GILBERT E. EVERSON, 1862-??

EVERSON, ALBERTSON, THOMPSON, NELSON, JACOBS, WATSON

Posted By: Bahnson
Date: 4/24/2002 at 18:09:45

GILBERT E. EVERSON.
Gilbert E. Everson, whose name is a guarantee of honest treatment and whose history for many years has been intimately associated with that of Lyon county, Iowa, was first located as a farmer in section 24, Richland township, of that county, but became permanently settled nine years later. He was born in Lafayette county, Wisconsin, November 30, 1862, a son of Gunder and Malinda (Nelson) Everson, both of whom were natives of Norway, though long settled in Wisconsin. Gunder Everson came to Lafayette county in 1849, where he engaged in a very successful tillage of the soil. In 1874 he removed to Ashton, Iowa, where he still continued farming and later made his home in South Dakota, where he died in 1901, at the age of seventy-three years. His widow is still living at Harrisburg, South Dakota, and has reached the advanced age of seventy-six years. She was the mother of the following family: Ann, who is now dead; Mary, the wife of Albert Jacobs, a farmer in Lafayette county, Wisconsin; Emma, the wife of Gilbert Jacobs, a farmer near Harrisburg, South Dakota; Eva and Nels have passed away; Lena, the wife of Albert Thompson, a farmer of Lyon county; Gilbert E., whose name begins this article; Andrew, a farmer of Pipestone, Minnesota; Anna, the wife of Richard Watson, of Pipestone, Minnesota; Nels now of Harrisburg, South Dakota; Gunder is a farmer of Pipestone, Minnesota; Theodore, postmaster at Harrisburg, South Dakota.
Gilbert E. Everson received his education in the common school of Osceola county, Iowa, finishing in Augustana College at Canton, South Dakota. He began his business career by renting a farm in Doon township, Lyon county, which he occupied until 1884. That year he settled in Richland township, being still on rented land, which he held under very favorable terms until 1899, when he purchased his present farm of one hundred and sixty acres, to which he has since added eighty acres.
Mr. Everson was married in 1889 to Miss Maria Albertson, of Richland township. Her parents, Albert and Martha (Thompson) Albertson, born and bred farmer folds, are now living retired in Inwood. Eight children were born to them, of whom all are now living with one exception. Mrs. Everson was their oldest child, and she is now the mother of the following family: Leda, Ernest D., Tyler L., and Lois E.
Mr. Everson has served as township trustee six years, assessor two years, and road superintendent two years. In fraternal matters he is a member of the Lodge and Encampment of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Inwood, Lodge No. 458, A. F. & A. M., of Larchwood, and the local camp of the Modern Woodmen of America, at Inwood. In his politics he is a stanch Republican, and in religion an active and earnest worker in the Methodist church.