. Jefferson County, Pennsylvania : her pioneers and people, 1800-1915. e 10thof October, 1858. and his parents passed theirentire lives in their native land, where thefather devoted the major part of his activecareer to services as a woodsman. In theschools of his native land Hans Olson gaineda good practical education, and at the age oftwenty-two years he set forth to seek his for-tune in America, to which country he camewith the most modest of financial resources,but with a full quota of energy, ambition andresolute purpose. He landed at old CastleGarden, in New York, on the 16th of May,1880
. Jefferson County, Pennsylvania : her pioneers and people, 1800-1915. e 10thof October, 1858. and his parents passed theirentire lives in their native land, where thefather devoted the major part of his activecareer to services as a woodsman. In theschools of his native land Hans Olson gaineda good practical education, and at the age oftwenty-two years he set forth to seek his for-tune in America, to which country he camewith the most modest of financial resources,but with a full quota of energy, ambition andresolute purpose. He landed at old CastleGarden, in New York, on the 16th of May,1880, and from the national metropolis heforthwith came to Clearfield county. Pa., andentered the emplov of the Berwind-WhiteCoal Company, at Houtzdale. To him at this,stage of his career came a full measure ofarduous toil, as he worked driving rock tunnelsin the mines and at cutting coal. His industry,ability and fidelity soon won him advance-ment, and finally he became foreman at theAnita mine, a position in which he continuedfor a short time. In May. 1887, he assumed.
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