Nils Tobias Dahl

1831 - 1913  (82 years)

• Name	Nils Tobias Dahl
  Born	19 Apr 1831	Øksendal, Bakken Sogn, Vest Agder, Norway
  Gender	Male
  Died	18 Oct 1913	Minneota, Lyon, Minnesota, United States
  Person ID	I5857879910	Master Tree
  Last Modified	23 Apr 2001

  
  

  Family	Tori Haaversdatter Ovedal,   b. 9 Oct 1837, Oftedal, Bakke, Vest Agder, Norway ,   d. 9 Jul 1919, Minneota, Lyon, Minnesota, United States  (Age 81 years)
  Married	3 Jun 1857	Coon Prairie, Vernon, Wisconsin, United States
  Children	+ 1. Christine Dahl,   b. 9 May 1858, Coon Prairie, Vernon, Wisconsin, United States ,   d. 7 Jan 1919, Connell, Franklin, Washington, United States  (Age 60 years) + 2. Pauline Dahl,   b. 1 Nov 1859, Coon Prairie, Vernon, Wisconsin, United States ,   d. 23 Feb 1931  (Age 71 years) + 3. Herman Nils Dahl,   b. 19 Jan 1862, Coon Prairie, Vernon, Wisconsin, United States ,   d. 25 May 1914, Minneota, Lyon, Minnesota, United States  (Age 52 years)   4. Caroline Dahl, (DII),   b. 4 Jun 1864, Colfax, Dunn, Wisconsin, United States ,   d. Oct 1865  (Age 1 years) + 5. Caroline Dahl,   b. 10 Apr 1866, Colfax, Dunn, Wisconsin, United States ,   d. 27 Jun 1894  (Age 28 years) + 6. Tilla Regina Dahl,   b. 4 Jul 1868, Colfax, Dunn, Wisconsin, United States ,   d. 1945  (Age 76 years)   7. Nellie Tobina Dahl,   b. 28 Oct 1871, Pemberton, Blue Earth, Minnesota, United States ,   d. 1949, Iowa, United States  (Age 77 years)   8. Hannah Sharlotte Dahl,   b. 9 Apr 1873, Pemberton, Blue Earth, Minnesota, United States ,   d. 15 Nov 1905  (Age 32 years) + 9. Lillian Dahl,   b. 6 Jun 1875, Cottonwood, Lyon, Minnesota, United States ,   d. 2 Dec 1939  (Age 64 years)   10. Peder Norman Dahl, (DII),   b. 16 Dec 1877, Cottonwood, Lyon, Minnesota, United States ,   d. 25 Dec 1877  (Age 0 years)
  Family ID	F5350806938	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 19 Apr 1831 - Øksendal, Bakken Sogn, Vest Agder, Norway Married - 3 Jun 1857 - Coon Prairie, Vernon, Wisconsin, United States Died - 18 Oct 1913 - Minneota, Lyon, Minnesota, United States  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  !SO: D-031, D-014 b. place. D-023 d. place. D-031 lists name Nils Tobias Dahl (Nils Tobias Pedersen Oksendal) EMMIGATION: D-031 from Norway to America in 1851. PROBLEM: D-022 lists name as Neils (nils) Tobias Dahl. D-024 spells name Niels Tobias Dahl. D-025 lists b. place as Oxendal, Bakke, Vest-Agder, Norway. D-029C spells name, Nels. D-014 list bp as Oksendal, Bakkesogn, Norway. NOTES: Extractions from "CHRONICLES OF A MINNESOTA PIONEER" (D-012) by Tilla Regina Dahl Deen-1734, daughter of Nils Dahl-1293. She spells her father's name, Niels Tobias Dahl. (also D-013 & D-014) And spells her mother's name, Tori Hoverson. "When father came to America he was the only member of his family to come. Later two of his brothers with their families came to our Dunn County home. As all homesteads near there had been taken, the brothers moved on to Blue Earth County, Minnesota." She is referring to Hans P. Dahl-482 and Tonnes A. Dahl-1294 who emmigrated in 1867 and 1868 respectively. " The villiage of Pemberton is located on land homsteaded by my uncle Tonnes Dahl." Nils came from Norway at the age of 20. As soon as he was of age he homesteaded a farm in Coon Prairie, Wisc. and lived there until May 1865 when he moved to Dunn County, Wisc. The villiage of Colfax is on the farmland they owned there. In May 1870 he moved his family by covered wagon to Blue Earth County, Minn. where he lived for 3 years. D-012, by daughter Tilla, describes her memories of growing up and life on the homestead in Cottonwood, Minn. Nils sold the farm about 1878, soon after baby Herman died from chickenpox, and moved to Minneota, Minnesota in August, 1879. Nils had bought a farm a mile east of town and the children attended school in Minneota. "The school year 1948 was the first one in the history of Minneota when the public schools of the villiage had no member of the Dahl family among its pupils". (D-012 p.12) D-014 describes the emmigration of Niels Dahl and the early years in America. Niels left Norway April 26, 1851, crossing the Atlantic in a small ship, (the passengers had to furnish their own provisions on the ship) landing in New York eight weeks later. From New York they travelled up the Hudson on a horse drawn canal boat (which was merely an open barge with no shelter from the weather) to Albany, and through the canal to Buffalo, N.Y. where they boarded a small sailboat and landed at Milwaukee, Wisc. There they bought ox teams and drove across the sparsely settled state to Vernon County, arriving in August. They settled on homesteads on Coon Prairie, near what is now Westby, Wisconsin. Niels was the only member of his family to come at that time. Tori came a year later with her family, via the same route, and arrived in Coon Prairie about September 1852. She was 14 years old. Tori remained in Milwaukee for 2 years wih friends so she could go to school, learn English and the American way of housekeeping, finally arriving in Coon Prairie by ox drawn wagon. After marriage Niels and Tori lived on the land he had homesteaded as soon as he had become of age, until May 1863 when they moved to Dunn County, Wisc. The village of Colfax is on the farm they owned there. The moved to Minnesota and back to Wisc., then to Blue Earth Co., Minn again for about three years and then in 1873 homesteaded in Lyon Co., Minnesota on the west side Cottonwood Lake. After 7 years, in Aug. 1879, they moved again and bought a farm in Eidsvold Township. They lived one mile east of Minneota until Feb 22, 1897 when they moved to Minneota where they lived until their death D-025 says, Niels Tobias Dahl is the way it is listed on his tombstone. BAPTISM: Bakke Church in Norway, also confirmed there. D-014. MARRIAGE: County from D-023. OCCUPATION: Farmer NOTES: D-023 lists year of emigration from Norway to Wisconsin as 1851. LR: D-006 lists Minneota, MN.