E. O. Ellingson

ELLINGSON

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 10/5/2005 at 22:35:52

E. O. Ellingson joined his countrymen here in 1862. He was born in Norway March 18, 1850. He came to America in 1861, landed a Montreal, Canada, and went to Adams Co., Wis., and lived one year, then came to Wroth county, in Bristol township, where he has since resided. He has 280 acres of good land, all on section 36, Bristol township. He married Engobar A. Larsen in 1877. She was baron in Wisconsin in 1857. They have four children – Clara S., Perlina, Nils and Oli. Mr. Ellingson and his family belong to the Norwegian Lutheran Church; Politically, he is a republican.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, page 716.