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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  HENRY TITENBERG, whose home farm is located within the limits of the village

of Wilmont, is one of the earlier settlers of northwestern Nobles county and a

homesteader. He was born in Red Wing, Goodhue county, Minnesota, July 20, 1860,

the son of German parents. His father, Anthony Titenberg, died when Henry was

only two years old. His mother, Elizabeth Titenberg, died in 1900.



  During his minority Henry worked on his father's farm near Bed Wing and

secured an education in the schools of that city. When he was of age, in 1881,

he came to Nobles county and took an eighty-acre homestead in Larkin township,

only a short distance from the present village of Wilmont. At that period the

settlers were few and far between and Mr. Titenberg went through many of the

experiences of pioneer life which had been experienced by the earlier settlers

in other portions of the county. He has fought prairie fires, weathered the

blizzards, and gone through nearly everything except fight the grasshoppers.

From 1881 to 1885 he divided his time between his Larkin township homestead and

his old home in Red Wing. During these years he improved the place, and in 1885

moved out permanently. That was his home until 1900, when he moved to Wilmont

and purchased a quarter section of land within the limits of the new village.

Besides the farm upon which he now resides, Mr. Titenberg owns 400 acres of land

in Larkin townsnip. In addition to his farming interests, he engages to some

extent in buying and shipping cattle.



  Henry Titenberg was married at Red Wing Feb. 10, 1886, to Lena Persig. They

are the parents of ten children, all of whom are living at home. They are: Emma,

Julia, Annie, Carrie, Lilly, Tony, Herbie, Jennie, Regina and Hattie.



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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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