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JOSEPH LINLEY OLSON

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OLSON, JOSEPH LINLEY: Farmer; b New Sharon, Iowa Apr 23, 1873; s of Tobias Berry Olson-Stena Larson; ed Shelby Co; m Margaret M Gardner Mar 12, 1899 Shelby Co; s Clifford H, Bertrum T, Clyde L, Joseph LeRoy; d Bulah A (Mrs Homer Clark); 1882-93 farmer with father, Shelby Co; 1893-95 farmer, Shelby Co; 1895-96 emp by Bessemer Steel Works & Pueblo Smelter, Pueblo Colo; 1896-98 farmer, near La Junta Colo, 1898-1905 Kirkman; 1905- owner & opr farm 190 A, Shelby Co; 1923-32 Shelby Co supvr; past mbr bd of edn; pres Harlan Fed Land Bank Assn; Farm Bur; OES, past patron; IOOF; AF&AM 444; Quaker; Dem; hobby: reading; res Route 2, Manilla.

From Who's Who in Iowa, by Iowa Press Association, Des Moines: Iowa Press Association, 1940, pg. 1116. Transcribed by Denise Wurner, March, 2013.

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