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Born 1852
From An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912)
ANDREW NELSON (1868), of Marshall, is the earliest living settler in Lyon county. He was born in Denmark February 1, 1852, and when twenty-three years of age came to the United States. On arriving in his adopted country, Mr. Nelson settled in Wis cousin, where he resided until 1868.
The latter date marks the arrival of our subject to Lyon county, where he took as a pre-emption claim the northwest quarter of section 13, Lynd township, which later proved to be land which the government had granted to the railroad company.' Mr. Nel-
As printed in An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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