Axel SCOTT

Early Pioneer At Crooks Dies

Death Take Axel Scott, Aged 85,
Who Came to County In Jun 1873

With the death of Axel Scott, one of the early homesteaders of Minnehaha County, at his home at Crooks on January 26, passed one of the sturdy pioneers who bore the burdens of the early days in building up this section of the state, who was active in transforming these prairies from wheat raising to dairying and livestock raising. He was about the first person to build a silo in the county; took an active part in politics, especially in the early days, and was always eager and active in the development of the community.

Axel Scott had reached the age of 84 at the time of his death. He was born at Roros, Norway, on November 30, 1835. At the age of 34 he came to America, settling at first in Goodhue County, Minn., in 1869. After living in Minnesota for four years, he gathered his possessions and family into a prairie schooner and with his yoke of oxen meandered across the prairie to Dakota Territory, arriving at what was then the village of Sioux Falls, in June, 1873. He filed on a homestead in Lyons Township in this county, where he was actively engaged in farming up to the spring of 1910, when he retired and moved to Crooks, where he lived until his death.

Mr. Scott leaves surviving him besides his host of friends, his wife, Annie Scott, and eight children, all of whom have grown up and now have families. He also leaves a brother in Norway and a sister in Blue Earth county, Minn.

Contributed on 2/2/10

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