Ole K. Juvland

JUVLAND, EVENSON, OLSON, ASLAKSON

Posted By: Peter Gausmann (email)
Date: 2/1/2010 at 17:35:13

OLE K. JUVLAND

Ole K. Juvland, who carries on general agricultural pursuits on section 23, Center township, and is also actively identified with commercial interests in near-by towns, displays in his business career a spirit of marked enterprise and progressiveness combined with indefatigable energy. He was born in Norway, February 1, 1851, a son of Knute and Asave (Evenson) Olson, who were natives of the same country and there spent their entire lives.

Ole K. Juvland pursued his education in the schools of Norway and a year after attaining his majority bade adieu to friends and native country in order to try his fortune in America. Crossing the Atlantic in 1873, he made his way to Worth county, Iowa, where he worked as a farm hand for ten years. On the expiration of that period he came to Winnebago county and invested his savings in eighty acres of land on section 23, Center township. It was then all covered with timber, but he cleared away the trees and brush and has since improved the tract, converting it into a fine farm. Later he bought another eighty acres and is now owner of one hundred and sixty acres of rich and productive land which he has brought to a high state of cultivation, golden harvests annually rewarding him for the care he bestows upon his fields. He has ever been actuated by a progressive spirit in his business and has become financially interested in several commercial concerns, being a stockholder in the Farmers Elevator Company and in the Lake Mills Creamery Company of Lake Mills, also in the Lake Mills Lumber Company and in the Farmers Elevator Company of Joice, Iowa.

In November, 1887, Mr. Juvland was married to Miss Gunhild Aslakson and they have become parents of four children: Alfred, Carl, Sophia and Signe, all yet at home. The religious faith of the parents is that of the United Lutheran church and to its teachings they loyally adhere. Mr. Juvland has given his support to the republican party since becoming a naturalized American citizen and he is loyal to the interests of his adopted country. Having elected to make this land his home, he has ever felt it to be his duty to protect its interests and he has always stood for those forces which are most worth while in matters of progressive citizenship.

Source: History of Winnebago County and Hancock County, Iowa: A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, Vol. II. Pioneer Publishing Company (Chicago), 1917. p. 124.