- FREDERICK FREDRICKSEN, a venerable member of the farming
community of Bergen,
- Clinton township, Rock County, has a personal character which
intensifies the respect his years command.
- Mr. FREDRICKSEN was born June 25, 1829, near Stavanger, Norway,
and he was brought
- up under the most unfriendly conditions. His father died
when he was only three years old, and his mother seven years
later, and the young lad was left to push his way unaided among
strangers. He had practically no school education, having spent
but three weeks in a school in all his youthful years; but he
was attentive and observant, and has learned much as he has journeyed
through life. At twenty-one Mr. FREDRICKSEN came to the United
States, and straightway made his way to Wisconsin, where he at
once found farm work. He was a farm laborer for four years,
saved his money, and was fore-handed enough at the end of that
time to buy the farm that is now known as "Oak Hill"
and consists of 113 acres located near the town of Bergen, in
Clinton township.
- Mr. FREDRICKSEN and Mrs. Martha LARSEN, daughter of a farmer
in Norway, and the
- widow of Sven LARSEN, were married in 1852. Mrs. FREDRICKSEN
came to this country in 1846, when a girl, in company with her
brother. By her first marriage she had one son, Louis LARSEN,
who is now a resident of Chicago, and she was borne Mr. FREDRICKSEN
one daughter, Betsey, now the wife of A. V. PETERS, the manager
of a coal and lumber company in Clinton. Mr. and Mrs. PETERS
have had five children, three living: Martha Elizabeth, Mary
Frances and Luella; two sons died in infancy. Mr. FREDRICKSEN's
father, also named Frederick, was a sailor. He died in about
1832, at the age of forty-five. He married Carrie JOHNNASON,
who died in 1839, at the same age as her husband.
- Mr. FREDRICKSEN is a member of the Lutheran Church, and a
man of sterling character. He
- is a Republican, and has been active in promoting the advancement
of that party since its organization. He is a highly respected
citizen of the community.
-
- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c) 1901, p. 622.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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