Nobles County MN Archives Biographies.....Kliffgard, A. A. 1847 - 
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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  A. A. KLIFFGARD has been engaged in farming in Graham Lakes township

twenty-two years. He owns 160 acres of land on section three. Mr. Kliffgard was

born in Norway June 20, 1847, the son of Arna and Sarah Kliffgard. The father

was born June 20, 1816, and died Sept. 20, 1902. The mother died in Norway in 1853.



  Our subject received a common school education in his native land and came to

America in 1867, settling at Blue Mounds, Wis., where he engaged in farming

nineteen years. He came to Nobles county in 1886 and moved onto the farm which

has ever since been his home.



  Mr. Kliffgard was married in Wisconsin Jan. 1, 1878, to Mary Kliffgard, who

was born in Norway Sept. 14, 1847, and came to the United States and to

Wisconsin in 1849. They are the parents of the following children: Sam Anton,

Isaac, Annie Sophia and Emma. One child died in infancy. Mr. Kliffgard is a

member of the Norwegian Lutheran 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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