Jackson County, Minnesota - Biographical sketches, 1910 (part 5 of 13)

Mr. Engel was married at Jackson July 9, 1891, to Matilda Kruse, who was bom in Hamburg. Germany, April 7, 1873, and came to the United States in 1887. Her father, C. F. A. Kruse, died in 1899 and her mother, Maria Kruse, died in 1906. To Mr. and Mrs. Engel have been bom the following children: Helmuth H., bora June 14, 1892, died November 2, 1908; Alvina, bora May 27, 1893; Hannah, born July 12, 1895; Freda, bora August

HENRY W. ROBSON (1878), hardware merchant of Heron Lake, has spent his entire life of thirty -one years in Jackson county, havuig been born in Heron Lake township, three miles northwest of Lakefield, on November 14, 1878. His parents were John and Anna (Foss) Robson.

John Robson was born in Stockholm, Sweden, coming to America when about nineteen years of age. He located first in New York and later in Chicago and other points in Hlinois. During the late fifties and early sixties he followed hunting and trapping for a living and led a frontiersman's life. At the outbreak of the civil war he enlisted in company G, 5th Minnesota, on January 5, 1862; was discharged for disability January 15, 1863. He moved to Jackson county in the seventies, took a homestead in Heron Lake township and lived on the farm until about 1881. Then he moved to Heron Lake and conducted a blacksmith and gunsmith shop until his death, which occurred in 1893 at the age of seventy years. His wife also died in Heron Lake.

Henry W. Robson accompanied his parents when they moved from the farm to Heron Lake, being two y^ars of age at the time. He lived with his father until the latter's death, and then he started out in life for himself, working at whatever he could find to do, first on a farm, then in a restaurant and during later years as a clerk in a general store. On October 1, 1906, Mr. Robson bought out the hardware and harness stock of J. F. Humiston, and has since conducted that business.

Mr. Robson was married at Heron Lake April 19, 1903, to Miss Alma Tuberg, a native of Mankato and a daughter of Gus. Tuberg, of that city. Mr. Robson is a member of the A. F. & A. M., the Eastern Star, the M. W. A. and the Yeomen lodges.

FRANK A. MUZIKAR (1886), of Hunter township, was born in Moravia, Austria, August 16, 1868, the son of John and Antonia (Ris) Muzikar. These parents were born in 1832 and 1836, respectively, came to the United States in 1874, lived in Chicago several years, and located in Jackson county in 1886,

Frank came to America with his parents in 1874 and for twelve years lived with them in the city of Chicago. There he received his education, and there he worked at the hardwood furniture finishing business. He arrived in Jackson county with the family March 10, 1886, and until he was twenty -four years of age lived with his parents on the farm in Hunter township. He married in 1892 and took over the management of the home farm - the north half of the southwest quarter of section 22. In 1899 he bought the northwest quarter of that section and is 1909 the south half of the northeast quarter of section 21. He farms 240 acres.

Mr. Muzikar was married in Jackson November 20,. 1892, to Mary Motl, who was born in Bohemia, Austria, September 8, 1872, and who came to the United States when three years of age. She is the daughter of Frank and Mary Motl, of Enterprise township. Mr. and Mrs. Muzikar are the parents of one child, Lawrence, born August 1, 1908. The family are members of the Catholic church of Jackson and he belongs to the Catholic Bohemian lodge. He has served as township clerk for the last eight years, has held the offices of assessor and treasurer and has been clerk of his school district for a number of years.

PAUL H. PAULSON (1871) is one of the early day settlers of Belmont township, where he has spent nearly forty years of his life. He is a native of Norway and was born on the last day of the year 1845, one of a family of eight children born to Andrew and Mary (Jones) Paulson. His parents came to America in 1852 and in that early day located in Clayton county, Iowa, engaging in farming. They moved to Mitchell county, Iowa, in 1866 and resided there the rest of their lives. His father died in 1878, aged 60 years; his mother died several years later. Of their eight children the following named five are living: Paul, Jane, Harry, Alex and Ole.

Paul crossed to the new world with his parents in 1852, being then a small boy. From that time until he came to Jackson county in 1871 he resided in Clayton county, Iowa, securing an education and making his home with his parents. Arriving in Jackson county, he took ^8 ft homes t^a4 the north half of the southwest quarter of section 30, Belmont township, a part of his present farm, and on that place he has ever since made his home. Hard times came upon him during the grasshopper scourge and in order to make a living he was obliged to go to Mitchell county, Iowa, to work in the harvest fields. He encountered many hardships during the pioneer days - hardships to which many succumbed - but he remained with his country and weathered the storms of adversity. Today he has a fine farm of 200 acres and is in prosperous circumstances.

During his long residence in Jackson comity Mr. Paulson has held many offices of trust within the gift of his neighbors. He was chosen clerk of school district No. 18 in 1871 and served for thirty years. He has held the office of chairman of the township board, has been justice of the peace and constable. He is a member of the Norwegian Lutheran church of West Belmont.

Mr. Paulson was married in Clayton county, Iowa, November 18, 1868, to Elizabeth Knutson, who was born in Norway March 1, 1844, and came to America when sixteen years old. She is a daughter of Ole and Ingebor (Tollefson) Knutson. Eight children have been bom to this union, as follows: Andrew, of St. Ansgar, Iowa; Mary, deceased; Theodore, of Redwood county, Minnesota; Edward, of Belmont; Peter, living at home; Nettie (Mrs. John A. Williams), of Little Cedar, Iowa; Belle and Ida, who reside at home.

JOHN I. WALLACE (1885), proprietor of a tow manufacturing plant at Jackson, is a native of Spafford township, Onondago county, New York, and was born on August 1, 1843. The parents of our subject were John and Mercy R. (Woodworth) Wallace. The father came from Ireland in 1832 and after a residence of a year or two in Washington county moved to Onondago county. New York, where he engaged in farming for a number of years, later moving to the. little village of Spafford Corners, where he died May 24, 1893, aged 82 years. Mercy R. Wallace was bom in New York state. Her family was of English descent, her parents having been bom in Connecticut. She married Mr. Wallace in November, 1840, and died in August, 1865, aged 43 years.

Onondago county until ten years of age and then moved with his parents to Otisco township, of the same county. There he secured a district school education and worked on his father^s farm until the outbreak of the civil war. -

On September 26, 1861, Mr. Wallace enlisted in Company A, of the 75th New York volunteer infantry, at Auburn and served until after the close of the war. -Early in the war his regiment was sent to Santa Rosa island, off the southern coast of Florida, and from there was transferred to Pensacola, Florida, upon the evacuation of the navy yard there by the confederate forces. In September, 1862, Mr. Wallace accompanied his regiment to New Orleans, Louisiana, and in that state took part in several severe engagements, among others the battle of Camp Bisland. He was on the skirmish line of the forces that captured the gunboat Cotton on Bayou Teche.

After spending the winter of 1862-63 in New Orleans, the forces to which Mr. Wallace belonged started out under command of General Banks on a campaign through the state. They went to Alexandria and then to Port Hudson, where the forces arrived May 26, 1863.' The day following Mr. Wallace took part in the charge on Port Hudson. Thereafter for forty- four days the 75th regiment engaged the enemy in siege, fighting almost continually and losing about two-thirds of the command in killed, wounded and captured. On June 1 Mr. Wallace was wounded by being struck in the right hip by a piece of a shell. For the next three months he was off duty, part of the time being in a field hospital and the rest of the time at home, having secured a sixty days furlough. He rejoined his regiment at New Iberia, Louisiana.

His period of enlistment having expired, Mr. Wallace reenlisted in the same regiment on the last day of the year 1863, received a thirty days veteran's furlough, spent that length of time at home, and then reported for duty at Washington. He received orders to report to his regiment, then stationed at New Orleans, and in that southern city remained until July, 1864. Then he accompanied his regiment to Petersburg, Virginia, to become a part of General Grant's army. The latter part of the same month his regiment became a part of the forces under General Sheridan, then stationed at Tanleytown, near Washingion. His fighting thereafter was done under the dashing Sheridan, taking part in the battles of Winchester, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek, the last named occurring October 19, 1864. Late in the year 1864 he was ordered to Savannah, Georgia, where he was on pro^ vost duty until August, 1865. Then orders were received for the discharge of the regiment, and after a trip to Atlanta and Augusta and back to Savannah, he was mustered out in the last named city, the regiment finally disbanding at Albany, New York, September 24, 1865.

After the war Mr. Wallace returned to Onondago county, New York, and located in Tully township. From that time until 1882 he engaged alternately in farming and working at the cooper's trade. In the last named year he moved to Elliott, Ford county, Hlinois, and engaged in the manufacture of tow. His plant was burned in the spring of 1885, and on July 10, of that year, he arrived in Jackson, determined to seek his fortune in Jackson county. During the year of his arrival he erected a plant in the village, and has ever since been engaged in the manufacture of tow. His product is upholstery tow and the capacity of the plant is about one and one-half tons of fine tow per day.

In addition to his other business Mr. .Wallace is quite extensively engaged in the cultivation of ginseng and was the first man in the county to begin the cultivation of that product. He began on a small scale in 1901 and has enlarged the ground each year until now he has under cultivation thirty-five square rods. From one square rod of ground he has sold $109 worth of dried ginseng roots. The crop is a very profitable one, but one hard to raise and it takes time and labor to get results. Mr. Wallace owns his home and business property in the city. He is a member of the Christian church and of the Grand Army of the Republic.

Mr. Wallace has been married twice. His first marriage occurred in Tully township, Onondago county. New York, in March, 1876, wben he wedded Miss Julia Thompson. She died November* 1, 1880. The second marriage occurred in the same county June 14, 1883, when he married Miss Eva Donaldson, of French descent and a native of Eastern Canada.

eral store at Heron Lake, was born August 11, 1857, at the town of Red Wing, Minnesota territory, the son of J. L. and Mary (Partridge) Cabot.

Two years after the birth of our subject the family moved from the town onto a farm two miles west of Red Wing, and there they resided six years. In 1865 the family home was made in Geneva, Freeborn county. There our subject completed his education. In 1868 he located in Murray county, where his father took a homestead, and where he resided eight years. John Cabot went to Goodhue county, in 1876, lived there one year, spent the next year in Murray county, and then located in Gentry county, Missouri, where he resided four and one-half years.

It was during the month of April, 1882, that Mr. Cabot located in Heron Lake village. He was employed by J. W. Benson for six years, and in 1888 returned to Goodhue county, where he farmed his father's land six years. He returned to Heron Lake in 1894 and engaged in the mercantile business with his brother, Chester H. Cabot. This partnership existed until 1902, when the firm of Benson- Cabot company was organized, and since that time Mr. Cabot has had the management of the store. He owns town property, 160 acres in Washington and an interest in 240 acres of Cottonwood county land. He is a member of the Odd Fellows and Modern Brotherhood of America lodges.

Mr. Cabot was married in Lakefield May 11, 1899, to Stella Wood. To them was born one child, John M., born February 17, 1900. The second marriage of Mr. Cabot occurred at Mankato May 12, 1907, when he wedded Nettie J. Wood.

ANDREW H. SWEXSON (1882) is a Delaficld township farmer, his farm being located on section 10, three miles east of Wilder. He was born at Windom, Minnesota, October 10, 1880, the son of John and Matilda (Beburg) Swenson, who now reside at Windom.

When Andrew was two years of age the family moved onto the farm in Delafield township, which John Swenson had taken as a homestead in 1871. On that farm Andrew grew to manhood. He attended the district schools and later took a course in the Minnesota normal school at Austin. With the exception of the winter of 1901, when he was employed as an overseer in the pineries of northern Minnesota, Andrew worked for his father on the farm until 1906. Then liis parents having moved to Windom, he bought eighty acres of his father's farm, rented the rest of the farm, an(f has since been engaged in its management.

For several years Andrew and his brothers kept a pack of stag hounds and gained a great local reputation as wolf hunters. Wolvea were quite plentiful and large numbers of them were captured by the Swenson brothers. Sheep owners in the vicinity paid them a special bounty for their destruction in addition to the bounty paid by the state.

Andrew Swenson was married in Delafield township August 7, 1907, to Anna Homerberg, who was bom in Lyon county, Minnesota , February 9, 1881. She is the daughter of Nels Homerberg, deceased. One child, Oryle A., has been born to this union. He was bom June 7, 1908. Mr. Swenson is a member of the A. O. U. W. lodge.

FRANK MOTL (1886) is one of the successful farmers and well known residents of* Enterprise township. He owns 280 acres of land in one piece on sections 14 and 23, where he has resided nearly a quarter of a century.

Our subject was born in Bohemia January 31, 1845, and the first thirty-one years of his life were spent in that country. His parents were Bernard and Rosa (Miller) Motl, both deceased. He received a common school education and after growing to manhood became a stock buyer, in which business he was engaged ten years. He is a veteran of the Austrian-German war, having served as a corporal in the army. He enlisted in 1866 and served three years. In 1876 Mr. Motl emigrated to America and has since been engaged in agricultural pursuits. He located first in Dane county, Wisconsin, and that waft his home until he came to Jackson county. He first came to this county in 1885 and bought his farm. He came again the next year, and remained during the summer season, breaking up his land, and in 1888 brought out his family and settled permanently.

Mr. Motl owns stock in the Farmers Elevator company of Alpha. He was one of the organizers and trustees of the Catholic church of Jackson and he and his family are .members of that church. He also belongs to the

Bohemian Catholic order of Jackson. He has served four years as a supervisor of Enterprise township and for twelve years was a director of his school district. For nine years he was vice president and director of the Enterprise Creamery company, and up to four years ago was a director of the Jackson County Fire and Lightning Insurance company.

The marriage of Mr. Motl occurred in Bohemia April 2d, 1870, when he wedded Miss Mary Langer, who was born February 6, 1850. Fifteen children have been born to this union, as follows: Wensel, Enterprise township farmer, born February 12, 1871; Mary (Mrs. F. A. Muzikar), of Jackson county, bom September 6, 1872; Anna, born September 17, 1874, died September 27, 1874; Matilda, of St. Paul, born December 1, 1875; Anna (married to Louis Sabatka June 13, 1899), born September 30, 1877, died June 22, 1900; Frank, of Enterprise township, born May 4, 1879; Dorothy, of St. Paul, born February 6, 1881; Bernard, born May 19, 1882, died February 19, 1885; Amelia, born March 23, 1884; Charles L., attending the state university, born November 15, 1885; Joseph, born November 13, 1887; Elizabeth, born November 12, 1889; Agnes, born July 8, 1891; Clara, born March 6, 1893; Albert, born October 8, 1895.

Wensel Motl, the eldest son of Frank Motl, was born in Bohemia and came to America with his parents. He has been engaged in farming for himself for the past twelve years and owns 120 acres of land on the southeast quarter of section 14. He is township clerk and has been for the past four years. He has nlso served as clerk of liis school district for the last ten years. He is a director of the Farmers Elevator company of Alpha and of the Jackson County Fire Insurance company. He has been treasurer of Court No. 694, Catholic Order of Foresters, at Jackson for eight years.

CHARLES ANDERSON (1872) , Delafield townsliip farmer, has spent nil except the first year of his life in Delafield township. He was born at Hastings, Minnesota, March 22, 1871, the son of Lars and Maria (.lohanson) Anderson. His father was born in Sweden in 1837, came to the United States in the spring of 1870, and located at Hastings. He came to Jackson c<Junty in the spring of 1872, homesteaded the west half of the southwest quarter of section 20, Delafield, and resided upon that farm until his death, August 30, 1902. The mother of our subject died in Delafield township when Charles was nine years of age.

The subject of this biography came to Jackson county with his parents in March, 1872, when one year old. He secured a country school education and until he was seventeen years of age, worked on his father's farm. At the age of seventeen he went to Windom, where he lived three years, working in a hotel. When he was twenty years of age diphtheria attacked the family and carried oflf two brothers, one sister and two half sisters. This disaster necessitated his return home to take the manaifement of the farm. After his father's death Charles rented the hon\p farm, which now consists of the south half of the south half of section 20, and he has since cou' ducted it to his own account. He also rents 25 acres of land adjoining.

Mr. Anderson was married at Jackson June 14, 1905, to Gertie Danielson, daughter of Daniel Hoog and Christina (Hokanson) Hoog- The former resides in Sweden, the latter is dead. Mrs. Anderson was born in Sweden April 23, 1874, and came to America in 1895. To Mr. and Mrs. Anderson has been bom one child, Wallace Milford, born September 27, 1909. The family are members of the Free Mission church of Windom.

PETER TORDSEN (1893) is one of the large land owners of Rost township and one of the township's most successful farmers and stock raisers. He owns 653 acres of land in Rost and Hunter townships. He farms 400 acres of his possessions, while the rest is farmed by his sons.

Mr. Tordsen is a native of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and was born January 19, 1856. His father, Jacob Tordsen, died in Germany when Peter was nine years of age; his mother, Annie (Struwe) Tordsen, died in Scott county, Iowa, in 1901, having reached the age of eighty years.

In his native land the subject of this biography lived until he was sixteen years of age, receiving his education in a little village and working most of the time on the farm. When lie was ten years of age he began working at the weaver's trade r.nd worked nights at that trade for two years. Mr. Tordsen came to America in 1872 and located at Day- enport, Iowa, where he resided ten years, working as a farm hand. In 1882 he moved to Ida county, Iowa, and engaged in farming rented land near the town of Hoi stein eleven years. He came to Jackson county in 1893 and located upon his present farm in Kost township (the home farm is the northeast quarter of section 34), which he had bought the year before and where he has ever since lived. . He has prospered since coming to the county and has added the other real estate by purchase.

Mr. Tordsen believes in cooperation among the farmers and is interested in several cooperative companies. It was largely through his efforts that the Rost Cooperative tWHry association vas organized, and he has been an officer of the association ever since its organization. He also has stock in the First National Bank of Lakefield, in the Jackson County Cooperative Store company and the Farmers Elevator company of the same town. Of the last named company he is a member of the board of directors. Mr. Tordsen is one of the supervisors of Rost township and is serving his second year. He ia clerk of school district No. 49 and has been a school officer since 1894.

Mr. Tordsen has been married twice and has a large family. His first marriage occurred in Scott county, Iowa, December 8, 1876, when he wedded Christina Hendrickson. She died -January 26, 1888. As a result of this unfon the following children were born: Alfred, born June 23, 1877, died December 19, 1900; William, a Rost township farmer, born January 14, 1879; Ella (Mrs. Christ Staffran), of Mc- Lean county, North Dakota, born September 23, 1882; John, a Hunter township farmer, born April 3, 1884; Mary (Mrs. Edward Yucker), of McLean county. North Dakota, bom August 5, 1885; Herman, of Hunter township, born January 10, 1888.

The second marriage of Mr. Tordsen occurred at Ida Grove, Iowa, August 16, 1889, when he wedded Annie Lamp, who was bom in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, March 17, 1869, and came to tlie United States when fourteen years of age and resided at Holstcin, Iowa. To these parents have been born the following named children: Louie, born January 15, 1890; Ferdinand, born October 1, 1891; Helmut, bom July 7, 1893; Laura, born October 20, 1897; Reiniiardt, born June 25, 1900; Walter, bora September 29, 1903; Wilma, born February 6, 1908; Henry Adolph, born December 10, 1909.

GEORGE B. PADDOCK ( 1883) , a business man of Jackson, has been a resident of Jackson county over a quarter of a century and his life's history is an interesting one. He is of Welsh and English descent and descends from two of the old American families. His greatgreat-grandfather (Paddock) came from Wales in an early day of the country's history and settled on the Connecticut river below Middletown. His maternal great -great -grandfather (Hall) was the first representative of the town of Meriden, Connecticut. The parents of our subject, Samuel C. and Jennett (Hall) Paddock, were both born in Meriden, Connecticut. Samuel Paddock engaged in farming in Connecticut in his early days, but before the war moved to Alabama and engaged in the mercantile business in several different towns of that state. Upon the breaking out of the civil war he was forced to leave the south o»k account of his anti-slavery views, and his property was confiscated. Returning to Meriden, Connecticut, he engaged in business, and there he lived until his death, which occurred in 1903 at the age of 86 years.

George B. Paddock was born to these parents in Meriden, Connecticut, February 18, 1843. During - the first sixteen years of his life he lived on his father's farm, and during the next two years clerked in a grocery store in his native city. On September 6, 1861, when less than nineteen years of age, he enlisted in company C, Seventh Connecticut infantry, and served a little over three years in the civil war. His first service was with the expedition to Port Royal, South Carolina. He took part in the siege of Port Alaska, at the mouth of the Savannah river, and was present at the capture of the fort. For some time he was stationed at St. Augustine, Florida, and was wounded at the battle of Oulustee, -Florida. After some time spent in the hospital, he returned to duty. He took part in the sie<?e of Fort Sumpter and was present at the capture of Fort Wagner.

After this event he came north with the forces under General Butler to Bermuda Hundreds, James river, and was a participant in the siege of Richmond. Mr. Paddock was taken prisoner on the picket line in front 6f the fortifications at Bermuda Hundreds and was confined in Andersonville prison three months. He was removed from that famous prison when General Slierman took Atlanta and was removed to Florence, South Carolina. He escaped from the latter place and made his way to the north up througli North Carolina. He was recaptured but was rescued the next morning by a New York cavalry troop at Newbum, North Carolina. He was then transferred to the hospital at Fortress Monroe, Virginia. He was mustered out of the service at Hartford, Connecticut, November 23, 1864.

After hrs discharge from the army Mr. Paddock engaged in business in Meriden, and was so employed until his arrival to Jackson county. In the early eighties George Paddock, accompanied by his father, made several trips to Mower and Jackson counties on hunting expeditions, one of his uncles living in Mower county. He liked the looks of the country and finally decided to locate here permanently. It was on April 7, 1883, that he became a permanent resident of the county. He purchased a farm in Middletown township and engaged in farming five years. He then moved to Jackson and that village has been his home ever since. During these years he has been engaged in the stock, real estate and farm machinery business and looking after his land interests. He owns a farm in Belmont township and lands in Texas. He is a member of the Odd Fellows and Grand Army orders and for a time was commander of the John A. Myers Post, No. 60.

Mr. Paddock was married in Meriden, Connecticut, May 21, 1873, to Julia L. Beach, a native of that state and a daughter of Henry B. Beach, who came to Minnesota in an early day and located at Oak Park, now Stillwater. To Mr. and Mrs. Paddock have been bom three children. The eldest of these, Julia, died at Meriden, Connecticut, when three years of age. The living children are Blanch J. (Mrs. H. L. Arzt), of Jackson, and Georgia A. Paddock, of Carle ton college.

OLE J. WAGNTLD (1893), Lutheran minister and ex-register of deeds of Jackson county, is now engaged in farming at his beautiful home on the banks of Heron lake in Heron Lake township. He was born in Norway, June 25, 1850, the son of John and Oloug (Inseth)

Wagnild. His father died in Norway several years ago. His mother still lives at an advanced age at the old home in Norway with her son Sivert. Ole J. Wagnild is one of a family of six children, as follows: Sivert and Oloug, of Norway; Ole and Sarah, of Dulutb, Minnesota; John, who died in Duluth, and Ole J., of this sketch.

Our subject received his primary education in his native country, making his home with his parents and working out part of the time. He came to America in June, 1881, and located at £au Claire, Wisconsin. After working in a saw mill there one year he located in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, where for three winters he was employed in a pannery. Mr. Wagnild next located in Minneapolis. There he worked at carpenter work part of the time, and for six winters was a student at the Red Wing seminary, graduating from the theological department in 1890. During these years he taught school at various places during the vacation periods to earn the money with which to continue his studies. In the winter of 1891 Mr. Wagnild attended the Minneapolis academy and was ordained a minister of the gospel in 1890. He received a call from Brainerd and occupied a pulpit there one year.

Rev. Wagnild came to Jackson county in 1893 in response to calls to fill four pulpits, and he served these four churches until 1904. He resided in Jackson for a time and later made his home in Belmont township. In the spring of 1904 he moved onto his present farm in Heron Lake township, which he had bought some time before, and that has been his home since. Rev. Wagnild was elected register of deeds of Jackson county on the republican ticket in 1904 and was reelected in 1906, serving four years. During this time he made his temporary home in Jackson, but moved back to his farm again in the spring of 1909. He is now a member of the board of education of independent school district No 3, Lakefield.

Rev. Wagnild was married in Heron Lake township September 6, 1893, to Miss Josephine Nestrud, who was born in Heron Lake township. She is the daughter of John Nestrud, one of the early day settlers. Mr. and Mrs. Wagnild are the parents of the following named eight children: Palma, Olga, Magda, Selma, Sherman, Juukl, Parker and Harlow.

HERMAN J. YEADICKE (1886), of Petersburg township, is one of the prosperous farmers and stock raisers of that precinct and has been a resident of the county nearly a quarter of a century. He was born in Germany Alarcli 23, 1856, the son of Carl and Caroline (Smith) Yeadicke, both deceased. At tlie age ot two years he was brought with his parents to America and the fanxily located in Chicago. A few years later the family moved to Kankakee, Illinois, and there our subject grew to manhood, engaging in farming after growing up.

Mr. Yeadicke came to Jackson county, arriving March 1, 1886^ and ever since that date has been engaged in farming and stock raising in Petersburg township. He has taken an active interest in, and invested money in, many local enterprises. He and Ole Mikelson were the principal organizers of the Alpha Creamery company, and from the time of organization until he disposed of his dairy interests Mr. Yeadicke was the heaviest patron of the company. His average yearly checks during this period were as follows: 1897, $200.79; 1898, $380.44; 1899, $432.21; 1900, $540.32; 1901, $478.57; 1902, $438.49; 1903, $661.71; 1904, $426.35; 1906, $649.47; 1906, $809.26; 1907, $789.27.

Besides having stock in the creamery company Mr. Yeadicke is interested financially in several other industries. He has stock in the Farmers Elevator company of Alpha and was vice president of the organization four years. He was president of the Jackson Fire & Marine Insurance company seven years, was president of the Alpha Horse company four years and has been a director of the Jackson County Fair association for many years. He owns 400 acres of land.

Mr. Yeadicke was one of the organizers of school district No. 78 and has been clerk of the district twenty -two years. He served as township assessor six years, was town treasurer one year, member of the board of supervisors one year and road overseer eighteen years.

The marriage of ^Ir. Yeadicke occurred March 30, 1880, when he wedded Mary Miller. They are the parents of the following children: Barbara, born January 1, 1881; Katie, born May 30, 1882; Herman, born September 12, 1883; Annie, born November 23, 1889; Eddy, bom September 28, 1899.

R. S. ROBERTSON (1884) resideb at Jackson, where he is engaged in the lumber and implement business. He is a native of New York city and was born February 28, 1851, his parents being R. S. and Mary (Matthews) Robertson.

Until he was twenty years of age Mr. Robertson attended school in the city of his birth and was graduated from the Columbia Mining school in 1871. After graduation he went to Pittsburg and took a position as mining engineer with Carnegie Bros. & Co., with which firm he was associated until 1884. In the spring of that year he came to Jackson county, bought a farm in Des Moines township, one and one -half miles west of Jackson, and for the next sixteen years engaged in farming. He then moved to Jackson and engaged in the lumber, fuel and implement business, in which he has since been engaged.

Mr. Robertson owns 346 Mcres of land in Des Moines township and property in the village. During his residence in the country he served for a number of years as a member of the board of supervisors. He is a member of the Masonic order.

On June 10, 1880, at Pittsburg Mr. Robertson was married to Alice L. McKaig. To them have been born four children, as follows: William B., born October 14, 1882; Clement M., born September 14, 1884; John 6., bom November 14, 1886; Alice, born August 14, 1888.

CARL W. POHLMAN (1884) is one of the big landowners and extensive farmers of Heron Lake township. He owns the southwest quarter and the north half of the southeast quarter of section 16, the northeast quarter of section 21, and a half interest in the southeast quarter of 6 and the west half of the southwest quarter of section 5, all in Heron Lake township. He farms 400 acres of this land.

Mr. Pohlman was bom in Germany February 14, 1865, the son of Carl and Christina (Geiselman) Pohlman, the second of a family of five sons. His father died in 1902, aged 66 years. His mother, who is now 73 years of age, resides in the coimty. C!arl spent the first seventeen years of his life in the fatherland, securing an education and working out. The family came to America and located in Lakefield in 1884,^ and there Carl completed his education with a course in

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English. He worked in Lakefield one year, for his father one year, on the farm of Hugh Paul four years, and then began farming for himself on the farm upon which he has ever since resided. The home place was originally bought by his father, but Carl later acquired the land and has since added his other holdings.

In Jackson county on May 21, 1891, Mr. Pohlman was married to Augusta Sturmer, daughter of the late Fred Sturmer. To Mr. and Mrs. Pohlman have been born four children, as follows: Elsie, aged 15; Georgie, aged 13; Bennie, aged 9; Erwin, aged 8. The family are members of the German Lutheran church.

HARM POST (1892) owns and farms the south half of section 21, Rost township, and is one of the successful farmers of the precinct. He was bom in Kreis Aurich, Ostfreesland, Germany, July 30, 1864, the son of Arend and Christina (Schmidt) Post. Both his parents died in Germany, his father in 1905 and his mother in 1908.

Our subject was raised on a farm and after becoming of sufficient age worked out. In 1885, at the age of twenty -one years, he came to America and located in Champaign county, Illinois, where he resided seven years. The first six years of this time were spent as a laborer, the last year as a farmer on rented land. In 1892 he came to Jackson county and has ever since lived on his present farm in Rost township. His wife owned the southwest quarter of the section, and Mr. Post later bought the other quarter adjoining. The land was prairie, without improvements, when he first located 0n the farm, and all the buildings and other improvements have been made by Mr. Post.

Mr. Post raises considerable stock. He is interested in the Rost creamery, the farmers store and elevator at Lakefield and the First National Bank of the same village. Mr. Post and family are members of the German Lutheran church and he is treasurer of school district No. 88.

Mr. Post's first marriage occurred in Champaign county, Illinois, on the last day of the year 1892, when he wedded Tutter Kuhlmann, a native of (iermany. She died in 1900. To them were born two children: Albert, born September 28, 1893; John, born November 17,

1896. The second marriage of Mr. Post occurred in Rost township August 25, 1900, when he wedded Mary Lubben, who was also bom in Germany and who came to America when a child. To this union have been bom three children, as follows: Freda, born December 6, 1901; Eddie, born August 1, 1904; Louie, born December 22, 1907.

CAPl'AIN DANIEL L. RILEY (1893), doceased. One whose life's history is entitled to a place in this history of Jackson county is the late Captain Daniel L. Riley, who for fifteen years resided at Lakefield, taking an active and prominent part in business, political, social and religious matters.

Captain Riley was born at Brasher Falls, St. Lawrence county, New York, January 8, 1837. His parents came from Ireland in childhood and located in New York state. His mother died when our subject was eight years of age and from that date he battled with the world alone. He moved west in 1854 and located at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, where he worked at the carpenter trade until 1861.

On the 21st day of August, 1861, Daniel Riley joined the army at Ripon, Wisconsin, becoming an enlisted soldier in the First Wisconsin cavalry. For some time he was engaged in the recruiting service near his old home and was later assigned to the Second Wisconsin cavalry, under the command of Colonel C. C. Washburn. After serving in the ranks several months he was commissioned second lieutenant, was later made first lieutenant and was mustered out as a captain, in command of company C, after having seen three year's service. He saw service in the states of Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas and fought in the battles of Cascke, Oakland, Cold Water, Vicksburg, Clinton, Jackson, Woodstock and Yazoo City.

Captain Riley retumed to Wisconsin after the war an4 located at Bloomington. In 1872 he went to the new town of Sibley, Iowa, where he engaged in the lumber business. He moved to Spirit Lake in 1882, engaged in the lumber business in that town until 1893, and then took up his residence in Lakefield. There he also was in the lumber business and was actively engaged until two years before his death, which occurred December 14, 1908.

leave an unsullied record, both in official and private life. He was a republican of prominence and a speaker of ability and bis services as a public official were frequently in demand. He served as mayor of Sibley and was chairman of the board of supervisors of Osceola county. After moving to Lakefield he served two terms as a member of the Minnesota legislature, representing Jackson county. He WHS a delegate to the republican national convention which nominated William H. Taft for the presidency in 1908 and was prominent in the councils of his party. Captain Riley served as president of the Lakefield village council and was a member of the board of education. He was a mcml^er of the Methodist church and was active in church work, having held several offices of trust in the church organization.

As a lodge man Captain Riley was also prominent. He was a member of the Lakefield lodge A. F. & A. M., of the chapter at Jackson and of the commandry at Fairmont. He held his membership in the L. G. Ireland Post of tlie G. A. R. at Sibley.

On June 5, 1867, Captain Riley was united in marriage at Patch Grove, Wisconsin, to Emma Grant, who survives her husband and now resides at Lakefield. She was bom iu Grant county, Wisconsin, the daughter of James M. Grant, who died in Grant county. Wisconsin, in 1876, aged 67 years, and Sarah M. (Hickox) Grant, who was bom in Vermont and who died in Grant cdunty, Wisconsin, at the age of 82 years. To Captain and Mrs. Riley were born eight children, of whom the four named are living: Cora (Mrs. W. D. Cole), of Cincinnati, Ohio; William P., of Port Arthur, Canada; Mabel (Mrs. H. P. Beckwith, of Fargo, North Dakota; Alice L. (Mrs. J. Levenick), of Lakefield. Of the four deceased children Charles and Catherine died in infancy. Frank and Fred (twins) died in recent years, Frank on August 30, 1907, Fred June 24, 1906.

HENRY G. ANDERSON (1886), president of the Jackson National Bank and chairman of the board of countv commissioners, has lived in the village of Jackson twenty- three years ond has taken a leading part in the affairs of his village and county. Mr. Anderson first saw the light of day in Lafayette county, Wisconsin, on November 17, 1867. His parents, Gilbert and Olina (OlFcn) Anderson, were bom in Norway and came to the United States before their marriage. They are now residents of Dickinson county, Iowa; the father is 74 yeari of age, the mother 70 years.

Henry lived on his father's farm in Lafayette county, Wisconsin, until he was fifteen years of age. In the district schools of his native county he was educated, supplementing that schooling with a two years' course in Emmet county, Iowa. In 1872 he accompanied his parents to Dickinson county, and in that county lived on the farm until 1886. He then took up his residence in Jackson and engaged in business, having traded his Iowa farm for a stock of hardware. After having conducted the hardware store eleven years he sold out and engaged in the implement, harness and live stock business five years, in partnership with F. W. Lindsley. For several years thereafter he devoted his time and attention to the management of his farms, which now include 1,400 acres of improved Jackson county soil. In addition to this farming prop* erty Mr. Anderson owns considerable valuable village property.

In company with eight others Mr. Anderson organized the Jackson National Bank on January 1, 1904, and has since served as president of that financial institution. The bank in capitalized for $30,000 and the present officers are: Henry G. Anderson, president; Dr. W. C. Portmann, vice president; W. D. Hunter, cashier; Asher 0. Nasby, assistant cashier.

In an official capacity Mr. Anderson has often been called upon to serve. He has been a member of the village council and was president of the council in 1894 and 1896, and is now a member of the board of education. He was elected county commissioner from the Second district in 1906 and was made chairman of the board at the first meeting after he qualified. Each year since that time he has been elected to preside over the county law makers. Fraternally he is associated with the Odd Fellows and Sons of Norway orders.

Mr. Anderson was married at Jackson March 10, 1886, to Julia Berge, daughter of H. H. Berge, one of the county's early day settlers. To Mr. and Mrs. Anderson have been born three children, as follows: Giles H., Anna and Lida.

Heron Lake News, is a veteran newspaper man and an early day resident of Jackson county. He was born at Sheboyj^an Falls, Wisconsin, August 21, 1858, the son of Levi and Rachel (Smith) Eastwood, the former a native of New York and the latter of Pennsylvania.

Carl accompanied his parents from Wisconsin to Shell Rock, Iowa, in 1870, and in that town completed his education. At an early age he began learning the printer's trade in the office of the Shell Rock News, then owned by W. V. Lucas. He remained with that gentleman four years, the first two being passed at Shell Rock and the last two at Mason City, Iowa. Returning to the former place, Carl purchased the paper on which he had learned his trade.

Mr. Eastwood became a resident of Jackson county on September 1, 1883, when he located at Lakefield and founded the Minnesota Citizen, which was later renamed the Lakefield Standard. He conducted the paper three years and from June, 1884, until he left the village he served as postmaster of Lakefield. Selling out his Jackson county publication, Mr. Eastwood went to Mankato and started the Mankato Register. He disposed of that property a little later, and in 1886 bought the Heron Lake News, which he conducted until 1893. Five years of the time of his residence in Heron Lake he served as postmaster and for seven years was a member of the village council.

In the fall of 1893 Mr. Eastwood sold out at Heron Lake and bought the Worthington Advance, which he published three years. He then bought the Mankato Morning News, sold out within a year and moved to the northern part of Minnesota. From that time until December, 1902, Mr. Eastwood was engaged in the newspaper business in Menahga, Minnesota, where he was postmaster, and Homer, Michigan, and on the date last mentioned he returned to Heron Lake, bought back the News, and has since been its publisher. He was appointed postmaster in 1907. Mr. Eastwood is a member of the Masonic and Workmen orders.

At Wilder, Minnesota, on September 12, 1886, Mr. Eastwood was united in marriage to Miss Edith Church. To them have been born the following named children: Hazel, born August 1, 1887; Paul, born May 1, 1892; Frederick, born May 15, 1907.

FRANK FIALA (1889) owns a 240 acre farm on section 3, Belmont township, where he has lived for the last twenty years. He was born in the city of Chicago May 26, 1864, the oldest of a family of five children born to John and Annie (Shimick) Fiala. These parents were born in Boliemia and came to America in 1858. They lived in Chicago until 1869, in Jones county, Iowa, until 1889, and in Jackson county until 1891. They then located in Oklahoma City. Oklahoma, where both died. Frank*s brother and sisters are Mary, Annie and Joseph. Lena, another sister, is dead.

Frank accompanied his parents to Jones county, Iowa, in 1869, and there grew to manhood. In 1889 he came with his parents to Jackson county and located upon the farm upon which he now lives. He worked for his father for a few years and then bought the farm, and he has made all the improvements on the place.

Mr. Fiala was married in Belmont township August 3, 1889, to Tony Hurt, who was bom in Bohemia and who came to Chicago when a young woman. Sev^n children have been born to this union, as follows: Edward, born July 15, 1890; BohouSj born January 3, 1892; Frank, born November 30, 1893; Joseph, bom March 20, 1806; Henry born, January 24, 1898; Emma, born March 29, 1900; Bessie, born January 10, 1903. Mr Fiala*s family are members of the Catholic church and he is a member of the M. W. A. lodge. He now holds the office of director of school district No. 89.

ELIAS T. BJORNSTAD (1880) is a Des Moines township farmer and well driller. He resides on section 15 on the west side of the river, where he owns seventeen acres of land. Mr. Bjornatad is perhaps better known locally as E. Thoreson, Thoreson being his father's second name and the name by wiiich he is generally known. He is a Norwegian by birth, born September 28, 1855, the son of Peter T. and Bertha (Bureson) Bjornstad.

Eliaa Bjornstad was educated in his native land, and during the last six years of his residence there was employed as a clerk. He came to America in 1880 and direct to Jackson county. For a year and a half he lived in Belmont township and worked on the railroad. Then he moved to Des Moines township, and for the next ten years engajred in farming on rented land. Then he bought a small tract on section 15, and has since added to it until he now owns seventeen acres. During the last twenty years, in addition to his farming operations, Mr. Bjomstad has been engaged in the well digging business. He has held several offices in his township, having served three years as a member of the township board in the early nineties. He was elected chairman of the board for a three-year term in the spring of 1909 and is now serving. He is a member of the Noiwegian Lutheran church and of the Sons of Norway lodge.

MARTIN STALL (1877), Des Moines township farmer, was born on the farm he now manages July 13, 1877. He is the son of Hans and Julia (Holsten) Stall. The former is a native of Norway and came to the United States when a boy. He lived in Illinois eight years and then enlisted in the union army in an Illinois regiment and saw three years' service. After the war he came to Jackson county and homesteaded the southeast quarter of section 2, Des Moines township. He resided on the farm until seven years ago, when he moved to Jackson, where he now lives. The mother of our subject died November 17, 1896.

Martin Stall was educated in the district school and grew to manhood on his father's farm. At the age of twenty-two, in 1899, he married and engaged in farming for himself. He rented a farm in Des Moines township, farmed it one season, and then rented his father's place, where he has since lived. He owns an eiglity acre tract of land on section 35, Belmont township, which he bought in 1899. He has served two terms as road superintendent and now holds the office of treasurer of his school district. He is also one of five

Mr. Stall was married in Jackson December 2, 1899| to Laura Rade^ who was bom in Norway July 12, 1877, and came to the United States when four years of age. She is the daughter of Jens Rade, deceased. The family are members of the Evangelical Lutheran church of America.

GEORGE B. YARNS (1874) is an early day settler of Middletown township, having come to the county when ten years of age and having spent nearly all of the rest of his life here. He owns a quarter section farm on section 3.

Mr. Yams is a native Minnesotan, having been bom in Fillmore county July 12, 1864, the son of Henry B. and Louisa (Green) Yarns, who were born and married in Broome county. New York. When George was nine years of age the family moved from Fillmore county to Dickinson county, Iowa, and the next year, 1874, came to Jackson coimty. The head of the family filed a homestead claim to the land now owned by our subject, but on account of the grasshopper scourge the family were obliged to move away for a period of three years and they were imable to prove up on the claim. Returning to the county the land was reentered as a tree claim, but before the time came for proving up Henry B. Yarns died, and the son made a homestead filing to the land and finally secured title.

George worked for his father on the farm until he was twenty-one years of age, and then, because of the feebleness of his father's health, he took the active management of the farm. His father died in 1888 and his mother in 1899. Mr. Yarns has conducted the farm ever since becoming of age. Our subject has held a number of local offices in his township. He wan elected road overseer when twenty - one years of age, has held the office of supervisor and town clerk and is now township assessor. He is a member of the Yeomen lodge.

Mr. Yarns was married in Jackson county February 19, 1890, to Alice Danby, a native of Rock Island county, Illinois. The following named five children have been bom to thle union: Maurice D., bom November 26, 1890; Harry A., born April 22, 1893; Ethel M., born

Bioqeaphical Histoey

JOHN F. RAASCH (1887), in partnership with Iiis brotlier^ Louis Raasch, farms the east half of section 12, Des Moines township. He is the son of the late Carl Raasch and Albertina (Wilke) Raasch.

Carl Raasch was born in Germany in the year 1855, came to the United States when sixteen years of age, and first located at Toleston, Indiana, where he resided until 1885. Albertina Wilke was also born in Germany in 1857, came to the new world when nine years old and was married to Mr. Raasch at Toleston, Indiana. Mr. Raasch died at his home in Des Moines township March 3, 1907; Mrs. Raasch still lives on the home farm. Nine children were born to this union, namely: Amanda, born January 8, 1882; Lydia, bom June 23, 1883; Alice, born August 11, 1885; John F., born April 11, 1887; Louis, born November 11, 1888; Carl, born October 8, 1890; Emma, born September 1, 1892; Hilda, bom June 3, 1896; Alma, bom October 23, 1899.

Our subject was born on the Des Moines township farm April 11, 1887, and has spent his entire life on that farm. He attended the district school and during his father's lifetime assisted with the farm work. After the death of his father he assumed the management of the place and has been very successful. In November, 1909, Louis added the northeast quarter of section 12 to the home farm, and he and his brother farm the whole half section. He makes a specialty of raising thoroughbred O. I. C. swine. Mr. Raasch is a director of school district No. 13, having been elected in July, 1909. He has stock in the Farmers elevator of Jackson.

HERMAN N. TANK (1887) is a Hunter township farmer who has spent the greater part of his life in Jackson county. He was born in Canoll county, Iowa, February 28, 1877, and is the son of Herman and Anna (Hagge) Tank, now residents of Iowa. His parents came from Holstein, Germany, in their youth and were married in Clinton county, Iowa. Two years after their marriage they located in Carroll county and lived there until they came to Jackson county in 1887. They resided on the farm in Hunter township until November, 1908, and then returned to their old home. Their children are as follows: Herman, Bertha (Mrs. Heme Rouse), George, Otto and William.

Herman Tank of this sketch came to Jackson county with his parents when ten years of age and located on the farm where he now lives. He attended the district school and worked on the farm during his younger years, engaging in farming for himself after reaching manhood. In 1904 he bought eighty acres of land on section 15, the home farm - the southwest quarter of section 14 - being still owned by Herman Tank, senior. Mr. Tank was clerk of school district No. 112 one term, serving by appointment.

VIRGIL W. AVERY (1872), undertaker and furniture dealer of Jackson, is one of the early day residents of that village, having come to Jackson county when a boy of fourteen years. He was bom in Walworth county, Wisconsin, May 7, 1858, the son of Simeon and Martha (Chamberlin) Avery.

From his Wisconsin home Virgil came to Jackson county with his parents, arriving March 20, 1872. From that time until 1884 he lived in the county with his parents, and then went to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. After a short residence there he moved to Pipestone, but one year later returned to Sioux Falls and engaged in the grocery business, which he followed several years. One year was spent in Sioux City, and then in 1892 he returned to Jackson. For the next thirteen years he was engaged in the fuel business. He sold out in 1905 and opened a furniture store, which he has since conducted. He holds membership in the Masonic, Odd Fellows and Workmen lodges.

1884. Mr. Avery*9 second marriage occurred ft Sioux Falls in September, 1889, when he wedded Grace Sharp. To this union has been born one child, Eloise, born in 1890.

HENRY JARMUTH (1886) is one of the big farmers of Enterprise township. His farm, which includes 400 acres on sections 19 and 20, is tiled and well improved and is rated as one of the best farms of the township. He

Mr. Jarmuth is a German by birth. His father, John Jarmuth, who was a coachman in the old country for a good many years, came to America in 1854 and engaged in farming. He died in Cook county, Illinois, February 10, 1904, at the age of 73 years. His mother, Christina Jarmuth, is now 76 years of age and lives in Illinois.

To these parents Henry Jarmuth was bom November 8, 1853. When one year of age he accompanied his parents to America and until his marriage in 1880 lived on a farm in Cook county, Ulinois. After his marriage Mr. Jarmuth engaged in farming on his own account in Cook county, and in March, 1886, came to Jackson county. Upon his arrival he located upon his Enterprise township farm, which he had bought in 1883. Besides his Jackson county farm, Mr. Jarmuth owns thirteen acres of land close to the city of Chicago. He served five years as chairman of the board of supervisors of Enterprise township and was a member of the board fifteen years. He is now clerk of his school district.

Mr. Jarmuth was married November 28, 1880, to Lena Ruesch, of Illinois. Five children have been born to these parents, namely: William H., Louis T., John W., Freda A. and Albert J. The family are members of the German Lutheran church.

F. G. HOKANSON (1882) owns and farms the northeast quarter of section 28, Delafield township, upon which farm he has lived over twenty-seven years. He was born in Lutarp, Jonkoping Ian, Smoland, Sweden, February 28, 1848, the SOD of H. Monson and Lena (Johnson) Monson, both of whom died in Sweden.

Our subject was brought up on a farm and worked for his father until he was twenty-one years of age. He then came to the Unitea States, landing in the new world May 2, 1869. He spent the following summer in Chicago, worked on the railroad at Effingham, Illinois, six months, and then located at Lafayette, Indiana, where he resided three years, working as a coacliman and at other occupations. In 1873 Mr. Ilokanson returned to his old home in Sweden and for the next seven and one-half years was engaged in farming. Returning to America in 1882, he came to Jackson county with his family, consisting of a wife and two chill. ren, bought eighty acres of his present farm and his since made his home on the place. Three years after his arrival he bought the other eighty acres of his present farm.

Mr. liokanson's first wife died in 1893. Eight childri u were born to them, of whom three have died. Mr. Ilokanson was married the second time in Delafield township in the spring of 1902 to Louisa Anderson, who was bom in Sweden and who came to the United Statea in 1883. Tliey have no children. Mr. Hokanson is a member of the Free Mission church of Windom. He served as treasurer of hie township three years and was clerk of school district No. 29 for the same length of time.

BRUNO POPPITZ (1887), proprietor of a furniture and racket store at Heron Lake, has spent all except the first six months of his life in Minnesota, having resided here before the state was admitted to the union. Ho is the son of the late Ernest Poppitz and Augusta (Henschel) Poppitz. Both parents were bom in Germany, where they resided until after their marriage in 1849. Then they came to America and settled* in Wisconsin, remov-' inff to Carver county. Minnesota, in 1857. In that county Ernest Poppitz acquired land and made his home until his death in January, 1900, at the age of 77 years. Mrs. Poppitz still lives in CJarver county and is 81 years old. Bruno is one of a family of nine children, the eldest of the five now living.

Our subject was born in Wisconsin February 10, 1857, and when six months old was taken with the family to Carver county, Minnesota. He resided on the farm in that county until twenty-one years of age, attending the local schools and studying in the St. Paul Business college. It 1878 he moved to Nobles county and took a homestead claim in Hersey township, upon which he lived five years. After proving up on his land Mr. Poppitz returned to his old home in Carver county. He worked on the railroad one and one-half years and bought grain two years, and then, in 1887, located in the village of Heron Lake.

Heron Lake has been the home of Mr. Poppitz ever since, and during these years he has been erigaged in various business enterprises. He served as postmaster a little over five vears. After he had conducted the office a little over a year it was raised to the third class. In 1901 he formed a partnership with liis SOI), K. -H. Poppitz, and opened a furniture and racket store, which they still conduct. Mr. Poppitz owns two farms, one in this and one in Murray county, and city property, including four business blocks and his residence. He has served as president and as vice president of the Heron Lake State Bank and has been a director of the same a number of years. He was a member of the village council four years and a member of the board of education tlie same length of time. Fraternally, he is associated with the I. 0. 0. F., M. W. A., M. B. A., Royal Neighbors and Yeomen lodges.

^Ir. Poppitz was married in Nobles county ^Vlareh 27, 1879, to Antonio Berreau, a native of Carver county. Mr. and Mrs. Poppitz arb the parents of two children: Ernest H. and Lillian L. One son, the first born, named Edward, died at the age of six years.

ADAM BAUCHLE (1899) is one of the progressive farmers and breeders of thoroughbred stock in Jackson county, his home being in Alba township, where he owns and farms 400 acres of land. He has a nice home and a well improved farm, all the improvements having been made by him. Mr. Bauchle breeds thoroughbred Norman Percheron horses. Shorthorn cattle and Duroc- Jersey hogs. He has two Percheron stallionsi Nobleman and Cousin, which took first premiums at the Jackson county fair of 1909 and which are noted throughout the county. Besides his farming and stockraising Mr Bauchle deals extensively in hay, buying, pressing and shipping.

The subject of this biography is of Grerman birth, having been born in the province of Wurttemberg April 10, 1863. His father is Adam Bauchle, a farmer, who lives in Germany and is 72 years of age. His mother, Justina (Schmidgal) Bauchle, died when Adam was two years old.

Adam was brought up on a farm in his native land but was educated in the village school. At the age of nineteen years, in March, 1882, he came to America and located at Morton, Tazewell county, Hlinois, where he resided six years. Four years of this time he worked out as a farm hand; the other two years he engaged in farming rented land. In 1888 he moved to Iroquois county, Illinois, where he farmed rented land until 1899. In February, of the last named year, he came to Jackson county and located upon the home quarter of his present farm in Alba township, which he had purchased six years before coming to the county. He has lived upon the farm ever since, having added to his holdings by purchase until today he has 400 acres, all of which he farms. In addition to his business interests mentioned Mr. Bauchle has stock in the Brewster-Round Lake Telephone company, the Farmers Cieamery company of Brewster and the Farmers Elevator company of the same place.

During the eleven years of his residence in Alba township Mr. Bauchle has taken an active part in local affairs. He has served five years as a member of the township board and is now the chairman, having been elected to that office in the spring of 1909. He is also clerk of school district No. 86 and has served continuously since 1900. He and his family are members of the United Evangelical church.

Mr. Bauchle was married in Pekin, Tazewell county, Illinois, February 23, 1886, to Katie Dietrich, daughter of Carl Dietrich, of Germany. Mrs. Bauchle was born in Wurttemberg, January 6, 1866, and came to the United State? in 1884. To Mr. and Mrs. Bauchle have been born nine children, as follows: Frank, born January 11, 1887; Pauline, bom January 31, 1889; Ida, born January 13, 1891; Willie, born August 27, 1893; Henry, born July 15, 1895; Carl, born October 3, 1897; Leroy, born April 7, 1899; Walter, born September 17, 1901; Alice, born March 26, 1906.

WILLIAM JOHNSON (1881), a Belmont township farmer, was born in Norway August 24, 18G2, the son of Mr. John Dalthorp and Mrs. Carolina (Halverson) Dalthorp, the eldest child of a family of five children. The mother of our subject died in Norway; his father came to Jackson county and died here in 1907 at the age of 73 years.

William Johnson lived with his parents in his native country, attending school and working out, until 1881. That year he came to Jackson county, spent the summer here, and then located in Cottonwood county, Avhere he resided three years. He spent the next year in Kittson county, and then came again to Jackson county. He owned land and farmed several years on section 18, Belmont, later on section 29, and in 1899 bought his present

Mr. Johnson was married in Jackson county in August, 1890, to Mrs. Bertha Olson, a native of Norway. Two children have been born to this union: Colman and Cora. The family are mertibers of the Norwegian Lutheran church. He is treasurer of Belmont township and has held the office several yearsk He has also served in various capacities as a school officer.

SAMUEL FREDERICKSON (1880), cashier of the First State Bank of Okabena, is a native of Jackson county, having been born in Christiania township April 18, 1880. He is the son of John and Carn (Foslie) Frederickson, of Lakefield.

Our subject was educated in the public schools of Lakefield and in the Breck school at Wilder, where he was a student during 1901 and 1902. In 1903 he attended the Minnesota School of Business at Minneapolis. After securing his education he was manager of a store at Wilmont about one year, bought grain for the W. W. Cargiil Elevator company at Oldham, South Dakota, for some time, and for two years was employed in the First National Bank of Lakefield. On October 1, 1900, Mr. Frederickson helped organize the First State Bank of Okabena, and has since been the cashier of that institution. He is a member of the Masonic lodge and holds the office of justice of the peace.

JAMES VACURA (1886) is a Des Moines township farmer. He is a native of Boliemia and was born March 3, 1870, the son of John and Barbara (Lev) Vacura. The family came to America in 1880 and to Jackson county six years later, locating on section 8, Des Moines township, where they resided until Mr Vacura 's death on January 6, 1909, at the age of seventy-one and one-half years. The mother of our subject is living at the age of 67 year^. There were seven children in the family, as follows: Barbara, James, Annie, Lewis, Joseph, Edward and Rosa, Lewis resides at

James Vacura accompanied his parents when they came from the old country and for six years lived with them at Mount Vernon, Linn countv, Iowa. He came with them to Jackson county in 1886, and until he was nineteen years of age lived on the home farm in Des ^foines township. Thereafter until he was twenty-four years of age he worked out as a farm laborer in the vicinity of Jackson. In 1894 Mr. Vacura married and moved to Linn county, Iowa, and in that county he engaged in farming until the spring of 1909. He then returned to Jackson county and rented from his brother, Joseph Vacura, the southwest quarter of section 8, Des Moines.

Mr. Vacura was married at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, June 12, 1894, to Emma Shramek, a native of Linn county, Iowa, and a daughter of Wesley Shramek. Six children have been born to this union, named as follows: Godfrey, born March 12, 1895; Emma, born January 29, 1898; Wesley, born February 2, 1900; Frank, born November 29, 1902; Robert, born July 30, 1904; Tillie, born April 3, 1908. Mr. Vacura is a member of the Bohemian lodge.

OBERT ELMER DIESON (1880), attorney at law of Heron Lake, was born and raised and has spent his entire life in that village. He is the son of the late T. A. Dieson and Annie (Albertson) Dieson, who were the third or fourth family to locate in the town of Heron Lake after its founding. Both parents were born in Christiania, Norway, and came to the United States when young, having been married at Houston, Minnesota. The father died in Heron Lake in 1900 at the age of 57 years. The mother's home is still in Heron Lake, and she is 56 years of age.

Obert was born June 21, 1880. He was graduated from the Heron Lake high school in 1901 and one year later entered the law department of the Minnesota state university, from which he was graduated in the spring of 1905. He was admitted to the bar in April of that year and has since been engaged in the practice of his profession in Heron Lake. He practices in all state and federal courts. He is a member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity of the Minnesota university and of Columbian Lodge No. 210, A. F. & A. M., of Heron Lake.

ANDREW LOKEN (1883) is a Delafield township farmer residing *a short distance south of Windom, in which village he was engaged in bnsiness for a number of years. Mr. Loken Avas born in Norway February 18, 1861. His father, Andreas Loken, now 88 years of age, makes his home with his son. His mother, Agneate (Christopherson) Loken, died in Windom in 1894.

Andrew spent the first nineteen years of bis life in his native land. His early days were spent on a farm, but four years of his residence in the old country were spent in the city of Christiania, where he finished his education. He learned the painter's trade and in 1880 came to the new world to seek his fortune. For three years he worked for farmers in Watonwan county, Minnesota, and then located in Jackson county. He bought a farm on section 1, Delafield township, which he farmed five years. He then sold out and located in the village of Windom, engaging in the mercantile business there one vear. During the next ten years Mr. Loken worked at his trade in Windom, and then, in 1899, opened a paint and wall paper store. He conducted that six years and built up an excellent business, but on account of ill health was obliged to sell. In 1905 he bought his present farm, the south half of the northwest quarter of section 1, and has since made his home there, engaged in farming. Besides his farm Mr. Loken owns valuable property in Windom.

Mr. Loken was married in Delafield township November 2, 1886, to Susan Hofland, daughter of Ole Hofland, deceased, an early settler and homesteader of Delafield. Mrs. Loken was born in Norway September 6, 1863, came to the United States in 1873 and to Jackson county the same year. Mr. and Mrs. Loken are the parents of ten children, all living. They are as follows: Adenia,bornDecember 4, 1886; Oscar, born July 25, 1888; Chris, born Febniary 23. 1890; Carrie, born October 26, 1891; Annie, bom November 13, 1893; Sophia, born November 2, 1895; Walter, born July 13, 1898; Theresea, born August 17, 1900; Nomie, born July 23, 1903; William, born September 16, 1908.

AUGUST FREKING (1901) is one of the successful farmers and stock raisers of La- Crosse township. He is a native of Olden - berg, Germany, and was born November 23,

August was brought up on a farm and received his education in the fatherland. At the age of twenty years, in 1890, he came alone to America and located at New Vienna, Iowa, where he resided until 1901. During the first six years of his residence there Mr. Freking worked out as a farm hand and hauling cream. He then rented a farm and engaged in business for himself. In the spring of 1901 he sold part of his interests in Iowa and located upon his present farm in Jackson county, which he had bought the year before. He owns a well improved farm of 240 acres on section 28 and is one of the most extensive stock raisers of LaCrosse township.

Besides his farming and stock raising interests, Mr. Freking is interested in many other lines of business. He is a stockholder and director of the Farmers State Bank of Heron Lake, of the Sontag Lumber company, of the Farmers Elevator company and is president of the Heron Lake Cooperative Creamery company. He is cl^rk of school district No. 33 and has served for a number of years. For two years he served as township treasurer. He -is a member of the Catholic church of Heron Lake and is treasurer of the church organization. He also holds membership in the C. 0. F. lodge.

Mr. Freking was married at New Vienna, Iowa, February 11, 1896, to M. Josephine Oberbroeckling, who was born in New Vienna May 24, 1876. To these parents have been born the following named children: Mary Monica, born December 3, 1896; William Arnold, born February 24, 1898; Clementina Elizabeth, born July 14, 1899; Joseph Lawrence, born October 21, 1900; Annie Mary, born February 27, 1902; Aloysius Carl, born August 25, 1903; Lawrence Mike, born January 4, 1905; Rosie Josephine, born August 31, 1006; Leo Clemens, born January 25, 1909.

JOHN COWING KNOX (1880), deceased, was a native of Jackson and the son of Thomas J. and Jane (Cowing) Knox. He was born January 7, 1880, and received his primary education in the Jackson schools. At llie age of sixteen years he was graduated from the Jackson high school and although the

After graduating from the local school John Knox" became a student in tbe Minnesota state university and was graduated from the academic department as tbe youngest member of a class of 157, ranking sixth in bis class. He tlien took up the study of law in the state law school and in his father's office and was admitted to the bar by the supreme court in May, 1903. He then became a member of tbe law firm of Knox^ Faber & Knox, of Jackson, and began the practice of his profession. He was a young man of very unusual promise and during the short time be w^as engaged in this practice gave marked distinction in bis chosen profession. In addition to his professional work he was much interested in ornithology and oology, and it was while on a trip to tlie wilds of western Manitoba, in search of stome rare specimens, that he met his death by accidental drowning in Shoel lake, in that province, June 10, 1904.

BENONA P. ST. JOHN (1892), of Heron Lake, is president of the St. John Grain company, one of the largest business enterprises of that town and of Jackson county. He was born in Lyle, Mower county, Minnesota, December 7, 1866, the son of Matthew and Roxaline (Pierce) St. John.

Both the St. John and Pierce families are old American stock. (See St. John and Pierce American Geneologies.) The former is of French origin. In 1632 Matbias St. John (Sention) came to the American colonies from England (the family having previously immigrated to that country), and located in Xorwalk, Connecticut. From this ancestor sprang the St. John family of America. The Pierce family is of English extraction, but dates its advent to America early in the seventeenth century. Both parents of our subject were born in New York state, but were early Minnesota settlers, locating in Mower county in 1855. There they resided until 1900. The father died at Lakefield, Minnesota, in March, 1907, at the age of 87 years; tbe mother died in March, 1903, aged 79 years. They were the parents of five children.

On his father's farm in Mower county B. P. St. John lived until he reached his majority. Then be went to Cherokee county, Iowa, and for the ne^^t four ^ears was employed in a grain elevator. He located in Heron I^ke in 1892, and engaged in the grain business, which, largely by his efforts, has developed into tlie strong business concern it is today. Our subject conducted the business alone one year. Then he was joined by his brother, W. P. St. John, in a partnership, and for the next nine vears the business was conducted under the firm name of St. John Brothers. The busincjss grew, and in 1902 the firm of St. John Grain company was incorporated with the following officers: B. P. St. John, president; A. M. St. John, vice president; ^V. P. St. John, sicretarv and treasurer. W. P. St. John, who had been a merchant in Heron Lake in the early days and who had returned to that town in 1893 to engage in the grain business with his brother, died October 25, ]\H)ry. Since that time the officers have been B. P. St. John, president and treasurer; A. M. St. John, vice president; M. W. Smith, secretarv. The board of directors are as follows: B. P. St. John, A. M. St. John, M. AV. Smith, Sherman E. St. John, D. H. McKellar, J. B. Nimerfro and S. S. Striker. The St. John Grain company owns twenty grain elevators in ^linnesota and Iowa, three of which are in Jackson countv. The home office is in Heron

Besides his interest in the St. John Grain company, Mr. St. John is associated with tbe Kara mi n Lumber company, of Republic, Washington, and is its treasurer. He owns farnn lands in Jackson county and village property. He has served as president and member of the Heron Lake village council and for several voars has been treasurer of the Heron Lake

Mr. St. John Avas married at Meriden, lowa^ October 1, 1891, to Miss Emma C. Hovey, a native of Grundy county, Iowa. To them have been born four children, as follows: Kathleen, born August 7, 1892; Clair H., born February 2, 1898: Idella, born September 23, 1900; ^latthew, bom January 11, 1907, died October 25. 1908.

CHARLES MAYER (1894) is one of tbe prosperous and successful farmers and stockraisers of Rost township. He owns 400 acres of land on sections 28 and 30, Rost, and 120 acres on section 25, Ewington, as well as real estate in the villajre of Lakefield. He and his sons farm all his holdings. The farm is well improved and has a nice grove. On the place is an orchard, of five hundred apple trees, five hundred walnut and butternut trees, plum trees, grape arbor, etc.

Mr. Mayer is a native German, having been born in Rhine, Prussia, March 7, 1855, the son of Valentine and Catherine (Edinger) Mayer. Both his parents are dead, his father having died in Logan county, Illinois, in 1891, aged* 70 years, and his mother having died in the same county on Christmas day, 1905, aged 81 years.

Our sul)j<^et was brought up on a farm in his native land and there received his early training and education. He accompanied his parents to America in August, 1871, and located at San Jose, Mason county, Illinois. From the date of his arrival to the new world, to the year 1894 Mr. Mayer lived in Mason, Tazewell and Logan counties, Illinois. During this time he spent two years securing an English education, several years working for his father on the farm, and after growing to manhood engaged in farming for himself. In 1890 Mr. Mayer bought the half section of land which now comprises the home farm, and in 1894 he moved onto the place with his family. He made all the improvements the farm now boasts and he and his family have lived there ever since.

In addition to his farming and stock raising Mr. Maver is interested in several other business enterprises, owning stock in the First National Bank of Lakefield, tl:e Host Telephone company, the Jackson County Cooperative company of Ijakefield, the Independent Harvester company of Piano, Illinois, the Lakefield Farmers Cooperative Elevator company and the Rost Cooperative Dairy association. He and his family are members of the German Lutheran church of Rost township.

Mr. Mayer was married February 13, 1882, at Emden, Logan county, Illinois, to Sophia Gross weiler, who was born in Switzerland and came to the United States in 1875. To these parents have been born the following children: Frederick Carl, born November 20, 1882; Jacob, born October 8. 188."); Rudolph, born Jannary 18, 1889; Lydia Sophia, born May 26, 1891, died Novmber 9, 1891; Lilly Louise, bom July 11, 1896.

FREDERICK H. BERRK4U (1884), furniture dealer, cabinet maker and undertaker of Heron Lake, is a pioneer of Minnesota. He is a native of Missouri and was born February 28, 1855. His parents, Herman and Lena (Mackie) Berreau, were born in Germany and came to America soon after their marriage. Thcv lived in Missouri three vears and in 1858 moved to Carver county, Minnesota, which was their home until 1871. Then they located in Nobles county, being pioneer settlers of that county, and homesteaded the northwest quarter of section 2, Hersey township. The father died there in 1889 at the age of 55 years. The mother died at the age of 57 years. They were the parents of four living children: Frederick, Antonio (Mrs. B. Poppitz), Otto and Emma (Mrs. H. J. Nelson), all of whom live in Jackson dounty except Otto, who lives on the homestead in Nobles countv.

At the age of two years our subject accompanied his parents to Carver county, Minnesota, and there he resided upon his father's farm, attending the district school, until 1871. That year he accompanied his parents to Nobles coimty and there resided on the farm until 1875, when he was twenty years of age. The family suffered severely during the terrible grasshopper scourge of the seventies and to alleviate their sufferings and help them through the ordeal, Frederick went to CHiaska, Minnesota, and worked at the carpenter trade four vears. He was married there in 1882 and then located in Brewster, where he worked at his trade two years. During a part of the season of 1884, Mr. Berreau was at Chaska, straightening up his affairs preparatory to engaging in business in Heron Lake. He purchased a stock of furniture in Minneapolis and brought it to Heron Lake, arriving October 15, 1884, rented a building from T. A. Dieson, and started a furniture store, engaging also in cabinet and carpenter work. The next year he erected a business block of his own and added undertaker's supplies to the stock. Mr. Berreau took out an embalmer's license in 1908.

On the fifth day of September, 1882, Mr. Berreau was married at Chaska to Mary Smith, who was born in Holland and who came to the Ignited States with her parents in 1869. Her parents both died in Carver county, to which place they moved upon their arrival to America. Mr. and Mrs. Berreau are the par- ents of six children: Tillie (Mrs. John Mc- Carrell, of Anaconda, Montana; Herman, of Heron Lake; Anne (Mrs. Gus Teil), of St. James; Fred, Otto and Albert, of Heron Lake. The family are members of tlie Catholic church of Heron Lake and he belongs to the Woodmen lodge. He owns his home in Heron Lake.

primary education in the district schools and later attended the Breek college at Wilder five terms. He completed his education in the Mankato Normal school. He began teaching school in 1895 and was so engaged eight terms. He is a member of the Lutheran church.

EDWARD F. ALLERS (1885) is one of the successful young farmers of Sioux Valley township, where he and his father and an uncle own and farm in partnership three quarters of a section of fine land.

Ed Allers is a son of Fred and Catherina (Stoltenberg) Allers, of Sioux Valley. He was born in Benton county, Iowa, December 6, 1874, and in 1881 moved to near Walcott, Scott county, Iowa, where he resided until coming to Jackson county with his parents in 1885. He secured his education in the schools of Walcott, in the district schools of Sioux Valley township and in the German Lutheran school of Spirit Lake.

In the spring of 1885 the family moved to Jackson county and were among the first of the German families to take up a residence in Sioux Valley township. After Ed grew up he entered into partnership with his father and uncle and has since been engaged in the management of the three farms which they own. He lived with his parents on the home place until 1003; then he married and located upon the northeast quarter of section 26. The Allers engage in general farming and stock raising and farm a half pection of land, renting out the other quarter. Ed has stock in the Sioux Valley creamery, the farmer's elevator of Lake Park and- the Midland Telephone company. He is a member of the German Lutheran church and of the Odd Fellows lodge.

Edward Allers was married at Spirit Lake, Iowa, July 9, 1901, to Dina E. Wellhausen, a daughter of Ernst Wellhausen, of Sioux Valley. Mrs. Allers was born in Hildesheim, Hanover, Germany, November 15, 1876, came to the United States and to Eldridge, Iowa, in 1882, and to Jackson county in 1887.

JOHN BORSGARD (1875), of Christiania township, was born in <hat precinct June D, 1875, the son of Severt Borsgard and Kiersten (Krogstad) Borsgard, and has ever since made his home in Jackson county. He secured his

EDWARD F. VACURA (1886), Des Moines township farmer, was born in Linn county, Iowa, June 10, 1883, and is the son of the late John Vacura and Barbara (Lev) Vacura.

Edward was three years of age when ^he family came to Jackson county. They located upon the south half of the northeast quarter of section ft, Des Moines, and upon that farm our subject has spent his life. He was educated in the district school and until the death of his father, which occurred January 5, 1909, he worked for his parents. He has now rented the home place and is engaged in farming on his own account.

Mr. Vacura was married October 26, 1909, to Mary Micklos, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Micklos, of Jackson county, Minnesota. He has served as assessor of his township for the last two years and is also a member of the school board of district No. 8. He is a member of the M. W. A. lodge.

PETER NELSON (1884), superintendent of the electric light and water works plant of Lakefield, was born in Sweden February 10, 1860, the son of Nels Hansen and Mary (Nelson) Hansen. The father died when Peter was two years old and his mother when he was fourteen years of age. He attended school a few terms before he was twelve years of age, but his advantages for obtaining an education were meager, and at an early age he began to work and earn his own living.

Mr. Nelson was employed on a farm in Sweden until 1881, when he came to the United States. The first three months of his residence in the new world he worked on a farm in Kane county, Hlinois, and then for six years was employed on the celebrated M. W. Dunham horse farm. Coming to Jackson county, Mr. Nelson bought a farm in Hunter township, upon which he lived until 1895. Owing to bad crops, a fire that destroyed his house and barn, and two hail storms, he was forced to sell, but rented the place one year after the title had been transferred. The first seven years after moving to Lakefield he was engaged in different kinds of work, and then took a position in the electric light and water works plant, becoming superintendent of the plant on February 1, 1907. Some years after moving to the village where he now lives Mr. Nelson's house was completely destroyed in a cyclone and his wife and two children wore quite badly hurt.

Mr. Nelson was married in Jackson county February 28, 1888, to Susie Goplen, a native of Iowa and a daughter of Nels Goplen, one of the early settlers. To Mr. and Mrs. Nelson have been born four children, as follows: Arlie H., Alma M., Mabel S. and Earl R. The family are members of the Methodist church.

the city of Sacramento, California, March 16, 1860, and her father was John LaFranze. Five children have been bom to Mr. and Mrs. Schneider, as follows: Lulu (Mrs. William Rosenbrook), Ella, Helen, Wilma and William L.

WILLIAM G. SCHNEIDER (1884) owns a quarter section farm in Middletown township, a few miles southwest of Jackson, upon which he has lived over a quarter of a century. He was born in Moline, Rock Island county, Illinois, December 29, 1853, son of David and Lena (Kuhl) Schneider. His parents were born in Germany and came to the United States just prior to their marriage. They lived a short time in Davenport, Iowa, and then took up their residence in Moline, Illinois, where they both died. William is the oldest of a family of nine children, of whom six are living.

The subject of this biography received his education and early training in the city of Moline. Until he was past twenty-six years of age he made his home with his parents; then he married and began housekeeping for himself. During the latter part of his residence in Moline he was an employe of the Moline Plow company. In 1884 he came to Jackson county and bought the southwest quarter of section 3, Middletown township, and he has ever since lived there, engaged in farming. The land at the time of purchase was raw prairie and the purchase price was seven dollars per acre. All the improvements on the place were made by him. Mr. Schneider has been a director or treasurer of school district No. 92 for a number of years. He is a member of the Odd Fellows lodge.

CARL BKODIN (1888) is a successful farmer of Delafield township, owning the northwest quarter of section 27 and the east half of the northwest quarter of section 28. He was born in Sweden June 27, 1866, the son of Johannes Anderson and Johanna (Andreasson) Anderson, who were born in 1833 and 1831, respectively, and who are still living in their native land.

Carl lived in the old country until twentytwo years of age, working on the home farm. He came to the United States and to Jackson county in 1888, arriving in this county on April 30. Upon his arrival he took the name Brodin, after his old Swedish home, his name in Sweden having been Carl Johnson. This change was" made because of anticipated troubles in mail matters incident to the name of Johnson. During the first five years of his residence in Jackson county Mr. Brodin worked out as a farm hand, three years on the farm of Hans Skinrud in Delafield township and two years on the farm of Christ Knudson in Weimer township. He then bought eighty acres of his present farm, then without a building, tree or fence on it, and engaged in farming on his account. In 1902 he bought an additional eighty acres and in 1904 increased his farm to 240 acres by the purchase of eighty acres on section 28. He has a finely improved farm - the result of his labors.

Mr. Brodin was married in Delafield township April 2, 1892, to Ida Linstrom, who was born in Delafield township. She is the daughter of August Linstrom, of Wilder. To Mr. and Mrs. Brodin have been born the following named children: Ernest Arthur and Henry Robert (twins), born October 21, 1894; Gustav Victor, bom March 22, 1897; George Elmer, born July 11, 1899. Mr. Brodin is treasurer of school district No. 121.

OLOF O. SWENSON (1884), deceased, was one of the prominent citizens and successful farmers of Petersburg township. His home was the northeast quarter of section 2, and upon that place his widow still resides. Mr. Swenson was born in Malmo, Sweden, August 27, 1866. He worked during his early years on a farm and in a brick factory, and in 1880 emigrated to the United States. During the first two years of his residence in the new world Mr. Swenson worked in a brick yard near Rockford, Illinois, and for two years more worked in a machine shop in that city.