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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  ANTHONY THOMPSON. When there was hardly a settler in the whole of western

Nobles county, in June, 1871, a small party of men came out from Wisconsin and

settled in what later became Little Rock township. Among these was Knute

Thompson and his son, the subject of his biography, who, with the others, became

the first settlers of the township. Knute Thompson is now living in the state of

Washington. His wife, Annie (Arneson) Thompson, is dead.



  To these parents Anthony Thompson was born in Iowa county, Wis., Oct. 18,

1851. He was raised on his father's farm and came to Nobles county with his

parents when less than twenty years of age. The father homesteaded the southwest

quarter of section 14, and on that place Anthony resided until his parents left

in 1876. Upon becoming of age he took as a tree claim a quarter section of land

on section 14. A little later he filed a homestead claim to the north half of

the southeast quarter of section 14.



  Discouraged by the depredations of the grasshoppers and the severe winters,

Mr. Thompson decided to leave the county, and in 1877 he sold his land rights,

receiving about $175 for the 240 acres, and went to Woodbury county, Iowa. He

was there two years working out as a farm laborer, and then went to Nebraska,

where he remained six months. Not finding land there to suit his fancy, he

returned to Nobles county. He farmed rented land for two or three years and then

bought eighty acres of his present farm on section 11, and has made his home

there ever since. He now owns 240 acres on sections 11 and 15.



  Mr. Thompson was married in Little Rock township Oct. 24, 1878, to Annie

Anderson, who was born in Norway in 1849 and who came to America when four years

old. They are the parents of two children—Oscar and Elmer, both of whom reside

at home. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson are members of the Norwegian Lutheran church. He

has served as director of school district No. 11 for several years.



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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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