History of Douglas and Grant Counties, Minnesota article, subject Axel Melin
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SOURCE: History of Douglas and Grant Counties, Minnesota - Their People, Industries and Institutions, Vol. 2 edited by Constant Larson, (B.F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1916), "Axel Melin", page 389-390
DATE: 1916
SUBJECT: Axel Melin

AXEL MELIN.

Axel Melin, one of the well-known young farmers of Douglas county, was born in Leaf Valley township, that county, on June 24, 1884, the son of Andrew and Albertina (Engstrom) Melin, natives of Sweden, who came to the United States, proceeding directly to Michigan, where Andrew Melin worked in the copper mines for a few years. He then came to Minnesota and purchased eighty acres of land in Douglas county at one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre. He remained on that farm for a few years and then removed to Leaf Valley township, where he purchased a farm in section 35, which he developed and improved and there he made his home until the time of his death in 1908, at the age of seventy-four years. His widow died in 1910 at the age of sixty-six years. They were the parents of six children, Charles, Albert, Victor, Hannah, Axel and Sophia. Mr. and Mrs. Melin were members of the Swedish Lutheran church and active in the social life of the community, where they were held in the highest esteem by all who knew them.

Axel Melin received his education in the common schools of Douglas county and grew to manhood on the home farm, where as a lad he assisted his father with the work on the farm. He is now the owner of eighty acres of land in Ida township, which he purchased some years ago and where he is engaged in general farming and stock raising. He has improved the farm with a large barn, thirty-two by fifty feet, that he built in 1914, and a substantial and modern house in 1915. He is a shareholder in the grain elevator and potato warehouse and local telephone company at Garfield. Mr. Melin is a man of excellent judgment and a thorough and systematic farmer. He is a firm believer in intensive farming and in the most thorough cultivation of the soil. Though still a young man, he is recognized as one of the progressive and successful farmers of the township. He has always taken a keen interest in local affairs and is ever ready to assist in any worthy undertaking that tends to the betterment of the township and the county.


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