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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  PETER H. OSBON. With the possible exception of Indian Lake and Bigelow

townships there are more homesteaders living in Little Rock township than any

other portion of Nobles county, and among these is the man whose name heads this

sketch. Peter Osbon was born in Helsingborg, Sweden, July 4, 1844, the son of

Hans Paulson and Cella Paulson. Both his parents are dead, his father having

died in 1853 and his mother when he was only seven years of age. Until he was

twenty-five years old Mr. Osbon lived in his native country. During the greater

part of this time he was on the farm, but eight years of it were spent in the

Swedish army.



  It was in 1869 that Mr. Osbon came to America. He first located at Okolona,

Miss., sixty miles from the city of Mobile, where for a few months he worked at

woodchopping. From there he went north and located at South McGregor, Iowa,

where he remained a little less than a year working en the Dubuque & St. Paul

railroad, which was then being built. He next took employment with the Wisconsin

Central, which was then being constructed through Waupaca county, Wis. He was

there nearly one year and then began work on the Chicago & Northwestern at a

point six miles from Sparta, Wis.



  On the seventh day of May, 1873, Mr. Osbon came to Nobles county and it has

been his home ever since. For five years he farmed rented land on section 22,

Ransom township. Soon after his arrival, however, he filed a preemption claim to

80 acres of land on section 12, Little Rock, and bought a homestead

relinquishment to the other eighty acres of the same quarter, and in time proved

up on both. After leaving Ransom township he erected buildings on his own

property and moved to his own land. On that place and on adjoining property,

which he bought later, Mr. Osbon has resided continuously since. He now owns 480

acres in one body.



  Mr. Osbon was married at Prairie du Chien, Wis., in June, 1871, to Anna

Swenson, who was born in Sweden and came to America at the same time her future

husband did. They are parents of the following children: H. Osbon, who farms 200

acres of his father's farm; Sandol, who also farms 200 acres of the home place;

Emma (Mrs. Louis Johnson), who lives in Little Rock township. Mr. and Mrs. Osbon

are members of the Norwegian Lutheran church of Ransom township.



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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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