Aslack E. Foss

FOSS

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 3/2/2023 at 15:42:57

Aslack E. Foss [listed as Fass]

Aslack E. Fass has been a resident here only a short time. He was born in Rock County, Wis., in 1852. His parents are Elling and Lillie (Kettleson) Fass, natives of Norway. They emigrated to Rock County, Wis. About the year 1848, where they lived until 1854, when they removed to Winneshiek County, Iowa where they still reside. When seventeen years of age, A. E. Fass went to Hennepin County, Minnesota and in 1873, in company with his brother, Ole E., went to Washington territory, where he remained until 1879, then returned to Hennepin County, Minnesota and a year later came to Worth County, locating in Danville Township. In the fall of 1882 they came to Brookfield Township, where they are now engaged in farming.
Ole E. [Foss] was born in Winneshiek County, Iowa in 1860. He was married in the spring of 1883 to Anna Fatnes, born in Wisconsin in 1861. The farm comprises eighty acres. Both brothers and their families are members of the Lutheran Church
History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1884, p.730-731