Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Christenson, John 1828 - 
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JOHN CHRISTENSON, a highly respected and successful farmer residing on section
32, Union Grove township, was born in Sweden, on the 22dof August, 1828, and is
a son of Christen and Betsy Eliason. His early life was spent in the land of his
birth, where he acquired the habits of industry, economy and integrity which are
characteristic of the people of his nationality. In 1868 he came to the United
States with his family and came to Meeker county, Minn., where he took a
homestead of eighty acres on section 6, Swede Grove township. Seven years later
he moved to section 5, where he bought 280 acres of railroad land, and lived
there until the spring of 1887, when he settled upon his present farm on section
32, Union Grove township, having purchased eighty acres there in 1886. He has
divided the rest of his land among his children, giving them a start in the world.

   Mr. Christenson was married on the 27th of December, 1850, to Miss Anna
Pehrson, and their union has been blessed with ten children, as follows:
Christopher, born October 3, 1852; Hannah, born February 5, 1855; Elias, born
May 14, 1857; Ella, born May 27, 1859; Nels, born April 2, 1861, died August,
1861; Nels F., born June 28, 1862; Andrew, born September 28, 1864; Alfred, born
May 12, 1866, died July l, 1868; Alfred, born July 12, 1868, and Herman, born
July 19, 1870.


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


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