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

HANS ENGEBRETSON (1876)

Hans Engebretson manager of the Farmers Elevator and Supply Company of
Canby, has lived in Yellow Medicine county since he was a year old.  He is a
son of Gulbran and Karoline (Johnson) Engebretson, who were born in Norway,
came to America in 1873, lived in Iowa until 1876, and since that time in
Yellow Medicine County.

The subject of this sketch was born in Worth county, Iowa, February 23,
1875, and the following year accompanied his parents to Yellow Medicine
county.  He was educated in the public schools and assisted with the work on
the home farm until 1899.  For a short time thereafter he was manager of the
Farmers Produce Company at Burr.  In 1901 he located in Canby and has since
been manager of the Farmers Elevator and Supply Company.  The company deals
in all kinds of grain and sells coal and twine.

Mr. Engebretson was married in Canby May 5, 1912, to Rena Swenson, who was
born in Yellow Medicine County and who is the daughter of the late Charles
Swenson and Margaret (Iverson) Swenson, now of Canby.  Mr. and Mrs.
Engebretson have one child, Margretha, born June 17, 1913.