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 . or o. a, faijsdale. Tni, NEW YORK P-nC LIBRARY CLAY AND NORMAN COUNTIES, MINNESOTA. 4OI His wife died in 1868, about three years after the arrival of the familyin this country, and he afterward married Helena Olson, who is still living,now making her home in Spring Prairie township, Clay county. G. died in 1872. By his first marriage he was the father of threechildren, those
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 . or o. a, faijsdale. Tni, NEW YORK P-nC LIBRARY CLAY AND NORMAN COUNTIES, MINNESOTA. 4OI His wife died in 1868, about three years after the arrival of the familyin this country, and he afterward married Helena Olson, who is still living,now making her home in Spring Prairie township, Clay county. G. died in 1872. By his first marriage he was the father of threechildren, those besides the subject of this sketch, the eldest, having beenMollie, who married N. E. Lundgren, and Ole, who died in Norway. Tothe second union one child was born, a son, Ole. As noted above, O. G. Farsdale was but fourteen years of age whenhe came to Minnesota with his parents in 1865. As a boy of ten he hadbeen employed at herding cattle and had been thus engaged for three yearsbefore coming to America. He had not neglected his schooling, however,and after coming here pursued his studies in the schools of Goodhue county,taking advantage of the opportunity thus offered to perfect himself inthe s
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