"History of Cottonwood and Watonwan Counties of Minnesota, 1916"



Anton Ellingsberg, a well-known and substantial farmer of Madelia township, Watonwan county, proprietor of a fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres in the vicinity of Madelia, is a native of the kingdom of Norway, born on May 21, 1866, son and only child of Iver and Anne EUingsberg, natives of that same country and farming people. They were earnest members of the Lutheran church and their son was reared in that faith.

Anton Ellingsberg received his education in the schools of his native land and was well grown when he came to this country. His mother carne six years later. After his marriage in 1891, he then being about twenty-five years of age, he located on the quarter section in Madelia township which he now owns and where he and his family are very pleasantly situated. Mr. EUingsberg is an excellent farmer and has brought his place to a fine state of cultivation. The farm is well improved and carefully tended and shows many evidences of its owner's progressive and modern methods of agriculture.

It was on February 27, 1891, that Anton Ellingsberg was united in marriage to Susan Fedje, who was born in this state on August 7, 1869, daughter of John 0. and Brethe (Suphammer) Fedje, natives of the kingdom of Norway, the former of whom was eighteen years of age when he came to this country with four younger sisters, settling in Minnesota, and the latter of whom was eleven years old when she came to America with her mother and four sisters, they also being pioneers of this state. John O. Fedje was an honored veteran of the Civil War, having served in behalf of the Union cause throughout that struggle between the states as a member of the Eleventh Regiment, Minnesota Volunteer Infantry. Upon the conclusion of his military service he homesteaded a tract of land in section 12, Madelia township, Watonwan county, and established his home there, becoming one of the substantial and influential pioneers of that part of the county, and there he died in 1911, at a ripe old age. To Mr. and Mrs. Ellingsberg ten children have been born, John, Carl, Helmer, Anna, Martha, Alma, Edwin, Helen, Earl and Luther. The Ellingsbergs are members of the Lutheran church and take a warm interest in the general good works of their community. Mr. Ellingsberg is a member of the local lodge of the Modern Woodmen of America and takes an active interest in the affairs of the same.

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