YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY MINNESOTA
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Submitted to the Minnesota Biographies Project by:
Name: LaNaye Hennen
Email: henfarms@clarkfield.ruralink.com
Date: 29 June 2000
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"A History of Yellow Medicine County" by Arthur P. Rose,published in 1914

CHRIST CHRISTENSON (1880)

Christ Christenson, who rents 300 acres of land on sections 33 and 24, Tyro
township, has lived in Yellow Medicine county since he was nineteen years of
age and has witnessed many changes during that  period of time.

The parents of our subject were Christen Getmundson Fettje and Cathrina
(Anderson) Fettje, both of whom came to the county in an early day and died
in Sioux Agency township, the father in 1900 and the mother in 1908.  The
birthplace of Christ was Norfjord, Glopen, Norway, and he first saw the
light of day on August 6, 1861.

The family came to America in 1880 and founded a new home in Yellow Medicine
county, in Sioux Agency township.  Christ came with the other members of the
family and for several years worked out.  In 1890 he bought the northeast
quarter of section 14, Sioux Agency, improved the place, and engaged in
farming.  He sold out in 1909 and has since been engaged in farming in Tyro.

Mr. Christenson was married in Sioux Agency township February 6, 1893, to
Bertha H. Chvistad, who was born in Norway August 6, 1892, and who came to
the United States in 1891.  The names and dates of births of the nine
children of the family are as follows: Cathrina and Martha, born August 16,
1893; Carolina, born January 15, 1895; Henry, born July 23, 1896; Carl, born
March 23, 1898; Inga, born May 21, 1900; Anna, born March 2, 1902; Martin,
born November 23, 1904; Benny, born March 17, 1906.  The family are members
of the Norwegian Lutheran Church.