Ole G. Thune

THUNE, OLSON, VOID, PETERSON

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Date: 1/13/2010 at 04:47:09

OLE G. THUNE

Ole G. Thune, residing on section 4, Mount Valley township, Winnebago county, owns and operates a fine farm of two hundred acres, which he has placed under high cultivation and improved with good substantial buildings which stand as monuments to his thrift and enterprise. A native of Iowa, he was born in Winneshiek county, December 31, 1868, and is a son of Gullick and Aaste (Olson) Thune, natives of Norway. In the spring of 1868 the parents crossed the Atlantic and took up their residence in Winneshiek county, Iowa, where they lived for three years. In 1871 they came to Winnebago county, and after working as a farm hand for two years in this locality the father was able to purchase eighty acres of land on section 4, Mount Valley township, on which he erected a log house with a thatched roof. In this humble little home the family lived for some years, but at length a more modern residence was erected upon land adjoining which the father had bought in the meantime. There he died on the 22d of March, 1916, at the ripe old age of eighty-six years and three months. The mother of our subject had passed away in 1874 and the father was again married in 1885, his second union being with Miss Ingeborg Void, who died in 1901. By the first marriage there were three children, those still living being Ole G. and his brother Gilbert, who resides on the home place.

During his boyhood Ole G. Thune attended the district schools and also acquired an excellent knowledge of farm work. Later he worked at various occupations for some years but in 1898 bought eighty acres of land adjoining his present home farm on the east. He has since engaged in farming and in 1910 purchased the place where he now lives, locating thereon in 1911. His farm now comprises two hundred acres, all in one tract, and he is successfully engaged in its operation. He is a stockholder in the Leland Farmers Elevator Company and also in the Farmers Cooperative Creamery Company of Leland.

In 1901 Mr. Thune married Miss Anna Peterson, and to them have been born seven children, those still living being: Gisle M., Delbert Austin, Oscar Carl, Wilma Huth, Palmer and Edna Margaret. The family are members of the United Lutheran church and Mr. Thune is a republican in politics. He never withholds his support from any enterprise which he believes calculated to promote the moral or educational welfare of his community and for sixteen years has efficiently served in some official capacity in his township. He is now filling his second term as township clerk, has been a member of the board of township trustees ten years, and is president of the school board at the present time. He is also secretary of the Farmers Elevator Company and is regarded as one of the leading citizens of his locality.

Source: History of Winnebago County and Hancock County, Iowa: A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, Vol. II. Pioneer Publishing Company (Chicago), 1917. pp. 387-388.