Nobles County MN Archives Biographies.....Erskine, R. L. 1832 - 
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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  R. L. ERSKINE, now a resident of Mountain Grove, Mo., was one of the very

earliest settlers of Nobles county, having taken up his residence in Indian Lake

township when the Indians living there outnumbered the whites. When he came here

Nobles county had not yet been organized and there were not 100 white people

living in the whole county. He took a prominent part in the affairs of the

county in the early days and was one who helped to bring about the organization

of Indian Lake township, the second one to be vested with township organization.



  Mr. Erskine was born Jan. 16, 1832, on board a sailing vessel on which his

parents were taking passage from England to America. The family first settled in

Maine, and there the subject of this sketch was raised. After growing to manhood

he located in Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee and other southern states. During the

time he was in the south three years were spent in the business of starting saw

mills, instructing the crews, etc. Five years of his early life were spent on

the sea.



  Mr. Erskine finally settled in Illinois and engaged in farming, and there we^

find him at the time of the outbreak of the civil war. He enlisted in an

Illinois regiment and served 18 months as a private. During this service he was

wounded in the leg, but not seriously. After his muster out he returned to his

old home in Illinois, where he lived for a few years, and then moved to

Chickasaw county, Iowa. In 1868 he moved to Okoboji lake, Dickinson county,

Iowa, where he lived for one year. Then, desiring to find a home in the new and

unsettled country, he came to Nobles county in the fall of 1869 and builded

himself a home on the east shore of Indian lake. That was his home until 1894,

when he sold out his holdings here and with his wife moved to Mountain Grove,

Wright county, Mo., where they still reside. He has now retired from active life.



  R. L. Erskine was married in Illinois in 1855 to Louisa Fletcher, who had been

born and arised in that state. They were the parents of ten children, of whom

nine are still living.



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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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