Family Tree Osker

Eddie Oscar Olander		b. Mar. 30, 1881,	Chicago, Illinois	d. April 19, 1970 Fort Collins, CO
	Education:	Grade School
	Career:	Shepard, Carpenter, Farmer/Rancher, School Bus Driver, Dray-line owner and worked for Burlington Rail Road
	Hobbies, Interests and Activities:	"Cowboy Art", playing cards with his cronies
	Interned:	Grover, Colorado
	Comments: Known to us as "grandpa Ed", he left Chicago as an independent youth - hopping a freight car to make his way west and by the age of 14 he had become the foreman on the Eubank sheep ranch. While still a teenager, he returned alone to Chicago to have all of his teeth removed and then returned to Colorado. In 1914 he filed a Homestead Patent on the Grover property south of town. After leaving the homestead and moving to town he had a variety of positions until retiring in 1943. All of his sons were outstanding athletes, the three were starters together on the same college basketball team. Links to addition comments: Roger, Margaret
Married:		Mar. 6, 1907	Grover, Colorado
Margaret Dunker Carsten		b. Nov. 1, 1885		d. Oct. 16, 1918
	Comments: Margaret was of Germany heritage and is thought to have been the first pioneer child born in Weld County, Colorado. I have listed below the birth place of their children as the nearest town, but they most likely were all born at home as dad's birth certificate just states "Rural Weld County" for place of birth. Maggie died in the flu epidemic of 1918.
	Interned:	Grover, Colorado
Children:
	Winona Margaret	b. Dec. 25, 1907	Brush, Colorado	d. Jan. 3, 1967 Casper, Wyo.
	Emil Edward	b. Dec. 8, 1908	Grover, Colorado	d. Jan. 26, 1999 Fort Collins, CO
	Virgil Vernon	b. Feb. 4, 1910	Grover, Colorado	d. Sept. 4, 1996 Folsom, CA
	Russell Leroy	b. Jun. 25, 1911	Grover, Colorado	d. Mar. 22, 1971 Long Beach, CA
	John Carl	b. Feb. 25, 1913	Grover, Colorado	d. Oct. 3, 1919 Greeley, CO.
	Comments: John died from a ruptured appendix at age 6. The family had taken him into town (Grover) with stomach pains but the doctor diagnosed him as having severe indigestion and sent him back home. After returning home John's condition worsened so they tried to rush him to the Greeley hospital, where he died as the appendix had already ruptured.

Grandpa Ed - Sometime near the time he moved from Grover to Fort Collins (1960s)

Ed behind - Winona, John, Emil and Virgil - Nov., 1917
This is the only reasonable picture I have of John.

Back Row: Virgil, Emil, Russell
Front Row: Helen Andrews(?), Eleanor Althouse, Catharine Abbey (Maiden names)
Early 1930's (?)

Here is a topo map of part of Weld county with Grandpa Ed's original homestead outlined in green. The homestead was 320 acres in size with Crow Creek "flowing" through the south end of the property. The house was located near the creek The parcel is somewhat closer to Grover (10 miles - upper right) than to Brigsdale (12 miles -lower left) but Grover was the town the family associated with. The buildings are still shown on USGA Topo maps (but not at this scale), as is Winona's old house in the town of Grover.