Goodhue County, Minnesota - Lives of Leading Men, 1909 (part 13 of 13)

Mrs. Julia Bullard Nelson, of Red Winy, educator, author, lecturer and a prominenl worker in the cause of women and temperance, has taught in Texas. Minnesota, Tennessee and Connecticut, and lectured in almosl every state in the union in the interest of the W. ('. T. T. and woman's suffrage. She was born at High Ridge, Conn., May 13. 1842. daughter of Edward and Angeline Raymond Bullard, who came to this country from England in 1836 and settled in High Ridge, her father later being one of Minnesota's pioneers. She was educated in the public schools of Iowa and in an academy at Denmark, Iowa, later completing her studies at the Ilamline University, when that institution was located at Bed Wing. From 1861 to 1866 she was engaged in teaching in Connecticut and Minnesota, being the iirst woman to hold a first grade certificate in Goodhue county. September 25, 1866, she was married to Ole Nelson, a soldier of the Civil War, who enlisted in Company P, Sixth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry August 1, 1862, and served until June 27, 1865, wdien he was honorably discharged. He was born in Norway and his parents came to America in 1818, his father having chartered a ship and brought a ship load of emigrants over to settle in the new country. Mr. Nelson died January 9, 1869, and after the death of her husband and child, Mrs. Nelson, who wTas then achieving note as one of the early advocates of woman's suffrage, decided to consecrate her life to work among the lowly and downtrodden. She was sent by the American Missionary Association, in 1869, to teach the freedmen in Texas, where she labored until 1873. During the years 1875-77 she taught a school for colored children at Athens, Tenn., and for the next four years was principal of the Warner Institute at Jonesboro, Tenn. Mrs. Nelson preached from 1883-88 and organized the Congregational Church at Jonesboro during that time, after which she engaged in Prohibition work in eastern Tennessee. From 1889 to 1890 she wras the vice president of the Minnesota W. C. T. U., and lecturer, and from 1890 to 1896 wras president of the Minnesota Woman's Suffrage Association and lectured for the National Association of Woman's Suffrage. For four years she edited the "White Ribbon," a W. C. T. U. paper, and during all this time has written both prose and poetry for the press. She lectured on temperance before there was a union, and led in a debate on the question of woman's suffrage in Red Wing, in Good Templars' hall, in 1869. Mrs. Nelson has financially assisted in obtaining education for many young people who have since attained prominence in educational and religious endeavor. Although now retired, she takes an active interest in everything that tends to the betterment of city, county or nation, and her newspaper communications, in which she champions the cause of righteousness, a square deal and the working people, have now, as in the past, an important influence on local affairs.

Ralph Waldo Holmes, the talented editor of the Pine Island "Record," has made an excellent reputation for himself during his period of service at the head of that paper. He combines business with literary ability, and is well suited by nature for the post he occupies. His paper exerts considerable influence on the affairs of the community and his opinions on all questions of the day are listened to with respect. Born in Roscoe township, November 1, 1870. he was educated in the common schools of Big Stone county, later studied for three years at the Upper Iowa University at Payette, Iowa, completing his education with a year at Hamline University. After finishing his studies he returned home and assisted his father on the farm in the summer and taughl school in the winter. In 1895 he leased a large farm in Big Stone county, which he conducted for a time. After selling out he moved to Pine Island and in March, 1901, boughl the Pine Island "Record," which he still publishes. He has been a member of Company D, Third Regimenl M. X. G., since March, 1905, and holds the office of sergeant. During his residence in Big Stone county he held the office of constable and was justice of the peace ami clerk of the school board at different times, and is now clerk of Pine Island village, having served three years. Fraternally, he affiliates with the I. 0. O. F., the M. W. A.. U. 0. F. and E. F. U. Mr. Holmes has been twice married. October 23, 1895, he was married to Emma B. Hartkopf, who died August 20, 1900 leaving him two children, Estelle, born November 10, 1896, and Alice, born April 2, 1898. On December 28, 1902, he was again married to Myrta B. Jewell, by whom he has one child, George Henry, born August 29, 1901.

John Henry L. Holmes, father of R. W. Holmes, was the son of John Holmes, a Methodist circuit rider in Ohio, and came to Illinois with the family in the early fifties, settling on a farm in Pine Island in 1857. He served for three years during the war in Company H. Eighth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry. The mother, Emmeline E. Holmes, daughter of James Parker, was also born in Ohio, came with her parents to Minnesota in the late fifties, lived on a farm near Pine Island and afterwards moved to the village. The father died in Hopkinsville, Ky., in 1907.

Andrew Ellingson, retired merchant, living at 828 East avenue, Red Wing, is one of the men who were instrumental in having the Red "Wing Seminary located in this city. He was born in Norway, January 9, 1840, son of Lasse and Jerrine (Nelson)

Ellingson, who came to America in 1845 and located in Boone county, Illinois. In that county the family was saddened by the death of the mother, in 1818. The father continued farming on his 160 acres until 1865, when he came to Warsaw township, this county, after which he retired, taking up his residence with his children, from whom he received loving care and attention until his death in South Dakota in 1875. Left motherless as a young lad, Andrew received his early education in the schools of Boone county and farmed with his father until 1857. He came to Goodhue county in 1860 and worked by the day and month until 1864, when he commenced to improve his own farm. He moved to Red Wing in 1867 and his first employment was as clerk for Charles Betcher in the hardware business for about four years. Thomas Wilkenson then became his employer until 1876, when he became interested in a clothing venture with A. G. Henderson, the firm name being Henderson & Ellingson. This company did business on Plumb street until 1899. when the partnership was dissolved, Mr. Ellingson going to the village of Goodhue, where he carried on the clothing business until 1904, the elate of his retirement from active business. Mr. Ellingson was a member of the Red Wing city council for two terms and served as justice of the peace in Warsaw township for one term. In polities he is a Republican. Mr. Ellingson was married in 1865 to Margaret Hoyland, of Dane county, Wisconsin, and to this union were born three children. Louis Martin, the only one who survives, was born March 25, 1866. He has taken to himself a wife and ma^kes his home in this city. Josephine, born at Warsaw, this county, in 1867 died in 1885. Henry Philip, born at Warsaw, died in 1871. Mrs. Margaret Ellingson died October 23, 1873. Mr. Ellingson was then married. May 23, 1876, to Signe M. Lindas, daughter of Hans and Carrie Lindas, of Marshall. Dane county, Wisconsin. Six children have brightened this union. Carrie was born in 1877 and died in 1878; Amanda, born in September, 1879, married the Rev. 0. A. Anderson, of Dell Rapids, South Dakota. Clarence H., born in May, 1880, is a Chicago dentist. Lydia B. was born in 1881 and died in December, 1908. Arthur M. was born in 1883 and died September 17, 1893. Evelyn E. was born in 1895. Mrs. Signe Ellingson died January 20, 1904. The family faith is that of the Norwegian Lutheran Church. Andrew Ellingson has two brothers and two sisters : Elem is married and lives in Capron, Boone county. Illinois ; Nels is also married, and lives on a farm in Warsaw township, this county. Mrs. Sjure Holman lives at Deerfield, Dane county, Wisconsin, and Mrs. C. O. Peterson lives in Camrose, Alberta, Canada.

Goodhue county, was a central figure around whom the rural population of the county were wont to rally. He had many of the characteristics of the New England puritan, but a long residence in the West had modified their asperities. He had well defined views upon all public questions, and did not lack ability or inclination to vindicate his opinions when occasions offered for their expression. He served in the legislature of the state, and would doubtless have represented his district in Congress but for his rigid views of political ethics, which restrained him from adopting the methods in vogue and practiced by aspiring politicians in his time. He early realized the substantial character of the resources and capabilities of the new country in which he had made his home, and hence had unlimited confidence in the possibilities of its future. He did much to advance the material interests of his immediate locality, and is gratefully remembered as one of the founders of that delightful community, cosily nestled in the charming valley of the Zumbro.

Martin Spencer Chandler, now deceased, many years sheriff of Goodhue county, and ;i man of prominence in the state was born ;it Jamestown, Chautauqua county. Mew York, Feb. 14, 1S24, son of Woodley W. and Phebe Winson Chandler, both of Mew England ancestry. The maternal great-grandfather of Martin S. Chandler \v;is an officer in the Revolutionary War, and his grandfather on the same side was in the War of 1812. The father was a woolen manufacturer and an extensive farmer, being one of the leading men of Chautauqua county for many years. An uncle. Spencer ("handler, from whom .Martin S. was named, was city marshal of Nashville, Tennessee, for twentythree years, and when the Civil War broke out was one of the few men in that city who stood nobly by the old Hag. Martin was educated at the Jamestown and Fredonia academies, and learned the tanner and currier's trade, but preferred farming, which he followed in his native town until the fifties, when he came to Goodhue county and opened a farm in fine Island. Dur-* ing the first year he was in the state he was elected one of the three county commissioners, serving until 1858; in the autumn of which year he was elected sheriff, taking office Jan. 1, 1859, in which position he served for nearly three decades. He was a stanch Republican and from the earliest days of the county was a leader in the party councils. He was a presidential elector in 1872 and was elected messenger to carry the vote of the state to Washington, but declined in favor of Wilford L. Wilson, of St. Paul. Mr. Chandler was several times urged to become a candidate for Congress and other honors were offered him. but many of these he declined. He served the state two terms as United States Surveyor General for Minnesota and in 1888 was delegate a1 large to the Republican National Convention. Mr. Chandler was a fine type of pioneer, stanch of character, unswerving of principal, and at the same time a man of the people, well liked and highly respected. He was married, on February 14. 1849, to Fannie F. Caldwell, of Jamestown, New York. To this union were born three children. Two died in infancy, and Florence C. became the wife of Ira S. Kellogg. Mr. Chandler died February 24, 1893, and his death was mourned as a loss not only to his family and friends but also to the county he had served so well, and whose peace and law he had assisted in establishing:

Prof. H. B. Wilson was born in Ilingham, Somerset county, Maine, March 30, 1821. He came from that splendid English stock which at the very outset of the colonization of America established those principles of liberty and freedom of action which are today the priceless heritage of America. He traced his lineage back to the Mayflower. His parents were natives of Maine. He received his education in the district school and afterward attended the Wesleyan Seminary at Kent's Hill, at that time one of the strongest academies of learning in New England. He continued his studies four years in this institution, paying his own way by teaching and during the vacations doing other work. Shortly after he was twenty years of age. in 1841. he graduated from this 'institution. Born with that Anglo-Saxon spirit of wanderlust, which has back of it the personal desire to make the most of One's self and therefore seeks the newer country where man can be a larger factor in the development that goes on about him, he went to the new West and at Cincinnati, began teaching. From here he went to Lawrenceburg, Ind., and took charge of Dearborn County Seminary, remaining two years, during which time he studied law and was admitted to the bar, although he never practiced his profession. In 1844 he removed to New Albany, Ind., and organized the first graded public school system in that city. He continued to teach and superintend schools until 1850, and in 1858 came to Red Wing and took up the duties of professor in mathematics and civil engineering at Hamline University, which was then at Red Wing. In July, 1858, the Asbury University of Indiana conferred upon him, unsolicited, the honorary degree of Master of Arts. In June, 1862, he enlisted in Company F, Sixth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, and served until he was mustered out in the fall of 1865. He was captain of Company F, and took part with General Sibley in the campaign against the Sioux, following the terrible massacre at Wood Lake, Camp Release, witnessed the hanging of the thirty-nine Indians at Mankato and took part in the long march to the Missouri river in 1863. At the battle of Wood Lake he received a severe wound in the shoulder, from which he never fully recovered. After the Indian campaign had closed, in the spring of 1864, he was sent with his regiment to Helena. Ark., and afterward transferred to the Sixth Minnesota, and attached to the Sixteenth Army Corps, and participated in the siege of Spanish and Blakely forts and the capture of Mobile. After the Avar he returned to Red Wing, where he made his home until his death. He was elected superintendent of schools for Goodhue county in 1866 and continued to serve until in 1870 when he became State Superintendent of Public Instruction. He was a member of the city council and served one term in the state legislature in 1877. He was an ardent Republican, allying himself with that party at its inception and voting for Freemont and every subsequent candidate of the party. He was a member of the Masonic order, and the G. A. R. Professor Wilson was married in 1844 to Mary Jane Chandler, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., who died February 2. 1888, in Red Wing. The children by tins marriage are: Hon. Frank M. Wilson, and Alice, wife of Hiram Howe, of Red Wing; Oliver and Mattie, of Minneapolis. In 1892 he married Flora M. Sargent, of Denver, Cole, who is still living. Professor Wilson also had one brother, Ovid T., to whom he was much attached and who resides in Cincinnati. Professor Wilson died .January 31, 1008.

Carl F. Hjermstad, Red Wing banker, was born in Norway. May 4, 1865, son of Lars II. and Beathe X. (Elstad) Hjermstad. He was educated in the private and high schools of his native place and at the age of fifteen years became clerk and afterward manager of a general store, remaining from 1880 to 1884. during which latter year he came to the United States and settled in Red Wing, being employed as bookkeeper for T. K. Simmons & Son from 1884 to 1888. In 1888 he entered the Bank of Pierce, Simmons & Co., and remained until 1897, when he became manager of what was then the Red Wing Gas and Electric Co. In 1899 he became cashier of the Goodhue ( ounty National Bank and on June 1, 1906, was promoted to his present position of vice president and manager. Among the offices which Mr. Hjermstad holds, aside from his position in the Goodhue County National Bank, are the following: Director, vice president and manager of the Goodhue County Savings Bank ; director, president and treasurer of the Goodhue County Abstract Co. ; director and treasurer of the Red Wing Linseed Co.; director and treasurer of the Red Wing Brick Co. ; director, secretary and treasurer of the Red Wing Boat Manufacturing Co.; trustee, treasurer and -hairman of the building committee of the Red Wing Lutheran Ladies' Seminary; trustee, secretary, treasurer and manager of the Red Wing Old People's Home: director, treasurer and member of the board of managers of the Minnesota Scandinavian Relief Asso- ciation; chairman and treasurer of the legacy committee of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of America; trustee of Trinity Lutheran Church; trustee, treasurer and member of the building committee of the city cemeteries; chairman of the executive committee of the Civic League; member of the board of regents of the Red Wing Automobile Association ; member of the executive committee of the Minnesota State Abstract Co. ; vice president and director of the Red Wing Cigar Manufacturing Co. and director of the Commercial Club. Mr. Hjermstad was married in January, 1889, to Sigrid Ness, by whom he has seven children : Nora C, born in 1892; Sigurd L., born in 1896; Solveig M., born in 1898; Carl F., Jr., born in 1900; Borghild S., born in 1903; Otto C. T., born in 1905 and Lars B., born in 1909.

Adolph Remmler was one of those sturdy and substantial German pioneers whose sound common sense made his advice highly esteemed by all who knew him, and whose good fellowship endeared him to scores of faithful friends. He was born May 28, 1838, in Baden, Weiler, Schwartzwald, Germany, son of Landolin and Mary (Kramer) Remmler; received his education in Baden, and came to St. Louis, Mo., when a young man, obtaining a position in a wholesale house, where he remained from 1854 to 1858, when he became a traveling salesman for the same firm. He enlisted in Company A, Third Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of the war, afterward resuming his former employment. He was married April 18, 1867, to Helena Lenshaner, who died October 20, 1871, aged thirty-seven years, one month and ten days, leaving one son. Otto, born February 10, 1869. In the middle seventies, Adolph Remmler came to Red Wing and January 15, 1877, married Mrs. Christine Heising. Mr. Remmler, ably assisted by his wife, took charge of the Heising Brewery, changed its name, and made many improvements, alterations and additions. He served as alderman of the city and in other ways participated in many public movements for the benefit of the community, the interests of which he had deeply at heart. He belonged to the I. O. O. F. and the B. P. O. E. His death, October 29, 1908, at the age of seventy years, five months and one day, was sincerely mourned by a wide circle of friends. Mrs. Christine Remmler was born in Ritberg, Prussia, May 5, 1835, daughter of Christoph Batsher and his wife, Agnes Von Horst, her maiden name being Christine Batsher. She came to this country at the age of seventeen and one year later married "William Heising. at Cincinnati. To this union were born three children : Mrs. Frank M. Wilson, of Red Wing; Mrs. Henri DeAVitt, of Red Wing, and Dr. Albert Heising, of Menominee, Wis. After living in Cincinnati for a short time, Mr. and Mrs. Heising moved to Rochester, Minn., and shortly before the Civil War came to

Keel Wing. Here they purchased the old Minnesota House from John Friedrieh, and remodeled the hotel into a brewery. After Mr. Heising's death, December 12. 1874. at the age of fifty-four years, his widow conducted the place for several yearSj showing shrewd business ability. January 15, 1877, she was married to A. Remmler. Otto Remmler, son of A. Remmler, and now manager of the brewery, was born February L0, 1869, and on May 21. 1891, married Rosie Bremer, born May 27, 1873, by whom he has one daughter. Elsie, born November 2'\. 1892-.

Benjamin Briggs Herbert was horn May 3, 1843, on a farm near Cuba. Fulton county, 111. With his parents, he moved to Henry county, Jowa. and From there, in 1856, to Minnesota. He was educated at Hamline University, completing the classical course in 1sn;.. While attending school, he still lived upon a farm every morning and night and never missed a class. At the age of sixteen years, he joined the M. E. Church a1 Red Wing. For a year after graduation he was principal of the Rochester Seminary (M. B.) ;it Rochester, Minn.: then he entered the law department of Michigan University. He was admitted to the bar in 1868 at Kc<\ Wing, and practiced law there For five years.

In 1S71 Mr. Herbert was married al Red Wing to Mary E. Sweney of that city. She was enrolled as a studenl in Hamline University on the first day of the opening of that institution at Red "Wing.

In 1873 he organized the first Red WingJFlour Mills and became the first secretary; in the fall of the same year he entered the newspaper business. lie organized the Red Wine- Printing Company in 1877, and was president of the company until 1890, and editor of the papers published thereby until 1888. For five years he remained secretary of the Red Wing Building and Loan Association, which he organized in 1877. With the clay in a horse pail he solicited $25,000 with $10,000 cash paid in in ten days to start the Red Wing Pottery.

In addition to the work in connection with the Minnesota Editorial Association. Mr. Herbert conceived the idea of a National Editorial Association, and in the winter of 1885. effected such an organization at New Orleans, where he was chosen as its first president.

In addition to his editorial work, Mr. Herbert was always greatly interested in educational affairs. He served for many years as a member of the Board of Education at Red "Wing, and was a member of the first Board of Trustees of the State Public School of Minnesota, at Owatonna. In his new home at Evanston he became president of the Board of Education, and, with his associates, carried to completion a new and one of the finest school

Mr. Herberi was one of the organizers of the Red Wing Mills, Red Wing Building Association, Red Wing Stoneware Company, Rod Wing Furniture Company and the Red Wing Printing- Company. Mr. Herbert resides in Ravenswood, Chicago, where he is actively engaged in the publishing business.

Tarns Bixby, while no1 at the present time an actual resident of this county, nevertheless retains his interests here and is decidedly a Red Wing man. He was born December 12, 1856. at Staunton, Va., son of Bradford W. and Susan J. Bixby, who, being in moderate circumstances, were able to supply their son with none of those advantages which money can give. The family settled in Stillwater in 1S.~)7. coming to Red Wing in the fall of 1862. Here Tarns spent his boyhood and early manhood, receiving his early education in the parish schools which he attended until reaching the age of thirteen years. Beyond that his educational advantages have been such as an active mind can derive through reading, experience and observation. Possessed of a remarkable degree of energy and enterprise, he was not slow to employ his talents in wbatever offered a field for his abilities, whether in the field of intellectual, moral or industrial endeavor, and more particularly the first two. The result in a business and official way has been that he has been engaged as news agent, hotel keeper, baker, editor and publisher and in high state and governmental positions, while in those lines that are purely in the realm of altruism he has taken ho less an active part, his Y. M. C. A. endeavors being well known. He was still scarcely more than a youth when he made his first venture into newspaper work, and it is humorously told that at one time when he edited the "Argus" for several weeks in the absence of the real editor, he conducted it in so up-to-date a manner that the editor upon his return found two live libel suits pending against the paper. Mr. Bixby established the Red AVing "Sun" January 17, 1884, and conducted that paper until its consolidation with the "Advance" and the "Republican" since when he has been connected with the "Republican," although for many years past his duties have been of an official rather than of an active capacity. Since early youth he has taken an active interest in polities, and his public career was started as chairman of the Republican county committee of Goodhue county. His excellent work in that capacity attracted the attention of Republicans in other parts of the state and when the Republican League of Minnesota was organized he was made its secretary. Subsequently he filled the office of secretary to the Republican State Central Committee, from which position he was promoted to that of chairman. In this capacity he managed some of the hardest fought political battles in the annals of Minnesota and never failed to lead the party to victory. He has been secretary of the railroad and warehouse commission of Minnesota. From 1888 to 1889 be was private secretary for Gov. W. R. Merriam; from 1880 to 1892 for Knute Nelson; from 1892 to 1896 for David M. Clough. At the election of United States senator in 1901 he was urged by many friends to become a candidate and had he accepted their offers at the proper time it was freely asserted that his chances of success would have been of the best. As it Avas he received a handsome complimentary vote. Mr. Bixby had charge of the senatorial campaign of Knute Nelson which he conducted in his usual vigorous, honorable and effective manner. Mr. Bixby was at one time prominently mentioned in connection with a cabinet position as secretary of the interior, an appointment which, according to the newspapers, was practically within his grasp had he cared to lake it. Probably Mr. Bixby's most the Five Civilized Tribes, so called, in the Indian Territory. These tribes are the richest people in the world, and when conditions 1) came such that immediate supervision and adjustment of their affairs by the United States governmenl was necessary. Mr. Bixby was named as a member of the so-called Dawes Indian Commission, of which he was either acting or actual chairman from May 2, 1897, when he was appointed by President William McKinley, until July 1, 1905. when that commission was abolished and President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Mr. Bixby as commissioner, a position he retained until July, 1!>07. when the affairs of the Five Tribes, having been reorganized and placed on a satisfactory basis, their supervision was vested in the Department of the Interior. The stupendous task which -Mr. Bixby performed only those who Avere with him in the work can fully realize. Opposed by all kinds of clever men and powerful interests who, without sanction of law. had secured control of mineral and other valuable rights belonging to the Indians, he adjusted matters where several millions of dollars were concerned, with an honesty and fearlessness that was as unswerving as it was intelligent. During this period. Mr. Bixby came back to Minnesota for a couple of months, gathered up the tangled threads of a Republican political campaign, which, nearly over, seemed almost hopeless, and carried it to a successful conclusion. Upon his return from the South in 1907. Mr. Bixby and a number of friends purchased a controlling interest in the "Pioneer Press" of St. Paul, and Mr. Bixby became the general manager. He at once devoted his energy and ability as a newspaper man and organizer to making the "Pioneer Press" the best paper in the Northwest, and this effort bore fruit in the ''Pioneer Press" as it is today. The "Evening Pioneer Press" is one of the children of Mr. Bixby's thoughts. A few mouths ago the "Pioneer Press" was purchased by the St. Paul "Dispatch," but Mr. Bixby remains as general manager. In Red Wing he is president of the Red Wing Printing Co., and his business interests include all the leading industries of this city, in most of which he is either an officer, stockholder or director. At the present time he is a member of the Minnesota Club, of St. Paul; the St. Paul Town and Country Club; the Red Wing Commercial Club and the Muskogee (Indian Territory) Town and Country Club. He is a Knight Templar, as well as a member of other Masonic bodies; also of the Elks, the Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. April 27, 1886, he was married to Clara Mues, and has three sons, Edson K., born April 9, 1887; Joel H., born November 30, 1888; and Tarns, Jr., born September 12, 1891. Mr. Bixby's record bespeaks his merit. He is a man of untiring energy and unswerving patriotism and loyalty, always ready to give his best effort and his money to the upbuilding of the community at large and particularly his home town of Red Wing.

Baker C. Grover was born in Bethel, Oxford county, Maine, November 18, 1S10, son of James and Amelia Baker, natives of Massachusetts and Maine respectively, the former of whom died in 1865 and the latter in 1840. He received an academy education in his native town, and followed farming until April, 1868, when he came to Zumbrota and engaged in farming, also being interested in several other enterprises including a cheese factory and a livery barn. He still owns the livery stable in partnership with his son, James D., having been in this business thirty-three years. He also deals in lands and stocks and owns a quantity of local stocks including shares in the Zumbrota Clay works. He is now practically retired. In addition to his local interests he owns a stable in Grafton, N. D., which is now conducted by his son, H. B. He is a Republican in politics, served in the legislature in 1876-77; was town clerk eight years; member of the village council ten years; postmaster eight years and eleven months and member of the school board nineteen years, seventeen of which he was its president. Mr. Grover was married August 27, 1863, at Bethel, Me., to Lizzie Rose, daughter of Duane and Maria (Clark) Rose. To this union have been born seven children : Frank, who died in infancy ; H. B., now a liveryman in Grafton, N. D. ; Howard, who died in infancy; Lillian, who died in 1901: James D., who is his father's partner under the firm name of B. C. Grover & Son ; Charles L., of the firm of Wedge and AVeiss and Luella, now Mrs. William Bevers, of Alberta, Canada. Mr. Grover is a Mason and attends the Congregational church.

Frederick R. Anderson, general manager of the Farmers' Elevator Co., at Cannon Falls village, is a native son of this township, born August 31, 1861. In addition to attending the district school he received a thorough education in the Red Wing Seminary, graduating in 1882. After leaving school he had the distinction of being the first station agent at Welch, subsequent to which lie engaged in the grain business. From 1883 1" 1894 he engaged in the milling business, later erecting an elevator at Cannon Falls, which he conducted until 1902. when he sold out to the Farmers" Elevator Co., still retaining his position as manager. He is considered an expert grain judge and has twice been awarded the state prize for uniform grading by the Brewers' and .Maltsters' Association of Minnesota. He always lias his principals' interests al hearl in -ill his transactions. Some years ago Mr. Anderson bought stock in the Hauser Malting Co., in which company he is now i director. Being of sociable nature, he has joined the Modern Workmen and the United Workmen. Mr. Anderson was married February 25, 1886, to Ida Louisa Peterson, born in Hastings, July 6, 1865, by whom two sons were born: Carl Victor Winnefred, bom February 7. isss. died Augusl 14. 1888; and Frederick Lincoln Everett, born January 4. 1890, a graduate of Cannon Falls high school, class ol 1908. Mrs. Anderson's parents were Johannes ami Ellen (Wilson) Peterson. Johannes Peterson was born in Smaaland. Kronobergs ban. Sweden. February 16, 1828. Ellen ("Wilson) Peterson was born in Kristianstads Fan Skone Sweden. June 4. 1838. They were united in marriage at Superior, Wis., in December. 1860. In the spring of 1868 they moved to Vasa, where they acquired some six hundred acres of land and were considered as vvy progressive, both socially and financially. Johannes Peterson died December 20, 1S88. Kllen (Wilson) Peterson died April 1. 1877. F. K. Anderson's parents came from Sweden. The father, Johannes Anderson, was born in Skone, Province Norra Osbo Harad, Kristianstads Lan.. Ljungby Hed, October 24, 1830. The mother, .Maria Christina (Johnson) Anderson, was born in Smaaland Province, Kronobergs Lan., Hynneryd, December 21, 1830. They came to the United States in 1859 and were married at Red Wing. Soon afterwards they purchased 160 acres of wild land in Vasa, which they later increased to. 350 acres, on which they did general farming, the father dying July 12, 1904 and mother June 10, 1905.