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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  P. F. NOLAN, farmer and stockraiser of Little Rock township, is a native of

county Kildare, Ireland. He was born nineteen miles east of the city of Dublin

on July 20, 1838. His parents, John and Mary (Brinnen) Nolan, both died in their

native land.



  Until he came to the United States in 1861 Mr. Nolan, after growing to

manhood, worked on a stock farm and became very proficient in the care of stock.

He located at Woburn Center, Middlesex county, Mass., in 1861 and learned the

leather manufacturing trade, which he followed twenty years. During the last

thirteen years of his residence in Woburn Center he was foreman in the plant in

which he worked so long.



  In 1881 he joined the Catholic colony and came to Nobles county. He purchased

his present farm, the southwest quarter of section 17, Little Rock township,

paying therefor $6.50 per acre, and has ever since been engaged in farming. He

makes a specialty of raising thorougbred stock and has large numbers of cattle,

hogs and horses. He is a member of the Catholic church of Ellsworth. For nine

years he held the office of director of school district No. 13.



  Mr. Nolan was married in Ireland Sept. 15, 1861, to Mary Murphy. Mr. and Mrs.

Nolan have been the parents of the following children: Mary Ellen (Mrs.

Sylvester Jenkins), Sioux City, Iowa; Marcella (Mrs. Burnham Adams), Jackson,

Tenn.; John (married Mary Smith, of Mankato), New Ulm, Minn.; Celia (deceased);

Lizzie, Omaha, Neb.; James, at home; Gertrude (Mrs. Edward Blevins), Fairfax,

Mo.; Margaret, Boise, Idaho; Josephine, at home; Frank, at home.



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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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