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History of Buffalo & Pepin Counties, Wisconsin - Vol. 1
pub. H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co., Winona, MN - 1919

         [page 170]
         
         KNUTE NELSON, who was a farmer for many years in Modena
       township, Buffalo county, was born in Norway in the locality
       known as Nort Aurdal Valdres, on Sept. 5, 1845, and came to
       the United States a single man in 1867, locating first in
       Dane county, Wisconsin. On Nov. 4, 1869, he married SARAH
       OLSON, a native of Norway, and in 1862 they came to Buffalo
       county, settling on a farm of six forties in Modena township.
       His early agricultural operations were conducted according
       to pioneer methods and became more modern with the building
       up of the county, the introduction of horses for farm work
       in place of oxen, the use of improved agricultural machin-
       ery, and the erection of a better class of buildings, with
       all of which improvements he kept pace. As a good Christian
       and a member of the Norwegian Lutheran church he observed
       the Golden Rule in his dealings with his fellow men and his
       death, which occurred from drowning in 1915 while he was
       fishing in the Mississippi river, was an event deeply de-
       plored by those who knew him. He and his wife had been the
       parents of twelve children, seven of whom died before their
       father, namely: NICHOLAI, JULIA, CARRIE, GUSTOF, ANNA, INGER
       and two unnamed in infancy. The survivors are: NICHOLAI (2d),
       JENNIE, ANNA, CARL, who is in the U.S. army, and ESTHER,
       working in Treasurer's office for U.S. in Washington, D.C.
       His wife died Aug. 23, 1903.
       
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