History of Dane County, Wisconsin, Part 171

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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W. C. B. WELTZIN, farmer and stock-raiser, Secs. 29 and 30; P. O. Mount Vernon ; born Jan. 22, 1822, in Stavanger Amt, Christiansand Stift, Norway; his father, Joachim Weltzin, died as a Captain in the Norse Army; his mother, Charlotte G. P., also died in Norway. The brothers, W. C. B., C. J. and C. F., came to America in July, 1854, arriving at Primrose in August; he spent the winter with G. Tollefson, Esq., and the next spring, settled on 120 acres of his present 230-acre farm. He mar- ried in his and her native place, Mari Tjentland, they have eight children-Joachim F., Susanna S., Peter, Charlotte A. P., Judith F., William E., Carl O., and John Ludwig, all born in Primrose. Mr. W. is a stalwart Republican ; was five consecutive years Town Treasurer, then Chairman a few years, then Town Clerk, and again while serving as Chairman was elected County Clerk, serving 1872 and 1873, was then Chairman of Primrose up to 1878, and has since refused all office. He is, with his family, a member of the Norse Evangelical Lutheran Synod; and is now breeding good stock, Durhams, etc.

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L. M. ANDERSON, Secs. 26, 27 and 23; P. O. Forward; born Nov. 13, 1840, in Buskerud Amt, Aggershuus Stifr, Norway ; his father, A. C. Vee, married Bertha Gulbrandson, they came to America in 1851, with three children-Lars M., Christopher and J. C .; in 1852, they settled on the present Syftestad farm, on Sec. 20, Perry, and in 1855, in York, Green Co., where the mother died, and the father still lives; Mr. Anderson settled on his present farm of 446 acres in 1860; has improved and built upon it. He married Ragnild Halvorson, in Perry, 1860; they have six children-John P., Lena B., Andrew W., Charles M., Christian H. and James Robert, all natives of Perry ; Mr. A. served from Feb. 13, 1865, until the close of the rebellion, in Co. I, 46th W. V. I .; is a Republican of twenty years' standing ; was Town Clerk in 1862, held the office several years; was elected Justice of the Peace in 1866, and has held the office since; and has been Chairman of Perry since 1870; served as County Supervisor from the Fourth Assembly District in 1869, and Assessor of Perry in 1880. As a public record for so young a man, this needs no comment. Besides managing his large farm, Mr. A. has taught six sum- mers and twenty winters, or since 1860. Is a member with his family of the Norse Evangelical Lutheran Church.

OLE OLSON BAKKEN, Sec. 4; P. O. Perry ; Mr. Bakken is the veteran of Perry ; he was born in Christiania Amt, Aggershuus Stift, Norway, Jan. 16, 1816; married in 1842, Anne Bergum, who was born in the same neighborhood Sept. 29, 1814; in 1848, with his two young sons, Ole O. and Tideman, they came to America ; reached Perry in August, 1848; bought the claim of a " squatter" named Andreas Olson, and became the first Norse family to permanently locate here; Mr. Bakken is now the oldest resident of Perry ; has 250 acres, and excellent buildings, though he began thirty-two years ago in the claim shanty. Is a member of the Norse Evangelical Lutheran Synod ; was for years a Democrat, and is now a Republican. Mr. and Mrs. Bakken have lost three children-Troud A., died April 29, 1862, and Erik O., who died April 20, 1862, both of diphtheria; Thora O., died Nov. 1, 1861 ; they have four living children-Ole O., Tideman, Marit and Astri; the three youngest are in Trempea- leau Co., Wis., and the eldest on his own farm in Perry.

O. B. DAHLE, merchant and Postmaster, Perry ; born Oct. 4, 1823, in Ovre Thelemarken, Christiansand Stift, Norway; received a good education, and taught six years in his native land ; came to America after a four-weeks voyage, July 7, 1848, proceeding at once to Milwaukee ; he soon retraced his steps to Michigan, where malarial fever drove him back to Milwaukee ; recovering, he reached Christi- ana, Dane Co., October, 1848; taught Norwegian school in the farmhouses of that and adjoining towns during the winter of 1848-49; worked out in the harvest of 1849, and in the fall formed a part- nership with a cousin, K. H. Dahle ; they went to St. Louis, Mo., in October, and that winter cut cord- wood on the Illinois side of the river, living in a " dug-out," over which a few logs were rolled. ""Yet," says Mr. D., " it was one of my happiest winters." The work was very hard, but it paid ; April 14, they again visited St. Louis, and from there went to Independence, where their last dollar was paid for a poor outfit with which to cross the plains to California ; they had three Norsemen as partners ; and May 3, 1850, with three yoke of oxen joined a large party and started. The " hungry horrors " of that journey will never be effaced from the memory of Mr. Dahle; half-fare from the outset ; several of the oxen were killed and eaten ; and they were absolutely without food or water during the last forty-mile march before reach- ing Carson River; at a distance of twelve miles from it, the fainting oxen were unyoked and driven there to drink ; only two of the poor brutes were then left ; and the Dahles, with a store of fried beef, bade their partners good-by, and started on foot, reaching Georgetown Aug. 24 ; on the way, they had the good luck to sell some spare clothing for $24, and then " lived high," though everything edible cost $1 per pound. The failure of their first week's mining disgusted them, and away they went to Sacramento; here they worked at $75 per month on the levees, when suddenly dysentery broke out among the hands, and terrible sickness was the result. Finally recovering, they went via San Francisco to Salem, Oregon, where they spent the winter in a saw-mill, earning more than enough to purchase an outfit, in which they returned to the mines near Shasta or Eureka; here they spent a most successful summer at mining, and, the water giving out, Mr. D. started to look up better locations. They finally opened up a large claim on Humbug River ; here they worked until Christmas ; then went again to Shasta, and mined all winter and summer. Mr. D. visited the Rogue River country, and was again taken sick, and suffered several weeks. In the fall

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of 1851, they went to San Francisco, and, well-loaded with gold dust, shipped for home ; crossed the isth- mus, and, arriving at New Orleans, were cruelly swindled out of about $1,600 while making an exchange of their dust. At St. Louis, they made a resolve to go back to the mines the next spring with a drove of cattle; news reached them, however, of the departure of relatives from Norway ; Mr. D. came to Wis- consin to meet his mother and brother ; but the former died in Milwaukee before the son could reach her. In the spring of 1853, he came to Perry and built the old store, now overshadowed by the new one built in 1870; the latter is 24x50, and filled with " all kinds of everything." Mr. D., then inexperienced, began carefully, and has become opulent; his two-story stone house was built in 1864, and, while building it, himself and all employes were drafted ; a trip to Janesville, and a $500 substitute settled this. Mr. Dahle was the leading spirit in building the elegant new Lutheran Church of Perry. His first vote was for President Pierce ; but he has been a Republican since 1856 ; was School Superintendent many years under the old system ; Chairman of Perry in 1859, and Justice of the Peace from 1854 to 1880. He married, in Racine Co., Wis., March 29, 1854, Miss Bridget Nelson, born in Hallingdahl, Norway, in August, 1828; they have five children-Herman B., Johan T., Henry L., Teah Otilia and Marie E. No man in Dane County enjoys the confidence and general esteem of his fellow-men more than does O. B. Dahle ; his commission as Pos master dates June, 1871, he succeeding A. Sanderson.

B. T. DALEY, farmer, Sec. 7; P. O. Perry; born in Ovre Thelemarkan, Christiansand Stift, Norway, Aug. 13, 1848; in 1852, his parents came to America, spent the winter near Koshkonong, and, in the spring of 1853, settled on the Daley homestead, where the father, T. B. Daley, died Sept. 11, 1861, aged 46, leaving a wife (now 66 years of age) and five children. His son, our subject, has been a life- long farmer, and now owns the farm of 120 acres, of which 50 were chopped out of the original timber He married Mary Retrum, horn Dec. 25, 1845, in Hadeland, Norway ; they were married May 17, 1871, and she died March 11, 1880, leaving five children-Anne, Isaac, Theodore, Amanda and Clara ; little Maria died on the day of her birth, three days before her mother died. Mr. Daley is a Republican; has been Constable, District Treasurer, etc .; is, as were his ancestors, a member of the Norse Evangelical Lutheran Church.

J. O. DAHLBY, Sec. 17; P. O. Perry; born in Christians-amt, Aggershuus Stift, Norway, July 6, 1833; his parents and grandparents came to America in 1850; his mother died in Albion Town- ship, Nov. 13, 1850; the entire family settled on the Dahlby homestead in the spring of 1851, the only improvements being a log house on a small clearing; the grandparents died here, and the father and step- mother still reside here. Mr. Dahlby married, Feb. 26, 1854, Miss Guro Omland, born Oct. 15, 1835, in Nedenaes Amt, Christiansand Stift ; her parents came to America in 1845 and settled in Illinois ; came, in 1849, to Ridgeway, Iowa Co. Mr. and Mrs. Dahlby have three children-Ole, Nicholas and Anne- and lost three-Andreas, aged 4 years, Gunhild, 10 months, and Andreas, 3 months. Mr. Dahlby is a Republican, and has been Treasurer and Assessor of his town ; is a member of the Norse Evangelical Lu- theran Church.

PETER DAHLBY, Sec. 21 ; P. O. Forward; born July 28, 1827, in Christians-amt, Ag- gershuus Stift, Norway ; came to America in 1850, and, in March 1851, arrived in Perry without a dollar ; by working out, he earned some money, which he invested at once in land, so that in 1854 he owned and settled upon 120 acres, Secs. 8 and 17, Perry; began here with an ax alone, doing without a team for a time; still, he finally prospered, and erected good buildings, which were totally destroyed by the hurricane of 1878, A. Olson, then in the house, being killed. Mr. Dahlhy came to his present location in 1874 ; has 140 acres here, on which he has built a good frame house, and basement barn, 30x50; he still owns the other farm, on which his eldest son lives. Mr. Dahlhy married Aaste Juulson Haavrud; she died Nov. 1, 1856, leaving a son-Amund P., born Nov. 1, 1856; the present wife was Gunhild Olson Tvedten ; they have a son-Olaus P., born Feb. 6, 1860; both were born in Perry; the eldest married Else Kittleson. Mr. Dahlby is a Republican, and was three years a Trustee in the Norse Evangelical Lutheran Church of Perry ; he served a few months of 1865 in Co. G, 46th W. V. I.

CHRISTIAN EVENSON, Sec. 23, merchant and Postmaster, Forward ; born in Norway, Aggershuus Amt, Christiania Stift, Dec. 24, 1819; as his people were all poor, his early education was slight; in 1854, he came to America, and to Wisconsin, buying his present farm in 1855; has 279} acres; opened a small store here in 1874, where he sells groceries, dry goods and notions ; was appointed Postmaster io 1872. He married Rangnild Nielson Brekke in Norway ; they have two children-Agnette and Niels; the daughter was born May 4, 1855, in Madison, and the son July 10, 1857, in Perry. Mr. Evenson is a member of the Hauges Norse Evangelical Lutheran Synod ; Independent in politics. He stopped for a time near Lake Koshkonong, and spent the winter and spring of 1855 in Madison.

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SIGMUND FISCHER, Secs. 10, 9 and 11 ; P. O. Perry ; was born in the village of Assam- stadt, Baden, Feb. 28, 1835 ; came to America in 1853; resided in Sauk City, Wis., and on a farm near Roxbury, Dane Co .; 1857-58 were spent at his trade of shoemaker in Wisconsin and Illinois; settled on 200 acres of his farm in 1859 ; has added 40, and has erected all the buildings. He married, in Roxbury, March 1, 1859, Miss Catharine Platz, born Jan. 9, 1836, in Wurtemberg; she came to America in 1851 ; they have six children-Frank G., Frances M., Lona M., Katie M., Anton S. and Charles G., all born in Perry. Mr. Fischer is a Republican and a Roman Catholic, with his family. He has been Assessor and Supervisor of Perry, and Trustee of his church.

OLE GRIMSTVEDT, sec. 16; P. O. Perry ; horn Jan. 15, '1842, in Ovre Thelemarken, Christiansand Stift; son of Knudt and Mari (Nass) Grimstvedt, who emigrated to America in 1850, locating in Ridgeway, Iowa Co., where they still reside; they brought with them four children-Ole, Kisten, John and Birda, the latter two now dead, and Kisten, living in Jackson Co., Minn .; here he grew up to manhood, receiving in the meantime such common school education as his parents could afford to give him; he attended the first school in what is now District No. 7, held in the old log church on Sec. 8; he also helped Mr. O. B. Dahle haul the first load of lumber from Steele's saw-mill for the store built in 1853. He enlisted Nov. 5, 1861, in Co. C, 12th W. V. I., and re-enlisted Jan. 5, 1864 (was enrolled as Ole Olson) ; served through the siege and capture of Vicksburg and the operations of the Army of the Tennessee up to July 21, 1864, when he received a bullet in the left hip while fighting with his regiment at what is variously known as the battle of Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, etc .; was eighteen months in the hospital, and was honorably discharged April 2, 1866; is now a pensioner. In 1867, he married Miss Caroline Grinder ; she was born Dec. 22, 1845, in Aggershuus Amt Christiania Stift; they have one child, a daughter, Clara Matilde, born March 9, 1868. Mr. G. is a Republican in politics; was United States Census Enumerator in 1870 and 1880, Town Clerk in 1869-70 and 1872-73, and from 1876 to 1880 ; was also Assessor in 1879. Is a member, with his family, of the Norse Evangelical Lutheran Church. Has 90 acres, where he settled in 1867. [The good-will and courtesy shown the writer by Mr. G. is fully appreciated, and sincere thanks are here tendered; his careful study and thorough research of Norse his- tory and nomenclature, rendered his assistance of double value.]

MARTIN O. GRINDER, Sec. 7; P. O. Perry; horn Oct. 4, 1842, in Aggershuus Amt, Christiania Stift, Norway ; came to America with his parents in 1859 ; lived in Perry up to October, 1861, when he enlisted in Co. C, 12th W. V. I .; served with the Tennessee Army at Corinth, Humboldt, Vicks- burg, the Meridian raid, and fought with Sherman at Kenesaw Mountain, Chattahoochee River and Peach Tree Creek, where he was wounded July 21, 1864, receiving a hall through the left wrist joint, and was confined in the Madison and Detroit hospitals until Aug. 11, 1865, when he received his discharge. . In 1866, he settled on his 80-acre farm in Perry. He married Miss Anne Svenson Askland, born in Nedenas Amt Christiansand Stift; she died Jan. 26, 1876, leaving three children-Ole, Andreas and Anne; he married again Miss Kari Nielson Mithws, born in Valders, Bergen Stift, Norway, in June, 1841. Mr. Grinder is a Republican and a Lutheran.

HANS P. HEGDAHL, Sec. 32; P. O. Moscow, Iowa Co., Wis .; is now, with two exceptions, the oldest settler in Perry ; was born in 1809, in Stavanger Amt, Christiansand Stift, Norway, and came to America and Perry in 1850 ; first settled on the present Augustus Gobel farm, and two years later to his present 217-acre farm ; here he dug a hole in the hillside, rolled up some logs, and thus began " house- keeping ;" being one of the first Norse settlers in the south part of the town. He married, in his and her native amt, Hjertine Barsta, by whom he had seven children-Staale, Mary, Ingeborg, Hannah, Henry, Lena and Anna. Mr. Hegdahl is a Democrat, and member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of York.

E. M. HELLAND, Sec. 29 ; P. O. Perry ; born in Valders, Aggershuus Stift, Norway, Jan- 10, 1830; came to the United States in 1852; worked by the month during the summer in Ridgeway, Iowa Co., Wis. ; and during the winter of 1852-53, cut wood on the Illinois bank of the Mississippi; returned in the spring and settled on 60 acres of his present farm ; dug a cellar or rude Western " dung-out,' and lived in it all summer ; that fall he built a log house and married Sigri Hendrickson, also born in Valders Feb. 2, 1829; they began with small means in the log house; worked and planned well, and are rewarded by a good farm of 225 acres, on which a good frame house was built in 1866, and a 30x50 basement barn in 1875; they have seven children-Michael, Edward, Anton, Julia, Henry, Aune O. and George, all born on the Perry farm, where all except the eldest (now a Minnesota farmer) still live. Mr. Helland and family belong to the Norse Evangelical Lutheran Church of Perry. Politics, Repub- lican.

Everson,

MANUFACTURER OF FAWCETTS PATENT BLINDS STOUGHTON.

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TORGER JOHNSON, Sec. 17; P. O. Perry; born July 15, 1828, in Nedenas Amt, Chris- tiansand Stift, Norway. Married in Norway, Kari Tollefsdatter ; came to America, and settled on Sec. 16, Perry, late in 1853 ; is now living with his son-in-law, Edwin Burgeson. Adne Burgeson, of York, Green Co., Wis., was born in Ovre Thelemarken, Christiansand Stift,in 1809 ; was of the Norse tenantry. Mar- ried Helga Burgeson and came to America in 1843; bought Government land in the town of Christiana, Dane Co., and became one of its pioneer settlers ; removed to York in 1855. Edwin Burgeson was born in the frontier log house, Christiana, March 15, 1847, and has always lived in Wisconsin. He married Miss Julia, only child of Torger Johnson, March 18, 1872 ; she was born on her parents' Perry homestead, and has three children-Hannah C., Thea A. and Bertha J. The family belong to the Norse Evan- gelical Lutheran Church of Perry. Mr. Bergeson is a Republican ; has been Supervisor, Justice of, the Peace and Town Treasurer. The farm of 307 acres is formed of the old Langemyr and Dahle farms.

ANTON KELLER, Sec. 12 ; P. O. Mt. Vernon ; born May 9, 1830, near Kenzilsow, Wur- temberg; came with his brother Simon to America in 1852; worked out the first year in Perry ; then bought 80 acres each of new wild land ; built a log cabin and kept " bachelor's hall " until February, 1855, when Anton married Katherine Mousner, born March, 1835, in Bavaria. Mr. Keller now has 200 acres, on which he has built a good house, basement barn, 60x42 feet, outbuildings, windmill, etc. ; has six children-Kasarz (Mrs. F. Korgler), Margeret, Lizzie, Mary, Joseph and Frank, all born in Perry. Mr. K. is a Democrat and was one of the founders of the Perry Roman Catholic Church ; his farm was oak openings, and the clearing and breaking have been done by him.

OLE KETTELSON, Sec. 28; P. O. Perry; born in Ovre Thelemarker, Christiansand Stift, Norway, Feb. 8, 1834; the parents and family came to America in 1850 ; first settled in Pleasant Springs, Dane Co., and, four years later, came to Perry, locating on the present homestead ; here the father, Kettle Anderson, and the mother, aged respectively 75 and 64 years, still reside. Their son, our sub- ject, has 260 acres, on which he has built a good frame house, and a basement barn and granary, 30x66 feet. He married Torbjor Burgeson, born Jan. 4, 1837, in the same amt as himself; they have eight children-Mary H., Karine A., Anna B., Carl A., Henry M., Edith O., Teah O. and Emma J., all born ia Perry. Mr. Kettelson had the honor of driving the team which hauled the first load of dirt for the first railroad in Dane Co .; he was also a soldier from February, 1865, until the discharge of his regiment (the 46th W. V. I., Co. I.). Is a Republican, and is now serving his third term as Supervisor. Is a member of the Norse Evangelical Lutheran Church of Perry.

WILLIAM M. MACFARLANE, M. D., of Perry ; was born in Washington, Guernsey Co., Ohio, Jan. 15, 1847 ; his father, John MacFarlane, a Highland Scotchman, came to America soon after graduating from Trinity College, Dublin, and married Mary Mulholland, who died in 1849. In 1855, he settled in Lewiston, Columbia Co., Wis., where he now lives, though retired from practice. His son, our subject, was educated in the city high school of Portage, Wis., and in the Platteville Normal School ; taught a number of terms and began the study of medicine with his father; entered the Rush Medical College, Chicago, and graduated, as physician and surgeon, at the close of the session of 1875-76, and, during the Centennial year, he practiced at Mt. Vernon, but gave it up by agreement with the local phy- sician there, and coming to Perry in 1877, where he has built up a large practice. The Doctor suffered from personal injury and the loss of $500 of property during the tornado of 1878. He married, in 1879, Miss Sarah Ivey, of Moscow, Iowa Co., Wis. Is a member of the Adamsville Lodge, I. O. O. F., and a Republican.

LAWRENCE POST, Sec. 4; P. O. Perry ; born in Somerset Co., Penn., April 15, 1841 ; was left motherless at 14 days of age, and fatherless at 8 years ; his step-mother married again, John Mergler, and, in 1851, they came to Wisconsin; wintered in Perry, resided two years in Springdale, and located again in Perry in 1855. Mr. Post has lived here since, beginning as a laborer, earning from his board and a shilling per day up to $12 per month. He enlisted, in April, 1861, in Co. K, 3d W. V. I. ; enlisted for three months, but soon after re-enlisted for three years or during the war, in the same company and regiment ; was with the Army of the Potomac in the Shenandoah campaign, in the battles of Win- chester and Cedar Mountain, where he was captured and paroled; after six weeks was duly exchanged, rejoined his company, fought at Chancellorsville, Germania Ford and Gettysburg ; was then in hospital up to his discharge, in July, 1864. Returning, he settled, the same year, on his prosent farm. Married, July 16, 1866, Mary Heller, born Sept. 4, 1846, in Baden, Germany ; they have six children-Peter J., George L., M. Helena, Frances T., August and Julia A., all born in Perry. Mr. Post is a straight Re- publican, and served his town as Supervisor in 1869, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876, 1877, 1879 and 1880; bas also been Justice of the Peace, and in school office for the past fourteen years. Is a Roman Catholic.

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O. H. RINDY, Secs. 7, 8 and 18 ; P. O. Perry ; born in Nedre Thelemarken, Christiansand Stift, Norway, Aug. 26, 1842; his parents emigrated to the United States in 1855; spent two years in Washington Co., Wis .; then settled on Sec. 8, Perry, where the father died in 1867. His son enlisted, Aug. 15, 1862, in Co. H. 27th W. V. I .; was with the Army of the Tennessee at Vicksburg, Little Rock, New Orleans and Mobile; here he was taken sick, and from New Orleans was sent home on sick furlough ; was honorably discharged Aug. 11, 1865. He married, five days after his enlistment, Miss Anne Peterson ; they have nine children-Henry O., Julia C., Carolina, Halvor A., Carl J., Anne J., Peter H., Otilda A. and Emma S., all born on Sec. 7, Perry. The two eldest were born in the log house, built in 1851 or 1852 by Hans Peterson, his father-in-law. The widow of Mr. P. is now with Mr. Rindy, and is one of Perry's veteran pioneers. Mr. R. began with 80 acres in 1868, and now has 197 acres, on which he has erected good buildings ; has 75 acres under cultivation, of which he cleared and broke about 60. Is a Greenbacker and a Lutheran, voting with the Republicans up to 1878. Has been Town Treas- urer, and twice Supervisor.

ANDREW SANDERSON (OIO), deceased ; born in Hallingdahl, Aggershuus Stift, Nor- way, Nov. 22, 1807; came to America in August, 1846; resided in the Koshkonong country until May, 1850, when he settled in Perry ; built a log house and lived two years on the Volstad farm ; then put up a partly log and partly framed house on the Sanderson homestead ; in the framed part of this house the first town meeting was held. Mr. S. was elected a Supervisor, and continued in town office up to 1869 ; was Chair- man four years ; was the first Postmaster of Perry Post Office, serving from 1857 to 1871. Was first a Democrat, and finally a stalwart Republican. He also belonged to the Evangelical Lutheran Church (Hauges Synod). He married Aagot Flaaten in May, 1840; she was born near Flaaten Hallingdahl Jan. 29, 1821. Mr. Sanderson died July 27, 1873, leaving ten children-Birget, Astri, Sandera, Turi, Karine, Carl A., Olina, Olaus, Serina and Adolph A. ; the eldest was born in Norway, the second in Kosh- konong, and the others in Perry. Mr. S. began with 80 acres and little means, and left an estate of 280 acres and a good home.

PAUL O. SYFTESTAD, Sec. 20; P. O. Perry ; born in Ovre Thelemarken, Christiansand Stift, Norway, March, 1816. Married, in Norway, Guro Jacobsdatter. Came to America in 1854 ; reaching Chicago, his wife died of cholera; two days later, the little daughter (Martha) died near Lake Koshkonong; this left three children-Jacob, Ole and Susanna; a week later, or late in August, 1854, he settled on his present farm ; only 12 acres were broken, and a log shanty built ; he now has 200 acres, and good buildings. Married again Gro Straand, by whom he has two sons-Olaus and Paul P. Jacob Syftestad enlisted in the 27th W. V. I., and died, in 1863, in Little Rock, Ark .; Ole is now a Minnesota merchant, and Susanna the wife of Guilbrand Anderson ; Olaus was seven years in Luther College, Decorah. Iowa, and is now studying for the ministry in the Norse Lutheran Seminary, Madison ; Paul P. attended the Monona Academy in 1879, and is now with his parents on the homestead. Mr. S. has always been a Republican, and belongs to the Norse Evangelical Lutheran Church of Perry.

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History of Dane County, Wisconsin, Part 171

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