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| | Marttila_Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Mikko Antinpoika Sarkkinen, eighth child of Antti and Briita Sarkkinen, was born on September 29, 1861 in Kempele, Province of Oulu, Finland. |
 | | In 1880 he came to America, to Marquette, Michigan, where he married Liisa Koskela, of Rantsila, Province of Oulu, Finland. |
 | | They decided to try farming and moved to Ellendale, North Dakota. |
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