Nobles County MN Archives Biographies.....Anton, Philip 1854 - 1896
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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  PHILIP ANTON (1854-1896). Prominent in business and social circles and held in

high esteem by all his neighbors and associates was Philip Anton, who lived in

Worthington and the vicinity from 1886 till his death in 1896. He was born at

Germantown, Wis., August 27, 1854, and was of German descent. His father, Philip

Anton, was a native of Grundersblum, Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany, where he was

born April 20, 1826. He emigrated to the United States in 1848. His wife, and

the mother of Philip Anton of this sketch, was Elizabeth Magdalena (Harman) Anton.



  The Antons moved from Wisconsin to Blackhawk county, Iowa, when the late

Philip Anton was a child, and in the vicinity of Laporte he was raised and grew

to manhood. Until his twenty-third year he was employed on his father's farm,

then he moved onto one of his father's places and began farming for himself. In

the spring of 1886 he sold out his interests in Iowa and came to Nobles county.

He purchased a farm in Worthington township, one and one-half miles south of the

village of Worthington, and for several years devoted his energies to farming.



  In 1890 he took up his residence in Worthington and accepted a position with

the Farmers' Mercantile Co., and continued with that firm several years, until

the firm failed. He then accepted a position with the Union Mercantile Co., of

which Chas. Salstrom was manager, and continued with that firm until his death,

September 15, 1896.



  Mr. Anton was married in 1877 to Elizabeth Pfeil, who survives her husband and

lives on the home place south of Worthington. To them were born five children:

Nellie, who died in infancy; Jennie (Mrs. John Apel), Elk township; Lally (Mrs.

Otto Schmuser), Lake Park, Iowa; Charlie, born Sept. 11, 1886, now engaged in

farming the home place; Walter, born September 27, 1888, residing in Seattle, Wash.



  Mr. Anton was prominent in church work. He became a member of the Evangelical

Association while living in Iowa, and he was one of the founders of the church

of that denomination in Worthington.



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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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