Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Magnuson, Charles 1834 - 
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  CHARLES MANGUSON. This gentleman is a thrifty and respected farmer who resides on
section 33, Litchfield township. He is a native of Sweden, born on the 3d of
February, 1834, and a son of Magnus and Katrina Nelson. When he was seventeen years
of age he enlisted in the Swedish Artillery and served about two years, when he
received his discharge on account of an injury received in cannon practice. In 1857
he came to the United States and after living about three years in Chisago and
Kandiyohi counties, he settled in Meeker county. In the spring of 1862, he was
married to Mrs. Anna Colberg, widow of Nels Colberg (deceased), and they settled on
a farm near Lake Harold, where he was living when the Indian outbreak began. Upon
receiving the warning he started with his family for Forest City, but when they had
arrived within two and a half miles of that place, darkness came on and a terrific
rain storm set in. From necessity, therefore, he and his wife and their four
children slept all night on the prairie in the beating and drenching rain. The next
day they got to Forest City, and after remaining there and at Kingston for several
days they went to Anoka and made that their home for two years. In the fall of 1864,
Mr. Manguson moved back to Meeker county and took up a homestead near the present
site of Litchfield village, and after living there for six years traded the
homestead for his present farm on section 33. In 1870 his first wife died. In 1872
he was married to Siso Swanson, who was born in Sweden November 29, 1831, and who
came to the United States in 1871. By this marriage they have had four children—
Johanna, William, Mathilda (deceased), and Mathilda.

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


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