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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  HENRY SLATER, stockraiser and farmer of Larkin township, is the oldest settler

now living in that township, his residence there covering a period of many

years. He owns 320 acres of land on sections 11 and 12, only a short distance

south of Wilmont, and he has the home farm finely improved.



  Mr. Slater was born in Germany Feb. 2, 1854, the son of Henry and Dora Slater,

now living in Red Wing, Minn. The father, who is now 74 years of age, came from

Germany in 1854, homesteaded in Goodhue county, and has made his home there ever

since. Our subject's mother is 75 years of age.



  For only six months did Henry Slater live in the land of his nativity. Coming

to America in the year of his birth, he was raised on his father's farm in

Goodhue county, Minn., and made his home there till past twenty years of age. In

the fall of 1874 he came to Nobles county with a party of about fifteen men,

spent two weeks looking the country over, and then returned to his old home. In

April, 1875, he came out again with his father, who took a homestead of eighty

acres on section 2, Larkin township. A year or two afterwards our subject bought

from Sherman Harding, of Worthington, the homestead relinquishment to the

southwest quarter of section 12, paying $75 for the same, and on that place he

has resided ever since. He bought his other quarter section in 1898. During the

pioneer days Mr. Slater suffered from the inroads of the grasshoppers and other

annoyances of those days. But, not having sufficient means to get out of the

country, he was obliged to remain and today he is in comfortable circumstances

and glad that he stayed. His first home was a 10x12 frame shanty, and his stable

was built of sods.



  In Chisago county, Minn., Mr. Slater was married in January, 1884, to Kellen

Adelman, who was born in Germany, but who came to America when a girl. To Mr.

and Mrs. Slater have been born the following named children: Otto, of Browns

Valley, Minn.; William, Barnard, Henry, Hubbard, Bertha (Mrs. George Miller), of

Browns Valley, Minn., and Rosa. All except the two whose addresses are given

reside at home.



  Mr. Slater is a member of the Catholic church of Wilmont. In the early days he

took part in the organization of school district No. 84, and has served as a

director of the district ever since. He served on the Larkin township board for

about fifteen years, and has always been active in local affairs.



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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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