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Obit: Mikklesen, Michael (1874 – 1898)
Surnames: Mikkelsen ---Source: Austin Daily Herald (Austin, Minnesota) 20 Aug. 1898 ---Mikklesen, Michael (24 Feb. 1874 – 1898) Michael Mikklesen was born at Hirtshals, Denmark, February 24, 1874. He came to this country in 1891, settling in Lincoln County, Wisconsin and moved from there to Brow??dale and from there to Austin about three years ago. At the time of his enlistment he was employed by Messrs. Brown and Friend on their farm. He was a young man of excellent habits and fine physique. He had always desire to join the army and when three years ago a playmate of earlier days joined the troops at Fort Snelling, he also tried but was rejected on account of his eyesight, when the war broke out he said “Now I’ll join and be among the first to go to battle.” A dispatch was sent by Capt. Wood to Lars Hanson, the well know blacksmith, who at once tried to find out something about the deceased soldier’s friends. He wired to Minneapolis and there found E. M. Mikklesen who at once came to the city. He said he did not know that his brother was sick and the shock was a severe one. He said the blow would be especially bad on the dead old mother who waited in the fatherland for her sons to return from America. She does not know that he was even in the army. The sons, to keep her from worrying, did not inform her. Her husband was drowned in the North Sea about 20 years ago. There were but the two children. The body was buried in the National Cemetery at Chickamauga.
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