BIOGRAPHIES: Victor NYHT, Clinton Township, Barron County, WI

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Victor Nyht was a stone mason by trade. For fifteen years he served in the
Royal Swedish army. In 1892, he brought his family to America, and settled
near Galesburg, Ill., where he farmed for a while. Then he moved to
Plymouth County, Iowa, where he farmed for many years. At present he is
connected with the Farmer's Lumber Co., at Farnhamville, lowa. In the
family there were ten children: Axel, Alvin, Harold, Charles, Esther,
Delia, Vida, Ellen, Anna (deceased) and an unnamed infant who died in
Sweden. Charles attended school in his native land, and for a few winter
terms after the family came to America. As a young man he rented farms in
Webster and Green counties, Iowa, for five years. In the spring of 1910, he
came to Barron County, and bought 80 acres in section 21, Clinton Township,
to which he later added 40 acres in the same section. No buildings had been
erected and the land was covered with stumps and timber. Here he has
developed a good farm. He has a modern home, eight rooms with bath, a good
barn, silo, granary, sheds and other buildings, and he has cleared up and
improved the land. Here he successfully carries on general farming and
dairying, and has a good herd, headed by a full blooded Holstein sire. The
cream is sold to the Barron Creamery Co. Mr. Nyht is well liked in the
community and is a popular member of the Modern Woodmen of America. He was
married Oct. 13, 1907, at Des Moines, Iowa, to Alice Heath, the daughter of
Frank and Flora Heath, old settlers of Calhoun County, Iowa, the former of
whom now lives in Maple Grove Township, and the latter of whom died Oct.
13, 1898. Mr. and Mrs. Nyht have three fine boys, Clarence, Walter and
George. The family faith is that of the Swedish M. E. Church.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co.,
1922, pg. 467.