Mobraten Peter P

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Peter J. Mobraaten

The late Peter J. Mobraaten, who for years was one of the most active residents of Oscar township, this county, came to America from Norway in 1869. He landed at the port of New York and almost immediately thereafter started for Minnesota . Upon arriving in this state, he located in Fillmore county, where he remained for one year, at the end of which time, in 1871, he came to Otter Tail county, where he homesteaded a quarter of a section of land in Oscar township and there he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring on July 27, 1913. Mr. Mobraaten was a fine farmer and a sturdy citizen , who was held in high regard in the neighborhood which he had done so much to help improve and he was widely mourned at the time of his death.

Peter J. Mobraaten was born in the kingdom of Norway on December 2, 1839, and there spent his youth and early manhood. In 1869 he decided to try his fortune in the promising land across the Atlantic. He came alone, landing at New York, proceeding thence to this state, where for one year he conducted a boarding house in Fillmore county . The next winter he spent in Alexandria, this state, and in the spring of 1871 he came to this county, entering one hundred and sixty acres of government land in sections 26 and 27, in Oscar township, which he proceeded to clear and make habitable. It was in that year, simultaneous to his coming to Otter Tail county, that Mr. Mobraaten married Bertha Spaberg, was born in Norway on December 5, 1845, daughter of Peter P. and Carrie (Torjet) Spaberg, and who, during the years they were engaged laboriously in making a home in the then wilderness, proved a most valuable and competent helpmate. Their home presently was made and as the years went by they accomplished the full task of bringing to a high state of cultivation their excellent farm, at the same time making themselves useful in many neighborly ways in that community, so that they came to be regarded as among the leaders in that particular locality, their influence ever being for good.

To Peter J. and Bertha (Spaberg) Mobraaten were born nine children, Peter P., Mary, Carrie, Julia, Minnie Bessie, Julius, Oscar and Petrine of whom, Mary, Julia, Minnie and Oscar are married. Mr. and Mrs. Mobraaten ever were active members of the Norwegian Lutheran church and their children were reared in that faith all growing up to be useful members of their community. Since the death of her husband, Mrs Mobraaten has continued to maker her home on the homestead farm, which is now cultivated under the active management of her eldest son, Peter P. Mobraaten, who was born on the homestead on December 20, 1871, and who is doing well his part in the community life of Oscar township and the Fergus Falls locality generally, he being held in high regard by all who know him, as are all the members of the late Peter J. Mobraaten. The Mobraaten farm was enlarged during the occupancy of the late owner by the addition of eighty acres adjoining, which Mr. Mobraaten purchased, the present farm of two hundred and forty acres being well kept and improved in a substantial manner

Taken from: History of Otter Tail County Minnesota, James W. Mason,, Illustrated 1916, Volume 2, Reproduced from the Collection of the Otter Tail County Historical Society?s Archives, Fergus Falls, Minnesota.

Peter married Spaberg Bertha. Bertha was born on 05 Dec 1845 in Norway; died on 02 Feb 1928; was buried in South Friborg Cemetery, Oscar Township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]