Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....Mikaelsen, George 1873 - 
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Author: L. A. Fritsche

GEORGE MIKAELSEN.

    George Mikaelsen, a well-known and substantial farmer of Prairieville
township, this county, owner of a well-developed farm of four hundred and twenty
acres at the edge of the pleasant village of Evan, is a native son of Brown
county, having been born on a farm in the township in which he still makes his
home, March 2, 1873, son of Jens and Koren (Neilsen) Mikaelsen natives of
Denmark, who came to the United States following their marriage in 1872. They
landed at the port of New York and came directly to Brown county, where they
settled on a quarter of a section in Brookville township, Redwood county, and
there established their home, remaining there until Mrs. Mikaelsen died. Mr.
Mikaelsen retired from the farm and moved to Evan in 1904. To Jens Mikaelsen and
wife thirteen children were born, of whom the subject of this sketch is the
eldest, the others being Louis, Anna, Laura, William and Henry. Seven children
are deceased.

    George Mikaelsen was reared on the home farm in Brookville township,
receiving his education in the district school in the neighborhood of his home.
He left school when sixteen years of age and thereafter gave his energies to
assisting his father in the development of the home place. He also presently
bought a threshing-machine outfit and for twenty-two years operated the same in
season throughout that part of the county. At the age of twenty-two he bought
one hundred and fifty acres of land in section 7, Prairieville township, and
twenty-three acres in section 6 and proceeded to improve and develop the same.
In 1898 he married and established his home on that farm and there he lived for
fourteen years, at the end of which time he sold that part of the place,
consisting of the twenty-three acres above mentioned, on which his home stood,
and bought one hundred and fifty acres on the outskirts of the village of Evan,
where he ever since has lived and where he and his family are very comfortably
situated. He has spent about six thousand dollars in improving the place and has
one of the best-kept farms in that neighborhood. In 1914 he bought one hundred
and twenty acres in Brookville township, Redwood county.

    In 1898 George Mikaelsen was united in marriage to Emma Martinson, who was
born in Michigan, daughter of Jens and Kathrine Martinson, pioneers of Redwood
county, this state, and to this union two children have been born, Clarence and
Eyler. Mr. and Mrs. Mikaelsen are members of the Lutheran church at Evan and
take a warm interest in good works throughout that vicinity. Mr. Mikaelsen is an
"independent" voter and takes an active interest in local political affairs, for
eight or ten years having served as overseer of highways in his district.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
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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