Nobles County MN Archives Biographies.....Bird, Robert 1836 - 1903
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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  ROBERT BIRD (1836-1903) was one of the pioneer residents of Nobles county,

having come to the new country in 1872 and having made his home here from that

time until his death in 1903. The story of his life is an interesting one.



  He was born in Edinburg, Scotland, Dec. 31, 1836, and the first fifteen years

of his life were spent in his native land. He came to the United State in 1851,

returned to Scotland the following year, but remained only a few months. During

the civil war Mr. Bird served nine months as teamster with the Union army. In

1864 he started to cross the plains from Atchison, Kansas, to California, going

by way of Salt Lake City, and arrived in San Francisco several months later. In

that coast city he resided until 1869, when he took employment with a company to

go to Alaska to trade with the Indians. He traversed the Yukon river as far as

the little village of Anvik, and was employed with this work nineteen months, at

the end of which time he returned to the States. In 1871 he made a trip to New

Zealand. Returning to America he settled in Dupage county, Ill., near the city

of Chicago.



  In Dupage county, Ill., on Jan. 20, 1872, Mr. Bird was married to Miss

Dorathea Blome, who was born in the province of Hanover, Germany, and who came

to the United States and to Illinois in 1870. She was the daughter of Frederick

and Margaret (Hanfield) Blome, who came to the United States the year after

their daughter. The father died in Dupage county, Ill., in 1885, aged 57 years.

The mother died Feb. 7, 1901, aged 72 years. To Mr. and Mrs. Bird were born the

following children: Marion (Mrs. A. E. Yeske), of Bigelow, born May 25, 1874;

Robert, born Feb. 16, 1877, died March 12, 1878; Rudolph, born July 28, 1879;

Fred, born June 27, 1882; Margaret, born July 21, 1889.



  Immediately after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Bird came to Nobles county and

settled on the farm where the widow and children now reside. Coming to the new

country at this early date they passed through all the hardships which the

pioneers were subject to. Mr. Bird died at his home in Bigelow township March

26, 1903. Since his death Mrs. Bird and sons, Rudolph and Fred, have operated

the farm.



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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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