Obit: Nielsen, Anders P. (1865 - 1919)
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NIELSEN ----Source: Thorp
Courier (Thorp, Clark County, Wis.) 05/08/1919 Nielsen, Anders P.
(19 Sep 1865 - 2 May 1919) Anders Peter
Nielsen died at the hospital at Chippewa Falls on Friday, May 2,
1919, after an illness of but a few days. The cause was pronounced
as heart trouble at the hospital. Mr. Nielsen was born at Sejling
Sogn, Denmark, on Sept. 19, 1865, and had therefore reached the age
of nearly fifty-four years. He served his apprenticeship at the
blacksmith trade in Denmark and when about twenty-seven years of
age immigrated to this country, working for a time in New Jersey
and Chicago. In 1893, learning of a Danish settlement at Withee,
Clark County, Wis., he came to that village and a short time later
came to Thorp, where he has since made his home. For some time he
operated a blacksmith shop here, but of late years he has been
employed at his trade in lumber camps for the John S. Owen Lumber
Co. He was an expert workman in his chosen profession and highly
respected by his fellow workers in camp and friends in this
village. As a child he was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran
faith and believed in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of
man. He believed that the man who scatters flowers in the pathway
of his fellowmen who lets into dark places of life the sunshine of
human happiness, in following in the footsteps of his Master. The body arrived
here on Sunday noon and was taken to the Odd Fellows Hall, where
services were conducted by Rev. George H. Crow, interment following
in the Thorp Village Cemetery. Deceased had no
known relatives in this country except a niece who resides in San
Francisco. He however kept in touch with home folks in Denmark and
never missed bestowing generously from his income upon them at
Christmas time. He was a member of the local Modern Woodman Lodge,
carrying $2000 insurance and also a $1000 policy in the
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