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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  OLE NYSTROM. Among the very first settlers of Bigelow township was a small

party of Scandinavians, among which was the gentleman whose name heads this

sketch. He was born in Jemtland, Sweden, April 12, 1849, the son of Peter and

Martha (Hanson) Nystrom.



  During the first twenty-one years of his life Ole Nystrom lived in his native

land. When he was sixteen years of age he began working in the copper mines and

followed that occupation during the greater part of his residence there,

although he worked at farm work some. In company with his brother, Hans Nystrom,

he came to America in 1870 and went to Milwaukee. In the vicinity of that city

the brothers worked on the railroad for six weeks. They then went to Duluth,

where they worked in the stone quarries till late in the fall, and thereafter

engaged in railroad work in Wisconsin until the spring of 1871.



  He then went to St. James, Minn., and secured work on the railroad that was

building through southwestern Minnesota. There a partnership was formed by L. B.

Bennett, Ole Nystrom, Hans Nystrom, Elof Nordquist, Erick Mahlberg, Peter

Wickstrom and C. J. Wickstrom, who secured a contract from the head contractor

to do grading on the new road and worked along the line from St. James to Sioux

City. During the month of June, 1871, the members of the party left their work

at Windom and, under the leadership of Mr. Bennett, took claims south of the

prospective town of Worthington, all in Bigelow township except Mr. Nordquist,

who filed on land in Indian Lake. Ole Nystrom took as his claim the northwest

quarter of section 24. A short time after making his filing he put up a little

sod shanty but did not make his permanent residence there until two years later,

putting in most of his time working on the road. He moved onto the place in 1873

and began farming. He lived in the sod shanty until 1877, when he erected his

first frame house. On his original homestead he has lived ever since. He has

added to his possessions by the purchase of 120 acres of land in the same vicinity.



  Mr. Nystrom was married in Bigelow township May 13, 1892, to Christine Moberg,

daughter of the late Jonas Moberg and Elizabeth Moberg. Mrs. Nystrom was born in

Sweden, came to the United States in 1870 and to Nobles county in the fall of

1871. To them have been born the following children: Myrtle, Alice, Reuben. Mr.

and Mrs. Nystrom are members of the Swedish Baptist church of Indian Lake.



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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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