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HANS NELSON was born in Sweden Jan. 25, 1846. He came to Minnesota about 1868, settling first in Minneapolis and afterward at Anoka. His occupation has usually been that of a mechanic. He has also at times conducted religious services. He was elected a member of the Board of Education of the city of Anoka in 1903 and re-elected in 1904. He also served in the city council in 1891. Mr. Nelson was married in 1873 to Christine Swanson. Children: Theodore, Emil, Ella, Edwin Arthur.

~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

CHARLES A. NELSON was born in Sweden Dec. 17, 1861. He came to America and to Minneapolis in 1881. He first found employment on a dairy farm, and for a short time in 1884 worked in Canada for the Canadian Pacific Railroad Co. Returning to Minnesota, he purchased a dairy in the town of Fridley, which he has conducted for eighteen years. He has been president of the Minneapolis Dairymen’s Union several years, and was also treasurer of the Minneapolis Dairymen’s Creamery. In 1898 Mr. Nelson was elected a member of the board of county commissioners of Anoka county, and in January, 1905, became chairman of the board. He has also served as a member of the board of supervisors of Fridley and as a member of the council of the village of Fridley Park. He has always been a Republican in politics. Mr. Nelson was married Nov. 25, 1885, to Lizzie Dermott, who died in 1893, leaving four children: Nels A., Jennie L., Hattie A. (deceased), and Arthur W. (deceased). He was married a second time in 1894 to Amanda Danielson. Children: Bernard B., Raymond H., Agnes A., Hattie C. E., Carl A. W. and Theodore.

~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

JOHN H. NILES, attorney at law, Anoka, is a graduate from Dartmouth (1880), and from the law department of the Iowa State University (1882). He was born in Bethlehem township, Albany county, New York, Nov. 27, 1857. His father died when he was four years of age, and the family removed a few years later to Albany, where Mr. Niles graduated from the high school in 1876. After this he studied law in the oflice of Hand, Hale & Bulkeley at Albany, just before his entrance to the Iowa State University. He spent one year in the law office of Wilson & Lawrence, Minneapolis, and in the spring of 1883 came to Anoka and opened a law office, and has been in continuous practice ever since. In connection with his legal work he conducts an abstract office. Mr. Niles has been on the school board for eight years, and was president of this body for several years. He is secretary of the library board, and has taken an active part in the erection of the fine new library, building. Mr. Niles was married Nov. 22, 1887, to Zale Ticknor. and one daughter, Natalie, was born to them. Mrs. Niles died Feb. 20, 1902.

~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

PETER J. NELSON was born in Sweden, June 16, 1869. He came to Minnesota in 1888. and after leaving school took up photography. April 18, 1903, he came to Anoka, and established a photograph gallery, which very soon acquired a thriving business. Mr. Nelson now has branch galleries at Princeton, Milaca and Lindstrom, Minn. He was married in May, 1895, to Mary Hanson. They have one son. Paul B., born Nov. 28. 1903.

~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

 


CHARLES LEAVITT NOGGLE (deceased) was born at Freeport, Ill., Jan. 16. 1842. He received his education in Illinois and Wisconsin, and after living two years in Kansas, came to Faribault, Minn., where he enlisted Feb. 14. 1862, in the Second Battery of Light Artillery. This battery was ordered south and participated in several hot engagements. Mr. Noggle was wounded three times the last time being at Stone River, Dec. 31, 1862, where he was shot through the body and a portion of the aesophagus carried away, necessitating the insertion of a silver tube, which he carried during the remainder of his life. In June, 1863, he was able to leave the hospital and came to St. Paul, where he had charge of an omnibus line for ten years. About 1874 he purchased the old Ford farm in section 36, town of Burns, to which his parents removed, Mr. Noggle coming there himself to live a few years later. He never entirely recovered his health, but took an active interest in public affairs. He was county commissioner four years and held various town and school offices. Mr. Noggle was twice married. His first wife was Emma Wallace, of Faribault, who died Feb. 10, 1870. His second wife was Anna L. Sproul, to whom he was married Dec. 26, 1882. Mr. Noggle died May 2, 1901.

OLOF NORELL was born in Sweden Sept. 24, 1845, and came to America in 1866. He worked for some years as a lumberman on the St. Croix river, and saved enough from his wages to enable him to attend school each winter, principally in St. Paul. In 1873 he came to Anoka, and after working a few months in the store of Cutter & Co., engaged in the grocery business on his own account. Within a few years he had the largest grocery in Anoka, and erected several good buildings. In 1885 he retired from the grocery business. He has spent his summers at Crooked lake for the past twenty years. Mr. Norell was married Feb. 28, 1874, to Kate Anderson, who died in March 1902.

~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

ALDEN W. NORRIS was born in Maine, Oct. 3, 1815. He came to Minnesota in 1856 and bought 128 acres in section 6, town of Oak Grove,'where he lived until his death July 30, 1893. He was at one time county auditor and held various town and school offices. He was married Feb. 25, 1842, to Sarah N. Gaslin. Children: La Forest G. (died June 18, 1884), Thomas A. (died Jan. 8, 1878), Henry H., Ada F. (Mrs. Francis T. Clark), Alden (died Nov. 20, 1877), Willis E., Alfred E., and Hannah E. (Mrs. Guilford Frazer).

~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

 ALFRED E. NORRIS (son of Alden W. Norris) was born in Oak Grove, Anoka Co., Aug. 3, 1861. He attended the public schools and worked on his father’s farm in section 6. His father died in 1893, since which time he has farmed on the old homestead. He has 240 acres in Oak Grove and Burns, about 100 of which are under cultivation. Mr. Norris has been town supervisor of Oak Grove four years and school district treasurer eighteen years. He was married Aug. 1, 1889, to Sarah Magson. Children: Bernard A., Thomas Raymond, Nettie, Harold E., Amy, Mildred, Ada and Effie.

WILLIS E. NORRIS (son of Alden W. Norris), was born June 6, 1858, at Norris lake in the town of Oak Grove. He worked on his father’s farm until seventeen years of age. He went to Minneapolis in 1879, where in partnership with D. D. Sherman he conducted a feed business for about eleven years. In 1897 he came to his present farm in the town of Burns. He has about 152 acres, 45 of which are under cultivation. He was twice married. His first wife was Clara L. Plummer, who died Nov. 15, 1893, leaving three children: Archibald B. (Bellingham, Wash.), Hallie B. (Mrs Chester B. Pierce, St. Francis), and Roy P. Mr. Norris’ second wife was Mary M. Steinmetz, to whom he was married June 6, 1903.

~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905


JARVIS L. NUTTER (deceased) was born at Lubeck, Maine, July 4, 1834. In 1853 he came to Anoka county and two years later took one of the first claims in the town of Oak Grove. In 1862 he sold his farm and enlisted in Co. A, Eighth Minnesota Regiment, and served throughout the war. After the war he purchased a farm in the town of St. Francis, where he lived until the time of his death.