the Baptist Church.

GOOL G. GUNHUS, Secs 31 and 30; P. O. Primrose; born March 30, 1836, in Buskeruds, Amt Aggershuus Stift, Norway his father, Gonder, died in Norway, and his mother, marrying E. Erikson, came to America with her son in 1849. He resided on Jefferson Prairie, Wis., until 1854, when he came to Primrose and bought of the United States 80 acres of his farm ; his brother was a partner, but G. G. bought him out and now owns 329 acres-80 in Perry. He married, June 8, 1862, Julia Lewis, born Feb. 6, 1841, in Voss, Bergen Stift, Norway ; they have two children-Clara T. and George B., both born on the Primrose farm. Here he has built a 30x50x18 basement barn, and, in 1873, the best farm-' house in Primrose ; it is 22x34, two stories, and is a spacious and pleasant home for the man who began life in Rock Co., Wis., at $3 per month as a farm hand. Himself and wife belong to the Hauges Synod Lutheran Church ; is a Republican.

MONS HALVORSON (NASS), Secs. 31, 32 and 33; P. O. Primrose; born Aug. 26, 1826, in Aggerhuus Amt, Christiania Stift, Norway ; in 1846, he landed at New York ; his parents, Halvor and Emilie, and two brothers, were with him; also a sister; the father bought a farm in Spring Valley, Rock Co., Wis., where he died April 3, 1871, the mother following June 25, 1876. Their son, our sub- ect, married, Ang. 28, 1851, in Spring Valley, Betsy Olson, born April 14, 1826, in Aggershnus Amt ; her parents were, from May 15 to Oct. 15, 1845, on the way from Norway to Spring Valley ; six years later, they came to Primrose, where the father, Ole Benson, died July 26, 1871, and the mother (formerly Kari Hanson) died July 4, 1876 (centennial of the United States). Mr. and Mrs. Halvorson came to Primrose in 1852, the first Norse family in the Sugar River Valley; their small log house was raised from the ground and floorless for a time, so their few sheep crawled under the logs and quartered with them ; they began with a yoke of oxen, a wagon and two cows; Mr. Halvorson cut saw-logs and exchanged them for coarse middlings and shorts; to-day he has 320 acres, well improved, and good buildings. Mr. and Mrs. Halvorson have eight children-Emilie, Halvor, Carrie, Ole, Caroline, Christina, Marins and Olena -all born in Primrose ; they lost two young children-Olena and Mary. The family belong to the Lu- theran Conference ; Republican in politics.

CHARLES HARKER, Sec. 2; P. O. Mt. Vernon ; born Aug. 9, 1823, in Ellerby, York- shire, England ; came to America in 1849 ; was two years in Canada, and one winter in Illinois; then in Canada until April, 1854, when he settled on his farm of 2563 acres ; on this farm the schoolhouse, district No. 6, was built, 185 -. Married, in June, 1852, at her father's, Waukesha County, homestead, Miss Elizabeth Burnell, born January, 1833, in Withernwick, Yorkshire ; her people settled in Muk won-

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ago, Waukesha Co., Wis., in 1837. Mr. and Mrs. Harker have uine living children-Matilda, Hannah, John B., Mary, Elizabeth, Hattie C., Henry, Emma and Fannie, all born on the Primrose homestead. Mr. H. is a Republican, and has been District Treasurer several years.

CHRISTIAN HENDRICKSON, Sec. 25 ; P. O. Belleville ; born in Lier, Christiania, Stift, Norway, June 22, 1816; learned the carpenter's trade in Drammen; came to America in May, 1842, and worked four years in Wiota, by the month, in the lead mines. In the fall of 1846, he settled and built on his present farm, thus becoming the first Norwegian settler in Primrose ; he has 120 acres ; lived eight years in a log house, and built one of stone in 1855; he reached Wiota in debt for his passage, paying it by labor, and arrived in Primrose with a yoke of cattle, wagon and a cow, and 75 cents capital. Milwaukee was his wheat market; pork sold at $2 per hundred in the mines. He married, in Norway, Mary Olson, who died Aug. 2, 1854, of cholera, leaving five children-Caroline M., Henry E., Charles B., John A. and Oscar W .; by the present wife, Caroline Tvet, he has a son-James Edwin. The eldest (Mrs. J. Osmonson) was born in Norway ; Henry, Charles and Oscar are in Sheldahl, Iowa ; Henry and Charles were born in Wiota, and the others in Primrose. Mr. H. is a member of the Norse Evangelical Lutheran Church, and a Republican.

HENRY HOSELI, Sec. 26; P. O. Belleville; born in Canton of Glarus, Switzerland, April 4, 1833; came to America in 1859; first settled in New Glarus, Green Co., Wis., and came to his present farm of 140 acres in the fall of 1865; on this farm he has made many lasting improvements, building a good basement barn, etc. Married Ephemia Baumgartner in 1859; she was born Jan. 19, 1843, in the same canton ; they have eight children-Marcus, Ephemia, Mathias, Saloma, Barbara, Katrina, Henry and Jacob, all born in Perry, except the three eldest, who were born in New Glarus. Mr. Hosli is inde- pendent in politics, and a member of the Lutheran Calvinistic Church.

KITTEL KITTELSON (MOLAND), Sec. 14; P. O. Primrose ; born in Förrisdahl, Christiansand Stift, Norway, April 28, 1817 ; came to America in 1844 ; paid his last dollar for passage ; settled in Boone Co., Ill., and worked by the day and month until 1848; then came to Wisconsin and bought his present farm of 140 acres, with Mexican land warrants, of the Government; built a small shanty and kept bachelor's hall for a time ; all but 20 acres are now fenced and improved ; a stone house was built in 1860, and a basement barn huilt in 1871. He married Julia Rolfson, who was born in Sep- tember, 1822, near his birthplace ; they have five children-Hattie, born June 7, 1852; Mary, born May 25, 1856 ; Charles R., born Nov. 4, 1859 ; Julia, born March 2, 1861, and Anna, born July 11, 1864. Mr. Moland is a Republican, and, with his wife, a member of the Baptist Church.

GEORGE KONLE, Sec. 6 ; P. O. Mt. Vernon ; born in Stimpach, Wurtemberg, Nov. 16, 1825 ; came to America in 1852; was two years in Pittsburgh, Peno., some time in Cleveland and Mas- silon, Ohio ; returned to Pennsylvania, and, in 1857, went via the Isthmus of Panama to California ; here he worked and traveled until his return in October, 1861 ; came West the next month, and in April, 1862, settled on his present farm ; 22 acres were then broken and a log house built as the only improvements. He now has 279 acres, of which he has cleared and broken 100; has also built a good house and a base- ment barn 30x60, provided wells, cistern, etc. He married Catherine Holtzworth, July 6, 1862 ; she was born Nov. 15, 1835, in St. Tlyen, Baden ; they have three children-George, born Aug. 18, 1864 ; Louisa, horo Ang. 16, 1866, and Catherine, born Dec. 2, 1869; all were born in Primrose, Dane Co., Wis. The family are Catholics, and independent Democrats in politics. Mr. Konle began very poor, and has earned every dollar and every acre.

MATHIAS OBEREMBT, farmer, Sec. 7 ; P. O. Mt. Vernon ; born April 23, 1828, near Koeln, Prussia ; married, April, 1853, in Eishendorff, Rhenish Prussia (her native village), Miss Agues Esser; born Aug. 15, 1831. In February, 1854; they came to America; spent eighteen months in Madison, then settled in Fitchburg; five and one-half years later they located on Springfield Prairie ; settled on the present 212-acre farm, March, 1865. built here a good two-story frame house, granary, stables, etc., all of which were totally destroyed by the tornado of 1878; Mrs. Oberembt was absent, but eight of the children were in the house when it left its foundations ; when it struck the ground the chil- dren were all bruised, cut and more or less hurt, but none killed ; Mr. O. was blown several rods and injured in the back or spine ; his farm implements, fences, etc., were also swept away like chaff, yet, with commendable courage, he has built another house and begun again to face fate. Mr. and Mrs. O. have eleven children-Isabella, Mary, Kate, Martin, George, Anna, Mathias, Agnes, Herman, John and Joseph; two died in infancy ; the eldest is Mrs. John Gobel ; Mary is the wife of Caspar Fergen ; and Kate, Mrs. M. Bowar ; her husband and Mr. Fergen are partners in a Scotland, D. T., hotel ; George is a harnessmaker in Belleville. The family are Catholics. Democratic in politics.

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OLE S. OLSON, Sec. 11, P. O., Mt Vernon ; born July 7, 1832, in Bergenhuus Amt, Bergen Stift, Norway ; was sent from home at 12, and lived twenty-five years with Aug. Johanison, of Nordlands Amt ; married Ottine, his daughter, Oct. 24, 1858 ; she was born in Nordlands Amt Aug, 25, 1833; they came to America in 1867, and settled on his farm of 80 acres ; his father, Ole Olson, came with his family to America in 1852, and entered 80 adjoining that of his son ; on this 80 is the Devil's Chimney, a noted rock which leads to the farm many a visitor ; Ole Olson died while visiting in Iowa, his widow now occupying his estate. Ole S. and wife have six children-August, born in Norway ; Emil, Martin, Juhana, William and Knudt, all born in Primrose. The family belong to the Hauges Synod. Republican in politics.

ELI PEDERSON, Sec. 21; P. O. Primrose ; born in 1837, in Vossevangen, Bergen Stift, Norway ; his parents, Peter Oleson, and Susan Ileson, came to America, in 1852, with four children ; located for two years in Racine Co., then came to Sec. 21, Primrose, where Mr. Pederson now owns 430 acres ; his father bought 240 of the Government ; he died in 186-, leaving four sons -- Ole, Eli, Knudt and Louis ; Eli married Anna Peterson, born near Kongsberg, Norway ; they have six children-Belle, Susan, Peter, Eli, Anna and Louisa, all born on the Primrose homestead. Mr. Pederson is a Republican ; was Supervisor one year, Assessor four years-from 1876 to 1880, and Chairman 18- (see records in this volume).

NORMAN RANDALL, Sec. 22; P. O. Primrose ; born in Bridgewater, Onieda Co., N. Y., Dec. 24, 1809. Married, Jan. 2, 1842, Miss Maria Chandler, ; she was born in Wethersfield, Wyo- ming Co., N. Y. His parents, Amos and Bordel Randall, both Connecticut people, removed to Wyoming Co. when he was 9 years old ; in 1851 he came with his family to Wisconsin, and bought his present farm of H. C. Chandler ; built a 12x20-foot log house, still standing as an old-time monument; this was replaced fifteen years later by a substantial stone house; in 1878 he built a 30x40 basement barn. Mr. R. has 79 acres cleared and broken by himself. Is a member of the Mt. Vernon Baptist Church, and a Republican ; was Chairman several terms, Assessor and Collector, also school district officer. Mr. and Mrs. Randall have had eleven children-Lauren E., Nelson D., Albert H., Mary E., Lucretia M., Han- nah C., Norman S., John A., George W., Charles P. and James ; the eldest enlisted in Co. H., 8th W. V. I .; lost his health in Alabama, and died at home seven weeks after the expiration of his term of enlistment.

HENRY H. RINDY, Sec. 25; P. O. Belleville; was born in Nedre Thelemarken, Christian- sand Stift, Norway, Feb. 25, 1846; his parents, Halver Johnson Rindy and Kyersti (Jenson) Rindy, emigrated to the United States in 1855 and spent two years in Washington Co., Wis .; settled, in .1857, in Perry, where they both died. H. H. Rindy settled on his present farm of 160 acres, in 1866; has built a good house and basement barn. He married in Primrose, April 1, 1866, Gunvor, daughter of Harris Harrison, who died in Chicago, Ill., where she was born ; they have six children-Herman C., Jane, Andrew, Mary, Lena and John. Mr. Rindy is a Republican, and a member of the Norse Evangelical Lutheran Synod ; was nine years Clerk of his School District, and is now serving his second term as Town Treasurer. Mrs. Harris Harrison married again Halvor Bjornstad, of Bradsberg, Amt Norway, March 3, 1821 ; he came to America in 1844 and located in the Koshkonong country, came from there to Dane Co. in 1850, and is now residing with Mr. Rindy.

HON. GUNOLF TOLLEFSON, Sec. 23; P. O. Primrose ; was born Nov. 11, 1825, in Bygland, Salersdahlen, Norway; in 1843, his parents, T. Gunnufson and Hage Oleson, left his native place on foot, with their six children ; $180 was their entire capital, and it cost them $6 each for passage to Havre, France; here an American skipper offered to transport them to their land of promise for 9 five- franc pieces each, all under 14 to go at half-fare, and small children free; thus they landed in New York with barely $1, and then Mr. Gunnufson was the richest Norse in the large party ; during the voyage, the sailors amused themselves by teaching young Gunolf the English language, and on slips of paper he wrote out common phrases, like " Do you want to hire a hand ?" " What will you pay ?" entering a junk shop in New York, he asked the proprietor the price of a pair of coarse trowsers; "Two-and-six," was. answered so quickly that our new citizen didn't catch it, so he says, "I will give you three shillings," and the old Norse garments were quickly thrown aside; free transportation was given them to Milwaukee, they spending the winter in Norway, Racine Co .; the next spring young Gunolf started West, reached Jefferson Prairie, and, by splitting 600 rails, was furnished an ox team with which to bring out his people ; here they made and lost a claim ; then went to Beaver Creek, Boone Co., Ill., where the old couple died of cholera ; returning, young Tollefson worked out four years for Amos Skeels, of Rock Co; earned $300, and, in May. 1849, entered 160 acres of his present farm with Mexican soldiers' warrants ; that fall, himself and a .

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brother and a hired man worked here splitting rails, etc .; their flour, from the Moscow Mill, was baked in large batches, and, of course, frozen solid ; at Christmas time they went back to Rock Co., where they win- tered. April 26, 1850, he married Julia G. Gunhus, who was born twenty-nine miles northeast of Dromme, entirely penniless; both hired out, and, during the summer, earned team, wagon and tools; settled here in October, 1850, and have since lived here. Mr. T. has 180 acres, all of which can be plowed, and has excellent buildings, and is worth a comfortable sum besides. He is a Republican ; was Assessor, Supervisor, etc., a number of years, and was a member of the Legislature in 1868. Is a leading member of the Hauges Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church, and one of the successful, well-known and public- spirited pioneers of Primrose. Mr. and Mrs. Tollefson have never been blessed with children, and have adopted and dowered a number ; they now have two with them-Dora and Albert.

CARL F. WELTZIN, Sec. 29 ; P. O. Mt. Vernon ; born May 14, 1827, in Stavanger, Amt, Norway ; came with his two brothers to America in 1854; had a twelve weeks' voyage and landed at Quebec, where they suffered from cholera and homesickness; reaching Chicago, he gave out on account of the cholera, and lay one month in hospital and private houses ; suffered much all the fall and winter, which he spent in Primrose ; the next spring, he paid $170 for part of his present farm, then a wilder- ness, on which was only a roofless cabin. He married in his and her native place, Maria Johanneson ; she died Dec. 3, 1867, leaving five children-Joachim F., Johannis, Charlotte A. P., Anna (Mrs. William Tjentland, died in Dakota, Dec. 1, 1879), and George W. He married again in 1871, Monsena Jenson ; they have five children-Marie M., Carl J., Agatha F., Sophie and Clara; all except Joachim were born in Primrose. Mr. W. is a Republican ; was Town Treasurer three years during the civil war, and also a Supervisor for two years. He is a member of the Norse Evangelical Lutheran Synod.

C. J. WELTZIN, farmer, Sec. 6; P. O. Mount Vernon; born in Stavanger Amt, Christian- sand Stift, Norway, June 1, 1825; in 1854, the good ship Urania brought the three Weltzin brothers to America ; landing at Quebec, they proceeded to Detroit, where C. J. was prostrated with the cholera, and kept until August, when he located near Lake Koshkonong, renting a farm; in 1856, he came to Primrose, and worked rented farms until 1861, when he settled on his present farm of 280 acres, 40 of which are in Springdale; it was entered by Samuel Noffsinger, and afterward owned by the famous (or in- famous) Byams. Mr. Weltzin married November, 1850, in his and her native Amt, Miss Magdalena Sampson, born in 1827 ; they have five living children -Charlotte, Juditte, Susanna, Joachim and Julia, and have lost four children, the eldest was born in Detroit, Juditte, in Perry, and the others in Primrose. Mr. W. is a Republican, and was twice Assessor of Primrose. Is a member of the Norse Evangelical Luth- eran Synod. Has been local agent of the Hecla Insurance Co. since its organization. Devotes his farm chiefly to stock, and has an interest in the local cheese factory.

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History of Dane County, Wisconsin, Part 170

Author: Butterfield, Consul Willshire, 1824-1899; Western Historical Co., Chicago, pub Publication date: 1880 Publisher: Chicago : Western Historical Company Number of Pages: 1304

Author: Butterfield, Consul Willshire, 1824-1899; Western Historical Co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Chicago : Western Historical Company
Number of Pages: 1304