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Born 1857
From An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912)
NELS ANDERSON (1882) owns 600 acres of land in Eidsvold township and he and his sons farm it all. The home place is the southwest quarter of section 10 and he owns in addition 160 acres on section 2, eighty acres on section 11, 120 acres on section 9 and eighty acres on section 16. Mr. Anderson has an exceptionally fine farm and is one of the big farmers of Eidsvold township, being rated among the substantial men of northwestern Lyon county.
The birth of Nels Anderson occurred in Denmark November 16, 1857, one of two sons born to Nels and Sophia Anderson. His parents are deceased. His brother is Rasmus Anderson, of Vernon county, Wisconsin. In 1872 Nels accompanied his parents to America. He lived in Allamakee county, Iowa, a few years and in Brookings county. South Dakota, a few years, and in 1882 became a resident of Lyon county. At that time he bought the home quarter section of his farm, which at that time contained as the only improvement a little shack built by a man who took the land as a tree claim. Mr. Anderson has lived on that farm thirty years and has prospered exceedingly.
Mr. Anderson was married in Eidsvold
HOME OF NELS ANDERSON Who Has Lived on This Farm in Eidsvold Township Thirty Years.
f Coon Creek Township, From a Photograph Taken When They Started Farming.
\ township in the fall of 1880 to.Mary Fodness. She was born in Norway and came to the United States when a child. The family came to Lyon county in the early se\ entries. Following are the names of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson: John, who farms a quarter section of his father's land; Carl, a banker of Aneta, North Dakota; Rasmus, who farms another of his father's farms; Edwin, who lives at home; and Sophia, a graduate of the Madison Normal School. The family are members of the Norwegian Lutheran church of Minneota and Mr. Anderson has stock in the Farmers Elevator Company of Minneota.
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.
Named in this biography: Coon Creek
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