Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Dime, John E. 1842 - 
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  JOHN E. DIME, farmer, of Swede Grove township, is a native of Sweden, born
November 13, 1842, and a son of Carl and Catharina (Born Janson) Anderson. He came
to the United States in 1868, and first stopped at Ishpeming, Marquette county,
Mich., where he worked in the iron mines until the spring of 1884, when he came to
Swede Grove township, Meeker county, Minn., and purchased 160 acres of land on
section 32, where he has since lived.

   Mr. Dime was married on November 15, 1873, to Miss Johanna Johnson, and the
couple have been blessed with the following named children— Erick Adolphus, who was
born August 16, 1874; Samuel Edward, born October 17, 1876; Hannah Elizabeth, born
July 31, 1880; Ernst W., born October 10, 1883 (died same day); and Oscar Emanuel,
born February 18, 1886. Mr. Dime’s sister is married to John J. Berg, a resident of
Pope county, Minn. Mr. Dime has been very successful since coming to this country,
as he was so poor when he left the old country that he was obliged to borrow money
to pay his passage. He now has a good farm and a comfortable home, while in the way
of stock he already has a good start.

   While Mr. Dime was not here at the time of the Indian massacre, so as to have an
experience in the war against them, nevertheless he has his adventures to relate
from the mines when his life was endangered, and he had some narrow escapes. One
instance, when a part of the Lake Shore Iron Mining Company’s mine caved in, filling
up Mr. Dime’s working place with 22,000 tons of rock, he had to run for his life,
while the rocks rolled in after him. Another time he had a very narrow escape from a
falling rock from the back of a tunnel where he kept his tools; he was engaged in
looking over the tools; when a solid block, one-and one-half tons in weight, fell
down close to his side, touching his clothes, but not hurting him in the least.
Another time his tender dropped the contents of a smoking pipe right in the hole on
the naked powder, when he (Dime) was charging up for a blast, but God, the Almighty,
led the fire so as not to come in contact with the powder, and no accident
happened.

   Still another time, God, who leads the fates of men, kept his hand between, when
he went back after due time after blasting, to find out the cause of a missing hole.
He stepped right up to the missed blast, touched the fuse with his hands, but
suspecting something wrong went out of the pit, going well out of danger. The blast
exploded, throwing the rocks after him, anid he had great cause to thank God for his
deliverance.


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


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