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Uit "An Illustrated History of Nobles County, Minnesota"
LAWRENS KREUN owns and farms 240 acres of land on sections 7 and 8, Leota
township, and also owns twelve and one-half acres in Graves' addition to the
village of Lismore. He is a native of Sheboygan county, Wis., where he was
born Dec. 6, 1858.
The parents of our subject were Cornelius and Susan (Zeeveld) Kreun, and
Lawrens is the second oldest of a family of four children, the others being
John, Henry and Jane.
The father of this family was born in Holland in 1825. He came to the United
States when ten years of age and located with his parents in Sheboygan county,
Wis., when the only other human beings in the vicinity were Indians. The
family carved a home out of the forests and cleared a forty acre farm.
Cornelius Kreun died there in 1865.
His wife, also a native of Holland, married again after her first husband's
death.
She died in Sioux county, Iowa, in 1890.
Lawrens was raised on a farm in his native county and resided there until
eighteen years of age. He then moved to Fillmore county, Minn., where he
engaged in farm work six years. He next moved to Sioux county, Iowa, where he
also worked for wages at farm work. He moved to Nobles county in October,
1891, and bought the farm upon which he has ever since lived. At the time
there was not a stick on the place, nor was there a foot of land broke.
Mr. Kreun was married in Fillmore county, Minn., Feb. 14, 1879, to Miss Hattie
Hoftiezer, who was born in Holland and came to the United States with her
parents when twelve years of age. Her parents were H. J. and Christina
Holtieser, who located in Fillmore county upon their arrival from Holland.
Both are dead. To Mr. and Mrs. Kreun have been born seven children: Charlie,
born July 23, 1879; Kate, born Jan. 10, 1881; Samuel, born Dec. 11, 1883;
John, born Oct. 23, 1887; Annie, born Sept. 7, 1890; Laura, born Sept. 12,
1894; Alfred, born Jan. 6, 1897. The family are members of the Dutch Reformed
church. Mr. Kreun served as a member of the Leota township board from 1894 to
1906.
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