Untitled From Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin, publ. 1901- page 948

CHRISTOPHER GULSON (deceased) was in his lifetime an active and honored citizen of the town of York, Grant county, coming here in 1852 from his native country, Norway, where he was born Sept. 17, 1817. In 1843 he as married in his native land to Miss Thora HAUGEN, by whom he had one child, Mary, born Feb. 24, 1845, who accompanied her parents to this country when she was seven years old.

When Mr. GULSON came into Green county he settled on government land, and commenced with but little to aid him beside his strong arm and stout courage. Beginning under the most restricted conditions, and in the greatest poverty, he became, by hard work and unremitting industry, the owner of an extensive and valuable tract of land, consisting of nearly 400 acres in Section 8, about four miles northeast of Blanchardville, with good dwellings and first-class barns. He sustained a fine reputation as a neighbor and business man, and was known to be honest and square in all his dealings. He was a member of the Lutheran Church, in which he was an officer for twenty-five years before his death. In political sentiment he was a Republican.

Mr. GULSON served in the army in his native land, and brought to this country an enlightened and enthusiastic love of liberty. He was highly prized in all the social and domestic relations of life, and was much missed at his death, in 1883. His remains were interred in the old Norwegian cemetery in York. Mrs. GULSON still survives, and is living on the old place, making her home with her daughter, Mary. For the last two years she has been blind. Mary GULSON and Andrew BARGER, a native of Norway, were married June 10, 1888, and to them has come one son, Christopher, born April 15, 1889, a bright and promising young lad. Mr. BARGER is a Republican in politics, and a Lutheran in religion. He and his wife are engaged in the management of the farm. Mrs. BARGER is a hard-working woman, possessed of unusual business qualifications. She belongs to the Lutheran Church, and carries the spirit of her faith into her daily life.

(Transcriber's note - Probably in the second paragraph it should say Grant county, not Green county.)



This biography generously submitted by Carol Holmbeck