Bio of Nels M. ALBECK (b.1868), Yellow Medicine Co., MN

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NELS M. ALBECK (1905)

Nels M. Albeck, a farmer of Hazel Run township, is the owner of 160 acres on
section 27, where he has a good farm and home and where he has resided since
1905.

Mr. Albeck was born in Sweden November 4, 1868, and is a son of Pere and
Elne Jacobson, both of whom are still living on the old home farm in Sweden,
which they have sold to one of their boys.

Nels Albeck grew up on the farm in Sweden and was there educated.  His
boyhood days were spent helping his parents.  At the age of twenty years he
came to the United States, settling first in Wisconsin, and for the next ten
years was most of the time engaged in the lumber business at Eau Claire.  He
also did some contract work during that period.  In 1899 he came to
Minnesota, locating at Minneapolis, where he was employed in the Milwaukee
railroad shops.

In the spring of 1908 Mr. Albeck came to Yellow Medicine county and for four
years farmed the Tollef Tollefson 193 acres in Hazel Run township, located
just west of his present home.  He purchased his present farm in the spring
of 1911, the farm being known as the old Brecke farm, since which date he
has lived there.  In addition to grain growing, he also raises some cattle
and hogs for market.

Mr. Albeck was married July 22, 1905, at the home of the bride's father in
Sandnes township, to Martina Tollefson, who is a native of Yellow Medicine
county, having been born in Sandnes township August 3, 1872.  She is a
daughter of Tollef Tollefson, one of the earliest settlers of that section
of the county.  Mr. and Mrs. Albeck have two children: Paul Titus, born June
1, 1910, and Enoch Seme, born May 29, 1912.

Source: A History of Yellow Medicine County by Arthur P. Rose. Published
1914.