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

CARL J. IMS (1887)

Carl J. Ims is one of Sioux Agency township's industrious and prosperous
farmers, operating a rented farm of 300 acres of sections 30 and 19.

Mr. Ims is a native of Yellow Medicine county and was born in Sioux Agency
township January 25, 1887.  He is a son of John O. and Anna (Mauersen) Ims,
natives of Norway, who came to the United States in 1884 and located in
Yellow Medicine county.  Here the mother died July 28, 1905.  The father is
a resident of Sioux Agency township.

Carl J. Ims has spent his entire life in Sioux Agency township and was
educated in the schools of district No. 8.  He remained at home and assisted
his father with the farm work until 1910.  That spring he rented his present
farm and has since been farming for himself.  He is a member of Rock Valley
Church of Sioux Agency township.

Mr. Ims was married October 10, 1909, in Minnesota Falls township, to Alma
Eye, who was born in Hanley Falls, Minnesota, September 10, 1891.  They have
three children, Thelma Amalia, Anna Josephine and Stanley Conrad.