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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  JAMES GREIG. One of the pioneer settliers of Nobles county and the oldest one

now living in Olney township is James Greig, who resides on the land he took as

a homestead in 1872.



  Mr. Greig is a native of Scotland, having been born there Oct. 12, 1850, and

having made his home there during the first nineteen years of his life. His

parents, Alexander and Jane (McCratchie) Greig, are still living in their native

country, the former aged 85 years and the latter aged 78 years.



  In 1869 James Greig came to the United States and located in Houston county,

Minn., where he worked on a farm until 1872. In the fall of that year he, in

company with William Thorn, J. C Thorn, A. Simpson and William Carr, came to

Nobles county and filed a homestead claim to the south half of the northeast

quarter of section 10, Olney township. It was on the second Tuesday of November,

1872,—election day, when Grant defeated Greely for the presidency—that these

gentlemen, while looking over the country, were caught in a severe blizzard on

the northeast quarter of section 14, Olney township, and came near losing their

lives. By taking two wagon boxes and placing them together they were enabled to

build a rude shelter and prevent fatal results. They were thus imprisoned two

days. Then the party packed up their goods, went to Worthington for a few days,

and then returned to their old homes in Houston county, having reached the

conclusion that Nobles county weather was too severe. Thereafter until 1879 Mr.

Greig spent the greater part of his time in his old home, but after the

grasshopper days he returned and made his permanent home in Olney.



  On April 30, 1873, in Houston county, Mr. Greig was married to Miss Mary J.

Mitchell, a native of that county and a daughter of James Mitchell. They are the

parents of the following children: James A., George T., Ida, Mabel (Mrs. W. W.

Dunning), of Larkin township; Fred, Dan, Roy, Ralph and Lester. Mr. Greig is a

member of the Presbyterian church and of the Workmen lodge. He was a school

clerk from 1886 to 1907.



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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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