Nobles County MN Archives Biographies.....Firth, Arthur S. 1866 - 
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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  ARTHUR S. FIRTH. The subject of this sketch is a Lorain township farmer, his

home being on the northwest quarter of section 6. There are not many people in

the county who have to their credit a longer period of continuous residence than

he, Lorain township having been his home ever since September, 1871.



  Robert Firth, his father, also resides on the home place in Lorain. He was

born in Leeds, England, June 21, 1828, and that was his home until 20 years old,

when he came to America and located at Utica, N. Y. Residing at that place until

just before the civil war, he then took up his residence at Whitewater, Wis.

There he enlisted in the 28th Wisconsin infantry and served three years in the

union army. Returning to Whitewater after the war, he engaged in the shoe

business. On September 30, 1871, he arrived with his family at Worthington and

became one of the county's earliest settlers. He took as a homestead the

northwest quarter of section 6, Lorain township, and ever since has made his

home there. He was married in New York state in 1850 to Patience Stephenson, who

was born in Lancashire, England, in 1832, and who died in 1901.



  To these parents was born Arthur S. Firth at Whitewater, Wis., on September

10, 1866. He removed to Nobles county with his parents when a child five years

old, and here he grew to manhood and has since resided. He secured his education

in the district schools of Lorain township and in the public schools of
Worthington.



  Mr. Firth was married at St. Charles, Minn., Nov. 18, 1898, to Lizzie

Scofield, who was born at Utica, N. Y. To them one child has been born, Milton

R., born on the farm June 6, 1899.



  Mr. Firth is the next youngest of a family of five living children. They, with

the dates of their birth, are as follows: Robert A., born Jan. 28, 1854; William

L., born Oct. 18, 1859; Joseph S., born April 16, 1863; Arthur S., born Sept.

10, 1866; Emily F., born Sept. 10, 1879. One brother, Hiram, died at the age of

two and one-half 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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