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From An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912)
AM of 1895. Ten years before that date he and his brother Henry had purchased the northeast quarter of section 36, Shelburne township, and to that place our subject moved after his marriage. He has ever since resided on the farm and has added to his holdings.
For four years Mr. Etrheim was a director of the Balaton Farmers Co-operative Company and he is still one of the stockholders. He has been a county commissioner for the past four years and has held a number of local offices, including clerk of school district No. 68 for six years and justice of the peace.
Mr. Etrheim was married in Chicago March 7, 189 5, to Celia T. Prestegaard. She was born in Odda, Hardanger, Norway, February 25, 1862, a daughter of Torgels K. and Britta (Hildal) Prestegaard. The former lives' in Norway; the latter died in 1874. To Mr. and Mrs. Etrheim was born one child, Eilif, born February 20, 1896, and died March 1, 1896.
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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