Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Fosen, Amos Nelson 1837 - 
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    AMOS NELSON FOSEN, ex-county treasurer of Meeker county, and now a prominent
farmer residing on section 31, Litchfield township, is a native of Norway, born on
the 26th of September, 1837, and a son of Nels and Malline (Hovelsen) Gunderson. His
father died in Norway in 1886 at the age of eighty-two years, and the mother is
still a resident of his native land. In 1855 Amos sailed for the United States, and
after spending one year in Wisconsin, he came to Meeker county, Minn., becoming .one
of the six original settlers of Litchfield township. He first took up a timber claim
on section 25, in Acton township, but afterward settled on section 30, in Litchfield
township, and retained property there until 1887, when he sold that and rented the
Crowe farm on section 31, where he now lives. In 1861 he went to Fort Snelling to
enlist for service in the army, but before being sworn in he received a commission
as a recruiting officer and started for home to raise men. He had to walk the entire
distance and sleep out of doors at night, thereby contracting rheumatism, which
unfitted him for service, and from which he has never fully recovered. At the time
of the Indian outbreak in 1862 his farm was tenanted by Burger Anderson, and he only
spent a portion of the time there. He was employed as a farm hand by Jones, and
narrowly escaped being one of the party that was murdered on that fatal Sunday —
August 17, 1862.

   After the excitement attendant on the Indian troubles had somewhat subsided he
returned to his farm. He was married, in 1869, to Rachel Hanson, a daughter of
Christopher Hanson. They have had eight children, one of which died in infancy, and
the rest are all living at home, as follows — Nels A., Mathilda Caroline, Laura
Marie, Ragna Amelia, Agnes Rosilia, Hjalmar Arthur and Gunda Mabel. The family are
active members of the Ness Norwegian Lutheran church. Mr. Fosen has always taken a
commendable interest in all public matters and has held a great many local offices,
besides which he held the office of county treasurer for three successive terms.


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


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