In the book's own words, not ours, with obvious scanning errors fixed. Families often supplied these stories to the publisher, so check key dates.
Born 1873
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)
PEDER LIEN.
Few men in Otter Tail county have a wider acquaintance than former Justice of the Peace Peder Lien, of Amor township, who is one of the best-known citizens of the Richville neighborhood and who held in very high esteem throughout that entire section of the county.
Peder Lien, who was born on April 21, 1873. is a brother of Joint Lien, whose biographical sketch, presented elsewhere in this volume of biography, carries further details of the genealogy of the well-known Lien family, to which the reader is referred for additional information regarding that phase of the biography of the subject of this sketch. Reared on the home farm. receiving a common-school education, Peder Lien early became a farmer on his own account, having bought the farm on which he now lives in [899. This is a tine farm of eight) acres and is under excellent cultivation, all the improvements on the same having been made by the present owner, who built the barn in iooi and his present house in 1903.
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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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