"Charles Nienow, now living retired in Plainview, is one of the many citizens of this county who has found contentment and prosperity in the cultivation of the soil, which has enabled him to spend his latter years in comfortable leisure. He was born in Germany, December 2, 1853, son of John and Minnie (Bessert) Nienow, and came with his parents to the United States in 1868, as a boy of fifteen. The family settled in Elba Township, Winona County, where, after many years spent in farming, the father John Nienow, died in July, 1900. The mother survived him until 1915. Charles Nienow was mainly educated in Germany, but after coming to this country, attended English school for a while. For a number of years he helped his father on the home farm, and afterwards worked out as a farm laborer for others. In 1880, having saved some money, he bought a farm of 80 acres in Elba Township, Winona County, not far from his parents' place, where he followed general agriculture on his own account until 1894. Then selling that farm, he came to Wabasha County and bought one of 160 acres in section 36, Oakwood Township ..." [Franklin Curtiss-Wedge, Compiler, History of Wabasha County, Minnesota (H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Company, Winona, Minnesota, 1920, p. 293)]
"Charles Nienow, now living retired in Plainview, is one of the many citizens of this county who has found contentment and prosperity in the cultivation of the soil, which has enabled him to spend his latter years in comfortable leisure. He was born in Germany, December 2, 1853, son of John and Minnie (Bessert) Nienow, and came with his parents to the United States in 1868, as a boy of fifteen. The family settled in Elba Township, Winona County, where, after many years spent in farming, the father John Nienow, died in July, 1900. The mother survived him until 1915. Charles Nienow was mainly educated in Germany, but after coming to this country, attended English school for a while. For a number of years he helped his father on the home farm, and afterwards worked out as a farm laborer for others. In 1880, having saved some money, he bought a farm of 80 acres in Elba Township, Winona County, not far from his parents' place, where he followed general agriculture on his own account until 1894. Then selling that farm, he came to Wabasha County and bought one of 160 acres in section 36, Oakwood Township ..." [Franklin Curtiss-Wedge, Compiler, History of Wabasha County, Minnesota (H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Company, Winona, Minnesota, 1920, p. 293)]
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