History of Clay and Norman counties, Minnesota : their people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families . e Gilbertson brothers, Albert and Cornelius, well-known farmersand stock raisers of Halstad township, Norman county, where they ojieratejointly the old Gilbertson homestead of five hundred and three acres, arethe sons of Ole and Christie ( Monson) Gilbertson, both natives of Gilbertson, one of the pioneers of Halstad township, was a son ofGilbert Klemmer and wife, the latter of whom
History of Clay and Norman counties, Minnesota : their people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families . e Gilbertson brothers, Albert and Cornelius, well-known farmersand stock raisers of Halstad township, Norman county, where they ojieratejointly the old Gilbertson homestead of five hundred and three acres, arethe sons of Ole and Christie ( Monson) Gilbertson, both natives of Gilbertson, one of the pioneers of Halstad township, was a son ofGilbert Klemmer and wife, the latter of whom died in her native 1861, bringing with him his aged father and his two children, .naand Gilbert, whose mother had died in Norway, he came to the UnitedStates and settled in Richland county. Wisconsin, where met and marriedChristie Monson, who had followed her parents to America, two yearsafter they had left their native country and settled in Grant county. Wiscon-sin. Her parents later removed to North Dakota and settled with someof their children who resided there, where thev sjjcnt the rest of theirlives. Years after their marriage Ole Gilbertson and wife left Richland i^^i - V. THE NEWPUBLIC LIbrvn: CLAY AND NORMAN COUNTIES, MINNESOTA. 425 county, Wisconsin and came to Minnesota, settling in Halstad townsliip,Xorman county, where the former bouglit land and farmed until his death,at which time his holdings had been increased to five hundred acres ofimproved farming land. Ole Gilbertson, who was tlie father of fourteenchildren, was married three times, and Christie Monson was his last his first wife he had two children, Gilbert O., and zna, wife of PeterHagenston; by his second wife, Janie, who married Stev Nelson; by thethird wife, Christie Monson: Magnus O., a well-known resident of Anthonytownship; Olaf; Albert and Cornelius, the subjects of this review; Gust;Clara, who married Anton Orvick; Oscar; Andie; Tilla, wife of Ole Orvick:Clarence and Marie,
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