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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  LAWRENS KREUN owns and farms 240 acres of land on sections 7 and 8, Leota

township, and also owns twelve and one-half acres in Graves' addition to the

village of Lismore. He is a native of Sheboygan county, Wis., where he was born

Dec. 6, 1858.



  The parents of our subject were Cornelius and Susan (Zeeveld) Kreun, and

Lawrens is the second oldest of a family of four children, the others being

John, Henry and Jane. The father of this family was born in Holland in 1825. He

came to the United States when ten years of age and located with his parents in

Sheboygan county, Wis., when the only other human beings in the vicinity were

Indians. The family carved a home out of the forests and cleared a forty acre

farm. Cornelius Kreun died there in 1865. His wife, also a native of Holland,

married again after her first husband's death. She died in Sioux county, Iowa,

in 1890.



  Lawrens was raised on a farm in his native county and resided there until

eighteen years of age. He then moved to Fillmore county, Minn., where he engaged

in farm work six years. He next moved to Sioux county, Iowa, where he also

worked for wages at farm work. He moved to Nobles county in October, 1891, and

bought the farm upon which he has ever since lived. At the time there was not a

stick on the place, nor was there a foot of land broke.



  Mr. Kreun was married in Fillmore county, Minn., Feb. 14, 1879, to Miss Hattie

Hoftiezer, who was born in Holland and came to the United States with her

parents when twelve years of age. Her parents were H. J. and Christina

Holtieser, [transcriber’s note – the two spellings of this surname appear in the

text] who located in Fillmore county upon their arrival from Holland. Both are

dead. To Mr. and Mrs. Kreun have been born seven children: Charlie, born July

23, 1879; Kate, born Jan. 10, 1881; Samuel, born Dec. 11, 1883; John, born Oct.

23, 1887; Annie, born Sept. 7, 1890; Laura, born Sept. 12, 1894; Alfred, born

Jan. 6, 1897. The family are members of the Dutch Reformed church. Mr. Kreun

served as a member of the Leota township board from 1894 to 1906.



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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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