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Born 1866
From History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota : its people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families (1916)
NELS T. MOEN.
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Nels T. Moen was born in Freeborn county, Minnesota, May 26, 1866, the son of [ollef and Man (Nelson) Moen. When-Tollef Nelson was twenty-two years old, in 1856, he and his brother landed in Quebec, Canafter a fourteen week voyage on the ocean from Norway. Upon arriving in Quebec, the two brothers borrowed enough money to reach their destination, traveling by land and by canal boat until they reached Michigan. From.Michigan they walked several hundred miles, finally reaching their uncle's home at Big Canoe, Iowa.
Tollef Nelson and his brother farmer in Iowa for a time and then ed to Waseca county, Minnesota, where they worked at farming on shares. Later they moved to the next county, Freeborn, and there worked in the same way. In 1868, they purchased a yoke of oxen and a wagon and moved to Otter Tail county, settling in Tumuli township. They each took a homestead near Dalton and there Tollef Nelson spent the rest of his life, his death occurring in October. 1895.
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As printed in History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota : its people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families (1916). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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