WI BIO - Dane Co - NASET, Jens J.
Biographical Review of Dane County, WI. Chicago: Biographical Review Pub. Co. 
1893, Vol I, pp 231-232

Jens J. NASET, a contractor and builder of Dane County, Wisconsin, was born 
in Bergen [Hordaland fylke], Norway, 13 April 1828, a son of Johannes and 
Alan (BARDAL) NASET, natives of the same place. The father was a farmer and 
mechanic by occupation. Jens J. NASET came with his parents to America at 
the age of seventeen years, in 1845, locating in Christiana Township, Dane 
County, Wisconsin. For five years he worked on his father's farm, then, 19 
March 1850, he married Gertrude INGEBRECHTSON, of Christiana Township, and 
purchased his father's farm, which he thereafter kept for about twenty years. 
Besides farming, he was working at his trade. In 1868 he moved to 
Cambridge, Dane County, where he engaged in the hardware business, which he 
in 1872 moved to Stoughton [Dane County, WI], and for six years continued in 
company with H. VENOS.

In Stoughton Mr. NASET built his brick building, and also erected for G. T. 
MANDT the wagon factory and other buildings. He remained employed by G. T. 
MANDT for seven years. MANDT then failed, financially, and Mr. NASET [p 231] 
had then, as he still has, an interest in the wagon factory. In 1882 a stock 
company was formed, Mr. NASET was elected vice president and superintendent, 
which position he kept for two years.

Thereafter Mr. NASET engaged in contracting and building. Among the 
buildings erected by him are the Norwegian Lutheran Seminary, in Minneapolis 
[MN]; the East Church and parsonage, in Koshkonong [Dane County, WI]; the 
Lutheran Seminary, in Sioux Falls [Minnehaha County], South Dakota, and many 
other church buildings. He superintended the construction of the Norwegian 
Lutheran College building in Decorah [Winneshiek County], Iowa, which cost 
$100,000.

Jens J. NASET is a Democrat in his political views. He has served as 
Supervisor of Christiana Township [Dane County, WI] for six years. In 
Stoughton [Dane County, WI] he has served on the School Board, and for six 
years has been City Treasurer. Religiously Mr. NASET is a Lutheran, and a 
member of the Norwegian Lutheran Synod of America, having for more than the 
last thirty years been a member of its general council, and for more than 
nine years one of its Trustees. Mr. NASET, after having lived eighteen years 
in America, made a trip to Europe, where he visited his mother country, as 
well as Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and other parts of the old world.

Mr. and Mrs. [Jens J.] NASET have no children of their own, but they have 
adopted two daughters, one of whom, Ingebjorg, is the wife of Mr. O. O. 
MELARAS, druggist in Stoughton [Dane County, WI]; and the other, Karen, is 
married to Mr. Ole FREDERIKSON, a farmer in Minnesota.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly