Turner County, SD Biographies.....Aggergaard, Peter N. January 11, 1844 - 
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Source: MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties, South Dakota. (1897)
Author: Geo. Ogle & Co.

PETER N. AGGERGAARD, the largest individual land owner of Turner county and one of
the most extensive live-stock dealers in this section of-the country, has his
residence in section 17 of Daneville township. He was born in Denmark, January 11,
1844, and reared on a farm in his native place until he had attained the age of
sixteen years, when he left home and started out in the battle of life for himself.
He worked for a while on the railroad in Denmark, receiving the munificient salary
of sixty cents per day, and later went to Austria-Hungary where he secured
employment at the same work. There, however, he received much better remuneration
for his services, his monthly salary being equivalent to about $80 in this country.
He was foreman for an old Englishman, and during the seven years he remained in his
employment our subject saved his money, and when he had accumulated $9,000 he sailed
for America. This was in 1870, and he immediately commenced in his old line of
business, taking a contract for grading the extension of one of the Chicago &
Northwestern railroad’s branches in Wisconsin. He also worked on a railroad in
Minnesota, and in 1873 for two months worked on a steamboat on the Mississippi
river. In June of that year he arrived in Turner county, Dak. Ter., and pre-empted
the half section of land whereon he now lives. This property he improved, and as he
prospered he invested his savings in other tracts of land, until now his possessions
foot up between 5,000 and 6,000 acres in Yankton, Clay and Turner counties. Much of
his property he rents out, cultivating only about 1,500 acres himself. Mr.
Aggergaard, as stated above, is also a very extensive live-stock raiser, and now has
about 500 head of cattle on his farm. He does all his own shipping, most of his
stock going to Chicago, and is without doubt one of the largest stock dealers in
this section of the country.

The estimable lady who so graciously presides over the household affairs of our
subject, became his wife May 11, 1888. She was formerly Miss Elesena Nelson, and,
like her husband, is a native of Denmark. To them have been born a family of seven
bright, interesting little children, on whom have been bestowed the following names,
viz.: Arthur, Anna, Larse, Mary, Downey, Francea and Peter.

Mr. Aggergaard politically affiliates with the Republican party. He is one of the
early settlers of the county and his marvelous success in the prosecution of the
various enterprises with which he has connected himself is the result of sound and
mature judgment combined with natural business acumen, which he possesses in a large
degree. He has applied himself diligently to his own interests, carefully
considering the advisability of every transaction to which he is a party, and as a
result of this unstinted use of his faculties and the courage to act on his judgment
to the last letter, his success has been assured.


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