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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  NICK H. NEYENS is a pioneer settler of Nobles county, having come with the

colonists of 1872. He lives in Grand Prairie township, where he owns a 320 acre

farm on section 24.



  Mr. Neyens was born in the city of Chicago June 27, 1855. His father, Herman

K. Neyens, was born in Holland in 1826 and came to the United States in 1845. He

located in Chicago, later moved to Dubuque, Iowa, spent six years in Iowa

county, Wis., and came to Nobles county in 1872. During the year 1900 he moved

to Sibley, Iowa, where he died in July, 1905. Our subject's mother, Annie

(Peckler) Neyens, also a native of Holland, now lives at Sibley.



  When Nick was a child one or two years old the family moved to Dubuque,

remained there one year and then took up residence in Iowa county, Wis. There he

was educated in the district schools and raised on a farm. Nick accompanied his

father and brother when they came to Nobles county in the spring of 1872. The

father homesteaded a quarter section on 30, Little Rock township, and on that

farm our subject resided until 1885. He then moved onto his present place, which

he had taken as a tree claim, and on that has since engaged in farming. During

the early days the family suffered many hardships, and for three or four years

during the grasshopper period lost nearly everything. In order to secure, enough

ready cash to live on the father and elder children had to go down into Iowa and

work out. The prairie fires often wrought havoc with their possessions, the

elder Neyens losing 60 tons of hay and 20 acres of wheat from that source in one

day.



  At Adrian in November, 1885, occurred the marriage of Mr. Neyens to Mary

Carey, a native of New Jersey. To them have been born three children: Thomas,

John and Leo. The family are members of the Catholic church of Ellsworth. Mr.

Neyens served as supervisor of the township three years.



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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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