- IVER JACOBSON, the proprietor of the well-known Jacobson
homestead farm of 200 acres in
- Sections 33 and 34, in the town of Clinton, Rock County,
is in possession of a magnificent rural estate, which has long
been held by the family, and which became his in 1890. He is
a good type of the American farmer, intelligent, courteous and
hospitable, a man of steady habits, inured to hard work, and
doing his business with his mind as well as with his hands.
- Mr. JACOBSON was born in Beloit, Rock County, May 22, 1855.
He was reared to manhood
- under the parental roof, and attended the district school
and Clinton Academy, working for his father until 1876. That
year he began to work as a carpenter in Clinton, and followed
the trade for two years. Then he went to South Dakota, and took
up a homestead of 160 acres in Brookings County. In 1879 he
constructed the first building in Brookings, now a city of considerable
importance. In 1880 Mr. JACOBSON returned to Rock County, where
he worked at his trade two years. He spent about the same time
in North Dakota, as a foreman of an elevator building company
and was grain buyer two seasons. In 1884 he came back once more
to Rock County, this time to stay, and took charge of his father's
farm, which he managed for him several years, buying it in 1890.
- Mr. JACOBSON and Miss Bessie LARSON were married in Clinton
May 29, 1890. Mrs.
- JACOBSON is a daughter of Nels and Martha LARSON, were at
that time living in Clinton, Mr. LARSON having come here from
Chicago, where he was a wagon-maker, that he might spend his
last days on a farm. He died on his farm in the town of Clinton
Nov. 20, 1894, at the age of seventy-two.
- Mr. and Mrs. JACBOSON have four children, Martha, Nina, Julius
and Ella. He has held the
- office of supervisor five years in succession, and was on
the county board for two years. He is a steadfast member of
the Lutheran Church, and politically a strong adherent of the
Republican party.
- Jacob JACOBSON, the father of Iver, was born in Norway in
November, 1824, a son of Jacob
- JACOBSON, a farmer. He was married in 1850 to Miss Randie
IVERSON, at Racine, Wis., having come to Wisconsin two years
before his wedding, and worked at the carpenter trade two years
in that city. He spent two years each at Janesville and at Beloit,
and from Beloit came to Clinton, where he bought 100 acres, the
nucleus of the present farm. He and his wife still live here,
in the home of their son Iver. They have had ten children, of
whom six are now living.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c)1901, p. 570.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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