. Album of history and biography of Meeker County, Minnesota . early life was spent in the land of hisbirth, where he acquired the habits of indus-tiy, economy and integiity which are char-acteristic of the people of his 1868 he came to the United States withhis family and came to Meeker county,Minn., where he took a homestead of eightyacres on section 6, Swede Grove years later he moved to section 5,where he bought 280 acres of railroad land,and lived there until the si)ring of 1887,when he settled upon his present farm onsection 32, Union Grove townsh
. Album of history and biography of Meeker County, Minnesota . early life was spent in the land of hisbirth, where he acquired the habits of indus-tiy, economy and integiity which are char-acteristic of the people of his 1868 he came to the United States withhis family and came to Meeker county,Minn., where he took a homestead of eightyacres on section 6, Swede Grove years later he moved to section 5,where he bought 280 acres of railroad land,and lived there until the si)ring of 1887,when he settled upon his present farm onsection 32, Union Grove township, havingpurchased eighty acres there in 1SS6. Hehas divided the rest of his land among hischildren, giving them a start in the world. Mr. Christenson was married on the 27tliof December, 1850, to Miss Anna Pehrson,and their union has been blessed with ten. -^, f? ^lA^^^^^z^^L^^-iy MEEKER COUNTY, MINNESOTA. 165 children, as follows: Christoplier, born Oc-tober 3, 1852; Hannah, born February 5,1855 ; Elias, born May 14, 1857 ; Ella, bornMay 27, 1859; Nels, born April 2, 1861,died August, 1861; Nels J., born June 28,1862; Andrew, born September 28, 1864;Alfred, born May 12, 1866, died July 1,1868; Alfred, born July 12, 1868, and Her-man, born July 19, 1870. •V 1 «»^ kOCTOR V. P. KENNEDY, of Litch-field, besides being a pioneer, is one ofthe .best known citizens in this part of theState. Doctor Kennedy was born in Butlercounty, Penn., on the 11th of July, he was five years of a,ge his parentsremoved to and became pioneers of Indiana,where the subject of this sketch remaineduntil 1856. His younger days were spentupon a farm, but when twenty-one he enteredthe Asbury University at Greeneastle, Ind.,where he spent two years, and then went toRockville, Ind., where he began the studyA year later he went to; later to Chicago, and in
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