- OLE JEREMIASON, holds an enviable place among the farming
people, as well as the citizens
- of the town of York, Green county, where he has his pleasant
and inviting home on a farm of some 400 acres on Section 16.
Born in Norway June 16, 1830, he is a son of Jeremias OLESON,
and accompanied his parents to Wisconsin in 1853, and here they
made their home in Green county.
- Jeremias OLESON was the father of the following children:
Ole, Lena, and four that are now
- deceased. Lena married Elliott HANSON, and is living in Iowa.
Ole JEREMIASON, following the Norwegian habit, took his father's
given name, and added to it "son." Jeremias OLESON
was born in Norway Feb. 6, 1796, and died in the town of York
Nov. 16, 1881. His wife was born Jan. 1, 1800, in Norway, and
died in York June 30, 1886. Both were buried in the Norwegian
Cemetery in that town.
- Ole JEREMIASON and Miss Margaret EVERSON were married Nov.
26, 1876, and to them
- were born the following children: Ida, born Oct. 6, 1877;
Julia, born Dec. 18, 1880; Nettie, born Dec. 21, 1882; Sophia,
born June 14, 1884; Martin, born Feb. 2, 1887; and Milla, born
Feb. 12, 1892. Mrs. JEREMIASON was born March 19, 1854, near
Brodhead, and was one of a family of six children: Sveino, of
Rock county; Peter, of Brodhead; Even, of Dane county; Helena,
the wife of Mangus FREEMAN, of Rock county; Margaret; and Amon,
of Rock county.
- Mr. JEREMIASON was in very poor circumstances when he arrived
in this country, and made
- the journey from Janesville to York township on foot. Here
he and his father took up a small tract of government land, and
by hard work, economy and industry he has come to own one of
the largest farms of Green county, which is entirely free from
encumbrance. Mr. JEREMIASON is a stanch Republican and a devoted
member of the Lutheran Church, and is honest and square in all
his dealings. At the present time he is engaged in farming and
the dairy business. He milks some forty cows, and belongs to
the Cooperative Cheese Manufacturing Company.
- In the spring of 1865 Mr. JEREMIASON enlisted in the 46th
Wis. V.I., and served until the
- following fall. He made a good record, though late in entering,
and his children may well be proud of their father's good name
in every walk of life.
-
- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin,"
(c)1901 Union Publishing; pp. 613-614.
-
- Courtesy of Carol.
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