Notable People

Downtown Oregon in the 1900s

Hans Peter Olsen

HANS PETER OLSEN was the other of two “tilletsmann” or Trustees on the first Church Council. He was born March 11, 1851 in Rolokke from Lolland, Denmark.

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Palmer House

Cassius M. Palmer

Cassius M. Palmer, dealer in real estate, who makes his home at 1809 Jefferson Street, Madison, was born in Erie county, Pa., September 19, 1844.

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Downtown Oregon in the 1900s

Peter H. Peterson

PETER H. PETERSON is recognized as one of the leading tobacco growers of the town of Oregon, where he has lived during the past forty years. He is a native of Denmark and the date of his birth is November 7, 1845, his parents being Peter Mortenson and Dorothea Hanson,

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Downtown Oregon in the 1900s

S. Peterson

S. PETERSON, farmer, Sec. 23; P.O. Stoughton; was born in Norway in 1835; he came to America in 1865; stopped in Chicago for nine years, and in 1874 came to Rutland, Dane Co., where he then bought this farm of 80 acres. He was married in Chicago, in 1869, To

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Mr. John Pierce

J.G. Pierce

J. G. PIERCE, farmer, Sec. 4, 5 and 3; P.O. Oregon, born in 1836, in Jefferson Co., N. Y. son of John and Alvira (Hyatte) Pierce, both natives of New York; in June, 1842, the family settled on a wild, new farm near Janesville, Wis. and after building, breaking, etc.,

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Downtown Oregon in the 1900s

Jacob Rasmussen

JACOB RASMUSSEN was born Oct. 1, 1851 on Bjerne Mark, on Forsenge Svendborg in Denmark, baptized the next year in Brininge Church and confirmed in the same church on Mikkelsdag (St Michael’s Day) 1865. He came to America August 24, 1879 and joined the Rutland Church. Later he was active

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John Muir in nature

John Muir

Because John Muir at one time taught at the Lake Harriet School, Oregon claims this famous naturalist as one of its early inhabitants. Born in Dunbar, Scotland, April 12, 1838, Muir with his father, sister, and two brothers immigrated to Green Lake county, Wisconsin, in 1849, when he was eleven

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Downtown Oregon in the 1900s

Charles Neath

CHARLES NEATH, who is one of the prosperous farmers of the town of Rutland, is a fine example of the self-made man, and his life in an illustration of the opportunities that America affords for the industrious and preserving youth.

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Charles Netherwood

Charles W. Netherwood

CHARLES W. NETHERWOOD, Postmaster of Oregon; born in the town of Watervliet, Albany Co., N.Y., Jan. 14, 1843; three years of his early life were spent in a woolen factory; he came to Wisconsin in 1856, with his parents, Joseph and Emma Netherwood, who settled on a farm in the

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