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

MRS. PAULINE UNLEE (1882)

Mrs. Pauline Unlee is the proprietor of the Five and Ten-Cent store of
Canby.  She was born in Chicago, Illinois, November 10, 1874, the daughter
of Mikkel Hanson and Jacobine (Anderson) Hanson.  Her father came from
Norway in 1863, lived in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, a few years, in Chicago,
Illinois, seventeen years and located in Canby, Yellow Medicine county, in
1883.  He died November 25,  1899.  The mother of Mrs. Unlee was born in
Sweden and now makes her home with her daughter.

Miss Hanson accompanied her parents to Canby in 1883 and has ever since
resided here.  She was married in Canby April 6, 1898, to Peter Unlee, Jr.,
who was born in Illinois August 27, 1868.  To Mr. and Mrs. Unlee were born
two children: Violet, who lives with her mother; and a son who died in
infancy.  Mrs. Unlee opened the Canby store in 1903.