History of Clay and Norman counties, Minnesota : their people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families . \^hen it is considered that men still in the very jiriiue of life were witnessesto and particijjants in the very beginning of a social order hereabout thissense of newness is accounted for. That all the wonderful development ofthis region has been accomplished within the life-time of persons still activein affairs is one of the wonders of the great work of empire building thathas been carried o
History of Clay and Norman counties, Minnesota : their people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families . \^hen it is considered that men still in the very jiriiue of life were witnessesto and particijjants in the very beginning of a social order hereabout thissense of newness is accounted for. That all the wonderful development ofthis region has been accomplished within the life-time of persons still activein affairs is one of the wonders of the great work of empire building thathas been carried on in the Northwest during the [)ast generation, and it isdifficult for the Easterner to reconcile himself to the thought th;it all thishas been accomplished during a single lifetime. One of the men who has been a resident of Clay county since the daysof the early settlement of the same is Levi Thortvedt. a substantial farmerand landowner on the banks of Buffalo river in Moland township, who hasbeen a resident of the place on which he is now living, in sections 28 and29, since the summer of 1870, when his father pre-etnpted the place and THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENSXTILDEN
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