History, Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Its cities, towns, resources, people

              992 HISTORY OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY.
the public schools of Neenah, was graduated from the dairy school at Aladison, and AAdth his elder brother is engaged in farming on the home place.
Rev.' Jeres N. Jersild, a representative business man and manufacturer of Neenah, Wisconsin, is a native of Denmark, and Av'as born March 21, 1855. He acquired his education in the public schools of his native place and at the University in Copenhagen, where he prepared himself for the gospel ministry, and was grad¬ uated in 1884.
Coming to the United States in 1884 he first accepted a call to a church in Chicago, but on account of failing health resigned his pas¬ torate and took charge of a Danish Lutheran church in Freeborn county, Minnesota, where he remained three and a half years. In 1889 he settled at Neenah, Wisconsin, and for a period of eight years served as pastor of the Danish Lutheran church at Neenah, mean¬ while devoting much time to the Jersild Publishing Company at Neenah, in the publication of books and papers in the Danish lan¬ guage. This enterprise is now carried on by the church convention at Blair, Neb., whither the plant has been removed.
In 1899 Mr. Jersild visited Europe and on his return organized on a small scale what is now known as the Jersild Knitting Company, which was operated as a copartnership for a time, but in 1901, was incorporated under' the laws of AVisconsin with Mr. Jersild as presi¬ dent, which ofiice he filled until the reorganization of the company in 1904, when he became general manager of the concern. At the present time—1908—-the ofiicers of the company are George Madson, president; E. E. Jandrey, Adce president; Gustav Kalfahs, secretary. The company^s plant is located at No. 329 North Commercial si^reet, and under the able management of those having charge of its affairs the business has developed and groAAm to large proportions, employ¬ ing some seventy-five operators, besides the ofiicial force. Besides the manufacture of wool and worsted sweaters, men^s cardigans, etc., the company makes a specialty of ladies and children's, and, in fact, all kinds of fancy knit goods.
Mr. Jersild possesses fine business abilities, and Avields a wide in¬ fiuence in the community AA^here he has become so well and favorably known, and such has been his demeanor in all his varied relations that none stands higher in public esteem than he. In earlier years he was a Democrat in political sentiment, but for some time has been identified with the Republican party.
On May 25, 1884, Air. Jersild married, in Copenhagen,. Miss Laura Yberg, a woman of fine mental endowments and cultured tastes, who