Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Knudsen, Nels P 
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Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

Knudsen, Nels P. – Of the Grundy County men who have followed agricultural 
pursuits and have so prospered that in the evening of life they are able to 
live retired and enjoy the competence brought to them by their years of labor, 
Nels P. Knudsen, of Good Farm Township, is an example.  He was born in 
Schleswig-Holstein, Denmark (now a part of Germany), January 9, 1838, and 
there attended school until the age of eleven years.  At that time he 
commenced to learn the trade of tailor, at which he worked until 1860, and in 
that year had several months’ military experience.

Being ambitious to better his condition, Mr. Knudsen came, in 1867, to the 
United States, and almost immediately settled in Grundy County, Ill.  For a 
short time he worked at his trade, that of tailoring, in Dwight, then spent 
one season as a farm hand, and then rented land and farmed for himself until 
1872.  In that year he purchased eighty acres of land in Good Farm Township, 
but thirty acres of which had been broken, and at once settled down to develop 
his farm.  He succeeded in making it a handsome and valuable tract, received 
good returns for his ventures, and through industry and well-directed effort 
accumulated a competence.  In 1906 he retired from business, and since that 
time has rented out his land.  Mr. Knudsen is a Republican in politics, and 
the religious connection of the family is with the Danish Lutheran Church of 
Dwight, the movements of which Mr. Knudsen supports liberally.

In the fall of 1867, Mr. Knudsen was married (first) to Kern Lauritsen, who 
was also born in Denmark, and she died in 1907, without issue.  On September 
5, 1907, Mr. Knudsen married Mattie H. Buskof, who was born in La Salle 
County, Ill., and one daughter has been born to them:  Kern Christina, born 
August 23, 1910.

pages 847-848

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Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

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