Nobles County MN Archives Biographies.....Anderson, John A. 1865 - 
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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  JOHN A. ANDERSON has recently retired from active farming pursuits and now

resides in Worthington. For seventeen years he was engaged in farming in Graham

Lakes township, where he still owns property.



  Mr. Anderson was born on the island of Oeland, Sweden, Aug. 3, 1865, and is

the son of A. P. Olson and Elizabeth (Peterson) Olson. His parents still reside

in their native land, his father at the age of 75 years and his mother aged 68

years. For sixteen years our subject lived with his parents on the island off

the southeastern coast of Sweden. He was raised on a farm and secured a common

school education in his native land, completing it with a one year's course in

the United States.



  When sixteen years of age Mr. Anderson came to the new world and located at

Galva, Ill., where for ten years he worked at farm work for wages. He came to

Nobles county in 1890 and bought the northeast quarter of section 32, Graham

Lakes township, his wife later becoming the owner of the north half of the

northwest quarter of the same section. He farmed there five years; then sold out

and returned to Illinois. After a six weeks' residence in his old home, he

returned and repurchased his Graham Lakes farm, which he operated until the

spring of 1908. He then rented his farm, purchased residence property in

Worthington, and has since made his home in the county seat town. During his

residence in Graham Lakes he served four years as clerk of school district No. 31.



  Mr. Anderson was married at Kewanee, Ill., Dec. 31, 1889, to Emma Schoonover,

a native of Kewanee and a daughter of Rossiter and Margery Schoonover. Mr. and

Mrs. Anderson are the parents of one child, Hazel, born June 18, 1893. 



  In the fall of the present year, Mr. Anderson visited his parents in Oeland,

Sweden.



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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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