Nobles County MN Archives Biographies.....Selby, James R. 1865 - 
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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  JAMES R. SELBY owns and farms the northwest quarter of section 32, Hersey

township, that township having been his home for the last twenty-eight years. He

was born in Vernon Center, Blue Earth county, Minn., Feb. 18, 1865, the son of

Thomas W. Selby and Adeline A. (Crowe) Selby. His father, a native of Indiana,

is still living, his home also being in Hersey. His mother was a native of Nova

Scotia. She died Feb. 8, 1900.



  James R. lived with his parents' at different points in Blue Earth county

until past fifteen years of age. There he secured a common school education in

the district schools, and like most boys raised on the farm, he spent the summer

months assisting in the farm work. In November, 1880, he moved with his parents

to Nobles county, and until his marriage in 1887 he lived with his parents on

their farm on section 28, Hersey township.



  On December 22, 1887, occurred his marriage to Miss Minerva J. Paine, daughter

of Mr. and Mrs. James M. Paine, now residing at Worthington. Four children have

blessed this union. Orval and Myrtle are living with their parents; two died in

infancy. Immediately after his marriage Mr. Selby purchased the quarter section

farm where he now resides, and has since made that place his home.



  During his residence in Hersey township Mr. Selby has been honored on numerous

occasions by election to office by the votes of his neighbors. For six or seven

years he held the office of township treasurer, and during the last eight years

he has been clerk of the school district in which he resides. Other offices he

has held are justice of the peace, road overseer and constable. He is a member

of the A. O. U. W. lodge of Worthington.



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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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