WABASHA COUNTY, MINNESOTA
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			HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY


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                                   ALSO A 

                        HISTORY OF WINONA COUNTY

                                  CHICAGO:
                      H. H. HILL & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS.
                                     1884





 
  Anderson, Abram J., eldest son of this family, was born at Rome October 9, 1838. He had but 
 brief opportunities for education, and left home at twenty to secure a home in the west. In August, 
 1858, he arrived in Zumbro and at once purchased one hundred and twenty acres on section 18. Four 
 years later he sold this and settled where he now dwells, on section 19. Here he has one hundred and 
 twenty acres, besides twenty acres timber in Mazeppa, a quarter-section in LacQui Parle county, and 
 two lots in the village of Appleton. He was member of the board of supervisors in 1865, 1868-9, and 
 chairman of that body in 1870-1-2-3-4-5-6-7. Politically he is a democrat. September 23, 1873, he was 
 united in matrimony to Miss Melvina Mitchell, who was born in Sangerville, Maine; her 
 parents-Joseph S. and Lovina Mitchell-were of Irish and English origin. Mrs. Anderson is a 
 Universalist, but her husband has no particular religious views-although not an atheist. Their children 
 were born as follows: Mott M., July 20, 1874; Blanche E., March 24, 1876; Lynn R., July 12, 1880; 
 Jesse S., August 6, 1882.