Person ID: I5857879910
Nils Tobias Dahl
19 Apr 1831 – 18 Oct 1913
Male
Events
- Born
- 19 Apr 1831 — Øksendal, Bakken Sogn, Vest Agder, Norway
- Died
- 18 Oct 1913 — Minneota, Lyon, Minnesota, United States
Family
Family group sheet →Married: 3 Jun 1857 — Coon Prairie, Vernon, Wisconsin, United States
- FatherNils Tobias Dahl19 Apr 1831 – 18 Oct 1913
- MotherTori Haaversdatter Ovedal9 Oct 1837 – 9 Jul 1919
- ChildChristine Dahl9 May 1858 – 7 Jan 1919
- ChildPauline Dahl1 Nov 1859 – 23 Feb 1931
- ChildHerman Nils Dahl19 Jan 1862 – 25 May 1914
- ChildCaroline Dahl, (DII)4 Jun 1864 – Oct 1865
- ChildCaroline Dahl10 Apr 1866 – 27 Jun 1894
- ChildTilla Regina Dahl4 Jul 1868 – 1945
- ChildNellie Tobina Dahl28 Oct 1871 – 1949
- ChildHannah Sharlotte Dahl9 Apr 1873 – 15 Nov 1905
- ChildLillian Dahl6 Jun 1875 – 2 Dec 1939
- ChildPeder Norman Dahl, (DII)16 Dec 1877 – 25 Dec 1877
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.