WI BIO - Dane Co - TEISBERG, Ole K.
Biographical Review of Dane County, WI. Chicago: Biographical Review Pub. Co. 
1893, Vol II, pp 334-335

Ole K. TEISBERG, of Dane County, Wisconsin, was born in Tellemarken [Telemark 
fylke], Norway, 08 December 1840, a son of Knudt and Aase TEISBERG, natives 
also of the same country [Norway], where their ancestors have lived for many 
generations. In 1843 the parents located in Waukesha County [still part of 
Milwaukee County until 31 January 1846], Wisconsin [still the Territory of 
Wisconsin until 29 May 1848, when WI became a state], having been three weeks 
in making the trip from New York to Milwaukee [Milwaukee County, Territory of 
Wisconsin]. In 1844 they began agricultural pursuits in Cottage Grove 
Township [Dane County, Wisconsin Territory], but two years later came to 
Pleasant Springs [Dane County]. The father died in 1866, and the mother now 
resides in Minnesota.

Ole K. TEISBERG, the third of ten children, received a district school 
education, his first [p 335] teacher being Mary STIBSON. He remained with 
his parents until twenty-six years of age [about 1866], and then bought his 
father's farm of 130 acres on section 15, to which, in 1891, he added eighty 
acres more. He has made all the improvements on his place, and now raises 
large crops of tobacco and livestock. Mr. [Ole K.] TEISBERG was engaged in 
the wagon business in Iowa and northern Minnesota about four years, in 
company with Gunder EDWARDS. [In the 1870's large numbers of Norwegians 
immigrated to the United States, and many found employment in tobacco 
warehouses and wagon factories, both industries contributing significantly to 
the postwar economy.] He [Ole K. TEISBERG] is a Prohibitionist in his 
political views; has served as Supervisor of Pleasant Springs Township [Dane 
County, WI] six terms, as Township Treasurer two terms, and also as District 
Clerk and Treasurer. He has served as Church Warden of the Lutheran Church 
about seventeen years.

Mr. [Ole K.] TEISBERG was married 01 January 1868, to Anna S. SCOLEN, a 
native of Pleasant Springs Township, Dane County, Wisconsin, and a sister of 
Jerome SCOLEN. [See also the Dane County, WI, biography of Jerome SCOLEN.] 
To this union [of Ole K. and Anna S. (SCOLEN) TEISBERG] has been born seven 
children: Carl O., died at the age of six months; Annie Louisa, Julia 
Severena, Caroline, a graduate of the Stoughton [Dane County, WI] Academy; 
Samuel Henry, and Ella Maria. [Note that only six are named in the text, as 
it is printed. All pages of this work contain two columns of text separated 
by a vertical line between the two columns. Submitter believes there should 
be a comma after "Annie," a name which falls at the right margin of the left 
column of text. Submitter has noted other places in this work where 
punctuation at the right margin of a left column of text appears to have been 
obliterated in printing the line between the two text columns. In this case 
the addition of a comma after "Annie" appears appropriate, and would make 
seven children: Carl O., Annie, Louisa, Julia Severena, Caroline, Samuel 
Henry, and Ella Maria.]

Submitted by Cathy Kubly