Lyon County, Minnesota - Biographical sketches, 1912 (part 3 of 17)

Upon again taking up his residence in Lyon county, Mr. Runholt spent seven years working out at farm labor. He then moved to the east half of the southwest quarter of section 17, Lucas township, where his parents lived, and took charge of the place, they being too old for the active care of the farm. His father is now dead and the mother is still living on the farm with her son. Ole has added eighty acres to the farm and is doing well with his farming.

The subject of this sketch was married a second time, to Annie Grandhagen on January 18. 1896. She was born in Norway January 18, 1874, and is a daughter of John and Martha Grandhagen. The children of his second marriage are Oscar, Cora O., Joseph R. and Laurence. Mr. Runholt has two children by his first marriage, Clara M. and Rudolph (deceased).

S. H. ADAMS (1873). When S. H. Adams came to Marshall in 1873 he reports that there were only eleven houses in the town. He has seen 'the village grow from those proportions into the city of today, having lived in the village ever since, with the exception of a few years. During nearly all this time he has been engaged in the tinning business, and he is now the senior member of the firm of S. H. Adams & Son, plumbers, steamfitters and sheet metal workers.

Mr. Adams was the only son of Harrison S. and Betsey T. (Ladd) Adams and he was born at Cambridge, New York, on September 1, 1853. His father, a native of Connecticut, came to Lyon county in 1873 and died in November, 1903, at the age of seventy years. His mother was born in New

Ai the age of four years S. H. Adams accompanied his parents from Cambridge, New York, to Rutland, Vermont, and a little later to Springfield. Vermont, where the family resided until he was thirteen years of age. Then the family home was made in Trempealeau, Wisconsin. In that place young Adams attended school and grew to manhood. He came to Marshall in September. 1873, and the day following his arrival began work in the hardware store of J. P. Watson and there learned the tinner's trade. He worked for Mr. Watson ten years and for R. M. Addison eight years and then moved to Cottonwood and went into business with Thomas McKinley.

Eight years later Mr. Adams returned to Marshall and for the next five years was again employed by J. P. Watson. He then moved to Provo, Utah, where he remained four years. . Returning to Marshall in April. 1909, he formed the company known as S. H. Adams & Son with his son, Lloyd E., as partner.

For two years the firm did business in Mr. Watson's hardware store, but the growth of the business demanded larger quarters and in April, 1911, a move was made to the present location in the Josh Goodwin building. The firm engages in plumbing, steam, hot water and hot air heating, ventilating and cornice work and does repairing. It is the only exclusive plumbing and tinning establishment in Marshall.

Mr. Adams has been a Mason since 1875, having been the first one admitted to membership after the local lodge secured its charter, and he was the first worthy patron of the Eastern Star lodge in Marshall. He is also a member of the A. O. U. W. lodge.

In Trempealeau, Wisconsin, on April 7, 1877, Mr. Adams was married to Ida H. Smith, a native of Illinois. They have three boys, as follows: Archer L., who was born February 15, 1878, married Mary Wilson, and is now foreman of the ventilating department of the H. Kelley Company plant (plumbers), Minneapolis; Lloyd E., who was born April 26, 1881, married Nellie Spaulding, and is now in business with his father at Marshall; Harry, who was born January 16, 1894, and is employed by the firm as bookkeeper.

EUGENE A. D1CKERMAN (1877), of Lake Marshall township, has resided in Lyon county tor the past thirty-five years. He came here penniless in 1877 and today is one of the most prosperous and widely known men in Lyon county. Mr. Dickeriiian is a native of Vermont, where he was born November 29, 1847. He is a son of Lemuell and Irene (Hillyard) Dickerman. The father was engaged in farming and rock laying in Vermont, where he died when Eugene was only nine years of age. The mother lived several years after the father's death.

The subject of this review attended school at Casson Bridge Academy during the winter months until seventeen years yof age. He then stayed at home with his mother until he had passed his nineteenth year, when he went to New York and worked on the Plattsburg & White Hall railroad for several months. Returning to Vermont, he remained a few weeks and then came to Minnesota and located in Olmsted county, where he resided until 1877, the year he came to Lyon county. Mr. Dickerman first located on the northeast quarter of section 24, Lake Marshall township, but later sold that and moved to the farm he now owns and operates, the east half of the northwest quarter of section 24.

Mr. Dickerman has been a school officer of district No. 6 almost continuously since 1880, and he holds membership in the Masonic lodge of Marshall. He has stock in the Lake Marshall Rural Telephone Company and in the M. W. Savage Stock Food Company of Minneapolis. Mr. Dickerman is a veteran of the Civil War, serving in Company G, Fourth Vermont Infantry, known as the Home Guards.

In 1874 Mr. Dickerman was married to Maribah Templeton, a daughter of Matthew and Nancy (Frost) Templeton and the oldest of a family of six children. Mr. and Mrs. Dickerman are the parents of the following children: Luella, born September 4, 1875; Leora, born January 6, 1877; Lillian, born March 11, 1879; Leona, born December 19, 1881 ; Joseph, born March 27, 1886.

EPHRAIM SKYHAWK (1877), deceased, was the first business man in Russell and for several years was the only storekeeper of the town. He was well known throughout

Mr. Skyhawk was born near Valparaiso, Indiana, April 19, 1853. When he was three years of age he came to Minnesota with his parents, and the family located in Mower county. The next twenty-one years of the lad's life were spent on the farm in that county and he was there educated and brought up amidst the environments of farm life. It was in the spring of 1877 that the young man came to Lyon county and located on a farm in Amiret, where he lived until 1885. That year he became a citizen of Marshall and engaged in the meat business with Joseph Pierard.

Four years later our subject went to Russell, then just being founded, and opened the first store. He conducted a general mercantile business and remained an active business man of the village until failing health caused him to turn over the conduct of his enterprise to his son, Lewis D., in the summer of 1908. Mr. Skyhawk failed rapidly and died at his home in Russell March 18, 1910. Mr. Skyhawk was married October 25, 1886, to Rosa B. Hanks, of Amiret, and at his death left a widow and four children. The children's names are Lewis D., Belle, Frank and Mona.

Ephraim Skyhawk was a type of the bluff and hearty pioneer of the county's earliest days - one of those courageous men who had the fortitude to endure the privations of frontier life, the ability and disposition to conquer, and one whose happy disposition made him popular among his associates. He was a prominent Mason, being a member of Coteau Lodge of Russell, of Marshall Chapter, R. A. M., and of Marshall Commandery of the Knights Templar.

OLE AMUNDSON (1874) has lived in Eidsvold township all his life - thirty-eight years. His parents, Anund and Kari (Heggen) Amundsen, were among the earliest settlers of the precinct. They came to the United States from Norway in the spring of 1869, lived in Iowa, later in Dodge county, Minnesota, came to Lyon county in the spring of 1874, and took as a homestead claim the south half of the southwest quarter of section 24, Eidsvold township. »

28, 1874, and he resided with his parents until 1902. Then he was married and started farming for himself on the 120-acre farm on section 9 that he had bought several years before. His land is the south half of the northwest quarter and the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of the section. Mr. Amundson is clerk of school district No. 79 and he served as township treasurer thirteen years. He is a member of the Norwegian Lutheran church.

Helga Esping, born in Lyon county August S, 1878, became the wife of Mr. Amundson November 20, 1902, the ceremony having been performed in Minneota. Her parents. Ole H. and Helga (Nelson) Esping, were born in Norway and were early settlers of Lyon county. The mother died in 1904; the father still lives in Eidsvold township.

HENRY MEEHL (1878), owner of the northwest quarter and the north half of the northeast quarter of section 11, Clifton township, is one of the township's prosperous farmers.

Mr. Meehl was born in Sullivan county, Pennsylvania, December 15, 1856, and at the age of six years moved to Rice county, Minnesota, with his parents, where the father took a homestead. Henry grew up on the farm in Rice county and when twenty-two years of age started out for himself. He came to Lyon county in 1878 and bought the southwest quarter of section 3 of the township in which he now resides. That place he farmed until 1900, when he sold out and bought his present farm. There he has since resided. He has improved the place and made it one of the finest farms in the region. Mr. Meehl raises a great deal of stock.

The subject of this sketch has been active in the township's affairs. He was a member of the Township Board several years and clerk for seventeen years. He was also township assessor four years and was for fifteen years treasurer of school district No. 42. Mr. Meehl is a shareholder and president

Henry Meehl was married in Marshall to Etta McElwee, the wedding occurring Deember IT. 1884. His wife was born in Indiana and died April 6, 1891. To this union the following children were born: Harry E., born September 25, 1885; Mae E., born May 2, 1887; and Eve E., born August 27, 1889.

Agnes Castle became the wife of our subject March 9, 1893. She was a native of Illinois, and by her marriage to Mr. Meehl she became the mother of one child, Viola, born August 24, 1894. Mrs. Meehl was born November 29, 1868, and died April 2, 1896.

Mr. Meehl was married a third time, to Mrs. Bessie Graham, a native of Scranton, Pennsylvania. The wedding occurred May 30, 1901. She is a daughter of Eugene and Lydia (Brown) Jaques, natives of Pennsylvania. Her father is dead; her mother lives in New York State. Mrs. Meehl was born June 10, 1876. She and Mr. Meehl are the parents of six children, named Clyde E., Persey M., Dorothy, Ines, Gladys and Marvin.

Mr. Meehl's parents were Jacob and Henrietta (Peter) Meehl, natives of Germany. They came to America in 1851 and settled in Pennsylvania, where they pursued the occupation of farmers and where they resided until coming to Minnesota.

WARREN S. EASTMAN (1870) was the first veterinarian to locate in Marshall and has been practising his profession there for thirty-three years. He makes his headquarters at the City Drug Store.

Warren Eastman's father, T. S. Eastman, was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire, in 1815 and was married to Sarah Fifield, a native of Hill, of the same state. T. S. Eastman and wife came to Lyon county in 1869 and filed on the southeast quarter of section 12, Lynd township, as a homestead, locating on the place in the fall with a son Isaac V. T. S. Eastman was one of the organizers of the county, and the organization meeting was held in A. W. Muzzy's house in Lynd. Mr. Eastman was one of the county's first commissioners and was prominent in its early history. He died in 1880 and his wife in 1892.

Andover, New Hampshire, February 22, 1852. In 1864 the family moved to Wabasha couni.\, .Minnesota, and a year later he was sent East to school, attending the Old New York School's medical department in New York City. After a vacation of several months spent with his parents in Minnesota, Warren returned to New York and took the veterinary course in the college. In 1872 he returned to Minnesota. At that time an epidemic of epizootic was creating havoc among horses from coast to coast and the young veterinarian found plenty of employment.

Young Eastman remained on the home farm six years, practising his profession and helping on the farm. In 1879 he moved to Marshall, where he has since practised. In 1888 he bought the drug business of Shead & Richardson and conducted a drug store five years on the site of A. J. Gag's present drug store. He kept up his professional work during that time.

July 9, 1876, Warren S. Eastman married Emma Baldwin, a native of Warren, Warren county, Pennsylvania. Her family located in Lyon county in an early day. Mr. and Mrs. Eastman had one daughter, who died in March, 1893, aged fifteen years. An adopted daughter, Blanche, died November 9, 1910, aged nineteen years.

Isaac V. Eastman, the only other child of T. S. and Sarah (Fifield) Eastman, died in 1904. He had lived on the Eastman homestead since coming to Lyon county with his father in 1869, and was conducting the farm, which he had bought from his father, at the time of his death. His widow and two daughters reside in Marshall.

WILLIAM H. GLOTFELTER (1874), owner of the northwest quarter of section 14, Rock Lake township, is the son of George A. and Emily A. (Weymouth) Glotfelter and was born in Vermont August 5, 1861. The father is dead and the mother is living with William on the farm. William has two brothers living, George T., a mail carrier in Minneapolis, and Charles W., of Waterville, Minnesota, president of the Minnesota State Fair Board.

township, where the father had taken a homestead. The family before coming to Lyon county had spent some time in Illinois and in Owatonna, Minnesota. William's early education was received in Illinois, and he later attended school in Owatonna and in the Rock Lake district, finishing his scholastic work at the age of twenty years.

In 1879 George A. Glotfelter died and his son William took up the management of the home farm after his schooling was completed. He takes charge of additional land besides the old homestead, farms in all 216 acres, and raises stock. William has had care of the place during the last thirty years, with the exception of four years spent in St. Paul. Mr. Glotfelter has been clerk of school district No. 92 since 1892. He is a member of the M. W. A. lodge of Balaton.

Our subject's parents, among the early pioneers in the county, experienced the interesting and strenuous times of early days. Neighboring settlers were few and widely scattered. The winters were long and bitter, and younger residents do not realize the immense snowfall which was characteristic of many winters of thirty years ago. There were several years of grasshopper scourge. During those years George Glotfelter went to Owatonna and worked at the trade of blacksmith in the winter to keep up family expenses at home. While he was gone the family sometimes, ran out of flour and some member would drive eighty miles to New Ulm to bring back supplies. Johnny-cake and turnips formed the principal diet in the settlers' homes during such periods.

The elder Glotfelter conducted a blacksmith shop on his farm and did work for the neighboring farmers, who often came with their work from miles around, and while Mr. Glotfelter did their blacksmithing the customers took his place in the field.

ARNI B. GISLASON (1879) is a member of the Minneota law firm of Gislason & Gislason, which was formed in January, 1911. He is a native of Iceland and was bora August 6, 1877, a son of Bjorn and Adalborg (Johnsson) Gislason, both natives of the northland.

There Arni grew up and received his early education. After graduating from the Marshall High School, he moved to Minneota in 1898 and engaged in the hardware business three years with his brother, Walter, under* the firm name of Gislason Brothers. He then took a one year academic course and spent two years studying law at the University of Minnesota. In 1902 he entered the Globe Land & Loan Company and has since been identified with that institution as secretary and treasurer. In February, 1911, he was admitted to tire bar and became a member of the law firm above mentioned at Minneota.

Mr. Gislason is a member of the Masonic, Maccabee and M. W. A. lodges. He is clerk of the Board of Education of Minneota and was a member of the Village Council and village recorder for several terms.

On September 30, 1906, our subject was married to Cora S. Eastman, a native of Yellow Medicine county, Minnesota. They are the parents of three children: Arlon B., Anna G. and a baby boy.

ANDERS E. RYE (1878) is a pioneer settler of Nordland township and a man who has taken a prominent part in the affairs of his precinct. He is the owner of a half of section 34 and is rated among the substantial men of western Lyon county. When he came to the county thirty-four years ago he was without means and his present position has been gained by his own unaided efforts.

In Vallers, Norway, on May 6. 1858, Anders E. Rye was born, a son of Esten and Marit I Ranum) Rye. He was given an education in his native land and at the age of twenty years, in 1878, he severed home ties and came alone to America. His home has ever since that time been in Lyon county. For two years he worked on the railroad and in 1880 he took as a pre-emption claim the southwest quarter of section 34, Nordland township.

Not having the means with which to improve the claim, Anders continued working out and turned the management of his claim over to his father, who had come from the old country in 1879. Later he moved to the farm and has since had his home there. He has prospered and in 1890 he added to his holdings by the purchase of the northeast quarter of section 34. The farm is well Improved and Mr. Rye has a fine home. He engages in stock raising and makes a specialty of Poland China hogs. He has stock in the Farmers Elevator Company of Minneota. For twenty years he served as a member of the Xordland Township Board of Supervisors and for several years he was a member of the school board of his district. Mr. Rye and his family are members of the Norwegian Lutheran church.

Sarah Dovre became the wife of Mr. Rye at Canby on July 14, 1SS8. She was born in Vallers, Norway, December 2, 1866, a daughter of Ole and Ragnild Dovre, both of whom died in the old country. Mr. and Mrs. Rye have nine children, as follows: Maria O., Esten, Otto, Alma, Clara, Ragnild, Agnes and Lillian, twins; and Sophia.

SIGFINN GOODMUND (1878) is a farmer and land owner of Lyons township who has spent nearly his entire life in Lyon and Lincoln counties. He is the owner of the northwest quarter of section 22 and forty acres on secton 15.

Mr. Goodmund was born in Iceland May 1, 1870, the son of Gudmund and Ingeborg (Torkuldson) Asmondson. When eight years old, in 1878, he came to America with his parents and direct to Lyon county. The family spent the following winter near Minneota and the next spring took a homestead on section 6, Lake Stay township, Lincoln county. On that farm our subject grew to manhood, and in the nearby district school he received his education. He worked for a number of years, but when he reached his majority, in 1891, he bought his farm in Lyons township and has lived there ever since.

Our subject raises lots of stock in addition to his general farming. He owns stock in the Farmers Elevator Company of Russell and for five years has served as a director of school district No. 10. He is a member of the Workmen lodge.

In Lyons township, on June 8, 1892, Mr. Goodmund was united in marriage to May Fifield. She was born in Wabasha county, Minnesota, April 25, 1870, and is the daughter of Ira and Emma (Rueber) Fifield, natives, respectively, of New Hampshire and

New York. Mr. and Mrs. Goodmund have three children, as follows: Ira S., born April 11, 1893; Oscar J., born December 24, 1894; Carrie M.. born March 30, 1896.

C. F. CASE (1874) is one of the pioneer residents of Lyon county and a highly respected citizen of Marshall. He is an exreceiver of the United States Land Office and a pioneer journalist of Southwestern .Minnesota. He has taken an active part in the development of his home city and has erected several of its business blocks. He erected the Messenger Block as agent and put up and owns the brick store building adjoining the opera house on the west and the Case Block, in which the Reporter has its home. He also owns the opera house building at Ivanhoe, Minnesota, and farm land in Red Lake county.

The subject of this biography was born in South Manchester, Connecticut, November 1, 1839. When he was about fifteen yrears of age he accompanied his parents to Waterloo, Iowa, where his parents died soon after, throwing him upon his own resources. After securing a high school education, he taught school three years and then for one year was a student in Beloit (Wisconsin) College. Then the Civil War began, and young Case left college to fight for his country. He served as an enlisted man in Company B, of the Fortieth Wisconsin Infantry. He was discharged from the army in 1864 and became a student at the University of Michigan, from which he was graduated with the class of 1868.

Shortly after his graduation, Mr. Case bought the Clarksville, Iowa, Star and entered upon 'a journalistic career. He published the Star five years and then spent one year in California. Returning to Iowa, he edited the Waverly Republican two years. He disposed of that paper in 1874 and in December of that year arrived in Marshall. He bought of J. C. Ervin the Prairie Schooner, which had been founded by Mr. Ervin in 1873 and was the first paper published in the county. Mr. Case changed the name of the journal to Marshall Messenger and presided over its destinies until 1882, when he sold the paper to C. C. Whitney. Five years later Mr. Case founded the Lyon County Reporter and edited the paper until

Just before retiring from the newspaper business Mr. Case was made receiver of the United States Land Office, which was then located at Marshall, and served five years. Thereafter he engaged in the mercantile business at Herman, Minnesota, until the spring of 1910, when he again became a resident of Marshall. Mr. Case served as mayor of Marshall in 1884 and for several years was president of the Marshall Library Association. He is a member of D. F. Markham Post, G. A. R.

The marriage of Mr. Case to Fannie Waller occurred at Shellsburg, Iowa, November 6, 1872. Mrs. Case is a native of Illinois. They have three children, Frank W., Fred H. and Dorothy A.

IVER NELSON (1876) is the owner and manager of a 209-acre farm on section 2, Lucas township. He has made his home on that farm thirty-six years, having moved there with his parents when two and onehalf years of age. He has made a success of farming and stock raising and is one of the influential men of his precinct.

His parents were pioneers of Minnesota and of Lyon county. Iver Nelson, the father, was born in Norway, came to America in 1845, and shortly afterward enlisted in the army and fought in the war with Mexico. He served five years in the army and during the late forties was stationed at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. Later Mr. Nelson was a resident of Wisconsin and later still of Fillmore county, Minnesota. He located in Yellow Medicine county in an early day, and in the spring of 1876 he came with his family to Lyon county, purchased a homestead right to the farm now conducted by his son in Lucas township, and resided there until his death in 1895 at the age of eighty years. Aase (Frygne) Nelson, our subject's mother, was also born in Norway; she died in Lyon county in 1889.

Besides our subject there are six other children in the Nelson family, as follows: Nicholas, of Ada, Minnesota; Thomas, of Williams county, North Dakota; Henry, of Lucas township; Martha (Mrs. Thomas Joel), of Canada; Anna (Mrs. Erick Roti), of Vallers township; and Caroline (Mrs. John Prestegaard), of Yellow Medicine county.

Iver Nelson of this review was born in Yellow Medicine county October 2, 1873. He was brought with the family to Lyon county in 1876 and has ever since lived on the farm in Lucas township. He attended the district school until eighteen years of age and then took a one-term course in Willmar Seminary. He worked for his father until he attained his majority and in the fall of 1894 assumed control of the farm, of which he later became the owner.

For a number of years Mr. Nelson was a member of the Lucas Township Board of Supervisors, part of the time being chairman, has been township treasurer the past three years, has been clerk of school district No. 19 for the past twelve years, and was road overseer one year. He is a member of Silo Norwegian Lutheran Church of Cottonwood. Iver Nelson was married in Yellow Medicine county December 1, 1897, to Mary Cole. His wife is a native of Columbia county, Wisconsin, and was born January 9, 1872. Her parents, Lars and Johanna (Dahl) Cole, were pioneer settlers of Yellow Medicine county. The father still lives in that county, at the age of seventy-eight years; the mother died in 1893.

Six children have been born to Iver Nelson and his wife, their names and dates of births being as follows: Lloyd Ingren, born November 13, 1898; Arthur Joseph (deceased), born November 10, 1900; Herbert Ray, born November 24, 1902; Wilbur Vernand, born June 2, 1905; Morris Norman, born November 10, 1907; Kenneth Joseph, born February 23, 1910.

ANTON LORANZ (1874) is a homesteader and early settler of Lyon county. He owns 360 acres of land in Sodus township and he and his sons farm the entire tract.

Mr. Loranz was born in Germany in September, 1839, and he lived in the Fatherland until 1871. Coming to America that year, he spent the next three years in Wisconsin, working as a farm laborer and on the railroad. He came to Lyon county in 1874 and took as a homestead claim the southwest quarter of section 26, Sodus township, and on that place he has ever since lived. He added his other land later by purchase.

The subject of this biography was married in Sodus township in 1883 to Amelia Olson. She was born in Sweden September 16, 1S48, the daughter of Joahn and Anna M. Olson. She came to America with the family in 1881 and settled in Sodus township. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Loranz. named as follows: Daniel, born March 21, 1884; John, born August 25, 1SS5; James, born June 4, 1S92: Annie M., born February S, 1889.

JOHN L. CRAIG (1872). On the southeast quarter of section 14, Monroe township, adjoining the city of Tracy, stands a little 12x14 hut, weather-beaten and worn but still enduring after forty years. Also on the place stands a modern and commodious residence which is in accord with the well-kept up-to-date farm of the owner. Attending personally to the management of the place is its owner, John L. Craig, veteran of the Civil War and one of the early settlers of this county, who only a few months ago celebrated his seventy-sixth birthday.

There was no Tracy when Mr. Craig came to the county in the spring of 1872 and homesteaded the quarter on which he now resides and there was no railroad running so far west at that time. The lumber for the little house which still stands on the farm was hauled from Marshall and this small hut, built from rough boards, was Mr. Craig's home for the next three years. In the fall of 1872 the railroad was built. Until 1875 there was no station, the trains stopping a mile east of the present townsite at a place called Shetek Crossing. In 1875 and for a year after, trains used the warehouse of Neil Currie for a sitation, and Mr. Craig was the first station agent. The town was then called Big Bend. When he first came to the county Mr. Craig's only neighbors were Ed. Healy and David Stafford, who lived on Lake Sigel, two miles south, and Ed. Starr, whose homestead was a mile east. These were all, except a few families on the Cottonwood river.

Those early days were strenuous ones for the pioneers. When the grasshoppers were destroying the crops in Southwestern Minnesota in the seventies Mr. Craig went to Olmsted county and worked to support his family, while they remained in Lyon county on the homestead. During the first years of Tracy's history Mr. Craig started the first livery stable, in 1877. Before the railroads entered Pipestone Mr. Craig had the contract for carrying the mails from Tracy to Flandreau, South Dakota. His son John made the trips and a relief team was kept at Haycock Prairie, near Pipestone. After running the livery stable for a few years Mr. Craig sold out and took up farm work. He had always made his home on the farm, even when he was at work in the village.

Our subject was born in Eymouth, Scotland, January 10, 1836, and in 1854 he came to the United States and first settled in Waukesha county, Wisconsin, where he farmed for United States Senator I. P. Walker. Working there until the fall of 1861, he moved to Olmsted county, Minnesota, and continued farming until he enlisted in 1864. He served actively in the field until the battle of Guntown, Mississippi, where he was taken prisoner, and thereafter he was confined in prison until the close of the war. Returning to his Olmsted county home, Mr. Craig took up the management of the farm and in 1872 came West and took the homestead where he has since lived.

On August 12, 1858, in the town of Palmyra, Wisconsin, John L. Craig was married to Jeffery Craig, a native of her husband's old home in Scotland. Mrs. Craig was a helping partner through the stern years of frontier life. There are seven children living, Oliver L., John A., Douglas W., Arthur L., Carrie M., Cora B. and Jennie J. One child, Lillie D., is deceased.

THORE K. THOMPSON (1877), a prosperous farmer of Westerheim township, was born in Vallers, Norway, April 22, 1859, and is a son of Knut and Annie (Olson) Thompson.

When he was nine years of age Thore came to America with his parents and the family settled in Dane county, Wisconsin. There they remained until 1877, when they moved to Lyon county and took a homestead on the northwest quarter of section 2, Westerheim township. There our subject grew to manhood, received his education, and assisted his father with the farm work. In 1882 the boy started farming for himself on rented land, and two years later he bought the southeast quarter of section 1. He still owns and farms that land and also is the owner of two other quarters in the same township. The farm in Westerheim is one of the best i mi ) roved pieces of land in the township. Mr. Thompson is building a new barn which will be of 74x50 feet dimensions and will be one of the largest buildings in the vicinity. Our subject is paying much attention to stock raising and raises the Poland China breed of hogs for market shipment.

The marriage of our subject to Isabel Iverson occurred in the township May 17, 1888. She is the daughter of Ole and Annie (Gunbjonson) Iverson, natives of Norway, and was born in Minnesota May 5, 1863. By her marriage to Mr. Thompson she became the mother of seven' children, as follows: Knut A., born May 14, 1889; Annie O., born December 21, 1891; Mary O., born July 23, 1893; Olaf A., born January 20, 1896; Rosane L., born September 4, 1900; and Marvin T. and May I., twins, born February 9, 1903.

Mr. Thompson has been prominent in township affairs, having served on the town board twrenty years, as chairman of the Board of Supervisors, as clerk of the school district eighteen years, and as county commissioner four years. He owns shares in the Farmers Elevator Company of Cottonwood, and he and his wife are members of the Norwegian Lutheran church.

NELS ANDERSON (1877). One of the old and highly respected residents of Coon Creek township is Nels Anderson, who has lived in Lyon county for the past thirty-five years. He is a native of Jemtland, Sweden, and was born February 1, 1838, a son of Anders Jonson. Both his parents are deceased.

Nels received his schooling in the land of his birth and was a student until sixteen years of age. He then assisted his father with the work on the farm until he was twenty-one years of age. For the next ten years he worked out at farm labor and in the pineries. , he later sold, and in 1877 he moved to Lyon county. He homesteaded the north half of the southwest quarter of section 2, Coon Creek township. In 1889 he purchased sixty acres on section 3, of the same township, and in 1892 purchased 160 acres on section 2, making him the owner of 300 acres of fine land.

Our subject is a member of the Swedish Lutheran church. He is a very successful firmer and stock raiser. His son, John, now has charge of the place.

Magdalena Erickson became the wife of Mr. Anderson early in 1869. She is the daughter of Erick and Christina (Halvorson) Erickson, both deceased, and was born March 26, 1843, in Jemtland, Sweden. She has three brothers and two sisters: Carrie (Mrs. Martin Hammerberg), of Barron county, Wisconsin; Christine (Mrs. Christine Skold). Erick Erickson, Halvor Erickson and Nels Erickson, all of Jemtland, Sweden. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are the parents of the following named three children: Andrew, born October 17, 1869; Christine, born September 16, 1871, died in August, 1872, John, born November 19, 1874. Andrew and John both reside in Coon Creek township.

EDWIN F. WHITING (1882), member of the Minnesota Legislature, representing the seventeenth district, comprising the counties of Lyon, Lincoln and Yellow Medicine, is the editor and proprietor of the Balaton Press- Tribune and an implement dealer of that village. He has lived in Lyon county thirty years and has taken a prominent part in the affairs of his county.

Mr. Whiting is a native Minnesotan, having been born at Rochester October 10, 1861. He was educated in the Rochester schools and resided in that city until he reached his majority. He came to Lyon county in 1882 and engaged in farming in Custer township until the fall of 1901. That period of residence was punctuated occasionally by service as a traveling salesman for a year or two at a time.

In 1901 Mr. Whiting located in Balaton and bought the machinery, furniture and undertaking business of Urbane Wilhelm. Later he disposed of the furniture stock and has since dealt in machinery and attended to the undertaking business. He purchased the

Press-Tribune in March, 1910, and has since conducted that journal. Besides his other interests Mr. Whiting has farming interests. He is secretary of the Union Land and Credit Company, an incorporated firm.

During the time of his residence in Balaton Mr. Whiting has held many offices within the gift of his neighbors. He has been a member of the Village Council since 1902, the last six years a^ village recorder. He was clerk of the School Board three years and a member of the Board of Health ten years. In 1910 Mr. Whiting was elected a member of the Legislature on the Republican ticket and now represents his district in the state's law-making body. Our subject is a member of the Masonic and Woodmen orders.

The marriage of Mr. Whiting to Lois M. Foster occurred at Rochester, Minnesota, April 8. 1881. She is a native of Elkhorn, Wisconsin. They have five children, as follows: Vera (Mrs. O. H. Herrmann), of Oakland, California: Foster P., of Balaton; Eva (Mrs. C. E. Weeks), of Balaton; Nina B. and Leda M.

The parents of Edwin F. Whiting were E. P. and Sarah A. (Rice) Whiting, natives, respectively, of New York and Pennsylvania. They were married at Princeton, Wisconsin, and in 1857 became residents of Olmsted county, Minnesota. Mr. Whiting became a prominent man in that county and served two terms in the Legislature in the seventies. He died in Olmsted county in April, 1883. Mrs. Whiting died at the home of a son at New Richland, Minnesota, October 8, 1910. There are seven children living of the family, as follows: Homer, Frank, Edwin F., Etta (Mrs. George Struble), Casius P., Jenny (Mrs. H. A. Bates), Arthur L. The eldest child of the family, Nelson P., is deceased.

OLE E. PETERSON (1872) rents his father's farm, the northeast quarter of section 34, Custer township, land which the elder Mr. Peterson took as a homestead in 1872. Henry and Annie Peterson, parents of our subject, resided on the homestead until 1904, when they moved to Tracy, where they are now living.

Lyon county when Ole was a baby, and he has been a continuous resident of the county since that time. He was reared on the farm and attended school until thirteen years of age, at which time he hired out to a neighbor, herding cattle. That employment the boy followed three years; then he spent a year at farm labor and afterward ran a herd himself six years. He was an industrious young fellow and had been looking forward to the time when he should be farming for himself, so he rented the place he now conducts and has been on the place since that time. He raises cattle, horses, hogs and chickens, in addition to general farming, and is a stockholder of the Farmers Independent Elevator Company of Garvin and of the Garvin Telephone Company.

Ole Peterson and Lena Johnson were joined in the holy bonds of matrimony October 25, 189 9. Mrs. Peterson is a native of Fillmore county, Minnesota, and was born March 29, 1876. She is a daughter of Hans J. and Annie (Knutson) Bredeveien, the former of whom resides in Garvin and the latter being dead. Mr. and Mrs. Peterson have one child, Arthur, born September 11, 1900.

EVAN C. JONES, SR. (1877) is a dealer in caskets in the village of Russell. He is a native of Wales and was born January 22, 1842. He learned the carpenter's trade and worked at it in the old country until twenty-four years of age. His parents were John and Grace (Jones) Jones, both of whom died in Wales. They were the parents of six children, as follows: Winnie (Mrs. Morris Jones), of Wales; Jennett Thomas, Jane Jones and Griffith, of Wales; Ann and Richard Jones, of Utica, New York.

Our subject came to the United States when twenty-four years of age and settled in Rutland county, Vermont. There he worked in the state mines thirteen years. In 1877 he came to Lyon county and homesteaded the northeast quarter of section 8, Lyons township. He secured his claim in this way: The man who held the quarter section was a squatter, having failed to secure a right to the land. Mr. Jones was looking around for a claim and came across this man and offered to buy him out, and the squatter consented to sell. Mr. Jones paid him fifteen dollars in cash for the farm and fifteen bushels of potatoes.

Mr. Jones lived in a sod shanty on the place several years. During the snow year (1881) he went to Balaton for provisions on snow shoes, which he had made from red elm lumber. At that time the snow was over the telegraph poles. He resided on his Lyons township farm until 1900, when he sold to his son and moved to Russell, where he now resides. Since moving to Russell he has been engaged in selling caskets at the hardware store of his son, E. C. Jones, Jr.

On January 4, 1860, in Wales, occurred the marriage of our subject to Catherine Goodman, a daughter of Richard Goodman. Mr. and Mrs. Jones are the parents of seven children, as follows: Jane (Mrs. David Stiefel), Richard, Kate (Mrs. E. G. Loringer), Evan C, Jr., all of Russell; Emanuel, of North Dakota; John, of St. Paul; Grace (Mrs. James J. Sharratt), of Wadena.

Mr. Jones has in his possession a clock of considerable historical importance. It is the first time-piece bought by the Lyon county commissioners and for many years was used by them in the old building which stood on the present site of the Lyon county court house. Prior to moving into the new court house the officers sold some of the old furniture and among the lot was this old clock. Mr. Jones was present and bid it in for twelve cents. The clock is still doing duty and keeping good time in E. C. Jones' hardware store at Russell.

GOTTLIEB C. GOLTZ (1878) farms 177 acres of land on the south half of section 3, Rock Lake township, and has been a continuous resident of Lyon county since coming to this country from Germany in 1878. He located in the county on land he had purchased from the Northwestern Railroad Company. Mr. Goltz today has one of the finest improved farms and one of the most comfortable homes in the township.

Our subject was born in Germany June 2, 1853, and is a son of Christof and Christine (Wagner) Goltz, both deceased. Gottlieb in his boyhood attended the German common schools. From the time he was fourteen until his twentieth year he helped his father on the farm, after which he served in the German army three years. Leaving the army, Mr. Goltz again engaged in farming for some time in his native land, and in the spring of 1878 came to America and located on the farm in Rock Lake. He has been successful in his agricultural pursuits and has devoted much of his time in the last few years to cattle raising. For nine years Mr. Goltz was a director of school district No. 40, and he is a member of the A. O. U. W. lodge of Balaton.

Gottlieb Goltz was married June 22, 1882, to Wrilhelmina Frost, a native of Germany, the marriage ceremony taking place in Rock Lake township. His wife was born December 17, 1859, is a daughter of August and Juliana (Meyer) Frost, both now dead. From this union are four children living, as follows: Emma (Mrs. E. C. Jones, Jr.), of Russell, born April 4, 1883; Albert, born June 15, 1884; Adelaide, born February 28, 1886; and Martha, born November 7, 1890. The family are members of the German Lutheran church of Balaton.

THOMAS P. BALDWIN (1879), now a resident of Forest Grove, Oregon, was for many years a resident of Lyon county and prominent in public affairs. He served a term in the Minnesota Legislature, was county auditor, and held other offices of trust.

Mr. Baldwin was born in Yates county, New York, May 27, 1836. He accompanied his parents to Wisconsin in October, 184 6, and in May, 1856, he took up his residence in Fillmore county, Minnesota, where he secured government land. He engaged in farming in that county twenty-two years. He was in the army one year during the Civil War, as a member of the Fourth Minnesota Infantry, and in 1873 represented his district in the Legislature.

two years in Stanley township and in January, 1881, moved to Marshall. That city was his home until June 15, 1911, when he and his wife moved to Forest Grove. Oregon. Mr. Baldwin was deputy postmaster of Marshall from 1882 to 1888. He was elected county auditor in the fall of 1888 and was re-elected in 1890. For eight years he was a member of the Board of County Commissioners and took part in important county legislation.

Mr. Baldwin was married on Christmas Day, 1861, to Sarah L. Bird, of Winona county. They reared three children: T. J Baldwin, for many years a successful business man of Marshall and now a resident of Portland, Oregon; Ray D. Baldwin, for many years foreman of the Marshall News- Messenger office and now also of Oregon; and Ellen M., the wife of H. N. Robinson for many years a practical farmer of Lyon county and now a resident of Forest Grove, Oregon. For more than half a century Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Baldwin lived together. Mrs. Baldwin died at her Oregon home in the spring of 1912.

The subject of this review has seven grandchildren, as follows: Charles L. Robinson, Vinton, Harold, Irene and Lucile; Ray D. Baldwin, Jr., and Gertrude.

LESTER F. FOSTER (1878). An old resident of Lyon county is Lester F. Foster, the subject of this review, who now resides in Lynd township, where he is a land owner. He is a native of Illinois and was born at Kirkland September 20, 1861, the son of Charles S. and Sarah J. (Roberts) Foster. In 1878 Lester accompanied his parents to Lyon county and located with then on section 9, Lynd township. The father died May 7, 1909, and the mother October 3, 1900.

The subject of this review received his early education in the district schools of Wabasha county, Minnesota, and later in Lyon county, where he attended school until twenty years of age. He then worked for his father on the farm until he was twenty-five years of age. In 1887 he moved to Nebraska, where he resided about a year, and then returned to Lyon county. He has resided here continuously since. In April, 1905, Mr. Foster purchased the southwest quarter of section 10, Lynd township, which he still owns and operates. Besides farming, he engages quite extensively in stockraising. He is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Marshall and of the Modern Brotherhood of America lodge. Mr. Foster is a member of the Township Board of Supervisors of Lynd township, on which he has served four years. He was treasurer of school district No. 17 for five years. Mr. Foster is a stockholder and a director of the Farmers Elevator Company of Lynd.

August 29, 1886, occurred the marriage of Mr. Foster to Anna May Whitscell, a daughter of Benjamin Whitscell, of Grandview township. Mrs. Foster is a native of Illinois and was born near Rockford on December 3, 1868. To this union have been born the following children: Bennie Lester, born December 6, 1887; Hal Eugene, born August 30, 1889; Fay Ulmont, born March 26, 1897. All reside at home with their parents.

HALL BENSON (1878) owns the northeast quarter of section 19 and the west half of the southwest quarter of section 17, Nordland township, and is one of the township's successful farmers. He has lived in Lyon and Lincoln counties nearly all his life.

Mr. Benson is a native of Iceland and was born November 10, 1869. He accompanied his mother, Sigerbjurg Benson, and his stepfather, Sigfinnur Peterson, to America in 1878. The first winter the family lived in Westerheim towTnship and then moved to Lincoln county, where they took a homestead claim. His mother and stepfather now reside in Minneota. On that place Hall lived until 1900; then he bought his Nordland township farm and returned to Lyon county. He raises Poland China hogs and grade cattle.

For four years Mr. Benson was assessor of Nordland township and he has served as clerk of school district No. 2 9. He is a member of the Icelandic Lutheran church and of the Modern Woodmen lodge.

Mr. Benson was married in Lincoln county July 12, 1897, to Ida Johnson. She is also a native of Iceland and is a daughter of John Johnson, of Minneota. Her mother

OLE I. LEE (1873), a native of Lyon county, is manager of the Eagle Roller Mill Company's elevator at Minneota. He was born August 8, 1873, in Grandview township, on his father's homestead, the northeast quarter of section 18.

His parents were Christian H. and Oline (Aal) Lee, pioneer settlers of Lyon county. The father was born in Norway, came to the United States in 18 66, and settled in Iowa. In 1873 he came to Lyon county and homesteaded land. He resided here until 1892, when he moved to Moody county, South Dakota, where he now lives. The mother died in 1876. They were the parents of four children: H. C, G. C, Ole I. and Oline. Christine H. Lee was married a second time, in 1888, to Mrs. O. I. Leland. To this union have been born two children, Otto and Winnie. The father was the first blacksmith in the county, having operated a shop on his farm, and in 1875 ran a shop on the old townsite on the west side of the Yellow Medicine river.

Our subject resided on the old home farm in Grandview township until nineteen years of age. He then farmed and worked at various occupations until 1905, when he accepted the position as manager of the elevator at Minneota. This elevator, or part of it, was built in 1879 by the L. C. Porter Milling Company and was one of the first elevators in Minneota. In 188 9 a farmers' company purchased it and operated it several years, when it was sold to the Atlas Elevator Company. In 1905 it was sold to its present owners, the Eagle Roller Mills Company, of New Ulm, Minnesota. They deal in grain, coal and flour. The subject of this sketch is a member of the Modern Woodmen lodge.

On February 25, 1897, at Minneota, Bertha Meyers became the wife of Mr. Lee. Mrs. Lee is a native of Wisconsin but came to Lyon county when a child. They are the parents of six children: Lloyd, Oren, Clarence, Melba, Barbara and Charlotte.

best farm land and is a successful farmer and stock raiser. He is prominent in the township's affairs and has been clerk of school district No. 7 4 the past fourteen years. He served nine years on the town board, one year of that time as chairman, and for three years was treasurer. Mr. Pederson is a stockholder of the Home Telephone Company of Cottonwood.

Christopher and Beret (Slette) Pederson, our subject's parents, were natives of Norway, came to America in an early day, and located in Rice county, Minnesota. Later the family moved to Lyon county and the father took one of the first homesteads in Lucas township, filing in 1874. He was one of those hardy pioneers who had the fortitude to endure the early privations and lived to see the fruits of his endeavors, for at the time of his death, June 22, 1910, he was the owner of 12 00 acres of fine farm land in Lyon and Yellow Medicine counties. His widow lives at Cottonwood. In the family were six children: Johan (deceased), Hannah (Mrs. Hans Yolden), of Lucas; Peter C, of Lucas; John C, of this review; Lewis C, of Lucas; and Christian (deceased). The living children are all residents of the township.

-John C. was born in Rice county June 2 6, 1873, and came with his parents to Lyon county when a child of three weeks. Here he received his education and grew to manhood, and he worked on the home farm for his father until twenty-six years of age. At that time the parents moved to Cottonwood and our subject assumed active charge of the farm, and he has since ' run the place.

Mr. Pederson was married in the township May 3, 1901, to Sina Morken. She is a native of Norway and was born February 23, 1877. Mr and Mrs. Pederson are the parents of one child, Christopher, born September 16, 1902. The Pedersons belong to the Silo Norwegian Lutheran church of Cottonwood.

GEORGE K. BROUGHTON (1872). When he was one year of age, forty years ago, George K. Broughton was x brought by his parents to Lyon county, and ever since that time his home has been in Westerheim town- ship. He is thf owner of 200 acres of land, the home place being the southwest quarter of section 12, land taken as a homestead by his father. He has a well-improved farm and a nice home.

In Dane county, Wisconsin, on July 14, 1871, George Broughton was horn, a son of Knud and Martha Broughton, who are also residents of Westerheim township. He accompanied the family to Lyon county in L872, attended the district school until eighteen years old, and made his home with his parents until 1902. That year he was married and began farming for himself, having come into possession of the farm three years before. He is a successful farmer and extensive stock raiser, making a specialty of Belgian horses, Poland China hogs and Durham cattle. He is one of the stockholders of the Fanners Elevator Company of Minneota and has membership in the Norwegian Lutheran church of Normania township. Yellow Medicine county.

The marriage of our subject to Ingar Amundson took place November 21, 1902. Ingar Amundson was born in Norway April 24, 1875, and is a daughter of pioneers of Lyon county. Ole and Martha (Stensrud) Amundson settled in Lyon county in an early day, residing here a few years, and then made their home in Lincoln county, where they are still living.

Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Broughton: Mabel, born July 2, 1903; Myrtle, born February 13, 1905; Antonio, born October 9, 1909; and Grace, born December 28, 1911. -

JOHANN A. JOSEFSON (1878) has lived in Westerheim township thirty-four years, all except the first sixteen years of his life. By industry and thrift he has prospered and is rated among the progressive and substantial men of the township. He has an excellent farm and one of the finest farm homes in the county.

Iceland is Mr. Josefson's native land and he was born April 5, 1862. In 1878 he came to America with his parents and an uncle, Joseph Josefson, and has ever since lived in Lyon county. His father took a homestead claim in Limestone township, Lincoln county, but Johann made his home with his uncle, who took as a homestead the northwest

Two years before that time Mr. Josefson had become a land owner, having bought the southwest quarter of section 9, Westerheim, in partnership with his relative, and he still owns the south half of that quarter. In 1895 he began farming for himself and now owns and resides on the northwest quarter of section 4. In the summer of 1909 Mr. Josefson erected at considerable cost a re-enforced concrete house of fine architecture and the only one of the kind in the county. The building has nineteen rooms, including the basement rooms, and is one of the best appointed farm homes of the county.

Air. Josefson was one of the organizers of school district No. 80 and he was a director and later treasurer of the district several years. He also served as a member of the Township Board of Supervisors several terms. He has stock in the Farmers Elevator Company of Minneota and in the Lyon County Fair Association. He is a Mason, holding membership in the Minneota Lodge No. 2::s.

Vigfus and Sigurborg Josefson, the parents of our subject, came from Iceland in 1878 and took a homestead in Lincoln county, where they resided until Mrs. Josefson's death in 1895. Since that time Mr. Josefson has resided with his sons. There are five children in the family, namely: Joseph V., of Minneota; Sigurrin V., of Lincoln county; Herman and Johann, of Westerheim township; and Sigrid (Mrs. Ernest Johnson), of Minneota.

The first marriage of Johann Josefson occurred in Westerheim township Novemuer 28, 1895, when he wedded Thordes Snorradottir. She was born in Iceland and died February 27, 1900, at the age of twenty-four years. The second marriage of Mr. Josefson was solemnized in Westerheim township May 27, 1906, his bride being Gudny Hofteig. She was born in Iceland October 12, 1871, and came to Lyon county with her parents from the old country in 1878. S. S. Hofteig and Steinunn Hofteig, her parents, took as a homestead claim the southeast quarter of section 2, Westerheim, and still reside there. Mr. and Mrs. Josefson have three daughters. Thordis S. E., Isfold S. and Johanna G. H. Mrs. Josefson is a member of the Icelandic

Lutheran church. She is a woman of unusual educational attainments, having been graduated from the Advanced Course of the State Normal School at Winona with the class of 1897 and from the Classical Course of Gustavus Adolphus College at St. Peter with the class of 1906.

ERNEST S. SHEPARD (1894), auditor of Lyon county, was born in Worthington, Minnesota, September 4, 1877. He is the son of C. P. and Anna V. (Cowan) Shepard, natives of New York and Maine, respectively, and now residents of Marshall.

Ernest received his education in the Worthington High School and in the Breck School at Wilder, Minnesota. At the age of seventeen years he moved to Marshall with his parents, and that city has ever since been his home. For a time he was a student at the Curtiss Business College of Minneapolis, and for a short time he was a clerk in the United States Land Office at Marshall, of which his father was the register. For three years he worked in the office of the county treasurer and for eight years was deputy county auditor. In November, 1906, he was elected auditor and has since held the office.

At Marshall, on September 3, 1898, Mr. Shepard was united in marriage to Esther Harrison. She is a native of Lyon county and is the daughter of E. J. Harrison, a pioneer settler. Mr. Shepard is a member of the Masonic, Eastern Star and Modern Woodmen lodges.

PETER T. DAHL (1888) is the manager of the North Star Implement Company of Cottonwood and has resided in Lyon county since he was fifteen years of age. He is a native of Minnesota, having been born in Blue Earth county January 30, 1873. He is the son of T. A. and Emma (Oftedahl) Dahl, who were born in Norway and who came to America and settled in Blue Earth county over forty years ago. They reside on their farm in Vallers township. There are six living children in the Dahl family, namely: Carrie, Peter T., of this sketch; C. T., of Madelia; Barhard, of Yellow Medicine county; Ludvig, of Cottonwood; and Fred, who resides on the home farm. One child. Theodore, died March 3, 1911, aged twenty-nine years, and another child, Bertha, died in 1907, at the age of twenty-seven years.

Peter accompanied the family to Lyon county in 1888 and until 1897 lived on the farm of his father, on section 1, Vallers township. In the year mentioned Mr. Dahl took a position as traveling salesman for the Champion Binder Company, served with that company two years, and during the next year was with the Deering Company. He then located in Cottonwood and with E. P. Kelly founded the implement business of Dahl & Kelly. The partners conducted the business until 1905, when the North Star Implement Company was formed and bought out the partners. Since that time Mr. Dahl has been the manager of the company.

Mr. Dahl was married in Madison, Minnesota, October 26, 1905, to Lizzie Brown. She is a native of Rochester, Minnesota, but for twenty years before her marriage had resided in Madison. They have no children. Mr. Dahl has served as a member of the Village Council and for the last two years he has been village treasurer.

The North Star Implement Company is one of the important business enterprises of Cottonwood. The business is housed in the Bazaar Building, which the company bought. The company was organized and incorporated in 1905 with a capital stock of $25,000 by a number of local capitalists. It handles a large line of farm implements and automobiles. The officers and directors of the company are as follows: J. F. Gibb, president; J. B. Robertson, vice president; L. T. Reishus, secretary and treasurer; P. T. Dahl, manager; David Frank, T. A. Lende, Charles Catlin and I. T. Garry.

FRED W. MELLENTHIN (1879) is one of the most prosperous farmers of Lynd township and Lyon county, as well as one of the largest land holders. He is a native of Germany and was born at Frainenwalde April 26, 1859. He is the son of William and Amelia Mellenthin, both deceased.

Fred received his early education in the land of his nativity, where he attended school until thirteen years of age. He also attended school near New London, Wisconsin, for two terms. He accompanied his parents to America when thirteen years of age and

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In 1879 Mr. Mellenthin came to Lyon couni\ and. in company with his brother August, purchased the southwest quarter of section 9, Lynd township, which they farmed until 1882, when they divided the land. Fred improved his eighty acres and since that time has hecome the owner of 840 acres more, making him the owner of 920 acres of fine land. He operates between five and six hundred acres. Our subject is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran church. He has been an officer of school district No. 17 for several years and wras road overseer for several years.

On February 12. 1883, Mr. Mellenthin was united in marriage to Amelia Schellin, a daughter of Ferdinand and Rika (Kruger) Schellin, former residents of Wisconsin. Both her parents are deceased. Mrs. Mellenthin was born March 11, 1866. Mr. and Mrs. Mellenthin are the parents of the following named children: Ernest, born June 21, 1884; Louis, born October 7, 1886; Emma, born January 16, 18S9; Robert, born November 18, 1891; Alma, born August 7, 1894.

DR. C. E. PERSONS (1877) is the oldest doctor in Marshall in point of service. He was born in Spencerville, Allen county, Indiana, on February 27, 1847. He is the son of Salmon M. and Mary M. (.Cutts) Persons, natives of Orwell, Vermont. They moved to Spencerville in the fall of 1846. At the close of the war they came to Minnesota, locating at Northfield, where the mother died in 187 5. The father died in Lyon county in 18 80. When sixteen years of age, our subject accompanied his parents to Northfield, where he remained until 1877 and where he received his early education, graduating from Carleton College, Northfield. He was also graduated from Ann Arbor College in the spring of 1877.

In the latter year Dr. Persons came to Lyon county and engaged in the practise of his profession, and he has continued here since that date. He went through the ' struggles of a young doctor in pioneer days in Lyon county, he being the oldest doctor, in point of service, of the county. He was county coroner several years, has been

United States pension examiner since 1880, and is local physician for the Northwestern Railroad Company. He has been county physician and has been treasurer of the school board a number of years, having been on the board at the time of the erection of the new school building.

The first office of Dr. Persons was upstairs in a little frame building on the south side of Main Street, where the City Meat Market is now, the lower floor being occupied as the postoffice. Later he had his office in a frame building where the Olson & Lowe store is now, and later he and James Lawrence built the two brick buildings on the same site, where our subject was located a number of years. Dr. Persons built the residence now owned by F. J. Parker in 1891. He now has his office in his residence, which he built in 1906.

Dr. Persons was married in Marshall November 27, 1878, to Addie E. Gary, a native of Winona county, Minnesota. She was born June 12, 1858, the year Minnesota was admitted to the Union, and came to Lyon county with her parents, H. B. and Nancy (Woodard) Gary. The former died in 1911, the latter in 1905. Mrs. Persons wa's a school teacher and taught in the Marshall schools several years. She is a graduate of the Winona Normal School., .class of 1877. Dr. and Mrs. Persons are the parents of two children: Harris Edward and Robert Wayne.

Our subject's parents had six children, four of whom are living. They are as follows: Dr. C. E., of this sketch1; Emma A. (Mrs. C. C. Wagner), of Larimore, North Dakota; Orville E., of Clarkston, Idaho; Mary E. (Mrs. Albert Dresser), of New Salem, North Dakota.

MRS. CATHERINE M1ELKE (1874) is the widow of Herman Mielke, one of the pioneer settlers of Lucas township. She lives on the farm, directs its management, and employs help to attend to the farm labor.

and was born May 23, 1834. He received his bringing up in his home country and came to America in 1872, and it was two years later that he took a homestead in Lucas township, Lyon county. That was his home until his death December 26, 1910, and his widow is now living on the old homestead.

The subject of this sketch is a native of Canada and was born August 22, 1858, a daughter of William and Annie (Bell) Rose, both now deceased. Our subject accompanied her grandparents to the States when eleven years old, and the family were among the first settlers in Lucas township, the year 1870 being the year of their arrival. Mrs. Mielke received her education in the country school and resided with her grandparents until 1875.

That was the year of her marriage, the date being November .11, and the ceremony being performed at Marshall. Mr. and Mrs. Mielke were the parents of thirteen children, twelve of whom are living, as follows: Hermenne, of Minneapolis; William, of Big Horn, Wyoming; Matilda (Mrs. William Thiel), of Stanley township; Augusta (Mrs. Edward Broberg), of Dassell; August, of Canada; Elizabeth (Mrs. Sebert Lien), of Dassel; Elvine (Mrs. Edward Schultz), of Franklin; Bertha (Mrs. William Kahl), of Yellow Medicine county; Julius, of Fairfax; Hattie, of Franklin; and Mamie and Mabel, at home. Mrs. Mielke has long been a member of the Presbyterian church.

ANTON A. HELLICKSON (1876), of Westerheim township, has lived on one farm in that precinct since he was one year of age. He is a son of Andrew and Enger (Cliffgard) Hellickson and was born in Dane county, Wisconsin, May 8, 1875.

Anton accompanied his parents to Lyon county when one year old, in 1876, and has ever since made his home with his parents. He received a good education, taking a two-year course in the Minneota High School and attending the Madison Normal School after completing his primary education. For a number of years he has been engaged in farming, operating 240 acres of his father's land in addition to his own land, the southeast quarter of section 9, .Westerheim, which he bought in 1904. Mr. Hellickson has made a success of his farming operations and is classed as one of the successful men of his township. He raises Durham cattle and Duroc-Jersey hogs.

Mr. Hellickson was married in Yellow. Medicine county February 22, 1897, to Anneta Brusven. She was born in that county November 29, 1877. Her parents, Olaus and Annie (Roeberg) Brusven, were born in Norway and are now residents of Yellow Medicine county. Mr. and Mrs. Hellickson have three children, Alice, Alvin and Amelia. They are members of the Norwegian Lutheran church.

FRED C. MARKS (1876) is a farmer and land owner of Clifton township who has lived in that precinct since he was five years of age. He was born in Plainview, Wabasha county, Minnesota, January 18, 1871. His parents are Charles and Margaret (Mengild) Marks, natives of Germany and now residents of Granite Falls.

When he was a little past five years old, in 187 6, Fred Marks accompanied his parents to Lyon county. His father took as a homestead claim the northeast quarter of section 2, Clifton township, and on that place our subject spent his boyhood days. At fourteen years of age he began working out as a farm hand and was so employed several years, spending one year working on a railroad in North Dakota. In the spring of 1891 Mr. Marks bought the northwest quarter of section 3, Clifton township, and on that place he has ever since made his home, excepting the year 1910, when his place was operated by a tenant.

Mr. Marks has stock in the Lyon County Fair Association. He served one year on the Board of Supervisors of Clifton township and was treasurer of school district No. 42 three years. He is a Woodman by lodge affiliation.

The marriage of Mr. Marks to Jennie Nelson occurred in Marshall October 30, .1896. She was born in Denmark May 7, 1874, and died March 19, 1911. To this union the following named five children were born: Charles F., Helen, Alice, Raymond and Louis (deceased).

ANDREW J. SWENSON (1872) owns the southwest quarter of section 23, Monroe township, and -is one of the prominent -farmers of the community. He is a warm advocate of the co-operative principle in business and was largely responsible for the formation of the Farmers Co-operative Elevator Company of Garvin and for the advancement of the co-operative idea in that village and vicinity.

Mr. Swenson was born in Norway October 18, 1852, and at the age of nine years came with his parents, John and Mary (Syverson) Swenson, to America, the family locating in La Crosse county, Wisconsin, where the father died in 1861. Andrew resided with his family in his youth and received his education in the common schools. In 1872 he and a brother-in-law drove with an ox-team from La Crosse county to Lyon county, Minnesota. They camped on the way, and the journey was necessarily slow. The boys spent the spring and summer on the trip and looked the country over, returning that fall to Wisconsin, where Andrew remained until 1876.

In 187 6 our subject moved to Lyon county and was employed the next four years' in farming and railroading. In the fall of 1880 he married, and then in company with John J. Holden he rented the Cutts farm in Custer township and farmed the place four years. Andrew's mother had remarried after the death of her first husband, and in 1872 she came to Lyon county and took a homestead and resided here until 1894, then going to Washington, where she died in 1901. After four years on the Cutts farm, Andrew moved to the homestead which his mother had taken and there made his home four years. He then purchased 160 acres in Murray county and farmed the place ten years, later adding to his possessions and making his total holdings 280 acres.

In the spring of 1901 Mr. Swenson returned to Lyon county and located on his farm, the southwest quarter of section 23. For four years he conducted the Sleepy Eye elevator at Tracy, and for about one year and a half he had charge of the farmers' elevator at Garvin, but for the most part Mr. Swenson has made his home on the farm on section 2 3 since 1901. Our subject has held various offices during his residence in Murray and Lyon counties. He was chairman of the Town Board in both Murray and Lyon counties several years. During his entire residence in Murray county he was treasurer of his school district, and he has held the office of assessor.

Andrew Swenson was married November 15, 1880, in Murray county, to Carrie Olson, a native of Wisconsin. She was born January 3, 1858. Mr. and Mrs. Swenson are the parents of the following children: Hattie Matilda (Mrs. Peter O. Nasvik), of St. Paul; Julia Mabel, Clara Amanda, Emma Sophia, Nina Louisa and Anna Ovida. Mr. Swenson is a member of the Norwegian Lutheran church, and his fraternal affiliations are with the Modern Woodmen lodge.

DR. H. M. WORKMAN (1884), physician and surgeon of Tracy, has resided in that city, engaged in -the practice of his profession, for twenty-eight years. He is one of two children (the other being Morris Workman, of Tracy) born to Daniel M. and Virginia (Gephardt) Workman, natives of Ohio.

Dr. Workman was born in Circleville, Ohio, May 14, 1855. After receiving a high school education he matriculated in Northwestern University of Chicago and was granted a diploma in medicine with the class of 1878. He practised in Chicago until 1880, when he located in Huron, So;ith Dakota. A short time later he located in Sleepy Eye, and in 1884 he became a resident of Tracy, where he has ever since been engaged in practice.

The doctor is a member of the American Medical Association, the state association, the Lyon-Lincoln Medical Association, and the American Railway Surgeons Association. He is a member of the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery of the Masonic order, the Eastern Star, Modern Woodmen and A. O. U. W. lodges.

Dr. Workman was married at Mankato, Minnesota, January 27, 1887, to Nell M. Gleason, a native of Winona county, Minnesota. They have one child, Warner Gleason Workman, who is a student in the Medical Department of the University of Minnesota.

Biogbaphical History

ALVIN L. BLANCH ARD (1879) has continuously had his home in Lyon county thirty-three years. He owns a 235-acre farm on section 4, Rock Lake township, and is rated as a successful farmer. He raises Norman and Percheron horses, Hereford cattle and Poland China hogs.

Mr. Blanchard is one of a family of four children, the others being Clarence A., of Blanchardville, Wisconsin; Kate (Mrs. Samuel Corbin), of Lily, South Dakota; and William, of Blanchardville. The father of these children was Alvin Blanchard, after whom the city of Blanchardville was named. He was born in New York, settled in Wisconsin in an early day, and died in 1911. The mother of the children is Mary (Skiner) Blanchard, of Balaton.

Alvin L. Blanchard of this review was born in the city named after his father on August 6, 18 58. When he was seven years of age he accompanied the family to Freeborn county, Minnesota, and resided with them there until 1879; then the family came to Lyon county. Alvin farmed in Lyons township five years and has since been engaged in the same business in Rock Lake, for many years on his present farm.

Mr. Blanchard has stock in the Current Lake Telephone Company and the Lyon County Co-operative Company of Balaton He has membership in the Masonic and Woodmen lodges of Russell, having been a charter member of the last named.

The marriage of Mr. Blanchard to Hattie A. Van Fleet occurred in Rock Lake township in December, 1884. His wife was born in Chatfield, ' Minnesota, June 14, 1859. Her parents, John A. and Nancy G. (Gere) Van Fleet, were pioneers of Lyon county, homesteaded a part bf the land now owned by Mr. Blanchard, and are both dead. Mr. and Mrs. Blanchard have four children: Gertrude L., a school teacher of Berlin, North Dakota; Terresa H. (Mrs Henry Erickson), of Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Gladys S. (Mrs. Milton S. Clark), of Rock Lake township; and Llewellis Van, who lives with his parents.

DAVID R. ROBERTS (1878), Lyons township farmer, has lived in the county and on the farm he now occupies since he was a child nine years of age. His parents,

When David was two or three years of age the family moved to Michigan, where the father worked at the slate maker's trade and in the copper mines several years. They came to Lyon county in 1878 and took as a homestead claim the southwest quarter of section 20, Lyons township, which place has ever since been the home of our subject.

Until 1901 David worked on the home farm and then he rented the place from his father and has since had the management. In his stock raising he makes a specialty of Aberdeen Angus cattle. Mr. Roberts owns stock in the Farmers Elevator Company of Russell. He has served ten years as treasurer of his township and is a member of the Workmen lodge.

Mr. Roberts was married in Russell on September 4, 1901, to Sadie Jones, a native of Illinois and a daughter of John N. and Jemima (Jenkins) Jones. The three children of Mr. and Mrs. Roberts are named Joe, Ethel and Mildred.

MRS. MARIE G. OLSON (1872) is the owner of the south half of section 30, Monroe township, a well-improved farm. She resides on the farm and is assisted in its management by three of her sons, Emil, Edward and John, who own land adjoining and are successfully conducting the home place. They have large herds of Shorthorn cattle and Duroc-Jersey swine and a number of fine Percheron horses.

Mrs. Olson was born in Holand, Norway, November 27, 1844. She was married to John Matteson in 1866 and came to America in 1869 and located in Fillmore county, Minnesota, where a few weeks after their arrival her husband died. Two sons were born to this union, Emil, who was born in 1867, and Martin J., who was born in 1869.

In 1871 our subject was married to Gunerius Olson, and the next year they moved from Fillmore county to Lyon county. They took as a homestead claim the southwest quarter of section 30, Monroe township, and later they bought the southeast quarter of the same section. Mr. Olson, who was born in Norway in 1840,

OLE RIALSON (1872). There are few people living in Lyon county today who were here when Ole Rialson came more than forty years ago. He is a veteran of the Civil War, a homesteader of Lyon county, and a man who has been prominent in the affairs of his community. He now lives a retired life in the city of Tracy.

Mr. Rialson was born in Norway September 24, 1841. He accompanied the family to America in 1849 and the first winter in the New World was spent in Rock county, Wisconsin. The next year the Rialsons moved to Green county of the same state, where Rile Rialson, the father, pre-empted a quarter section of government land. The father died on that place and his wife, Lucy (Syverson) Rialson, died at the home of her son in Tracy.

Our subject was brought up on the farm and after growing up engaged in that pursuit on his own account. On August 11, 1862, at Monroe, Wisconsin, he enlisted in Company G, Twenty-second Wisconsin Infantry, and served in the army until the close of the war. From the time of the battle of Chattanooga until the war was over Mr. Rialson was in General Sherman's army and was one of those who made the memorable march to the sea. He was taken prisoner in Tennessee and for a time was confined in Libby Prison.

After the war Mr. Rialson returned to Green county and farmed until his removal to Lyon county in the spring of 1872. Upon his arrival he took as a homestead claim the southeast quarter of section 22, Monroe township, close to which the village of Tracy was founded three years later. He built a sod shanty on the claim and in the fall was joined by his family. Upon his arrival the only people living in Monroe township were E. W. Healy, David Stafford, Ole Anderson, Ole Helgeson, Asle Olson and Charles Christopherson.

lumber from Walnut Grove and erected a small frame building. Later that was replaced by a more pretentious structure, and Mr. Rialson and his family resided therein until 1892, when he moved to Tracy and retired from active life. While he was hauling the lumber for his first frame house, Mr. Rialson had his first view of the dreaded grasshoppers, which wrought such damage. He did not desert the country, as did so many of the homesteaders, but has continuously made his home here since his first arrival.

The name of the township in which he has lived for so many years was bestowed by Mr. Rialson, after Monroe, the county seat of Green county, Wisconsin. At the election, which was held in his house, the name Monroe was suggested by Mr. Rialson and the name Chelsea by Mr. Wells. The voters adopted the name suggested by our subject. Mr. Rialson was also one who took an active part in the organization of the township and he was the first township treasurer, as well as the first treasurer of his school district.

The marriage of Mr. Rialson to Gunild Olson occurred in Green county, Wisconsin, on New Year's Day, 1866. She was born in Norway and died in Tracy February 12, 1902. Mr. Rialson has one child, Robert, who resides on the old homestead. Four sons born to the union have died. The second marriage of Mr. Rialson occurred March 26, 1903, when he wedded Mis. Ingeborg Erlandson. .

JOHN JOHNSON (187 6) has spent the entire thirty-six years of his life in Lyon county. He owns the southeast quarter of section 5, Westerheim township, has made all the improvements on that place, and has a fine home. He was born in Nordland township August 21, 187 6, and after growing to manhood bought his farm and engaged in business for himself.

Jens B. and Annie (Kittleson) Johnson, his parents, live on the old homestead on section 2, Nordland. They came from Norway early in life and were married in Wisconsin. Later they lived in Goodhue county, Minnesota, a short time, a few years in Yellow Medicine county, and in 1876 they bought a homestead right in Nordland township and have resided there ever since. There are six children in the family, as follows: Bessie (Mrs. H. B. Nelson), of South Dakota; Mary, Sina (Mrs. John Wahl), of South Dakota; Annie, John, of this review; and Gilbert, of Eidsvold township.

John Johnson was married at Canby May 1, 1901, to Bessie Julia Severson. She was born in Dane county, Wisconsin, and is a daughter of Anton Severson, who has lived in Yellow Medicine county the past twenty years. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have two children, Alice S. and Gladys J. The family are members of the Norwegian Lutheran church of Minneota and Mr. Johnson has been a member of the school board of district No. 80 for the past four years.

FRANCIS GITS (1883), of Ghent, having retired from active business life after a long and active career and having reached the good age of sixty-six years, departed with his wife in 1904 for Belgium with the intention of making the land of their birth the home of their declining years. The following year found the elderly couple safely back in Ghent, Minnesota, in the land of their adoption, fully decided that Ghent was home. Such was the love for this country that had been instilled into the minds of Francis Gits and his wife after they had made America their residence since immigrating to this country in 1883. It does not seem strange that here Mr. Gits should find contentment. It has been the field of his earnest endeavors, his business activity, his progress, his prosperity. His children are in business there and the community contains many friends.

Born October 6, 1838, a son of Louis and Natalie Gits, Francis was reared in Cortemork, Belgium, his birthplace. At the age of sixteen, his schooling being completed, he learned the blacksmith's trade under his father and became proficient. He followed that calling in the old country and continued to do so after coming to .America and locating in Ghent in the summer of 1883. That year Mr. Gits also started a general store and opened a hotel in Ghent and continued to operate all three places during the following thirteen years. He added a hardware stock to his general store. In 1901 Mr. Gits retired from active business. He has been very successful, both in business and in the field of investment, making frequent purchases of real estate and selling at good advances. He is the owner of two residence properties in Marshall and three in Ghent, and is a stockholder of the First State Bank of Ghent.

The subject of our sketch is a loyal member of the Catholic church and has been a trustee of the Ghent church for twenty years. For several years he was a trustee of the village board and was for several years president of the council. ' For several terms he was on the school board.

January 15, 18 63, Francis Gits wedded Louise Cornette, a native of Belgium. She was born June 22, 1836. The following children were born to this union: Paul, Julius, Joseph, Victor, Edmund, Arthur, Prudence (Mrs. Gustav Vergote), deceased, and Clemence (Mrs. Charles Foulon), of Ghent.

CASSIUS M. WILLFORD (1878) is an old resident of the county and has lived in Custer township thirty-two years. He was born in Winona county, Minnesota, August 14, 1861, and is a son of Daniel and Malinda (Joy) Will ford, the former of whom is deceased and the latter being a resident of Balaton. His parents were early settlers in Lyon county, the father having taken as a homestead the northeast quarter of section 22, Custer township, where the family resided until the fall of 1891, when the parents moved to Balaton.

Cassius received his education in Winona county, where he resided until sixteen years of age. In the spring of 1878 he and his brother, Clinton, came to Lyon county and engaged in preparing the land which their father had taken the previous year as a tree claim. The lad continued to make his home with his parents until thirty years of age, at which time he married and took up his residence on the southeast quarter of section 15, Custer township, land which he had purchased in 188 5 and where he has since resided, with the exception of five years spent in Tracy. Mr. Willford has increased his real estate holdings and now farms 240

H10Gkapiiical History

The marriage of Cassius .M. Willford and Laura Cutler occurred in Tracy January 14, 1891. To this union one child, John Cutler, was born March 21, 1892. Mrs. Will ford is a native of Vermont, and her parents, John H. and Martha (Fisher) Cutler, are both dead. They were early settlers of the county, coming to Custer township in 1881 and making that their home until their deaths.

Cassius Wilttord served several years on the Custer township board and is a stockholder of the Farmers Independent Elevator Company of Garvin. Fraternally he is allied with the A. O. U. W. lodge of Balaton, the Masons of Tracy, and the Modern Woodmen lodge of Garvin.

LOUIS HELGESON (1874) is one of Monroe township's successful farmers, owning the northeast quarter of section 28, which adjoins the quarter section belonging to his brother Ole. He was born April 3, 1874, on his father's homestead, the northwest quarter of section 28, Monroe township. During his boyhood days he worked for his father and attended the school of district No. 33. After completing his schooling he worked for neighboring farmers and at home until his father's death in 1892.

After the father's death Louis Helgeson, in company with his brothers Ole and Helge, rented a half section of land, and for several years the three boys farmed that and the homestead in partnership. In 1906 Louis withdrew from the partnership and bought the land which he now owns, which he has farmed since that time. He has a well improved piece of land and engages in raising cattle to some extent.

The marriage of Louis Helgeson and Elise Anderson occurred December 20, 1906, in Monroe township. Mrs. Helgeson was born April 25, 1885, and died October 18, 1908.

The parents of our subject were Ole Helgeson Brevig, born November 9, 1840, and Isabel (Olsdatti) Helgeson, both natives of Norway. They came to this country in 1869 and located in Fillmore county, Minnesota. They resided there a few years before coming to Lyon county in 1871 and taking a homestead in Monroe township. Both parents are now dead.

Louis Helgeson is ;i member of the Holand Norwegian Lutheran church. For two years he served on the Township Board of Supervisors of Monroe township.

A. C. CHITTENDEN (1878), a retired business man of Marshall and the owner of Opera - House Block, has played an important part in the history of that city, of which he has been a resident thirty-four years.

Mr. Chittenden was born in the town of Westbrook, Middlesex county, Connecticut, -luly 29, 1845, a descendant of old colonial stock. His paternal grandfather, Cornelius Chittenden, was a veteran of the Revolutionary War and died in Westbrook, Connecticut, about 1857, at the age of ninety-three years. The subject of this review attended the funeral. The parents of our subject, Albert C. and Patience L. (Jones) Chittenden, were also natives of Middlesex county, Connecticut. The father died at Boulder, Colorado, in 1878, at the age of sixty-seven years. The mother died in Brooklyn, New York, in 1900.

In the Chittenden family, besides our subject, are the following: Richard H., an attorney of New York, and Albert J., both deceased; Newton H., a Civil War veteran and an explorer, of Brooklyn, New York; Adelaide (Mrs. James Turner), of Brooklyn; Rev. Ezra P., an Episcopal minister and a graduate of Yale, of Clinton, Missouri, who is the author of "Pleroma," a poem of the Christ, published in book form in 1889; and Carolin (Mrs. J. Turner), of Brooklyn.

When A. C. Chittenden was thirteen years of age he accompanied his parents from the old Connecticut home and located at Ripon, Wisconsin, where he resided until twentyone- years of age. There he spent the summer months working on his father's farm near Ripon and the winter months attending the Ripon High School. He completed his education in Ripon College. In the early seventies the family scattered, the parents moving to Boulder, Colorado. When he reached his majority our subject located at Milwaukee, where he was a bookkeeper in a commission house two years. He then located at Atwater, Minnesota, and engaged in business for himself. He put up a little building, opened a store, and made his start in life Seven years after locating in Atwater, Mr. Chittenden moved to Boulder,

Colorado, where he engaged in the real estate business. By a bank failure Mr. Chittenden lost $4400. He then went to Minneapolis, remained there a short time, and in 1878 became a resident of Marshall.

The year after his arrival in Marshall Mr. Chittenden erected the Opera House Block (in which he still maintains an office) and opened a store which he conducted a quarter, of a century. This old building has been used for many purposes - for a public hall, opera house and court house, the district court having been held therein before the new court house was erected. Mr. Chittenden engaged in other business enterprises. He erected a hotel at Minnesota Junction, conducted a store at Watertown, South Dakota, and a branch at Ami ret. For a time he was also connected with the old Lyon County Bank. The double brick block now occupied by the Marshall Furniture Company and Durrenburger's harness shop was erected by Mr. Chittenden. After retiring from active business Mr. Chittenden spent two years in Redlands. California, where he put up a business block to rent. He is now the owner of about 1200 acres of farm land and devotes his energies to their management and to real estate deals. Mr. Chittenden was the first no-license mayor of Marshall.

The subject of this review was married at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Agnes Hill. She is a native of Edinburgh, Scotland, and a daughter of John and Sarah Hill. The family came to the United States when Agnes Hill was about eight years of age and settled in Milwaukee. Mr. and Mrs. Chittenden have four children: Rodney, of Ritzville, Washington: Walter, of Marshall; Florence (Mrs. Fred Shardlow), of Marshall; and Alice, a graduate nurse of St. Paul's Hospital, St. Paul. Mr. Chittenden is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution.

LEWIS C. PETERSON (1874) has been a resident of Lucas township since his birth, November 27, 1874. He is a prominent farmer of the township, is the owner of 360 acres of its best land, and has all but forty acres under cultivation.

Our subject's parents, Christopher and Bertha (Berret) Peterson, were pioneer settlers of Lyon county, the father taking a homestead in Lucas township in 1872 and.

residing on the farm until 1909, when he and his wife moved to Cottonwood to live. He died one year later and Mrs. Peterson still lives in that village. Christopher Peterson prospered during the many years of his residence in the township and at the time of his death was the owner of several hundred acres of land.

Lewis received his education in the common schools of the district and completed his schooling at the age of seventeen, after which he worked for his father until 1897; then he started farming for himself oifrthe land which he now owns and where he has since resided. He engages in grade stock raising to a considerable extent and has succeeded in his undertakings. He is a stockholder of the Home Telephone Company of Cottonwood.

11, 1S84, and her parents reside in Norway. By her marriage to Mr. Peterson she became the mother of three children, as follows: Alvena, born July 16, 1907; Betsey, born September 17, 1908; and Thorfin, born May