- JOHN O. BEAVER (deceased) is well remembered by the older
residents of Clinton township,
- Rock County, as an exceedingly industrious and upright farmer,
working hard for the accumulation of a competence for the good
it would enable him to do for those he loved and cherished.
He was a man of high character and real worth, and would scorn
to tell an untruth or do a mean action.
- Mr. BEAVER was born in Norway, Dec. 24, 1828, and came to
this country when a stout and
- sturdy lad of sixteen years, coming straight to Wisconsin.
Here he presently bought a farm, and created that magnificent
rural estate that is still kept as the BEAVER homestead. It
consisted of 120 acres of highly improved land in Section 27,
Clinton township, Rock County, to the cultivation of which he
devoted his entire life. He died July 4, 1875, and his loss
was deeply felt by many who had come to prize him, both as a
man and as a friend.
- John O. BEAVER and Miss Christie OLESON, daughter of Ole
OLESON, of Norway, were
- married in March, 1857. Mrs. BEAVER came alone to this country
when a young girl, seeking the opportunities the young Republic
were said to offer the children of privation in the old world.
Mr. and Mrs. BEAVER became the parents of six children, Nellie,
Betsy, Olinda, Ole J., Oliver, and Ann Maria, all born on the
present BEAVER homestead and educated in Rock County. Nellie
married Andrew JOHNSON and died in March, 1886; she left one
daughter, Alma Charlotte, who is now an inmate of the home of
her grandmother, Mrs. BEAVER. Betsy married Thomas OLSON, who
died leaving his widow with two children, Oscar Julius and Eva
Clarene, who are also living with Mrs. BEAVER. Olinda married
Andrew LEWIS, a farmer in the town of Clinton, and they have
five children, Hattie Julena, Elva Charlotte, Mattie Clarene,
Lilly Amelia and John Bently. Oliver, a farmer in Minnesota,
has never married. Ann Maria was married to Ole AARUD, and they
have three children, Clara Matilda, Oscar James, and Gertie Bertine.
- Ole J. BEAVER, the youngest of the family, lives at home.
He is unmarried, and devotes himself
- to the care of the farm. His mother an sister, Mrs. OLSON,
make a home for him, and he is making himself felt in the community
as a rising and successful young farmer. He is a member of the
church of his parents, the Lutheran, and is taking a leading
position in the community. He is a Republican, and socially
is a most genial and hospitable gentleman.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c) 1901, p. 19.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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