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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  EDWARD E. FIELDS, of Little Rock township, has the distinction of being the

oldest continuous resident of that township, having made his home on the farm

upon which he now lives over thirty-seven years. His home is on the northeast

quarter of section 22, and he also owns eighty acres on section fifteen.



  Mr. Fields was born in Dane county, Wis., twenty miles west of Madison, in

April, 1851, and was the son of Norwegian parents, Erick and Annie Fields. The

former died in Dane county, Wis., in 1851, when the subject of this sketch was

four months old. The mother died in Dane county in 1886. In early boyhood Edward

was "bound out" to a farmer and worked at farm work until he came to Nobles county.



  It was in the latter part of May, 1871, that Mr. Fields, Knute Thompson, Henry

Bostic and Mr. Roberts came to Nobles county and located in Little Rock

township. All took homesteads, but our subject is the only one who has remained.

He broke the first land in the township, plowing ten acres where the grove on

his farm is now located. During the pioneer days he suffered many hardships and

privations. During the grasshopper days he frequently had to use one-third of

his crop for the next year's seed.



  Mr. Fields was married at Round Lake to Emma Tweeten, who died in 1888. By

this marriage four children were born—Mrs. Herbert Pratt, of Worthington; Edwin,

who resides near Bigelow; Mrs. Frank Klein, who resides on the home farm; and

Henry, who lives at Burlington, Colorado. In the early days Mr. Fields

affiliated with the Lutheran church and was one who planned for the building of

the Little Rock church.



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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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