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

         [page 169]
         
         JOHN T. NESS, for many years a respected resident of Nelson
       township, Buffalo county, was born in Norway, May 26, 1856. He
       attended school and grew to manhood in his native land and was
       about 21 years old when he came to the United States and to
       Buffalo county, Wisconsin, settling in Nelson township. For six
       or eight years he taught Norwegian school in different parts of
       the county, after which he engaged in farming and was thus occu-
       pied in Church valley for about thirty-two years. During much
       of that time he held the position of school clerk, and was choir
       leader in the Norwegian Lutheran church. After bringing his farm
       into an advanced state of cultivation and erecting good buildings,
       he died in July, 1914, and was survived by his wife, who is still
       living on the farm. Their children were: THOMAS J., GERTIE E.,
       CHRISTOPHER, second, is now deceased; BERTHA, ADOLPH, and CHRIS-
       TOPHER, who is in the United States service in France.
       
       Transcriber Notes: "Christopher, second" (above) should be 
       Christopher, first, as the second Christoper was still alive
       and serving in the military in France.
       
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