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Born 1879
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)
Among the well-known farmers and stock raisers, of Trondhjem township, Otter Tail county, Minnesota, is Syvrin Pederson, who was born on the old Pederson homestead in Trondhjem township, Otter Tail county, 'in January 12, 1879, the son ot A. G. and Johanna (Opegard) Pederson, both of whom were natives of Norway, the former born in 1840, and the latter born in the same year. A. G. and Johanna came to America with their parents and located in Fillmore county, Minnesota, where A. < i. and Johanna Pederson were married, after which they came to Otter Tail county, and settled nil three hundred acres of school land in section 35, Trondhjem township, where the elder Pederson lived as a farmer for some time and then went to the states of Minnesota ami North Dakota, where A. G. Pederson acquired considerable land, he at the time of his death being the owner of more than eight hundred acres of land. A. G. Pederson died in the year 191 1, survived by his widow, who now lives mi the home farm in Trondhjem township. A. G. and Johanna Pederson were the parents of the following children: Kari, Julia Augusta, Mollie, and Hannah, who are deceased, and Ole, Syvrin, Edwin, Thora, Henry and Melvin, who are living.
Syvrin Pederson received his early education in the common schools of Trondhjem township, after which he attended Park Region Lutheran College, and then he became a farmer, he renting one hundred and sixty acres of the home-place, where he now is successfully engaged in general farming and in the raising of good grade live stock.
Syvrin Pederson is one of the most active and progressive farmers of Trondhjem township, not only conducting his place after the most approved scientific methods, but he is equipped with the best of machinery and implements for the conduct of his agricultural life. Although Syvrin Pederson is a public spirited citizen interested in the public welfare, he has not aspired I.- public office, but has preferred to serve his community as a private citizen. Mr. Pederson is unmarried.
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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