| Excerpts from 'History of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan' |
| NELS OLSON, contractor and builder, is a native of Sweden, and was born December 17, 1841; emigrated to America in 1870, and came to Lake Superior in 1873, and located at Michigamme; has been in other places-Canada, Minnesota and Dakota-but has lived here most of the time, and is engaged in contracting and building. In 1875, he married Miss Clara Olson, who was born in Sweden. They have three children-Hulda Cecilia, Alexander and Friterof Marcus. |