Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Berggren, Peter 1860 - 
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  PETER BERGGREN, a respected and intelligent farmer residing on section 35, Union
Grove township, is a son of Nels O. and Meta Berggren, and was born in Sweden on the
27th of July, 1860. His parents brought the family to the United States in 1868 and
made their way directly to Meeker county, Minn. They first stopped at Grove City,
and the father took a homestead near there, upon which they lived for five years,
proving up on the place, but afterward lost it on a mortgage, having had bad luck
with their crops. They then settled on another farm where they lived three years,
but the grasshoppers came and destroyed their grain and they lost that farm. In
March, 1879, they came to Union Grove township and the father purchased 200 acres of
land on sections 35 and 3G, where the family still reside. The father died there on
the 4th of September, 1879, and the mother on the 2d of February, 1888. They were
both honest and industrious people and were held in high respect by all who knew
them. They had a family of eleven children, six of whom are dead and five living.
The living children are as follows: Peter, born July 27, 1860; Ole, born September
5, 1862; Andrew, born July 17, 1869; William, born February 8, 1871; and John, born
July 16, 1875.

    Peter has charge of the farm and is a successful and industrious young man, who
is certain to succeed in his farming operations. The farm is well stocked, and is
one of the most valuable in the township.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888


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