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Born 1879
From An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912)
NELS O. ERICKSON (1910) is a dealer in live stock and farm implements in Florence. He is a native of Sweden, born February 15, 1879, and in company with his parents came to the United States when five months old. The family settled in Union county, South Dakota, where our subject resided until coming to Lyon county in 1910.
The father of our subject died in 1892 and thereafter, in company with the rest of the children, Nels conducted the home farm. He began the struggle of life for himself when sixteen years of age. His first undertaking was farming and stock buying, which he continued in the South Dakota home until he became a resident of Lyon county, which was in August,
On his arrival in Lyon county, Mr. Erickson purchased the implement house he now owns from H. P. Sanden and immediately installed a complete stock of farm implements, wagons, pumps, automobiles and buggies. He also buys and ships stock and in company with his brother, E. O. Erickson, deals extensively in hay and
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straw, which they buy and bale for shipment.
Mr. Erickson's mother was married a second time, to Ole Bergstrom, of Tyler. There are five boys and one girl in the family: Erick, Nels O., Betsy, Jona, Ole and Joe.
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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