Nobles County MN Archives Biographies.....Muck, Stephen 1822 - 1897
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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  STEPHEN MUCK (1822-1897) was the first and for a time the only settler of

Nobles county. As many of the items of his life's history have been told in the

historical part of this volume we shall here give simply a brief outline of his

biography. He was born at Frankfort, Ky., Oct. 9, 1822, and Kentucky was his

home during his early life, where he worked as a coal miner.



  Mr. Muck was married at Frankfort in 1848 to Miss Louisa Brumbau, and to them

were born six children, three boys and three girls. Mrs. Muck died in 1865. At

the outbreak of the civil war Mr. Muck left Kentucky and took his family to

Schuyler county, Ill., where he spent several years in the coal mines. In 1866

the family moved to Dallas county, Iowa. From that place Mr. Muck corresponded

with a brother, Joseph Muck, who was a resident of Jackson county, Minn., and

was induced to come to the new country of southern Minnesota.



  It was in the month of May, 1867, that Stephen Muck pushed out into the

unsettled country about Graham lakes and squatted on land on the bank of West

Graham lake, land which when surveyed proved to be on section 22. There he built

a log structure, the first house of wood in the county. In the fall of the year

he moved the family out from Jackson, where they had been living during the

summer. For several years he spent his time trapping, as did the other settlers

of the time, and later turned his attention to agricultural pursuits. He resided

continuously on his farm from 1867 until the time of his death, July 18, 1897.



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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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