Bio of Fred SWANSON (b.1890), Yellow Medicine Co., MN

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FRED SWANSON (1911)

Fred Swanson, farmer of Swede Prairie township, was born in Marshalltown,
Iowa, April 30, 1890.  His parents are Nels F. and Maggie (Cope) Swanson,
the former a native of Sweden and the latter of Tennessee.

The father of our subject was a railroad contractor, and the boyhood days of
Fred Swanson were spent with his parents at different places in Iowa.  In
1909 he rented land in Webster county and farmed there two years.  He came
to Yellow Medicine county in 1911 and has since been farming in Swede
Prairie township, where he rents 280 acres of land.

Mr. Swanson was married in Webster county, Iowa, March 25, 1908, to Birdie
Lawson.  She was born in the county in which she was married February 26,
1894, and is a daughter of William and Mary (Amex) Lawson, natives of
Pennsylvania.  Mr. and Mrs. Swanson have two children: Ethel, born July 7,
1909; and Corrilee, born July 22, 1911.

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