Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....Mickelson, Peter 1857 - 
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Author: L. A. Fritsche

PETER MICKELSON.

    Among the well-kept and productive farmsteads of Linden township, Brown
county, is that owned by Peter Mickelson, who is known as a very careful farmer.
He was born on January 7, 1857, in Norway, and is a son of Michael and Julia
(Peterson) Jacobson. The father was a peddler in his early life. He owned a
small sailing vessel in which he plied up and down the coast, selling his wares
in different towns, continuing thus until 1858, when he came to the United
States, bringing his family, which consisted of his wife and seven children.
They made what was considered at that time a quick trip across the Atlantic, the
voyage occupying only three weeks. They landed at Quebec, Canada, and went
direct to Wisconsin, where they spent six years, coming to Brown county,
Minnesota, in 1864, making the trip with oxen and a covered wagon or prairie
schooner, the time required being about six weeks. The father homesteaded land
on the Watonwan and Brown county line, and this he developed and lived on until
his death.

    Peter Mickelson received only a limited education, attending school but a
few days, for the family was poor and he had to go to work when but a small boy
to help support it. He remained with his parents until he was twenty-eight years
old, at which time he bought one hundred and twenty acres of land in section 25,
Linden township, Brown county. It was railroad land and cost ten dollars per
acre. It was on the prairie. His first home was a log hut, eleven by twelve
feet, with a shanty lean-to, in which he lived until 1887, when, having
prospered by hard work and good management, he built a comfortable frame house
which has since been added to and is now a good residence. He bought more land
until he now owns two hundred acres, all in section 25, Linden township.

     Mr. Mickelson was married in Watonwan county, July 11, 1875, to Marie
Lumberg, who was born on April 12, 1855, in Christiania, Norway. She is a
daughter of Erick and Martha (Lumberg) Lumberg. The father was a farmer and he
came to America when Marie was six years old, in 1861. He at once established
his home in Brown county, Minnesota, taking up a homestead. They lived here
during the Indian troubles and were driven from their home on several occasions
by the savages, fleeing to Mankato for protection. Their farm was located in
section 26. Linden township, and here the parents spent the rest of their lives,
Theirs was one of the first farms in this township.

     Five children have been born to Mr. Midkelson and wife, namely: Martin,
born on November 1, 1876, married Lena Larson, and they live in Blue Earth
county and have four children, Peter, Helma, Gladys and Marvin L.; Matilda, born
on August 6, 1878, married Lars Erickson, and they live in Linden township;
Edward, born on January 13, 1880, married Anna Hustoft, and they live on the
home farm; Minnie, born on March 12, 1881; Peter, born on April 6, 1883, lives
in Penington county, South Dakota, where he has a homestead.

     Mr. Mickelson and family are members of the Norwegian Lutheran church of
Linden township, which church was founded partly through the assistance of the
parents of Mr. and Mrs. Mickelson, in the year 1867.



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HISTORY OF BROWN COUNTY MINNESOTA
ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS

L. A. FRITSCHE. M. D.
Editor

With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records
of Many of the Old Families

VOLUME II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana

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