JESSE NYMAND.
Jesse Nymand, a retired farmer of Oakfield township, a native of Germany, was born on March 9, 1858, in Schleswig, the son of Hans and Catherine (Miller) Nymand, both natives of Germany. The former, a farmer, was born in 1826, and died in 1888. He owned a small farm which he cultivated until his death. His wife, who was born in 1828, died in 1892, four years after the death of her husband. They had eight children: Jesse, Hans, Lawrence, Christian, Christena, Meta Marie, Katherine and Marie.
The five years immediately preceding Mr. Nymand's coming to America he spent in Copenhagen, Denmark, working there at various things. He had received his education in his native land, and had gone to Copenhagen immediately after finishing his school training. In 1882 Mr. Nyman came to America, and located near Brayton, Iowa, where he worked as a farm hand for one year. The following summer he spent in Colorado working on the railroad, and the next winter he spent in Arizona. From this time until 1883 he was located near San Francisco, where he was engaged in working on a farm.
In 1883 Jesse Nymand came to Audubon county, at which time he and his brother, Hans, purchased a farm of two hundred and forty acres in Oakfield township. They operated this farm from 1883 until 1908, in partnership, when Jesse sold his interest to Hans. Jesse Nymand purchased a tenacre lot in Brayton, and here he is now living retired.
Jesse Nymand was married in 1886, four years after coming to America, and one year after coming to Audobon county, to Anna Christena Hansen, the daughter of Hans Hansen. After the death of Mrs. Anna (Hansen) Nymand, Mr. Nymand was married to Christena Jacobsen, who has been the mother of one child, Catherine. Catherine married Walter Nelson, and they have two children, Catherine and Florence.
Mr. and Mrs. Nymand are members of the Danish Lutheran church, and formerly Mr. Nymand was a trustee in this church. He has also served as township trustee, having been nominated and elected as a Democrat, the party with which he has been affiliated since coming to America.
Mr. Nymand has a host of friends in this section of Audobon county, where he is well known for his quiet and unassuming manners, and for his genial and friendly disposition. He is a man who has never failed to discharge faithfully and conscientiously, not only the duties of a private citizen, but the duties of a public official. He well deserves the confidence and esteem which he so generally enjoys.
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Transcribed from History of Audubon County, Iowa Its People, Industries and Institutions With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, by H. F. Andrews, editor, Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen & Company, 1915, pp. 740-741.
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