(From HISTORY OF MITCHELL AND WORTH COUNTIES, IOWA, 1883, Page 758)

Ole Nilson Fjeld is a son of Nils Hanson Fjeld. He was eleven years of age when he came with his parents to the United States. In 1862 he married Carrie Johnson Drayne. In 1870 he left Wisconsin and moved with his family to Worth Co., Iowa, buying the land where he now resides. He has 120 acres. His wife died Jan. 15, 1879. They were the parents of nine children, five of them born in Wisconsin and four in Iowa - I. E., born 1862; Carrie, in 1863; Julia, 1865; Sophia, in 1867; Johanna, in 1869; Syver, in 1871; Anton, in 1873; Simon, in 1875; Martin in 1878. The family are connected with the Lutheran Church.

Transcribed by Gordon Felland, Sept. 11, 2005