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My great-grandfather, Mathias, immigrated to the U. S. in the 1870s to work as a coal miner. He met Wilhelmina (Minnie) in the small Iowa coal town where they both lived. He was 31 when they married and she was 17! Mat and Minnie eventually homesteaded in Nebraska, reared nine children, and finally opened a prosperous general store in a town near their homestead. Mat was born in Säfsnäs sn., Dalarna, Sweden. Minnie was born in Skönberga, Östergötland, Sweden.
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