Bio of Peter WEST (b.1858), Yellow Medicine Co., MN

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PETER WEST (1888)

Peter West is the proprietor of the southwest quarter of section 18,
Normania township, which he has farmed for the past quarter of a century.

Peter West was born in Sweden July 21, 1858, a son of Jonas and Johanna
(Abrahamson) Swenson.  The former still lives in the old country; the 
latter died there in 1890.  Peter lived in Sweden until twenty-three 
years of age a came to America in 1881.  He worked in the railroad yards 
at St. Paul two years and thereafter was employed with grading crews on 
railroads until 1888.  That year he came to Yellow Medicine county and 
bought eighty acres of his Normania farm.  Later he added to his holdings 
by the purchase of the other eighty acres of the quarter.

The marriage of Mr. West to Annie Anderson occurred in April, 1888.  She 
was born in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, March 14, 1863, a daughter of Tobias 
and Anlog Anderson, who were born in Norway.  Mrs. West died in March 
1899.

The second marriage of Mr. West occurred in March, 1900, when he wedded
Selma Olson.  She was born in Norway in 1868, a daughter of Halvor and
Martha (Nelson) Olson.  The following named five children have been born 
to Mr. and Mrs. West:  Martha, born June 16, 1902; Alfred, born September 
7, 1903; Emil, born November 30, 1904; William, born January 8, 1906; and
Oscar, born May 25, 1907.

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