Bio of ROBASSE, Beat, Wright Co., MN
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445   HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY

  Beat Robasse, the pioneer, was born in Switzerland, and there grew to 
manhood. In the early fifties he left his native land, with his wife, 
Mary Bershal, and their two children, Edward and Rosina, and came to 
America. In Lewis county, New York, he found a farm, and there resided 
for thirteen years. Of the children born on this farm, three, Rosalie, 
Alfred and Mary, grew to adult years. In the fall of 1865 the family 
came to Minnesota and located on forty acres of railroad land in section 
3, Marysville. They had brought one horse from New York. After reaching 
here they secured a yoke of oxen. They erected a log cabin