Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Swanson, Fred 1846 - 
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   FRED SWANSON. The subject of this biography, a prominent and respected farmer,
residing on section 2, Greenleaf township, is a native of Sweden, born May 5, 1846.
He remained in his native land until twenty-one years of age, when he came to the
United States and settled in Marquette county, Mich. For six years he was employed
in the iron mines in that county, and then came to Meeker county, Minn., and
purchased a farm on section 2, in Greenleaf township. By good management, industry
and economy he has been very successful in his farming operations, notwithstanding
the fact that he has met with the partial loss of crops in various years, and is to
day in comfortable circumstances and justly rated as one of the substantial and
“solid ” citizens of his township. He has an excellent farm of 213 acres, about half
of which is under cultivation, and has it well stocked. The place is a valuable one,
and is located in the best farming district in Meeker county.

  Mr. Swanson was married in 1869 to Miss Mary L. Walstrom. She was a native of
Sweden, and had settled in Marquette county, Mich., in 1869, being twenty-three
years old at that time. Her father died when she was yet a child, and her mother
remained in Sweden until 1882, when she came to live with her daughter in Greenleaf.
Mr. and Mrs. Swanson have been the parents of seven children, six of whom are still
living. Their names are as follows— Clara J., born March 29, 1870; Carl J., born
September 27, 1873; Helma M. (deceased), born October 14, 1875, died December 24,
1886; Ida E., born September 6, 1878; Esther M., born April 1, 1881; Hulda E., born
June 1, 1885; and Sigfrid E., born December 4, 1886.


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


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