Mower County, Minnesota - Biographical sketches, 1911 (part 13 of 14)

Charles Bell, a venerable old pioneer, lived in LeRoy over a half a century, and in all that time maintained an enviable record for honor, integrity and uprightness. He was born February 5, 1827, in Henry county, Indiana, son of William Bell. AVilliam Bell was a native of Tennessee, but was reared in Kentucky, and came to Henry county, Indiana, with the early settlers. He took government land and farmed thereon until his death. It was here that Charles Bell grew to manhood. In 1848 he married Mary Zook, and rented a farm for two years. Then he managed his father's place until 1856, when with a team he started for Minnesota, arriving in LeRoy township after twenty-six days of travel.

He lived two months with A. D. Parks, and during this time ho erected a log house on land which he had entered in the northeasL quarter of section 19. In this cabin he lived until 1863, when he sold out and moved to the Frank farm. On December 25, 1863, he enlisted in Brackett's Battalion and went to the frontier in pursuit of Indians, serving until his discharge May 18, 1866. During his term of service his wife purchased a residence in section 29, LeRoy township, and in this the family lived until 1867, when Mr. Bell purchased the south half of the northeast quarter of section 17. This land he improved, and later he purchased the north half of the same quarter, thus giving him 240 acres. ]\Irs. Mary Zook Bell died November 9, 1875, leaving six children : Elizabeth, wife of Michael Kelley; Josephine, wife of James Leary; Ellen, *vife of James McGilvery ; Stephen D., livng in Rochester ; Charles, living in Billings, Montana; and Cora, wife of William Prebble, of Blue Earth, Minnesota. November 1, 1878, Mr. Bell married Jennie Hurlburt, and to this union was born one child, Maude, wife of Joseph Darrow. Joseph Darrow died in 1904. Mrs. Jennie Bell was born in New York state, June 16, 1845. She married John Cox, January 1, 1863, in the town of Union, Rock county, Wisconsin. Mr. Cox died in 1870, leaving one child, Viola, now wife of Henry Hermes, of Spring Valley, and mother of one sou, Kenneth. The widow of John Cox married Miles Hurlburt in 1873, and on November 1, 1878, she married Charles Bell. For thirty-two years they shared the joys and sorrows of life together, until September 14, 1910, when Charles Bell passed into his eternal rest. Several years before his death he sold his farm and bought four acres just outside of the limits, where he built a home in which he lived a retired life until his death.

John J. Fardahl, one of the extensive land owners of INIarshall township, was born in Norway in 1861, the son of John S. Fardahl, who came to the United States in 1875 and located in Philadelphia, later coming to Mower county. John J. Fardahl attended the schools of Norway from the age of eight to fourteen and then came to America. After reaching Mower county he attended the schools of District 105 for three months. At the age of twentythree years he purchased the old home farm of eighty acres, and by industry and frugality, coupled with ability, he has been enabled to acquire other land, until he now owns 240 acres, his home being located in section 34, Marshall township. A larger part of this land was cleared of timber by Mr. Fardahl, and has now been brought to a high stage of cultivation. His chief work has been with grain and cows, although he carries on some general farming. He is a Republican in politics, and has been treasurer of School District 105 for several years. In 1886, the subject of this sketch married Gonhilde Skarsbo, a native of

Norway, and this union has been blessed with six children : John, deceased; and Alfred J\I., Carolina, Lewis, Melvin and Nils, all at home. John, the oldest, a most estimable young man, met with an accidental death in the state of Washington, in 1909. He was employed in the woods when a steel cable broke, causing injuries which resulted in his death. His former employers speak in highest terms of his work and character, and his companions and friends lamented his untimely death. S. J. Fardahl, a brother of John J., died in 1910. He and John J. were home boys together, and their companionship was closer than that which usually exists even between brothers.

Albert G. Larson, an enterprising and progressive merchant of LeRoy, was born in the "Old Town" of LeRoy, September 26, 1865, son of Gordon and Anna Larson, the former a native of Norway, and the latter of Denmark. Gordon Larson came to America in 1863 and located in Decorah, Iowa, where he died. His wife, Anna, came to the old town of LeRoy, after his death, and here Albert G. was born. When he was eleven years old, he left LeRoy and did not return permanently until 1891. AVhen he was sixteen years of age, he started clerking for Smith Brothers, at Lydon, Wisconsin. Then he came to Houston, Minnesota, and clerked lor Field & Briggs. Subsequently he was clerk for I. Abrahamson for three years. About this time he married Rose Williams, daughter of J. B. Williams and Elitha Gardner, his wife. To Mr. and Mrs. Larson have been born two children, Floyd J. and Marjorie E. After his marriage, Mr. Larson went into business with his father-in-law, J. B. Williams, at Yucatan, ]\Iinnesota. He became postmaster of that village, and remained two and a half years. Then, still continuing in the partnership with his father-in-law, he went to Money Creek, INIinnesota, and opened a store. He became a prominent citizen, was appointed postmaster. and remained in the place twelve years. LeRoy appealed to his business judgment as a good commercial location, and accordingly he formed a partnership with C. S. Palmer and established a store here and at Chester, Iowa. Later he bought Mr. Palmer out and has since continued in business alone at LeRoy, having sold the Chester store. He conducts a modern and well-kept store, and handles a large stock of dry goods and general merchandise. Mr. Larson is a member of the Orient Lodge, No. 84, A. F. and A. M., at Money Creek, INIinnesota; of LeRoy Chapter, R. A. ]\I.; of the B. P. 0. E., at Winona; of the I. 0. 0. F., at LeRoy, and of the M. W. A., the Eastern Star, and the Rebekah degree at LeRoy. It is worthy of note that Mr. Larson has been a successful merchant for over twenty-five years and his father-in-law. J. B. Willjains, t'nr over forty-five years.

prosperous farmer in Nevada township. He was born in Illinois, November 20, 1849, son of Jonathan and Cinthia A. (Trout) Mc- Farland, the former of Scotch and the latter of Dutch descent, both being born in Ohio. He left Illinois with his parents at the age of six years, and the family then settled in Delaware county, Iowa, moving after a short time to Mitchell county, Iowa, and( then in 1857 to Nevada township, this county, which at that early date had been but recently settled. William grew to manhood on the farm, worked with his father for a time, then bought and still continued on the home place after his father had moved to Oregon, remaining on the farm twenty-eight years. He is now engaged in repairing and looking after the county bridges. March 18, 1874, he married Ella H. Bowen, born June 16, 1852, in Vermont, daughter of Mark and Sarah L. (Harris) Bowen, the former of Welsh and the latter of English descent, both being born in Vermont. Mr. and Mrs. William McFarland Avere the parents of four children, Mark B, deceased ; Albert J. ; Nellie C, deceased ; and Sadie A. Albert J., who, with his father, has various interests outside of his road and bridge repairing, married Winifred Ballard, of Kansas, and they have one child, William H. Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan McFarland had issue as follows : James, deceased ; Margaret, now Mrs. Stephen Webb, living in Illinois ; John, deceased ; Theisa, deceased ; William, living in Austin ; Lucinda, now Mrs. John Thayer, living in California; Albert, noAV living in Oregon ; Lydia, now Mrs. Irvin Barbre, living in Oregon ; Libbie, deceased, and Charles, living in Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Bowen were the parents of six girls and one boy. Of these four are living : Mrs. Fanny Waldo, of Vermont ; Mrs. Carrie Fairbanks, of the state of Washington ; Mrs. Louise Ballard, of Kansas, and Mrs. Ella H. McFarland, of Austin, Minnesota.

Edvdn Price, retired farmer, of LeEoy, was born in Shropshire, England, October 6, 1848, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Price, natives of the same shire ; Thomas Price dying in 1888, and Elizabeth Price in 1886. Edwin received his early education in England, and in 1871 came to America, locating first for a few months at Portage, Wisconsin. Then he made his home at Fountain, Fillmore county, for a period of eight years, farming, threshing and working in the pine Avoods. Siabsequently he purchased 160 acres in Jamestown township, HoAvard county, and to this later added an adjoining tract of 160 acres in Oakdale, making a fine farm of 320 acres, all in loAva. On this tract he carried on general farming until November, 1901, AA^hen he retired, rented his farm and moved to LeEoy, where he purchased the home where he noAv resides. When conducting agricultural operations, Mr. Price made a specialty of full-blooded Poland-China hogs and Durham cattle. While in Iowa he Avas a member of the school board of his township, and served two years as superintendent of roads. He has also been street commissioner in LeRoy three years. He is a stockholder in the Farmers' Creamery at Bailey, Iowa, and aside from his farm in Iowa, he owns his own residence, another residence, and twenty-three building lots in the village of LeKoy. Mr. Price was marreid on Easter Monday, in April, 1878, at Chatfield, Fillmore county, to Sarah Linn, who died August 30, 1893, leaving six children : John, who is a railroad express clerk, lives in the state of AVashingtou ; Robert, who has passed through the chairs of the LeRoy I. 0. 0. F. Lodge, lives in LeRoy and is a clerk for Porter & Young; j\Iary L., who has held all the offices in the local Rebekah Lodge and is now recording secretary, keeps house for her father ; Anna E. is a teacher at Jackson, Minnesota ; Veronica H. and Joseph E. clerk in a drug store at LeRoy. They are both graduates of the LeRoy high school.

Charles A. Roy, for many years a prominent merchant of LeRoy, was actively identified with the social, business, political, civic and fraternal life of the county, and his life and character had a most salutary effect on the progress of the village. He was born in Lyndon, Illinois, February 8, 1842, son of Judge John Roy and Martha Foster Roy, the former a native of New Jersey and the latter of New Hampshire, from which states they moved to Illinois at an early date. Charles A. was reared on a farm, and i-eceived a good education, being engaged in farm pursuits at the outbreak of the Civil war. When but nineteen years of age he enlisted as a bugler in McClellan's Dragoons, August 2, 1861, at Chicago. He served in the Peninsular campaign under Mc- Clellan, and saw his first service at Williamsburg, where a horse Avas shot under him. Mr. Roy served with the Army of the Potomac, until the fall of 1863, his last service with this army being in October of that year, around Culpepper. In this engagement he also had a horse shot under him. After this, the company was placed in the Twelfth Illinois Cavalry, and Mr. Roy was sent home sixty days to recruit. Then he went to St. Louis and New Orleans, and thence up the Red river to Alexandria, seeing service about the Red and Atehafalaya rivei's. Then he went to New Orleans, and eventually was assigned the duty of hunting guerillas about Donaldson villc, where he was honorably discharged, August 4, 1864, reaching home, September 18 of the same year. A year later, November 30, 1865, he was married at Lyndon, Illinois, to Frances E. Lathe, daughter of i\[oses and Elizabeth (Rogers) Lathe, natives, respectively, of Massachusetts and New York, who located at Amboy, Lee county, Illinois, in 1848, and in Lyndon, Illinois, in 1851, Moses Lathe passing away in 1880 at the age of eighty-one years, and his wife in 1853 at the age of thirty-six years. INIrs. Roy was born in Hornby,

Steuben county, New York, August 11, 1844. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Eoy spent a few years in Lyndon, and then in April, 1868, came to LeEoy, where Mr. Eoy associated himself with I. Ingmandson in the tin and hardware business. The firm continued until 1871, when Mr. Ingmandson retired and Mr. Eoy took over the business alone. After many years he received his son Foster L. into partnership, and the firm became C. A. Eoy & Son. At the time of his death, Mr. Eoy had been in continuous business in LeEoy for forty-two years. He was a member of the Masonic order, and belonged to the Knights Templar and the Eastern Star, being also a member of the G. A. E. In these orders he took an active interest, holding the highest positions in the gift of each. When the village was organized Mr. Eoy was one of the committee on incorporation, and was elected first recorder, a position in which he served for many years. He was also one of the first trustees of the opera house and for several years its manager. In every way he was a most useful citizen. At the time of his death, December 5, 1910, he left besides his widow, four children: Mrs. Mabel E. Coffeen, of Westboro, Massachusetts ; C. I., a prominent clothing merchant of LeEoy ; Foster L., a hardware merchant of LeEoy, and Frank V., of Springfield, Missouri. The widow of the subject of this sketch is one of four children : Sarah L., deceased ; Mrs. C. A. Eoy ; Wilhelmina, now Mrs. Quackenbush, of Seattle, AVashington; and Charles, of Illinois. Mr. Eoy was a member of the school board for a good many years and was president of that body at the time of the building of the new school.

Harry N. Sargeant was one of the pioneers of the town which perpetuates his name, was the first clerk of the town on its organization, and held that position for many years. He was also the chairman of the meeting which was called September 16, 1873, at his home, for the purpose of organizing what is now the town of Sargeant. Harry N. Sargeant was born in South Stukely, Shcfl'ord county, Province of Quebec, June 19, 1817, son of Eoswell and Phoebe (Allen) Sargeant, both natives of Vermont, who located in Canada in 1800, and there ended their days. The subject of this sketch was reared to agricultural pursuits, and in early life, December 22, 1838, married Anna Parker, who was born in Canada, December 22, 1821. The young couple lived on the old homestead in Canada, until 1858, when they went to Oak Grove, Dodge county, Wisconsin, where they purchased a farm. March 1, 1864, Mrs. Sargeant died, and just one year later her husband sold out and started for Mower county, going to La Crosse by land, by team across the river, and by the same conveyance to the south half of section 11, township 104, range 16, Avhere he had purchased land the previous year. At that time sixty acres were under cultivation, and a small frame house had been erected on the southeast quarter. Mr. Sargeant developed and improved the land in many ways, and successfully carried on farming operations, attaining honor and distinction. In addition to being town clerk he also served as school clerk and postmaster. The subject of this sketch married Anna, daughter of Nathan and Elizabeth (Willard) Parker, and eight children were born : Roxana, Harriet P., Alice L., Eliza W., Harry A., Malcolm, George AV. and Edwin J. Roxana is the deceased wife of Charles Owen. Harriet, the housekeeper after her mother's death, died in 1909. The influence of her pure, unselfish life lives in those who knew her best. Alice married William Hambright. Eliza is a wellknown school teacher. She was born in Canada, received her early education in the district schools of AVisconsin and Minnesota, and then graduated from the State Normal school at AVinona. She taught for a while in Northfield, but most of her educational work has been done in District 91, Sargeant township, where she was employed as the first teacher after the organization of the school district, beginning that term in her father's corn-crib, the new schoolhouse not being completed. At the close of two weeks both teacher and pupils were glad to move to more commodious quarters. The whole period of her service covers some twenty years. Malcolm married Maria Harrington, of Red Rock township. They reside in AVyndmere, North Dakota. George ^A^ married Belle Lewis, of North Dakota. They resided in that state for several years, but are now living in Lodi, California. Edwin J. married Agnes Keef, of Minneapolis. The.y with their two sons, Cedric, and Norman, remained on the old homestead until the fall of 1910, when they moved to Kasson, Minnesota, where the boys are attending school.

Hairy A. Saxgeant, now of Northfield, Minnesota, was for many years a prominent man in Sargeant township. He was born in South Stukely, Quebec, Canada, May 26, 1855, son of Harry N. and Anna (Parker) Sargeant. He went to Wisconsin with his parents when three years old, and came to Mower county with his father when ten years old. January 24, 188-i, he married Anna Johnson, a native of AVisconsin. He became prominent in town aft'airs, and served as justice of the peace, assessor and town clerk. Their children are Nathaniel J., Arthur P., Howard L., and AVillard H. The parents moved to Northfield in 1906, for the purpose of giving their sons better educational advantages. Arthur P. was a student at Carleton College three ycirs, and is now taking the medical course at our state university. Howard L. is a senior at Carleton. AVillard H., many years younger tluui liis brntliers, is in the Northfield public school.

ship, which was named for his grandfather. He was born in section 11, Sargeant township, son of Harry A. and Anna (Johnson) Sargeant. He received his early education in the schools of his neighborhood and graduated from the Stewartville High school. Since then he has devoted his life to agricultural pursuits. He married Clara, daughter of John and Mary (Milligan) Gordy, and they have two children : Florence and Olive.

Sever Temanson, a hard-working farmer of Racine township, was born in Green county, Wisconsin, December 16, 1860, son of T. T. Omsrud and Inge Omsrud Temanson, who came to Mower county in 1866 and settled in Racine township. The father was a shoemaker and farmer, and continued these occupations until his death in 1887. The mother died in 1867. Sever was educated in the district schools and as a young man, worked out. In 1888 he purchased eighty acres in section 5, Racine township, and eighty acres in Frankford township. Here he carries on general farming, raises Durham cattle for dual purposes, and has a fine drove of Red Jersey pigs. Mr. Temanson is an independent Republican. He was road overseer one year, school director two years, school treasurer fifteen years and has served in other positions of public and private trust and honor, including two years ' work as a member of the town board. He has been a director of the Grand Meadow creamery seven years and is also a director of the Farmers' store at Spring Valley. His wife, Andrine, whom he married March 18, 1886, was born June 15, 1865, and died June 21, 1907. The Temanson home has been blessed with ten children : Ida, Sanf ord, Ely, Mattie, Albert, Alice, Martha, Toulo, Milton and Thelma. Ida married Halvor Hanson, of Racine, and Sanford is a clerk in a store in North Dakota. The rest are at home.

Edward A. Whitcomb, the efficient and well-liked carrier on route two, out of LeRoy, was born in Walworth county, Wisconsin, October 5, 1841, son of Edward and Almira (Child) Whitcomb. He came to Minnesota with his parents in 1855, and was reared on a farm in LeRoy township, assisting his parents in breaking and developing their farm. In 1875 he took charge of the home farm, and worked this tract, which consisted of 160 acres in section 30, and 120 acres in section 20, until 1890, when he came to the old town of LeRoy and took care of his parents. Later he sold his farms, and in 1890 purchased his present comfortable home in LeRoy. February 1, 1903, he received an appointment to his present government position. IMr. Whitcomb is a veteran of the Civil war, having joined Company K, Fourth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, in 1862. He served until 1864, when he reenlisted as a veteran, remaining until the close of the war. He participated in the Grand Review in Washington, was mustered out at Louisville, Kentueky, and discluir^ed at Fort Snelling iu the fall of 1865. In civil life he has l)een no less distinguished. He has been a member of the LeRoy board of education eleven years, village marshal five years, assessor of LeRoy township several years, and secretary of the board of education in LeRoy township, district number four, many terms. He is a member of the Blue Lodge, the Chapter and the Eastern Star, in the Masons, and also a member of the G. A. R. The subject of this sketch was married, February 22, 1868, to Margaret A. Taylor, born December 5, 1840, at Ulysus, Tompkins county, New York, and this union has been blessed Avith three children : Frank, Ruben, and Eunice L. Frank married Anna Laws. Mrs. AVhitcomb was a daughter of Ruben and Catharene (King) Taylor, natives of New York and Vermont, going to Ithaca, New York, in 1841, where i[r. Taylor engaged at fine carpenter Avork on ship building and finishing. In 1867 they came to Minnesota and located in the old village of LeRoy, her mother dying two months later, July 17, 1867. Mr. Taylor passed away in October, 1868.

Edward Whitcomb, the pioneer, and Almira Child, his wife, were born in Vermont, moved to New York state and then to "Wisconsin. In 1855 they came to LeRoy township, arrived October 4, and located on a 120-acre timber claim two miles northwest of LeRoy village. Later they settled on a claim of 160 acres of wild land in the same township, and there farmed until about 1875, when they retired and moved to the old town of LeRoy, where both died.

Edward S. Bosworth, manager and owner of the LeRoy Electric Light plant, was born in the village where he now resides, January 14, 1871, son of Daniel and Ann (Nevins) Bosworth. He attended school in LeRoy, and after completing his schooling spent ten years of his life in northern IMinnesota. In 1899 he returned to LeRoy and is now engaged in operating the electric light plant which his father started that year. INIr. Boswortli married Elizabeth Powell, daughter of Lorenzo Powell, and tliey have one child, Grover. The subject of this sketch is a popular member of the A. F. and A. M., and of the M. W. A.

Daniel Bosworth was one of the active business men of LeRoy for over thirty-four years. He was the son of Thomas and Harriet Bosworth, born at Great Creaton, Northamptonshire. England, April 19. 1828. He was educated in the academy of George Wills, of Narborough, in Leicestershire, and at thirteen years of age was l)Ound an apprentice in the city of London to an architect and builder for a term of five years. After three years, however, he purchased the remainder of his time, and worked as a journeyman in various parts of England until eighteen years of age. In 1846 he with his parents moved to Granby, O.swego county, and there Dauiel followed his trade as a master builder. Juue 14, 1853, he married Miss L. A. Draper, born at Grauby, November 19, 1833, daughter of John and Fannie Draper. She died October 26, 1855, leaving by her marriage with Mr. Bosworth one daughter, Ida L. Soon after the death of his first wife, Daniel Bosworth moved from Oswego county. New York, to Elyria, Lorain county, Ohio, in November, 1856. There he followed his trade, and there he was married November 25, 1858, to Ann E. S. Nevins, oldest daughter of Birdsey and Francis Nevins. To this union Avere born seven children, five boys and two girls: Harry T., "William B., Hugh F., Harriet Frances, Edward Starr, Daniel W., and Lottie S. Mr. Bosworth followed his business as a builder in Elyria until October, 1862, when he enlisted as a private in Company A, Sixth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and served until October of the following year, when he was discharged for sickness. In May, 1864, for the benefit of his health, he came to Mower county, followed his occupation as a builder, engaged extensively in the real estate business and in other interests, and became a respected, honored and substantial citizen. He died in 1900.

Caleb Lewis, a respected citizen of LeRoy village, was born in Bartholomev/ county, Indiana, January 8, 1830, son of John and Rebecca (Hartman) Lewis. John Lewis came from the spurs of the Green Brier mountains, in Virginia, and settled at an early day in Union township, Bartholomew county, which at that time was in a heavily wooded district, which the settlers must clear before planting crops. Caleb was born and reared in a log cabin, and remained Avith his parents until twenty-one years of age, Avhen he came Avest, and after looking over the country, finally settled in LeRoJ^ He worked for Daniel Caswell and others, and after his marriage purchased a farm. He traded this farm with Daniel Caswell, for a hotel in LeRoy, and this he conducted for three years, subsequently opening a meat market, and in connection with this, dealing also in live stock. In 1880 he resumed farming on a farm of 160 acres, which he purchased in LeRoy township. Five years later he returned to the village, where he has since lived retired. Mr. Lewis was marshal of the toAvn for five years, but aside from this he has never consented to hold public office, although often urged to do so by his friends. By his first Avife, Barbara Bemin, Mr. Lewis had five children, two of Avhom, John and Alice, the AAdfe of J. D. Hyatt, are living. The present Mrs. Lewis Avas Margarett Sutton, a native of Wisconsin. This ^^nion has been blessed Avith seven children, of Avhom four, James, Estella, Leah and Edna, are living. The family stands well in the community, and is ahvays to be depended upon to take its share in every good Avork.

George H. Herzog, of the firm of Lovell & Herzog, auctioneers, was born iu Austin, August 24, 1873, sou of Henry and Aggathie (Fischer) Herzog, the former a native of Pennsyl.vania and the latter of Germany. Henry Herzog located in Austin about 1865 and engaged in the carpenter department of the C, M. & St. P. Ry., with which company he still remains, having the unusual record of forty-six years' continuous service in one employ. George H. received his education in the public schools of Austin, and after reaching manhood's estate engaged in farming. In 1893 he took up the machinery business and was on the road as a traveling salesman three years. Then he became a salesman for the PavsoTis Self-feeding and Band Cutter Company, of Neibo, Iowa and continued m tliis employ untiri902, when he again went on the road as a traveling salesman for three years. Then after farming in South Dakota for two years he returned to Austin and engaged in the retail and jobbing business with A. B. Lovell. He is a member of the I. O. 0. F. and the M. W. A., votes the Republican ticket and attends the Catholic church. Tlie subject of this sketch was married November 16, 1898, to Fannie B. Guthrie, and two cliildren have blessed this union: Veru D., born May 2, 1909, and Ruth, who died in infancy.

Ole G. Anderson is one of the well-known Norwegian-Americans of Mower county, and ouly his extreme modesty and reluctance to enter the field of polities has kept him from positions of high political preferment. He was born in Norway, October 11, 1849, and came to America alone, arriving in Austin in 1871. After making inquiries for work he continued on his waj" to Lansing, and started work by the month. In 1875 he purchased forty acres of land, where he has since resided, owning 160 acres of good land in Lansing township. Mr. Anderson was married iu June, 1876, to Telda Nelson, daughter of Ole Nelson, who was one of the pioneers of Lansing. The children of Mr. and IMrs. Anderson are as follows: MoUie, now ^Ii-s. George E. Anderson, of Austin; Otto: Serena, now ^Mrs. A. Peterson; Emma, now Mrs. C. J. Johnson; Ernest and Clarence (twins), and Lawrence. Mr. Anderson and his family (iccupy a i)Osition of trust and honor in the community.

Richard P. Maxfield, liveryman of LeRoy for thirty years, was born iu "Wayne county, New York, in November, 1853, and came to "Washington county, Wisconsin, with his parents at the age of six months. The family located in section 36, LeRoy township, in 1862, and here, Ricliard P., Avho was the youngest of six, was reared to young manhood, remaining on the home farm until twenty years of age. Then he went to South Dakota and took up land, but a year and a half later returned and engaged in his present business. Mr. iMaxfield married Manie A., daughter of

John E. and Catherine Blacmer, and they are the parents of three children : Miles W., David C, and Catherine. It is Avorthy of note that the great-great-grandfather of Eichard P. Maxfield came from Scotland in the latter part of the eighteenth century.

Edward Erickson, one of the leading farmers of Frankford township, was born January 18, 1873, only son of Erick and Esther (Olson) Erickson. Fie received his education in the district schools, and then took up farming with his parents. A few j'ears before his father's death he took charge of the home farm, and since that date has conducted agricultural operations in a successful manner. lie is a Eepublican in politics, has been clerk of school district 19 for the past six years, and is a stockholder in the Farmers' Cooperative Creamery Company, of Grand Meadow. Mr. Erickson was married September 19, 1901, at the Bear Creek church in Frankford, to Nellie Julson, born in Frankford township, September 22, 1878, daughter of Nels and Betsy (Hansen) Julsen. This union has been blessed with six children: Alice, born April 5, 1902 ; Benice, born May 29, 1903 ; Ernest B., born March 15, 1906 ; Norman J., born August 26, 1907 ; Clifford G., born January 5, 1910; Ervin J., born January 11, 1911.

Erick 0. Erickson was born in Norway, and as a young man came to America. He was married at Grand Meadow, this county, to Esther Olson. They purchased eighty acres in section 17, Frankford township, and later added another eighty. On this tract they continued to carry on general farming the remainder of their lives, Erick dying March 29, 1908, and his wife January 18, 1901.

Nels Julsen was born in Norway, and married Betsy Flansen, also a native of that country, the ceremony being performed in Grand Meadow, this county. After their marriage they purchased eighty acres in section 18, Frankford township, and later forty more, until they owned 120 acres, on which they conducted general farming. Nels died August 1, 1909, and since then his wife has erected a new home in Grand Meadow village, where she now resides. Mr. and Mrs. Julsen were the parents of ten children : Lena is dead ; Christine is the wife of Julius Finhart, of Grand IMeadow ; Julia is the wife of Edward Hovda, of Plaza, North Dakota ; Gunwald and Casper also live in Plaza ; Nellie is Mrs. Edward Erickson, of Frankford ; Hannah is Mrs. Elvin Florand, of Grand Meadow village ; Oscar lives in Plaza, North Dakota; Alma is the wife of John Higgins, also of Plaza; Ella is at home with her mother.

Allen G. Dalen, a prosperous farmer of Eacine township, has been a prominent man in the community, and has assisted in the upbuilding of this part of the county in various ways. He was born in Dane county, AVisconsin, February 13, 1852, son of Gulick ami Carrie (Moau) Daleu, natives of Norway, who came to America iu 1850, located in AViscousiu for four years and then came to Mower county and purchased 160 acres of land in section 5, Kacine, at $2 per acre, ending their days on this farm, the father iu 3884: and the mother in 1885. Allen G. was educated in the country schools of Racine and assisted his parents until twentylive years of age, at which time he purchased eighty acres iu Clayton lowuship. Five years later he purchased 120 acres adjoining his father's place in Racine, and four years later took charge of the home place, where he now lives. Mr. Dalen assisted in starting the Grand Meadow creamery, and has made a specialty of raising Durham cattle for dairy purposes. He is an independent Republican, and has served as town supervisor sixteen years and as clerk of his school district twelve years. He has been director of the Bear Creek Lutheran church fourteen years and treasurer six years. He is also president of the Farmers' Store Company, of Spring Valley, and a trustee of the Grand Meadow Cooperative Telephone Company. Aside from these interests he has operated a threshing machine for many years, and has purchased successively six different threshing outfits, each one being better and more modern than the one before. The subject of this sketch was married June 12, 1877, to Eliza Dickens, of Fillmore county, and this union has been blessed with seven chiFdren : Gilbert, Edwin, Alma, Christina, Matilda, Rosella and Selmer. Gilbert is in Minneapolis ; Edwin farms a part of his father's land; Alma married Hans Wagoner, of Grand Meadow, and the rest are at home.

John E. Chaffee, the genial proprietor of the hotel at Lansing village, was born in Lamartine township, Fond du Lac county, AViscousin, in November, 18-49, son of Ithamer Stone and Eliza (Hall) Chaft'ee. Ten years ago he came to the picturesque village of Lansing, and has since successfully conducted an excellent hotel. The place is homelike and pleasant, and guests are sure of a cordial welcome and a good meal. Mr. Chaft'ee married Jessie Bassett, daughter of John and Olive (Jackson) Bassett, and they have six children: Guy, Nettie, Maude, Ray, Roy and Reed. Guy lives in Freeborn county; Nettie max^ried George S. LaBarr and they have one child, Clinton; i\Liude married Lee 0. Thompson; Ray married Hulda Hale and they have one child, John. Roy married Nellie Vaughan, and they have one cliild. Ithamer Stone Chaft'ee was born in Berkshire township, Vermont, in 1827, the youngest of seven children. He married Eliza Hall. He came west in 1849, located in Lamartine, Fond du Lac county, Wisconsin, and lived there until the spring of 1851, when he went to Newton township, where he ended his days, in 1877. His wife died in 1894. They were the parents of three children : Julius,

Henry Beach, a respectable farmer of Bennington township, was born in Portage, Wisconsin, May 5, 1854, son of William and Mollie Beach, both natives of Germany, who came to America in 1850, and to Minnesota in 1861, settling in Bennington township, this county, where William is still living, Mollie Beach having died in March, 1911. Henry was educated in the schools of his neighborhood and remained at home until twenty-seven years of age, when he began renting land for himself. Later he purchased 120 acres in section 12, Bennington township, where he now conducts general farming. He is a Democrat in politics, and has been road overseer for some terms. Mr. Beach was married October 1, 1886, to Minnie Swan Puntam, of Bloomfield, this state, and they have had four children: One died in early childhood in 1905; William is married and devotes his life to farming; Loudie lives in Mower county, and Walter is at home. The family faith is that of the Lutheran church.

Sam Start, a prosperous and reprtssentative citizen of Bennington township, was born in loAva county, Wisconsin, April 23, 1870, son of John and Christina (Forthum) Start. He received a limited district school education, and at eighteen yeaz's of age started out in life for himself by purchasing 160 acres in Howard county, Iowa. After eight montlis he sold this place, making $800 on Ihe transaction. He then purchased eighty acres in section 32, Bennington township, this county. To this tract he has added from time to time until he now owns 400 acres, all in Bennington township, 160 acres being in section 32 and 240 in section 29. This land is all in tillable condition, and Mr. Start has made many improvements, as well as erected many new buildings. He now follows diversified farming, raising grain and breeding live stock. He has a fine herd of about one hundred head of Herford cattle and a large drove of Chester White hogs. Mr. Start is a Eepublican in politics, and a member of the Lutheran church. He was married June 19, 1894, to Minnie Johnson, and they have four children: Lulu, Carl, Sanford and Lloyd.

John Start was born in Norway, and married Christina Forthum. They came to America and located in Iowa for a while, living there until 1878, when they took up their residence in the old town of LeEoy, where they remained a year. Then they rented land until 1882, when they purchased eighty acres in section 29, Bennington township, and followed general farming until John's death in 1894. His wife now lives in Mclntyre, Iowa.

Carl H. F. Ziemer, for some thirty years an honored resident of AValiham, wns an honest, honorable, hard-working man, and left a goodly heritage of integrity to his children and descend- ants. Ilis death, which took place in 1911, was sincerely mourned by the community at large as well as by his large family of five sons, four daughters, forty-one grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, and two brothers and one sister. Carl H. F. Ziemer was born September 29, 1833, at Nadelfitz, Pomonia, Germany, and was ten years of age when brought to America by his parents, who settled in Kirchhayn, Wisconsin, ten miles from Milwaukee. He grew to manhood there and was married at that place November 2, 1855, to Bertha Koepke. In 1881 they came to Waltham, with their family, and purchased twenty-four acres a mile north of the village of Waltham, where the subject of this sketch carried on farming until his death, March 8, 1911, at the age of seventy-seven years, five months and nine days. His children are as follows: George, Frank, Henry and John, of Waltham; Alfred, of Austin ; Mrs. F. C. Garbish, Mrs. John Lewis, and Mrs. Otto Kuehenbecker, of Waltham; and Mrs. Henry Pluckhan, of Mihvaukee, Wisconsin.

George Ziemer, furniture dealer and druggist, of Waltham village, as well as secretary of the Waltham creamery, was born at Jackson, Washington county, Wisconsin, August 29, 1858, sou of Charles H. and Bertha (Koepke) Ziemer, He received his education in Wisconsin and there grew to manhood, after which he served three years as an apprentice and worked as a carpenter. In 1878 he came to Waltham, purchased a quarter section in the township, erected necessary- buildings and following general farming for about four years. Later he went to Brownsdale, and resumed his trade as a carpenter, at the same time engaging in the furniture business. His abi4ities were similarly employed in Waltham village, to which he moved in 1881. In 1890, however, he gave up his trade, and has since continued in the furniture business. About 1891 he purchased the hlmber and coal business at Waltham from Moses Boliou, and conducted this until 1899, when he sold to J. C. Brainerd & Son, of Blooming Prairie. In 1904 he added a drug department to bis business. Mr. Ziemer has been active in township and villag'x? affairs. He served as treasurer of the township of Waltham ten years, and at the incorporation of the village in 1898 was one of the incorporators. He Avas elected trustee of the village at that time and has since served Avith much credit. He is secretary of the Waltham Cooperative Creamery Association, a position he has held for five years; is a stockholder and director in the Farmers' Cooperative store at Waltham ; is agent for several insurance companies, and aside from the old homestead in Waltham township, he owns 120 acres in Crow Wing county, Minnesota. Mr. Ziemer was married June 13, 1880, to Emma ]\Iayer. and this union has been blessed with nine children: Lydia married John Buck, of Waltham vil- lage ; Louis H. graduated from the Martin Luther Seminary at Buffalo, New York, and is now a Lutheran preacher at Defiance, Ohio ; Henry graduated from the Concordia Seminary, and is now a Lutheran preacher at St. Louis, Mo. ; Clara M. is a bookkeeper for her father ; Arthur lives with his parents ; Paul is on the old homestead ; George is an architect and mechanical engineer at Minneapolis ; Ernest and Elmora are at home.

Alva S. Wheelock, carpenter of Kose Creek, was born at Port Leydeu, NeAV York, January .12, 1864, son of Dr. Obadiah and Celesta (Seymour) Wheelock. He came west with his parents, June 22, 1872, and spent his early life on a farm near Rose Creek. At the age of twenty-one he learned the carpenter trade, and followed it for seven years in Minneapolis. He has since continued to reside in Rose Creek. He is a respected citizen and belongs to the A. 0. U. W. and the Degree of Honor. He married Annie Lewis, and they have one child, Lotta.

Obadiah Wheelock, M. D., an early physician of Rose Creek, was born in New Haven, Oswego county, New York, July 20, 1828. He received a good education, taught school, studied medicine, and in 1863 graduated from the IMetropolitan Medical College in New York city. After practicing in New Y''ork state for a while, he came to Mower county and settled in the northwest quarter of section 35, "Windom township. This land had been in his possession some fourteen years, but was without improvements when he arrived. He was married in 1856 to Celesta S. Seymour, who was born at Turin, Lewis county. New Y''ork, in December, 1827. Six children were born: Robin S., Henry L., Emerson W., Alva S., Charles E., and Philip.

Fred H. Schroeder, of Racine village, assessor of Racine township, as he has been for the past seven years, was born in Dodge county, Wisconsin, February 15, 1853, son of Fred and Paulina Schroeder, who in 1864 brought him to Racine township, where they purchased 160 acres south of the village. He received his education in the common schools of AVisconsin and Minnesota, and as a young man, rented land for two years. Then he purchased 120 acres. He made many improvements and conducted general farming, gradually turning his attention to dairying. In 1910 he sold his farm and moved to the village, where he now has a comfortable dwelling and four acres of land. Mr. Schroeder is a Republican in politics, and has served the town as chairman three years. He was mai-ried in October, 1899, to Mary Schiess, of Wisconsin. Mr. and Mrs. Schroeder attend the Evangelical

Sherman Page. It is not the purpose of this history to give at lengtli the story of those incidents which disrupted Mower county anrl so greatly retarded her progress during the years from 1867 to 1881, generally known as the Page era. Sherman Page was l)oi'n in Vi'i'inont and camo to uMowcr couuty from Dccorah, Iowa. Before that he had lived in Lancaster, AVisconsin. Possibly a true; estimate ol' the man Page will never be made. In personal appearance lie is a well built, strong man of imposing presence, carrying with him, everywhere, a look of dignity which commanded the respect of the masses with whom he associated himself. lit was a shrewd, forcible and pleasant speaker, as well as a sarcastic, vigorous writer. He also was possesed of a remarkable, well trained mind. His political career here started when he becanie county superintendent of schools. Soon thereafter and for many years, the county was divided into the Page and anti- Page factions. The fight Avas bitter and personal, and kept the county in a turmoil. It extended not only into politcs, but into church and social life. His controversy over school matters, hi.s historic tearing up of the sidew^alks, his arrest, his arrogant assumption of authority in the temperance fight, his election to the judgeship and his impeachment are touched upon elsewhere. He ruled with the despotism of a Russian monarch. Those who Avere not for him, he considered his enemies. There was no hali; Avay course. He removed from office those who would not bend to his will. He decided cases to suit his prejudice, regardless of law or justice. At last he was tried for misconduct on the bench. The lower house of the IMinnesota legislature prepared articles of impeachment, but the vote in the upper house lacked the twothirds majority necessary to convict. At the next election he again ran for oflSce, but was defeated by John Q. Farmer, of Spring Valley. But the fight was not ended. Some time thereafter he was shot at while reading in his home. Again the courts were occupied with Page matters. But the alleged assailant was acquitted and the Page influence waned. In 1882 Judge Page removed to California. There he became a prominent citizen, although he in no ways abandoned his arrogant character. He now lives in retirement, but though he is now^ of venerable age, the papers still tell of his broils with his neighbors. Thus loved by his friends, feared by many, and hated by some, lives the man who will never be forgotten in ]\Iower county. "Whether his influence was for good or ill, only future generations can tell.

0. J. Simmons. It has been said that the man who conducts a model office and gives the best possible service to the public is a man i)ossessed of all the attributes that are necessary to conduct any other business successfully. He is the man who can look at every question that arises and see botli sides of it. He is one who takes all the facts into consideration before rendering a decision. He is one who sets a proper example for the employes under his supervision and then requires them to perform their duties in a thorough going and businesslike manner. He requires the proper discipliue to maintain a high standard of efficiency, and treats each case of violation or infraction of the rules on its merits and regard to who the indi^'idual may be. He must show some interest in the welfare of the employes and encourage them whenever he can if he expects to have them exert themselves when occasion requires for the exigencies of the service demand it. In postoffices where the postmaster possesses these qualifications and puts them into practical effect, the service is always satisfactory to the public, the postmaster and the employes work in perfect harmony, and, as a rule, the office is looked upon and referred to as a model one. Such a man is 0. J. Simmons, postmaster at Austin. He was born in Rush county, Indiana, November 10, 1857, son of Joseph and Frances (Wilson) Simmons, of honored memory. In July, 1874, 0. J. came to Minnesota with his parents, and after living in Rochester a year, came Avith them to Dexter. Like other boys of his period and circumstances, he attended school and worked on the farm. At the age of twenty-two he started work in a store in the village of Dexter, and later went to Rochester, and engaged in the insurance business. Later he returned to Dexter and conducted a hotel. He was later elected clerk of court for Mower county, and served from 1895 to 1907. March, 1907, was the date of his appointment as postmaster. In 1911 he was reappointed. Mr. Simmons is a staunch Republican, and it goes Avithout saying that he has occupied many offices in the places wherein he has resided. He has been delegate to political couA^entions, and is now chairman of the Republican county central committee. In fraternal circles he is no less prominent. He has occupied offices in practically all the leading lodges in Austin, and is as well, a chapter Mason. He has been through the chairs of the Elks, Knights of Pythias and other orders, and has been delegate to many fraternal conventions. From July, 1904, to July, 1905, he was district deputy grand exalted ruler for the southern district of Minnesota in the B. P. 0. E. under Grand Exalted Ruler J. O'Brien. The subject of this sketch Avas married February 17, 1881, to Mary W. SAvan, daughter of Robert and Mary AV. (Brooke) SAvan.

John Rahilly, noAV deceased, Avas an Irish-American gentleman of the old school, and became one of the leading farmers in MoAver county as Avell as one of the largest land holders. He Avas born in County Clare, Ireland, and came to America with his parents in 1849. After living in Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania, for seven years, they located in Olmsted county, Minnesota, and there John spent his early manhood. In 1880 he came to Grand MeadoAV toAA'nship, and settled in section 31, Avhere he purchased 640 acres of land. This tract he improved, erected a large house and commodious barns, and carried on general farming until his death,

January 5, 1898. Mr. Rahilly was well and favorably known tliroughoiit the county. He was a man of many good qualities, and Avas noted for his generosity, hospitality and good cheer. A capable business man, he was very successful in the management of his business and his happy, cheerful disposition made him a pleasant companion and friend. The subject of this sketch married Ellen Twohey, who was born in County Cork, Ireland, was brought to Canada by her parents, came to the United States and lived in Iowa, subsequently moving with them to Olmsted county, this state, and settling some seven miles south of Rochester. Mr. and Mrs. Eahilly are the parents of nine children, six of whom are living. The children living are : Catherine, wife of Alexander ^IcDowell ; Susie C, wife of Patrick McGrevy ; Hannah, wife of Henry Weber, Jr. ; John H., living on the home farm ; "William P., who is married and lives on a farm near Dexter, and Richard, who is married and lives near Austin.

John H. Raiiilly, chairman of Grand j\Ieadow township, is the sou of John Rahilly and Ellen Twohey, his wife. He lives on and operates the home farm, which contains 1,000 acres, one of the finest places in the county. The fann is fenced, tiled and in a very high state of cultivation, having an excellent set of buildings, surrounded by a large cottonwood grove. The farm house is now being remodeled, and all the modern improvements, such as hot water heat, and gas for lighting and cooking are being installed. When the work is completed the house Avill be one of the finest farm residences in southern Minnesota. On this farm are kept about fifty head of horses, 200 head of cattle and about 200 head of hogs, the latter of which are fatted and shipped to market. John H. and his brother, at the death of their father, took charge of the home farm, and since then two more farms have been purchased and added to the original one until now the farm is a very valuable piece of real estate. John H. is at present chairman of Grand Meadow township, one of the directors of the ]\Iower County Fair Association, secretary and director of the Mower County Farmers' Telephone Company, and an officer of his school district. He has also taken an active part in the affairs of the church at Grand IMeadow and is one of its trustees.

Andrew D. Brown, a territorial pioneer, with his brotlier, Ilosincr A., came to Minnesota in 185(i, and founded the town of Brownsdale. Mr. Brown, who four times circumnavigated the globe, was born in North Stonington, Connecticut, in 1818, in the old homestead which had been in the possession of the family since llie seventeenth eentur}\ He became master of a ship sailing to tlie East Indies, but in 1849 he went with the gold rush to California, where he establislied a trading post and prospered. After returning to Connecticut, for several years he located in Minne- sota, and with his brother, Hosmer A. Brown, founded the town of Brownsdale, where he lived until five years ago, when he moved to Minneapolis. He was married to Adeline Portlo, of Deerfleld, Massachusetts, in 1854. Mr. Brown engaged in the lumber and milling industry and became the owner of large tracts of land. He married Melissa B. Bacon, of Brownsdale, in 1871, four years after the death of his first wife. ]\Ir. Brown is survived by a wife, and four children: ]\Irs. C. D. Holbrook, Brownsdale; Mrs. T. E. Doolittle, North Platte, Nebraska; Mrs. L. W. Powers, and Hosmer A. Brown, of Minneapolis ; and a brother, Hosmer A. Brown, Brownsdale. He died in Minneapolis in May, 1911, and is buried in Brownsdale.

Herbert L. Banfield, assistant cashier and director of the First National Bank of Austin, was born in Medford, Massachusetts, August 28, 1868, son of Francis Loring and Sarah Elizabeth Banfield. He was educated in "Wolfsborough, New Hampshire, and "Worcester, Massachusetts, completing his early education in the high school of the latter city. February 27, 1886, he came from Worcester to Aiistin, and at once took up work with the First National Bank, with which institution he has now served for twenty-five years. Mr. Banford also served as treasurer of the city of Austin three terms. He was married June 15, 1894, to Addie Marie Cook, who died June 13, 1903. He has three children : Adelaide Cook Banfield, aged nine years ; Herbert Loring Banfield, Jr., aged seven years, and Edward Sanborn Banfield, aged four years. Francis Loring Banfield is a physician and surgeon of Worcester, Massachusetts. Ira Banfield, father of Francis L., and grandfather of Herbert L., is now living at Wolfsborough, New Hampshire, at the age of ninety-two years, having retired some years ago, owing to advancing years, from the position of treasurer of the Wolfsborough Savings Bank. Herbert L. Banfield, the subject of this sketch, has made a hobby of dairying, and owns a model dairy farm near the city of Austin.

Arthur West Allen, M. D., one of the leading physicians and surgeons of Mower county, was born in Austin in 1862, son of Austin's first physician, Orlenzer Allen, M. D., and Esther Almeda Allen, his wife, who settled in Austin in May, 1856, and Avhose good deeds will ever be remembered in this county. Dr. A. W. Allen was reared in Austin and graduated from the Rush IMedical College, Chicago, in the class of 1885. Since then he has been in continiious practice in Austin. He is a member of the American, Minnesota and Mower County Medical Associations, and in the latter has held various offices. He also belongs to the American Railway Surgeons, and to the Elks, Masons and other fraternal bodies. He is the surgeon of the Southern Minnesota and Iowa and Minnesota divisions of the C, M. & St. Paul Ry., and also or St. Olav Hospital. For nine yeai-s he was surgeon major of the Second Regiment, Minnesota National Guards. For the past two years he has been president of the Austin Commercial ("liib. Dr. Allen is a man who will not accept the praise otfered him, Ixit his true worth is written in the hearts of the people to whom he has ministered. He is a good citizen, and a skilled practitioner. His wife, Nellie C, to whom he was mari-ied in 1905, is also u native of Austin.

Alvah F. Stiles, druggist of Racine village, was born in Buffalo county, AViscousiu, January 26, 1862, son of William L. and Betsy E. (Hummison) Stiles, and a year later was brought by them to ]Mower county, where he was reared to manhood. At the age of twenty-one he started working out, and later in life went to ^Minneapolis and took a course in the Minnesota Institute of Pharmacy. After coming to Racine he entered business in partnership with A. W. Brown. This partnership was dissolved by mutual consent, and then Mr. Stiles erected a building and engaged in the drug business. In February, 1908, the building was burned, entailing a heavy loss. However, Mr. Stiles at once rebuilt and now has a fine brick block, which serves the purpose of store and residence. The subject of this sketch has been a member of the school board for nearly twenty years. He is a Mason, and a member of the B. A. Y. and the M. W. A. He was married April 20, 1891, to Grace E. Turner, daughter of Edward Turner, and this union has been blessed with four children: Luella, Sylvia I., Lester, and Kenneth. AYilliam L. and Betsy E. (Hummison) Stiles were born in Vermont, lived some years in Wisconsin, and in 1863 came to Slower county and located in section 24, Pleasant Valley township. AY. L. Stiles is dead and his wife is still living.

George A. I'ranklin, superintendent of schools in Austin, was born in Roekford, Illinois, son of Stephen R. and Ann E. (Gillis) Franklin. He received a public school education and later attended the Illinois Normal University. He worked at the printing business a while, and served as superintendent of public schools in Delevan, Illinois, from 1888 to 1894. Then he came to Minnesota, and from 1894 to 1906 was superintendent of schools in Faribault. Since 1906 he has served in Austin, and his work has given general satisfaction. Professor Franklin ranks high as an educator. He has been justice of the peace and county superintendent in "\Yinnel)ago county, Iowa. In 1904 he served as president of the State Teachers' Association of ^Minnesota. At one time lie served as president of the Southeastern Association and he was also president of the Southern Association one term. For the |)ast six years he has done summer school work and is a member of the faculty of the State Normal School at ]\Iankato. He is a chapter Mason and also belongs to other societies. For one year he was vice president of the Austin Commercial Club, of which he is still a member. Professor Franklin was married February 28, 1884, to Emma Jenkins. She died June 26, 1896, leaving three children. Professor Franklin was married the second time, August 15, 1900, to Annie M. Willson, of Rochester, Minnesota. The children of the F]-anklin family are as follows : Joy E., was born September 13, 1888, and is a graduate of the University of Chicago ; Camilla, is a student at Menominee, Wisconsin ; G. Fred, was born August 31, ]892, and is a graduate of the Austin high school: Charles Willson was born August 15, 1900, and attends the public schools of Austin.

Ha^as J, Hansen, a progressive and popular farmer of Adams township, was born in Norway, August 30, 1846, and there received his early education. At the age of foiu'teen he became an apprentice in one of the^ largest machine shops in the city of Bergen, for four years. At the age of eighteen he, with his parents, sister and brother, immigrated to America, and left Bergen Harbor June 5, 1864. After a voyage of six weeks and two days they entered the harbor of Quebec, Canada, and from there went up the St. Lawrence river and via Montreal to Chicago and Mc- Gregor. He came to Calmar, Iowa, August 13, 1864. During the fall and wiuter he worked at his trade in Decorah and Calmar. In the spring of 1865 he went to Chicago, and from there to Muskegon, Mich., Avhere he worked for two months in Foster's mill on Black river. From there he went back to Chicago, where he located and Avorked at his trade in the Union wagon Avorks, corner of Canal and Adams street. In November, 1867, he came to Adams, Minnesota, and worked at his trade in partnership Avith his father, Avho built the first shop on the southAvest corner of Main and Fourth streets, and Avas the first blacksmith in the village of Adams in the fall and Avinter of 1867-68. In the spring of 1868 he filed on the north half of the northeast quarter of section 19 and built the first little frame house on that prairie in the fall of that year. He purchased this eighty acres at $9 per acre from the Chicago, Mihvaukee & St. Paul Railroad company, then called the Minnesota Central. May 8, 1868, he hired to Wagonmaker William I. BroAvn, of Austin, and Avas the first blacksmith that worked in his new built shop at the corner of Bridge and St. Paul street, Avhere the ncAv federal building is now located, opposite the Lutheran church. While Avorking for Mr. BroAvn he ironed the wagon that took the first premium at the first county fair held in Mower county. He was. married December 27, 1869, to Emma Petersen, a native of NorAvay, in the Little Cedar log church, by Pastor C. L. Clausen, "the first minister Avho preached the gospel for the pioneers." This union lias been blessed Avith nine children, four girls and five boys, of whom eight, three girls and five boys, survive. They are: Minnie B., Oscar B., Kathinka S., Peter C, Herman A., George E., Nellie R., and Gustav W. The four oldest are married. The husband of Minnie Bertha is a merchant tailor of Wahpetou, North Dakota ; Oscar B. is a blacksmith at Hartford, South Dakota ; Kathinka Sophie is the wife of Nels N. Bergheim, an attorney at law of Little Falls, Minnesota. Peter Cornelius is a merchant in Carver, Minnesota. In 1911 the rest of the children are unmarj-ied. Mr. Hanson worked at his trade in Austin, besides for Brown, for Bates Bros., and G. K. Hanson, builders of wagons and carriages. In the spring of 1874 he sold his property, house and lot, to Solner & Morgan, of Austin, and moved on the farm, where he still resides. He has from time to time added to his farm until he now owns 280 acres, which constitute one of the excellent farms in southern IMinnesota. On this tract which he acquired as prairie land, he has erected a good dwelling house, fine barn, sheds, and in fact all necessary buildings for housing of his stock, crops, and abundant equipment of tools and machinery. His house is supplied with telephone and other conveniences, which go to make up the comforts of a modern dwelling. Being a public-spirited man, Mr. Hanson has felt the necessity of making use of the facilities, which keep him abreast of the times, and in touch with the business world. He is a staunch Republican 'and of the progressive type. He has been repeatedly honored by public office. For six years he was town supervisor, eighteen years justice of the peace, nine years town clerk, and for several years has held his present office of town treasurer. He has been secretary of the Nevada Co-operative Creamery Association since its organization and commencement of business, April 6, 1854, and still holds the office. He is a member of the Lutheran church, and joined the Little Cedar congregation in May, 1874, and with characteristic energy has assisted in the advancement of the congregation, as being a hard worker in the church, holding the following offices of trust in continuance : trustee and treasurer. He was first elected superintendent of the Sunday school, and since 1884 has been the secretary and still holds that office. For the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the Little Cedar Lutheran congregation, which took place November 26, 1909, he wrote the history of the Little Cedar Settlement, and the congregation, and had it printed and bound in book form, out of gratitude to the settlement and church that he loved.

G. H. Allen, retired merchant and railroad civil engineer, now living in Austin, was born in Greenfield, Saratoga county. New York, October 12, 1834. There he received his education and grew to manhood. He was reared on a farm and in his early life learned civil engineering, a profession he followed thereafter for several years. At twenty-two years of age, in 1853, he went to Freeport, Illinois, and worked on the railroad from Freeport to Savanna, surveying the roadbed. From there he went to McGregor, Iowa, on the C, M. & St. P. He then returned to New York state and worked on the Albany & Susquehanna, later on the Middleburg and Schoharie. After this he worked on the Oswego (New York) Midland, then on the Eockford, Rock Island & St. Louis. His last railroad surveying was on the C, M. & St. P. from Dubuque to LaCrosse. In 1874 he came to Mower county, locating in Grand Meadow, and together with his brother, George "W., engaged in the general mercantile business. This they conducted for about live years. That same year he was made county surveyor, and held the office continuously until 1893, and again in 1897. He also owned and conducted a 200-acre farm in Grand Lleadow township until coming to Austin in 1900. At that time he purchased some land on College street and built his pleasant home, where he has since lived in retirement, except for two years that he served the city of Austin as city engineer. He still owns eighty acres of his farm in Grand Meadow township, which he rents. ]Mr. Allen married Mary A. Specht, daughter of John W. Specht, who was a farmer by occupation, and who built the first frame house in Dubuque, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Allen have one daughter, Jessie, who is the wife of Dr. Homer F. Peirson. Dr. and Mrs. Peirson have two children, Helen and Marion.

Luther N. Griffith, better known as " 'Squire Griffith," is one of the venerable figures of Mower county. He came here with the early settlers and has lived through the greater part of the stirring events which have gone to make up Mower county history. Although well past the four score mark, he is still hale and hearty und venerated alike by old and young. He was born in Pike, Allegany county. New York, November 18, 1824, son of Ebenezer Griffith, a pioneer, sheriff and hotel keeper of Ohio. L. N. received a good education in public and select schools, farmed a while and then engaged in the hotel business in Elyria, Ohio. In 1856 he came west to Chatfield, Minnesota, and on July 1, 1856, came to Austin, and with J. L. Davidson and L. S. Morgan, purchased eighty acres, a part of which was laid out. Mr. Griffith was successively saw mill man, postmaster and justice of the peace in the pioneer years. From 1872 to 1882 he was again justice of the peace. He was also a councilman, and city recorder in the early days. The most of his time, however, has been spent on his 200- acre farm in Lansing township, which he now rents, his home being in the city. Mr. Griffith was married July 13, 1849, at Grass Lake, Michigan, to Triphena Austin, daughter of James Austin and Tamer Cliapin, both now deceased. This union has been blessed with two children : Edward James, who was born in

John C. Hawkins

Austin, August 31, 18G1, and Ella L., who was born IMay 31, 1850, and died June 25, 18G9. Edward J. conducts the home farm, lie marriod Jessie Simpson, and has two children: Lloyd N., and Leah Tripliena. 'Squire Griffith has been a life-long Democrat.

John C. Hawkins, horticulturist, agriculturist, and lecturer, is one of the most prominent of Mower county citizens. For years he has gone up and down the county and state preaching the planting of apples and plums, and his efforts have seen fruition in the many successful orchards that have been cultivated throughout southern Minnesota. John C. Hawkins w^as born in Center county, Pennsylvania, June 2, 1833, son of Vincent and Annie CCrowell) Hawkins. He learned the trade of carpenter and joiner, served an apprenticeship of three years, and after his marriage followed this vocation for several years. He enlisted August 5, 1861, in the Second Ohio Light Artillery, under Captain Carlton, and served in the Southwest under John C. Freemont. In 1862 he was discharged for disability and reenlisted in the Second Ohio Heavy Artillery, thus seeing service in Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. He was discharged in August, 1865, and was mustered out at Nashville. Then he came directly to Mower county, reaching here September 5, 1865. He settled on a farm in \Vindom township and there continued to reside for many years. He built a fine home and suitable barns and also erected two schoolhouses. Throughout the period of his residence on the farm, Mr. Hawkins continued to carry on horticultural and agricultural operations in a scientific manner, thus gaining the valuable experience which makes him in such demand as a speaker at all farmers' meetings. Mr. HaAvkins is a member of various horticultural and agricultural societies and has served as an officer in many of them. He is at present secretary of the Mower County Old Settlers' Association. While in Windom he served in various offices from supervisor down. He is a member of Mclntire Post, No. 66, G. A. K.. and of other organizations. The subject of this sketch was married June 18, 1854, to Sarah C. Woodward, of Richmond, Ohio, daughter of John and Cornelia (Turner) Woodward. Five children have blessed this iinion: V. J. Hawkins, M. D., of St. Paul; Anna, wife of j\I. J. Gregg, a farmer of Windom township; Susan, wife of James Philbrick, a farmer of Windom township; Millie, wife of Norman Gregg, of Austin; Joy, on the old homestead. Vincent Hawkins was a native of England. He came to the United States in 1818 and located in Phillipsl)urg, Pa., where he was a master miner, an occupation he followed until his death. He married Annie Crowcll and of their children five are living: John C. lives in Austin; Ellen is the widow of John Biirris; ^lary L. is the wife of Charles Skinner, of Ludlow, Mo.; I. N. lives in AVashington, D. C, and J. K. lives in Canon City,

Col. lu 1900 John C. Hawkins retired from active life ami moved to Austin, where he has since resided. Aside from his city property he owns 160 acres of highly improved land in Windom tovrnship.

Ralph E. Crane, one of the representatives from Mower county in the lower house of the thirty-seventh Minnesota legislature, has done much to assist in the growth and development of Frankford township jind Grand Meadow, and his influence and example have done much toward making farm life attractive. Ralph E. Crane was born in Canton, N. Y., April 22, 1858, son of 0. AV. and Emily R. (Emerson), natives respectively of Massachusetts and Vermont, and the latter a cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the great philosopher. Ralph E. Crane was educated in the public schools and in the St. Lawrence University at Canton, N. Y. Later he attended P^astman's Business College at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and graduated in 1877. After leaving school he taught foiir years in New York state, four years in Lansing, this county, and one year in Windom, also in this county. Then he worked four yeai's in Minneapolis as a carpenter and joiner. April 1, 1887, he came to his present location and has since followed general farming, purchasing his farm from Charles Wood in 1894. Representative Crane carries on general farming and stock raising along the latest approved lines. He makes a specialty of Aberdeen-Angus cattle, Percheron horses and Hampshire swine. His herd of cattle, consisting of 100 head and known as the Cranewood herd, is noted among all cattle breeders of the Northwest. Mr. Crane's beautiful farm is known as East Cranewood. The farm siirroianding the new residence and buildings now under construction will be known as West Cranewood. Mr. Crane is a Republican. For many years he was town clerk and justice of the peace and he has also served in many other local offices. He was for nine years secretary of the Grand IMeadoAV Creamery and was one of its organizers and builders. He was also first president of the First National Bank at Grand Meadow and has contributed largely to its success. The Home Telephone also received his ardent support. It is an interesting fact that the Cranewood farm, wliich consists of 465 acres, upon which Mr. Crane has made all the improvements, is divided by two rural routes and two telepliono lines. The schoolhouse and town hall are also in the center of the farm. Mr. Crane was married IMay 14. 1884, to Florence E. Wood. She was born on the site of the present farm August 29, 1860, daughter of Geo. W. and Jarjo (McMichael) Wood, natives of Pennsylvania. ]\Ir. and ]\Irs. Crane have eight children: Clarence E., Benjamin W., Maud M., Rollin E., Webb, Wade. Sydney A. and Florence E. Clarence E. lives in D;iko1n. Mnud iM. is leacliint;'. The others are at Iiome.

W. L. Van Camp, Ww criicicul iii;niiiL;vr of lli." Austin cxclmiif^c of tlio Nod Invest ITU T.'k'plioiK' Coinpiiiiy jiiui I'or st'vi'r;il yiiifs secretary oL' tlie Austin Coiuiuercial Cluli, \v;is horn in Byron, Minn., September 15, IHTO, son of AV. P. iiiul Dora D. (New.'in Van Camp, the former oL' whom was a farmer and a maker of mnsieal instruments. W. L. attcMiUnl tlie schools of liis native place and also the high school a1 St. Thomas, N. 1). He farmed at tlie latter place until 18!)7, wiien he l)eirau service for the Northwestern Telephone Company at JMinneai)olis. .l.-iiuiary 28, 1901, he came to Austin in liis present capacity witii tiiat company and has done most efficient Avork. lie is a member of a number of tiie leading fraternal organizations. I\lr. Van Camp married INlay 2:?, 1904, at Austin, to Kathryn D. Mayer, daiighter of M. J. i\Iayer, and their home has been blessed with two children: "\Y. Leslie, Jr., born January 9, 190(), and INIarceUa D., born July 8. 1907.

Mason J. Parmenter was l)orn in New York state, April 22, 1852, son of j\Iason and Eliza Parmenter, avIio came to INIower county in 1859, preempted land and sjient the remainder of their lives, the former dying in 1877 and the latter in 1881. ]M. J. came to i\Iinnesota Avith his parents, and at the death of his father took the home place in partnership with liis brother, John E. He now OAvns 280 acres and carries on general farming. He was married in jMarch, 1891.

G. Fred Baird, undertaker, was born in Austin, December 25, 1859, son of George Baird. After engaging in business in Austin for a time he went to South Dakota. In 1889 he came back to Austin and l)ecame interested in the furniture business. He is now Austin's leading undertaker and funeral director. He was married in 1889 and has two children: Lyman S. and Stanton. He belongs to a number of fraternities and'organizations.

John H. Anderson was born in AVindom, this county. .Inly 29, 1872, son t)f Sven and Anna C. Anderson. He received his education in the Austin schools and on February 1. 1888, started to learn the marble business. In 1896 he l)ecame interested in luisiness with his father. The concern now does a general ini])h'ment, marble and automobile business, the story of the growth of the industry being told elsewhei-c. Mr. Anderson is senior warden of the Episcopal church at Austin. He is a high degree ^lason and has served as worthy master of the blue lodge, worthy i)atrou of tile Eastern Star, high priest of the Chapter and gcncralissima of the Commandery. He lias also served as secri'tary of the Carnegie Library l)oar(l since its organization. ]Mr. Anderson was married January 21, 190:?, to Claude ^Morgan and they liave one son. Rex.

Washington county, Wisconsin, ^larch 9, 1852, son of Jacob and Barbara (Brandt) Schleiger. He came to Grand Meadow in 1878. In 189J: lie engaged in his present business. He was married October 28, 1875, to Kate Christgau, and in the family are four children : Lydia A., Albert F., Edwin G. and Hilda. Mr. Schleiger is a prominent citizen, has served in a number of offices and belongs to a number of fraternities. He is also a stockholder in a several successful enterprises.

Williajn W. Patterson, for many years an honest and respected blacksmith of Austin, was born in Chautauqua county, New York, April 15, 1832. There he was reared on a farm and lived there until fourteen years of age, at which time he was taken by his parents to Beaver Dam, Wis., where he completed his education in the public schools. He then learned the blacksmith trade. In 1866 he came to Austin, erected a shop and here followed general blacksmithiug until his death, February 20, 1892. He prospered as time passed and accumulated property, so that at the time of his decease he owned a block of land within the city limits as well as a fine brick residence, where Mrs. Patterson now resides. He was married April 15, 1853, at Beaver Dam, Wis., to Ardelia Hudson. She was born May 5, 1836, at Waterbury, Washington county, Vermont. There she attended the public schools until thirteen years of age, at which time she was brought by her parents to Wisconsin, where she completed her education; grew to womanhood and married. Mr. and ]\Irs. Patterson are the parents of six children. Two, William W., Jr., and Mrs. IMartiu, are dead. 0. D. lives in Grand Forks, N. D. Mrs. Mabel Sterling lives in Minneapolis. Charles C. lives in San Francisco. ]\Irs. Maude Cutter lives in Austin. Mr. Patterson was a member of the Universalist church and of the Legion of Honor. Mrs. Patterson is a kindly old lady, greatly esteemed for her many excellent traits. Her husband was a substantial God-fearing citizen, of upright character, honorable and straightforAvard in every way.

William D. Bassler, Austin's popular haberdasher and clothier, is of eastern birth, having first seen the light of day in Central Bridge, N. Y., August 13, 1872, sixth child of Benjamin F. and Gertrude (Baker) Bassler, natives of New York state. His father was a farmer in the early days and later became a glove manufacturer at Gloversville, N. Y. This business he continued until the time of his death, in April, 1900. Mrs. Gertrude Bassler, mother of William D. and wife of Benjamin F., is still living in Gloversville, N. Y. Benjamin F. Bassler and his wife were the parents of nine children. Nellie is Mrs. H. L. Smith, of Gloversville, N. Y. M. I. lives in Austin, and travels for Lets, Spencer, Smith Company, of Mason City, Iowa. Eva is now Mrs. W^illiam Starr, of Albany, N. Y. B. F., Jr., is in the grocery business in

William W. Pattlksox Mr. And Mrs. H. S. Hammond

Gloversville, N. Y. Cyrus is dead. W. D. lives in Austin. Minnie, noAV Mrs. "William Sternberg, lives in Gloversville, N. Y. Peter is dead. Lottie is now Mrs. Edison Pratt, of Gloversville, N. Y. "William D. Bassler, the subject of this sketch, received his early schooling in Central Bridge, N. Y., and afterward worked in Gouverneur, N. Y., at the glove business until 1894, at which time, looking for a wider opportunity, he left Gloversville and came M-est, locating in Austin. For six years he clerked in various stores. Among those with whom he was employed were : Loucks & Hollister, general store; F. H. Palmer, grocery store, and George Hirsch, clothing store. In 1900 he went on the road for Lanj^her, Skinner & Co., selling hats and furs. He remained with this company two years, his territory covering portions of the Pacific coast. In 1902 he engaged in the retail cigar business at Austin, and managed this line Avith much success for four years until 1906. In that year he established his present business. He lias built up a large trade, represents some of the best firms in the men's furnishing line, and carries a large stock of all the things men need in the clothing and haberdasher line. He has personally supervised the wholesale buying and the retail selling in his store, and his own personality, together with his hard work and industry, has had an important bearing on the success with Avhich he has met. Mr. Bassler is a popular Elk, and also belongs to the Knights of Pythias and the Commercial Club. He attends the Episcopal church and votes the Eepubliean ticket. Mr. Bassler was married August 20, 1903, to Irene Frank, born at historic old Ft. Snelling, June, 1875, while her father, Hon. John Frank, of LeRoy, was a settler there. The Bassler residence is located at 609 Kenwood avenue, North. Mrs. Bassler is an active worker in women's circles, and is interested in the various movements which the ladies have inaugurated for the improvement of the city.

H. S. Hammond, retired farmer and president of tlie Lansing Co-operative Dairy Company, now living in Austin, was born in Boone county, Illinois, son of Henry B. and Hester (Butler) Hammond. He came to Mower county in February, 1874, and settled on section 16, in Lansing township. Previous to coming here he liad served nine months in the Civil war, enlisting in Company B, One Hundred and Fifty-third Illinois "Volunteer Infantry, at the last call for troops when eighteen years of age. He enlisted as a private, and was mustered out as a corporal, September 21, 1865, at Springfield, 111. Mr. Hammond has spent the larger part of his life as a farmer, and is now practically retired. He kept a store in Lansing four years and was one of the promoters in company Avith H. B. Roe, Harvey Mclntyre and 0. C. LaBar of the Lansing Co-operative Creamery Company. This concern is the largest of its kind in Mower county, does an extensive and profitable business, and produces 3,000 pounds of butter a weeli, the product being sliipped to New Y^ork. Mr. Hammond married Jennie E. Hunt, daughter of Robert and Jane Hunt, both natives of England, Robert Hunt being a paper maker by trade. Mr. and Mrs. Hammond have had five children. Nina A., of Lansing village, married Alexander McLean, now deceased. Frederick T. is dead. Charles S. lives in California. Arthur 0. lives in Eagle Bend. Todd county, Minnesota. Hester E. is now J\Iis. Ernest Carll, of Lansing village. Mr. Hammond is a staunch Republican. He has been supervisor of Lansing township, and has served as clerk of 'his school district at Lansing. The family faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal church. Henry B. Hammond was born in Pennsylvania, and went to Boone county, Illinois, when fourteen years of age. He married Hester Butler and had four children : Lydia C. died in infancy; Henry S. lives in Lansing township, Minnesota ; Wealthea E. married Samuel Illingworth, and is now dead ; Francis T. died in 1865.

Arthur Winfield Wright, attorney and military man, has taken an active part in the affairs of Austin and Mower county, and although he has already accomplished much in life, his friends predict a still broader future. He was born in Ohio, September 17, 1861, son of Cyrus and Marietta M. (Smith) Wright. He was educated in the common schools of his neighborhood, in the high school at Cambridge, 111., and at Carleton College, Northfield, ]\Iinn. After following the banking business in the First National Bank, of Austin, he formed a partnership with La Fayette French in 1887, under the firm name of French & Wright, Mr. Wright for a time looking after the real estate end of the business. In 1898 the firm was dissolved, and Mr. AVright has since conducted an extensive law practice. He Avas county attorney eight years, after which he voluntarily withdrew. He was also city attorney of Austin a number of years. In the business line he is president and director of the Austin Weed Exterminator Company and treasurer and director of the Alliance Fire Insurance Company of Minnesota. He is also a member of the American Bar Association and of the Minnesota Bar Association. In addition to this he belongs to the Masonic body, the Austin Commercial Club and other organizations, and was for a time a trustee of Carleton College, at Northfield, Minn. During the Spanish-American war Colonel Wright served as major of the Twelfth Minnesota Infantry, United States Volunteers, and he is at present colonel of the Second Infantry, M. N. G., having gradually been promoted from the position of private in Company G, of Austin. The subject of this sketch was married May 25, 1885, to Agnes E. Clark, daughter of Henry D. and Nancy E. Clark, and this union has been blessed with two children: Winfield Clark, born in Auj^ufst, .1886, now with Farwell, Ozniun, Kirk & Co., of St. Paul, and Dean A., born in February, 1888, now with the Merchants' National Bank, of Billings, Mont.

John Thompson, a veteran of the Civil war, and retired farmer now living in Lansing village, was born in Yorkshire, England, in February, 1841. When he was four years old he came with his parents to the United States and settled in Mellenry county, Illinois, where his father entered government land and pursued farming. John grew to manliood in McHenry county, and had barely attained his majority when he enlisted in Company H, Ninety-fifth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, being mustered into the service in September, 1862. He went south with his regiment and served under Grant and Logan. On account of superior merit as a soldier, he was transferred to a colored regiment and was appointed orderly sergeant. As such he participated in the massacre at Fort Pillow, Api-il 12, 1864, and was there taken prisoner. He was first confined at Caliaba, Ala., from there taken to Andersonville, where he arrived May 2, 1864; then to Florence, S. C, September 16, 1864; to ^Yilmington, February 1, 1865, and to Goldsborough, N. C. From there he was paroled, entering the Union lines February 28, 1865. He was sent to the Marine Hospital at Annapolis ; then to the Camden Street Hospital at Baltimore, ]\Id., and from there furloughed home. He afterward served at Ft. Federal Hill, Baltimore, at Richmond and at Memphis, Tenn. As he had never been mustered into the colored regiment, he received orders to report to his old regiment at Camp Butler, Springfield, 111., where he was discharged. Then he returned home to McHenry county and was there married in 1868 to Charlotte A. Roe, daughter of Orson and Maria (Armstrong) Roe, the former of whom came from Schoharie county. New York. In the spring of 1868 'Mr. Thompson came with his family to Mower county and purchased a farm in Udolpho township, where he lived until 1873. Avlien he moved to the village of Lansing, where he now lives. He is a Republican in politics and has worthily filled many public offices. The subject of this sketch has been a Mason since 1867 and is the present master of the Blue Lodge at Lansing. His wife has been the worthy matron of the Eastern Star Lodge in the same village. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have one son, Lee Ora. of Lansing, where he is engaged in the lumber and coal business. The subject of this sketch served for thirty years as assessor of Lansing township and was assessor for Udolpho township two years. He was a constable and at one time was one of the village coiincil of Lansing. He is now treasurer of school district 43. a position he has occupied for over fifteen years.

chant of Lansing village, was born in the town of Saranac, Clinton county, New York, March 6, 1849, son of Hosea and Harriett (Morrison) Mclntyre, the former a native of Vermont and the latter of New York state. Harvey M., who was the fifth of seven children, received such education as the schools of his neighborhood afforded, and as a young man commenced clerking in a store near his birthplace. After about three years, at the age of nineteen, he went to Illinois and spent a winter near Chicago. Then he spent a year at Utica, in LaSalle county, Illinois. From there he went to Helena, Iowa county, Wisconsin, and stayed there until the spring of 1873. From that year dates his residence in Lansing. Upon his arrival here he engaged in the mercantile trade with John Bartlett under the firm name of Bartlett & ^Iclntyre. In the fall of 1883 he purchased his partner's interest, and since that time has carried on the business alone. In 1876 Mr. Mclntyre was elected town clerk, and when the village of Lansing was incorporated he became recorder of the new municipality, a position he held as long as the municipality was in force. He was appointed postmaster under John Wanamaker in 1889, which position he s+ill maintains. Mr. Mclntyre was married at Helena, Iowa county, Wisconsin, August 20, 1873, to Ada C. (Saston), who was born May 3, 1854, and to this union five children have been born : Herbert E., deceased ; Albert H., deceased ; Clarence ; Harry S. and Hattie L. Clarence is married and living in New York city. He graduated from a commercial college at Austin. Harry S. is in the store clerking for his father. He is a graduate of the Owatonna high school and of Carleton College. Hattie L. is a music teacher and lives at home. She graduated from the Austin high school and attended Pittsburg Academy at Owatonna.

Ernest V. Smith, M. D., physician and surgeon, Avas born in Elwood, Ind., June 15, 1880, son of William and Margaret (Winship) Smith. For seven years he attended Wabash College, at Crawfordsville, Ind., graduating in 1902. After a year teaching school in the state of AVashington, he entered the medical department of the university, and graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1907. After graduation he came to Adams and purchased the practice of Dr. E. F. Chase. Dr. Smith was married October 16, 1907, at Crawfordsville, Ind., to Katherine Fisher, daughter of J. J. Fisher. The Smith home has been blessed with two children: E. Vernon, born December 10, 1908, and Eugene F., born April 6, 1910.

Rev. Clarendon Dwight Beiden was born near Providence, R. I., May 3, 1848, son of Stanton and Antoinette Pereival (Manchester) Beiden. His father was born in Sandisfield, IMass., January 15, 1808, and died in Providence, R. I., February 11, 1890.