Lyon County, Minnesota - Biographical sketches, 1912 (part 15 of 17)

JOHN E. BERG (1892), farmer of Westerheim township, was born in Norway December 19, 18 69. His mother died in the old country when he was five years old and his father, Erick Haug, died in Rock county, Minnesota, in 1S83, soon after his arrival to the New World.

When John Berg was eleven years of age he came to America and joined his father in Rock county. The father had come the year before and taken a homestead in Rose Dell township, of that county. After his father's death John was obliged to make his own way in the world, although he was but a boy in his early teens. Until eighteen years of age he worked on farms in Rock county, and then he learned the miller's trade, working three and one-half years in the mill at Luverne.

At Slayton Mr. Berg resided a year, working in the mill and at carpenter work. The next nine months were passed working in a mill at Winnebago City, and then he located in Minneota and was employed in the mill two years. He worked at his trade in Lamberton a short time and in Madison two years. In 1896 Mr. Berg gave up that work and turned farmer. At that time he bought the north half of the northeast quarter of section 6, Westerheim township, and engaged in farming. He has resided on that farm, since, with the exception of five years spent in Eidsvold township, where he bought a farm which he later sold. Mr. Berg farms 480 acres of land, owning besides his Lyon county farm 400 acres in Burton and Swede Prairie townships, Yellow Medicine county.

Mr. Berg was married at Minneota August 15, 1894, to Helen Hellickson, a native of Wisconsin and a daughter of Andrew Hellickson. They have two daughters, Jane Esther and Hazel Iverine. Mr. Berg is a member of the Odd Fellows and Woodmen orders.

He is a native Minnesotan, having been born at Geneva, Freeborn county, July 11, 1884. He came to Marshall with his parents in 1894 and was educated in the Marshall High School. For three years he was engaged in the grocery business with his father. He then spent one year in Watertown, South Dakota, where he was in the mercantile business. Thereafter he learned the printer's trade and for about three years conducted a job printing establishment in Marshall.

In January, 1911, Mr. Chamberlain again engaged in the grocery business with his father. He will shortly become engaged as advertising solicitor and ad-writer. He is a member of the Elks lodge at Watertown, of the Commandery at Marshall, and of the Shrine at Minneapolis.

The marriage of Mr. Chamberlain to Blanche L. Davis occurred in Richland, Oswego county, New YorK, June 27, 1907. She is a native of the county in which she was married and spent her high school days with an aunt in Marshall. Two children have been born to this union, Mary Louise, born July 27, 1910, and Horace Franklin, born December 26, 1911.

JOHN HULBURT (1900) is a farmer and stock raiser residing in Lake Marshall township. He was born in Green county, Wisconsin, September 17, 1874, and is a son of John and Lorinda (Smiley) Hulburt, natives of Wisconsin. John remained under the parental roof until he reached his majority and then farmed rented land in Green county until 1900.

In the year last mentioned our subject came to Lyon county and purchased the north half of section 34, Lake Marshall township, and has resided there since. He has a nicely improved farm. He deals quite extensively in stock, feeding and shipping a great number each year.

Sarah Kennedy became the wife of Mr. Hulburt at Madison, Wisconsin, October 2, 1895. She is a daughter of Michael and Delia (Clary) Kennedy, the former a native of New York and the latter of Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy reside at Dayton, Wisconsin. To Mr. and Mrs. Hulburt have been born the following named four children: William B., born January 12, 1897; Ellin L., born December 17, 1898; Maud I., born September 4, 1903; Mary, born January 21, 1905.

MATHEW J. MOORSE (1898). Prominent among the rising young business men of Minneota is the gentleman whose name heads this review. Although a young man he holds the responsible position of assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Minneota.

Mr. Moorse is a native of Belgium and was born February 6, 1886. He came to America with his parents in 1898 and until he was twenty years of age lived with them on the farm in Nordland township. He was educated in the Marshall High School and in the Normal School at Mankato and took up teaching as a profession. He taught in country schools two years and two years was principal of the Taunton school. In July, 1910, Mr. Moorse entered the First National Bank as bookkeeper and in January, 1911, he was made assistant cashier. Our subject is a member of the Catholic church and of the Knights of Columbus and Modern Woodmen lodges.

Peter and Christine (Jacobs) Moorse, our subject's parents, settled in Nordland township in 1898, bought land on section 19, farmed it five years and then bought 600 acres in Lincoln county, where they now reside. There are seven children in the family as follows: Nellie, John, Mathew J., Isabelle, Harry, Lizzie and Sophia.

WILLIAM SEILER (1906) is a farmer of Lynd township who has resided in Lyon county for the past six years. He is a native of Germany and was born at Baden January 13, 1860, a son of Alex and Theresa Seiler. The former died in 1895 and the latter in 1893.

The subject of this review received his early education in Germany, where he attended school until fourteen years of age. He then worked in the breweries until twenty years of age, at which time he started farming, which occupation he followed in Germany until twenty-four years of age. In 1884 Mr. Seiler immigrated to America, located at Utica, New York, where he worked in a dairy and as a farm hand for six years, and then went to Morgan county, Tennessee, where he worked in a dairy two years. From that southern state he went to Calhoun county, Iowa, where he worked as a farm hand three years.

In 1905 Mr. Seiler purchased eighty acres of land in Pocahontas county, Iowa, which he operated until 1905. The next year he purchased the northeast quarter of section 24, Lynd township, which he has broken up and improved. He has a fine farm with good improvements. Besides farming, he raises some stock, including Duroc-Jersey hogs and Shorthorn cattle. He is a member of the German Evangelical church and was trustee in that church in Calhoun county for eight years.

In 1895 Mr. Seiler was married to Selma Widauer, a daughter of August and Teklah Widauer, of LeMars, Iowa. Mrs. Seiler is a native of Germany and was born January 20, 1871, coming to America with her parents when ten years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Seiler are the parents of the following ten children: Freida, born February 4, 1896; William, born April 15, 1897; Rosa, born July 7, 1898; Louis, born August 22, 1899; Minnie, born October 4, 1900; Carl, born February 18, 1902; Walter, born December 21, 1904; Emma, born March 8, 1906; Herman, born September 29, 1908; Clara, born May 7, 1910.

WILLIAM E. PHILLIPS (1897) engages in painting and paperhanging in Marshall. He was born in Hennepin county, Minnesota, on November 11, 1852, and is a son of Corlis and Mercelia (Ailsworth) Phillips, natives of Providence, Rhode Island. They were the parents of five children, three of whom are living, as follows: Abbie (Mrs. N. W. Wood), of Excelsior, Minnesota; Luella (Mrs. E. W. Walworth), deceased; William, of this sketch; Edward, of Glencoe; Eugene N., a state rural school commissioner, of St. Paul.

he moved to Shakopee, Minnesota. There he attended school and learned the painter's, paperhanger's and decorator's trades. Later he returned to Hennepin county and followed his trade until 1893. Thereafter he lived in Minneapolis a year and in Dawson two years.

In 1897 Mr. Phillips came to Lyon county and located at Marshall, where he has since followed his trade. He is a member of the Yeomen and Modern Woodmen lodges and owns a fine residence in Marshall. He is better known among his friends as "Dad." Mr. Phillips is a great sportsman and a firm believer in out-door life, being one of the crack shots of the county and having won many medals for his marksmanship in the Marshall Gun Club, of which he is an honored member.

Mr. Phillips was married at Shakopee in March, 18 65, to May Schooley, a native of Kentucky. They are the parents of one child, Alberta (Mrs. Claud Roebuck), of Marshall.

LARS OSCAR FURGESON (1886), a farmer of Eidsvold township, was born in Lyon county and has spent his entire life here. Island Lake township is his native precinct, and the date of his birth was February 1, 1886.

Ole and Helen (Grasdalen) Furgeson, the parents of our subject, were early settlers and homesteaders of Island Lake township. The father continued to reside on the old homestead until his death on June 19, 1908; the mother still makes her home there with two sons and a daughter. There were twelve children in the family, as follows: Rudolph, of Freeborn county, Minnesota; Leneda, Dicka and Otto, who are deceased; Rachael, Gisley, Anna and Orvin, who reside at home; Alma (Mrs. Julian Burg) and William, of Minneapolis; Martin, of Freeborn county; and Lars Oscar, of Eidsvold.

Lars Oscar Furgeson attended the school of Island Lake township until seventeen years old and then until his marriage in the spring of 1908 he worked at home and for neighboring farmers. After his marriage he farmed two seasons in Coon Creek township and two seasons in Island Lake township. In the fall of 1911 he moved to

The marriage of Mr. Furgeson to Ruby Wahlstrom occurred in Island Lake township February 26, 1908. Mrs. Furgeson was born in Rockford, Illinois, February 11, 1890, and she is a daughter of Emel and Selma (Johnson) Wahlstrom. The family came to Lyon county in March, 189 5, and now live in Nordland township. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Furgeson: Bernice, born March 4, 1909, and Stanley, born July 17, 1911. The family are members of the Norwegian Lutheran church of Minneota.

DR. J. B. ROBERTSON (1892) is a physician and surgeon of Cottonwood. He is also county coroner, a position he has held the past ten years. He was the first licensed physician to settle in the village of Cottonwood.

The subject of this review was born in Freeborn county, Minnesota, December 4, 18 66. The parents were Peter and Helen (Robertson) Robertson, the former a native of Glasgow and the latter of Edinburgh, Scotland. Soon after their marriage they came to the United States and settled in Wisconsin, in 1850. The father and a brother John conducted a store in Cook county, Wisconsin. In 1864 Peter Robertson came to Minnesota and located in Freeborn county, where he soon afterward died. The mother died when the subject of this sketch was only six years of age.

Left without parents at an early age, our subject and his brothers began life's struggle. He grew to manhood in Freeborn county and in Mitchell, Iowa, where he worked at various occupations and attended school. He also attended school three years at Willmar and taught in Freeborn and Kandiyohi counties several years. He then spent two years in Day county, South Dakota, where he pre-empted a claim and taught school.

J. B. Robertson attended the Medical Department of the State University and was graduated from Rush Medical College in April, 1892. He spent several months practising at Waseca, Minnesota, and in

September, 1892, located at Cottonwood, where he has since practised his profession. Dr. Robertson was president of the Cottonwood Village Council two terms and was a member of the Board of Education nine years. He has been county coroner the past ten years and is chairman of the Board of Health. He is a director and stockholder of the First National Bank of Cottonwood and is president and director of the North Star Implement Company. Dr. Robertson holds membership in the M. W. A., A. O. U. W. and A. F. and A. M. lodges.

Dr. Robertson was married at Austin, Minnesota, April 7, 1893, to Rose B. Marsh, who was born near Waupun, Wisconsin. She died November 30, 1897. To this union were born two children, Exine and Lew. Dr. Robertson was married a second time at Rochester on January 1, 1898, to Olga L. Paulson, a native of Chicago Her father, Ole Paulson, conducted a hardware store in Chicago, which was burned in the big fire of 1871. He then moved to Dakota and later to Yellow Medicine county, Minnesota, where he died. To Dr. and Mrs. Robertson have been born two children, Mini and Gwen.

Our subject has the following brothers and sisters: David, a lawyer of Conde, South Dakota; Dr. E. P., president of Wesley College of Grand Forks, North Dakota; William, who was professor and superintendent of the Crookston, Minnesota, Agricultural College at the time of his death in January, 1910; and Helen (Mrs. H. P. McConnell), of Brush, Colorado. He also has a half-brother, Thomas G. Bonnallie, the mayor of Tracy; and a half-sister, Lora (Mrs. J. A. McNiven), of Marshall.

JOSEPH V. MATHEWS (1907), attorney at law of Cottonwood, is a native of Southwestern Minnesota, having been born on his father's homestead on section 8, Shetek township, Murray county, on March 30, 1879. He grew to young manhood on the farm and in 1902 was graduated from the Tracy High School. He then took a one year's preparatory course in Macalester College, after which he matriculated in

.Mr. .Mathews was admitted to the bar on June 22, 1906, and was admitted to practise before the United States district and circuit courts on November 4, 1910. After his admission to the bar Mr. Mathews practised seven months with Judge L. S. Nelson, of Slayton, and on March 12, 1907, became a resident of Cottonwood, where he has since practised his profession, with offices on the second floor of the Grieve & Laingen Building. Mr. Mathews has been very successful in the law. He is a self-made man and has had to rely almost wholly on his own exertions, having worked his way through college. Mr. Mathews takes a leading part in the affairs of his community. He is secretary of the Cottonwood Commercial Club and was village attorney in 1906 and 1907. He is a member of the Masonic and Woodmen orders.

The parents of our subject, J. W, and Alice (Robins) Mathews, are pioneers of Southwestern Minnesota. The father is a native of New York State, the mother of Rochester, Minnesota. They settled in Murray county in 1870 and still reside upon the farm which they took as a homestead. They have five sons and two daughters, as follows: Clara J. (Mrs. P. M. Hart), of Hillyard, Washington; Joseph V., of this review; John E., of Murray county; James A., of Murray county; Arthur R., Murian and Mildred M.

PETER H. BLY (1903) has for eight years and more been manager of the H. W. Ross Lumber Company's yard at Cottonwood. The company handles lumber, coal and all kinds of building material. Mr. Bly is the owner of a fine residence and is active in the town's affairs. He is clerk of the Cottonwood school board, a position which he also held while a citizen of Hills, Minnesota, prior to moving to Cottonwood. He served on the Village Council two years and was its president one year. Mr. Bly is a member and one of the trustees of the English Lutheran church.

Our subject received his early education in his native state and when eighteen years old entered Northwestern College at Naperville, Illinois, remaining one year. The next two years Peter taught district school near his home, and in 1882 he accepted a position as manager of the Farmers Lumber & Grain Company's yard at Lee, Illinois, where he remained seven years. In 1889 our subject moved to Bruce, Minnesota, was manager of the A. T. Sexe lumber and grain business one year, and then went to Hills, Minnesota, and worked for the same man three years. In 18 93 the business was sold to the Tuthill Lumber Company, and Mr. Bly continued as manager ten years, when he took charge of the Cottonwood yard for H. W. Ross Lumber Company.

Our subject married Inga Severson at Lee, Illinois, June 27, 1S82. His wife was born September 16, 1864, and is a native of Kendall county, Illinois. The Blys are the parents of the following children: Julia (Mrs. C. E. Colby), of Russell; John P., of Estelline, South Dakota; Martha (Mrs. Edward Risty), of Brooklyn, New York; Helge, a student at the University of Minnesota; Helen, a clerk in Larson's store, Cottonwood; James, Pearl, Gertrude, Eva, students in the Cottonwood schools.

VICTOR J. LaVOY (1895), proprietor of a saloon in Marshall, was born in Chicago August 28, 1879. His parents, George and Louise (Boudreau) LaVoy, were born in Canada but located in Chicago when children. The mother lives in Chicago; the father died in Lyon county in September, 1895. Nine children of the family are living, as follows: Rame, Amma, Louise, Lucy, Henry, Josie, John, George and Victor.

Victor made his home with the family in Chicago until a young man and was educated there. In March, 1895, he accompanied the family to Lyon county and made his home on the farm in Fairview township. A few months after the arrival of the family the father died, and the management of the farm then devolved on our subject and his brother, George. They engaged in farming until 1904. Since that time Victor has lived in Marshall. For a

Mr. LaVoy was married in Marshall October 8, 1909, to Calla Snapp, who was born in Kentucky. They have one child, William H. LaVoy. Jacob and Sarah (Mann) Snapp, the parents of Mrs. LaVoy, were born and married in Nicholas county, Kentucky. The former served in the Kentucky Home Guards during the Civil War. The Snapp family moved to Marshall in 1885 and Mr. Snapp has since lived in that city, spending part of his time with his children in Kentucky. Mrs. Snapp died in Marshall July 14, 1908, at the age of seventy-two years. Mr. Snapp is now eighty-five years of age.

JOHN W. WELSH (1908) is a farmer residing in Lake Marshall township. He is a native of Massachusetts and was born February 21, 1861, a son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Kingsley) Welsh, the former a native of Ireland and the latter of Massachusetts. When our subject was eleven years of age, the family moved to Lyon county, Iowa, where our subject received his schooling and grew to manhood.

When eighteen years of age, the subject of this review started out for himself, engaging in various occupations. In 1908 he came to Lyon county and rented a quarter section of land on section 29, Lake Marshall township, where he still resides. Mr. Welsh is a member of the Catholic church.

The subject of this review was married at Marshall in September, 18 92, to Ellen A. Meehan, a native of Wisconsin. Mrs. Welsh was born December 13, 18 61, and is a daughter of Merick and Charlotte (Harding) Meehan. Mr. and Mrs. Welsh are the parents of the following named three children: Gertrude E., born November 15, 1893; Francis T., born October 7, 1900; Ellend M., born April 4, 1903.

OSCAR A. HOLLAND (1907), a Monroe township farmer, is a native of Cottonwood county, Minnesota, where he was born October 30, 1879. His parents, Martin and Anna (Albertson) Holland, were

Until twenty-two years of age Oscar lived on his father's farm in Cottonwood county. There he attended the country schools, and when his education was finished he helped writh ihe work on the home place. When he left the farm his first employment was in W. W. Rounds' hardware store at Conde, South Dakota, where he remained five years. In 1907 Mr. Holland moved to Tracy, where he worked two years, first in the employ of D. H. Evans and later for E. F. Klocow. Mr. Holland then rented land in Monroe township and commenced farming; in 1911 he rented his present place, the southwest quarter of section 16. He is making the raising of Hereford cattle a-specialty and has a fine lot of White Leghorn chickens.

Mr. Holland was married June 5, 1907, to Martina Bjorn, the wedding taking place at Lamberton, Minnesota. To this union three children have been born: Arnold, born May 12, 1908; Hazel, born March 8, 1910; and Orval, born October 27, 1911. Mrs. Holland was born at Clinton, Iowa, December 5, 1882, and is a daughter of J. F. and Gertrude (Nelson) Bjorn, natives of Denmark.

The Hollands are members of the Norwegian Lutheran church. Mr. Holland belongs to the Tracy Farmers Club and the Southern Minnesota Development League, and his fraternal associations are with the Modern Woodmen lodge^ He is chairman of the board of school district No. 33.

WILLIAM C. BAMFORD (1885) is the senior member of the firm of Bamford Brothers, proprietors of the City Livery Barn of Marshall. He is a native of the county and was born on his father's farm in Lake Marshall township August 5, 188 5. His parents, William E. and Catherine Bamford, natives of Wisconsin and Maryland, are both deceased.

Our subject was educated in the district schools and worked on the farm until 1911. On February 27 of that year he and his brother, C. Fred Bamford, bought the City Livery Barn from John Wilson and have since conducted the business.

There are four children in the Bamford family, as follows: George, who farms in Lake Marshall township; William C, Charles F. and Nell (Mrs. Daniel H. Minnick), of North Dakota.

BERNT E. LUND (1898) came to America from his native Norway in 18 91, but has been a resident in Lucas township only about three years. He first saw the light of day on June 23, 1873, in the county of Trondhjem, Norway. His mother, Meta (Sunde) Lund, is still living in Norway; his father, Einar Lund, died some years ago. Bernt received his education in Norway, and as was usual for the farmer boy of that country his schooling was finished when he was fifteen years of age. After leaving school thj lad worked out at farm labor for .about one year and a half and then decided to come to America.

In the summer of 1891 young Lund landed in the United States, and his first home in the new country was in Jackson county, Minnesota, where he worked at farm labor for about seven years. In 1898 he came to Lyon county and found work with a farmer near Cottonwood the following two years and a half. He later worked in and around Cottonwood until 1903 and has since then been engaged in farming for himself on rented land in Lyon and Yellow Medicine counties. For the past three years he has been conducting the quarter section on 23, Lucas township. He is doing well and is successfully engaging in stock raising.

Our subject's marriage to Bessie Granmo occurred in October, 1898. She is a native of Norway and was born March 5, 1872. One child has been born to this union, Alfred, born October 26, 1899. Mr. and Mrs. Lund belong to the Norwegian Lutheran church of Cottonwood.

FRED H. CASE (1882) has spent his entire life in Marshall, having been born in that city March 17, 1882. He was graduated from the Marshall High School and then learned the printer's trade in his father's office, the Lyon County Reporter. His father gave him a half interest in the paper, having previously given a half interest to another son, Frank W. Case.

Our subject sold his interest in the paper to his brother in 1905 and during the next three years engaged in the hardware business in Marshall. He sold out at the end of that time and has since been connected with the Reporter.

Mr. Case was married January 19, 1906, to Minnie Johnson. She was born at Tracy and is the daughter of Thomas Johnson, now in the real estate business at Marshall.

C. F. Case, the father of our subject, is one of the early settlers of Lyon county and a pioneer journalist. Our subject's mother is Fannie (Waller) Case. There are three children in the family, Frank W., Fred H. and Dorothy A.

ELBRIDGE GIFFORD (1890), a successful farmer of Rock Lake township, rents the southeast quarter of section 14 and also farms land on section 11 in the same township.

Mr. Gifford was born in Custer township April 23, 1890, and is a son of George and Ruth (Hughes) Gifford, pioneer residents of Lyon county. In the early days they moved to the county and have lived here ever since, witnessing the growth of the county and experiencing all the trials and hardships of the early settlers.

Elbridge received his education in Balaton, where he attended school until the age of eighteen years. He then went into business, conducting a livery and feed barn in the village about a year and a half. Farm labor occupied his time for the period of one year after he disposed of the livery business, and in November, 1911, Mr. Gifford rented the farm which he has since conducted.

Our subject was married November 8, 1911, at Balaton. His wife, formerly Lucy Anderson, is a native of Lyon county. She was born May 20, 1890, and is a daughter of Charles and Mary Anderson, of Rock Lake township.

WILLIAM MURPHY (1903) is the owner of the Riverside Hotel at Russell and an employe of R. E. Benson, the implement dealer. He has been a resident of Lyon county only nine years, but for many years he lived just over the line in Redwood county.

He is a son of the late John and Elizabeth Murphy. They were born in Ireland and came to America when children. They settled in Wabasha county, Minnesota, in the early sixties and in Redwood county in 1881. The father died there and the mother in Cass county. Besides our subject there are two other children in the family, Tom, of Russell, and Martha O'Connell, of Mitchell, South Dakota.

William Murphy was born in Wabasha county, Minnesota, March 17, 1872. He attended the schools of Lake City and in 1881 accompanied his parents to Redwood county. The father homesteaded in Westline township, and on that farm our subject lived until he was twenty-one years old. Then he engaged in farming on his own account for a number of years. In 1903 Mr. Murphy located in Russell and bought the Riverside Hotel. After leasing the hotel to his fatherin-law two years, Mr. Murphy took charge and was the landlord two years. Since that time the hotel has been conducted by Tom Murphy. For two years our subject worked for the Farmers Elevator Company and then was with the International Harvester Company until taking his present employment in the implement house. Mr. Murphy was a member of the Village Council in 1909.

Mary Jones became the wife of William Murphy at Tracy on June 8, 1897. She was born in Danville, Illinois, and is the daughter of Ex-Senator J. N. Jones, of Redwood county, now assistant state grain weigher at St. Paul. Mr. and Mrs. Murphy have three children: John, Elsie and Cleo.

RASMUS N. ANDERSON (1887), Eidsvold township farmer, has spent his entire life in Lyon county. He is a son of Nels and Mary Anderson, early settlers and still residents of Eidsvold township. He is one of a family of five children, the others being John, Carl, Edwin and Sophia.

Rasmus was born on his father's Eidsvold township farm March 7, 1887. He attended the district school and St. Olaf College at Northfield, being graduated from the academy in 1907. Two years after his graduation Rasmus moved on »one of his father's farms, the east half of the northeast quarter of section 16, Eidsvold, and has since been engaged in its cultivation.

On December 22, 1909, Mr. Anderson was married to Nellie Kvanbeck. She is also a native of Lyon county, having been born on her father's Eidsvold township farm April 23, 1886. She is a daughter of Knute S. Kvanbeck, one of the county's early settlers. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson have one child, Agnes Maria, born September 30, 1911.

ADOLPH TRUDEAU (1901) is in the employ of R. B. Daniel, the real estate man of Marshall. He was born in Iroquois county, Illinois, November 10, 1882, and resided in Illinois until nineteen years of age. The parents of our subject are Alexander and Mary (Shortsleeve) Trudeau, the former a native of Canada and the latter of Illinois. The father immigrated to Illinois when eight years of age, was married in Iroquois county, and resided there until 1901.

In the last named year the father of our subject came to Lyon county, locating near Tracy, where he conducted a large ranch for a year. He then returned to Illinois, where he remained until 1910, when he came back to Lyon county. He has since conducted the farm of his son, Adolph, in Grandview township. To Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Trudeau were born the following children: Adolph, of this sketch; Arthur, of Illinois; David, of Green Valley; Aldea, of Manteno, Illinois; Lida, Zephine, Oscar and Leo, who reside at home.

The man whose name heads this sketch accompanied his parents to Lyon county in 1901 and worked with his father until the following spring. Then he went to work for J. B. Regnier at farm labor and was so employed until the fall of 1902. After spending a few months at his old home in Illinois, Mr. Trudeau returned to Marshall and entered the G. A. Dewey barber shop to finish learning the trade which he had started at St. Anne, Illinois. He worked in that shop two years and then purchased the Anderson barber shop, which he conducted two years and nine months.

After selling his barber shop he purchased, in company with his brother, David, the grocery and crockery business of F. L. Sargent. They converted the store into a general merchandise store and conducted it under the firm name of Trudeau Brothers. They conducted the store until September,

1910, when they were burned out, suffering the loss of their entire stock. Our subject then entered the employ of R. B. Daniel, the real estate man of Marshall, and has since been in his employ.

Our subject owns the north half of the northeast quarter of section 28, Grandview township, and a residence in Marshall. He holds membership in the Catholic Order of Foresters and Knights of Columbus lodges.

GARRETT F. AHERN (1884) is associated with Henry Scheweyen in a general store in Taunton. The firm handles dry goods, groceries, shoes and notions, and has been receiving a liberal patronage.

Mr. Ahern is a Lyon county boy, having been born and brought up in Eidsvold township. He first saw the light of day February 27, 1884, and is a son of Garrett and Katherine (Brown) Ahern, early settlers of the county. Garrett in his early youth attended the country school in Eidsvold and at the age of eighteen entered the Minneota High School for a one year's course. Later he spent one year in Mankato attending the commercial college.

Our subject's first employment after finishing school was with a railroad contracting firm of Chicago, where he remained one year. He next spent a year each at Goodwin and South Shore, in South Dakota, in the employ of local banks. Moving to Karinen, South Dakota, Garrett first went into business for himself, conducting a general store two years. In September, 1911, he returned to Taunton, and in company with his present partner bought the J. F. Shimek stock of general merchandise.

Mr. Ahern is a member of the Catholic church of Minneota, and fraternally he is associated with the Knights of Columbus and the Modern Woodmen lodges.

ALMON HENRY FINCH (1904), of Rock Lake township, was born in Steele county, Minnesota, October 28, 1879, a son of Minnesota pioneers. Alfred Wallace Finch and Helen (Ward) Finch, his father and mother, were born in Vermont and Indiana, respectively, settled in Steele county in 1856, and are now residents of Montevideo.

Steele county until fifteen years of age and after securing his education worked on a farm two years. He then learned the buttermaker's trade, which he followed for the next ten years of his life. He learned the trade at Clinton Falls, Minnesota, and thereafter worked at it in several different localities. He came to Lyon county in the fall of 1904 and for one and one-half years conducted the creamery at Balaton. Mr. Finch then turned farmer and has since operated the southwest quarter of section 17, Rock Lake township.

Mr. Finch was married at Montevideo, Minnesota, May 28, 1902, to Emma Ewert. His wife was born in Germany April 10, 1880. They have five children: Pearl, born May 20, 1903; Maynard, born October 18, 1904; Vernon, born July 25, 1906; Laurene, born December 4, 1910. Mr. Finch is a member of the M. W. A. lodge. He served one year as road overseer.

HOWARD ADAMS (1903), proprietor of the Hotel Atlantic barber shop, came to Marshall July 20, 1903, from Luverne, Minnesota, where he learned his trade in the barber shops of F. A. Larkin and Eugene Barck. He worked at his trade in Marshall before buying C. W. Eckes' shop in September, 1906. Mr. Adams conducts a well appointed, three-chair tonsorial parlor and enjoys a liberal patronage.

Our subject was born in Oxford Mills, Iowa, September 25, 1881. At the age of eleven years he moved with the family to Luverne and there learned his trade in the local shops. July 1, 1908, occurred the marriage of Howard Adams and Louisa Oestreich at Worthington, Minnesota. She is a native of Iowa. Mr. Adams is prominent in local fraternal orders, being a member of the Elks, Modern Woodmen, Royal Neighbors and Yeomen lodges.

Howard Adams is one of nine children born to S. J. Adams and Anna L. (Brinn) Adams, natives of Pennsylvania and Missouri, respectively. The other children are Ida, Nora, Myrlti, Bud D., Vera, Glenn and Inez. One daughter, Gertrude, is deceased.

of section 6, Clifton township, since 1907. He was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, February 2, 1854, and is a son of Charles and Juliette (Stebbins) Twogood, natives of New York State. When a child of two years William accompanied his parents to Benton county, Iowa, where the father bought land and where William grew to manhood. . At the age of twenty years he commenced to farm for himself on land he had purchased, and he resided on the farm until he moved to Belle Plain, Iowa, in 1886.

In that city he conducted a livery and feed stable two years, and after selling out Mr. Twogood worked four years in a creamery, following that with ten years' work as a contractor in railroad construction work. In 1904 he came to Lyon county and rented land in Clifton township, and in 1907 he rented his present place. Mr. Twogood is a member of the Township Board of Supervisors, having served two years, and he has also been for three years a member of the school board of district No. 81.

The marriage of William Twogood and Mary E. Yoiingman took place in Tama county, Iowa. To this union have been born seven children, Myrtle, Gertrude, Judson, Nadim, Clarence, Larina and Alta. Mrs. Twogood was born near Fulton, Illinois.

Mr. Twogood is a member of the Presbyterian church and fraternally is allied with the A. F. & A. M., Eastern Star, I. O. O. F., Rebekah, Yeomen and Iowa L. of H. lodges.

CHARLES F. BAMFORD (1887), one of the proprietors of the City Livery Barn of Marshall, was born in Lake Marshall township December 2, 1887, the son of William C. and Catherine Bamford. His parents, who were natives of Wisconsin and Maryland, are deceased.

Mr. Bamford grew up on the farm on which he was born and received a district school education. He moved to Marshall early in 1911 and with his brother, William C, bought the livery barn of John Wilson. The boys are hustlers and are doing a good business.

hogs. He farms all of section 4, one of the best improved farms in the precinct. He raised 6000 bushels of corn in 1911 and has 220 acres planted in 1912. In 1910 he raised 8000 bushels of small grain.

Mr. Borson was born in Norway July 20, 1877, and came to America in 1893. He located in Iowa and for a number of years farmed in Sac county. He came to Lyon county in the fall of 1907, rented his present farm, and has since been engaged in its management.

Our subject is a son of Baard Grotta and Ingerid (Grotta) Grotta, still residents of Norway. The nine children of the family are Ben, Ingrid (Mrs. Knute Knutson), of Norway; Oluf, of Yellow Medicine county; Ole, of Lyon county; Inga (Mrs. Haas Grong), of Sioux City, Iowa; Eilert and Bertha (twins), Anna and Signe.

Mr. Borson was married in Sioux City, Iowa, January 28, 1899, to Anna Helland, who was born in Norway and who came to the United States in 1892. They have three children, Inga, Albert and Henry. Mr. and Mrs. Borson are members of the Norwegian Lutheran church of Minneota.

OLE BERGE (1906) is the manager of the Gund Brewing Company's beer depot at Tracy. He is a native of North Dakota and was born at Fort Abercrombie June 21, 1876. He is a son of Erick and Isabelle Berge, natives of Norway. They settled at Grand Forks in 1876. Both parents are deceased.

Our subject moved to Grand Forks when a child and grew to manhood and attended school in that flity. When twenty years of age he accepted a position as traveling salesman for the Pabst Brewing Company, with headquarters at Grand Forks. Later Mr. Berge moved to Graceville, Minnesota, and resided in several Minnesota towns until 1906, when he came from Breckenridge, Minnesota, to Tracy, where he has since lived. At the latter place he has had charge of the Gund Brewing Company's beer depot. Mr. Berge is a member of the Elks Club, No. 952, of Willmar.

The Gund beer depot is one of the oldest in Tracy, having been established there twenty-two years ago. In the spring of 1911 a large new, modern depot and offices were built. The depot has a capacity of five car

EARL A. COLBY (1908) is the proprietor of a grocery store and bakery in the city of Marshall. He was born in Rockford, Winnebago county, Illinois, July 28, 1881, and in that city he grew to manhood and received his education.

In 1904 Mr. Colby entered the government service as a railroad mail clerk and during the next three years he was on the run between Chicago and Dubuque. The next year was spent in the service between Chicago and Minneapolis. He resigned his position in 1908 and became a resident of Marshall. At that time he bought the grocery and bakery business of J. R. Wolff and has since conducted it. He has doubled the business of the store and has one of the neatest stores of the kind in Lyon county.

Our subject is prominent in Masonic circles. He holds membership in the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Commandery, Mystic Shrine and Eastern Star, all of Rockford except the pastern Star. He is worthy patron of the last named order in Marshall. He held the office of illustrious recorder of the Mystic Shrine at Rockford and was active in the work of that lodge.

Earl A. Colby is the eldest in a family of four sons, the others being Richard L., Harry F. and Nathan D. His parents are Frank L. and Loreno O. (Drury) Colby, residents of Durand, Illinois. Both parents are natives of Wisconsin and of old American stock.

GEORGE HOOK (1901), well-to-do farmer of Amiret township, was born in Blackhawk county, Iowa, May 5, 1876, and is a son of Eugene F. and Madeline (Stromeyer) Hook, the former of whom is deceased and the latter being a resident of Tracy.

George accompanied his parents to Lyon county in the spring of 1901 and the family located in Monroe township, where the father purchased land. They resided there seven years. Upon the death of the father in the fall of 1908, the mother moved to Tracy, where she has since made her home.

The subject of this sketch received his early education in Iowa in attendance at the country school. At the age of sixteen the boy had to give up the idea of further schooling and hired out at various kinds of labor until nineteen years old.

November 26, 1896, George Hook was married to Ella Gerholdt, a native of Blackhawk county, Iowa, the wedding taking place in that state. Mrs. Hook was born April 20, 1879, and is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gerholdt, natives of Blackhawk county. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hook, as follows: Ruth, born December 8, 1897; Bert, born May 27, 1904; Leslie, born September 25, 1907; and Hazel, born April 5, 1910. .

During the first year after his marriage Mr. Hook ran a general store in Iowa. He then engaged in farming three years in the same state, and in the spring of 1901 moved to Lyon county and took up his residence on the farm he now owns and operates, the north half of the northeast quarter of section 24, Amiret township. He owns in addition to that farm 240 acres in Redwood county, and he farms an additional quarter on section 12, Amiret township. Mr. Hook raises a great deal of stock for shipment.

Besides his farming interests Mr. Hook has invested in stock in the Amiret State Bank and holds shares in the Tracy Co-operative Creamery Company and the Farmers Elevator Company.

JOHN ENGESSER (1909) is a comparatively new comer to Lyon county and is the owner of a fine improved half section of land on section 9, Custer township.

Our subject's parents, Thomas and Rosa (Manch) Engesser, both natives of Germany, came to America when young and settled in Washington county, Wisconsin. There John was born December 26, 1864, and was brought up, receiving his education in the schools of the district and during his early teens helping his father on the farm. When John was eighteen years of age the family moved to Blackhawk county, Iowa, and farmed rented land one year, afterward going to Kossuth county and buying a quarter section, where they made their home, later increasing their land holdings to 360 acres.

When John was twenty-six years of age he was given 120 acres of land by his father, left the home place, and commenced farming for himself. He remained on his Kossuth county farm until 1899, when he sold and moved to Texas, buying a section there and farming nine years. He sold his Texas property and returned to Kossuth county, where he rented one year before coming to Lyon county and buying the south half of section 9, Custer. Mr. Engesser has a splendid farm and raises Duroc-Jersey hogs and Hereford cattle in addition to his other farm work.

The ceremony which made John Engesser and Kate Klein husband and wife was performed March 31, 1S91, in Kossuth county, Iowa. Mrs. Engesser was born in that county February 14, 1873, and is a daughter of William and Cathrine (Bear) Klein, both natives of Germany. Eleven children have been born to John Engesser and wife: Peter W., born February 18, 1892; Clotilda R., bom April 13, 1894; Martha A., born January 6, 1896; Bertha M., born June 12, 1898; Thomas A., born December 31, 1899; Pearl R., born March 20, 1902; Mary A., born December 25, 1903; William J., born September 12, 1907; Francis M., born October 20, 1908; John H., born March 8, 1910; and Margarette L., born August 17, 1911.

HARRY E. CALEY (1879), manager of the Mutual Elevator Company of Marshall, has resided in Lyon county since he was a child. He was born in Dover township, Racine county, Wisconsin, August 11, 1876, the son of Charlie and Mercia (Cady) Caley. The father died in 1910; the mother makes her home with a daughter, Mrs. Frank W. Case. There are four other children in the family, namely: Delano, George, Lottie and Edith Joyce.

When a child Harry E. Caley came to Lyon county with his parents. Until he was eighteen years of age he lived on his father's farm in Sodus township, attending the district school and assisting with the farm work. He moved to Marshall from the farm and completed his education in the Marshall High School. For several years thereafter he was employed in vaiious capacities. For one year he was conductor of a Seventh Street car in St. Paul, and for two years he was with the dining car department of the Northern Pacific on the run between St. Paul and Portland. He returned to Marshall and for two years clerked in his father's grocery store.

In 1909 Mr. Caley took the position with the Mutual Elevator Company and has since been the manager of that business. The elevator is the largest one in the city and has a capacity of 45,000 bushels. It was built by the Marfield Tearse Company fifteen or more years ago and was bought in 1907 by E. I. Leland, since which time the business has been carried on under the name of Mutual Elevator Company.

Mr. Caley was married August 12, 1908. to Lucy Jones, a native of Redwood county, Minnesota, and a daughter of Senator John N. Jones. Mr. and Mrs. Caley have a son, Robert Jenkins. Our subject is a member of the M. W. A. lodge.

WILLIAM D. WILLARD (1899) is the owner of the northeast quarter of section 17, Sodus township. He was born in Marion. Iowa, May 14, 1866, .a son of Porter and Cynthia (Holcomb) Willard, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of New York. They came to Iowa in an early day and the father followed the stone-mason and brick-layer's trades and later farmed. WTilliam resided at home until twenty-one years of age, after which he worked out and farmed for himself. He later worked three years in a cheese factory. In 1898 he moved to Redwood county, Minnesota, where he farmed one year.

In 1899 our subject came to Lyon county and rented the southeast quarter of section 20, Sodus township, which he still operates. He owns the northeast quarter of section 17, Sodus, having bought eighty acres in 1907 and eighty in 1910.

Mr. Willard was married at Anamosa, Iowa, December 29, 1897, to Clara Cockell, a native of Jones county, Iowa. She was born December 20, 1874, and is a daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Leggett) Cockell. the former a native of England and the latter of New York. The father died in 1874; the mother lives in Jones county. Mr.

and Mrs. Willard are the parents of four children: Porter F., born September 1, 1899; Vernon \Y.. born October 22, 1901; Joseph L., born February 16, 1903; Eva L., bom January 10, 1906.

WILLIAM L. LUCAS (1911) is a farmer living near Balaton. He rents and farms the south half of the southwest quarter of section 21, Rock Lake, owned by Mrs. Henry Johnson.

Mr. Lucas was born in Peoria county, Illinois, September 12, 1873. His father is no longer living, and his mother, Catherine ( Schenck) Lucas, is a resident of Knoxville, Illinois. The parents were early settlers of Illinois. William received his early education in Illinois in the country school, and at the age of twenty took up his share of the farm work with his father, remaining at home the next three years. He then engaged in farming for himself in Illinois four years. Just prior to coming to Lyon county Mr. Lucas was engaged for several months as conductor on the street car lines in Galesburg, Illinois.

In Knoxville, Illinois, William Lucas was married to Mertie A. Barr, a native of Ohio, the wedding occurring September 25, 1907. Mrs. Lucas was born August 25, 1876. Mr. and Mrs. Lucas are the parents of Rosalia May, born January 20, 1909, and Bertha Helen, born April 30, 1911.

BIRNEY L. CHENEY (1904) is manager of the elevator of G. W. VanDusen & Company at Marshall. He is a native of Hillsdale county, Michigan, and was born December 16, 1875. At the age of nine years he moved with his parents to Gratiot county, of the same state, and until he was eighteen years of age resided on the farm. He received a common school education and for fourteen years engaged in teaching, during that time taking a course at the Michigan State Normal School and a business course at Yerrington College, St. Louis, Michigan.

Mr. Cheney came to Lyon county in August, 1904, and during the fall months he engaged in threshing. He taught school in his old Michigan home the next winter and the following fall located permanently in Marshall. In October, 1905, he took the position of engineer with the Union Heating Plant Company, an enterprise founded by eight business men of the town to furnish heat for several business houses on the east side of Main Street. Mr. Cheney was so employed two years. In June, 1907, he took a position with the Marshall News-Messenger and worked at the printer's trade two years, being obliged then to give up the work on account of defective eyesight.

On October 26, 1909, Mr. Cheney took the position of manager of the VanDusen elevator and has been so employed since. The elevator, which has a capacity of 25,000 bushels, is owned by Minneapolis people. George VanDusen is president of the company and F. O. Yates is secretary.

Our subject is the son of Byron E. and Lydia A. (Bird) Cheney, natives, respectively, of New York State and Hillsdale county, Michigan. The mother died July 4, 1907; the father lives in Gratiot county, Michigan. There are six children in the family, as follows: Birney L., Nellie I., Reuben B., Marion P., Amy J. and Ray. Mr. Cheney is a member of the Modern Woodmen lodge and of the Marshall Fire Department.

OTTO WAHLQUIST (1900) just recently located on his present farm, the northeast quarter of section 9, Custer township, but has been a resident of the township during the past five years.

Coming to America at the age of seventeen, our subject located in Chicago, where he worked four years in the E. A. Hartwald planing mills. His next home was in Kossuth county, Iowa, and Otto engaged in farm labor the next five years, leaving Iowa to come to Minnesota. He and L. Larson bought 240 acres of land in Sodus township, Lyon county, and farmed the place in partnership two years. Selling his interest, Otto bought a quarter section near Marshall, rented the farm two years to H. O. Robbins, and then sold it. He resided in Marshall four years and conducted the Enterprise wood and feed yard.

section 3 the following five years. During that time he purchased the quarter on section 9 and a year later moved to the place where he now resides, which is a well improved farm.

Otto Wahlquist and Mary Ford were married in Sodus township April 23, 1902. Mrs. Wahlquist was born in that township October 26, 1876, and her parents, Henry and Margaret Ford, are living in Sodus. Two children, Pearl and June, have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Otto Wahlquist. The parents are members of the Presbyterian church.

The subject of our sketch was born in Sweden June 28, 1874, and was brought up and educated in that country. His parents, Erick and Annie (Olson) Erickson, both died when Otto was a child.

THOMAS CLAUSEN (1907) is a blacksmith of the village of Balaton. He was born in Germany January 28, 1888, and came to the United States in 1907. He located in Balaton at that time, purchased the Nord blacksmith shop, and has conducted it since. He engages in general blacksmithing.

Our subject's father, Thomas Clausen, died in Germany in 1908. After that event Mr. Clausen furnished funds and brought the family to America. The mother, Katrina Clausen, resides with her son, Fred Clausen, in Rock Lake township. The other members of the family are Christ, a blacksmith at Russell; Anna (Mrs. Hans Mork), of Russell; Sophia (Mrs. R. W. Nelson), of this county. The subject of this review is a member of the Yeomen lodge.

FORBES CLENDENNING (1884) sells Texas land and is at present connected with the George Schain Land Company of Tracy. His home is at Marshall.

Born at Ragland, Ontario, Canada, May 24, 1880, Forbes at the age of four years came with his parents to Lyon county, and the family located on a farm. , year of high school work in Lake Benton. After his schooling was finished he clerked in a Lake Benton grocery store one year and then worked for his uncle, Samuel J. Forbes, in Marshall one year. Following this term of service our subject clerked for several years and was finally appointed the first rural mail carrier out of Marshall, holding that commission about three years and resigning to take a homestead in South Dakota, near Bowbells, in Ward county. After proving up, Mr. Clendenning returned to Marshall and was employed by attorney Thomas E. Davis, collecting and writing insurance. Prior to engaging in the land business in the spring of 1912, our subject had been again for several years clerking in stores.

Forbes Clendenning is a son of Isaac and Elenor (Forbes) Clendenning, natives of Canada and of Scotch-Irish descent. They reside in Marshall and have six children living: Maggie, Forbes, Mary (Mrs. Harry Chatman), Walter, Harry and Joseph.

VICTOR SOMMER (1910) is a farmer of Stanley township and owns the southwest quarter of section 34. He has lived in the county only two years, although he has owned his property for a much longer time.

In the province of Mecklenburg, Germany, on the seventeenth day of April, 1857, Victor Sommer was born, the son of Jacob and Mary (Eppke) Sommer. He spent his boyhood days attending school in his native country and at the age of twelve years, in 1869, came to America with his parents. Until he reached his majority Mr. Sommer lived with his parents in Cook county, Illinois, and worked as a farm hand. He then took up stationary engineering, which he followed until moving to Lyon county in 1910.

When a young man Mr. Sommer struggled against great odds and was the sole support of his father and mother. By industry and hard work he has prospered and is in good circumstances. Ten years ago, while living in Gilberts, Illinois, Mr. Sommer purchased his Lyon county farm, and in the fall of 1910 he located on the place and engaged in farming. He engages in stock raising quite extensively.

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ing, a native of the county in which she was married. She was born March 27, 1862. Mr. and Mrs. Sommer have the following children: Lillie, born December 4, 1881; Robert and Minnie (twins), born January 25, 1883; Mary, born August 10, 1884; Sophia, born April 14, 1S86; Victor J., born September 10, 1888; Emma, born December 27, 1892, died April 2, 1912; Dora, bora November 12, 1894; Laura, bora July 12. 1897. The family are members of the German Lutheran church of Marshall.

MARVIN PETERSON (1911) is the junior member of the firm of Peterson Brothers, of Garvin, dealers in dry goods, groceries, shoes, notions and crockery. He is a native of Murray county and was born in Lake Sarah township February 28, 1889, a son of Godfrey and Anna (Olson) Peterson, who now reside in Murray county.

Marvin received his early education in the public schools of Slayton and Tracy and later attended Humboldt College, of Humboldt, Iowa. He was graduated from the commercial department of the latter institution in 1908, after which he engaged in farming with a brother in Murray county. Mr. Peterson continued his agricultural pursuits until January, 1909, at which time he engaged as a drug clerk at Crosby, North Dakota, for a short time. He was later engaged as assistant cashier of the Security State Bank of Crosby, North Dakota, until January 1, 1911, when, in company with his brother, Clarence Peterson, he engaged in the general merchandise business at Garvin. They have enjoyed a very prosperous trade in their late venture, carrying, as they do, a stock valued at between six and seven thousand dollars.

Mr. Peterson is a member of the Norwegian Lutheran church. He is a stockholder of the Farmers State Bank of Garvin and in the company which publishes the Garvin Leader.

On September 22, 1911, occurred the marriage of Mr. Peterson to Ida Stageberg, a native of Lac qui Parle county, Minnesota. She was born March 29, 1891.

of the southeast quarter of section 17, in Custer township. He is a native of Germany, the son of Fred and Elizabeth (Zasch) Zabel, and was born in West Prusen January 31, 1868. His father died in Germany and his mother is still living at the age of seventy-two years.

The first twenty-one years of our subject's life were spent in his native land, during which time he was educated and spent several years helping his father. In 1889 Julius and a sister came to the United States and located in O'Brien county, Iowa. There Mr. Zabel worked two years on the railroad and several years on a farm as a hired hand. He then rented land and farmed for himself several years, later moving to Grant county, Minnesota, where he also rented land. In 1906 Mr. Zabel came to Lyon county and bought the land which he has since farmed.

Our subject was married in O'Brien county, Iowa, May 22, 1896, to Augusta Dahlke, who was born in Germany May 19, 1874. Mrs. Zabel is a daughter of Christ and Augusta (Goltz) Dahlke, of Custer township. She and her husband are members of the German Lutheran church. Their children are Walter, born March 25, 18 97; Martha, born July 29, 1900; Agnus, born September 15, 1904; and Bernhart, born July 7, 1906.

HANS P. SANDEN (1872) is a resident of Florence, near which place he has farmed for a great many years, having been a resident of Lyon county forty years. He was born in Opdahl, Trondhjem, Norway, October 30, 1852, a son of Peter A. and Karen (Sanden) Torseth. Hans grew to manhood and received his early education in Norway, where he resided until eighteen years of age. In 1871 he came to America and located at Fountain, Fillmore county, Minnesota. He worked on the railroad then being built between St. James and LeMars, Iowa, and later the railroad near Mankato.

In the fall of 1872 our subject came to Lyon county and took as a homestead the northwest quarter of section 20, Shelburne township, which he made his home continuously until a few years ago. In 1888 the Great Northern railroad was built and he sold the north half of his homestead to the railroad company for a townsite and that is where the present village of Florence is located. Later Mr. Sanden purchased his father's homestead, the northeast quarter of section 20 and the south half of the northwest quarter of section 21, making him the owner of 320 acres of fine land in Shelburne township. The first three years our subject was in the county the crops were a complete failure on account of the grasshoppers, but the fourth year was a good one. During Mr. Sanden's first winter here provisions had to be hauled from New Ulm, a trip which required three weeks' time to make with oxen, which was all they had at that time. Two years ago our subject's wife died and he has made his home in Florence since that time.

Mr. Sanden is a member of the Norwegian Lutheran church. He is a stockholder and a director of the State Bank of Florence and is treasurer of school district No. 78. He has served eleven years as assessor of the township, having served as its first assessor, and has been on the Township Board of Supervisors. He served as chairman of the board two years. He is a member of the M. W. A. and A. O. U. W. lodges.

The subject of this review was married in Shelburne township August 18, 1883, to Mary Lein, a native of Faribault county, Minnesota. She was born April 11, 18 63, and was a daughter of Bent and Johannah Lein, natives of Norway. Mrs. Sanden died October 30, 1907. Mr. and Mrs. Sanden were the parents of the following named children: Petra, born June 4, 1884; Hannah A., born June 21, 1888; Carl B., born November 21, 1891; Burt C, born July 5, 1898.

HENRY H. BENSON (1884) is the efficient assistant cashier of the State Bank of Florence. He is a native of Lyon county and was born in Shelburne township September 17, 1884, the son of Hans and Christina (Christianson) Benson, who came from Norway to Lyon county in the early seventies and settled in Shelburne township, where they still reside.

The father assisted in building the railroad west from Tracy through the county. He purchased land at different times until now he is the owner of 5 60 acres of fine land in the township in which he has resided so long. They are the parents of the following named nine children: Lottie (Mrs. John Anderson), of Tyler, Minnesota; Bert and Adolph, who reside on the home farm; Ragna (Mrs. A. B. Anderson), of Florence; Henry H., of this sketch; Hulda, who died when three years of age; Clara, Lena, Emma and Elmer, who reside with their parents.

Henry Benson resided at home until twenty-three years of age, attending school and assisting in the work on the farm. After finishing a common school education, he went to the Sioux Falls Business College for two terms. In February, 1910, he entered the employ of the State' Bank of Florence as bookkeeper and continued in that capacity until January, 1911, when he was promoted to the position of assistant cashier. He is also a stockholder in the bank. Mr. Benson is a member of the Norwegian Lutheran church and of the Masonic and Modern Woodmen lodges.

OLIVER A. KILLIUS (1903). One of the most prosperous farmers of Lyon county is Oliver A. Killius, the proprietor of Star Farm on section 17, Sodus township. He has lived in the county nine years, has been successful in his farming operations, and is rated .among the substantial men of his precinct.

Mr. Killius is a native of Mason county, Illinois, and was born July 12, 1878. His father, George Killius, was born in Germany November 28, 1848, came to America at the age of two years, was brought up in Mason county, Illinois, lived for many years in Nebraska, later in Iowa, and is now a resident of Sodus township. The mother of our subject is Catherine (Arnold) Killius. She was born in West Virginia March 22, 1848, and was married in Mason county, Illinois.

When Oliver was three years of age he accompanied his parents to Fillmore county, Nebraska. There he received his schooling and spent his boyhood days, moving with the family at the age of seventeen to Franklin county, Iowa. He lived

In the fall of 1902 Mr. Killius came to Lyon county and purchased the northwest quarter of section 17, Sodus township. The following spring he and his wife moved to their new home, which has ever since been their place of residence. At the time of purchase the place was wild, unimproved land - far different from the well-improved farm of the present day. Mr. Killius has made all the improvements and justly takes pride in his achievements, for he has one of the fine farm homes of the county.

Mr. Killius raises considerable stock, including thoroughbred Duroc-Jersey hogs. In the raising of swine he has gained a wide reputation, and shippers declare that Mr. Killius' hogs are the finest turned in at the local market. He turns from fifty to seventy-five head per year. Mrs. Killius is a chicken fancier and takes great pride in her birds, raising about 400 full-blooded Black Langshangs each year.

Ella McKinnon became the wife of Mr. Killius in Dixon, Missouri, on May 8, 1902. She was born March 26, 1881, and is the daughter of Ning and Mary (Null) Mc- Kinnon, natives of Missouri and descendants of pioneer settlers of that state. Mr. and Mrs. Killius have no children. They are members of Easter Presbyterian Church of Sodus township.

ALVIN E. WEIDAUER (1901) is a farmer and land owner of Lake Marshall township and has lived in Lyon county for several years. He is a native of Saxony, Germany, and was born March 16, 1873. He came to America with his parents in 1881, locating at Philo, Illinois. There they resided for thirteen years and Alvin attended school. In 18 94 Alvin moved to Calhoun county, Iowa, where the family had moved two years previous.

Our subject spent two years in Calhoun county and then went to Chester, Nebraska, where he resided six months, working out. He then took a trip through Kansas, Oklahoma, Indian Territory and Texas, returning to his home in November. In the spring of 18 97 Mr. Weidauer rented the home place of his father for one year.

In the spring of 1901 Mr. Weidauer came to Lyon county and in February of that year he purchased one hundred sixty acres of section 19, Lake Marshall township, where he has since resided, with the exception of a year spent in Iowa. Our subject raises Shorthorn cattle and Poland China hogs. He is a shareholder of the Farmers Elevator Company of Marshall. He has membership in the German Evangelical church and the Modern Woodmen lodge. In partnership with his brother Herman, Mr. Weidauer engages in the threshing business.

At Marshall, on February 8, 1904, Mr. Weidauer was united in marriage to Ida Coon, a daughter of Charles and Frederica (Hass) Coon, natives of Germany. To this union have been born the following four children: Orvel L., born December 19, 1904; Edward W., born October 30, 1906; Dora E., born April 4, 1908; Mabel E., born December 2, 1910.

F. T. SHAEFFER (1899) is the cashier of the Amiret State Bank. He is a native of Ames, Iowa, where he was born June 14, 1875, a son of William and Mary (Hanson) Shaeffer, the former a native of Indiana and the latter of Sweden. They were early settlers of Boone county, Iowa. The father died in March, 1909, aged fiftyeight years; the mother resides at Burt, Iowa. They were the parents of the following children: John A., of Clear Lake, Iowa; F. T., of this sketch; Henry W., of Dolliver, Iowa; Annie (Mrs. Dr. D. W. Pratt), of Burt, Iowa; Maud (Mrs. Will Fish), of Iroquois, South Dakota; Ralph, of Lewistown, Montana; and William, of Minot, North Dakota.

In 1882 F. T. Shaeffer accompanied his parents to Burt, Iowa, where he grew to manhood and where he was graudated from the high school. In 1898 he went to Revere, Minnesota, where he was employed one year by the Standard Lumber Company. On January 1, 1899, Mr. Shaeffer came to Lyon county and located at Amiret, where he has since resided, having been the local manager of the Standard

Lumber Company since that date. He is one of the organizers and stockholders of the Amiret State Bank and has been its cashier since the bank opened its doors. Mr. Shaeffer is a member of the Masonic, Modern Woodmen and Yeomen lodges and is township clerk.

The Amiret State Bank, of which our subject is cashier, was established October 1, 1910, by a number of the business men and farmers of Amiret and vicinity and was capitalized for $10,000. It has enjoyed a prosperous business. Tbe officers and directors are: President, Lester J. Fitch; vice president, R. A. Mitchell; cashier F. T. Shaeffer; Solomon Greeley and C. S. Rowell. Mrs. F. T. Shaeffer is assistant cashier. The bank building was erected by the institution. The bank does a general banking, insurance, real estate and farm loan business.

Mr. Shaeffer was married in Amiret October 4, 1900, to Agnes McLaughlin, a native of Steele county, Minnesota. She is a daughter of David McLaughlin, of Amiret. Mr. and Mrs. Shaeffer have one child, Floyd.

ALBERT B. DANE (1895) is the efficient clerk for F. M. Healy & Son, of Marshall. He is a native of the Gopher State and was born at Janesville, Waseca county, Minnesota, February 9, 1876. He grew to manhood there and was graduated from the high school of that place in 1893. Thereafter he clerked in stores at Janesville eighteen months.

In November, 1895, our subject came to Lyon county and worked as a baker's apprentice for H. E. Barnum, working also for the same gentleman later at Tracy and Kasota Junction. He returned to Marshall and was in the employ of George Rose, who succeeded Mr. Barnum in the bakery business, and later he returned to Janesville, where he worked a year. Returning to Marshall, he entered the employ of F. M. Healy, for whom he worked two years. In March, 1900, Mr. Dane returned to Janesville and engaged in the confectionery and restaurant business for himself, continuing until November 5, 1910. He then came back to Marshall and has since been in the employ of F. M. Healy

& Son, as clerk. Mr. Dane is a member of the Masonic, Modern Woodmen and Ancient Order of' United Workmen lodges. On July 10, 1901, at Marshall, occurred the marriage of our subject to Blanch Goodwin, a daughter of Joshua Goodwin, one of the early settlers of Lyon county. Mr. and Mrs. Dane are the parents of one child, Dorothy Zadia.

ADOLPH T. ANDERSON (1886) has spent the entire twenty-six years of his life in Nordland township. He is the son of pioneer settlers and homesteaders, Lewis and Stena Ellefson. His father was born in Norway, his mother in Wisconsin. They came to Lyon county in the seventies and took a homestead, later buying the southeast quarter of section 33, Nordland.

On that farm, on November 24, 1886, Adolph Anderson was born, and there he has ever since had his home. He received a district school education and worked for his father until 1909. Then he rented the farm and has since conducted it to his own account.

Mr. Anderson was married in Minneota to Rena Skogen. She is also a native of the county and is a daughter of Halvor O. and Christie Skogen, of Nordland township. Lila and Harvey are Mr. and Mrs. Anderson's children.

JOHN HOLDEN, JR. (1901) is the manager of the Hayes-Lucas Lumber Company's yard at Garvin. Although he has been an actual resident of Lyon county less than a dozen years, he was born just over the county line in Murray county and has practically spent his life here. He is one of the progressive young business men of the little city in which he lives.

Lake Sarah . township, Murray county, is the birthplace of Mr. Holden and September 30, 1879, was the date of his birth. He received a common school education and remained on his father's farm until twenty years of age. Then he took a course in the Sioux Falls Business College and in 1900 located at Beresford, South Dakota, where for one year he was in the employ of the F. M. Slagle Lumber Company. He spent one year working for the Hayes-Lucas Lumber Company at Marshall, and in the summer of 1902 he was given the management of the yards at Garvin, where he has since lived.

Mr. Holden is interested in several local enterprises. He is a stockholder of the Farmers State Bank of Garvin, secretary of the Farmers Elevator Company, and was one of the promoters of the Garvin Telephone Company and its first president. He is the clerk of Custer township and has held the position for four or five years. Mr. Holden is a thirty-second degree Mason, holding membership in the Blue Lodge at Tracy and in the Scottish Rite at Winona. He is also a member of the Modern Woodmen lodge.

Maud Edwards, a native of Lyon county and a daughter of Ed. Edwards, became the wife of Mr. Holden at Garvin on December 16, 1903. They have three children, Maurice, Mildred and Maxson.

Our subject is a son of John J. and Karen (Peterson) Holden. They were born in Norway, came to America early in life, and were married at Madison, Wisconsin. After their marriage they moved to Dodge county, Minnesota, and in 1876 to Lake Sarah township, Murray county, where they homesteaded and where they still live. They have seven children: Sophia, Julius, Carl, Lottie, Annie, John and Matilda.

GUSTAV RADKE (1908) bought the north half of the northeast quarter of section 3 6, Amiret township, from his father in the fall of 1911, and has since been farming the place. He has built on the farm and has a modern and well-improved place in every respect.

Gustav is the fourth in age of a family of seven children born to Julius and Johannah (Shultz) Radke, natives of Germany. He was born in Germany August 25, 1878, and when five years old he accompanied the family to America. They located in Lincoln, Nebraska, and the elder Radke worked out at farm labor two years and then moved to Wood Lake, Nebraska. There Gustav received his education and grew to young manhood.

on a farm until 1908, in which year he came to Lyon county. His parents had preceded him several years, and after moving to the county Gustav worked for his father and also ran a threshing rig in the falls. In 1911 he bought eighty acres from his father and has since been farming for himself.

ANTON MACK (1910) was until recently the proprietor of a pool hall in Tracy. He is a native of Iowa and was born at Dubuque May 8, 1882. The parents of our subject are John and Margaretta (Kreck) Mack, natives of Germany. They came to America about thirty-five years ago and located at Dubuque. The father died at Bancroft, Iowa; the mother resides in Minneapolis. They were the parents of eight children: John, Sebastian, Maggie, Lizzie, George, Anton, Louis and Frank.

Anton learned the carpenter's trade at Doland, South Dakota, and later engaged in contracting at Fort Pierre and Miller, South Dakota. In 1910 our subject came to Lyon county, buying the Sam A. Pittinger pool hall at Tracy, which he conducted until May, 1912. At that time he sold his interests in Tracy and moved to Sauk Center, Minnesota, where he is now engaged in the real estate business.

EMIL DAHLKE (1908), who rents the northeast quarter of section 28, Custer township, was born in Germany April 22, 1872, and until the age of seventeen lived in his native land, receiving an education in the common schools.

He accompanied his parents, Christ and Vasta (Goltz) Dahlke, to America in 1889. The family settled in O'Brien county, Iowa, where they rented land and farmed ten years, Emil assisting his father. The young man then set out for himself, moving to Minnesota and locating in Traverse county, where he rented land and farmed seven years. In 1908 he came to Lyon county and rented the farm in Cus-

While living in Traverse county Emil Dahlke was married to Christina Bowers, the wedding occurring March 3, 1903. His wife was born in Germany April 1, 1883, and is a daughter of Christ and Christina (Vollmer) Bowers. The following children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Dahlke: Carl, born March 1, 1904; Elsa, born October 12, 190 6; Mary, born December 24, 1908; Emil, born January 13, 1910; and Willie, born December 9, 1911.

PETER PILOTTE (1895) is the renter of a fine quarter section of land in Vallers township, where he has resided ever since coming to the county in 1895.

Mr. Pilotte is a son of Jacob and Restedude (Pronix) Pilotte, who moved to Illinois in 1848 from Canada and settled in Kankakee county, where Jacob Pilotte bought land at $1.25 per acre. Peter grew up in Kankakee county and received his education in the district schools. He remained on the home farm after his schooling was finished, and it was not until he had reached the age of twenty-four years that the young man started farming for himself, on land which he had purchased a few years previously.

Our subject sold his farm in 1893 and moved to Iowa, buying forty acres in Woodbury county and farming there one year. He then sold out and took up his residence in Lyon county, renting 320 acres of land on section 16, Vallers township, where he has since resided. He raises considerable stock and is partial to the Durham breed of cattle and the Duroc- Jersey breed of hogs. Every year Mr. Pilotte makes a shipment of cattle to the large markets.

Peter Pilotte and Cecilia Lawrence were married in Illinois October 16, 1877. Mrs. Pilotte was born in Kankakee county January 1, 1849, and is a daughter of Lewis and Louise (Martin) Lawrence, natives of New York and Canada. Mr. and Mrs. Pilotte are the parents of the following children: Archie, born March 18, 1881; Arthur, born September 11, 1889; Leo, born March 28, 1891; Galix, born February 14,

HANS P. NELSON (1906) is one of Clifton township's farmers and he rents the north half of section 36. He has a well improved farm and raises considerable stock.

Mr. Nelson is a son of Nels Albertson and Annie Hanson and was born in Denmark May 2 9, 1857. There he was brought up and there he received the customary education of the farmer boy of that country. He was fourteen years of age when he commenced to learn the tailor's trade and he continued in that business in the Fatherland until 1879. That year heN came to this country, located in Chicago and worked at his trade a few months. Then he moved to St. Paul and continued working at his trade.

After working in St. Paul several years Mr. Nelson started a shop of his own and remained in that city two years. He then sold out, and during the next seven years at different times he conducted shops in Pipestone and Redwood Falls. Finally he sold his business and invested in 160 acres of farm land in Redwood county, near Redwood Falls, which he operated eighteen years. He sold his land in 1906 and came to Lyon county. He has since been living on the north half of section 36. While in Redwood county Mr. Nelson served seven years as school clerk and six years as a member of the township board.

The marriage of Hans Nelson and Lenora C. Peterson was celebrated in St. Paul February 2, 1881. She was born in Veile, Denmark, April 20, 1862, and is a daughter of Peter and Annie (Raarup) Peterson, both of whom died in the old country. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson are the parents of eleven children, Nels, Edward, Walter, Anton, Dewey, Louis, Ida, Selma, Helga, Daisie and Alice.

Marshall. He is a native Minnesotan, having been born in Wabasha county February 25, 1863. Until he reached his majority he resided on his father's homestead in that county, and then he started out to make his own way in the world.

Mr. Schouweiler has engaged in a great many occupations and has resided in many parts of the country. He farmed near Warren, Minnesota, one and one-half years, lived in Butte, Montana, five months, worked for a brother-in-law in Wabasha county one year, and\ then completed his education with a year's course in the Winona High School. He spent a short time in North St. Paul thereafter, lived in Lac qui Parle county one season, farmed in Wabasha county one year, conducted a saloon in North St. Paul two years, in Wabasha county two years, and then bought a farm in that county and operated it two years.

Plainview, Minnesota, was the next home of our subject. There he was the proprietor of a saloon one year and of a restaurant and pool hall four or five years. At Pollock, Campbell county, South Dakota, Mr. Schouweiler erected a building and engaged in the saloon business ten and one-half years. He operated a saloon at Sanborn, Minnesota, six months, and on January 22, 1912, he located in Marshall and purchased the Klondike Saloon. He has met with success during his short residence in the city and has built up a good trade. Mr. Schouweiler owns a farm in Campbell county, South Dakota.

The marriage of Mr. Schouweiler to Katie Losch occurred in New Richmond, Wisconsin, July 5, 188 8. She is a native of Iowa. They have seven children: Lilly, the wife of Louis Traxinger, who tends bar for Mr. Schouweiler; Laura, Agnes, Olevia, Rosa, Jesse and Magdelin.

Frank and Eva (Leonard) Schouweiler, the parents of our subject, were born in Germany, came to America in 1854, lived in Iowa a few months, and then took a homestead claim in Wabasha county, Minnesota. On that farm they lived the rest of their lives. They celebrated their golden wedding on June 6, 1904, and died a few years later. They had fourteen children, of whom the following named six sons and five daughters are living:

JOHN MAHER (1911), who owns and farms 240 acres of land on section 16, Rock Lake township, is a recent arrival to Lyon county, having spent his entire previous life in Wisconsin. He has a well-improved farm and raises Duroc- Jersey and Poland China hogs.

His parents, Thomas and Julian (Mc- Donald) Maher, are deceased. The father was born in Ireland, the mother in Shellsburg, Wisconsin. John Maher was born in Monroe, Wisconsin, October 1, 1873. He attended school until sixteen years of age and worked on the home farm until he was twenty-three. He then engaged in farming for himself, bought land in his native state, and resided there until 1911. That year he came to Lyon county and purchased his Rock Lake township farm.

Mr. Maher was married at Monroe, Wisconsin, February 15, 1897, to Ella Ward, who was born in the city in which she was married February 9, 1878. They have one child, Mary Genevieve, born May 30, 1899. Mr. Maher is a member of the Catholic church of Russell and of the K. C. and M. W. A. lodges.

PAUL FRUKE (1891) was born in Hardin county, Iowa, August 23, 1890. He is the son of Frederick and Wilhelmina (Blossy) Fruke, who came to this country in 1881. The parents were born near Rugenwalde, Germany.

The Fruke family, coming to the United States in 1881, settled in Iowa. In 1891, when Paul was one year of age, the family moved to Lyon county and located on the southwest quarter of section 24, Shelburne township, where they lived during the next four years. The father then bought the northeast quarter of section 25, which has since been the home of our subject.

Paul is one of seven children. The others are Bertha, Charles, Minnie, August, Ernest and Mary. The father died July 30, 1909, after the family had made their home on the Lyon county farm on

After the death of Paul's father he and his sister Mary bought the home farm, which they now own, and of which Paul has the active management.

REV. PAUL SCHERF (1905) is the pastor of the German Lutheran church of Balaton. He is a native of Germany and was horn in Lichtenstein March 21, 1871, a son of Herman and Caroline (Heuchler) Scherf, both of whom are deceased.

Our subject received his early education in the land of his nativity, where he at tended school until fourteen years of age. He then worked at the cabinet-maker's trade until nineteen years of age. In August, 1890, our subject came to America and located at Springfield, Illinois, where he entered the Concordia Seminary as a student. He was graduated from the latter institution in. June, 1895, and then came to Minnesota, locating at Fairmont, where he had accepted the pastorate of St. John's German Lutheran Church. He served as pastor of the latter church until January, 1905.

The latter date marks the arrival of Rev. Scherf to Lyon county. He located at Balaton, where he has since served as pastor of St. Peter's German Lutheran Church.

On February 17, 1898, occurred the marriage of Rev. Scheri to Anna Ritz, a native of Illinois. She was born March 31, 1875. Rev. and Mrs. Scherf are the parents of the following children: Herman, Helen, Martin, Arthur and Harold. One child, Gustaf Adolph, died in infancy.

WALTER O. BREMER (1903) is one of Amiret township's farmers. He engages extensively in stock raising and makes a specialty of Shorthorn cattle and Duroc-Jersey hogs. Mr. Bremer also is a breeder of Belgian draft horses.

The subject of this sketch was born in Germany February 17, 18 87. He is a son of Andrew and Dorothy (Else) Bremer, both of whom are living in New Ulm, Minnesota. The family came to America in 1893 and located in Big Stone county,

Walter was only six years old when he came to America. His school education was begun in South Dakota and finished while the family were in Iowa. During that time the father purchased land in Lyon county, and in 1903 the family came to this county and located on the farm in Sodus township. That was Walter's home until 1907. The following spring he rented land and engaged in farming lor himself in Sodus township. He then moved to the farm he now operates in Amiret township, and has been conducting the place with success.

Clara Pearl Forbes, a daughter of Isaac and Etta (Brown) Forbes, became the wife of Walter Bremer September 30, 1908, the ceremony being performed in Sodus township. To this union two children have been born: Donald, born August 19, 1909, and Dorothy, born May 23, 1911. Mrs. Bremer's parents were pioneer residents of Lyon county and are now living in Amiret township.

ANTON VAN UDEN (1892) is one of the big farmers of Westerheim township and one of its influential citizens. He owns 320 acres of land on sections 21, 22 and 1G and farms it all, making a specialty of feeding cattle and hogs. The home place is the northeast quarter of section 21.

The gentleman whose name heads this sketch was born in Holland December 6, 1870. He is one of a family of nine children, the others being Herman, John, Henry, Berdina, Mary, Annie, Christine and Gertie. His father, John Van Uden, died in 1907 at the age of seventy years; his mother, Johanna (Hermsen) Van Uden, lives with a daughter in Ghent.

In his native land Anton Van Uden secured his education and made his home until past twenty-one years old. In 1892 he came with his parents to America and direct to Lyon county. Until 1906 he. lived in Grandview township, conducting his father's farm; then he purchased his Westerheim township farm, and he has since made his home thereon.

Mr. Van Uden was married in Ghent May 9, 1906, to Mary Hennen. She was born in Holland and is a daughter of Arnold Hennen. They have four children, Annie, John, Hubert and Caroline. Mr. and Mrs. Van Uden are members of the Catholic church of Ghent.

PETER F. KELLY (1903) is the owner of the Monarch Saloon in Tracy. He is a native of Goodhue county, Minnesota, where he was born June 3, 1875, and is a son of the late James Kelly. The latter was born in Ireland, came to America in the early seventies, and located in Goodhue county. Later he moved to Swift county, where he died.

At the age of three years Peter accompanied his father to Swift county and grew to manhood on his father's homestead. When twenty-six years of age, he moved to De Graff, Minnesota, where he conducted a saloon two years. In the spring of 1903 he came to Lyon county and purchased the saloon he now conducts at Tracy from Lindeman & Peterson. Mr. Kelly owns a fine farm in Swift county.

On June 11, 1901, at De Graff, occurred the marriage of Mr. Kelly to Annie C. Heimer, a native of Adams, Minnesota. They are the parents of six children: Evelyn, Lawrence, Eugene, P«ter, Leo and Francis.

CHARLES DONNELLY (1907), who owns and farms a 214-acre farm on sections 4 and 3, Nordland township, has been an actual resident of Lyon county only a few years, but since the early days he has lived just over the line in Yellow Medicine county. He has a good farm and is a successful agriculturist.

County Derry, Ireland, is the birthplace of Mr. Donnelly and he was born in 1847. His parents, Alexander and Ann (Larkin) Donnelly, are both buried in the old country. Charles attended school until twelve years of age and until he was twenty-two worked on his father's farm. He came to America in the spring of 1869 and for the next twelve years worked in a stove factory in the city of Philadelphia.

bought land near St. Leo, in Yellow Medicine county, and engaged in farming there until the fall of 1907. Then, having bought his present farm in Nordland township, he moved to his new home and has since been engaged in its management. For ten years he served as town clerk of Burton township, Yellow Medicine county. He is a member of the Catholic church of Minneota.

Mary Campbell, also a native of Ireland, became the wife of Mr. Donnelly in 1874. Ten children have been born to them, of whom eight are living. Their names are as follows: Anna (in religion, Sister Sunniva), of St. Paul; Levina, at home; Rose, deceased; Sallie, of Westby, Montana; Mary, at home; Margaret, of Philadelphia; Kate, deceased; Theresa (in religion, Sister Norbert), of St. Paul; Robert and Charles, at home.

NELS CHRISTIAN SORENSEN (1909) owns and farms the northwest quarter of section 31, Shelburne township, in the extreme southwestern corner of Lyon county.

He was born near Alborg, Denmark, May 3, 1880, and spent his boyhood days in the land of his nativity. He attended the public schools until fourteen years of age and then worked on the farm three years. * At the age of seventeen he began working at the blacksmith's trade and was so engaged three and one-half years in the old country.

Mr. Sorensen came to America in 1900 and made his first home in Franklin county, Iowa. There he worked at his trade and at other lines of work five years. He worked at his trade in Omaha, Nebraska, one and one-half years, at Arlington, Nebraska, six months, and at Omaha again one year. In 1908 Mr. Sorensen moved to Ruthton, Minnesota, conducted a shop a year and a half, and then turned farmer. It was in 1909 that he located on his farm in Lyon county. Besides general farming Mr. Sorensen engages in stock raising, making a specialty of Shorthorn cattle and Poland China hogs.

The parents of our subject are Lars P. and Ingeborg (Nelson) Sorensen. They came to America in 1902, lived in Franklin county, Iowa, five years, farmed a few

Nels Sorensen was married in Pipestone August 8, 1908, to Lena Paulson. She was born in the house in which she now lives on July 5, 1892. Her parents, Jess and Christine (Jacobson) Paulson, settled in Lyon county in 1880 and resided on a farm in Shelburne township until they removed to Ruthton in the spring of 1911. Mr. and Mrs. Sorensen have two children: Evelyn Eleanor, born November 20, 1909; and Irene Beatrice, born March 24, 1911.

WILLIAM E. WATKINS (1901) has been conducting the farm on section 29, Amiret township, since he purchased the place in 1901. He is a well-to-do farmer and raises Durham cattle and Duroc-Jersey hogs for market.

William Watkins was born in Green county, Wisconsin, November 17, 1865. He is a son of John H. and Eliza (Griffith) Watkins, natives of England and Wales, respectively. The parents came to the United States and settled in Green county, where they engaged in farming. William was brought up a farmer boy and received his education in the country schools. He afterward helped on the father's farm until he was twenty-one years of age. He then commenced to work out, and in the fall months he ran a threshing rig. He threshed four falls in Minnesota prior to moving to the state in 1901.

In that year young Watkins came to Lyon county and bought the north half of the northeast quarter of section 29, Amiret township, where he has since resided. He has improved the place, has a comfortable home, and is now the owner of a valuable 240-acre farm.

The ceremony which joined in marriage William E. Watkins and Nettie Shaver was performed at Tracy November 15, 1900. She was born in Lyon county November 8, 1881, and is a daughter of Edward and Emma (Flick) Shaver, of Clifton township. Mr. and Mrs. Watkins ase the parents of the following children: John E., born January 26, 1902; Lyle, born June 15, 1904; Leslie (deceased), born November 5, 1906; Persey, born October 24, 1908; and Ruth, born December 21, 1910. Mr. Watkins is a member of the Modern Woodmen lodge.

ELMER JOHNSON (1906). One of the young farmers of Coon Creek township is Elmer Johnson, who has resided in Lyon county the past six years. He is a native of Iowa and was born in Pocahontas county September 27, 1884, a son of Moody and Matilda Johnson, the former a native of Sweden and the latter of Norway.