Lyon County, Minnesota - Biographical sketches, 1912 (part 9 of 17)

H. P. FULTON (1892) is a general contractor and the proprietor of a wood working manufactory and an automobile garage in the city of Marshall. He has been a resident of that city for the past twenty years and has taken a prominent part in the affairs of his city.

Mr. Fulton is the son of the late Francis M. and Annie M. (Palmer) Fulton, natives, respectively, of Maryland and Ohio. His father settled in Iowa in 1853, was married at West Liberty, and resided there until his death. The mother of our subject also died in that Iowa town. To these parents H. P. Fulton was born at West Liberty on August 20, 1868.

Until he was eighteen years of age young Fulton resided in his native county. At that age he went to the Black Hills, remained one year, and then took up his residence in Sioux City, Iowa. In that city he learned the carpenter's trade and worked at it there until locating in Marshall in 1892. He has ever since been engaged in contracting and building and has erected many of the leading business houses of the city, among others the State Bank Building, library, Schutz business house, Presbyterian church, Congregational church, Dibble's and Harden's residences and many others.

In 1900 Mr. Fulton erected his factory building for the purpose of making all kinds of building supplies and wood work. In July, 1910, he opened a garage in connection with his other business enterprises. He handles the Mitchell, Maxwell and Reo cars, sells automobile accessories, and does repair work. This establishment is one of the worthy enterprises of Marshall and from ten to fifty men are employed the year round. Mr. Fulton is a member of the Masonic lodge. He served two years as a member of the Marshall City Council.

In Sioux City, Iowa, on June 16, 1891, Mr. Fulton was united in marriage to Ida B. Meyers, of Tekama, Nebraska. They have three children: Ruth E., a stenographer; Ray M. and Robert C.

FRED J. GUELSOW (1887), farmer of Lynd township, was born in Germany November 2, 18 63. His parents, William and Minnie (Romlo) Guelsow, died in the Fatherland.

Fred spent the first twenty-four years of his life in Germany and in 1887 he came to America and direct to Lyon county. He worked as a section hand at Marshall three years, farmed rented land in Lake Marshall township one year, worked on the section again for a year and as a farm hand one year. Then he went to Mille Lacs county, Minnesota, took a homestead, proved up on it, and farmed the place nine years.

Mr. Guelsow then sold his homestead and returned to Lyon county. He worked one year in Marshall, farmed near Ghent four years, on section 21, Lynd township, a short time, and in the spring of 1912 rented his present place, the southwest quarter of section 20, Lynd. He raises Shorthorn cattle and grade hogs.

The marriage of Mr. Guelsow occurred in Germany, his wife's maiden name being Matilda Tessmer. She was born June 15, 1862, a daughter of Paul Tessmer. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Guelsow, Paul and Pauline.

WILLIAM P. TILLEMANS (1884), live stock dealer of Minneota, has resided in Lyon county for the last twenty-eight years. He was born in Holland January 21, 187 5. When nine years of age he immigrated to the United States with his parents, who located on a farm south of Minneota in the township of Nordland. He remained with his parents and worked on that farm until he reached the age of twenty-two years. Then he moved to Minneota and has since dealt in live stock principally. In June, 1911, Mr. Tillemans was married to Katherine Welch, daughter of Philip Welch, of Tracy.

His parents, Johannes and Katherine Tillemans, are both dead. They were the parents of the following named children: John, Dena, William, Mary and Harry. Mr. Tillemans was married a second time, to Christina Hendrix. To them were born the following children: Nellie, Katherine, Sophia and Leon.

ANDREW CLAY (1900) is the proprietor of one of the finest improved farms of Amiret township and engages in general farming and stock raising. He is paying special attention to the Shorthorn breed of cattle and Poland China swine.

A native of Sweden, born August 14, 1871, Mr. Clay spent the first eighteen years of his life in his native land. The boy was brought up on his father's farm, and his education was acquired in the country school. In 18 90 he accompanied his parents, Andrew and Mary (Klej) Johnson, to this country. The family located at Ironwood, Michigan, where the boy and his father found employment in the mines for several years. Later the boy spent the summers and falls in Minnesota, working in the harvest fields in Redwood and Yellow Medicine counties.

In 1895 the Clay family moved to Redwood county, where Andrew and his father purchased a quarter section of land, and there they resided until 1900, when they moved to Lyon county, the father purchasing land. Our subject rented land in Amiret township seven years and in 1907 moved to the north half of the northeast quarter of section 2 0, Amiret township, which he purchased in 1901 and where he has since resided.

On October 16, 1901, occurred the marriage of Andrew Clay and Emma Larson, daughter of Lars P. and Gustava Larson, both of whom are living in Custer township. Her parents settled in Lyon county in 1890 and have been continuous residents ever since. Mrs. Clay died in 1907. By her marriage to Mr. Clay she became the mother of three children, two of whom are living: Alma, born September 8, 1902; Anna, born March 29, 1904; and Henry (deceased), born November 10, 1905.

Mr. Clay's father is dead and his mother resides in Dudley, Minnesota. He has one brother, Charles, living in Trego, Wisconsin, and two sisters, Ida (Mrs. Andrew Nelson), of Dudley, and Hulda, of Minneapolis. One sister, Emma, died in Michigan in 1890.

WILLIAM B. THORBURN (1880), proprietor of a bus and dray line in the city of Marshall, is the only child born to William B. and Sarah A. (Stokes) Thorburn. His father was born in Scotland and his mother in Canada. Both are deceased.

Our subject was born in Sarnia, Canada, February 8, 1862. When a child he accompanied the family to Red Wing, Minnesota, later lived in River Falls, Wisconsin, and in 1880 came to Lyon county. He was then a boy eighteen years of age and for a year he worked on the farm of W. L. Watson, near Lynd. He then located in Marshall and began work in the L. B. Nichols livery barn, which was then conducted in the same building which houses the business now carried on by our subject. After being employed in the livery barn one and one-half years Mr. Thorburn took a homestead claim in South Dakota. He lived on that a short time and was in Wisconsin a short time before again becoming a resident of Lyon county. Until 1886 he worked at various occupations; then he married and started a dray line, which he has ever since conducted. In 1907 he bought the Nichols barn and has since been in the dray and bus business. For twenty-two years he was the local agent for the Standard Oil Company.

Mr. Thorburn was married in Marshall September 6, 1885, to Stella M. Chapman, a native of Austin, Minnesota. To this "union have been born five children, named as follows: Lloyd M., William B., Jr., Neil O., Marvel E. and Norine E. Mr. Thorburn holds membership in the Masonic, Elks, Modern Brotherhood, Workmen and Yeomen lodges.

WILLIAM BEASLEY (1884) is a young farmer of Lyons township and a native of Lyon county, the date of his birth being August 1, 1884. He is the son of Reuben and Mary (Wilcox) Beasley, pioneer residents of the county. The mother, a native of England, died in 1901. The father resides with his son, Frank, in Lynd township.

of Austin. Minnesota. After completing his education he worked a year for his father on the farm, and in 1906 he rented the southwest quarter of section 6, Lyons township, which he still operates.

Mr. Beasley is a member of the Presbyterian church. He raises considerable stock, among other breeds. Duroc-Jersey hogs, Durham cattle, Black Langshang chickens and Percheron horses. He is a successful farmer and stock raiser. Mr. Beasley has two brothers and one sister living, as follows: John T. and Daisy J., of Lynd township; and George, of Watertown, South Dakota. Our subject's father is a veteran of the Civil War, having served through the entire struggle.

Mr. Beasley was married November 9, 1905, to Lettie Kendall, a native of Lincoln county, Minnesota. She is a daughter of J. W. Kendall, a former business man of Tyler, and later proprietor of a hotel at Russell. Mrs. Beasley was born in March, 1887, at Tyler. Mr. and Mrs Beasley are the parents of two children: Wanda, born June 22, 1906, and Leonard William, born September 9, 1909.

MARTIN PETERSON (1875) is the efficient marshal of the village of Minneota. He is a native of Lyon county and was born in Nordland township September 20, 187 5. On a farm in that precinct Martin grew to manhood. When twenty-one years of age he began farming for himself and continued in that work nine years. He then moved to Minneota, where he operated the dray line two years, when he was made marshal of the village, a position he still holds.

On December 28, 18 99, Mr. Peterson was married to Clara Johnson, a native of Lyon county. They are the parents of three children: Elmer, Martin and Clifford.

Martin Peterson is a son of Swen and Christina (Amundson) Peterson, natives of Norway who came to the United States when they were very young. Mr. and Mrs. Peterson, Sr., were married in Olmsted county, Minnesota. They came to Lyon county in 187 4 and homesteaded in Nordland township, where they still reside. They are the parents of the follow-

HERBERT L. STARR (1881) is a farmer of Monroe township, living on the southwest quarter of section 1"), which has been his home since Norman H. Starr, his father, bought the placejrom the railroad company in 1881.

Norman Henry Starr was born in Roe, Massachusetts, in 1834, and after coming to Lyon county in 1881 he lived on the farm in Monroe township until his death, July 18, 1909. His wife, Martha (Welch) Starr, was born in Washington, Vermont, in July, 1844, and is living with her two sons, Herbert and Samuel, on the farm near Tracy. Another son of Nathan Starr, Fred, is station agent for the Northwestern railroad at New Ulm, and the fourth child, Frank, is now dead. Fred and Frank were twin brothers.

The subject of our sketch was born in Beaver, Winona county, Minnesota, October 25, 1863. He was educated in Winona county and in the Tracy school, and afterward went on the farm with his father, taking charge of the place after the father's death. Herbert has made a specialty of the poultry business for the past twenty years. He raises Barred Plymouth Rocks exclusively and has gained a reputation with the birds, having a sale for them all over the country, and during the last three years being unable to supply the demand. Herbert has attended many of the famous poultry shows and conventions. He is a member of the Presbyterian church of Tracy.

Samuel H. Starr (1880), brother of the above, was born in Winona county March 12, 1866, where he lived until coming to Lyon county with his parents. After making his home on the farm some time the boy commenced railroading at Tracy, serving as call boy first, and later at different times as baggageman, car clerk and brakeman, remaining in the railroad service until five years ago, when he retired to the home farm near Tracy and has been assisting his brother, Herbert, in conducting the place.

OLE H. STERK (1888), civil engineer of Marshall and surveyor of Lyon county, has resided in the county many years. He is a native Norwegian and was born June 3, 1864. After securing a common school education, at the age of seventeen years, he entered the engineering branch of the military college at Throndhjem and was a student there five years, learning civil engineering. He secured his diploma in 1888 and in August of that year he immigrated to America.

The first stopping place of Mr. Sterk in the New World was Cass county, North Dakota, where he remained only a few months. He then took up his residence in Lyon county, where he has ever since resided. For many years he lived on the farm on section 4, Vallers township, and for ten years he served as postmaster of Brenner postoffice, which was located on his place and which had been established in pioneer times. During six years of the time he was residing on the farm Mr. Sterk served as county surveyor, having taken office in 1893. He was also assessor of Vallers township five years and justice of the peace four years.

From the farm Mr. Sterk moved to Minneota and lor eight years was in the general merchandise business there. He moved to Marshall in the spring of 1906 to accept the office of city engineer. The same fall he was again elected county surveyor and has since held the office. He is also city engineer of Marshall. Besides his official duties Mr. Sterk makes estimates for ditches, sewers and waterworks systems. He has recently published a valuable wall map of Lyon county, which is one of the most complete and exhaustive maps of the kind in the state.

Mr. Sterk was married at Minneota in 1900 to Bertha Rogde. She was born in Westerheim township, Lyon county, and is the daughter of John Rogde, an early settler. Mr. and Mrs. Sterk have two children, Adelaide and Vigo. Mr. Sterk is a member of the Masonic, Odd Fellows and Woodmen lodges.

Hans and Indiana (Peterson) Sterk were the parents of our subject. They came from Norway in 1891 and for many years resided in Vallers township. In 1908 they moved to Kidder county, North

Dakota, and there Mr. Sterk died in February, 1911, at the age of seventy-eight years. Mrs. Sterk resides in that county. There are three boys in the Sterk family: Ole, of this review; Hartwig and Carl, of Kidder county, North Dakota.

LARS H. ORDLOCK (1888) is half owner of the Hynden store in Florence and is actively engaged in the handling of groceries, dry goods and shoes. The proprietors also handle fresh meats and buy and sell cream.

Lars Ordlock was born in Ringbo, Norway, June 13, 1864, a son of Hans and Mariet (Bredevien) Ordlock. He attended school in the land of his birth until sixteen years of age, coming then to America and locating in Goodhue county, Minnesota. There he worked as a farm hand until 1888, when he came to Lyon county. He worked in Tracy three months and then went to Custer township to work on a farm. During the next three or four years Lars worked in and around Balaton and Garvin at different pursuits, and for six months being employed in the creamery at Balaton and for a year drilling wells in the vicinity. The balance of the time was spent in farming and in threshing in the falls. For nine months our subject drove the stage between Currie and Tracy. About this time Mr. Ordlock made his first investment in land, buying 140 acres in Murray county, but continuing to work in the vicinity of Garvin.

October 29, 1896, Lars Ordlock married Louisa Larson, a native of Fillmore county and a daughter of Bure Larson. The young married couple located in Coon Creek township, where Lars farmed for the next thirteen years. Then he sold and moved to Florence to engage in his present business. While a resident of Custer township Mr. Ordlock was a school officer two years.

Mrs. Lars Ordlock was born June 19, 1877. She and her husband are members of the Norwegian Lutheran church. They have three children: Clara, born August 28, 1897; Bayard, born August 24, 1900; and Lillie, born August 6, 1909.

FERDINAND A. RIVARD (1901) is a farmer and land owner residing in Lake Marshall township. He is a native of Illinois and was born August 21, 1862, a son of George and Adeliade (Drollette) Rivard, both natives of Canada. The latter settled in Illinois in an early day, where our subject received his early education and grew to manhood.

Mr. Rivard resided at home until twenty-two years of age, when he married and farmed rented land two years. He then received eighty acres from his father, which he farmed until 1901. During the latter year he came to Lyon county and purchased the southwest quarter of section 19, Lake Marshall township, where he has since resided. He has a well-improved farm. Mr. Rivard has served several terms on the school board of his district and is a shareholder in the Farmers Elevator Company of Lynd. He is a member of the Catholic church and the Catholic Order of Foresters lodge.

On October 6, 1884, our subject was married to Emelia Vandepoorten, a native of Illinois and a daughter of Joseph and Aurila (Bunker) Vandepoorten. Mrs. Rivard was born January 18, 1862. To Mr. and Mrs. Rivard have been born the following named children: Angeline Alice, born August 22, 1885, died August 5, 1894; Eglantine Henrietta, born October 1, 1886; Eurilia Albertine, born May 8, 1888; Lydia Ella, born February 2, 1891. Mrs. Rivard died July 15, 1891. Mr. Rivard was married a second time February 1, 1893, at Manteno, Illinois, to Clementine Langlois, a native of Kankakee county, Illinois. She was born December 25, 1866, and is a daughter of Napoleon and Ella (Longton) Langlois, both natives of Canada.

W. A. HOUSTON (1895), patentee and founder of the Houston fountain pen, was born June 2, 1872, at Hadley, LaPeer county, Michigan, where he received a common school education, leaving school. at the age of seventeen to come West to work on a farm at Manchester, South Dakota, for his brother-in-law. This business he continued for two or three years; then he farmed on his own account until 18 93. Soon after this he learned the barber trade, which business he followed until 1901, operating successfully two shops in Tracy, Minnesota, for several years, one shop consisting of five chairs, bath parlor, cigar stand, etc. He is the former owner of the property where now stands Richard's Department Store, Mr. Richard having purchased the same in 1909. While engaged in the barber business, he worked out the idea of drying the face by compressed air. This is now used in many places and was soon adopted in general by barber supply dealers, and thousands of outfits have been sold.

In the year 1901 Mr Houston sold his business and went on the road as traveling salesman and was quite successful. After trying several different lines, he took up the fountain pen line, which proved to be the one that pleased him most. In 190S he received a patent on his first pen and soon after commenced manufacturing the same on the upper floor of his building, one skilled rubber turner and himself conducting the business. The business was continued this way for the first year, its growth being wonderful. In the second year the Houston Pen Company was incorporated with a capital of $50,000. The business was moved to Opera House Block and some of the best business men bought freely of the stock and put their "shoulders to the wheel."

At this time the company is located at Sioux City, Iowa, has a capital of $100,- 000, and is destined to be one of the largest pen manufacturing companies in the world. Tracy business men still hold controlling stock in the company, of which W. A. Houston is president.

EDWARD P. KELLY (1898) is the proprietor of a furniture store and conducts an undertaking establishment in connection at Cottonwood. He is a native of the Gopher State and was born at Mankato November 22, 1873. His parents, Severt and Louisa Kelly, were born in Norway and came to the United States when very young. They were married in Blue Earth county, Minnesota. The mother died in 1894. aged sixtythree years; the father resides at Mankato, aged seventy-two years. There were four children: Edward P., of this sketch; Louis L., of Minneapolis; Mrs. O. J. Olson, of Mankato; and Mrs. Charles Catlin, of Cottonwood.

When five years of age our subject moved with his parents to a farm west of Lake Crystal and lived there until he reached his majority. He then moved to Madelia, where he conducted a furniture store one year. In 1898 he came to Lyon county and located at Cottonwood, where he engaged in the mercantile business as a member of the firm of Olson, Kelly & Laingen. He was in that firm five years, and then he assisted in the organization of the North Star Implement Company, of which he had charge of the furniture department five years. In 1908 he purchased the furniture department of that company and has since conducted the business alone. He is located in the Prestegaard Building and carries a full line of furniture, carpets, pianos and undertaking goods.

Mr. Kelly holds membership in the Masonic, Knights of Pythias and Modern Woodmen lodges. He has served six years on the school board and two terms on the Village Council. He was the organizer of the Home Telei,hone Company and has since been its general manager and a director, and he was formerly president of the Commercial Club.

Mr. Kelly was married at Mankato December 24, 1897, to Matilda Hanson, a native of Blue Earth county, Minnesota. They are the parents of three children: Olive, Ruth and Edith.

GEORGE REGNIER (1883) is the owner of 24) acres of fine land located on sections 2, 3 and 23, Grandview township, and a modern home in the village of Ghent. He has made his home the past two years on the northeast quarter of section 3, and he farms the entire place- with the assistance of his only son Albert.

Our subject is a son of Isaac and Mary (Touchette) Regnier, who were natives of Canada and who came to America in 1847 and settled in Kankakee county, Illinois. They were among the first settlers in that county and became owners of a small farm. They sold their interests there in 1883 and located in Grandview township, Lyon county, where they bought land.

Isaac Regnier died on his farm sixteen years ago, at the age of seventy years; his widow lives in Marshall with her daughter, Mrs. August Durrenberger.

George was born in Kankakee county, Illinois, August 27, 1864, and was brought up and educated in the country schools of that county. He lived with his parents until twenty-one years of age, and in 1883 he and his parents moved to Lyon county and located in Grandview township. A few years later George bought the northwest quarter of section 23 from the railroad company. There he built a small shack and commenced farming. He was married soon after and continued to make his home on the place twenty years - until moving to his present farm in 1910, with the exception of two years, during which time he retired from active farming on account of his health and resided in Ghent. He was one of the incorporators of that village and served on the council one year.

The marriage of George Regnier and Cecile Caron occurred in Ghent November 25, 1891. Mrs. Regnier is a native of Kankakee county, Illinois. By her marriage to Mr. Regnier she became the mother of four children, Denage, Albert, Virginia and Alma.

Our subject is one of ten living children born to Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Regnier. The others are Joseph, Louis, Ambrose, John, Harry, Mary, Florence, Emma and Louise. The Regnier family are members of the Catholic church.

JOHN HARTZELL (1886), proprietor of the Lone Tree Farm of Coon Creek township, was born in Sweden June 15, 1855, the son of Andrew and Nellie (Nelson) Johnson. At twenty years of age he came to the United States and located at Monmouth, Illinois, near which place he worked at farm labor summers and in the coal mines winters for three years. He then went to Chicago, where he worked for the Union Iron & Steel Company five years and for the Pullman Car Company three years.

In 1886 Mr. Hartzell moved to Lyon county and purchased the north half»of the northwest quarter of section 27, Coon Creek township. The next year he bought the north half of the northeast quarter of section 28, of the same township, and was the owner of that land until he sold in 1910. In 1897 he purchased the south half of the southwest quarter of section 22, and he is now the owner of 160 acres of Coon Creek's fertile soil.

Upon his arrival to Lyon county in 1886 Mr. Hartzell lived for nine months on the Charley Swanson place on section 32. Then he moved to Burchard and for the next two years worked for the Northwestern Railroad Company. During the next three years he rented the Carl Hanson farm on section 21, also farming his own place during that time. At the end of that time he built on his own farm and has ever since lived thereon. His place is now known as the Lone Tree Farm.

Mr. Hartzell was married at Pullman, Illinois, in 1883 to Emily Maguusen, who was born in Sweden December 14, 1867. She is a daughter of John and Mary (Bjork) Magnusen. Mr. and Mrs. Hartzell are the parents of the following named eight children: Annie, Joseph, Winnie. Edith. Adolph. George, Irene and Earl.

NELS ANDERSON (1882) owns 600 acres of land in Eidsvold township and he and his sons farm it all. The home place is the southwest quarter of section 10 and he owns in addition 160 acres on section 2, eighty acres on section 11, 120 acres on section 9 and eighty acres on section 16. Mr. Anderson has an exceptionally fine farm and is one of the big farmers of Eidsvold township, being rated among the substantial men of northwestern Lyon county.

The birth of Nels Anderson occurred in Denmark November 16, 1857, one of two sons born to Nels and Sophia Anderson. His parents are deceased. His brother is Rasmus Anderson, of Vernon county, Wisconsin. In 1872 Nels accompanied his parents to America. He lived in Allamakee county, Iowa, a few years and in Brookings county. South Dakota, a few years, and in 1882 became a resident of Lyon county. At that time he bought the home quarter section of his farm, which at that time contained as the only improvement a little shack built by a man who took the land as a tree claim. Mr. Anderson has lived on that farm thirty years and has prospered exceedingly.

township in the fall of 1880 to .Mary Fodness. She was born in Norway and came to the United States when a child. The family came to Lyon county in the early se\ enties. Following are the names of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson: John, who farms a quarter section of his father's land; Carl, a banker of Aneta, North Dakota; Rasmus, who farms another of his father's farms; Edwin, who lives at home; and Sophia, a graduate of the Madison Normal School. The family are members of the Norwegian Lutheran church of Minneota and Mr. Anderson has stock in the Farmers Elevator Company of Minneota.

SWAN A. DILLBERG (1897) is a prominent farmer and stockman of Coon Creek township and has resided in that township fifteen years. He owns the west half of section 25, a short distance from the village of Russell.

Mr. Dillberg was born in Sweden September 13, 1857, the son of Anders and Matilda (Swanson) Dillberg, both of whom are buried in their native land. Swan was brought up on his father's farm and received his education in the Swedish schools. He served one year in the standing army and for four years belonged to a corps of sharpshooters.

In 1881 Mr. Dillberg came to America, and from that time until he came to Lyon county in 1897 he resided in the city of Chicago. During those years he was employed by the Union Steel Mills Company, Blake Brothers Company, Gem Machine Repair Company, the Woolkfolk Manufacturing Grading Machine and Dumping Box Company, and for two years was employed on the World's Fair buildings.

The year of arrival to Lyon county was 1897. For three years Mr. Dillberg rented and farmed the southeast quarter of section 31, Coon Creek township, and then moved to his present farm, which he had bought the year previous. He has a modern house and a fine set of outbuildings, all the improvements having been made by our subject. He raises considerable stock, and for the past eleven years he has bought and shipped stock. He owns stock in the Farmers Elevator Company of Russell and in the Farmers Telephone Company, having been one of the organizers and a director of the latter. Mr. Dillberg affiliates with the Swedish Lutheran church and the Woodmen and Workmen lodges.

The marriage of Mr. Dillberg to Dorethy Swanson occurred in Sweden on October 10, 1878. Their children are named Ernest, Fred, Harry, Gertie, Rose, Otto and Salma.

CHARLES A. LAUDENSLAGER (1878), in partnership with his father and brother, is engaged in the saloon and ice business in Marshall. That city has been his home since he was a boy seven years of age.

The father of our subject is John J. Laudenslager. He is a native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and a veteran of the Civil War. He enlisted in Company C, Fiftieth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served with the eastern army. He was discharged on account of injury, located in St. Paul, and later enlisted in the Fifth Minnesota Volunteers. After the war he located in New Ulm, where he was married and where he resided until locating in Marshall in 1877. Upon his arrival in Marshall the elder Mr. Laudenslager founded the Pioneer saloon on the site of the present building and has since conducted the same - at the present time in partnership with his sons, Charles A. and Richard S. Another child of the family is Alice (Mrs. Herman Guttmann), of Mankato. Addie died when fifteen months of age.

Charles A. Laudenslager was born in New Ulm September 8, 1871, and when seven years of age he located with his parents in Marshall. He was educated in the public schools of that city and after growing up engaged with his father in the saloon business and ice business. The pioneer building was destroyed by fire in November, 1892, and the next year it was replaced by the present two-story building. The ice business was established in an early day from a small beginning. There were only four customers when the business was established and delivery was made in a hand cart.

of Lyon county and was born at Marshall June 10, 1884. The father of our subject was Julius Schultz, an early resident of the county who died several years ago.

William received his early education in Marshall, where he attended school until fifteen years of age. He then worked at farm labor until twenty-four years of age; later he rented a farm and "batched" for twoyears. In March, 1911, the subject of our sketch rented the A. J. Tucker farm in Lyud township, which he operated one year and then moved to the C. R. Madden farm in the same township. Besides farming Mr. Schultz engages in stock raising, including Durham cattle and grade hogs. He is a successful farmer and stock raiser.

On March 9, 1910, Mr. Schultz was united in marriage to Elsie Lahman at Wautoma, Wisconsin. Mrs. Schultz is a daughter of Fred Lahman and was born January 25, 1890, at Wautoma.

In May, 1881, Arthur accompanied his parents to Lyon county and located in Westerheim township, where the father had purchased land. He resided on the farm and worked for his father until the latter's death in 1889. He then took charge of the farm, having bought the interests of the other heirs. He continued farming until 1899, when he moved to Minneota and learned the cigar maker's trade under his brother, James, who is now a county commissioner. He worked for his brother until 1908 and then worked for L. T. Thompson until the following spring.

In the spring of 1909 our subject purchased the Exchange Cafe and conducted it until May, 1911. On the latter date, in company with M. J. Moore, he purchased the L. T. Thompson cigar factory. The following August he purchased Mr. Moore's interest and has since conducted the factory under his own name. Mr. McGinn holds membership in the Modern Woodmen, Knights of Columbus, Catholic Order of Foresters and Yeomen lodges.

The man whose name heads this sketch is a son of Patrick and Sarah (McBeth) Mc- Ginn, the former a native of Ireland and the latter of New York City. Both are deceased, the father having been killed on his farm in 1889 by a well caving in on him. The mother died in May, 1890. They were the parents of nine children, as follows: Mary Ellen Grossburger of New York; Sarah Ellis, of New York City; James, of Minneota; Rachael Lumphrey, of Beardsley, Minnesota; Rosabelle Walsh, of Bloomington, Illinois; Maggie Cassady, of Saskatchewan, Canada; Susie Schaeffer, of New York; Arthur J., Frances E. Milton, of New York City.

SOLOMON GREELEY (1S98). One of the largest landholders in Lyon county is Solomon Greeley, who lives on the northwest cpiarter of section 23, Sodus township. He is the owner, together with his sons, of 1180 acres of land in Lyon county. He is a veteran of the Civil War, having enlisted February 3, 1864, served two years and three months, and having been discharged at Selma, Alabama.

Solomon Greeley was born in Green county, Wisconsin, on December 3, 1847, a son of Solomon and Charity Arville (Chaffee) Greeley, natives of Vermont. They settled in Wisconsin in an early day. When our subject was only two years of age his mother died. In 1861 he accompanied his father to Worth county, Iowa, where he resided until he enlisted in the Civil War. At the close of the war he returned to Worth county, rented land, and resided there several years. Then he moved to Winnebago county, Iowa, where he bought land and farmed until 1898, the year of his arrival to Lyon county. He lived on section 27, Sodus township, until 1909, at which time he moved to his present residence, the northwest quarter of section 23, Sodus township. He is a member of the Yeomen lodge and has served one term on the township board. He is a stockholder and a director of the Amiret State Bank.

On January 31, 1871, Mr. Greeley was united in marriage to Eudora S. Boynton, a native of Windsor county, Vermont, and a daughter of Freeman and Lois (Gannett) Boynton, also natives of Vermont. Mrs.

Greeley was born March 10, 1851. Mr. and .Mrs. Greeley are the parents of the following children: George, F., Walter E., Otis M., Ray O. and Hazel M.

BERT L. ENGLISH (188S) is the editor and publisher of the Tracy Headlight, the successor of one of the early established papers of that city. He was born in Waseca county, Minnesota, September 26, 1883, the son of Michael and Matilda (Boydell) English, natives of Vermont and Massachusetts, respectively, and now residents of Tracy.

In 1888 Bert accompanied the family to Tracy, resided there five years, and then returned with his parents to Waseca, where he remained several years. Returning to Tracy, Mr. English grew to manhood in that city. He received his education in the Tracy High School and during his school days learned the printer's trade in the office of the Tracy Republican, securing his first taste of newspaper work that was destined to shape his career.

When twenty years of age, in 1903, Mr. English went to Rolla, North Dakota, and took a position as bookkeeper in the State Bank of Rolla. Later he was assistant cashier of the Farmers Bank of Garrison, North Dakota, and later still was cashier of the Citizens State Bank of Douglas, North Dakota.

In the spring of 1908 Mr. English gave up the banking business to engage in newspaper work. He moved to Parkers Prairie, Minnesota, bought the Independent, and edited it until he moved to Tracy in May, 1910. At that time he purchased the Republican, on which he had learned his trade, changed the name to Headlight, and has since presided over its destinies. The Headlight is a Progressive Republican paper. Mr. English has been president of the Tracy Commercial Club for the past two years. He is a member of the M. W. A. and K. of C. lodges.

Mr. English was married to Rosella J. Mich at Rochester, Minnesota, on June 23, 1908. She was born in Olmsted county, Minnesota. Mr. and Mrs. English have one child, Dorothy, born at Parkers Prairie June 9, 1909.

It was in Holland that our subject first saw the light of day, and the date of his birth was October 23, 1866. The boy was brought up on his father's farm, attended the country schools, and did his share of the farm work. In 1886 the family came to this country and the father bought land from B. F. Jellison in Lyon county. The boy was twenty years of age when the family located on the south half of section 11, Grandview township, and he made his home with his parents until he was married in 1896.

In November of that year he married Julia Maertens, the wedding occurring in Ghent. His wife is a native of Belgium. To this union nine children have been born, Henry, William, Anna, Edward, Ida, Emma, Bertha, Alfonsis and Maria.

After his marriage Mr. Bot bought a quarter section of land three miles south of Minneota and made that his home seven years - until buying his present farm nine years ago. He is conducting his farm with profit and is one of the community's progressive citizens. Mr. Bot and his wife are members of the Catholic church.

The subject of this sketch is a son of William H. and Debora (Schroeder) Bot. The father died on his Grandview township farm in 1907 and the mother lives in Ghent with her son Hero. The elder Bots were the parents of the following children: Hero, Bernard, Reinier J., Cathrena, Henry, John and William.

JAMES A. McNIVEN (1883), vice president of the Marshall State Bank, is an early day settler of Southwestern Minnesota and has been a resident of Marshall for nearly thirty years. He was born in Bruce county, Ontario, Canada, August 14, 1862, the son of Malcolm C. and Mary (Mclntyre) McNiven. The father was born in Scotland, the mother in Pictou, Nova Scotia.

When our subject was a child, in 1873, the family moved to Redwood county, Minnesota, where the father homesteaded land. On the paternal farm James A. Mc- Niven grew to manhood, securing an edu- cation in the public schools and in Curtis Business College. At the age of twentyone years he started out in life for himself, moving to Marshall in 1883. For two years he was a traveling salesman for the Marder Bushell & Glessner Company, of Chicago, and for three years traveled for the Piano Harvester Company and the Easterly Machine Company.

In 1889 Mr. McNiven entered into partnership with D. D. Forbes in the real estate, loans, collections and insurance business, with offices over the Lyon County Bank, a business with which he was connected for many years. In the fall of 1905 S. Odell bought the interests of Mr. Forbes and the business was continued under the firm name of Odell & McNiven. On June 1, 1909, Messrs. Odell and Mc- Niven, in partnership with S. J. Forbes, established the Marshall State Bank, taking over the business of the real estate firm. The officers of the bank are as follows: S. Odell, president; James A. Mc- Niven, vice president; S. J. Forbes, cashier.

LINCOLN L. ANDERSON (1887) is one of the largest farmers in the southern part of the county, renting the southeast quarter of section 12 in Rock Lake, upon which he makes his home, and farming in addition other land in Rock Lake, Sodus and Custer townships, bringing up his total farming acreage to 600 acres.

Mr. Anderson is a Lyon county product, having been born December 14, 1887, in Custer township. His parents, Charles A. and Mary (Erickson) Anderson, pioneer settlers of Custer township, are now residing on their farm in Rock Lake, near Balaton. Lincoln attended the country school in his district in Sodus when a boy and at the age of nineteen years he engaged in farming on the quarter section in 12, where he now lives. Our subject devotes much of his time to the raising of Hereford cattle, Chester White swine and sheep.

was married June 2, 1909, in Custer township, to Lorenta Gifford, a native of Lyon county. Her parents, George B. and Ruth (Hughes) Gifford, were pioneer residents of Custer. Mrs. Anderson was born December 16, 1888.

EYOLFUR BJORNSON (1880), Westerheim township farmer, was born in Iceland July 20, 1850. He came to America in 1880 and his home has ever since been in Lyon county. He worked out one year and in 1881 he bought the northwest quarter of section 16, Westerheim township, upon which he has ever since had his home.

At that time there were very few residents in his neighborhood, among them Joseph Josephson, A. Hellickson and the Orsens. Mr. Bjornson added to his original farm by the purchase of the east half of the northeast quarter of section 17, and he has one of the best improved farms in the neighborhood. His home, erected in 1905, is one of the finest in the county. Mr. Bjornson feeds cattle and hogs and raises sheep.

The marriage of Mr. Bjornson to Gudrun Goodman son occurred in Iceland in October, 1875. They have one child, Adalbjorn, born February 8, 1888. He lives at home and assists in the management of the farm. The family are members of the Lutheran church.

WILHELM BURNS (1885) conducts a harness shop and restaurant in the village of Balaton. He was born in Sweden June 2, 1876, and when nine years of age came to the United States and settled in Balaton. There he has resided since, with the exception of seven years spent in Rock Lake township. He is a son of John and Carrie Burns, the former of Murray county and the latter of Balaton. They are the parents of seven children: Sadie, Wilhelm, Ray, Vira, Anna, Alma and Lida.

In 1903 the subject of this review opened a restaurant and confectionery store in Balaton, which he has since conducted. He operated a harness shop in Marshall for several months, purchasing from Tom Johnson, later moved the stock and tools to Balaton, and has since conducted a harness shop in connection with the restaurant. Mr. Burns is local agent for the Albert Lea Gas Light

Company, the American Gas Machine Company of Albert Lea, and the Bolte & Weyer Gas Light Company of Chicago. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen and Yeomen lodges.

HANS L. OFTEDAL (1891) is one of the prosperous farmers and land owners of Vallers. township. He was born in Stavanger, Norway, November 10, 1864. His father, Ludvig G. Oftedal, was a blacksmith by trade and followed farming also. His mother was Kara (Nesse) Oftedal.

Hans was twenty-one years old in 1885 and at that time he severed his home ties and immigrated to the United States. He worked at odd jobs in Minneapolis two years, spent one year in Dakota county, Minnesota, and then located in Yellow Medicine county, where he worked out until 1891. That is the year of his arrival to Lyon county. He purchased 160 acres of his present farm on sections 26 and 27, Vallers township, and has ever since resided there. He added to his farm by purchase and is now the owner of 280 acres. He raises improved Yorkshire hogs and grade cattle.

Mr. Oftedal has been active in local affairs. He served several years as a member of the Township Board of Supervisors and has been treasurer of his township, as well as treasurer of school district No. 71. He is a member of the United Lutheran church.

In Goodhue county, Minnesota, on March 23, 1898, Mr. Oftedal was married to Matilda Johnson. She was bom in Red Wing, Minnesota, October 3, 1871. Her parents, Ole and Louise Johnson, were born in Sweden and now live in Goodhue county. Mr. and Mrs. Oftedal have four children: Hazel L., born November 22, 1899; Francis L., bora July 14, 1901; Raymond L., born October 8, 1903; and Morris H., bora November 17, 1905.

BURL STORY (1878), agent for the John Gund Brewing Company at Marshall, is one of the pioneer settlers and homesteaders of Lyon county, having resided here for the past thirty-four years. He is the son of

On a farm near Janesville Mr. Story was brought up, and he resided there until coming to Lyon county in 1878 at the age of twenty-one years. He bought railroad land on section 15, Grandview township, adjoining the village of Ghent. He built a little shack on the place and made his home there until 1880, when he moved the building to Ghent, which at that time had only one other building of any importance, a grocery store conducted by Jerry Fagan. After moving the building Mr. Story built an addition and during the next six years conducted a hotel, the first in the village. The building is now a part of the Ed. Gits store building.

Mr. Story sold his hotel to a Mr. Paradis and bought a claim on the southwest quarter of section 32, Stanley township. He proved up on the place and resided there about ten years, moving to Marshall at the end of that time and erecting a home in the city. During the next few years he conducted a machine shop and served one year as chief of police. His wife died in 1900 and the next year Mr. Story went to Alaska, where he spent some time mining and prospecting. Since his return he has lived in Marshall, one year serving as chief of police and since as distributing agent for the John Gund Brewing Company. Mr. Story is a member of the Elks lodge. In Stanley township he was a member of the Board of Supervisors.

At Janesville, Wisconsin, on September 13, 1877, Mr. Story was married to Henrietta Zimmerman, a native of that place. The date of her death was August, 1899. Two children were born as a result of this union: Laura (Mrs. James Ladenberg), of Lyon county, and Roy, who died in California in 1896 at the age of seventeen years.

GUST M. BAERT (1892) is a farmer of Lynd township and a true lover of Lyon county. Mr. Baert is a native of Belgium and was born December 29, 1867, a son of Constand and Mary (Haas) Baert. The father died in 1870 of smallpox; the mother still lives at the old home in East Flanders.

school until fifteen years of age. He then worked for his parents on the farm until twenty-three years old. On February 7, 1891, he left Antwerp for America and arrived at South Bend, Indiana, February 23. He worked in the Oliver plow factory one year and then came to Lyon county and worked on a farm near Ghent one year. After spending about two months in Montana and Idaho, looking over the country, Mr. Baert returned to Ghent, where he resumed his labors on the farm for one year. At the close of that year's work he left America, going to London and thence to Belgium and other parts of Europe, traveling three months. He then returned to America and located at Moline, Illinois, where he worked for the Mutual Wheel Company for a year and then returned to Lyon county, where he has since resided.

Mr. Baert operates 487 acres of land in Lynd township. He also raises considerable stock, including Duroc-Jersey hogs, Red Polled Angus cattle and Plymouth Rock chickens, and he is a stockholder of the Farmers Elevator Company of Lynd. He is a member of the Catholic church and the Catholic Order of Foresters. Mr. Baert was road overseer two years in Lynd township.

At Moline, Illinois, December 11, 1895, occurred the marriage of our subject to Hurburtina Cuipers, a daughter of Henrick Cuipers, who died in North Dakota in 1908. Mrs. Cuipers resides at Edgeiey, North Dakota. Mrs. Baert was born in Belgium. To Mr. and Mrs. Baert have been born the following eleven children: Harry, Frank, John, Matilda, Victor, Camial, Alfons, Louise, Valerie, Lizzie and Rosa. All reside at home with their parents.

WILLIAM HALL (1899). One of the most prosperous farmers of Lyon county is William Hall, of Shelburne township. He was born in Belfast, Ireland, July 15, 1859, and is the son of Robert and Mary (Hannah) Hall, both deceased. The first twenty-seven years of our subject's life were spent with his parents. Until fifteen years of age he attended school in and near Chicago. The other twelve years were spent assisting his father on the farm. After his father's death he rented the old home farm near Chicago and operated it until 1899.

cpiarter section of land in Shelburne township. In 1899 he moved with his family to that farm and they have resided there since. In 1906 he purchased forty-five acres adjoining his land from the railroad company, making him the owner of over 200 acres of Lyon county land. Mr. Hall raises considerable stock, including Poland China hogs, Hereford cattle, Plymouth Rock chickens, Clyde, Belgian and Norman horses. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen and of the Blue Lodge and Chapter of the Masonic orders. He has been treasurer of school district No. 49 for twelve years and was justice of the peace in Shelburne township two years.

On March 18, 1889, Mr. Hall was united in marriage to Mary E. Templeton, a daughter of Richard Templeton, of Kankakee county, Illinois. She was born May 23, 1869. Mr. and Mrs.. Hall are the parents of the following named children: Robert, born January 19, 1892; Richard, born July 30, 1894; Annie, born April 24, 1900; Viola, born March 17, 1903. All reside at home.

Mr. Hall has three brothers and two sisters, as follows: James, of Balaton; John, of Iowa; Robert, of Battle Creek, Michigan; Mary (Mrs. John Nixon), of Balaton; Belle (Mrs. Frank Snow), of Momence, Illinois.

DR. C. B. FRASER (1903) is a dentist of Cottonwood. He is a native of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada, where he was born June 23, 1879. His parents are Angus and Anna (Dunn) Fraser, the former a native of Iverness, Scotland, and the latter of Kingston, Ontario, Canada. They reside at Woodstock and have three children, as follows: Dr. C. B., of this sketch; George, an express agent for the Dominion Express Company for Wayburn, Manitoba; and Blanch (Mrs. Roy Brown), of Ingersoll, Canada.

Our subject received his schooling in the Woodstock Academy, from which he was graduated in 1900. He then attended the University of Toronto's Dental Department two years, after which he attended the Chicago Dental College, graduating in 1903.

In the last named year Dr. Fraser came to Lyon county and located at Cottonwood, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. He is a member

At St. Louis, Missouri, June 28, 1904, occurred the marriage of Dr. Fraser to Camille Brownell, a native of Westplains, Missouri. They are the parents of four children: Donald G., Edward A., Scott B. and Frank C.

JOHN R. CASTLE (1883) is the owner of 200 acres of the land in Clifton township originally purchased by his father upon coming to the county in 1883. He raises considerable stock and has made a success of his farming operations. It was in 1899 that John Castle rented land of his father in Clifton township and started farming for himself. He farmed the rented land two years and then bought a quarter section from his father. Later he added an additional forty acres, giving him his present acreage.

Our subject was born in Will county, Illinois, July 9. 1S75. His parents, Robert and Agnes (Watson) Castle, natives of England and Scotland, respectively, came to the United States in an early day and settled in Illinois. When John was a lad of eight years the family moved to Lyon county and located in Clifton township, and John was brought up on the farm.

The father originally owned the entire south half of section 26, which he later sold, and then he bought 560 acres on section 21, and forty acres on section 28. John attended the country school and helped with the farm work and in time came to be the owner of part of the land originally owned by his father. Our subject was a member of the school board of district No. 81 and clerk of that body three years. He is a member of the Presbyterian church and his fraternal allegiance is with the Yeomen lodge.

The ceremony which joined John Castle and Hattie I. Mead in the holy bonds of matrimony was performed in the township January 1, 1901. His wife was born in Lyon county November 30, 1880, and is a daughter of Henry and Fannie (Moulton) Mead, natives of Wisconsin and Minnesota, respectively. The father died in 1911 and the mother lives in the township. To Mr. and Mrs. John Castle have been born three children: Gilbert G., born November 23, 1901;

J. S. LEAS (1900) is a successful farmer of Stanley township, where he has lived for the past twelve years. He owns the southeast quarter of section 10. Mr. Leas has a fine set of buildings, erected in 1902, and a well improved farm in other ways. He engages quite extensively in stock raising, making a specialty of full-blooded Chester White hogs.

Iowa is the birthplace of Mr. Leas and June 6, 1S69, is the date of his nativity. His parents, Jeremiah and Susana (Henderson) Leas, were both born in Ohio, the former in 1827, the later in 1828. Until he was twentyone years of age our subject attended school. During the next three years he worked on the farm for his father and then started in the business for himself.

In 1899 Mr. Leas bought his Lyon county farm and the following year he took possession. Most of the improvements on the place were made by him. Mr. Leas is a member of the Presbyterian church of Swan Lake and he has held the office of treasurer of school district No. 34 for five years.

J. S. Leas and Hester Olive Kelly were married at Waukon, Iowa, in 1894. The parents of Mrs. Leas, John and Jane Kelly, are dead. The following named six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Leas: Leo, born April 7, 1895; Lauren Reid, born February 1, 1899; Glen Vernon, born January 16, 1903; Velva Ruth, born December 30, 1905; Beryl Wayne, born September 11, 1909; Cecil Eugene, born March 24, 1911.

MONTGOMERY E. DRAKE (1897) is the register of deeds of Lyon county. He was born in Wright township, Hillsdale county, Michigan, July 31, 1869. In his native county he grew to manhood and secured his education. At the age of twenty-two years he went to Faulk county, South Dakota, took a homestead claim, and taught school four years.

Mr. Drake came to Lyon county in 1897. He located in Minneota and for several years was in the employ of Bingham Brothers, grain brokers. Upon the death of S. N. Harrington, the register of deeds, in Septem- ber, 1903, Mr. Drake was appointed to fill the vacancy, and he has ever since held the office. While a resident of Minneota he served as village recorder and clerk and as treasurer of the Board of Education. He was one of the organizers and incorporators of the Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Minneota and for a number of years was a director of the same.

Our subject is affiliated with a number of worthy fraternal orders. He is a member of the Blue Lodge and Chapter of the Masonic orders and has filled all the chairs of the last named, including high priest. He is a member of the Eastern Star and for three years was its worthy patron. He also holds membership in the M. W. A. lodge and the Methodist church. At Minneota he was secretary of the Masonic lodge.

Mr. Drake was married at Hudson, Michigan, March 31. 1892, to Hattie L. Masters, who was born at Pioneer, Ohio, just over the Michigan line. Seven children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Drake, of whom the following named thi-ee are living: Mildred, Aileen and Vivian.

The parents of our subject are Alonzo H. and Laura A. (Thorne) Drake, natives, respectively, of Michigan and New York and of English descent. Besides M. E. Drake, there are three children in the family, namely: Morton B., of Pittsford, Michigan; Ethel, of Hudson, Michigan; and Louise (Mrs. F. W. Burt), of Pittsford, Michigan.

MICHAEL F. AHERN (1883) is cashier of the State Bank of Taunton and one of the prominent citizens of that village. He owns an elegant home in Taunton and 480 acres of Lyon county soil. For the past six years he has been treasurer of the village.

Mr. Ahern is a native of Springfield, Illinois, and was born September 15, 1876. When a child, in 1883, he came to Lyon county with his parents and lived on the farm on section 8, Eidsvold, until fifteen years old. During the next four years he was a student of the Marshall school and then for three years was manager of the Western Elevator Company at Taunton. He spent three years as assistant cashier of the Farmers 8c Merchants Bank of Minneota and then in 1905 organized the State Bank of Taunton, of which he has since been cashier.

Mr. Ahern married Alice G. Langan at Minneota on June 27, 1906. She is a native of Westerheim township and is the daughter of Pat Langan, one of the early settlers of that precinct. Mr. and Mrs. Ahern have three daughters: Genevieve, Catherine and Dorothy. Our subject is a member of the Knights of Columbus, Catholic Order of Foresters and Modern Woodmen lodges.

The parents of Mr. Ahern, Garrett A. and Catherine A. (Brown) Ahern, came from Ireland in the fifties and were married in Illinois. They came to Lyon county in 1883 and he died on the farm in Eidsvold in 1899, at the age of sixty-seven years. Mrs. Ahern lives with a son on the Eidsvold farm. In the family are the following named ten children: Philip P., of Taunton; Josie, William, Ellen (Mrs. Thomas Welch), of Minneota; James J., Michael F., of this review; Catherine (Mrs. Morris Breen), of Minneapolis; Thomas, assistant cashier of the Farmers Bank of Hampden, North Dakota; Garrett F., of Montana; and Annie.

LARS F. MONSETH (1897) is the owner of a 240-acre fertile farm on sections 5 and 8, Nordland township, and is one of the substantial men of his precinct.

He was born in Orkdalen, Norway, October 1, 1872, a son of Frederick F. and Ellen (Larson) Roe, both of whom are still living in their native land. Lars attended school until fifteen years of age and then worked out on the farm until he came to America in 1895.

Upon his arrival to the New World in the spring of that year, he located in Minneapolis and spent the summer working in a lumber yard. The next winter he was in the woods near Eau Claire, Wisconsin; then he went back to Minneapolis and again took employment in a lumber yard. He took a course in Wreeman's Academy, Minneapolis, during the winter of 1896-97 and the next spring became a resident of Lyon county.

For eight months Mr. Monseth was employed on the farm of C. K. Melby, who then lived in Nordland township, and the next winter was again spent in the Wisconsin woods. In St. Paul he was a motorman in the employ of the St. Paul Street Railway Company for six months. He came back to

Mr. Monseth rented land near Minneota three years and then bought his present farm in Nordland. He has a well-improved farm and is a successful agriculturist. He gives a great deal of attention to raising Shorthorn cattle and blooded Duroc-Jersey swine and has fine herds. His other business interests consist of an interest in the Farmers Elevator Company of Minneota.

For the past ten years Mr. Monseth has been treasurer of school district No. 24 and he served as road overseer of his district one year. He is an enthusiastic church worker, being a member of Hemnes Norwegian Lutheran Church of Nordland township. He is president of the board of trustees of that organization and is choir master.

Mr. Monseth was married at Minneapolis October 2-1, 1898, to Marit Metlie, who was born in Norway November 13, 1873. They have five children: Elvina, born May 18, 1900; Cora, born April 24, 1903; Frithjof, born December 18, 1904; Lillian, born September 30, 1906; Mildred, born June 4, 1909.

CHARLES R. LAINGEN (1898) is the junior member of the firm of Grieve & Laingen, general merchants of Cottonwood. He was born in Blue Earth county, near Lake Crystal, May 26, 1872, and resided there until twenty-six years of age. When seventeen years of age he became a clerk in a general store at Lake Crystal and then worked six years for the Northwestern Railroad Company.

The parents of our subject are Peter K. and Ronaug (Loftsgaard) Laingen, natives of Norway. Peter K. Laingen came to the United States in 1860 and resided in California ten years. In 1870 he moved to Blue Earth county, Minnesota, where he bought land and was married. He resided in that county until his death on December 16, 1911. The mother died in 1873.

In 1898 our subject came to Lyon county and located at Cottonwood, where he entered the firm of Olson, Kelly & Laingen, general merchants. In 1902 he bought out John Michie, of the firm of Michie & Grieve, and the firm has since been Grieve & Laingen. Michie & Grieve were the successors of Dahl Brothers, the original owners of one of the first stores in Cottonwood. They occupied a little building, 25x40 feet, on the site of the present two-story brick building, which is 26x80 feet and which they erected that spring. Grieve & Laingen handle dry goods, groceries, furnishings, shoes and crockery. They entered their present building in 1904. Mr. Laingen is a member of Equity Lodge No. 221, A. F. & A. M. He was village recorder two terms.

ANDREW ANDERSON (1890) is the owner of the southwest quarter of section 27, Coon Creek township, where he has resided for twenty-two years. He was born in Sweden December 5, 1851. His parents are Peter and Ellen (Olson) Anderson, with whom he resided in the old country until 1882) attending school and learning the cabinetmaker's and housebuilding trades, which he followed several years.

In 1882 Mr. Anderson came to the United States and located in Chicago, where he worked eight years for the Pullman Car Company. In 1890 he immigrated to Lyon county, having purchased the southwest quarter of section 27, Coon Creek township, in 1884. He has made all the improvements on the place and has a very comfortable home. He raises a great number of cattle and hogs and has stock in the Farmers Elevator Company and Farmers Telephone Company of Russell. Mr. Anderson is a member of the Swedish Baptist church.

Mr. Anderson was married in Sweden March 6, 1874, to Elna Nelson, a daughter of Pehr Nelson and Hanna Nelson. Mrs. Anderson was born September 9, 1850, and died in 1900. To Mr. and Mrs. Anderson were born five children: Peter, John, Emily, Olive and Hattie.

G. J. 1NHOFER (1906) is a merchant and manager of the Western Grain Elevator at Ghent, He is a native of the Gopher State and was born in Nicollet county July 8, 1870. The parents of our subject are George and Agnes (Michels) Inhofer, natives of Germany, the former of Bavaria and the latter of Saxony. They came to the United

States in 1856. The father resided in New- York two years and in 1858 moved to Nicollet county, where he settled on railroad land and was married. They farmed until 1910, when they retired and moved to New Ulm. They are the parents of the following children: George, of this sketch; Joseph and Louis, of Nicollet county; John, of Brown county; William, Mary and Annie, of New Ulm. Two sons, Michael and Charles, are deceased.

Our subject grew to manhood on his father's farm in Nicollet county and later farmed in that county for himself. In November, 1906, he came to Lyon county and settled at Ghent, where he formed a partnership with W. C. Hess in the general merchandise business. They carry dry goods, groceries, men's furnishings and shoes. Mr. Inhofer has been manager of the Western Grain Elevator since August, 1909. He is village recorder and was a member of the Village Council one term. He is a member of the Catholic church and of St. Joseph's Benevolent Society of Minnesota.

Mr. Inhofer was married in Nicollet county February 22, 1895, to Annie Huelskamp, a native of that county. Mr. and Mrs. Inhofer are the parents of the following children: Raymond, Alice, Agnes, Mildred and Beatrice.

William N. Shequen and Vesta (Grover) Shequen, the father and mother of our subject, were among the early settlers of Lyon county. The father is a native of Vermont and the mother of Wisconsin. The parents located in Lyon county in 1872, taking as a homestead the northeast quarter of section 32, Sodus township.

William Grover Shequen was born on the Sodus township farm and was there brought up, receiving his education in the country school and assisting with the farm work as he grew older. In 1908 he purchased the land in Custer township on which he has since resided. Mr. Shequen has been raising some stock in addition to his general farming, and makes a specialty of Berkshire hogs.

Our subject was married in Sodus township to Nellie E. Moore, the ceremony taking place July 29, 1908. One child, Milo Grover Shequen, was born to this union, December 2, 1911. Mrs. Shequen was born in Ida county, Iowa, February 10, 1888, and is a daughter of Frank P. and Katie Machemer Moore, natives of Ohio and Pennsylvania, respectively.

Mr. Shequen served as director of school district No. 37 one year. Fraternally he is allied with the Modern Woodmen lodge. He and his wife are members of the Methodist church.

FRED S. COOK (1896) is the proprietor of Hotel Atlantic in Marshall, and under his direction the Atlantic has become one of the popular hostelries of Southwestern Minnesota. Mr. Cook took charge of the hotel in 189 6, and the genial good nature of a veteran railway passenger conductor was instilled into the management, gaining for the proprietor a host of friends among the traveling public and in his home city.

Our subject wras born in Oberlin, Ohio, October 31, 1852, and in 1857 the family came to Minnesota and the father preempted land in Mower county. Fred was nineteen when he left home to find employment in the train service of the Illinois Central in Iowa, with headquarters at Fort Dodge. After several years in the employ of that company he moved to Sedalia, Missouri, and worked as trainman for the Missouri Pacific. Then Mr. Cook gave his services to the Chicago & Northwestern, moved to Chicago, and continued in the service for an uninterrupted term of many years as a passenger conductor. Resigning from railway service in 1896, Mr. Cook moved to Marshall.

Fred S. Cook was married in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 20, 1901, to Catherine A. Farmer, a native of Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Cook are popular in the social life of Marshall and in Congregational church activities, and Mr. Cook is identified with the progressive activities of the city. He is president of the library board, was president of the Marshall Commercial Club in 1908, and treasurer of the Marshall Development Club in 1908-1910. He is chairman of the county committee of the Y. M. C.

A., is chairman of the trustee board of the Congregational church, and is superintendent of the Sunday School. Fraternally, Mr. Cook is a member of Marshall Commandery Knight Templars and of the Mystic Shrine of Chicago; also of the A. O. U. W. lodge, and he is a life member of the Order of Railway Conductors of Chicago, Division No. 1.

Our subject is a son of William W. Cook and Martha Brown (Little) Cook, natives of New York and Ohio. They resided in Austin, Mower county, until the time of their deaths. Besides Fred S. of this sketch there are three children: W. W. Cook, of Marshall; Jennie (Mrs. W. W. Noble), of Oakland, California; and Minnie (Mrs. F. E. Noble), of St. Paul.

JOSEPH M. SENDEN (1883) is one of the prominent farmers and stock raisers of Grandview township. He is a native of Holland and was born October 1, 1866, a son of William Hubert and Hubertina (Vaesen) Senden, both of whom are deceased. The parents located in Lyon county in 1883, coming direct to this county from their old homes in Holland.

The father purchased land in Westerheim township, where the family resided six years. They then moved to the farm now occupied by the subject of this review, where they resided two years, after which they purchased the Youmans farm in Lynd township. The father died at the latter place in 1901, and the mother resided there until 1909, when she took up her residence with her son, Louis. She died at the home of the latter on November 2, 1909. They were the parents of nine children, eight of whom are living: Frank, John, Hubert, Minnick and Louis, all of whom reside in Holland; Joseph M., of this review; Antonette (Mrs. Frank Deutz), of Fairview township; Mary (Mrs. Jacob Jansen), of Lake Marshall township; Constant, deceased. The father of our subject was at the time of his death one of the largest land holders in the county, his holdings consisting of 124(T acres of fine land.

years of age, after which he worked for his father on the farm until 1883. Then he' accompanied his parents to America and to Lyon county and resided with them until 1905, when he moved to his present farm in Grandview township. He is the owner of 440 acres of fine land and has a well-improved farm. In addition to farming our subject engages somewhat in stock raising, among other breeds raising Durham cattle, Duroc-.Jersey hogs and Belgian horses. He is The owner of three full-blooded Belgian horses - two mares and a horse. Mr. Senden is a successful farmer and stock raiser and has been a continuous resident of Lyon county since 18 83. He is a member of the Catholic church of Ghent.

On November 28, 1905, occurred the marriage of Mr. Senden to Katherine Bot, a native of Holland. She was born February 20, 1873, and accompanied her parents to Lyon county in the early eighties. Mr. and Mrs. Senden are the parents of seven children, four of whom are living. The oldest child died in infancy. The others are: Mary (deceased), born June 5, 1907; Hubert (deceased) and William (twins), born June 2, 1908; Mary, born June 10, 1909; Hubert, born June 25, 1910; Debora, born February 18, 1912.

ARCHIBALD J. CHAMBERLAIN (1896), proprietor of a Marshall grocery store, has spent nearly thirty years in the grocery business, the last half of that time in Marshall. He was born in Cattaraugus county, New York, July 22, 1856, the son of Horace F. and Hannah (Hulbert) Chamberlain, both of old New England stock and both natives of Cattaraugus county, New York. The family located in Freeborn county, Minnesota, in 1864, where Mrs. Chamberlain died in 1888. The father of our subject, who was born in 1828, resides in Marshall. There are two children in the family besides the subject of this biography: Leona Manning, of Minneapolis; and Alice Jones, of Geneva, Minnesota.

When Archibald was seven years of age he accompanied the family to Minnesota, the journey from La Crosse, Wisconsin, to Freeborn county being made overland.

That was before the days of railroads in Southern Minnesota, and Albert Lea was a hamlet of only a few hundred people. The father bought land near Geneva, and on the farm our subject grew to manhood, attending the country schools near by. In 1882 he moved to Geneva, bought a grocery store and conducted the business until 1890. That year he sold out and moved to New Richland, Waseca county, where he engaged in the grocery business three years. The next three years were spent in the same business in Janesville.

In 1896 Mr. Chamberlain located in Marshall and bought the grocery store of Joseph Addison, which was located in the building now occupied by the Palace Grocery. He conducted that business seven years, then sold and bought the Frank Parker store, where he engaged in the business three years. Mr. Chamberlain has been in his present location in the Messenger Block since December, 1909. He carries an excellent line of fancy groceries and crockery. Mr. Chamberlain is affiliated with the Chapter, Commandery and Shrine of the Masonic orders and with the M. W. A. lodge.

At Albert Lea, on April 26, 1879, Mr. Chamberlain was married to Lilly Phelteplace, a native of Richland, Richland county, Wisconsin. They have three children, as follows: Alice (Mrs. George A. Joehning), of Redwood Falls, born at Geneva August 4, 1881 ; George H., a Marshall business man, born at Geneva July 11, 1884; and lone, born at Janesville February 25, 1895.

GEORGE ALBERT VAN DUSEN (1883) is a farmer of Monroe township, renting the northwest quarter of section 9. His parents, Charles E. Van Dusen and Fannie E. (Staler) Van Dusen, took a homestead in Monroe township in 1879. George was born on the Monroe homestead farm June 13, 1883.

Our subject was brought up on the farm and received his education in the country schools. He then went to work for his father and lived on the parental farm until two years after his father's death in 1907. He then rented the place where he now lives and started farming for himself.

and Hannah Rydberg occurred February 4, 1908, at Tracy. Mrs. Van Dusen was born in Sweden August 4, 1890, and came to the United States April 8, 1904. To Mr. and Mrs. Van Dusen have been born two children, Harry Edwin and Clarence Edward. Mr. Van Dusen is a member of the Odd Fellows lodge of Tracy.

HENRY VOSS (1890) has been a resident of Clifton township since he was eighteen years of age. In 1900 he bought the east half of the southeast quarter of section 4 from his father and since that time has been farming for himself. He later purchased the west half of the southeast quarter and in 1911 forty acres on section t 9, which makes him the owner of 200 acres of well-improved farming land. Mr. Voss raises considerable stock.

Henry and Amelia (Ladwig) Voss, parents of our subject, were natives of Germany and immigrated to this country when young. Henry was born February 9. 1872, on his father's farm in Rice county, Minnesota. His boyhood was passed there and he completed his education before the family moved to Lyon county in 1890. The father at that time bought the eighty acres on which Henry now makes his home, and the boy lived at home and helped his father with the farm work until buying the place for himself.

The subject of this sketch married Salma Ladwig March 18, 1896. To this union seven children were bom, named Walter, Arthur, Lila, Raymond, Florence, Orien and Louise. Mrs. Voss was born in LeSueur county, Minnesota, April 13, 1879, and is a daughter of William and Augusta (Malzhan) Ladwig, natives of Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Voss are members of the Evangelical church of Clifton.

JAMES E. DOYLE (1883) is a retired railroad engineer of the Northwestern railroad. He was born in Stoughton, Wisconsin, August 22, 1862, and when three years of age accompanied his parents to North McGregor, Iowa, where he resided several years. He then moved to Independence, Iowa, where he obtained a common school education.

The parents of our subject are John and Margaret (Oneill) Doyle, natives of Ireland. They came to the United States when young and were married at LaPorte, Indiana, in 1860. The mother died in 1895 and the father in 1904. They wrere the parents of one child, the subject of this review.

When sixteen years of age James Doyle entered the employ of the Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Company at North McGregor as brakeman and was so engaged for two years. In May, 1883, he went to Huron South Dakota, where he worked for the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company as fireman, and in 1892 he was promoted to engineer, his run being on a passenger from Huron, South Dakota, to Alton, Iowa.

Mr. Doyle took up his residence in Lyon county in 18S3, when he located at Tracy, and there he has since made his home. On November 10, 1908, he retired from service and has since .led a life of ease. He is the owner of two farms in Lyon county and also owns land near Grand Forks, North Dakota. He is a member of the K. P. lodge.

JAMES J. LAUGHLIN (1891) is auditor of the Hayes-Lucas Lumber Company and the manager of that company's yards at Tracy, having held the position for the past twenty-five years. He has devoted his entire life to the lumber business, as did his father before him.

James J. Laughlin was born at Blooming Grove, Orange county, New York, March 11, 1863. He accompanied his parents to Winona, Minnesota, when five years of age and grew to manhood and was educated in that city. When a young man he entered the employ of the WTnona Lumber Company. In 1891 Mr. Laughlin located in Tracy and took charge of the company's yards there. Ten years later the Hayes-Lucas Lumber Company purchased the interests of the Winona Lumber Company and Mr. Laughlin has since been in that company's employ. For fifteen consecutive years Mr. Laughlin was secretary of the Tracy Board of Education.

sixteen. He is now a successful farmer of Rock Lake township, owning the northeast quarter of section 26, upon which he has one of the nicest homes in the precinct. Like many other farmers of the vicinity, he raises stock and pays particular attention to Percheron and Belgian horses, Hereford cattle and Poland China swine.

Our subject's father and mother were Carl and Mary Topel, both deceased. Charles completed his education in Germany at the age of fourteen and then worked for an uncle one year. In the spring of 1872 he came to America and located at Chicago, living there some time and working at various kinds of labor. The great fire had swept the city the year before and Chicago was the Mecca for the 'man seeking employment, as the new city was springing up as fast as human power could rush the work.

Leaving Chicago, Mr. Topel spent a short time at Des Plaines, Illinois, and later did farm labor for a few years in Kankakee county, going from there to Benton county, Indiana, where he worked five years at farming. Returning to Kankakee, he worked in a linseed oil mill two years. In the spring of 1883 our subject located on a homestead and tree claim in Hand county, South Dakota, and farmed there until 1896, when he moved to Lyon county and made his home on his present farm. While in Hand county Mr. Topel was township treasurer for several years, and he became a member of the A. O. U. W. lodge at Wessington Springs.

At Manteno, Illinois, Charles Topel was joined in marriage to Maggie Moat, January 24, 1883. Mrs. Topel is a native of Kankakee county. The following children have been born to this union: William, of Waseca; Lillian (Mrs. Roy Root), of Balaton; Myrtle (Mrs. Earl Zollar), of Waterloo, Iowa; Kathryn (Mrs. Adolph Ronbeck), of Minneapolis; Eliza and Beatrice, of St. Paul; and Margaret, Charles and Ruth, residing at home.

ANDREW E. HEAIRET (1885) is the proprietor of a livery barn in Minneota. He is a native of Minneota and was born May 25, 1885. His parents were Andrew C. and Indiana (Paulson) Haeiret, natives of Christiania, Norway. In the fall of 1860 they were married and nine years later came to America, settling in Galesville, Wisconsin, where they lived ten years. In the spring of 1879 they came with their family to Minneota, where they lived until their deaths. The father died October 1, 1909, and the mother died November 25, 1893. They were the parents of twelve children, seven of whom are living, as follows: Albert, Pete, Andrew E., Edith, Sarah and Mary. Those who have died were Emma, Christena, Annie, John and Albert.

Andrew E. Heairet attended the Minneota schools and later took a business course. In April, 1905, he purchased the M. J. Kiley dray line and continued in the business until the fall of 1908. On the latter date he sold the dray line and the next spring purchased the A. E. Tibbits livery stable. He has since been engaged in that business. He has both teams and autos.

AIME VANHEE (1880) is a dealer in general merchandise of Ghent and a former postmaster of that village. He has taken a most important part in the affairs of his village and with his father formed the advance guard of the colony of Belgian Catholics who located in Lyon county in the early eighties.

Aime Vanhee was born in Belgium May 12, 1S62, the son of Angelus and P. (Vanstechelmon) Vanhee. The father was born March 23, 1839, was married July 29, 1862, came to America in 1880, and died in 1895. The mother died November 6, 1909, at the age of seventy years. There are nine children in the family, named as follows: Aime, Bruno, Mary, Modest, Achille, Charlie, Peter, Emily and Helen.

In 1880 Angelus Vanhee and his son Aime left their native land and came to Lyon county to view conditions in this country and report to their neighbors in Belgium. They were pleased with the looks of the country about the little village of Ghent and before their return purchased the east half of section 17, Grandview. They returned to Belgium and through their influence came the colony that settled largely the townships of Grandview and Westerheim and part of Vallers.

The Vanhees returned to Lyon, county and were the first Belgian settlers in Grandview township. They located on the farm they had bought and later purchased other lands

Aime remained on his father's farm until 1894, assisting with the work. That year he moved to Ghent and rented the Gits building, in which he is still doing business. At the same time he bought the Gits hardware stock, but soon after disposed of that and has since dealt in general merchandise. The building was later bought by Mr. Vanhee's mother, in whose name it is still held. Mr. Vanhee sells dry goods, groceries, shoes, notions and furnishing goods and buys cream for the Tracy creamery.

When he located in Ghent in 1894 Mr. Vanhee was appointed postmaster and held the office eight years, turning it over at the end of that time to Mrs. Matilda Blodgett. the present incumbent. He has stock in the Farmers Elevator Company of Ghent, in the Ghent Rural Telephone Company, and in the county fair association. For several terms he was village treasurer. Our subject is a member of the Catholic church and of the Catholic Order of Foresters and Modern Woodmen of America lodges.

The marriage of Mr. Vanhee to Dora A. Van Emelan was solemnized at Ghent July 16, 1895. She was born in Kinmundy, Marion county, Illinois, August 25, 1875, and is the daughter of Louis and Magdelina (Rapp) Van Emelan, natives, respectively, of Illinois and Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Vanhee are the parents of seven children, named as follows: Angelus, Mary, Joseph, Lucy, Agnes, Angeline and Helen. One daughter, Katherine, died August 29, 1903, at the age of three and one-half years.

MRS. HELENE FURGESON (1881) is the widow of Ole K. Furgeson, who was a homesteader and one of the prominent farmers of Island Lake township. She still makes her home on the homestead and she and her sons Gisle and Orvin conduct the farm.

Mrs. Furgeson's maiden name was Helene Gresdalen. She was born in Muskego, Wisconsin, March 25, 1855. Her parents, Lars O. and Ragnild (Gisselesson) Gresdalen, came from Norway in 1850 and 1851, respectively, and were married in Wisconsin. When the subject of this review was two years old the family moved to Freeborn county, .Minnesota, and there her parents lived until their deaths, the father in 1897 and the mother in 1909.

.Miss Gresdalen spent her girlhood days in Freeborn county and she was married there on June 28, 1881, to Ole K. Furgeson. Mr. Furgeson was born in Winnebago county, Wisconsin, September 15, 1851. His parents, natives of Norway, were Kittel and Margrette (Peterson) Furgeson. Immediately after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Ole K. Furgeson came to Lyon county and took as a homestead claim the farm on which Mrs. Furgeson still lives. Mr. Furgeson farmed that place until his death on June 19, 1908. He was an influential man and one highly esteemed by his neighbors in Island Lake township.

GEORGE W. MADDEN (1904). Among the substantial and influential farmers of Lynd township is George W. Madden, who has been a resident of Lyon county for the past eight years. George is a native of Iowa and was born in Bremer county December 6, 1867, a son of George W. and Sarah ( Martin) Madden, natives of Virginia and pioneer settlers of Bremer county. Mrs. Madden was born October 24, 1831, and died September 8, 1911, at her home in Sumner, Iowa. Mr. Madden died June 5, 1889. They were the parents of eleven children.

The man whose name heads this sketch received his education in the district schools of Bremer county, where he attended school until twenty-one years of age. He then worked at farm labor and bridge work five or six years, after which he engaged in the livery business at Fayette, Iowa, continuing in that work three years, when he sold and worked for a hardware dealer two years. He again returned to farm work, this time for himself. He farmed three years in Fayette county and one year on the old home farm in Bremer county. In 1899 he purchased one hundred sixty acres on section 36, Lynd township, which he rented out until 1904, when he moved to the place and has since resided there. He has since that time put up almost all new buildings.

Mr. Madden is a member of the Yeomen lodge. He is one of the directors of school district No. 1 and was road overseer one year in Lynd township. He raises considerable stock, including Poland China hogs, Shorthorn cattle and Barred Plymouth Rock chickens, and is a stockholder and a director of the Farmers Elevator Company of Lynd.

.Mr. .Madden was married June 5, 1895, to Emma Bloxham, a daughter of Sam Bloxham, of Winneshiek county, Iowa. Mrs. Madden was born in 1869 and died May 9, 1904. To this union were born the following three children: Glenn, born June 28, 1896; Georgie, born April 22, 1901; Charles, born March 30, 1904. Mr. Madden was married a second time, to Alice Bloxham, on October 3, 1906. She died in October, 1907. He was married a third time, to Louise Tiedje, a daughter of Henry and Gusta Tiedje, natives of Germany and early settlers of Carroll county, Iowa. Her father died in February, 1910; her mother resides near Lynd. Mrs. Madden is a native of Iowa and was born in Carroll county January 24, 1886. To this union have been born the following children: Abraham, born February 12, 1909; Clarence, born October 22, 1910.

Mr. Madden has seven brothers and six sisters, all living: Ed., Charles, Marcellus, of Lyon county; John, of Spokane, Washington; Price, of Anthony, Kansas; James, of Sumner, Iowa; Joe, of Haifa, Iowa; Mrs. Will Triptow, of Burt, Iowa; Jennie, of Sumner, Iowa; Maggie, of Sumner, Iowa; Mrs. A. H. Bixby, of Spirit Lake, Iowa; Mrs. Julius Robinson, of Oelwein, Iowa; Mrs. Joe Stuffelbeam, of Denver, Colorado.

TELESPHORE PARADIS (188 6) engages in farming and stock raising upon his farm on section 27, Lake Marshall township, where he has resided several years. He is a native of Canada and was born January 22, 1851. His parents are Lawrence and Florence (Lenone) Paradis, natives of Canada.

Telesphore attended school and assisted his father on the farm during his minority. In 188 6 he came to Lyon county and purchased land in Fairview township, where he lived several years, later selling there and buying his present farm in Lake Marshall. He owns a fine 240-acre farm in that township, where, in addition to general farming, he engages in the raising of cattle and hogs. Mr. Paradis is a member of the Catholic church.

Mr. Paradis was married in Canada on September 10, 1878, to Celina Desmareis, who was born in that country in 1858, and died in August, 1892. To Mr. and Mrs. Paradis were born the following named children: Helen, Vergina, Vadeline, Bernedette, Teles, Phillip, Adel, Laura, Wilfred. Mr. Paradis was married a second time at Ghent, in 1896, to Lea Surprenant, a native of Canada. She was born December 17, 1861, and came to Minnesota in 1896. To this union have been born two children: Diana, born March 8, 18 97, and Leo, born July 21, 1900.

HORATIO R. PAINTER (1897), superintendent of schools for Lyon county, has devoted his entire life to educational pursuits, for the past fifteen years as a resident of Lyon county. He was born at Washington C. H., Fayette county, Ohio, June 23, 1875, the son of Jonathan and Mary (Pruddy) Painter. The parents were natives of Pennsylvania but settled in Ohio when children. The father died a number of years ago; the mother now lives at Connersville, Indiana. In the family are seven children, as follows: Harvey, Earl H. and Minnie (Mrs. John R. Gray), all of Connersville, Indiana; Lora (Mrs. Sherman Bilby), of Munsie, Illinois; Alice (Mrs. U. T. Ellis), of Wilmington, Ohio; and H. R., of this biography.

When our subject was eleven years of age he accompanied the family from his native state to Connersville, Indiana, and there grew to manhood, having graduated from the Connersville High School. He located in Lyon county in 1897 and for one year was employed as a teacher in Island Lake township. He taught at Hanley Palls one year and at Russell four years, during part of which time he attended Drake University, at Des Moines, Iowa. Mr. Painter engaged in teaching at Garvin two years and in the fall of 1906 was elected county superintendent of schools, an office he has since held. Mr. Painter is a member of the Masonic and Eastern Star lodges.

At Russell, in May, 1902, Mr. Painter was united in marriage to Inez C. Coyle, a native of Sodus township. Her father was Joshua Coyle, who settled in the county in the seventies and died in 1903. To Mr. and Mrs. Painter one child has been born, Louise, who was born February 21, 1909.

HENRY BURCKHARDT (1902). One of the enterprising farmers of Coon Creek township is Henry Burckhardt, the owner of the southwest quarter of section 10. Henry is a native of Illinois and was born in Freeport on October 26, 1880, a son of J. J. and Bertha (Watzke) Burckhardt, of that city.

Henry received his schooling in the district schools near Freeport, which he attended until sixteen years of age, after which he assisted his father on the farm until twenty-one years old. Leaving home at that time, he spent some time in Iowa and South Dakota, finally locating in Coon Creek township in 1902. He has farmed there since that date on the quarter section which he owns. He also farms 320 acres of rented land. Besides farming he raises considerable stock, among other breeds, Poland China hogs and Durham cattle.

Mr. Burckhardt is a member of the German Lutheran church and of the Masonic and Modern Woodmen lodges. He holds stock in the following enterprises of Russell: Farmers Elevator Company, Farmers Mutual Telephone Company and Farmers Co-operative Store Company. In an official capacity Mr. Burckhardt has several times been called upon to serve. He holds the office of clerk of school district No. 70 and was director of the Farmers Mutual Telephone Company for two years. Mr. Burckhardt is a successful farmer and stock raiser.

Mr. Burckhardt is a man of family. On February 24, 1904, he was married to Florence V. Thurston, a native of Lyons township and a daughter of Henry and Viola (Wait) Thurston. She was born October 26, 1882. Mr. and Mrs. Burckhardt are the parents of two children: Helen Bertha, born December 1, 1905; and Leon Henry, born October 31, 1907.

.Mr. and Mrs. Thurston, the parents of Mrs. Burckhardt, are pioneer residents in Lyon county, having come here when Lynd was the county seat and located in us township. They hauled lumber for their home from New Dim. Mrs. Thurston's father, Ransom Wait, was a Presbyterian minister who organized several churches in Murray and Lyon counties. Mr. and Mrs. Thurston now reside at Moore, Fergus county, Montana. Mr. Thurston is a veteran of the Civil War, having served three years as a member of Company E, Fourth Minnesota Regiment. His eldest son, C. W. Thurston, is a veteran of the Spanish- American War.