- NELS O. LOFTHUS, farmer, Sec. 18; P.O. Brodhead; born in
Norway; his father and mother,
- Ole and Helge LOFTHUS, came to Avon in 1848, and bought 160
acres in Sec. 18, on a claim from the Government, there was a
log house on it, in which they lived six years; then built another
log house, larger and better, which they occupied; in 1863, his
father deeded all the land to him and his brother, Knud, and
in one year he sold out his share to his brother, Knud, and forty
acres more which they had bought. His brother married and had
one child; his father died March 15, 1879; his mother lives in
the same house; his brother Knud died Oct. 9, 1870, leaving the
estate in the hands of an administrator. Nels LOFTHUS married,
Sept. 18, 1877, Anna SIVERSON, and has two children.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 883.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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