Nobles County MN Archives Biographies.....Cruit, Michael 1855 - 
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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  MICHAEL CRUIT, farmer and stock raiser of Bloom township, is one of the early

settlers of that township. He owns the south half of section 30, a short

distance from the village of Wilmont, one-half of which he homesteaded.



  Mr. Cruit was born in Queens county, Ireland, in July, 1855, the son of John

and Ellen (Wall) Cruit. His parents both died in Ireland, the former in 1870,

aged 55 years; the latter in 1872, at the age of 47 years. In his native land

Michael was raised on a farm, living there till eighteen years of age. In the

spring of 1873 Mr. Criiit came to the United States. He spent his first summer

in the new world working on a farm near New York city, in Westchester county.



  From New York city Mr. Cruit went to Savannah, Ga., where he spent a year and

a half working on the freight docks. He then returned to the metropolis and

during the next six years was an employe of the Dodge Express company, his

duties being to haul in trucks the United States mail from the docks to the

postoffices. Our subject came to Nobles county in the spring of 1880 as a member

of Bishop Ireland's company, bought an eighty acre farm in Lismore township,

north of Adrian, and engaged in farming there three years. He then sold out and

took as a homestead claim the southeast quarter of section 30, Bloom township,

upon which he proved up six or seven years later. He then bought of Theo.

Hinrichs that gentleman's tree claim—the southwest quarter of the same

section—making his present farm of 320 acres. In addition to his grain farming,

Mr. Cruit engages extensively in stock raising.



  In the city of New York on Feb. 28, 1876, Mr. Cruit was united in marriage to

Mary Welsh, a native of Kilkenny county, Ireland. She died in 1896. To Mr. and

Mrs. Cruit were born the following named children: John (deceased), Sarah (Mrs.

Henry Martin), of Minneapolis; Mike, of Minneapolis; Henry, Thomas, Jerry and

Peter, living at home.



  Mr. Cruit is a member of the Catholic church, of Wilmont. He was a supervisor

of Bloom township for six years, was road overseer five years, and a director of

school district No. 71 for six years.



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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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