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From An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912)
LINCOLN L. ANDERSON (1887) is one of the largest farmers in the southern part of the county, renting the southeast quarter of section 12 in Rock Lake, upon which he makes his home, and farming in addition other land in Rock Lake, Sodus and Custer townships, bringing up his total farming acreage to 600 acres.
Mr. Anderson is a Lyon county product, having been born December 14, 1887, in Custer township. His parents, Charles A. and Mary (Erickson) Anderson, pioneer settlers of Custer township, are now residing on their farm in Rock Lake, near Balaton. Lincoln attended the country school in his district in Sodus when a boy and at the age of nineteen years he engaged in farming on the quarter section in 12, where he now lives. Our subject devotes much of his time to the raising of Hereford cattle, Chester White swine and sheep.
Lincoln Anderson is a member of the Modern Woodmen lodge of Balaton. He was married June 2, 1909, in Custer township, to Lorenta Gifford, a native of Lyon county. Her parents, George B. and Ruth (Hughes) Gifford, were pioneer residents of Custer. Mrs. Anderson was born December 16, 1888.
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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