WI BIO - Dane Co - OLSON, William T.
Biographical Review of Dane County, WI. Chicago: Biographical Review Pub. Co. 
1893, Vol II, pp 429-430

William T. OLSON, of Dane County, Wisconsin, was born in Dunkirk Township 
[Dane County, WI] on 27 March 1859, a son of Torgram OLSON and Anne 
WETTLESON, natives of Tillemarken [means Telemark fylke] Norway. The parents 
came to America in 1845, locating in Dunkirk Township, Dane County, 
Wisconsin. The father followed farming in his native country, also after 
coming to America, but in 1859 went to California, spent twelve years in 
mining in California and Nevada. In 1871 he returned to his old home in 
Dunkirk, where they now reside. They have two living children: William T., 
our subject, and Turena, wife of Albert TORGUSEN, of Stoughton [Dane County, 
WI].

William T. OLSON was educated in the district schools of Dunkirk and in the 
high schools of Stoughton. At the age of twenty-one years he began farming 
and raising tobacco, in which he met with good success. In the fall of 1890 
he purchased the Revere Hotel at Stoughton, but in the spring of [p 430] 1891 
sold out and again began farming and tobacco raising, together with buying 
leaf tobacco. In the summer of 1891 he erected his handsome two-story 
residence on West and Main Streets. Mr. OLSON has rented his farm, and now 
devotes his entire attention to buying and selling leaf tobacco, representing 
a large leaf tobacco house of New York.

He [William T. OLSON] was married 18 September 1888 to Susie ALME, a native 
of Pleasant Spring Township [Dane County, WI], and a daughter of John ALME. 
Mr. OLSON is a Democrat in his political views, and religiously he is a 
member of the Lutheran Church, know as the Synod.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly