BARTLESON, Peter

BARTLESON, OLSEN

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 3/19/2006 at 21:57:16

Peter Bartleson runs the only blacksmith shop in Rock township. In 1874 he began work in a small shanty on the northeast quarter of section 33, but two years later enlarged and built a commodious shop on the same site. He does wood work as well as shoeing and general repairing.

He was born near Christiania (Oslo), Norway, June 19, 1844. When young he learned the blacksmith trade, after which he was engaged in making machinery three years, at which time he learned the carpenter trade. He emigrated to America in 1870, coming directly to Iowa, and spent the first year in Grand Meadow, Clayton county, going then to Postville, where he worked at his trade until 1874, when he located at his present home. He was married on 1880 to Martha Olsen. They have one son - Bernhard.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, page 476.