Bio of Christian H. FRICKSON (b.1884), Renville Co., MN

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The following excerpt comes from 
The History of Renville County, Minnesota, Volume I
compiled by Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge
H. C. Cooper Jr. Company, Chicago, 1916

p. 341-342

CHRISTIAN H. FRICKSON, son of Hans F. Mundahl, was born September 27, 
1884, in section 36, Bandon township, and remained at home until he was 
twenty-one years of age. He then became assistant cashier in the state 
bank at Fairfax, where he remained for three and a half years. From 1900 
to 1904 he attended the Red Wing Seminary, taking a course in the 
academic department. He then graduated from the National Business College 
at Minneapolis, and was assistant cashier of the First National Bank at 
Lake Mills, Ia., for four years. In August, 1914, he bought the western 
half of his father's farm in the southwest quarter of section 36, Bandon 
township. He has served as township assessor for one year. He resigned 
and moved back to Lake Mills, Ia., in July, 1915, where he engaged in 
the restaurant business. He is a member of the Hauge's Norwegian Lutheran 
church. May 29, 1912, Mr. Frickson was united in marriage to Mabel
 Nystuen, of Lake Mills, Ia., born August 1, 1889, daughter of Gilbert 
and Anna (Severson) Nystuen. Gilbert Nystuen has been in the real estate 
business at Lake Mills for twenty-five years.