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From An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912)
SORN A. ANDERSON (1910) has been farming in Island Lake township since 1910, in which year he moved there from South Dakota and bought the northeast quarter and the north half of the southeast quarter of section 1. He is successfully farming the 2 40 acres and is devoting some time to stock raising.
Our subject's parents were natives of Norway. Hans and Ronoge (Hagen) Anderson came from Norway when quite young and were married in this country. The father was a shoemaker by trade and followed that occupation many years in Mankato, Minnesota. Sorn was born in that city July 9, 1876, and was brought up there and attended school until the age of fifteen years. The family then moved to Kossuth county, Iowa, where the father rented land and became a farmer and later bought eighty acres.
Sorn was at home with his parents until 1900; then he went to Brown county, South Dakota, bought a half section of land, and commenced farming for himself. He later sold 160 acres and then farmer his remaining quarter until 1910, in which year re sold out and came to Lyon county. He purchased the land where he now resides and has made a well-improved property out of it.
The ceremony which united Sorn Anderson and Hannah Quist in the holy bonds of matrimony was performed in Nicollet county, Minnesota, February 12, 1903. To this union three children were born, Olive, Victor and Throdore. Mrs. Anderson was born in Nicollet county April 3, 1876, and is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nels Quist.
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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