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History of Cass County, Iowa
Continental Historical Company
Springfield, ILL; 1884

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                                CHAPTER XXVII
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                             BEAR GROVE TOWNSHIP
                               Early Settlement

          C. J. ANDERSON is a native of Sweden, born November 14, 1846. He
       came to America with his sister, CHARLOTTE, now the wife of Mr.
       OLSON, in 1860. He came to Jefferson county, Iowa, where he lived
       until 1862. He then went to Henderson county, Illinois, and worked
       by the month at farming for seven years. He became a citizen there
       on the 21st of October, 1868, at the circuit court, which was then
       in session in Warren county, Illinois. He came to Cass county, in
       1869 and bought the farm he now owns and occupies. It contains
       eighty acres, located on section 22, of Bear Grove township, and is
       finely improved.

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