Nobles County MN Archives Biographies.....Burgeson, Henry 1843 - ************************************************ 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 November 3, 2006, 6:02 pm Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908) HENRY BURGESON is a Graham Lakes township farmer, who after having followed the sea the greater part of his life, came to Nobles county twenty-one years ago, and has since been engaged in the less strenuous life of an agriculturist. He is a Norwegian by birth, having been born in Stavanger March 25, 1843, the son of Burgess Burgeson, a farmer. He attended the common schools until fourteen years of age, and then began work in a cabinet shop, which occupation he followed for six years. At the age of 20 he went to sea, which he was destined to follow twenty-three years. During the first three or four years of his life aboard ship he served as a carpenter. Then he took a one year's course in a navigation school, and thereafter served as a seaman. For eleven years he was a captain, and during that time sailed the Mediterranean, Black, Baltic and North seas. In 1886 Captain Burgeson quit the sea, came to America, and direct to Nobles county. He purchased the northwest quarter of section 14, Graham Lakes, at that time, and has ever since been engaged in farming that property. Mr. Burgeson was married in Norway in 1869 to Christina Davidson, who died in 1881. Three children were born to this union, Bernhard, Harry and Johanna. 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/burgeson246gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mnfiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb