Carl Oman’s Sawmill, Akan Township, Richland County, Wisconsin, ca. 1920.
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- ca. 1920
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Image Description: Black and white image of 15 men, only one identified, standing amongst logs and lumber in various states of being cut up and stacked. The identified man is standing on the metal wheel of a steam engine. There are farm buildings in the background. Same image as p000614-05-09. Carl Oman (1882-1933). Born: ca. 1882, Sweden. Raised in Norway. Emigrated to America in 1901. He worked as a carpenter for many years in Richland County, Wisconsin. Married: 1907 to Anna Zimpel Oman (1890-1976). Farmed in Richland County, Wisconsin for several years. Children: Viva Oman (1909-1925), Esther Bertha Oman (1910-1945), Edith Freda Oman Preston (1913-2001), Everett Oman, Harry Adolf Oman (1918-1996), Albert Oman, Ruth Oman. Lived for a time in Richland County, Wisconsin. Director of the Wisconsin Milk Pool and owned and operated a lumber yard and farm implement business at Boscobel, Wisconsin. Died: 7 Aug 1933, at his home in Boscobel, Wisconsin. Buried: Boscobel, Wisconsin cemetery
- Creator
Rockwell, Albert Simeon, Richland Center & Viola, WI (1877-1945)
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- Recollection Wisconsin
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- Richland County History Room
- Subjects
- Standing on wheel: Oman, Carl (1882-1933)
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Lumber industry
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- This work by Richland County History Room, Richland Center Wisconsin is licensed under a http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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- Rockwell, Albert Simeon, Richland Center & Viola, WI (1877-1945). Carl Oman’s Sawmill, Akan Township, Richland County, Wisconsin, ca. 1920.. ca. 1920. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/rchr/id/10249. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
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- Rockwell, Albert Simeon, Richland Center & Viola, WI (1877-1945), (ca. 1920) Carl Oman’s Sawmill, Akan Township, Richland County, Wisconsin, ca. 1920.. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/rchr/id/10249
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- Rockwell, Albert Simeon, Richland Center & Viola, WI (1877-1945). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/rchr/id/10249>.