Carl Beskow Biography

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	Ogle & Co., Chicago, 1898. Page 494

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CARL BESKOW, of section 26, Mazeppa township, is one of Grant county's well 
known and most esteemed farmers, and a public-spirited and progressive citizen.  
Mr. Beskow was born in Prussia, Germany, December 8, 1851, and is a son of 
Friederich and Louise Beskow, both natives of Germany, and both now deceased.   
Our subject, who was the younger of two children - his only brother being named 
John - remained upon his father's farm in Germany until thirty years of age, 
having in his earlier days secured a good common-school education.  In 1881 he 
came to this country and soon after arrival in New York went to Dodge county, 
Wisconsin, and six months later to Grant county, South Dakota, where he filed 
upon a homestead in Mazeppa township.  Later he purchased his present farm and 
has since resided there.  He now owns nine hundred and sixty acres of land, and 
has one of the best improved and most attractive properties in Grant county.  In 
1887 he built a fine dwelling house, and in 1895 put up what is considered one 
of the finest and most complete barns in Mazeppa township. This barn has a stone 
basement and the upper part is fitted with a windmill which may be used for 
cutting feed, turning machinery, churning and many other purposes, while the 
building has a very large storage capacity and also ~helters a large number of 
horses, cows and other live stock.  Mr. Beskow has been remarkably successful as 
a farmer, and, in spite of reverses and business depressions, has become more 
prosperous from year to year, until to-day he is one of the well-to-do and 
influential citizens of his township, recognized upon ah sides as an able and 
energetic business man.  Our subject is politically a Republican, an anti-
suffragist and an advocate of government ownership of saloons. He is a double 
township officer, and also government reporter of crops for Mazeppa township.   
Mr. Beskow is a member of the Lutheran church.  He was married in 1876 to Miss 
Wilhelmina Krause, a native of Prussia, Germany, and a daughter of August and 
Wilhelmine Krause. Mr. and Mrs. Beskow are the parents of ten children, eight of 
whom are now living. Their names follow: Friedrich, Albert, Martha, Emma, Carl, 
Ervin, Wilhelmine and Bertha.