of Audubon County, Iowa · documented from the public record
The family in the record
Nels Mortensen
Nels Mortensen⚭ Cloe Petty (Redpath)
childrenGeorge M. Mortensen · Harvey Mortensen
Source: History of Audubon County, Iowa (1915)
Their story
What the record says
History of Audubon County, Iowa (1915).
Immigrant from Denmark.
Farmer, then hardware-store owner at Hamlin, Iowa (bought Johnson & Carstensen store in 1909).
Stockholder and organizer of Farmers Savings Bank of Hamlin.
Democrat.
Lutheran.
Wife was a school teacher for four years after marriage.
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