Nobles County MN Archives Biographies.....Anderson, Henry M. 1857 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/mnfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com October 19, 2006, 11:07 am Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908) HENRY M. ANDERSON. The oldest Nobles county settler now living in Bloom township and one of the pioneers of the county is Henry M. Anderson, who came with the settlers of 1872. Mr. Anderson is a Norwegian by birth, having been born near the city of Christiana in December, 1857. His father, Martin Anderson, died in the spring of 1873, at the age of 45 years, and is buried in the Indian Lake cemetery. His mother, Mary Anderson, died in 1905. The family came to America in the fall of. 1871 and first settled at Lansing, in Allamakee county, Iowa. That winter they removed across the state line to Brownsville, in Houston county, Minn., where the father secured work on the Southern Minnesota railroad. It was on the third day of July, 1872, that the family arrived in the little village of Worthington with the determination of making a home in the new country. The parents of our subject at once moved to Horton township, Osceola county, Iowa, just over the line from Indian Lake township, where they took a homestead claim. Henry did not move to the claim with his parents but moved to the home of J. N. Dodge, on the bank of Round lake, where for four or five years he was employed herding cattle. For several years thereafter he worked out at different places, making his home at Isaac Horton's, in Indian Lake township. In the spring of 1881 Mr. Anderson started in the well boring business, which he continued, in connection with his farming operations, until ten years ago. He moved to Bloom township in 1886 and bought a homestead relinquishment to the northwest quarter of section 20, proving up on it some years later. He has since added to his real estate holdings by the purchase of the northeast quarter of the same section and eighty acres in Murray county. His home has been on his present farm twenty-two years. Mr. Anderson was married Nov. 18, 1883, in Indian Lake township to Miss Lucy Horton, daughter of the late Isaac Horton and wife, pioneer settlers of Indian Lake. Mrs. Anderson was born in Olmstead county, Minn., Feb. 24, 1866. To them have been born the following children: Ive May (Mrs. Chas. Weitgenant), of Bloom, born May 1, 1884; Henry Leroy, born Dec. 17, 1888; Lena Pearl (Mrs. John Whalen), of Wilmont, born May 8, 1891;. Martin Isaac, born Dec. 7, 1895; Bertha Louisa and Lilly Frances (twins), born Jan. 26, 1901, died Feb. 9 and Feb. 13, 1901, respectively; Justin Thomas, born Nov. 23, 1903; Rolland Earl, born Oct. 6, 1906. Mr. Anderson has held several official positions during his residence in the county. He has served as treasurer, clerk or director of old school district No. 71 and of the new district, No. 103, during nearly all of the time he has lived in Bloom township, and is now a director. He served two terms on the Bloom township board. Additional Comments: Extracted from: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY MINNESOTA BY ARTHUR P. ROSE NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA PUBLISHERS 1908 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mn/nobles/bios/anderson39gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mnfiles/ File size: 3.6 Kb