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Christ Christenson

CHRISTENSON, OLSON, LARSON

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 5/5/2006 at 03:40:55

Christ Christenson is living on a farm on section 23, Eden township, Winnebago county, which he purchased in 1915 and has since cultivated. His entire experience has been along the line of general agricultural pursuits and he was thus well qualified to take charge of a farm of his own. He was born October 8, 1880, in Eden township, his parents being, Anton and Anna (Olson) Christenson, who are natives of Norway but came to the United States in youth. They resided for a time in Faribault county, Minnesota, and were there married. Soon afterward they became residents of Eden township, where the father cultivated a rented farm for a few years. He next purchased the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section 23 and cleared and improved his tract of forty acres. As his financial resources increased he added to his possessions, his second purchase making him the owner of eighty acres on section 23, while later he bought eighty acres on section 24 and now has altogether two hundred acres of good land. His has been a busy life devoted to general farming. Both he and his wife are members of the United Lutheran church and his political endorsement is given to the republican party. He has now reached the age of seventy-two years, while his wife is sixty-four years of age. All that they possess has been acquired through their earnest labor and the life record of Anton Christenson indicates what may be accomplished when one is ambitious and energetic. In the family were but two children, Christ and Ole. The latter married Stella Larson, a daughter of Thomas Larson, one of the pioneer settlers of Winnebago county, who, however, is now residing near Fosston, Minnesota. Mr. and Mrs. Ole Christenson have two children, Anna and a baby boy. He is also a farmer of Eden township, cultivating eighty acres of land which he owns on section 24.

Christ Christenson attended the public schools between the ages of six and sixteen years and then concentrated his entire attention upon farm work, with which he had already become familiar while assisting his father in the development and improvement of the old homestead. For a time be engaged in cultivating his father's farm on the shares and in 1915 he purchased from his father one hundred and twenty acres of land on section 23, Eden township, where he now makes his home. This is a good farm, carefully cultivated and well improved, and everything about the place indicates the progressive spirit and practical methods of the owner.

Mr. Christenson belongs to the United Lutheran church and his political endorsement is given to the republican party, but he has neither time nor inclination to seek office, preferring to concentrate his efforts and his energies upon his business interests. All that he possesses has been acquired through his own labor. He has carefully formulated his plans and the desire to own a farm led him to practice economy as well as industry until be had acquired enough to make the purchase. The years as they go by chronicle his growing success and he is now numbered among the substantial agriculturists of his community.

Source: History of Winnebago and Hancock Counties, Iowa, 1917,Vol II, page 531


 

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