Nobles County MN Archives Biographies.....Moberg, Nels 1867 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/mnfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com November 5, 2006, 3:31 pm Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908) NELS MOBERG. Among the pioneers of Nobles county whose date of arrival antedates the building of the railroad is Nels Moberg, who came with his parents when four years of age. His father was Jonas Moberg, who was born in Sweden in 1835 and who died in Nobles county August 9, 1900. The mother of our subject is Elizabeth (Greenland) Moberg, who resides with her son in Bigelow township. To these parents in Hiarpen, Jemtland, Sweden, was born Nels Moberg on the second day of November, 1867. The family emigrated to the United States in 1870 and came direct to Minnesota. After a short residence, in Minneapolis the family home was made at Anoka. In the spring of 1871 Jonas Moberg came to Nobles county for the purpose of obtaining a home in the new country. He filed a homestead claim to the northwest quarter of section 26, Bigelow township, and in the fall of the same year he was joined by his family, who moved onto the claim, in January, 1872. The family home has been on that land ever since. Two total crop failures were experienced during the grasshopper days, and the family suffered much from the other incidents of pioneer life. Until he was twenty-three and a half years old Nels worked for his father on the farm, then began farming for himself, buying part of his present farm soon afterward. He now owns 160 acres on sections 26 and 23. He farmed and engaged in stock raising until the spring of 1906. He then moved to Duluth, where for two years he was a foreman for a contractor who was engaged in street and sewer work. He moved back to his farm in the spring of 1908. He raises stock extensively and makes a specialty of pedigreed Poland China hogs. Mr. Moberg was married in Bigelow township June 24, 1897, to Hildegard Peterson, a native of Sweden and a daughter of Alfred and Anna Peterson, of Henning, Minn. To them have been born the following children: Linden Alfred, born Sept. 28, 1898; Edwin Russell, born Nov. 18, 1900; Raymond Emanuel, born July 13, 1906. Mr. and Mrs. Moberg are members of the Swedish Baptist church. Mr. Moberg was elected clerk of school district No. 26 in 1881 and held the office continuously until his removal to Duluth in 1906. He was also a supervisor of Bigelow township for two or three years. Additional Comments: Extracted from: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY MINNESOTA BY ARTHUR P. ROSE NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA PUBLISHERS 1908 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mn/nobles/bios/moberg292gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mnfiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb