Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....Rowland, Nathan 1853 - 
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Author: L. A. Fritsche

NATHAN ROWLAND.

    Nathan Rowland, well-known and progressive farmer and stockman, of
Cottonwood township, this county, proprietor of a fine farm of three hundred and
twenty acres eight miles from New Ulm, where he has lived since he was sixteen
years old, is a native of the gallant little land of Wales. He was born in North
Wales in 1853, son of Hugh and Ellen Rowland, both natives of that land, farming
people there, who came to the United States in 1859 and settled in Wisconsin,
where they bought a farm and there made their home until 1869, in which year
they came to Minnesota and settled in Wisconsin, where they bought a farm and
there made their home until 1869, in which year they came to Minnesota and
settled in Brown county. Hugh Rowland bought a farm of forty acres in Cottonwood
township and there he established his family and he and his wife spent their
last years there. He and his wife were the parents of two children, the subject
of this sketch having a sister, Mrs. Ellen Wedwords, widow of William Wedwords,
who makes her home with her brother in Cottonwood township. She has four
children, Samuel, Hugh, George and Frank.

    Nathan Rowland was about six years old when he came to this country and he
received his education in the schools of Wisconsin, where he lived until he was
about sixteen. After coming to Brown county he devoted his time to assisting his
father in the development of the home farm and has continued to make his home
there. Upon his father's death he bought the home place and has continued to add
to the same until he is now the owner of a well-cultivated farm of three hundred
and twenty acres, on which he has erected about five thousand dollars' worth of
improvements, and is regarded as one of the most substantial farmers in that
neighborhood. Mr. Rowland is a Republican and has ever given his earnest
attention to local political affairs. For a number of years he held the office
of director of his school di strict and also served for four or five years as
supervisor of highways in his district. He and his sister are members of the
Congregational church and take a proper interest in the various good works of
the community.


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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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