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Below is a family biography included in the book, Biographical Souvenir of the Counties of Buffalo, Kearney, Phelps, Harlan and Franklin, Nebraska published in 1890 by F. A. Battey & Company. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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A. J. CARLSON is one of the early settlers of Phelps county, having located there in 1877. He is a native of Sweden, and immigrated to America in 1870. By economy and industry he has accumulated enough of this world’s goods to satisfy the wants of life. Pleasantly located on a beautiful farm, he is spending his days in the happy quiet of farm life. Although thoroughly in sympathy with the progressive, big-hearted West, and identified with the substantial development of his adopted country, yet native ties, the duty of the religion of the soil, turns his heart to the home of his childhood and the associates of his youth across the water. He desires to go back and look again upon the familiar haunts where rustic joys gilded the monotony of peasant life in years long agone — happy years, halcyon days — the pleasures of which crystallize the frost-work of sweet day dreams of the present, called recollections of other days.
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This family biography is one of the numerous biographies included in the book, Biographical Souvenir of the Counties of Buffalo, Kearney, Phelps, Harlan and Franklin, Nebraska published in 1890 by F. A. Battey & Company.
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