- ALBERT G. KNUTSON is a prosperous and well-known farmer in
the town of Clinton, Rock
- County, and is a man of generous impulse and kindly spirit.
He is a native of the town, and has taken part in its history
for almost fifty years, in which time tremendous changes have
taken place, and southern Wisconsin, in his youth on the frontier
line, is now in the very heart of the old Northwest. And the
man whose name introduces this article has helped in the making
of this new world. He has worked out, carried himself as a man
of honor and character, paid his debts, dealt squarely with all
men, and is now, in middle life, at a very comfortable pitch
of prosperity, not won by sharp dealing, but dug out of the earth
- the more honor to him and his kind.
- Albert G. KNUTSON was born at his present residence, near
the village of Bergen, on the
- Wisconsin and Illinois State line, January 2, 1853. Here
he grew up, attended the district school, and when he became
a man assisted his father with the farm work. Then he took charge
of the farm, which he operated on shares for several years, until
in 1883 he bought out the other heirs, and is now the sole owner
of 158 acres of as choice farming land as may be found in the
United States. This is known as the "Wetteren Farm,"
perpetuating the name of the home of his father in Norway in
the memory of his children and descendants in the New World.
- Mr. KNUTSON and Miss Christina HANSON were married March
28, 1883. She is a
- daughter of Oliver HANSON and Tone EVENSON, her father a
farmer, and one of the first settlers in the town of Capron,
Ill. He was a man of high standing among his neighbors, and
kindly thought of by all. Mr. and Mrs. KNUTSON are the parents
of eight children, Clara Adelia, Hilda Jurane, Tonetta Marie,
George Henry, Myrtle Regina, Roy Ernest, Walter Truman and Earl
William.
- Gulick KNUTSON, the father of Albert G., was born Nov. 10,
1810, in the kingdom of
- Norway, where he received his education and became in his
manhood a lumberman and live stock dealer. On March 15, 1842,
he married Christina INGEBRETSON, daughter of Ingebret IRICKSON,
a farmer in Norway. Mr. and Mrs. KNUTSON came to this country
in 1846, bringing with them their two daughters, and buying land,
settled near Bergen, in the town of Clinton, Rock County. This
farm he subsequently sold, and bought the farm now divided between
his two sons, Knute G. and Albert G. Here he lived until his
death, which occurred June 24, 1894; his remains are interred
in the family cemetery on the farm owned by Albert G. Mrs. KNUTSON
was born May 14, 1814, and makes her home with her sons. She
is the mother of six children, Cornelia, Christie, Mary, Knute
G., Albert G. and Ruby. Mary died at the age of thirty-one and
Ruby at the age of thirty-eight. Gulick Knutson was always a
member and a liberal supporter of the Lutheran Church, and once
donated two acres of land near the center of his farm for its
use as a cemetery. He was a Republican, and a public-spirited
man throughout his career.
- Albert G. KNUTSON is walking well in the footsteps of his
father, loyally stands by the church
- of his parents, and is repeating his father's noble and generous
character.
-
- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c) 1901, pp. 99-100.
-
- Courtesy of Carol
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