WI BIO - Dane Co - WETTLESON, Ole
Biographical Review of Dane County, WI. Chicago: Biographical Review Pub. Co. 
1893, Vol II, pp 430-431

Ole WETTLESON, a successful farmer of Dane County, Wisconsin, was born in 
Pleasant Springs Township, Dane County, Wisconsin, 14 December 1847, a son of 
Wettle Tronson and Susan (JACOBSON) WETTLESON. The parents came from Norway 
to America in 1843, where the father engaged in farming, but in his native 
country was a jeweler. He [Wettle Tronson WETTLESON] died when our subject 
was six months old, after which the mother [Susan (JACOBSON) WETTLESON] 
married P. S. ASMUNDSON, and they located on section 26, Pleasant Springs 
Township. He [P. S. ASMUNDSON] died in February [1890] and she [Susan 
(JACOBSON) ASMUNDSON] in October 1890.

Ole WETTLESON was reared on a farm, and at the age of eighteen years, in 
March 1865, enlisted for the late war, in Company E, Fifty-second Wisconsin 
Volunteer Infantry, under Colonel H. J. LEWIS, and Captain Walter G. Sustroev 
KUESSOEV. He [Ole] served principally in Missouri and Kansas, but did not 
participate in any noted battles. He was mustered out at Fort Leavenworth, 
Kansas, 26 July 1865. In March 1866 he engaged on a passenger and mail route 
for the Wells Fargo & Company's overland stage in Montana [then in 
Unorganized Territory; Montana became a state in 1889]; in [p 431] the fall 
of 1868 commenced work on the Union Pacific Railroad, in Salt Lake City [Salt 
Lake County; Utah not a state until 1896]; in the summer of 1869 began 
farming in Wisconsin; in 1872 began the same occupation in Richland County 
[WI], and six years later bought his present farm of 160 acres on section 23 
[Dane County, WI]. Mr. WETTLESON is engaged in general farming and stock 
raising.

He [Ole WETTLESON] was married in May 1870 to Christy ERDAHL [maiden name?], 
of Pleasant Springs Township [Dane County, WI], and they have had five 
children: Susan R., Louis William, Josephine, Peter, and Charles Orin. 
Politically, Mr. WETTLESON is identified with the Republican party; socially, 
a member of Stoughton Lodge, G. A. R.; religiously, a member of the Lutheran 
Church.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly