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


EDWIN WILLANDER (1883)

Edwin Willander is a farmer and stockraiser of Tyro township.,  He has spent
all except the first four years of his life in Yellow Medicine county and
has prospered exceedingly.  He is the owner of the southwest quarter of
section 24 and the southeast quarter of section 23.  Mr. Willander engages
in stock raising extensively and has nothing but thoroughbreds.  His breeds
are Shorthorn cattle, Duroc-Jersey hogs, White Holland turkeys, White
Leghorn and Blue Andalusian chickens and bees.

The subject of this review was born in Nicollet county, Minnesota, April 22,
1879.  His father is N. M. Willander, a native of Sweden and a resident of
Tyro township.  His mother was Christina (Johnson) Willander, who was born
in Sweden February 22, 1841, and died in Yellow Medicine county December 18,
1912.  The children of the family are Matthies, Leonard, Oscar, William A.,
Jennie and Annie, who live at home;  Mrs. C. G. Anderson, of Winthrop,
Minnesota; Mrs. John A Lindall, of Swede Prairie township; Edwin, of this
sketch; and Mrs. Swen Friberg, of Clarkfield.

When Edwin was four year old, in 1883, he accompanied the family to Yellow
Medicine county.  For four years the family home was on section 2, Swede
Prairie, and then the home was made in Tyro.  Edwin was educated in the
school of district No. 29, and until 1902 he lived with his parents.  Then
he bought his half section farm in Tyro, improved the place, and has made
his home there since.  He is a member of the Swedish Lutheran church of Tyro
township.

Clara Johnson, born in Swede Prairie township March 18, 1882, became the
wife of Mr. Willander February 18, 1903, the ceremony being performed in
Tyro.  She is a daughter of J. G. and Lena (Peterson) Johnson, natives of
Sweden and now residents of Swede Prairie township.  Mr. and Mrs. Willander
have the following children:  Harry Reynold, born November 26, 1903; Josie
Cecilia, born August 16, 1905; Vira Julia, born September 14, 1906; Clarence
Wallace, born September 23, 1907; Reuben Orand, born March 2, 1909; Ruth
Evelyn, born November 2, 1910; and Edith Lillian, born April 3, 1912.