{geni:about_me} He left Norway when he was 16 and went to Crookston, Minn; then to Oldham, S.D. and then Bryant, S.D. He had a saloon. In Hayti, SD he had a store and restaurant with a pool hall. He kept a summer cottage at Lake Norden near Hayti and had boats. In the summer the Lars Holm family and Anna Hanson family vacationed. Thelma Lindsey (Bertha Arne and Lars Holm's daughter, remembered what a wonderful time they had when they were little. All the children loved him. After his father died in 1912, Ole wenet back to Norway (in 1915) and built a house for his sister Johanna there.