Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Johnson, Peter 1835 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/mnfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 December 25, 2019, 9:05 pm Source: Alden, Ogle & Co. Author: See Below JOHN BLOMBERG is a prominent farmer who resides on section 18, Acton township. Hie is a native of Sweden, born October 27, 1835, and is a son of Jones and Engriel Blomberg. In 1857 he came to the United States and settled in Chisago county, Minn., where for three years he was engaged at farming and lumbering. He than went to Olmstead county, where for two years he worked for different parties. Returning to Chisago county, he made that his home until 1864, when he went to Taylor’s Falls and enlisted in Company D, Third Minnesota Volunteer Infantry. He served one year with his regiment, and after being honorably discharged he worked in Chicago, Goodhue and other counties until 1867, when he came to Meeker county and took a homestead claim in Acton township. For nearly a year after this he worked in the pineries, but in 1868 he settled on his homestead and has since lived there. He was a poor man when he came to the United States and was even obliged to borrow a portion of the money with which he paid his passage; but his perseverance, industry and economy have been rewarded, and he is now in comfortable circumstances and getting along well. He owns 212 acres of land, 110 acres of which are under cultivation and he also has a great deal of stock. He has met with some reverses in his farming operations, especially during the grasshopper raids, when he lost all the wheat on eighty acres except sixty bushels. lie says he saved some oats that year, but “there were more grasshopper legs than grain.” Mr. Blomberg has taken an active interest in all public matters and has held many local offices, including the following: School clerk, ever since he came here; county commissioner, now serving his second term ; was chairman of supervisors one term ; town clerk two years; and was assessor four terms. lie is the present secretary of the Insurance Company of Acton and Genesee; which includes twenty-five townships in Meeker and Kandiyohi counties. The company was organized in 1884 and now has a membership of about 600, and is carrying risks to the amount of about $800,000. Mr. Blomberg was married, by a justice in the town of Acton, in the house where the Indians killed the first whites in Meeker county, inaugurating the terrible outbreak of 1862. The marriage occurred on the 25th of September, 1869, with Miss Lena M. Peterson, who was born July 7, 1842. They have been blessed with the following children— Charles E., born May 26,1879, died February 6, 1878; Anna Christina, born July 14, 1871; Emily Catharine, born June 30, 1873; Ida Victoria, born September 1, 1875; Victor Emanuel, born January 5, 1877; Alice Charlotte, born August 27, 1880, died March 21, 1881; Claus Edward, born February 4,1882; Peter Eugene, born February 27, 1885; and Hattie Maria, born November 24, 1887. Additional Comments: Extracted from: Illustrated Album of Biography Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota 1888 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mn/meeker/bios/johnson19nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mnfiles/ File size: 3.5 Kb