CHARLES J. OLSON
Charles J. Olson was born in Sweden, October 9, 1830. He came to America in 1857, and located in Henderson county, Illinois, where he remained until 1862, then removed to Jefferson county, Iowa. In 1873 he came to Cass county and purchased eighty acres in section 22, where he now lives. He was married November 19, 1863, to Charlotte Anderson, a sister of C. J. Anderson. She was born in Sweden, January 22, 1835. They have four children--Mary C, wife of Frank Blaser of Noble; Albert O., Carrie J. and Frank E.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 731.
