In the book's own words, not ours, with obvious scanning errors fixed. A few names of people born after 1905 are withheld for privacy. Families often supplied these stories to the publisher, so check key dates.
Born 1887
From An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912)
RASMUS N. ANDERSON (1887), Eidsvold township farmer, has spent his entire life in Lyon county. He is a son of Nels and Mary Anderson, early settlers and still residents of Eidsvold township. He is one of a family of five children, the others being John, Carl, Edwin and Sophia.
Rasmus was born on his father's Eidsvold township farm March 7, 1887. He attended the district school and St. Olaf College at Northfield, being graduated from the academy in 1907. Two years after his graduation Rasmus moved on one of his father's farms, the east half of the northeast quarter of section 16, Eidsvold, and has since been engaged in its cultivation.
On December 22, 1909, Mr. Anderson was married to Nellie Kvanbeck. She is also a native of Lyon county, having been born on her father's Eidsvold township farm April 23, 1886. She is a daughter of Knute S. Kvanbeck, one of the county's early settlers. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson have one child, [name withheld], born September 30, 1911.
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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