. Portrait and biographical record of Winnebago and Boone counties, Illinois, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States. , 1865, after four years of hard service. Hewas slightly wounded at one time. In 1866, after returning to Rockford, Mr. Buck-land went West again, and spent four and a halfyears as a miner in Montana, after which he re-turned to Rockford. Later he went to JacksonCounty, Minn., took up a soldiers claim, and triedfarming for four years. Howev
. Portrait and biographical record of Winnebago and Boone counties, Illinois, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States. , 1865, after four years of hard service. Hewas slightly wounded at one time. In 1866, after returning to Rockford, Mr. Buck-land went West again, and spent four and a halfyears as a miner in Montana, after which he re-turned to Rockford. Later he went to JacksonCounty, Minn., took up a soldiers claim, and triedfarming for four years. However, the grasshop-pers jumped his claim so often that he gave uptrying to till the soil, and returned to Rockford,where he has carried on the boot and shoe businesssince. He has been very successful in this ventureand has a large and increasing trade. He alsoowns some valuable propertj in Rockford and is astockholder of the Rockford Manufacturing Com-panj, a thriving institution. Mr. Bucklands parents, Jonas and Ellen (Pear-son) Swensen, passed their entire days in Sweden,the father d3ing when eighty-two years of age,and the mother at the age of sixty. Both weremembers of the Swedish Lutheran Church. Thefather followed tlie occupation of a farmer. Of. J/f^..A. POKTRAJT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 353 the fouiteen children born to them, ten sons andfour daughters, five are now living and all are mar-ried: Swen, resides in Sweden, and is a baker; Ottois a goldsmith in Copenhagen; Joseph is a residentof Rockford, and Mrs. John Jacobson (see ). Our subject was married in Winnebago County,111., to Miss Susan Col well, a native of this Valley Township, born December 29, has never lived out of the county, except for afew years in Minnesota. Her parents were nativesof tho State of Maryland, but came to WinnebagoCounty in the latter part of the 30s, and wereamong the first settlers. The^ located on a farm inCherry Valley and there the father, Benjamin Col-w
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