“The History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago: 
Western Historical Company. 1881.

Township:  City of La Crosse 


NIELS ELIAS BENSSON, cooper and stockholder in the La Crosse Co-
operative Barrel Manufacturing Co.; was born in Norway in 1844; son of 
Bendit Andreas Nelson, who is still living in Norway, Nortland Arnt; 
came to the United States in 1870; settled in Lansing, Iowa, and resided 
there till September, 1880, and came from there to La Crosse.  He was 
married in 1870, in Norway, in his native town to Eliane Olson, also a 
native of Norway.  Learned his trade of his father, who was a carpenter 
and cooper.




Submitted by:  Diane Scott