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	Knute Township, Minnesota
		Knute Township is a township located in Polk County, Minnesota.
		In the township the population is spread out with 21.2% under the age of 18, 2.2% from 18 to 24, 19.0% from 25 to 44, 27.4% from 45 to 64, and 30.2% who are 65 years of age or older.
		The median income for a household in the township is $41,750, and the median income for a family is $45,000.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/kn/Knute_Township,_Minnesota.html (338 words)

	Knute Township, Minnesota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Knute Township is a township in Polk County, Minnesota, United States.
		The racial makeup of the township was 97.18% White, 1.81% Native American, and 1.01% from two or more races.
		The per capita income for the township was $16,795.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Knute_Township,_Minnesota (353 words)

	KNUTE NELSON: An Inventory of His Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society
		Knute Nelson was born in Vosse Elven, Norway on February 2, 1843.
		It provided for cession to the United States by the Minnesota Ojibwe of all their Minnesota lands except for the White Earth and Red Lake reservations, allotment of a specific amount of reservation land to each Indian, and subsequent opening of the ceded and unallotted agricultural and pine lands for settlement.
		This correspondence creates a good picture of Minnesota during the war and of Nelson's efforts to place the state's resources behind the national war mobilization, as well as his efforts to win over or neutralize those groups that believed the war was a mistake.
	www.mnhs.org /library/findaids/00578.html (6502 words)

	ScienCe (science info) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Higdem Township is a township located in Polk County, Minnesota.
		Sherman Township is a township in Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
		Hubbard Township is a township located in Polk County, Minnesota.
	wikimiki.info /en/science (567 words)

	Willow Lake Township (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The population of Willow Lake Township in 1900 was 169.
		Although the main concerns of the present day township boards are road upkeep, there have been times when township funds were used to buy groceries and coal for the needy, doctor's fees, nursing care, and even funerals, veterinary fees for testing cattle for Bang's disease, and gopher poison.
		The name "Luverne" was derived from the fact that a daughter of one of the men connected with the building of the new railroad was a teacher in the school of Luverne, Minnesota., and at her suggestion that name was chosen for this village.
	www.webfamilytree.com /Hope_Centennial/willow_lake_township.htm (4825 words)

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		Charles F., second son of Carl Ackermann, was born on the farm, in the old log cabin home, in 1878, and here he was reared to the age of seventeen years, assisting with the work of the place, and attending the common schools of the neighborhood during the winter months.
		Anderson was born in Carver county, Minnesota, and is the daughter of John Damstrom, a prosperous farmer of Carver county, Minnesota.
		To the pioneer settlers of Stearns county, Minnesota, much credit is due, for their faithful and energetic labors to upbuild the social and commercial interests of the locality in which they chose their homes.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/mn/county/wilkin/bios/1904-a.htm (6555 words)

	Otter Tail County Minnesota Genealogy MnGenWeb Fergus Falls Township
		This was the eighth township organized in the county.
		The Red river enters the township in the east central part of section 36, then takes a westward course and leaves it in section 34, meandering into section 31, then returning to section 32, where it leaves the township, flowing due south.
		The present township officers are as follow: Supervisors, H. Steinbach, E. Peterson and L. Tomhave; clerk, J. Tomhave; treasurer, William Haarstick; assessor, William Schoening; justices, William Schoening and Max Kronemann; constables, G. Tomhave and Albert Schmidt.
	www.jsenterprises.com /ottertail/townships/fergusfalls.htm (416 words)

	Census Index 1900 thru 1920
		Minnesota is known on its license plates as the “Land of 10,000 Lakes,” but Minnesota actually has 12,000 lakes.
		The Minnesota state flag is royal blue, with a gold fringe.
		Three dates are woven into the wreath:1858, the year Minnesota became a state; 1819, the year Fort Snelling was established; and 1893, the year the official flag was adopted.
	www.barlowgenealogy.com /Minnesota/censusindex1900-20.html (189 words)

	NAHA // Norwegian-American Studies
		Concordia college at Moorhead, Minnesota, is one of the schools of the Norwegian Lutheran church of America.
		Edmund Olson Bjelland was born in 1843 and immigrated in 1847.
		The Lutheran messenger, Grand Meadow, Minnesota, for June 1, 1931, is a diamond jubilee number commemorating the establishment of the Bear Creek Lutheran church, Mower County, Minnesota, in 1856.
	www.stolaf.edu /naha/pubs/nas/volume07/vol07_4.htm (4752 words)

	Mathison
		On the train trip to Minnesota, one of the children, two year old Kari, died of diphtheria and had to be buried along their route near Elkton, South Dakota in a shallow grave because the ground was already frozen.
		Knute had harvested wheat and been to Canby to grind it into flour.
		It was there, locating on a homestead in Hendricks Township in the spring of 1881, where they remained all their life.
	www.lrwma.com /hendricks/id58.htm (1508 words)

	Gilbertson article - from series "Pioneer Days in Vernon Township"
		There are 12 townships three from east to west and four in length from north to south.
		Vernon township, located in the southeast corner of the county, as far as can be ascertained, was getting its first settlers in the late fifties, most of them coming from Columbia, Dane, Rock and Iowa counties in Wisconsin.
		The writer can very well remember back to the time when he came to Minnesota with his parents in the spring of 168, that Vernon township was quite well settled, only a few pieces of land in sections 30 and 31 being vacant, with a few in the southeast corner.
	homepage.mac.com /moiseth/iblog/C462392858/E1269377934/index.html (1497 words)

	Knute township, Polk County, Minnesota (MN) Detailed Profile
		Knute township, Polk County, Minnesota (MN) Detailed Profile
		Churches in Knute township include: Gosen Church, Salem Church.
		Parks in Knute township include: Bee Lake State Wildlife Management Area, Farmers Union Park.
	www.city-data.com /township/Knute-Polk-MN.html (141 words)

	Peder Knudson Laingen and siblings Genealogy
		Knute was ten years old at the time.
		It is not clear where they moved after this, but he was a widower living with his son Knute at the time of the 1900 census.
		He was living with his son Knut at the time of the 1895 Minnesota census, and was mistakenly described as grandfather, instead of father.
	users.sisna.com /mhobart/norway/laingen/ps03/ps03_467.htm (610 words)

	September 2006 Obituaries - Paynesville Press, Paynesville, Minnesota
		Romuald was born on Dec. 27, 1933, in Grove Township, Stearns County, to Peter and Elizabeth (Thull) Sand.
		Russell was born on Feb. 21, 1922, in Brookville Township, Redwood County, Minn., to Anton and Margaret (Huebert) Benson.
		Harland was born on Oct. 15, 1929, in Alta Vista Township in Lincoln County, Minn., the son of Harland and Elsie (Mohr) Heairet.
	www.paynesvillearea.com /news/Obits/archives/sept06obits.html (2996 words)

	Otter Tail County Minnesota Genealogy MnGenWeb Tordenskjold Township
		Technically, they were not were not supposed to occupy the land until after the survey of the township was completed as they couldn't be certain as to their homestead claim boundaries.
		After living in South Dakota, Texas, Oklahoma, North Dakota and various parts of Minnesota, Christoffer Jensen died on September 10, 1942 in Mahnomen, Minnesota and was buried at Tordenskjold Lutheran Cemetery with his first wife Ane (d: February 10, 1875) and his second wife Kersten (d: June 13, 1941).
		Many of the descendants of these Minnesota pioneers are also buried at Tordenskjold Lutheran Cemetery next to the Church that sits on the homesteads established by the Jensen brothers.
	www.jsenterprises.com /ottertail/townships/tordenskjold.htm (2289 words)

	The History of East and West Zion
		Gunder Tharaldson was to be one of the first Norwegian immigrants to settle in Langhei Township of Pope County, Minnesota.
		Gunder was born in Langhei, Norway (Setesdal Valley) in 1844 and died in 1917.
		Ole Nelson homesteaded in section 6 of Hoff Township and was the father of six children.
	www.angelfire.com /realm3/zionchurch/history.html (1396 words)

	NAHA // Norwegian-American Studies
		Minnesota historian Carl Chrislock, for example, contrasts the 1925 centennial with the 1914 Eidsvoll celebration in the Twin Cities, which commemorated the hundredth anniversary of Norwegian independence from Denmark.
		A 1916 editorial in the New York Times attacked a war-related congressional vote by Minnesota politicians: “The Minnesota delegation in Congress consists of eleven Kaiserists and one American, and a mighty fine one, Senator Knute Nelson, born in Norway.
		Knute Nelson is the only man, the sole American, Minnesota has in Congress.” In 1917 only four of the ten “Norwegian” votes were cast in support of the declaration of war requested by Woodrow Wilson.
	www.naha.stolaf.edu /pubs/nas/volume33/vol33_10.htm (10004 words)

	Misc. Douglas County, Minnesota Obituaries & Death Notices
		Esther A. Zimmerman was born on March 16, 1910, the daughter of Emil and Augusta Freier in Miltona Township, Minnesota.
		Ella Wilcox was born on April 18, 1911, the daughter of Eddie and Minnie (Olson) Hedstrom in Solem Township, Minnesota.
		Borghill "Brownie" was born on June 17, 1894 in Worthington, Minnesota the daughter of Hans and Bertha (Hanson) Myrum.
	www.obitcentral.com /obitsearch/obits/mn/mn-douglas9.htm (3415 words)

	Early Wang Settlers
		When local Valdres folk gathered on the Ole Oveson farm in Wang Township Renville County, Minnesota on July 31, 1927, a number of the older folk were selected from the assemblage estimated at 700 or 800 to be photographed separate from the crowd photo.
		The fact that the township and a church are named Wang is evidence that the great majority of the early settlers were from Vang, Valdres.
		The first settlers in Wang township, however, were from the Oslo area (Christiania), but the masses voted to name the township Wang instead of Christiania, which had been suggested.
	www.valdressamband.org /bits/wang1927.html (977 words)

	The Schliesser - Hicks Family Tree
		Kari Gulliksdatter Lien was born on Sep 6, 1853 in Springfield Township, Winneshiek Co., Iowa.
		Kjirsti Gulliksdatter Lien was born on Mar 18, 1856 in Springfield Township, Winneshiek Co., Iowa.
		Knud Gullikson (Knute G. Lee) Lien was born on Apr 20, 1852 in Springfield Township (south of Decorah), Winneshiek Co., Iowa.
	us.share.geocities.com /marthajanehicks/b151.htm (1310 words)

	North Dakota
		The Indians would feel pressure from European settlers crowding into Minnesota at the same time as their buffalo were being depleted on the plains.
		This was the Knute Elvik family that settled in South Dakota first, and then came to Williams Township, and later in life moved to the neighboring town of Lakota.
		On the 1900 and 1910 censuses residents were asked when they emigrated from a foreign country, and this fixes their year of emigration as 1883.
	www.angelfire.com /fang/snaggle/chap_XIV.htm (3043 words)

	Historic Lanesboro, Minnesota
		Knute and Tollef Bell built the first house in Carrolton Township about one mile north of Lanesboro near the north branch of the Root River.
		Southeastern Minnesota Railroad Company train arrived in Lanesboro, the end of the line for about two years.
		Indian mounds found on a farm north of Lanesboro (presently owned by John Horihan) were visited by Professor Winshell of the Minnesota Historical Society and Dr. D.F. Powell of Lanesboro.
	www.lanesboro.com /lanesboro-history.html (807 words)

	[DESCENDANTS OF GOEN HOVLAND WEB PAGES]
		Karen Jensdtr HOVLAND was born 10 December 1850 at Oppland, Norway; she married Ole Larson Rindal 1869 at Minnesota; she died 1928 at Winger, Minnesota; she was buried at Rindal, Minnesota.
		Bertha Christine HOVLAND was born 1875 at Pine Island Twp., Minnesota; she died circa 1880 at Yellow Medicine River, Minnesota.
		Laura HOVLAND was born 1890 at Eidsvold Twp., Minnesota; she died 1890 at Eidsvold Twp., Minnesota.
	home.insightbb.com /~herbpaul/herb/Hov00001.htm (2243 words)

	Kansas Historical Notes
		The directors are: George Starkey, Falls township; Lawrence Rogler, Bazaar township; Mrs.
		A monument was recently erected on the spot where Knute K. Rockne and seven other men perished in an airplane accident southwest of Bazaar in Chase county.
		Detailed histories of the county's cities and townships, biographical sketches and portraits of pioneers and leading citizens were featured.
	www.kshs.org /publicat/khq/1935/35_1_ksnotes.htm (978 words)

	EchoPress.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Bolstad wrote, "One of Norway's most famous emigres to the United States, Knute Nelson was born in the old farmhouse at Kvilekval on February 2, 1842.
		A committee was formed and by July of 1924 the tall roughly cut Knute Nelson stone monument at Evanger was unveiled.
		After the agreement was announced and the township promised to restore the house, it was declared a protected historical sight by the State Conservator.
	www.echopress.com /article.cfm?Article_ID=41307 (599 words)

	Badger Township, Minnesota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Only 3 of the 166 people in Badger Township in 2000 (1.8%) were foreign born.
		Badger Township was unoccupied prior to European settlement, traversed by occasional Ojibwe and Dakota hunting expeditions but otherwise unpeopled until the mid-1800s.
		The township is managed by a town board which mainly provides for road grading.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Badger_Township,_Minnesota (1889 words)

	Muriel Myrbo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Warren C. Myrbo, son of Knute and Alma Skalman Myrbo, was born on 2/22/20 in Underwood, Minnesota.
		Warren and Muriel resided on the Myrbo farm in Tordenskjald Township, Minnesota with Warren's parents.
		He finally told her that he was disappointed that she hadn't married a man of means which would enable her to live a life of leisure (Muriel never could imagine herself on such a pedestal!) Well, of course neither happened and eventually the couple purchased the home place.
	www.stenoien.com /muriel.htm (854 words)

	Dean Wagner's Genealogy - Brandon Township (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		On September 3, 1867, the board of county commissioners established Chippewa township, comprised of congressional townships 129 and 130, ranges 39 and 40.
		Haagen Holing, who died in February, 1907, at his home in Brandon township, was one of the early settlers in this township, having come out here from Minneqapolis, where he was working in the mills, in 1865, and filing on the homestead on which he spent the rest of his life.
		The present officers of Brandon township are as follow: Emil E. Bergh, clerk; Henry O. Olson, treasurer; Anton Holing, assessor; C.
	www.isd.net /dwagner2/genmil11.htm (224 words)

	Minnesota History Quarterly: Indexes
		Nelson, Knute, 1:282n, 2:88, 3:97, 5:318, 466, 6:370–371, 387, 7:65, 290, 8:79, 229, 300–301, 431, 9:306, 10:34, 202, 354, 19:152, 20:75, 32:180, 36:103, 41:101
		New Sweden Township, Nicollet County, ethnic settlements, 12:275, 19:220, 36:201
		in frontier Minnesota, 16:32, 17:317, 411–420, 18:409, 19:404, 22:336, 361, 27:11, 30:192
	www.mnhs.org /market/mhspress/MinnesotaHistory/index/histidxn.html (2595 words)

	Virch, Andrew Nelson (History 1845) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		ANDREW NELSON VIRCH, who is engaged in farming and dairying in Section 31, Mayville Township, was born at Lillethum haa Vossestranden 568 Bergen Stift, Norway, July 14, 1845, the son of Borjonel Nelson (deceased), a native of the same place, who lost his life while off trading.
		In that year he came to that part of the town of Beaver that is now Mayville, settling on the northwest quarter of Section 14, Township 29, Range 1 East, and homesteaded 160 acres (a soldier's right).
		He also served on the Mayville town board, for thirty-five years was justice of the peace, and for twenty-five years notary public, also at different times holding minor offices.
	wvls.lib.wi.us /ClarkCounty/clark/data/bios/934.htm (763 words)

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