Nobles County MN Archives Biographies.....Mahlberg, Erick 1836 - 
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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  ERICK MAHLBERG. Among the pioneer settlers of Nobles county is the man whose

name heads this sketch—a man who has made his home in Bigelow township

thirty-seven years, having come with the first who took claims in that township.



  Mr. Mahlberg was born in Sweden Dec. 28, 1836, the son of Halvor and Carrie

(Erickson) Mahlberg. His parents died in Sweden in recent years. During the

thirty-six years of his life that he lived in his native country Mr. Mahlberg

worked at many occupations. He worked in the mines, in the timber, at farming,

and learned the shoemaker's trade, which he followed for several years.



  In company with several other of his countrymen, many of whom are now

residents of Nobles county, he came to the United States in 1870. He spent the

first summer in Michigan, and then went to St. Paul, where he remained only a

short time. At Hastings, Minn., he and his companions secured work with a

railroad construction crew and spent the first winter near that village. In the

spring of 1871 the party went to St. James, which was then the end of the new

Sioux City & St. Paul railroad, and secured employment as graders. Mr. Mahlberg

accompanied the other members of the party when they left the work to make

filings on land in Nobles county, he taking as a homestead claim the southwest

quarter of section 12, Bigelow township. That land has been his home ever since.

In recent years he has given over the active management of the farm to his sons,

Fred and Carl.



  Soon after his arrival in Nobles county Mr. Mahlberg was married at

Worthington to Christine Erickson. To them have been born the following

children: Alfred, a Bigelow township farmer; Annie (Mrs. John Swanson), of Eagle

Bend, Minn.; Carrie (Mrs. John Benson), of Worthington; Emil (deceased), Fred,

Ida, Carl and Otto. The last four named reside on the home farm. Mr. and Mrs.

Mahlberg and family are members of the Swedish Lutheran church of Worthington.



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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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