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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  SIMON ANDERSON has been engaged in farming in Summit Lake township for the

last twenty years. He is a native of Norway, having been born in Christiansan

May 10, 1868. His parents, Anders Johnson and Annie (Sanders) Johnson, still

reside in their native land, he aged 70 years and she 68 years.



  In 1880 Simon Anderson came to America and located at Rock Valley, Sioux

county, Iowa, where he lived for several years. In the public school of Rock

Valley and a school near Hull, Iowa, he completed his education, which had been

begun in Norway. During the years he spent in Sioux county he worked out at farm

work. He first came to Nobles county in 1884, worked here one season, and then

returned to his former home. In 1888 he again came to the county and it has been

his home ever since. He bought a relinquishment and took as a tree claim the

northeast quarter of section 8, Summit Lake township. Later he changed the

filing to a homestead and proved up on the land. Immediately upon taking his

claim he began making improvements-cultivating the land and setting out trees.

When he changed the filing he erected a shanty, and it was not until 1899 that

he erected his present house thereon. During the first few years he was a

resident of the county he worked out in Rock county, but later devoted his whole

time to the management of the farm. In 1907 he added to his holdings by the

purchase of the southeast quarter of section 5, of the same township.



  Mr. Anderson was married at Adrian Jan. 28, 1899, to Josephine Olson, daughter

of Ole Olson, of Summit Lake. Mrs. Anderson was born in Decorah, Iowa, but came

to Nobles county with her parents at an early age. She was educated in the

public schools of Iowa, at Worthington and Stoughton, Wis., completing it with a

course in the Northwestern Business college, from which she was graduated. She

then began teaching school, which occupation she followed near Canton, S. D.,

three years. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are the parents of the following children:

Annie Marie, Clarence Aaron, John Kenneth and Joseph Simon. Mr. Anderson is a

member of the Odd Fellows lodge of Wilmont. He served six years as school

director, two years as constable and seven years as road overseer.



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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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