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| Ole J. Lillevold Ole J. Lillevold, one of the leading farmers of Tanberg township, Wilkin county, is a man of wide experience and has thoroughly mastered the art of farming. He has devoted his career to agricultural pursuits and has met with pronounced success and now has a well improved farm and a home of great comfort. Mr. Lillevold was born in Gubrandsdalen, Norway, in 1864. His father came to America and settled in La Crosse county, Wisconsin, in 1864. There our subject was reared and he assisted on the home farm and received a limited schooling. He started for himself at the age of eighteen years, and for fifteen years he was in different parts of Minnesota, Dakota and Montana. He worked in the lumber woods four winters and also worked in the mines. He came to Wilkin county in 1897 and bought a farm in section 22. This was an improved farm, but he has since erected a complete set of farm buildings, with the exception of the residence whihc was built when he purchased the place. He now has a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, ninety acres of which is under cultivation, and the rest is pasture and grass land. His best wheat crop averaged twenty bushels per acre, and he has placed the land under high cultivation. For the past five years Mr. Lillevold has engaged in the threshing business and owns a steam rig, with which he has done threshing over a large territory. He has met with success and has had no losses, except the loss of a separator by fire in 1898. Mr. Lillevold is known as a gentleman of active public spirit, and he has served his township as assessor for two years, and as chairman of the township board for one year. He takes an active part in township affairs and keeps abreast of the times. He is a Republican in political faith and stands firmly for his convictions. Mr. Lillevold was married October 15, 1903, to Anna Hagen, a native of Norway. She came to America in 1893 when she was six years old. Her parents now reside in North Dakota. Compendum of History and Biography of Central and Northern Minnesota 1904 Amelia to Gust Johnson lived where Obert Aaberg lived. Moved to Menahga Isabel to Arnold Rian or Isabel Alice to Palmer Baanna Cora to Freddie Fosse John to () Anderson lived in Rochester no kids Henry married twice Edwin (same age of Olaf) committed suicide Ella to Carl Grunewald Mabel to Alfred Honrud | ||||||||||||||||||
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