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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  VICTOR ANDERSON. One of the heaviest land owners of Bigelow township and one

of the most successful farmers and stock raisers is Victor Anderson, who has

lived in the county sixteen years. He owns nearly 800-acres of land, including

all of section 17 except 104 acres on the southwest quarter, west of the

railroad; eighty acres on section 16 and 175 acres on section eight. When he

came to the county in 1892 his farm was prairie land and without improvements of

any kind; today he has one of the best improved farms in the vicinity. He

engages in stock raising and has large herds of cattle, hogs and sheep.



  Mr. Anderson was born in Sweden Dec. 13, 1860. He is one of a family of five

children and is the son of the late Gust Anderson and Mary Anderson. The father

came to the United States in 1867 and located first in Dekalb county, Ill. Later

he moved to Rock Island, Ill., where he resided until 1904, when he moved to

Tacoma, Washington, at which place he died April 15, 1907, aged 78 years. The

mother of our subject is now 70 years of age and resides at Tacoma.



  Victor Anderson came to the United States with his parents in 1867 and for ten

or eleven years lived with them in Dekalb county, Ill. He then took up his

residence in Sac county, Iowa, where he resided about fifteen years. During the

last ten years of his residence there he rented land and engaged in farming. On

March 1, 1892, he came to Nobles county and located on his present farm, 320

acres of which he had purchased before coming to the county. He improved the

farm and engaged in farming and stock raising until the spring of 1904. He then

rented the farm and moved to Worthington, where he resided three years. At the

end of that time he again took up his residence on the farm. In addition to his

Bigelow farm property he owns a house on Fourth street in Worthington. During

the years 1901, 1902 and 1903 Mr. Anderson served as supervisor of Bigelow

township, and during 1903 served as director of school district No. 80.



  In Chicago, on March 26, 1883, Mr. Anderson was united in marriage to Miss

Annie Peterson, a daughter of E. L. Peterson, also a resident of Bigelow

township. Mrs. Anderson was born in Sweden and came to the United States with

her parents when a child. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are the parents of the following

children: Mabel, born Sept. 27, 1884; Ida, born Sept. 7, 1888; Ralph, born June

10, 1891; Bessie, born Feb. 13, 1895. Both Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are members of

the Swedish Lutheran church of Worthington. Mabel was united in marriage to

Chas. M. Pannell July 23, 1908, while Ida married C. L. Newman on May 18, 1908.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 

WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908

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