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ISAAC H. ISAACSON.
Among the most prominent and successful business men of Pulcifer,
Green Valley township, Shawano county, is Mr. Isaacson. He is a son of
Halvor and Mary (Oleson) Isaacson, and was born in Waukesha
county, Wis., near Ashippun, March 23, 1858.
Halvor Isaacson was a farmer and woodsman in Norway, and in poor
circumstances there. With his wife and eldest child he sailed from Christiania
in 1856, and in June of that year landed in Quebec, Canada. They came locating
first direct to Wisconsin, in Waukesha county, near Ashippun, where he
worked out as a laborer. Later they removed to Dodge county, and remained
there for one year. About 1861 they went to Oakfield, Fond du Lac
Co., Wis., where Mr. Isaacson rented a farm for about four years, then
removed to Waupun, Fond du Lac county, and lived there for six
years. In 1873 they came to Green Valley. Here he purchased eighty acres
of wild land, cleared it, and built a log house for a home. He has since
dealt considerably in land, buying and selling. Mr. Isaacson and
his wife were both born in Norway. They reside at present on the homestead
in Green Valley. Their children were as follows: Annie, deceased wife of
John Johnson; Isaac H., the subject of this sketch; Ole, deceased; Josephine,
who married Chris Henningson, and now resides in Oakfield, Fond du
Lac county; Mary, now Mrs. John Lystul, of Wausau, Marathon county; and
Hattie, Mrs. Howard Locke, of Cecil, Shawano county.
Isaac H. Isaacson received a common school education, and left
school at the age of fourteen. After that time until he was twenty-one
he helped at home on the farm, worked out as a farm hand, ran logs on the
river, and worked in the woods. He started out for himself at twenty-one,
investing in eighty acres of wild land in Green Valley township, which
he still retains, cleared twenty acres, and has been speculating in land
ever since.
In Green Valley, on May 2 1887, Isaac H. Isaacson was united
in matrimony with Miss Jennie Anderson, who was born in Norway, Oct. 9,
1867. Four children have been born to this marriage. When Jennie
Anderson was three years of age she came to the United States with her
parents, Martin and Mina (Christianson) Anderson, who located first in
Sheboygan, Sheboygan Co., Wis., and later in Milwaukee. About 1881 or 1882
they settled in Underhill, Oconto county, and they now reside there on
a farm. After his marriage Mr. Isaacson and his wife located on his first
purchase of eighty acres. He lumbered and farmed for the next four
years, then removed to Pulcifer, started an agency for farm implements
and machinery, and traveled on the road for one season selling his own
goods. In the fall of 1881 he joined with Herman Druckrey in putting up
their present place of business, and in the spring of 1892 they opened
with a stock of hardware and a full line of farm implements and machinery.
Mr. Isaacson has 160 acres of land, which lie in Sections 15
and 22, in Green Valley township. He is a Republican in politics and takes
an active interest in the success of his party. Both Mr. Isaacson and his
wife are members of the Norwegian Lutheran Church. He is honored and respected,
is strictly an American and professes no allegiance to any foreign hierarchy. |