Lyon County, Minnesota - Biographical sketches, 1912 (part 13 of 17)

HOMER D. SHARRATT (1896) is the assistant cashier of the Lyon County National Bank of Marshall. He was born in Green Lake county, Wisconsin, November 29, 1880, the son of George and Celestia (Hodgson) Sharratt, the former a native of Staffordshire, England, and the latter of Syracuse, New York, of English ancestry. In 1892 the father came to Lyon county, purchased land, and has since led a retired life in the city of Marshall. They are the parents of only one child, the subject, of this sketch.

When twelve years of age, Homer moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where he received a common school education. In 189 6 he came to Lyon county and located at Marshall, where he attended the Marshall High School and was graduated therefrom, later taking a course in the University of Minnesota. In 1902 Mr. Sharratt entered the Lyon County Bank as bookkeeper and was promoted January 1, 1911, to assistant cashier. Our subject is a member of the Masonic lodge.

WILL BANKS (1909) is a farmer and land owner of Lynd township who has resided in Lyon county only a few years. Will is a native of Illinois and was born near Belvidere November 19, 18 66, a son of C. E. and Sarah (Nicholson) Banks. The father was a native of Maine, born in 1835, and when only nine years of age accompanied his parents to Illinois. On May 18, 1911, he was struck by the Northwestern train in Marshall and killed. The mother is a native of Nottingham, England, and was born in 1846. She resides at present with our subject in Lynd township.

The gentleman whose name heads this review received his early education in the district schools of Bremer county, Iowa. Later he attended high school at Waverly, Iowa, and Elliott's Business College at Burlington, Iowa, from which he was graduated in 1887. He then went to Pasadena, California, and obtained a position with the Pasadena Nursery Company as bookkeeper. He continued in that capacity a year, after which he was employed by another nursery company for several months.

Mr. Banks later became an officer in the Salvation Army, which he held for five years, during which time he toured the state of California. He also spent one winter as bookkeeper for the Pacific Coast division of the Army.

In 1894 Mr. Banks located in Kossuth county, Iowa, and moved on a farm which he owned there. He later bought more land adjoining that farm, making him 320 acres of land. He operated the farm fourteen years, raising blooded Duroc-Jersey hogs and a great number of cattle and sheep. While in Iowa he shipped a number of his blooded stock all over the country. He was awarded first prize for his stock at the Minnesota State Fair in 1909. His son, Fisk, when fifteen years of age, secured first prize and sweepstakes at the corn show which the Iowa Corn Breeders Association holds each year. He also secured two first premiums at the Minnesota State Fair in 1911.

In November, 1909, Mr. Banks sold his interests in Iowa, in April of the same year having purchased the land he now owns and operates in Lynd township. He is the owner of 400 acres known as the "Coteau Farm," formerly owned by O. C. Gregg. He raises considerable stock, including Duroc-Jersey hogs, dairy cattle and western sheep.

Our subject is a member of the Methodist church. In Kossuth county, Iowa, he held the following positions: Township trustee, president of the School Board, president of the Creamery Association, director of the County Fair Association. Mr. Banks has been a successful farmer and stockraiser.

On February 2 4, 18 90, Mr. Banks was united in marriage to Catherine Oates, a daughter of William and Ann Oates. Mrs. Banks was born in Durham county, England, in 18 67. They are the parents of the following children: Grace, Fisk, Charles, John, Will, George, Gladys, Gale and Lee.

FRED E. BUTLER (1896) is the proprietor of the Tracy Feed 'Barn, which he has conducted since 1911. He was born in Burlington, Vermont, March 4, 18 63, a son of Isaac and Eliza Butler, natives of

Fred lived in Vermont until reaching twenty years of age, when he went to Nebraska City, Nebraska, and entered the Grand Central Hotel as cook at twelve dollars per month. One year later he was made chef of the same hotel at a salary of $100 per month. He remained in Nebraska about five years and then went to Salt Lake City, Utah, where he was employed two years as chef for Ezra Young, a son of Brigham Young and the proprietor of the Templeton Hotel. He then came to Minnesota, locating at St. Cloud, where he worked as cook one year.

In 189 6 Mr. Butler came to Lyon county and located at Tracy, where he worked as chief cook in the Depot Hotel about a year. He then returned to St. Cloud, where he remained one year, after which he returned to Tracy and worked about three years in the Depot Hotel. Mr. Butler went to Watertown and worked in the Grand Hotel three years, and to Marshall, where he conducted a livery barn two years. In 1911 he returned to Tracy and purchased the Tracy Feed Barn, which he has since conducted.

ERICK M. SWANSON (19 02), a resident of Coon Creek township, was born in Dalsland, Sweden, July 22, 1854. The parents of Mr. Swanson were Swan and Christine (Erickson) Swanson, who immigrated to America in 1882 and located at Rockford, Illinois. Both parents are deceased. Erick attended school in Sweden until fifteen years of age and then clerked in a store for one and a half years.

In 18 72 Mr. Swanson came to the United States and located in Vermont, where he resided several months. From that time until 1885 he resided in Sibley county, Minnesota, and Scott county, Iowa, working at farm labor, and at Rockford, Illinois, four years, working in a sash and door factory. In 188 5 he moved to Nobles county, Minnesota, where he conducted a rented farm until 1902, the year of his coming to

Lyon county. On his arrival he located on section 9, Coon Creek township, where he still resides. He raises some stock, among other breeds, Poland China hogs, Durham cattle and Plymouth Rock chickens. He was a school director for several years in Nobles county and has been road overseer tor several years in Coon Creek township. He holds stock in the Farmers Elevator Company of Russell and in the Farmers Mutual Telephone Company.

On February 10, 1882, Elizabeth Levine became the wife of Mr. Swanson. Mrs. Swanson is a native of Sweden and a daughter of John and Sarah Levine, of Nobles county. She was born October 6, 1860. Mr. and Mrs. Swanson are the parents of the following children: Albin O., born April 21, 1883; Rudolph, born January 11, 1885; Amy, born September 1, 1886; Edward, born July 24, 1888; Mabel, born June 14, 1890; Charles, born June 9, 1892; Elmer, born October 17, 1896; Florence, born December 26, 1898; Gustaf, born February 10, 1903. All the children except Mabel reside in Lyon county.

Mr. Swanson has two brothers, Charles and August Swanson, of Rockford, Illinois. Mrs. Swanson has three sisters and two brothers: Nina, of Rockford, Illinois; Carrie, Emily and Martin Levine, of Nobles county, Minnesota; Axel, of Seattle, Washington. Her parents reside in Nobles county.

MRS. JULIANNA BUYSSE (1883), of Westerheim township, is one of the early members of the Catholic colony that located in Lyon county. She is the widow of Peter Buysse, who was one of the wellknown and respected residents of the precinct.

Mrs. Buysse's maiden name was Julianna Vertrest, and she was born in Holland April 22, 1857. In her native land she made her home until her marriage to Mr. Buysse on March 1, 1883. The young couple came to America that year and direct to Lyon county, and Mrs. Buysse has ever since been a resident of the county.

Peter Buysse was born in Belgium March 18, 1858, a son of Bruno and Sophia Buysse, both deceased. He came to America in 1881, lived in Illinois two years, and then after his marriage in the old country in the spring of 1883, came to America and took up his residence in Lyon county. For some time he engaged in farming in Eidsvold township and then located in Westerheim, where the family has ever since lived and where Mr. Buysse died on April 5, 1903.

Since the death of the head of the family the farm has been under the management of his sons. The family farm 720 acres of land and own 1280 acres in Westerheim township, being among the precinct's heaviest land owners. Mrs. Buysse and family are members of the Catholic church of Ghent. She has stock in the Farmers Elevator Company of Ghent.

Mrs. Buysse is the mother of the following named children, all of whom reside at home: Mary, born April 16, 1885; Frank, born June 9, 1886; August, born August 12, 1887; Charles, born January 20, 1891; Julius, born December 3, 189 2; Joseph, born September 6, 189 6. The first born died in infancy and two other children, Leo and Joseph, are deceased.

MRS. ANNETTE HARDEN (189 6) is the proprietor of a general store in the village of Russell. She was born in Lasalle county, Illinois, September 23, 1849, a daughter of Clement and Susan (Worsley) Eastman, both of whom are deceased. Mrs. Harden received her schooling in Illinois, where she resided with her parents until twenty-four years of age.

January 1, 1873, the subject of this review was married to Eugene Furbush, a native of Lasalle county. To this union was born one child, Mrs. Stella Carlaw, of Russell, the widow of the late Archie Carlaw. Mrs. Carlaw is the junior member of the firm of Carlaw & Harden, general merchants of Russell. In 1877 Mr. and Mrs. Furbush moved to Redfield, South Dakota, where they resided twelve years, when Mrs. Furbush and her daughter, Stella, returned to Illinois, where they remained, with the exception of a year spent in South Dakota, until 189 6. That year our subject was married at Lake Benton to H. W. B. Harden, of Russell. Mrs. Harden has resided in Russell since that date. For the past fourteen years she has been

For ten years Mrs. Harden conducted the store now known as the Farmers Cooperative Store, selling to the co-operative company in June, 1907. In June, 1910, in company with her son-in-law, Archie Carlaw, she purchased the Jay Peterson stock of general merchandise. October 13, 1911, Mr. Carlaw died, and since that time his wife has had charge of the interest formerly held by him. They handle a complete stock of dry goods, groceries, notions and millinery. They have a neat, up-to-date stock and have been very successful.

PETER C. NELSON (1890). One of the most prosperous farmers and stock raisers of Coon Creek township is Peter Nelson, who resides on the southeast quarter of section 5. Mr. Nelson was born in Ringsta, Denmark, on January 31, 1861. He is the son of Nels Peter Christianson, who resides with a son, Sam Nelson, in Coon Creek township.

Peter Nelson attended school in the land of his birth until thirteen years of age. Then he came to America with his father and located near Cedar Falls, Iowa, where he worked at farm labor twelve years. He then rented land in that vicinity and farmed for himself two years. In 1890 he came to Lyon county and farmed rented land near Tyler three years. At the end of that time he bought land in Coon Creek township, which he farmed four years and sold, later buying the farm he now owns and operates, the southeast quarter of section 5, Coon Creek township. He raises stock, among other breeds, Duroc-Jersey hogs, Polled Angus cattle and Brown Leghorn chickens. He is a stockholder of the Farmers Mutual Telephone Company. Mr. Nelson has been a successful farmer and stock raiser. He has two brothers, Sam, of Coon Creek township, and Andrew, of Lincoln county.

Mr. Nelson is a man of family. He was married June 11, 1895, to Louise Benson, a daughter of Bangt Benssn, of Sweden. She was born February 18, 18 63. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson are the parents of one child, Bennie, born May 5, 1896.

DR. FRED H. POWERS (1910), practising physician of Marshall, was born in Bloomington, Illinois, February 8, 1869. When a child he accompanied his parents to Shelbyville, of the same state, where he was graduated from the high school and where he grew to manhood. After his high school days he .went to Chicago and secured the degree of Ph. G. from the Chicago Department of Pharmacy of the University of Illinois.

Mr. Powers practised pharmacy in Chicago seven years and then took up the study of medicine. He was graduated from Rush Medical College, of Chicago, in 1900. After his graduation Dr. Powers served as an interne in the Chicago Lyingin Hospital and Dispensary. He became a member of the staff of the Julian Burnham Hospital at Champaign, Illinois, and was appointed to the chair of obstetrics and gynecology and later bacteriology in the Burnham Hospital Training School for Nurses. During his residence in Illinois, Dr. Powers was secretary of the Twin City Physicians Club, was censor and vice president of the Champaign County Medical Society, was a member of the Illionis State Medical Society, the Aesculapian Medical Society of the Wabash Valley and the American Medical Association.

In 1907 Dr. Powers returned to Chicago to become an associate of Professor E. Fletcher Ingals, of Rush Medical College. In 1910 he located in Marshall, succeeding Dr. F. C. Wheat.

Dr. Powers is a son of the late John W. Powers. The latter was born in Flemingsburg, Kentucky, later moved to Louisville, and later still to Illinois, where he engaged in the banking business. He was a soldier of the Union army during the War of the Rebellion. The mother of our subject, Mary E. Larrimore, was a native of Springfield, Illinois, her parents having been natives of Maryland.

At Vienna, Maryland, on June 19, 1901, Dr. Powers was married to Celeste Webb, of Baltimore. One child, Margaret, has been born to this union.

school until sixteen years of age and thereafter worked for his father on the [arm. In the spring of 1912 he took the management of the place and is now farming it on shares with his father. He also conducts the 12 0-acre farm of Christine Hanson on the same section, 16. He is a member of the Icelandic Lutheran church of Minneota.

The parents of Christ Sigurdson are Einar and Lena (Bergson) Sigurdson, who live on the farm conducted by their son. They came from Iceland to Lyon county in 1882 and have ever since lived in Nordland township. Ten children were born to them, named as follows: Otto and Bjorn, who are deceased; Paul, a farmer of Nordland township; Lena (Mrs. Andrew Nelson), of Lake Hendricks, Minnesota; John, Ole, Christ E., Otto, Marvin and Bjorn, who reside on the home farm.

HENRY THAVIS (1904). Numerous private residences in Tracy are equipped with heating plants installed by Henry Thavis, plumber and installer of heating systems, whose place of business is on Third Street. During the three years that Mr. Thavis has been in the plumbing and heating business he has established a reputation for reliability and good workmanship. The heating plants in the Central school, and in the Gund Brewing Company's depot were put in by Mr. Thavis.

The subject of this sketch was born in Sibley county, Minnesota, March 5, 1879. He went to school in St. Peter and at an early age commenced to learn the plumbing trade. In the early part of 1904 Henry moved to Marshall, where he worked for a local plumber several months; then he moved to Tracy, where he had been given employment with the Northwestern Railroad Company, as plumber in the Tracy roundhouse. That position he held six and one-half years, and in June, 1909, he started in the plumbing business for himself. While a resident of Tracy Henry has become a member of the M. W. A. lodge.

The marriage of Henry Thavis and Miss Martha Ferrell took place at Marysberg. Minnesota, in November, 1900. Miss Ferrell's home was in Le Sueur county. The

The parents of the subject of this sketch are Mathias and Margaret (Hames) Thavis, natives of Sibley and Nicollet counties, respectively. They now reside at Spokane, Washington, and with then! are three of their children, Anna, John and Margaret. Mary (Mrs. Andrew Bohrer), another sister of Henry Thavis, lives in St. Peter.

VERNON B. TUBBS (1896) is the proprietor of one half section of Clifton township's best farm land. He is giving much attention to stock raising in addition to his general farm work and raises Shorthorn cattle and Poland China hogs.

Vernon B. Tubbs was born in Jefferson county, Wisconsin, October 2 0, 1871, and is a son of Benjamin P. and Julia (Moore) Tubbs, natives of New York and Ohio, respectively. The parents moved to Wisconsin in 184 5 and located on a farm. Vernon received his schooling in Wisconsin, and when seventeen years of age he accompanied his parents to Kossuth county, Iowa, and there lived until 1896.

It was in that year that our subject came to Lyon county and bought the southeast quarter of section 1, Clifton township, where he now resides. Later he purchased the northeast quarter of section 1, and now farms the entire half section. Mr. Tubbs is one of the progressive farmers of the vicinity and though a comparatively young man, he is today one of the township's most prosperous farmers.

The marriage of Vernon B. Tubbs and Eva H. Ranney occurred in Iowa October 18, 1893. She was born September 4, 1876, and is a daughter of Frank L. and Hannah (Peck) Ranney, natives of Wisconsin and now residents of Algona, Iowa. To Mr. and Mrs. Tubbs have been born three children, as follows: Joseph W.. born September 9, 1894; Walter C, born May 16, 1899; and Beatrice, born May 14, 1906. The Tubbs family are members of the Presbyterian church.

Mr. Debuf was born in Belgium February 15, 1871, and received his education in that country, living at home and working for his father until 1904, when the boy came to America. North Dakota was his destination, and Camil spent the first two years in the new land on a ranch in Billings county. It was during his residence in Dakota that our subject was married at Dickinson, to Marie Lemmertyn. Mrs. Debuf was born in Belgium and she came with her parents to this country in 1905.

After his marriage Mr. Debuf came to Lyon county, worked in Ghent six months, and then rented the land in Fairview where he took up his residence one year ago.

Mr. and Mrs. Camil Debuf are the parents of five children, Joe, Constant, Carel, Alfons and Mary. The Debufs are members of the Catholic church.

PETER VANGHELUWE (1893), a wellto-do farmer of Grandview township, was born in Belgium January 27, 1865, and was brought up and educated in that country. He finished school and helped his father on the home place until coming to the United States in 18 93.

In that year he came to this country and located in Lyon county, working as a farm laborer around Marshall. In 1895 he married and rented a farm in Lake Marshall township, which he conducted three years. Later he bought the southeast quarter of section 2 4, Grandview township, at the time an unimproved piece of land. Mr. Vangheluwe has put up modern buildings on the place and has made it a model farm in all respects. In addition to his home place he also farms eighty acres on section 2 5, which he purchased in 1909.

Peter Vangheluwe is one of a family of ten children born to Bruno and Louise Vangheluwe. The father died in 1901 at the age of eighty-five years, and the mother* is still living in the ,old country. Peter is the only one of the children in this country. He has made wonderful progress since coming to America, beginning as a common laborer without any means. He now is the owner of 240 acres of valuable land, improved with substantial buildings. Mr. Vangheluwe is one of the township supervisors and is clerk of school district No. 21.

Our subject was married in Marshall. He took as his wife Sylvia DeVos, the wedding ceremony taking place December 27, 1895. He and his wife are members of the Catholic church.

GEORGE LONG (1897) is the proprietor of a bakery and restaurant in the city of Marshall. He was born at Lafayette, Indiana, July 25, 1861, the son of Barney and Mary Long. Both his parents were natives of Germany and both are deceased. Besides George there are two other children in the family: Fred, of Lafayette, Indiana, and Mary Bilby, of Terre Haute, Indiana.

When twelve years of age George accompanied his parents to Terre Haute. From there he went to Chicago, where he conducted a lodging house, and later to Kansas City, Missouri, where he worked in the Scotch oat meal factory. In 1889 Mr. Long went to Alaska and during the next two years he was engaged in mining and freighting. Thereafter for a time he worked for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in Tacoma, Washington, and during the World's Fair resided in Chicago.

Mr. Long came West in 1895, resided two years in Redwood county, and then came to Lyon county. For a few years he worked at farm labor and in 1900 opened a restaurant in Marshall. After conducting that three years he moved to a new location and opened a bakery and ice cream establishment in connection. He has an up-to-date bakery and conducts a first-class restaurant.

In the city of Marshall, on December 13, 1895, Mr. Long was married to Fannie Schoak. They have no children of their own but have an adopted daughter, Addie. Mr. Long is a member of the Masonic, Woodmen, Maccabees and Eagle lodges.

brother-in-law, Dan Hasbargen, own 360 acres of land in that precinct and they farm the entire tract. They are successful farmers and are rated among the substantial men of southwestern Lyon county.

Near the city of Peoria, Illinois, on March 23, 1867, John H. Johnson first saw the light of day. When he was yet a baby the family moved to Danforth, Iroquois county, and there John grew to manhood. Until he became of age he worked on his father's farm, and then for a year or two he worked for other farmers in the vicinity. Mr. Johnson then engaged in farming for himself, which he followed in Illinois until coming to Lyon county in 1897.

Mr. Johnson came to the county with Dan Hasbargen and the two have ever since been partners in their farming operations. They planted the grove on the farm and made all the improvements on the place. Mr. Johnson has not married and makes his home with his partner. He bas served as road overseer of his district.

The parents of our subject were Henry and Annie (Gertis) Johnson. They were born in Germany and for many years were residents of Illinois. They moved to Lyon county in 18 93, purchased the south half of section 2 5, Shelburne township, and resided there until their deaths. The mother died in the fall of 1895, the father about 1901. There are seven living children in the family, named as follows: John H., Paul H., Christ, George, Rachael (Mrs. Dan Hasbargen), Onno and Mary (Mrs. Albert Loats). Another son, Henry Johnson, died in August, 1910, at the age of twenty-eight years.

PETER M. BERG (1905) is a general merchant of the village of Minneota. He is a native of Sweden and was born January 6, 1862. His parents were Swen Peter and Inga Mary (Johnson) Peter, both of whom are deceased. They were the parents of two children: Peter M., of this sketch, and Andrew, who is farming in Swede Prairie township, Yellow Medicine county.

The subject of this sketch came to the United States in 18 81 and located in Yellow Medicine county, where he worked on farms for a few years, near Hanley Falls. He purchased a farm in Burton township in 1887 and operated it until 1905, when he moved to Minneota and purchased the general merchandise stock of Sterk Brothers, which he has since conducted. He still owns his farm.

Mr. Berg is a member of the Swedish Lutheran church and the I. O. O. F., M W. A. and Yeomen lodges. He is also justice of the peace of the village of Minneota. While in Yellow Medicine county he held various offices, including justice of the peace, member of the school board, and a member of the Township Board of Supervisors.

Mr. Berg was married at Hanley Falls October 24, 1884, to Helen Knuteson, a native of Goodhue county, Minnesota. Mr. and Mrs. Berg are the parents of the following ten children: Hilda (Mrs. P. J. Brantnum), of Canby, Minnesota; Andre W. and Clara E., who clerk for their father; Henry A., a student; Carl F., grain buyer for Bigham Brothers at Minneota; Emma E., Peter S., George A., James A. and Arby, who reside at home.

To our subject is largely due the splendid rural mail service from the village of Minneota, he circulating the petition for the establishment of route No. 1. K. K. Mohn was the first carrier on that route, which was established in 1902.

Mr. Opdahl is a son of Helge and Ingeborg Opdahl, natives of Norway. They came to the United States about 1870 and lived in Goodhue county, Minnesota, until 1879, in which year they moved to Lyon county and purchased the east half of section 32, Westerheim township. Excepting one year spent in North Dakota, Helge Opdahl made his home there until his death on September 12, 1908, at the age of fifty-eight years. Mrs. Opdahl is now living in Barnes county, North Dakota. She and her husband were the parents of seven children, Albert, Ida, Annie, Iver,

Three years previous to his father's death Iver Opdahl took charge of the old home place. In 1907 he went to North Dakota and farmed four years, but with that exception he has always resided on his present place.

Our subject was married in the township on December 5, 1907, and took for his wife Hilda Christianson, a native of Norway who came to the United States when thirteen years of age. By her marriage to Mr. Opdahl she became the mother of three children, Isabelle Juliett, Henry Clifford and Ingulf Harold. The Opdahls are members of the Norwegian Lutheran church.

JOEL MENARD (1902), of Marshall, was born in Kankakee county, Illinois, July 2, 1868, the son of Prudent and Henrietta (Fortin) Menard. His parents were born in Canada but moved to Kankakee county when children and were married there. Mr. Menard died there about 1900; the mother still lives there. The other children of the family are George, Philip, Alfred, Almyra and Alex.

Until he reached his majority Joel Menard lived on his father's farm, and then he engaged in farming on his own account in Kankakee county until moving to Marshall in 1902. He has since devoted his time to looking after his farming interests and breeding Percheron horses. He has one of the finest residences in the city.

Mr. Menard was married in his native county on New Years Day, 1891, to Emma Caron, who is also a native of Kankakee county and who was born August 25, 1873. They have six children, namely: Prudent, Clara, Rachel, Andrew, Hugo and Virgil. A son, Marshal, died July 4, 1909, at the age of seven years.

JOHN K. SPENCER (1900), a resident of Amiret, was born January 16, 1859, in Jefferson county, Indiana. He is a son of Benjamin and Roda (Warfleld) Spencer, natives of Kentucky, and when six years of age his parents moved to Van

The boy received his schooling in the district in which the farm was located, and until the age of twenty-five years he lived at home with his parents, assisting with the work on the home farm. In 1884 young Spencer decided to strike out for himself and went to Beadle county, South Dakota, where he took a quarter section of land as a homestead and eighty acres as a pre-emption claim, and farmed until 1900.

That year Mr. Spencer moved to Lyon county and rented the 640 acres on section 2 0, Amiret township. He staid on that place one year and then moved to Custer township, where he rented 160 acres on section 10 the next four years. He then moved to Redwood county and spent one year there before returning to Lyon county and locating on section 20, Amiret township. Later he located on section 4 and farmed five and one-half years before moving to Amiret village, where he has since been the proprietor of a boarding house.

The subject of this sketch was married in Melton, Iowa, February 17, 1879, to Arvilla Davis. She was born in Van Buren county, Iowa, November 12, 1859, and is a daughter of Wamouth and Rebecca (Hargrove) Davis, natives of Indiana and Delaware, respectively. Her parents were early settlers of Van Buren county and lived there until their deaths. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Spencer: Nellie May, born August 6, 1883; Clerance Sidney, born November 14, 1884; and Ruth Pearl, born November 28, 1898. Mr. Spencer is fraternally allied with the Yeomen lodge.

CASSIUS M. GIBBS (1893), of Marshall, has spent the greater part of his life in Lyon county and is a native son of Minnesota. He was born in Le Sueur county December 13, 1881, and when one year old was taken with the family to Minneapolis. He moved to Marshall with his parents in 1893 and has since lived in that city.

sixteen years of age. Then he entered the News-Messenger office, learned the printer's trade, and was connected with the office nine years. He engaged in the restaurant business two years and has since been engaged in various occupations. He is not married and makes his home with his parents. For the past ten or twelve years Mr. Gibbs has been a member of the Marshall Fire Department and he is a member of the Modern Woodmen lodge.

James G. Gibbs, the father of our subject, is also a resident of Marshall. He was born in Post Creek, Chemung county, New York, August 3, 1835, and is a veteran of the Civil War. He served four years and five months, under two enlistments, in the First New York Light Artillery, and participated in thirty-seven engagements. He was with General Mc- Clellan during the entire campaign in Virginia and participated in many engagements on the Peninsula. Some of the more important battles of that campaign in which Mr. Gibbs participated were Yorktown, Lees Mills, Dam No. 2, Fair Oaks, Grapevine Bridge, Seven Pines, Ganes Farm, Cold Harbor, Front of Richmond, Mechanicville, Seven Days Fight and the Second Battle of Bull Run. Mr. Gibbs* second enlistment was with General Meade, under whose command he participated in the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg, Marys Heights, Chancellorville, Winchester, Cedar Creek, Mount Jackson, The Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Bermuda Hundred and Petersburg.

After the war James Gibbs lived on his father's New York farm a few years and about 1870 came West and located in Le Sueur county, Minnesota. There he worked at the carpenter's trade and at farming until 1882, worked at his trade in Minneapolis until 1893, and in Marshall until 19 04. Since then he has lived a retired life. Elenora (Smith) Gibbs, the mother of our subject, is also a native of Post Creek, New York.

Four children of James Gibbs' family are living: Eva (Mrs. A. T. Drew), of Marshall; Rose (Mrs. D. N. Hunt), of Minneapolis; Pina (Mrs. H. S. Corning), of Minneapolis; and Cassius, of this biography.

OSMUND N. MITCHELL (1900), of Shelburne township, owns and farms 360 acres of the precinct's fertile soil. He is not a pioneer resident of Lyon county but he has prospered and is rated as one of the substantial farmers. His home place is the northwest quarter of section 33, on the southern boundary of the county.

The gentleman whose name heads this sketch was born near Stavanger, Norway, April 26, 1866. His father, Nels Mikkelson, died in 1887; his mother, Ingeborg (Osmundson) Mikkelson, two years later. Until he was sixteen years of age young Mitchell attended the schools of his native land. Then he spent four years working as a farm laborer, three years for an uncle and one year on the home place.

In 1887 Mr. Mitchell came to America. The first two years in the New World were spent working on the railroad in Livingston county, Illinois; then he worked at farm labor in Lasalle county two years. He was married in 1891 and moved to Kossuth county, Iowa, where he bought land and engaged in farming until 1900.

In the spring of that year Mr. Mitchell came to Lyon county and purchased 200 acres of land on the west half of section 33, Shelburne township, upon which he has ever since resided. In the fall of 1910 he purchased the southeast quarter of section 32, making him a farm of 3 60 acres. Mr. Mitchell raises considerable stock, including Hereford cattle, Duroc-Jersey hogs and Barred Plymouth Rock chickens.

Mr. Mitchell is interested in several other enterprises. He has stock in the State Bank of Florence, the Farmers Elevator Company of Ruthton, and the Independent Harvester Company of Piano, Illinois. He has been treasurer of school district No. 57 for the past ten years.

The marriage of Mr. Mitchell to Lena Olson occurred in Streator, Illinois, December 26, 1890. Mrs. Mitchell was born in Norway April 30, 1875, the daughter of Andrew and Martha (Severson) Olson. The head of the family came to America in 1886 and the rest of the family in 1890. They lived in Lasalle county, Illinois, and Kossuth county, Iowa, and in 1903 moved to Cottonwood county, Minnesota, where they now reside. Mrs. Mitchell has two brothers, Severt Olson, of Cot- tonwood county, and John Olson, of Lac qui Parle county. Mr. Mitchell has one brother, James, of Kossuth county, Iowa. Ten children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell, as follows: Ida, of Elrua, Washington, born November 11, 1891; Mary, born September 2 3, 1893; Moses, born November 18, 1895; Hannah, born August 14, 1897; Jennie, deceased, born March 18, 18 99; Esther, born December 24, 1901; Frances, born April 21, 1903; Oscar, born February 24, 1906; Genevieve, deceased, born April 11, 1909; Levain, born April 6, 1911. All except the oldest child reside at home.

PHILIP HOFNER (1905), proprietor of a Tracy meat market, has been a resident of that city since April, 1905. The shop, which is largely in the management of his two sons, Charlie and Paul, is situated on the corner of Third and Morgan Streets, and the proprietor handles all kinds of fresh and salt meats.

Philip Hofner was born in Germany January 23, 1851, and came to America when a boy of sixteen. He settled in Dubuque, Iowa, and lived in that state until moving to Tracy. Learning the butcher business soon after his arrival in this country, young Hofner started in business for himself and conducted a meat market during all the years he was a resident of Iowa.

He was married in Dubuque to Lizzie Liebarnt, a native of the city in which she was married. Eight children were born to them, as follows: Lena, William, Barney, Louise, Lizzie, Loui, Charlie and Paul.

Charlie Hofner, who with his brother Paul manages his father's market, was born at Oelwein, Iowa, December 31, 1883. Paul was also born at Oelwein, on July 28, 1889. While young boys the family moved to Riceville, Iowa, where the children received their early education and where they were taken into their father's market and taught the butcher business. When the elder Mr. Hofner bought the shop of Lynch & Shellhorn in Tracy the boys came from Iowa to help conduct the business. At that time the shop occupied the building which now houses the Fitch

PHIL CARON (1883) assists his brother Leon conduct the farm on the southeast quarter of section 4, Grandview township. He was born in Kankakee county, Illinois5.. October 15, 1875, and was brought up on his father's farm.

The parents of our subject were Theodore and Julia (Constantine) Caron, natives of Canada, having been born in Three Rivers and Louisville, respectively. They were early settlers of Kankakee county, Mr. Caron moving there when twenty-two years of age. He soon after married and he and his family lived in Illinois until coming to Lyon county in 1883. Mr. Caron is still living on his old farm on the southeast quarter of section 4 with his sons Leon and Phil and his daughter Marie. His wife died in 1899, aged sixty-six years.

Phil has always lived at home with the family and has had a continuous residence on the Grandview township farm with the exception of three years when the family lived in St. Paul. He was married in Ghent on January 15, 1900, to Vitiline Paradis, a native of Canada and a daughter of Teles Paradis, a farmer living south of Marshall. Mrs. Caron died May 15, 1900, at the age of twenty-one years.

Phil Caron has the following sisters and brothers living: Lizzie (Mrs. Louis Regnier), Bertha (widow of I. R. Patriaude), Cecile (Mrs. George Regnier), Marie, who lives at home; and Leon, who conducts the home farm with his brother.

CARL LINDSTROM (1S98), proprietor of the Marshall Steam Laundry, was born in Sweden December 19, 1867. He secured his education and spent his boyhood days in the old country working on a farm. He came to America in 1886 and for five years worked in the Pullman car shops in Chicago. He then learned the laundry business and was the manager of a laundry in Chicago for several years.

Mr. Lindstrom located in Marshall in 1898, bought the laundry of Gieseke, Sullivan & Addison, installed new machinery throughout, and has since conducted the business.

He has installed porcelain tubs and conducts a bath house in connection. Mr. Lindstrom is a member of the Masonic and Modern Woodmen lodges.

The parents of our subject are Johannes Carlson and Alary Katherina Carlson, who reside in Sweden. Five children of the family, Alfred, Gustaf, Carl, Frank and Otto, reside in the United States, while August, Adolph and Emma live in Sweden.

WILLIAM C. PALMER (1897), of Coon Creek township, was born in Marshall county, Illinois, July 14, 1867, a son of E. B. and Gurtrud (Vincent) Palmer, both natives of New York. When two years of age William accompanied his parents to Keokuk county, Iowa, where he received his education and grew to manhood. In 1888 he rented land in Iowa and started farming for himself.

In 1897 Mr. Palmer came to Lyon county and purchased land in Coon Creek township. He owns a fine farm of 280 acres and raises considerable stock, including Hereford cattle and Poland China hogs. Mr. Palmer is a stockholder in the following enterprises: Farmers Elevator Company of Russell, Tyler Telephone Company and the American Hereford Cattle Association of Kansas City, Missouri. He is chairman of the Township Board and clerk of school district No. 76. He holds membership in the Masonic lodge, being a charter member of McKinley Lodge of Tyler.

At What Cheer, Iowa, December 27, 1888, Mr. Palmer was married to Minnie Lawrence, a native of Iowa and a daughter of Dr. A. D. and Elizabeth (Thomas) Lawrence, natives of New York. Mr. and Mrs. Palmer are the parents of the following named children: Mildred, Ethel, Helen, Carrie and Rubey.

TENNES A. LENDE (1900) is a butcher and dealer in live stock in Cottonwood. He was born on his father's farm near Hanley Falls, Minnesota, August 23, 1874, a son of Andrew O. and Martha M. (Hanson) Lende, natives of Norway. They settled in Minnesota in an early day. They resided in Yellow Medicine county until 1895, when the father moved to Cottonwood and engaged in the live stock business. In 1900 the family moved to Cottonwood. Mr. Lende died October 9, 1905, aged fifty-nine years. The mother resides in Cottonwood.

Tennes spent his boyhood days in Yellow Medicine county. There he received his education, completing it with a course, in 1893- 94, in the Willmar Seminary. He lived on the farm until 1900, when he accompanied his parents to Lyon county and located at Cottonwood. There he engaged in the butcher and live stock business with his father, taking full charge after his father's death. He has conducted the business since that time with the exception of twenty-one months, when Keehn Brothers were in charge. He again bought the business in 1910.

Mr. Lende is a stockholder of the First National Bank and of the North Star Implement Company. He served three terms on the Cottonwood Village Council. He holds membership in the following lodges: Masonic, Modern Woodmen, Eastern Star and Maccabees.

Our subject is a brother of State Senator O. A. Lende. He has five brothers and five sisters: Senator Olai A., Tennes A., Minnie (Mrs. W. L. Gray), Lorinda, Mattie, Elmer, Mihlo, Elfta, Rebecca, Corillan and Norman.

Mr. Lende was married in Cottonwood November 9, 1910, to Daisy Edna Gibb, a resident of that village and a native of Lyon county. She was born May 21, 1884, and is a daughter of J. F. Gibb, an early settler of the county.

MRS. KATHERINE McMAHON (1884), of Eidsvold township, is the widow of Joseph James McMahon, one of the early day settlers of the township. Her maiden name was Katherine O'Connor and she was born in Washtenaw county, Michigan, November 7, 1862. Her father, James O'Connor, was born in Michigan and her mother, Sarah (McLaughlin) O'Connor, was born in Rhode Island. The former died in 1892 and the latter in 1907. Miss O'Connor received her education and grew to womanhood in her native state, and in 1882 she was united in marriage to Mr. McMahon.

er, Mary (McGar) McMahon, came to Lyon county in 1882 and located in Eidsvold township, where they resided until their deaths. Mrs. McMahon died on Christmas Day, 1893, and Mr. McMahon on December 11, 1908.

In his native state James McMahon grew to man's estate. He was married in 1882, and in the spring of 1884, largely as a result of the advertising matter sent out by the Catholic colonization people, he and his wife came to Lyon county and bought land in the extreme northwestern corner of the county, on section 6, Eidsvold. There he resided until his death, which occurred January 13, 1905, and there his family still lives.

To Mr. and Mrs. James McMahon the following named children were born: William Francis, born January 5, 1883; Mary Elizabeth, born March 5. 1885; Margaret Ellen, deceased, born December 17, 1887; Zita Ann (Mrs. Edward Buckley), of Minneota, born February 28, 1889; Katherine, deceased, born May 16, 1891; Joseph, born May 2, 1895; Katherine Ann, bora June 28, 1898; Lucy Ellen, born December 20, 1900. The family are members of the Catholic church of Minneota.

EDWARD DE CLERK (1890), senior proprietor of the Marshall Bottling Works, was born in Holland August 15, 1868, and is a son of Bernard De Clerk and Mary (De Smet) De Clerk. Edward has one brother, Peter, living in Indiana, and a sister, Rosa, residing in Fargo, North Dakota. His parents came to this country from Holland in 1892 and live in Marshall.

Edward De Clerk came to the United States in 1889 and lived eight months in New York before settling in Westerheim township, Lyon county, in December. 1890. There he made his home for the next four years, then bought 200 acres in Clifton and Stanley townships, and farmed for himself until the spring of 1911, when he rented his place and moved to Marshall. In March, 1911, Mr. De Clerk and Emery Fuller bought the Marshall Bottling Works and deep water well from A. C. Porter and are continuing the business under that name. They bottle all kinds of carbonated drinks and find a large market for the celebrated Silver Springs water.

to Leonie Van De Veire. Three children were born to this union, all of whom are dead. The wife died in 1910. Mr. De Clerk was married a second time, to Emma Defever, a native of Belgium. Our subject is a member of the Catholic church.

MILTOX S. CLARK (1905) is a farmer and owner of Lyon county real estate and resides in Rock Lake township. He farms 162 acres of land on the north edge of the precinct.

Mr. Clark was born near Creighton, Nebraska, May 13, 1886, received his early education in the common schools of that state, and later took a course in Wayne College, of Wayne, Nebraska. After working out on farms in his native state for a time, he came to Lyon county in 1905. worked on farms for awhile, and then engaged in the livery business at Lynd one winter. For a few months he worked in the horse barns of William B. Peniston at Marshall and then for a time worked out at various forms of labor.

In 1910 Mr. Clark started in business for himself and has since been engaged in farming in Rock Lake. He raises Holstein and Shorthorn cattle and Poland China hogs. He has been quite successful in his undertakings.

Gladys Blanchard became the wife of Mr. Clark December 7, 1910. She was bora in Rock Lake township June 22, 1890, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Blanchard, pioneers of the county. One child was born to Mr. and Mrs. Clark, Ruby, born May 1, 1912, and died the following day.

Edward and Hattie (Hughton) Clark, the parents of our subject, were born in Wisconsin and Kansas, respectively, and are now residents of the last named commonwealth. Milton is one of a family of eleven children, the others being as follows: Walter, a veteran of the Spanish-American War and now a resident of Brockton, Montana; Frank, of Sioux City, Iowa; George, of Rock Lake township; Charles, of Norfolk, Nebraska; Harry, of South Sioux City, Iowa; Roland and Warren, of Rock Lake township; and Harley, Oscar. Grace and Nina, all of Norfolk, Nebraska.

REV. HENRY VICTOR VAX WALLEGHEM (1905), pastor of the Catholic Church of St. Eloi in Ghent, was born in Belgium March IS, 1866. He received his education in the schools and colleges of his native land. After a course at Bruges he was ordained a priest, and at Louvain he later studied philosophy, taking a post-graduate course in that subject and in science.

Rev. Van Walleghem was graduated from Louvain in 1892, and, returning to Bruges, he was a teacher of mathematics and the sciences in the college until 1903. In the latter year he came to America and spent six mouths in Rochester, New York, as assistant pastor of the Franco-Belgian church, Our Lady of Victory, in that city.

In the latter part of 1903 Rev. Van Walleghem was called to the assistant pastorate of St. Luke's Parish in St. Paul, where he remained one year. He was then sent to Ghent to take charge of the Church of St. Eloi. where he has since served.

WILLIAM C. AHERN (1884), farmer of Eidsvold township, has resided in that precinct since he was eleven years of age. He was bora in Sangamon county, Illinois, May 6, 1873, and in 1884 he came with his parents to Lyon county. The father purchased land on section 8, Eidsvold, and eventually became the owner of the whole section.

William lived on the home farm until 1903, engaging with his brothers in its management after the father's death in 1896. In 1903 he was married and bought the northwest quarter of section 22 and forty acres on section 21. He moved to his new home, improved the place, and has since made his home there. Mr. Ahern served one term as a member of the township board.

Garrett and Kate (Brown) Ahern, the parents of our subject, were born in Ireland and came to America when children. They resided in Springfield, Sangamon county, Illinois, for many years and after 1884 in Lyon county. Garrett Ahern died on the farm November 27, 1896; his widow still lives on the home farm with her son James and two daughters. There were thirteen children in the family, of whom the following named ten are living: Philip P., of Taunton; Josie, Nell (Mrs. Thomas Walsh), of Fargo, North Dakota; William C, of this biography; James, who farms the home place; Mike F., cashier of the State hank Of Taunton; Katherine (Mrs. Maurice Breen), of Minneapolis; Thomas G., a banker, of Hampden, North Dakota; Garrett, a merchant of Taunton; and Annie, a school teacher.

William C. Ahern was married in Marshall June 10, 1903, to Mamie Breen, a native of Missouri and a daughter of John Breen, cue of the prominent farmers of Westerheim township. Mr. and Mrs. Ahern have five children: . Margaret, Lucile, Evelyn, Joseph and Eleanor.

VICTOR VERGAUWE (1909) is the senior member of the firm which owns the City Meat Market of Marshall. He was born in Flanders, Belgium, September 29, 1880, and there he was educated and resided until twenty-two years of age. During the next six years he was engaged in working at the butcher trade in various towns of Belgium. Germany and France.

From the city of Paris Mr. Vergauwe departed for the United States, arriving in New York in October, 1908. For some time he was employed as a meat cutter in a New York shop at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Twenty-fourth Street. Mr. Vergauwe took up his residence in Marshall in October, 1909, at which time he bought the City Meat Market. He carried on the business alone until March 21, 1911, when he took as a partner Cyrille Feryn. The partners deal in all kinds of fresh and salt meats, fish, etc.

Mr. Vergauwe is not married. He is the son of Jacob and Clemencs (Jacksons) Vergauwe, both of whom died in their native land. Victor is the youngest in a family of seven children, the others being: Camille, Jule, Leon, Henry, Louise and Pharailde. Leon Vergauwe lives in Marshall, Henry in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, the other children in Belgium.

CHARLES W. CADY (1892) is the efficient mail carrier on the Lynd route. Mr. Cady is one of the oldest carriers in point of service in the state of Minnesota, having been in the service twelve years - ten years as regular carrier and two years as substitute.

Our subject received his early education in the district schools of Vermont, later attending Essex Classical Institute of Vermont, where he finished at twenty-two years of age. He then traveled for two years in Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio for a drug house, after which he clerked and worked at farm labor until 1892. In that year he came to Lyon county, worked two years for O. C. Gregg and one year for the state on the Coteau Farm. Later he moved to Camden and purchased ten acres of land and engaged in truck-farming, which occupation he followed until he was burned out in 1905.

.Air. Cady is a member of the Methodist church of Lynd and is recording steward of the church. He was director of school district Xo. 14 for three years. He has a comfortable home and several lots in the village of Lynd.

On March 21, 1892, Mr. Cady was united in marriage to Bessie Gregg Mosher, a daughter of William E. and Julia A. (Bowers) Mosher, of Vermont. Mrs. Cady is a native of Vermont and was born at St. Albans Bay June IT, 1862. They have an adopted daughter, Mrs. Andrew Larson, of Hamill, South Dakota.

DR. EARL L. HALL (1902) is a physician and druggist of Russell. He is a native of the Badger state and was bora at Eau Claire May 26, 1877. He is a son of 'Frank A. and Nancy M. (Mcintosh) Hall, the former a native of Massachusettts and the latter of Maine. Mrs. Hall died in 1905. The father resides at San Francisco. They were the parents of two sons: Dr. E. L., of this sketch, and Neale C, of Lead, South Dakota. The latter is county treasurer of Lawrence county.

Our subject was graduated from the Eau Claire High School in the modern classical course. He later attended the Medical Department of the University of Minnesota, from which he was graduated in 1902. After that he was house physician in the Minneapolis City Hospital one year.

Dr. Hall came to Lyon county in 1902 and located at Russell for the practice of his profession. He has practised there continuously since that date and has been very successful. In April, 1911, he purchased the C. J. Wimer drug store at Russell. He has put up a splendid building next to the postoffice and has one of the neatest and best arranged drug stores in this section of the state.

Dr. Hall holds membership in the Masonic and Modern Woodmen lodges and has served as master of Coteau Lodge Xo. 244 two years. He has been a member of the Village Council of Russell the past six years and was president of that body three years.

Our subject was married at Eau Claire April 28, 1906, to Florence Pickett, a native of that place. They are the parents of two children, Robert and Richard.

EVAN M. JONES (1897) is the proprietor of a general merchandise store at Garvin, postmaster of that village, editor of the Garvin Leader, and interested in several other enterprises of his town. He has resided in the county fifteen years and has become prominently identified with Garvin's business and social interests. During the entire forty-five years of his life he has lived in Minnesota.

Our subject was born in Blue Earth county January 19, 1867, and spent his early years there. He was educated in the Mankato Normal School and at the age of seventeen years began teaching school,, which he followed several years. He located in Murray county in 1890 and for seven years engaged in farming. Mr. Jones became a resident of Lyon county in 18 97, when he located at Russell and established a general merchandise store. One year later he disposed of that and engaged in business in Garvin, being the third merchant to become established in that village. He erected at that time the building in which he has since conducted the business.

Mr. Jones has served as postmaster of Garvin since September, 1900, and he has edited the Garvin Leader since June, 1911. He is treasurer of the Garvin Creamery Company, secretary of the local Board of Education, and one of the directors of

In Blue Earth county, on October 19, 18 89, Mr. Jones was wedded to Maggie J. Williams. She was born in Wisconsin and died March 7, 1901, at the age of thirtytwo years. As a result of this union three children were born, Allen, Benjamin and Margaret. The second marriage of Mr. Jones occurred May 30, 1902, when he wedded Clara Helleson, a native of Lyon county and a daughter of Clemet Helleson, an early settler. Mr. and Mrs. Jones have two children, Mabel and Vivian.

The subject of this biography is of Welsh descent. His father, William P. Jones, was born in Wales July 15, 1828, came to the United States in 1847, lived in Jackson county, Ohic, until 1856, and then became a resident of Blue Earth county, Minnesota. There he became a prominent citizen. He was a member of the Home Guards at the time of the Indian War, and in 1877 he served as a member of the Minnesota Legislature. He died at Lake Crystal May 28, 1908. Our subject's mother, Margaret (Walters) Jones, was born in Wales in 1831 and now resides at Lake Crystal. There were sixteen children in the family, of whom the following named thirteen are living: John, William, Ursula, Maggie, Ann, Mary, Stephen, Thomas, Elizabeth, Evan M., Walter, Samuel and Dorothy.

FRANK D. PINCKNEY (1905) is cashier of the Farmers State Bank of Garvin and a member of the Garvin Real Estate Company. He is a native of Illinois and was born in Astoria February 25,' 1882, a son of Howel and Mame (Watkins) Pinckney, the former a native of New York and the latter of Wisconsin. They reside at Lake Benton. There are four children in the family: Frank D., of this sketch; Watkin T., of Lynchburg, Virginia; Leon and Jennette, who reside at home. Mr. Pinckney, Sr., has a national reputation as an auctioneer.

When two years of age Frank accompanied his parents to Western Kansas, where they resided eight years, returning at the end of that period to Fulton county, Illinois, where they lived five years and where Frank attended school. They then moved to Pike county, Missouri, where they farmed for two and one-half years, after which they moved to Lake Benton, Minnesota, near which place they farmed and where Frank completed his schooling. In June, 1905, our subject moved to Garvin and entered the Lyon County Bank as cashier, a position he held until that bank was absorbed by the Farmers State Bank. Since that time he has held the position of cashier of the last named institution. Mr. Pinckney holds membership in the Modern Woodmen and Elks lodges.

JOHN KNUDSON (1899) is one of the progressive farmers of Eidsvold township residing a few miles north of Minneota. He owns the north half of the northeast quarter of section 14 and the north half of the northwest quarter of section 13.

John Knudson's parents, Knut Follinglo and Gertrude Follinglo, are dead. Our subject is the only one of the family living in America. The others are Knute, Carrie, Mary and Annie.

In Norway, on January 14, 1859, John Knudson was born. He attended school and spent his boyhood days on his father's farm. In May, 1884, he came to America, lived two years at Glencoe, Minnesota, and then took up his residence in Minneapolis, where he resided for the next thirteen years. During that period of residence he worked for the Standard Oil Company, in a planing mill, and for a piano house.

Mr. Knudson came to Lyon county in 1899, rented the farm he now owns two years, and then purchased it. At the time he became the owner the only improvements the farm boasted were a little shack and a few cottonwood trees. Now it is one of the best improved farms of the township, containing a two-story, eight-room house, barn and other buildings, fences, groves, and a brick tile silo of ninety-ton capacity, erected in the summer of 1912. Mr. Knudson is one of the first four farmers in Lyon county to erect a silo of this kind. The others are John O'Connor, Helge Helgeson and Andrew Jacobson. Mr. Knudson intends to engage extensively in the feeding of cattle and hogs. The marriage of our subject to Marie T. Swennes occurred in Minneapolis May 14, 1892. She was born in Norway and came to the United States in 1889. Mr. and Mrs. Knudson have nine sons and one daughter, named as follows: George, Ingwald, Edwin, Martin, Knute, Theodore, Otto, Johann, Andrew and Gertrude. The family are members of the Norwegian Lutheran church of Minneota. Mr. Knudson has been township supervisor the past six years.

A. C. DALE (1893) is the proprietor of a blacksmith and repair shop in Minneota. He was born in Medina county, Ohio, June 27, 1858, a son of Sarah L. (Harris) Dale, a native of Ohio. Our subject was the only child. The mother was married a second time to C. M. Hopkins. To this union have been born the following seven children: William, Edward, Forest, Bertrand. Nettie, Hattie and Susie. Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins reside at Rochester, Minnesota.

Our subject accompanied his parents when a child to Michigan, Iowa, and later to Olmsted county, Minnesota. At the latter place he grew to manhood and learned the blacksmith's trade. After finishing his apprenticeship he conducted shops at the following places: Orien Mills, Minnesota; Grand Meadows, Minnesota; Douglas Station, Minnesota; Hadley, Minnesota; Ireton, Iowa; Rochester, Minnesota; and Slayton, Minnesota.

In the spring of 1893 our subject came to Lyon county and located at Tracy, where he conducted a blacksmith shop until March, 1895. He then moved to Minneota, where he has since conducted a shop, with the exception of three years spent at Des Moines, Iowa. At the latter place he was employed by his half-brothers, the Hopkins Brothers, who conducted a bicycle and repair shop. Mr. Dale is a member of the M. W. A. lodge.

Mr. Dale was married in Murray county June 11, 1882, to Mary E. Luce, a native of Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Dale are the parents of seven children: Maud, William. Anna, Hattie, Hazel, Earl and Norma.

born in Winona county, Minnesota, but when a child accompanied his parents to Richland county, North Dakota, where he resided on a farm until twenty-five years of age. He then learned photography and later conducted a gallery at Mayville. North Dakota,' three years. The next four years were spent in the business at Kindred, North Dakota. Then, in 1908 he located in Marshall, conducted a gallery in the Opera House Block a short time, and then bought the Oftey gallery in the rooms over the Hollo store, where he has since been.

Mr. Dahl is the son of Tom Olson and Mary (Uldrickson) Olson. His parents were born in Norway, located at Winona upon their arrival to America, and now reside at Walcott, Richland county, North Dakota. There are five children in the family, as follows: Rhoda, Ole, Julius T., Theodore and .Martin.

In North Dakota, during the month of June, 1897, Mr. Dahl was united in marriage to Carrie Fatland. To this union have been born the following named daughters: Clarissa, Mabel, Louisa and Dora.

WILSON HERRON (1904) is a farmer and land owner of Rock Lake township. He was born in Newton county. Indiana, August 1, 1872. His parents, Samuel and Elenor (Waren) Herron, were born in Ohio, moved to Indiana during the Civil War, and resided in that state until their deaths.

Wilson attended the schools of the Hoosier State until seventeen years of age and from that time until he was twenty-two he conducted the home farm. He operated a livery barn at Morocco, Indiana, four years, and for three years thereafter he engaged in farming near that place.

Mr. Herron engaged in farming in Pocahontas county, Iowa, eight months and in the fall of 1904 came to Lyon county, where he has since farmed. He purchased his present place, the northwest quarter of section 20, in L908. Mr. Herron is a member of the Methodist church of Balaton and he has been a director of school district No. 18 for the past three years.

At Rensselear, Indiana, on November 15, 1896, Mr. Herron was married to Cora Brown. His wife was born in Jasper county, Indiana, April 3. 1874. To them have been born the

Ijkhjkapiiical Iiistok'V

WILLIAM H. CARROLL (1909), now a retired farmer and a former proprietor of the Exchange Hotel of Tracy, is one of the newresidents. Mr. Carroll purchased the hotel property in October, 1909, from Edward Meyer and in January, 1910, moved here from Illinois and took charge of the business. In August, 1911, he rented the building and furnishings to J. S. Bartlett & Son. who have since conducted it.

Mr. Carroll farmed in Illinois for many years prior to coming to Minnesota. He was born at Kinderhook, Columbia county. New York, February 12, 1861, his parents being John and Margaret (Reid). Carroll. His mother died in May, 1901, and his father in 1909. The' Carroll family moved to Illinois in 1865 and engaged in farming, the father and mother residing on the farm at the time of their deaths.

Our subject attended the common schools in Dekalb county, Illinois, in his early youth, and later attended the high school at Malta, where he was graduated at the age of twenty-one. He then engaged in farming in Dekalb county until 1910, at which time he moved to Tracy, having purchased the hotel property there the previous year. Before moving to Tracy he disposed of his Illinois interests. Mr. Carroll held the office of school director for a number of years before leaving Illinois.

On March 28, 1898, at Chicago, William H. Carroll was married to Mary Fischer, a native of Switzerland. She was born March 26. 1865, a daughter of Christian and Kathrina (Spiech) Fischer, both of whom died in the old country. Mrs. Carroll has one child, Mamie H. (Mrs. Frank Bzoskie), of Tracy. Mat Zehman and Frank Fischer, two brothers of Mrs. Carroll, live in Chicago. Mr. Carroll has one sister, Mary (Mrs. Frank Young), who lives in Malta, Illinois.

GEORGE B. CUTLER (1900), of Lake Marshall township, was born in Marshall, Wisconsin, August 10, 1881, a son of George W. and Laura (Mayhew) Cutler, who located in Lyon county in 1900. Mr. Cutler, Sr., died in February, 1905. The mother and two

Practically the first twenty years of our subject's life were spent in and near Marshall. Wisconsin, with his parents. It was there that he received his schooling and grew to manhood. In 1900 he accompanied his parents to Lyon county and spent the first year working south of Marshall. For the past ten years Mr. Cutler has operated the home farm. He holds membership in the M. W. A. lodge at Dudley, Minnesota, is a stockholder and secretary of the Lake Marshall Rural Telephone Company, and is a stockholder of the Lyon County Agricultural Association. Mr. Cutler is a breeder of Black Polled Angus cattle and Duroc-Jersey hogs, with which he has taken prizes for several years at the Lyon county fair.

OSCAR A. BURLINGAME (1898) is the proprietor of a Minneota restaurant and a member of the Yeomen lodge of that village. He was born in Warren county, Iowa, August 19, 1874. When he was eight years of age he accompanied his parents to Polk county, Nebraska, lived there three years, on a homestead in Keith county, Nebraska, five years, and then accompanied his parents back to Warren county, Iowa.

Mr. Burlingame farmed in Warren county seven years, was proprietor of a butcher shop in New Virginia. Iowa, one year, and in 1898 came to Lyon county. He worked out one summer and then engaged in« farming and operating a threshing machine until 1906. That year he located in Minneota, where he engaged in the following lines of work: bought cream one summer, worked in a furniture store eighteen months, and worked in a butcher shop sixteen months. In April, 1911, Mr. Burlingame purchased the McGinn restaurant, which he still conducts.

Mr. Burlingame was married in Warren county, Iowa, February 7, 1900, to Emma E. Nevins, a native of Illinois. She moved to Warren county, Iowa, when a child. Mr. and Mrs. Burlingame have one child, Raymond A., born September 17, 1909.

Rachael (Latnb) Burlingame, the former a native of Iowa and the latter of Ohio. They reside at Bristol, South Dakota. Their children are Oscar A., Alta, Malissia, Lena and Christmas.

REV. TH. TYCHSEX (1909) has been pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran church of Tracy since July, 1909. In addition to his Tracy charge Rev. Tychsen on alternate Sundays supplies the German Lutheran pulpits at Walnut Grove and Cobden. During the winter the pastor conducts confirmation classes among his congregations.

Rev. Tychsen was born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, October 21, 1882. His parents were Peter J. and Brigitta Amalia (Lorenzen) Tychsen, both of whom are still living in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Our subject received his early education in Germany, attending both German and Danish schools and mastering the two languages. At the age of fifteen years he took up farm labor for a few years, later attending the German Ministers Seminary near Husum, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, two years.

The opportunity to come to America, for which he had been waiting, came in 1905, and the close of that year found our subject in St. Paul, a student at the German Lutheran Seminary. The intervening years until the ordination of the young pastor on June 20, 1909, were divided between study at the seminary and various pulpits which he was called upon to supply. During the winter of 1907 and 1908 our subject had charge of five congregations near Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. He was there seven months before returning to his work at the seminary. In the summer of 1906 he had charge of the German Lutheran congregation of Pine Valley, Wisconsin, and another time had charge of three congregations in Wisconsin, namely, the Burlington, Lyons and Elkhorn churches. Soon after the pastor's ordination he accepted the call to the Tracy church. Since taking the Tracy church Rev. Tychsen has served as assistant secretary of the Minnesota district of the Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Ohio and other states.

Rev. Tychsen was married, July 15, 1909, at Morgan, Minnesota, to Lilly Kamholz, a native of Minnesota. She was born May 18, 1888. The Tychsens had one daughter,

THOMAS R. DOHERTY (1902) is the owner of 347 acres of land in Monroe township and is interested in various enterprises. He is a stockholder of and was one of the organizers of the Farmers Elevator Company of Tracy and served as the first president, holding the position four years. He was also one of the organizers and the first president of the Farmers Co-operative Creamery Company of Tracy.

Mr. Doherty was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 26, 1855, and is a son of Simon and Bride (Carbery) Doherty, both of whom died in 1901. The parents were early settlers of Illinois, where they lived nineteen years and then moved to Franklin county, Iowa, where they made their home until their deaths. Thomas received his education in Illinois and at the age of twenty-one years accompanied his family to Iowa. That state was his home for the next twenty-four years, and with the exception of several years spent in teaching he was engaged in farming. He acquired considerable land, but in 1901 he sold his Iowa interests and purchased land in Monroe township, Lyon county, where he has since resided.

Mr. Doherty was married January 24, 1886, at Iowa Falls, Iowa, to Ruth Eveline Crandall, a native of Marquette, Wisconsin. She was born August 14, 1863, and is a daughter of De Witt and Diana (Lyon) Crandall, both of whom are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Doherty have four children: Fayette Carbery, a graduate of the University of Minnesota; Cecil Walter, a student at the University; Leila Ruth, a student of the Tracy High School; and Cora Esther, born August 23, 1906.

Our subject is a member of the Presbyterian church. He is also a member of the Farmers Club of Tracy, and fraternally he is allied with the Modern Woodmen lodge.

JOSEPH C. WOODRUFF (1902) is the proprietor of a dray and transfer line in Marshall. He is a native of Minnesota, having been born in Prescott township, Faribault county, on April 10, 1871. His parents are Wallace A. and Sarah (Snyder) WoodmoGRAPIIICAL HISTORY.

Joseph was brought up on his father's farm and resided on the farm of his birth until his arrival to Lyon county in 1902, with the exception of nine months spent working for the Northwestern Railroad Company and three months, when he operated a billiard hall at Winnebago City. Upon his arrival to Lyon county he spent one year in .Marshall and for the next year and a half conducted a general store at Milroy. He then conducted his father's farm, twelve miles northeast of Marshall, one season, and since that time he has lived in Marshall. He worked on the dray line for Al Dewitt, C. M. Hanks and Bert Blakesley, and on January 20, 1906, he established the business which he has since- followed. Mr. Woodruff is a member of the M. W. A. and Yeomen lodges.

The marriage of Joseph Woodruff to Margaret McCue occurred in Prescott township. Faribault county, Minnesota, on September 16, 1895. She is a native of Ripon, Wisconsin. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Woodruff, named as follows: Margaret B., Fay E., Joseph E. and Manerva C.

HENRY G. MOHR (1882), who farms 240 acres of land a short distance from Taunton, in Eidsvold township, has spent his entire life in Lyon county and is the son of a homesteader. The father, William Mohr, still lives on the farm he homesteaded in an early day; the mother, Emilie (Freiheit) Mohr, died May 10, 1909.

Henry Mohr was born in Eidsvold township July 25, 1882. He attended the district school until seventeen years of age and worked on his father's farm until his marriage in 1907. Since that time he has been farming for himself on section 20. He is a successful farmer and stock raiser.

The marriage of Mr. Mohr to Emma Sternke occurred in Eidsvold township September 26, 1907. She is a native of Wausau, Wisconsin, and was born August 13, 1887. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Mohr, as follows: Alfred, born September 2, 1908, died September 26, 1908; Robert, born November 20, 1909; Esther, born December 16, 1911.

.JOSKl'H I'.. WILLIAMS (1905) is assistant cashier of the First State Bank of Russell. He was born in Watonwan county, Minnesota, November 30, 1885, the son of B. Williams and Carrie (Newgard) Williams. The parents came from Norway to the United States at early ages and both died here, the mother when Joseph was one year of age and the father in 1903.

After his mother's death Joseph was adopted by Mrs. Louise Johnson and spent his boyhood days in Faribault county. There he received his primary education, completing it with a course at St. Ansgar College, of St. Ansgar, Iowa, and a business course at the Mankato Business College.

In 1905 Mr. Williams moved to Russell and took a position with the First State Bank, a few months later being made assistant cashier. He is a member of the Masonic, Woodmen and Royal Neighbors lodges.

RUDOLPH A. T. MEYER (1901) is the owner of one of the best farms in Vallers township. It is improved with a good set of buildings and is tiled and fenced. The farm consists of 240 acres and is described as the southeast quarter of section 20 and the north half of the southwest quarter of section 21. Mr. Meyer engages in general farming and raises Durham cattle and Chester White hogs.

Mr. Meyer's early life was spent in other occupations than farming, many years having been devoted to a mercantile career. He is a German by birth, having been born in the province of Mecklenburg June 2, 1852. When he was one year old he was brought by his parents, Ludvig F. and Caroline (Groth) Meyer, to America. The family home was made in Clayton county, Iowa, and there our subject grew to manhood. He received a good education, completing it with a course in a commercial college at Dubuque.

At the age of nineteen young Meyer started out in life for himself. He taught school in Clayton county four years and in 1875 he and J. W. Ward opened a general store at Postville, Iowa. For the next eleven years they carried on the business under the firm name of Ward & Meyer. At the end of that time the stock was divided and Mr. Meyer, who had erected a store building, engaged in business alone. Two years later a fire destroyed his building and all except a small part of his stock. He closed out the business and turned farmer. After renting land for several years in Iowa, he came to Lyon county in 1901, bought his Vallers farm, and has since been engaged in its management.

Mr. Meyer served on the township board five years, was justice of the peace eight years, and has been treasurer of school district No. 4 8. He is a German Lutheran.

Bertha Bander and Rudolph Meyer became man and wife at Lansing, Iowa, on October 16, 1876. She is also a native of Germany and was born November 12, 1853. To them have been born seven children, named as follows: Amanda, the wife of H. F. Maroude; Rudolph, of Vallers township; Albert, deceased; Elsa, the wife of J. H. Johnson; Paul, of Roseau county, Minnesota; Malinda, the wife of Peter Paradis; and Ulrich, who lives with his parents.

JOHN WILSON (1897) is the proprietor of a livery and feed stable and engages in buying and selling horses in Marshall. He is a son of William and Lucita Wilson, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Ohio. The parents are both deceased.

John Wilson moved to Iowa in the spring of 1881. On November 28, 1888, he was married to Carrie Cleghorn, daughter of A. M. and Mary Cleghorn, of Gaza, Iowa, upon whose farm the town of Gaza is situated. In 1897 Mr. Wilson moved to Minnesota, located on a farm he had purchased in Custer township, Lyon county, and resided there three years. Then he moved to Marshall, purchased the William Thorburn livery stock and the old Blakesley barn, and for six years engaged in the livery business. At the end of that time he sold to B. Snyder.

Mr. Wilson then went to Sauk Center, where he conducted a barn six weeks, then to Cottonwood and conducted a barn one year. Later he went to Minneapolis, bought a home on Fremont Avenue, and bought and sold horses five years. He returned to Marshall and purchased the Fred Watson barn, which he has since conducted. He still retains his Custer township farm, which he rents. Our subject is a member of the M. W. A. lodge.

TONY W. KAECHELE (1902) is the proprietor of a furniture store and undertaking parlors in Tracy. He is a native of Revere, Minnesota, and was born May 20, 187 9. His parents are Alouis and Annie (Schmid) Kaechele, natives of Germany. They settled at New Ulm in an early day. In the early seventies they immigrated to Redwood county and homesteaded land, where they lived until their deaths. They were the parents of the following children: Joseph, Louis, Tracy, Victoria and Tony.

When a boy our subject went to Springfield, where he grew to manhood and received his education. At fourteen years of age he entered a furniture store and clerked several years. He then attended the Chicago College of Embalming, from which he was graduated in 1896. The next two and one-half years were spent in the employ of a firm of undertakers in Minneapolis. In 1898, at the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, Mr. Kaechele enlisted in Company A, Twelfth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, and was stationed at Chattanooga, Georgia Park and Louisville. After the war he went back to Springfield and worked in a furniture and undertaking establishment over three years.

The next move of our subject was to Tracy, where he worked for H. E. McAllister one year. Then he and his brother Louis opened a furniture store at Tracy under the firm name of Kaechele Brothers, which they conducted about three years. After that our subject in company with E. M. Schmid formed the Tracy Furniture Company. Messrs. Kaechele and Schmid conducted the store two years, when Kaechele Brothers again became the proprietors. They sold later to John Filkins. In January, 1911, the subject of this sketch opened a furniture store in the W. R. Edwards Building. He makes a specialty of

On February 15, 1901, at Springfield, Minnesota, occurred the marriage of Mr. Kaechele to Cora D. Knudson, a native of that city. They are the parents of one child, Sylvia.

WILLIAM G. STORCK (1911) is a Lynd township farmer who is a comparatively new settler in Lyon county. He was born in Chicago April 3, 1870, a son of Philip and Katherine (Xeitz) Storck. The father died in 1873; the mother resides with our subject.

William spent the first fourteen years of his life with his parents in Chicago, and it was there that he received his early education. When nine years old he apprenticed himself to a job printing firm and was so engaged until fifteen years of age. At fifteen he went to work as a farm hand near Hampshire, Illinois, where he worked for two and one-half years, and then went to Manhattan, Illinois, where he worked until 1893. From 1893 until 1896 he was engaged as a teamster in Chicago. He then farmed in Illinois until he came to Lyon county in 1911. Upon his arrival to Lyon county, Mr. Storck purchased 400 acres of land on section 1, Lynd township, the well-known Youmans Farm.

Mr. Storck is one of Lyon County's prosperous farmers, engaging extensively in raising and shipping stock, as well as general farming. He has stock in the Farmers Elevator Company of Marshall. During twelve years of his residence in Illinois Mr. Storck was a director of his school district. He is a member of the United Evangelical church.

In 189 5 Mr. Storck was married to Mary Schaaf, a daughter of Henry and Agnes Schaaf, of Manhattan, Illinois. Mrs. Storck was born November 18, 1868, at Manhattan. They have one child, Norman, born July 20, 1896.

product. He entered the employ of the bank as bookkeeper when he was eighteen years of age, and his integrity, attention to duty and good business instincts have earned him his present responsible position.

Sigurdur was born in Minneota September 24, 1885. His parents, Oddur and Elin (Sigurdurdottir) Erickson, still reside in Minneota. They were pioneer settlers of Lincoln county and in later years moved to Minneota, where they have long been residents.

Sigurdur was reared in the parental home and given a good education in the common schools. When the opportunity was offered of taking the position as bookkeeper in the local bank he accepted and has been with the institution since. He is now assistant cashier and a director. Mr. Erickson is a member of the Icelandic Lutheran church. He is associated with the I. O. O. F. and Modern Woodmen lodges, filling the office of treasurer of the former and clerk of the M. W. A.

August 24, 1911, Sigurdur Erickson was married to Ella E. Ross. Miss Ross was born and brought up in the state of Kansas. The wedding occurred in Jacksonville, Illinois.

DR. J. F. SMITH (1908) is one of the leading veterinary surgeons of Marshall and has an office near the "Hitch Barn." The doctor was born in LaPorte, Indiana, December 1, 1855, and when a child moved with his parents to Benton Harbor, Michigan, where he resided until seventeen years of age. Then he took up his residence in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and resided there two and a half years. He moved to Otter Tail county, Minnesota, in 1876, and while engaged in farming went through two trying years in the grasshopper days. He remained on the farm until 1899 and on account of ill health quit that occupation with the view of taking up veterinary work. He attended the Kansas City Veterinary College, from which he was graduated, and returned to Otter Tail county and practised there four years. He then moved to Benson, Swift county, and practised five years, or until 1908, when he moved to Marshall. The doctor is qual- ified in every way for the profession he has chosen and is enjoying a splendid and growing practice in Marshall and the surrounding territory.

The doctor is not married. He is the son of Samuel and Almyra E. (Cotten) Smith, who were natives of Cuyahoga county, Ohio. They were married near Chicago and settled in Indiana in the late fifties. Both are dead. They are the parents of six children: Alva, of Otter Tail county; J. P., of this sketch; Eli E., of North Dakota; William H. H., of North Dakota; Mary E. (Mrs. A. T. Finley), of North Dakota; and George T., of Otter Tail county, Minnesota.

ANTON E. ANDERSON (1881) is manager of the Northwestern Elevator Company at Florence. He is a native of Lyon county and was born in the township in which he has spent his entire life January 27, 1881. He spent his boyhood days with his parents on the farm and attended the district schools, later attending the Sioux Falls Business College. After finishing school he worked one year in the State Bank of Tyler. In the fall of 1907 Mr. Anderson returned to Florence and has since been engaged in buying grain for the above named firm. This elevator was built in 18 87 by the firm which now owns it and was the first elevator in Florence.

Mr. Anderson is a son of Edward and Mattie (Olson) Anderson, natives of Norway who came to Fillmore county, Minnesota, in the sixties, and to Lyon county in the early seventies. Their first home was in Shelburne township, where they still reside. They are the parents of seven children, as follows: Carrie (Mrs. C. M. Miller), of Raymond, Minnesota; Mollie (Mrs. W. P. Innes, of Tracy; Anton E., of this sketch; Louis, Edwin, Martin and John, who reside at home. One child, Tillie, died when six or seven years of age. The subject of this sketch holds membership in the Masonic and M. W. A. lodges.

MAURICE GROTTA (1902), who is a prosperous farmer of Clifton township, was born in Ramsdal, Norway, December 16, 1865, and is a son of Ellif and Male (Alness) Grotta. The father was a farmer and cooper. When Maurice was four years of age the family came to this country and settled in Brown county, Minnesota, where the father took a homestead and where our subject grew to manhood.

Maurice obtained his education in a country school and worked on the home farm. At the age of eighteen years he bought forty acres and started in for himself, later adding to his holdings until he was the owner of a half section in Brown county. He later sold and for several years was in the land business, in 1892 returning to Norway.

It was in 1902 that the subject of this sketch came to Lyon county and bought the southwest quarter of section 3 5, Clifton township. He moved on the place in 19 09. For several years he was interested also in land around Milroy. He raises cattle for market, in addition to his general farming, and owns stock in the Farmers Elevator Company of Milroy and in the Nelson & Albion Mercantile Company of Nelson, Minnesota.

On December 1, 1906, occurred the ceremony which joined in the holy bonds of matrimony Maurice Grotta and Julia Ellifson. She was born in Norway and is a daughter of Bord and Jensine Ellifson, who still live in the land of the midnight sun. To our subject and his wife have been born three children, Emma, Ernest M. and Jennie B. Mr. and Mrs. Grotta are members of the Norwegian Lutheran church.

KNUTE NYLIN (1886) is a merchant tailor of Tracy. He was born in Sweden May 23, 1866, a son of Otto and Mary Nylin. The father died in 1877 and the mother in 1910. They were the parents of .six children: Knute, of this sketch; Jennie, of St. Paul; Andrew, Clara, Amelia and Lottie, of Sweden.

Knute learned the tailor's trade in the old country under his father's instruction. In 188 6 he came to Lyon county and located at Tracy, where he worked in a shop several months. He then spent several months working at his trade at Canby, Minnesota, and Miller, South Dakota. Returning to Tracy, he has made that his home ever since. On his return, he and Gust Abrahamson opened a tailor shop and engaged in business under the firm name of Abrahamson & Company. They continued in partnership eight years, when Mr. Nylin purchased his partner's interest, and he has since conducted the business alone. He is the oldest tailor in Tracy.

Mr. Nylin has a fine business, employing four or five men. He does all kinds of merchant tailor work, repairing, cleaning. Mr. Nylin is a member of the K. P. and M. B. A. lodges. He owns a fine residence in Tracy, which he had built in 1910.

J. W. MATHIS (1909) is proprietor of one of Marshall's up-to-date jewelry stores, and while he has been a resident of the city for only three years, his business has grown to very satisfactory proportions. This is because of the high quality of the goods he carries and because he thoroughly understands the business in which he has devoted a number of years.

On moving to Marshall in October, 1909, Mr. Mathis opened a jewelry store in the building now occupied by the Marshall State Bank, occupying those quarters until December, 1910, when he moved to his present quarters. The optical department of the store is in charge of a specialist in that line, and he also carries a neat stock of musical instruments.

Mr. Mathis was born in Saes, Graubeuten, Switzerland, May 24, 1863. When three years of age he came to the United States with his parents, who settled in Chaska, Minnesota, where he resided until fourteen years of age. After a residence in Durand, Wisconsin, of three years, he moved to Belleplaine, Minnesota, where he learned the jeweler's trade. His next move

Mr. Mathis was married in Belleplaine, Minnesota, May 23, 1889, to Louisa H. Bierlein, who was born near Chaska, Minnesota. To this union three children have been born, as follows: May, a student at the Winona Normal School; Elmer, a high school student; and Mabel.

JUSTUS ENGLAND (1900), farmer of Rock Lake township, is proving that the farmer on a comparatively small scale can prosper, for he has been very successful on his eighty acres, the west half of the northwest quarter of section 16. He is a stockholder in the Current Lake Telephone Company and has been a stockholder and director of the Farmers Cooperative Company of Balaton since its organization, serving as vice president three years. Mr. England is the Rock Lake representative of the Southern Minnesota Better Development League.

Justus England was born in Sachsenhausen, Germany, August 30, 1869, a son of John William and Kunna Yunda (Waldman) England, the former of whom is deceased. The mother is living in Germany. In the Fatherland Justus received his education, which was finished when he was fourteen years of age. His father was a blacksmith and the boy worked in the shop one year after his school work was finished. In 1884 he came to America, locating at Cedar Falls, Iowa, and working for an uncle a few months, and then going to Grundy county, where he worked at farm labor two years. After working four years in Franklin county as a hired hand, young England rented land and farmed for himself five years, later buying property in the county and farming it two years.

Mr. England traded his Iowa holdings in 18 97 for land in Murray county, Minnesota, and then for two years farmed rented land in Iowa. In the spving of 1899 he traded the Murray county land for the eighty acres which he now farms in Rock Lake and made his home on the place. He has served the last seven years as a member of the Rock Lake town board, for three years as chairman, and was road overseer one year. Mr. England for the past nine years has been a deacon of the German Lutheran church of Balaton.

Our subject married Margaret Meyer March 13, 1896, in Morgan township, Franklin county, Iowa. She was born September 2 6, 187 6, and is a daughter of Henry R. and Mutge (Stohr) Meyer, both of whom are living at Latimer, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. England are parents of one child, Henry William, born November 22, 1905.

BYRON G. HENRICHS (1892) is the proprietor of a blacksmith shop at Russell. He was born in Bremer county, Iowa, May 27, 1884. His mother died when Byron was an infant, and he was adopted by his uncle and aunt, Fred and Rachael Henrichs, who now reside in Todd county, Minnesota.

When four years of age our subject accompanied his foster parents to Hand county, South Dakota. Four years later the family came to Lyon county and purchased land in Shelburne township. There Byron resided until fifteen years of age, when he went to Tyler, entered a blacksmith shop and learned the trade. He then went to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Lewistown, Montana, working at his trade at both places. In 1908 he purchased the Swan Swanson blacksmith shop at Russell and has conducted it since.

Mr. Henrichs was married at Marshall on December 22, 1909, to Mary Zvorak, a native of Lyon county. They have one child, Blanch Marie. Mr. Henrichs is a member of the Masonic lodge of Russell.

CHRIST TEHART (1901), who has been a Custer township farmer since March 1, 1911, claims Holland as his native land. He was born in that country January 3, 1863, received his education and was brought up on his father's farm there, and later worked out at farm labor until 1901.

In the spring of 1901 our subject came to America and located in Lyon county, in Amiret township, where he rented land and farmed three years. He then moved to Custer township and farmed rented land two years. Murray county was his next home, and there he remained five years, returning, in March, 1911, to Lyon county and renting the farm he now operates, the southeast quarter of section 14, Custer township. Mr. Tehart raises cattle and hogs, making a specialty of the Shorthorn and Duroc-Jersey breeds.

Mr. Tehart was married May 15, 1895, to Jennie Heidekamp, who was born in The Netherlands July 6, 1866. Her par ents died when she was a child. Mrs. Tehart died June 25, 1911. The following children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Tehart: Tena, born February 9, 1896; Grace, born April 30, 1897; Frank, born November 9, 1898; Thomas, born February 27, 1902; Henry, born October 20, 1903; and Annie, born May 2, 1905. All are at home with their father.

Our subject's parents, Frank and Tena (Rosenbaum) Tehart, came to America in 1902, and the father is still a resident of Lyon county. The mother died in 1911.