Ole Haraldson

HARALDSON

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 1/13/2006 at 22:16:58

Ole Haraldson was born in Hallengdahl, Norway, June, 1847. At an early age he was apprenticed to the trade of a boot and shoemaker. In June, 1867, he landed in America. The following fall he went to Fillmore Co., Minn. In 1872 he came to Worth county, where he has since prosecuted his present business. Mr. Haraldson came to this county poor, but by close attention to his business, has accumulated a comfortable property. He has 160 acres of land in Lincoln township, valued at $30 per acre, besides eighty acres in Dakota.

Source: History or Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, Page 780.