Nobles County MN Archives Biographies.....Carstensen, Hans C. 1866 - 
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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  HANS C. CARSTENSEN, proprietor of the hotel and saloon at Round Lake and owner

of several pieces of business property in that village, was born in Germany May

16, 1866, the son of A. Carstensen, who died in his native land in 1907, at the

age of 71 years. The first sixteen years of his life were spent in Germany,

where he received an education and worked in his father's butcher shop.



  Mr. Carstensen came to the United States in 1882 and located near Davenport,

Iowa, where for five years he worked at farm work. He went to California in 1887

and remained there two years. Returning to Davenport he spent two years teaming

and then went back to California and for two years engaged in gold mining in

Eldorado county. In 1894 he located at Holstein, Iowa, and in 1897 at Walcott,

Iowa, where he engaged in farming three years. He moved to Jackson county,

Minn., in the spring of 1901, and engaged in farming in Ewington township three

years. His next move was to Round Lake village, where he started a saloon on

September 1, 1903. He bought the hotel property in 1906 and in October, 1907,

remodeled the building, installed steam heating apparatus and water works, and

refurnished it throughout. He has one of the finest appointed hotels in Nobles

county.



  At Davenport, Iowa, May 21, 1897, Mr. Carstensen was married to Mrs. Emma

(Nienaber) Walker, a native of Muscatine county, Iowa, and a daughter of Fred

Nienaber. To Mr. and Mrs. Carstensen have been born two children: Hilda and

Marie. By her former marriage Mrs. Carstensen is the mother of seven children:

Lena (Mrs. H. Kunze), Hannah (Mrs. B. Bliedorn), Emma (Mrs. M. Reistoffer),

Laura, Lilly (Mrs. John Bliedorn), Annie and Peter.



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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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