“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


NORMAN SAUKERSON,  farmer, Secs. 24 and 25;  P.O. Palmyra; 
born in Norway Nov. 25, 1832; he spent his early life and was educated 
in Norway; came to America with his brother, Ole, in 1848, locating in 
Palmyra, where he was in the grocery business twelve years; he settled 
on the farm he now owns of 280 acres in 1865.  Married Miss Ann 
Oleson May 15, 1856; they have eight children - Samuel, Mary A., 
Tilda, Jane, Louisa, Sophia, Clara and Otto.  Mr. Saukerson is a 
Republican, and a member, with his family, of the Lutheran Church.  He 
is one of the go-ahead farmers, has 45 head of cattle, 8 horses and 80 
sheep; he had nothing to begin with, and is a self-made man.


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