Pipestone County, Minnesota - Chapter 34: Pipestone County Biographical, 1911 (part 2 of 7)

IVER I. PETERSON (1878) has for thirty-one years been a well known and prominent citizen of Edgerton. The son of Iver and Ingebor (Anderson) Peterson, his nativity occurred in the land of the Norse April 7, 1851. The United States has been his adopted country since he was ten years of age. He made the journey across the broad Atlantic in a sailing vessel which consumed eleven weeks and two days on the trip. His parents had preceded him to this country five years and had taken a homestead in Winneshiek county, Iowa, whither the youthful traveler made his destination.

At the age of eighteen years Iver left home to become a molder of his own fortune. He first went to Lansing, Iowa, where he remained eight years, working in stores and in a lumber yard. Then he married and moved to LaCrosse, Wisconsin. In 1878 he located in Luverne and for awhile conducted a boarding house and worked for the firm of Landin & Nelson. The following year he bought a homestead right in Vienna township, which he retained but a short time, establishing. In 1880, his present residence in the village of Edgerton. He clerked in three different stores before he entered the employ of C. S. Howard, with whom he remained twentytwo years. Since resigning his position with that firm in the spring of 1910, he has devoted his time to the conduct of the variety and grocery store established by his son Clifford H. Peterson two years previous.

In the "snow winter" of 1881, when every road was blocked, Mr. Peterson having been dispatched to Luverne for a supply of tobacco, made the journey of twenty-one miles each way on a pair of Norwegian snowshoes. In those days land could be had for nearly a song. Our subject traded a yoke of two-year-old steers for a quarter section in Battle Plain township, now owned by K. G. Oldre, of Luverne.

In Lansing, Iowa, on Sepemtber 15, 1872, Iver I. Peterson was married to Lava Alette Hanson, a native of Norway who came to this country ten years after her birth, which occurred in 1856. In the Peterson family are the following four living children: Lula (Mrs. J. C. Bruner), of Globe,

Arizona; Albert, a ball player in the Minnesota-Wisconsin league; Clifford H., of Edgerton; and Walter. Two children, Henry and Mabel, died of scarlet fever at the ages of thirteen and four years respectively. Mr. Peterson owns residence property in Edgerton. A home erected in the early days was in 1909 remodeled and made thoroughly modern.

Mr. Peterson was for two years the assessor of Vienna township, and for the same length of time held the office of village treasurer. In the early days he served as constable. He took the 1910 census in Osborne township and the village of Edgerton. He belongs to the Norwegian Lutheran church and to the K. P. and M. \V. A. lodges.

HOWARD J. FARMER (1884) is one of the well known and prosperous farmers and stock raijers of Sweet township, of which he has been a resident for the past twenty-seven years. The home farm, the northeast quarter of section 7, was nvild, undeveloped railroad land when it came into the possession of Mr. Farmer in 18S4. Improvements in the way of large and substantial buildings and groves have wrought a marvelous change since then. He is also the owner of the northwest quarter of section 8 and eighty acres on section 35, range 47, Troy.

Howard is the oldest 'jon in a family of five children. The four others, Judson L., Annie Malterner, Bertha M. Stiles and Frank B., reside in New York, the native state of our subject. He was born in St. Lawrence county on July 8, 1853. In that county his father, Loren J. Farmer, died in 1874, and his mother, Elizabeth (Johnson) Farmer, in 1853. Both parents were born in Herkimer county, of the Empire state.

Mr. Farmer wa-j educated and grew to manhood in the county of his birth. He taught school for awhile, farmed with his father until becoming of age, and then until 1884 was a St. Lawrence county farmer on his own account. Since the year mentioned Pipestone county has been the scene of his rewarded labors. Mr. Farmer has served his township and county in an official way on several occassions. He was a member of the township board for a number of years and is treasurer of scnool district No. 3. He represented his district on the board of county commissioners in the early nineties, wai elected to the office of county treasurer in 1896, and served one term. He is the secretary of the Airlie Elevator company, a successful co-operative institution. In a fraternal way Mr. Farmer is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, United Workmen and Modern Woodmen lodges.

On the flr-;t day of March, 1877, at Canton, St. Lawrence county, New York, was performed the ceremony which united Howard J. Farmer and Katie L. Farmer in the bonds of matrimony. Mrs. Farmer was born November 4, 1853, in Jefferson county, Wisconsin. They are the parents of five children, as follows: Myra (Mrs. George McCarter), of Grange township; Marion L., Annie G., a bookeeper in the general offices of the M. B. A., at Mason City, Iowa; Alma, a school teacher; and William P.. a student at the State Agricultural school.

JAMES TELFORD (1894) has farmed in Elmer township since 1894. He was born on a small farm in the north of Ireland June 12, 1848, the son of James and Mary Ann (Dobson) Telford. He was only thirteen years of age when he left his home in the Emerald isle and journeyed alone to America. He went to live with an uncle and aunt in New York state, remaining there five years. He was for a time employed in a machine and iron work foundry.

In 1866, at the age of eighteen years, James Telford turned his eyes westward and located in Delaware county, Iowa. For three years he was employed at farm labor; then he married and for a year farmed land on his own account in that Iowa county. He moved to Madison county, Nebraska, in 1871 and pre-empted a quarter section of land. After a three years' -jtruggle against the ravages of the grasshoppers, Mr. Telford deserted the Black Water state and once more became an Iowa farmer. Eight years were spent in Hardin county, three in Franklin county, eight in Sac county; then Minnesota and Pipestone county became the scene of his labors. He moved to his farm, the southeast quarter of section 23, Elmer, which he had bought the year previous to his removal.

Mr. Telford improved his land but rented and farmed the north half of section 19, Osborne, for eight years; then he farmed all of section 25, Elmer, until 1905, when he built on his own land, since' which time he has lived there. In nearly every locality in which our subject has lived since becoming of age, he ha's served on either the township or school board. For four years he represented his district on the board of county commissioners. Fraternally he is a Knight of Pythias and a Modern Woodman, and with his family he belongs to the Methodist church.

In Delaware county, Iowa, on September 26, 1870, James Telford was joined in marriage to Mary Ann Buck, a Canadian by birth. She was born in September, 1850, the daughter of John and Susanna (Winsor) Buck, both natives of England. Four sons and six daughters have been born to this union, as follows: Ellen E., born September 3, 1871; John, born September 26, 1872; W. James, born January 9, 1875; Ida M., born January 23, 1877; Mary A., born April 20, 1879; Jessie, born September 27, 1881; Bessie, born October 3, 1884; Zoe, born March 12, 1887; Charles, born June 15, 1891; and Shirley, born January 17, 1897.

GEORGE W. NASH (1880) has held the office of register of deeds of Pipestone county continuously since his first election to the office in the fall of 1894. He i". one of the early settlers of the county, dating his residence from September, 1880, at which time he was stationed by the Omaha railroad as the second agent at their station of Woodstock. That position he held for twelve years, until 1892, when he engaged in the farm implement business at Woodstock. He was engaged in that business until elected to the office he now holds.

A native cf Wayne county. New York, George W. Nash of this review was born October 3, 1849, the son of John and Jerusha A. (Johnson) Nash, both of whom were also New Yorkers by birth. His mother died fifteen days after George was born and his father died in 1869. By a second marriage John Nash had two sons, one of whom, Oscar Nash, of Monroe county. New York, is still living.

George pas-ed the first twenty-three years of his life in the county of his birth. He then cast his eyes westward and located at Monticello, Iowa, where he learned the telegrapher's trade. He was for several years assistant station agent at Langworthy and Sand Springs, Iowa, and then made his advent to Minnesota, accepting a position as assistant agent with the railroad company at East Henderson. Blue Earth City was hii last home before settling in Woodstock.

Mr. Nash was married in Wayne county, New York, on February 17, 1876, to Emma D. Fish, also a native of that county. They are the parents of three children; Thaddeus E., cashier of the Pipestone State Bank; Adah A. and Pearl A. Mr. Nash belongs to the Blue Lodge and the Chapter of the Masonic order, and is also a member of the A. O. U. W. lodge.

WILLIAM ROSCOE (1887) has been a well-known farmer of Altona township since 1887. His 160 acre farm is on section 26. A native of Green Bay, Wisconsin, he was born B^ebruary 24, 1838, the son of Oliver and Mardeland (Campbell) Roscoe. The mother was a native Minne- "jotan and was married in that state. The Roscoe family is of French descent who made settlement in Canada, where the father of our our subject, Oliver Roscoe, was born.

William was an infant in his first year when the family moved from Green Bay to Prairie du Chien. Wisconsin. From there, after an eleven or twelve years' residence, they moved to Fort Snelling, Minnesota. At that army post the father, Oliver Roscoe, was employed as blacksmith by the government for eighteen years. The next move was to Red Wing. After a number of years the elder Mr. Roscoe retired from the government service and engaged in farming between Lake City and Wabasha. Our subject asiisled with the work on the home farm until he was twenty-two years of age. Thereafter for nearly ten years he was engaged in lumbering. He settled on his present Altona farm twenty-four years ago. William Roscoe was married in Wabasha county, Minneiota, on February 16, 1860, to Annie Niehart, a native of Germany. Mrs. Roscoe died in 1905. Four sons and four daughters were born to this union, as follows: Annie (Mrs. Frank Wright), of Moody county, South Dakota, born May 11, 1862; Oliver, of Lincoln ccunty, born August 26, 1864; William J., of Altona township, born December 20, 1869; Ida (Mrs. John Rexroad), of Cass county, Iowa, born April 28, 1871 ; Charles, of Altona, boi-n September 29, 1873; Burt, of Altona, born May 10, 1877; Cornelia (Mrs. Thomas Moran), of Colorado, born October 28, 1880; Mabel, of Colorado, born April 8, 1884.

GILBERT G. GILBERTSON (1879). Among the substantial and progressive agriculturists of Aetna township is the gentleman whose name headi this review. He owns an entire section of choice land in that precinct and farms it all. As a stock raiser he has achieved eminent success. He makes a specialty of Red Polled cattle, his herd of cattle generally averaging sixty head. In addition he raises not a few hcgs, horses and sheep.

A Norwegian by birth, Gilbert was born December 8, 1865, the son of Christ Giltertson, now of Ruthton, and Bertha (Olson) Gilbertson, who died Ave years after the birth of our "ubject. When an infant, in 1867, he crossed the Atlantic with liis parents and located with them in Fillmore county, Minnnsota, and in the district schools of that county he commenced his education. Christ Gilbertson, the father, journeyed to Pipestone county in the spring of 1878, when the new country was juit commencing to be opened up for settlement, and homesteaded in Aetna township on section 28. The rest of the family first viewed the land of their future residence in October, 1879.

Gilbert Gilbertson vividly recalls an incident of the frightful winter of 1880-81, in which he and P. J. Ruen were concerned. They were returning from Lake Benton on snowshoes, pulling a hand sled loaded with provisions for the snow-bound home, and were within a half mile of the home farm when they were suddenly enveloped in one of the most ferocious storms of the season. It was impossible to gain the house and they floundered about in the open until near midnight, when Providence directed them to a vacant claim shanty belonging to a neighbor. There the young men rested and warmed themselves as best they could. They were then about a mile and a half from home, and during the night they made two futile attempts to reach there. Finding the task of no avail, they camped in the rude shelter until dayliglit. By that time the fury of the storm was spent and they were able to reach their goal, though only by surmounting great diffif ulties. As a result of the severe experience, Mr. Gilbertson's feet were badly frozen and he was laid up for the balance of the winter. His companion, Mr. Ruen, however, did not suffer any serious mishaps.

Our subject attended the schools in the Thompson and Smith districts, in Aetna township, and continued to reside on the home farm until the spring of 1888. That season he went to Custer county. North Dakota, and filed on a half-section homestead and timber claim. He passed four years in that country, working in the tie camps and on the railroads in the winter months and doing his best to raise a crop during the summer seasons, but the land was of a most unarable nature and unflagging industry was not rewarded. Mr. Gilbertson took a tie contract in the winter of 1891-92, but the company failed, and in con'iequence he lost all his hard earned savings. He became disgusted with the ill-fortune which seemed to be the only thing the country offerred, abandoned his claim and sought a new location.

In the spring of 1892 Gilbert commenced to mend his fortune in Sheridan, Wyoming. That summer he freighted between the terminus of the B. & M. railroad and the towns of Sheridan and Buffalo. In the fall of the year be bought an interest in a Sheridan hotel, which he retained until the spring of 1893. He was a teamster ( onnected with a tie camp in the Big Horn mountains for a year; then until he

On his return from the west Mr. Gilbertson again located in Pipestone county. He became the partner of his brother, Ole Gilbertson, a liveryman of Ruthton, by buying out the interest of E. K. Gryte. The brothers conducted the enterprise two yean; then Ole Gilbertson disposed of his interest to Nels Peterson, and this interest was later transferred to Charles Smith. After an association of a year and a half our subject bought out his partner, Mr. Smith, and until the spring of 1907 he waT sole proprietor of the livery business, which he Anally traded for land. Since the date last mentioned Mr. Gilbertson has managed his large farming interests in Aetna township. He is an ex-constable of that precinct. He is a member of the Norwegian Lutheran church of Ruthton.

Gilbert G. Gilbertson has been twice married. On April 14, 1898, he was wedded at Sheridan, Wyoming, to Ella Fryer, a native of Baltimore, Maryland. She was born Auguit 2, 1879, and died in Ruthton August 14, 1899. One child, Bertha Julia, was bom to this union, but lived only a few days. On October 7, 1905, at Ruthton, our subject was married to Ragna Eraelia Halvorson, the daughter of Hans Peter Halvorson, of Ruthton, and Bertha Marie Halvorson, deceased. Mrs. Gilbertson was born in Mower county, Minnesota, June 2, 1884. These parents have had three children: Rudolph Gordon, born August 15, 1906: Harlon Clifford, born May 26, 1908: and Blanche Irene, who was born June 15, 1907, and died a short time after birth.

GARRISON L. JAYCOX (1873), of Sweet township, is an early day settler of both Rock and Pipestone counties, one who has experienced in full measure the trials and hardshipT incident to the life of a pioneer, the fighting of prairie fires, the suffering from death-dealing blizzards, and the battling against the ravages of the dread grasshopper scourge. Mr. Jaycox holds the distinction of having invented, with Ole Rolph, the first "hopperdozer" used in Luverne. With that contrivance more than twenty-eight busheb. of the pests were taken in one day.

The father of our subject, Abraham Jaycox, of Luverne, is a pioneer of two Minneiota counties. He was married to Nancy LaForge and at an early day settled in Preston township, Fillmore county. There Garrison L, Jaycox of this review was born July 16, 1858. The first fifteen years of hiT life were passed in the county of his birth. The family decided to establish a home in the new Rock county, and with that intent they made the journey overland, arriving in Luverne June 7, 1873. For three days they camped in the park, but it was not long before Abraham Jaycox was settled on the farm he bought just out of Luverne and which is his home to this day.

Our subject completed his education in the Luverne public schools. For a time he was engaged in freighting from Worthington to Luverne, worked as a threshor, and for two years was with the grading crew that laid the way for the building of the railroad to Luverne. Pipestone county was just opening for settlement in 1879 when Mr. Jaycox came to do the breaking on the tree claim of his father, the northeast quarter of 28, Sweet township. The following year Garrison filed a homestead claim to the southeast quarter of the same section. He lived on the place for eight years, during most of which time the crops were failures, occasioning hard times.

Mr. Jaycox retired from farming two years, during which time he resided in Luverne and engaged in draying, hauling sand and other manual labor. In 1890 he returned to his Sweet township farm, remained thereon two years, and then moved to the east half of section 24, Troy, land which he farmed for a decade. Burke township became the scene of his activities for two years, then for a similar period he was located in Troy. Mr. Jaycox established his present residence in Sweet seven years ago. He has farmed the northwest quarter of section 2 in that precinct since 1905. Our subject is connected with four fraternal orders, the Modern Woodmen of America, Royal Neighbors of America, Sons of Veterans and Mystic Workers of the World.

Yankton and demanded that Pipestone be moved further to the south. The whites presented the savages with a fat ox, to which the redskins did justice in a spectacular barbecue, after which they peacefully made their departure without committing any outrage.

The subject of this biography was married at Luverne on October 2, 1882, to Hattie M. Wood, the daughter of J. E. and Emily (Bates) Wood, both deceased. Hattie M. Wood was born at Athens, Illinois, October 28, 1866. To Mr. and Mrs. Jaycox nine children have been born, all but one of whom, Garrison, who was born October 21, 1899, and who died the same month, are living. Their names are Charles, born August 27, 1883; Etta, born June 22, 1885; Clair, born April 15, 1887; Norman, born January 23, 1889; Wilbur, born March 26, 1890; Hattie, born January 19, 1892; Ruby, born August 17, 1893: and Mildred, born October 5, 1902.

CHARLES F. DITMEYER (1886) is the owner of one of the finely improved farms of Gray towmhip, the southeast quarter of section 19. He has a continued residence of twenty-five years in the county to his credit. A native of Illinois, he was born in Stephenson county April 7, 1864, the son of Richard and Thresie Ditmeyer, both of whom were born in Baden, Germany. They were early day settlers of Stephenson county.

Charles was educated and grew to manhood in the county of his birth. On severing home ties, at the age of twenty-two, he at once commenced his career as a Pipestone county agriculturist. He worked in Elmer township for six months; then for eleven year^ he rented and farmed the northeast quarter of section 26, Eden township, land which belonged to his father. Since 1896 he has been located on his farm in Gray. Mr. Ditmeyer raises considerable stock. He owns stock in the farmers' elevator at Pipestone and n a director of school district No. 25. Fraternallly he is a Modern Woodman.

Mr. Ditmeyer is man of family. He was married in Stephenson county, Illinois, September 6, 1S85, to Elmetta Fryberger, a native of that county. She was born

November 20, 1864, the daughter of William and Leah (Taylor) Fryberger. Eight children have been bom to Mr. and Mrs. Ditmeyer. They are Bessie, born December 19, 1887; Floyd, born August 24, 1889; Marvin, born September 7, 1891; Ethel, born October 10, 1893; Earl, born August 11, 1895; Beatrice, born March 20, 1898; Leland, born March 1, 1900; and Wesley, born August 11, 1904.

W. H. DICKEY' (1878) is one of the old timers whose experiences in Pipestone county date from the spring of 1878. Sparsely settled it was then, and among the few settler-3 in the future city of Pipestone were Dan Wigham, L. R. Ober, Robert Campbell, Dr. Taylor and Charles H. Bennett. Mr. Dickey has a distinct recollection of hunting prairie chickens on the site of the present city hall, and In the fall of 1880 he pursued five antelope over the prairies. With others he is not likely to forget the winter of 1880-81, when hay was precious ai fuel and wheat for bread was ground in the kitchen coffee-mill.

A native of the old Pine Tree state, the subject of this biography was born in Belfast, Maine, November 20, 1841. He was a lad in his eleventh year when his parents followed the tide of western emigration. The family settled in Wisconsin and were located successively in the counties of Dane, Richland and Trempealeau. At the call for arms in the dark days of the sixties Mr. Dickey enlisted at Eau Claire in company C, Eighth Wisconsin volunteer infantry. This wa-s the company that carried old Abe's eagle through three years of the war and participated in thirty-two engagements, among them the battles of Corinth and Pleasant Hill and the siege of Vicksburg.

Upon the declaration of peace Mr. Dickey returned to Wisconsin. He mastered the blacksmith's trade in Jackson county and later followed that line of work in Trempealeau county. He journeyed to -southwestern Minnesota in the early seventies to inspect the country. He wcrked for a short time at his trade in Worthington and was in Luverne when Philo Hawes first located there. He did not make settlement at that time, how-

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Mr. Dickey homesteaded the northeast quarter of section 10, Gray township, in the spring of his arrival. He was the county's first blacksmith and machinist and did all the plow work tor miles around in those early days. Even from Rock county farmers would come to "Harriion" Dickey, as he is familiarly known, to have their work done. For the first few years our subject alternated his time between his claim and his shop in the village. In the tall of 1884 he made permanent settlement in Pipestone, where he still continues to ply hi" craft.

The marriage of Mr. Dickey to Julia Sherwood took place in Trempealeau county, Wisconsin, in November, 1864. To this union have been born the following seven children: Robert, Irvin, Leander, Harry, William, Ella and James.

PAUL SORENSON (1881), is one of the homesteaders and well-known residents of Aetna township. The 'son of Soren and Annie (Rasniussen) Paulson, he was born in Odense, Denmark, March 21, 1850. In the land of the Danes- he acquired his schooling and passed the first twenty-one years of his life.

Mr. Sorenson immigrated to America in early manhood and made St. Louis his destination after arrival. He was employed several months in an iron foundry of that city, then was married and became a resident of Minnesota. He worked on a farm near Winona one summer, then until 1881 was employed at agricultural labor at St. Charles. In the year mentioned our subject became identified with Pipestone county interests. He homesteaded the southwest quarter of section 2, Aetna, and took as a pre-emption the southwest quarter of section 32. On the latter land he lived for several years, then established the home that is hi", today on the old homestead, one of the thoroughly improved farms of the precinct. Mr. Sorenson devotes considerable attention to the breeding of high grade stock. He was a member of the township board four years.

At Kirkwood, MiTsouri, on September 17, 1873, occurred the marriage of Paul Sorenson to Mary Johanson, who was born in Denmark April 5, 1854, the daughter of Johan and Margretta (Hanson) Peterson. Mrs. Sorenson died May 16, 1910. Two sons and tv/o daughters were born to this union; Annie, born December 24, 1874; Mary, born May 16, 1877; John, born January 17, 1885; and James, born October 22, 1888. Since 1910 John Sorenson has rented and managed the home farm.

O. M. EDSILL (1881) i" literally the builder of the town of Cazenovia, of which lie is a leading merchant. Every building in the town, with the exception of the railroad property and the elevators, has been erected through his efforts. Mr. Edsill was born in Summit county, Ohio, the first of September, 1859, and is the son of Vincent H. Ed sill, of Laporte City, Iowa. The mother of our subject, Mellisa (Burdick) Ediill, died in that Iowa town when he was a boy of thirteen.

Six months after the birth of our subject the Edsill family moved to Winnebago county, Illinois, and shortly after locating there the father, Vincent H. Edsill, enlisted in the union army and served to the close of th'e sectional struggle. At the restoration of peace the family moved to Laporte City, Iowa, and there Mr. Edsill of thi" biography grew to maturity and received an education in the village school. At the age of twenty he returned to his former home in Illinois and was employed on a farm until settling in Pipestone county thirty years ago.

Mr. Edsill arrived in Pipestone county in October, 1881, and immediately rented land on section 15, Sweet township, which he farmed two years. He then bought of Close Bros. i& Co. the east half of the southwest quarter of section 11, Troy, which he improved and upon which he made his home until 1899. Disposing of his farm property, he bought the Cazenovia general store of Frank Turk, a business he still conducts. Until 1910 he was also manager of the E. A. Brown elevator at that point. Mr. Edsill was assessor of

O. M. Edsill lias been married twice. Delia Warner, a native of Winnebago county, Illinois, becam.e his wife on January 5, 18S1. Delia (Warner) Ed~ill was born November 25, 1861, and died September 30, 1893. Three children were born to this union, as follows; Cora Evelyn (Mrs. L. G. Hess), of Mary Hills, Washington, born October 10, 1881, in Winnebago county, Illinois; Fred Loren, of Stevenson, Washington, born December 8, 1883, in Pipestone county; Lee Everett, deceased, born January 2, 1886.

At Pipestone, on June 3, 1908, our subject was married to Rose Chaney, who was born in Elgin, Illinois, December 27, 1879. By a former marriage Mrs. Edsill has two children, Ruth and Lillie.

ALEXANDER RAE (18S7) is one of the prominent citizens of the thriving village of Jasper. It has been Mr. Rae's privilege to witnes" in the fullest degree the transformation of an ordinary expanse of unimproved prairie to a substantial and rapidly developing municipality, second in importance in Pipestone county only to the county seat. He located on the townsite of Jasper the year before the railroad was built to that point, and with his brother he was the first purchaser of town lot", upon which he immediately set out trees and which he otherwise improved.

In "bonnie" Scotland, on April 10, 1867, occurred the birth of Alexander Rae. He was educated in the land of his birth and there also mastered the stone mason's trade. At the age of twenty he severed home ties and became an adopted son of Uncle Sam. For a few months after his arrival to the United States Mr. Rae was located at Westerly, Rhode Island, and then set out for the west, making Dell Rapids, South Dakota, his destination. He was there only a short time when he cast hi" lot with the pioneers of Jasper. With the exception of a short season spent in the restaurant business at St. Cloud and a summer's residence in Pipestone, Mr. Rae has been permanently located at Jasper. He holds a responsible position at the quarries, and in addition, since the fall of 1909, has

At St. Cloud, on January 31, 1894, Alexander Rae was joined in marriage to Sarah Siscely, a native of that city. The following five children have been born to this union: Mary, Stella, Edith, Harold and Irene.

Alexander Rae is the son of George and Barbara (Farquhr) Rae, natives of Scotland who came to America in 1891. Barbara Rae died the next July; George Rae resides in Jasper with his son, Andrew.

LEWIS H. WILSON (1S86) is a progressive young business man of the little village of Ihlen, in Eden township. He is postmaster and president and manager of the Ihlen Mercantile company, a business institution incorporated for $11,000. The present officers of the company, which deals in all kinds of general merchandise, are: President and manager, L. H. Wilson; vice president, L. L. Dale; secretary, H. G. Wilson; treasurer, R. H. O'Connell. The board of directors consists of the officers mentioned, with the addition of Joseph Evenson.

Lewis H. Wilson was born in Hamilton county, Iowa, April 13, 1882, and four years later settled in Pipetsone county with his parents. His father bought the northwest quarter of section 15, Eden township, upon which our subject grew to manhood. His education in the Ihlen village school was spplemented by a course in the Red Wing preparatory college. In 1905 he entered the employ of the Ihlen Mercantile company as a clerk, and was with the concern only a year and a half when he was promoted to the responsible position he now holds. Mr. Wilson is also a stockholder in the South Dakota Rural Telephone company and in the Farmers Elevator company of Ihlen. He is one of the directors of the first named organization. He owns a half interest in a 240 acre farm, one-half mile west of Ihlen.

Lewis is the oldest in a family of eight children born to Jacob F. and Martha (Sheldahl) Wilson. One of the children, James L., is dead, but the other seven are all residents of the county. Their names are Gerard E., Anna C, Bessie M., Helen L.,

Mabel F. and Martin B. Jacob F. Wilson was born in Norway in 1855 and came to this country at the age of fourteen years. He married Martha Sheldahl, a native of Story county, Iowa, where he resided prior to settling in Pipestone county in 1886. Mr. Wilson died on his Eden township farm December 16, 1907. He is survived by his wife, who still resides on the old home farm.

At Hanley Falls, Yellow Medicine county, Minnesota, on June 30, 1908, occurred the marriage of Lewis H. Wilson to Hilda Anderson, who was born in the county of her marriage June 16, 1884. One son, Rufus J., was born to tliese parents, on July 16, 1909.

HOWARD W. FOOTE (1881) is the manager of the Coffey elevator and grain business at Trosky. He was born in Oxford, Herkimer county. New York, June 26, 1855, the son of Burton and Maria (Whitehead! Foote, both of whom are dead. The former was born in the Empire state and the latter was a native of England. They were the parents of four children, who, besides our subject, are Asa, of Idaho; Edith (Mrs. C. O. Armstead), of Aitkin, Minnesota; and Elmira, of Fergus Falls.

Howard was four years of age when he moved with his parents to Green Lake, Wisconsin, and that was his home until after his twenty-sixth birthday, most of the time being engaged in agricultural pursuits. In 1881 he settled in Pipestone county. He conducted a farm of Jay LaDue in Elmer township for two years, then filed a tree claim to the northwest quarter of section 26, of the same township, which he improved and lived upon until 1896. That year he went to Aitkin county, Minnesota, homesteaded a claim of sixty-seven acres, to which he added eighty acres by purchase, and made that his home for eight years. He returned to Pipestone county in the summer of 1905 and located permanently in Trosky. For two years thereafter he was a cream buyer; then he commenced his present duties with the Coffey Elevator company.

Mr. Foote owns his residence and a block of ground in Trosky and retains possession of his Aitkin county farm. While a resident of Elmer township he served as a school director, and he served in a similar capacity in Aitkin county. While there he was also townsliip treasurer. Our subject is a member of the Methodi.st church and of the I. O. O. P. and Good Samaritan lodges.

In Edgerton, on December 10, 1894, was solemnized the marriage of Howard W. Foote to Mrs. Irena Rogers. Mrs. Foote is a native of New York. By her first husband she has the following named children: John, Rupert and Etta Rogers.

AMOS AUST (1879), of Pipestone, is the eldest son in a family of five daughters and two sons who were born to William and Berth (Kurth) Aust, pioneers and home steaders of Gray township. The names of the children in the Aust family besides our subject are Clara, Katie. Henry, Josephine, Tina and Louise.

William Aust, the father, first beheld the things of earth in the land of the kaiser across the seas. When a youth of sixteen he took passage for America, and for a num ber of years he was employed at farm labor in the vicinity of Fountain City, Wisconsin. From that locality he moved to Rochester, Minnesota, where he became the owner of a small farm, and it was there also that he was married to Betha Kurth, a native of Wisconsin.

The charms of Pipetsone county had, during the late seventies, been heralded through the eastern part of the state, and in consequence had attracted the attention of many a prospective settler. Among those was William Aust, one of a small company who in the spring of 1878 acted upon a resolve to inspect the new land for themselves. The visit proved sufficient to impress Mr. Aust witli the desirability of the region, and before returning to his home in Rochester he pre-empted a quarter section of land in the vicinity of the future town of Holland.

In 1879 Mr. Aust, accompanied by his family, undertook the journey overland via the ox-team route and prepared to make a permanent settlement in the sparsely settled and undeveloped Pipestone county of that day. There was a surprise in store for the pioneer on arrival at his destination. His claim had been "jumped" during his absence and it proved impossible to assert his right to the land. However, there was pleu- ly of prairie land waiting to be taken, and, taking advantage of the liomestead laws, Mr. Aust filed claim to the northeast quarter of section 12, Gray township, which was destined to be his home for many years. The covered wagon which had brought the family in the journey across the sea of prairie was converted into an abode until a sod covered shanty could be constructed on the claim. It was necessary to haul the lumber needed from Tracy, a distance of fifty miles. Eventually the barren plain was transformed into a blooming garden through the never ceasing efforts of industrious hands.

In 1889 Mr. Aust moved from the old farm and for eighteen months was a resident of Pipestone. He then became the owner of an eighty aei-e tract on section 14, Gray, for which he paid $500. It was a paying investment. The ground was broken and planted to flax, and the first year a crop, valued at $1200, was realized. At the end of three years William Aust retired from farming and moved to Kasota, Lesueur county, where he conducted a hotel for six years. He then returned to Pipestone county and the Gray township homestead, lived thereon a year, and then became a hardware and machinery merchant in Pipestone. This business he finally traded for a half section of land near Manchester, Kingsbury county. South Dakota, where he had previously acquired 900 acres. This land, which he purchased at bargain prices, was in after years disposed of for a handsome sum. Mr. Aust farmed his half section in Kingsbury county for a number of years. In 1903 he returned for a visit to his old home in Germany. He returned to the United States in the spring foVlowing and shortly afterwards again journeyed to the land of his birth, where he remained and where he proposes to spend his declining years. Amos Aust of this review is a native of Fountain City, Wisconsin, where he was born May 27, 1878. When an infant in his first year he accompanied his parents to Pipestone county and settled with them on the Gray township homestead. He attended school in that precinct at a time when the task of directing the youthful mind was carried on In the farm homes of the neighborhood. Amos was later sent to the Pipestone public school. He was fourteen years of age when the Aust family moved to Kasota. He left that place to return to 'Pipestone county and moved to the homestead in Gray, which he conducted three years.

Mr. Aust was for a time engaged in the grain buying business. He managed the elevator at Gray's Siding for three years and was located for a year at Wilmont, Nobles county, where he was employed in a similar capacity. His father had moved to Kingsbury county. South Dakota, and there Amos went to live for a time. He invested in a half section of land, which he farmed for a year, and then once more established a home in Gray township on the farm which he had in the meantime bought from his father, and which our subject still owns. He continued to farm until the death of his wife early in 1909. During the fall of that year he bought grain at Colman, South Dakota, then settled in the city of Pipestone, where he is now engaged in the real estate business. He devotes especial attention to the sale of Texas lands. Mr. Aust has invested heavily in real estate in the Panhandle region of that state.

At Pipestone, on October 7, 1902, Amos Aust was joined in marriage to Hattie Riffel, the daughter of W. H. Riffel, of Pipestone. She was born near Burlington, Iowa, on August 22, 1881, and died January 3, 1909. The following four children were born to this union: Lola, bom July 16, 1903; Harold, born August 24, 1904; Ethel, born October 20, 190.5; and Gladys, born September 27, 1907. During his residence in Gray Mr. Aust for several terms officiated as justice of peace.

HARRY MINET (1878), Grange township farmer, has passed all except the first eight years of his life as a resident of Pipestone county. A native of Wisconsin, he was born in Juneau county, April 18, 1870. His father. Nelson Minet, was born in Vermont, and his mother, Margretta (Knudtson) Minet, is a native of Norway.

Harry was eight years of age when the Minet family departed from the Badger state and joined the vanguard of Pipestone county pioneers. The elder Mr. Minet filed a homestead claim to the southeast quarter of section 24, Grange, the farm on which our subject was reared. His education was obtained in the district schools of his home precinct. At the age of eighteen our subject came into possession of an eighty acre farm on section 24, which he conducted until 1904. That year Mr. Minet moved to the village of Holland, where he bought property, which he still retains, and operated a livery and dray line for five years. Since then he has rented and farmed the old homestead of his father in Grange.

In the village of Holland Harry Minet was joined in wedlock to Nellie Symens, who was born in Illinois, the daughter of Peter and Minnie Symens. To this union have been born three children, as follows: Minnie, Nelson and Georgietta. Mr. Minet holds membership in the lodge of Modern Woodmen of America.

PERLEY H. SMITH (1878) has lived on the farm he now owns and conducts, the southwest quarter of section 28, Sweet township, since he was eleven years of age. The land was homesteaded in the spring of 1878 by his father, Ichabod Smith, who resided on the farm until called by death, January 1, 1908, at the age of seventy-three years. Ichabod Smith was a native of North Anson, Maine. He married Margaret A. Waddell, who was born in Portsmouth, Ohio. They were early settlers of Wisconsin, and later they were numbered among the pioneers of Pipestone county. Mrs. Smith died June 27, 1905. Perley H. has one brother, Daniel E., and a sister, Mary E. Telford.

Juneau county, Wisconsin, is the birthplace, and July 28, 1867, the date of the birth of Perley H. Smith. With his parents he moved to Pipestone county in 1878 and located on the Sweet township homestead. He attended the old school, which was located on the homestead, and tor two years was a student in the public school of Luverne. In 1904 Mr. Smith went to Hinckley, Minnesota, and near that place farmed for three years; then he returned to take possession of his present finely improved farm. Mr. Smith is one of the township supervis ors and is clerk of school district No. 35. He is a member of the Odd Fellows and Modern Woodmen lodges.

At Beaver Creek, Rock county, on October 9, 1889, our subject was married to Flora L. Hulett, a native of New York state. To these parents was born a son, Earl, on December 7, 1896.

FRED W. GILES (1880), of Holland, is the son of one of Pipestone county's settlers, the postmaster of Holland, Edwin Giles, who has served Uncle Sam in that capacity for the past eleven years. The mother of our subject is Anna E. (Pannock) Giles, who is also still living.

The birth of Fred W. Giles occurred in Oneida county. New York, on November 12, 1857. Three years later he moved west with his parents and located with them at Logansville, Wisconsin, and on a farm near that place he grew to manhood. The eldest son in a family of ten children, he was early forced to contribute towards his own support. Fred became a resident of Pipestone county in 1880. For five years he was employed successively at farm labor in Sweet and Troy townships and in the Pipestone quarries. He then was engaged in railroad work for several years, following which he set up in the well digging business, a line of work he followed for twelve years - in every corner of the county. He was later in the dray and transfer business at Lake Benton; Lincoln county, where he resided until August, 1906. Then he settled in Holland and bought the general merchandise business of his father, which he still conducts.

At Flandreau, South Dakota, on September 27, 1884, Fred W. Giles was married to Mary F. Stanley, a native of Chippewa county, Wisconsin. She was born June 24, 1869, and when four years of age accompanied her parents, Havilla G. and Lucy A. (Prisbie) Stanley, to Murray county, Minnesota, where they homesteaded. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Giles; a son, Charles James, born April 11, 1888; and a daughter, Mattie L., born in October, 1886. Mattie is married to Rudolph Jolitz, of Lake Benton, and she is the mother of a daughter. Beryl Lillian.

SAMUEL J. CARSON (1885), who owns and farms tUe south half of section 33, Troy township, on which he has made most of the improvements, is a native of Vermont. He was born in Vergennes, Addison coujty, on the seventh of September, 1855. Both his parents, James and Margaret (Preston) Carson, were natives of Ireland. The father died when Samuel was twentyone years .of. age and his mother passed away in 189,7.

Five years after' the birth of our subject the Carson family moved to Canada. They remained there only a short time, returning to the old Vermont home, where Samuel passed his youth. On attaining his majority he left his native state and went to 'Massachusetts. He was employed for a time in the quarries at Springfield and later follow.- ed agricultural pursuits in that state'. Mr. Carson moved to Pipestone county in 1885. He bought a quarter section farm on section 32, Sweet, which he conducted fifteen years. On selling that place, he bought his present land in Troy and has since resided there. Mr. Carson is an ex-chalrman of the board of supervisors in both Sweet aild Troy towuships and is now the treasurer of school district No. 57, an office Which he also held in his former residence.

In NapervlUe county, Quebec, Canada, on January 2, 1882, the subject of this review was joined in wedlock to Mary Ann Stuart; a native of that province. Her birth occurred January; 2, 1861. Four sons and two daughters have been born to Mr. and Mrs. ' Carson. Their names are Annie (Mrs. Orville Haines),- of Troyj 'WiUlam, of Troy; Nina (Mrs. Edward Anderson), of Troy; James, Foster and Stuart, the. last three residinjr at home.

CEYLON E. TAYLOR (1881) is one of the earliest of Grange township settlers. He still resides on and operates his original homestead, the southwest quarter of section 14, to which he filed claim in 1881. He has been unusually successful as a breeder of high grade stock. Mr. Taylor is an ex-member of both the board of supervisors of the town of Grange and the board of directors of his school district.

native state of Vermont to Wisconsin at a very early date. They settled in Oakdale, Monrce county, where on April 8, 1859, occurred the nativity of Ceylon E. Taylor of this review. He acquired a common schoof education and at the age of sixteen assumed control of his own course in life. He was employed for a number of years in the pineries of northern Wisconsin, and from that state came to Pipestone county thirty years ago. By fraternal affiliation Mr. Taylor is a Modern Woodman.

Mr. Taylor is a man of family. He was married in Pipestone October 4, 1888, to Louisa Arrowsmith, a native of England. She was born June 17, 1869, the daughter of Aaron and Elizabeth Arrowsmith. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor are parents of the following named children: Belle, born July 19, 18S9; George, born July 30, 1892; Ceylon, born November 28, 1894; Melvin, born August 21, 1897; Henry, born July 11, 1900; May, bo.rn" October 26, 1902; and Clarence B., born May 25, 1905.

DANIEL E. SWEET (1874), deceased. The first man to locate permanently in Pipestone county and for some time the only settler within the confines of the county was Daniel ' E. Sweet, who played a most imiiortant-part in the affairs of his county and city.

Mr. Sweet was born in Pennsylvania April 10, 1838. He moved to Wisconsin with his .parents when a child and in 1860 went to Iowa. He was married to Amarancy Hat6h, who died in 1870. Upon the outbreak of the civil war Mr. Sweet enlisted in the Eleventh Iowa infantry and served until the close of hostilities. During his service he was promoted to color sergeant. After the war Mr. Sweet located in Cedar county, Iowa, where he resided until the spring of 1872, when he located in Lyon county, Iowa. There he married his second wife, who is still living.

As has been told in the historical part of this volume, Mr. Sweet and his wife and child took up their residence at the Pipestone quarries in 1874 and there took a land claim upon which a part of the city of Pipestone now stands. He was very active in promoting the settlement of the county in the early days, and after that was brought about he did much to boom his county and town. In company with C. H. Bennett, he platted Pipestone City, was the first postmaster, and served as county surveyor and probate judge after the county organization was brought about. He donated the school house site and the court house site.

Several days before his death Mr. Sweet moved to Jennings, Louisiana, where he had charge of a steamboat line and where he later engaged in other business enterprises. He died at Siloam Springs, Arkansas, October 2, 1902, after only a few weeks' residence in that place.

CHARLES H. KINGSBURY (1878), a farmer of Osborne township, is an early settler of Pipestone county and one of the very first residents of Osborne township, where he has resided thirty-three years. He is a progessive farmer and a man held in high esteem by his neighbors. Mr. Kingsbury has a fine family of grown-up sons and daughters.

FRANK E. DOUTY (1S91) has for two years past been the highly esteemed president of the village council of Edgerton and is a banker of that thriving municipality. He is a native of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, where he was born April 21, 1871. Both his parents, C. E. and Almeda H. (Adams) Douty, were natives of Maine. When a young man, the father, C. E. Douty, moved west and invested in land near Marshall, Minnesota. He settled there just at the time of the dread grasshopper scourge, and after a few seasons replete with bitter experiences he sought a more favorable location and selected the country near New Hampton, Iowa, where he bought land and lived until 1896. That year he came back to Minnesota and farmed in Battle Plain township, Rock county, until his death, which occurred September 21, 1909, at the age of fifty-eight years. His wife died July 17, 1910. Two children besides our subject were born to these parents. They are Stanley D., of the home farm, and Cora (Mrs. Emery Lorenz), of Osborne township.

and located with his parents on a farm near New Hampton, Iowa. There he passed his youth and received an education. At the age of twenty he moved to Rock county and farmed land owned by his father in Battle Plain township until 1896, when his residence in Edgerton began. That year he was chosen assistant cashier of the Bank of Edgerton, and five years later he was promoted to the cashlership, his present position. He served on the village council several years before becoming president of that body. He is a Mason and a Knight of Pythias.

The State Bank of Edgerton is the successor to the old Bank of Edgerton, which was established in 1891 as a private institution with the following officers: President, H. J. Thode; vice president, B. Ross; cashier, C. G. Brady. In 1896 F. E. Douty was elected assistant cashier.

These same officers continued to serve until 1901, when a change resulted as follows: President, C. S. Howard; vice president, Ed. Yocom; cashier, F. E. Douty, which is the staff as it is today. On March 10, 1908, the original private financial house was reorganized into the State Bank of Edgerton, capitalized at $25,000. The institution does a general hanking, real estate, loans, collection and insurance business. It is the oldest bank in Edgerton and has enjoyed a prosperous career.

The bank has had the following assistant cashiers since its organization: C. B. Mather, W. C. Lee, S. A. Christiansen, Elizabeth Douty, Myrtle Jones, Mabel Rud, F. N. Saun.

FRANK HILLARD (1892) is one of the prominent agriculturists of Altona township - a man who has reaped prosperity from Pipestone county's productive soil. His 360 acre farm, which comprises the northeast quarter of section 33 and the southwest quarter of section 28, is substantially and thoroughly improved. During the summer of 1910 Mr. Hillard erected an elegant farm residence, unexcelled in the precinct. He

Alsace-Lorraine was French territory at the time the birth of our subject occurred there October 10, 1868. Two years later, as a result of warfare between the French and German nations, the territory became a German province. Both parents, Frank Hillard, Sr., a farmer by occupation, and Susanna (Beuarde) Hillard, lived and died in the land of the kaiser. The father died on New Year's day, 1901, while the mother died in 1890.

Frank Hillard of this biography passed the first twenty-two years of his life in the land of his birth. He attended the German common schools and until immigrating to America he was employed on the fruit and truck farm of his father. On February 24, 1890, Frank landed at New York, and from that port he journeyed to Dubuque, Iowa, arriving there with very limited capital. For two years he was employed at farm labor in the vicinity of Dubuque; then commenced the successful career he has since pursued in Pipestone county and Altona township. He worked out for two years, then rented the land he now farms, of which he became the owner after four years' occupancy. Mr. Hillard has been for several years a director of scohol district No. 31.

In Grange township, on August 12. 1S9C, Prank Hillard was wedded to Catherine Ackerman, the daughter of L. V. and Mary Atkerman, of Grange. Mrs. Hillard was born at F'aribault, Minnesota, December 14, 1874. They are the parents of one living child, John, born April 26, 1899. Two sons, Peter and Henry, are deceased. Peter was born February 18, 1899. Henry, born May 24, 1898, died at the age of nine months.

ORVILLE P. NASON (18S0). In the city of Pipestone there is not a citizen more highly esteemed, or a man more closely Identified with every worthy movement that has meant for a bigger and better Pipestone - and that from the earliest days, - or one that has contributed more of his means and energy to the promotion of the public welfare than the gentleman whose name heads this review. A busier man there never was, but it seems to be an almost universal rule that it is just such individuals that always

At Osceola, Polk county, Wisconsin, on April 28, 1864, occurred the birth of this' roan of achievement, Orville P. Nason. He was sixteen years of age when, with his parents, he moved to Minnesota and Pipestone county, destined to be the field of his subsequent activities. The father, Crocker Nason, and his family lived on a farm in Gray township for two years, but in 1882 became permanent residents of Pipestone City.

On the first day of April, 1885, at the age of twenty-one, Orville P. Nason commenced his business career in Pipestone. From the small beginnings of that date has developed a business organization of unusual magnitude, another monumental success to be attributed to a self-made man, who has accomplished great things through peserverance, attention to minute details, and a fortitude acquired only in the school of "hard knocks." On the date mentioned Mr. Nason establislied a_ dray line of limited proportions. A year later he assumed the management of the interests of the Standard Oil company, in Pipestone, and today is the oldest agent, in point of continuous service, of that corporation in the Mankato district, which comprises the whole of southwestern Minnesota. Mr. Nason's business interests commenced to expand about twenty years ago, when he became a dealer in wood and coal. Following that movement, he bought an elevator and now is also a grain merchant. Several years ago he became the operator of the Pipestone Granite quarry. In the conduct of these manifold interests of Mr. Nason's twenty men find employment.

To E. W. Davies, the pioneer banker of Pipestone, more than to any other man, Mr. Nason attributes his success. At the commencement of his business career a quarter of a century ago, Mr. Davies freely gave financial and moral support and offered valuable instruction in the most approved methods of bookkeeping suitable to his business. That first set of books Mr. Nason still retains and prizes. He is now one of the stockholders of the Pipestone County Bank, of which Mr. Davies is the president.

The parents of our subject, Crocker and Evaline (Fenlason) Nason, are natives of Maine. Ttiey were married in Wisconsin in 1860 and resided in Osceola county, or that state, until establishing their present residence in Pipestone county thirty-one years ago. For two years the family resided in Gray township, but have lived in Pipestone since 1882. Crocker Nason is still hale and hearty and for the past twenty years has piloted the train bus of his transfer line. Besides Orville P., of this sketch, there are three other sons in the Nason family, namely: Ralph W., of Pipestone; Ross A., of Antlers, Colorado; and Mrs. Crocker Nason celebrated their schools at Vigan, Philippine Islands. Mr. and Mrs. Crocker Nason celebrated their golden wedding November 4, 1910, the event having been planned as a surprise by the Grand Army and Relief Corps of Pipestone.

On September 18, 1886, in Pipestone, occured the marriage of Orville P. Nason to Isabella , B. Wilson, who was born in Will county, Illinois. Mrs. Nason is a sister of Andrew Wilson, of the firm of Wilson & Evans Bros., and a daughter of Andrew and Isabella Wilson, of Scotch birth, and residents of Pipestone county since 1885. One son, Forrest P., was born to these parents on July 13, 1900.

Among the organizations and enterprises in which Mr. Nason has been a guiding spirit must be mentioned the Pipestone Commercial club, of which he is a cTiarter member, and its first and only president, an office he acceptably ^lls at the present writing. He is affiliated with the I. O. O. F. lodge and the Sons of Veterans. His father, Crocker Nason, served with distinction throughout the whole civil war as a member of company A, Forty-fourth Wisconsin regiment.

HARRY M. GRIFFIN (1884), who owns and farms a half section of land in Murray county, just over the line from Osborne township, lived in Pipestone county from the time he was a boy twelve years of age until the spring of 1911. He is the son of J. A. Griffin, of Trosky, a native of New Hampshire. The Griffins are of English descent, the father of J. A. Griffin having been the first of the family to settle in America. His mother came of old Pilgrim stock. The mother of our subject was Isabelle (Gray) Griffin, who was born in Scotland and died July 5, 1908.

Harry M. Griffin's birth occurred in Delaware county, Iowa, May 4, 1872. Twelve years later he moved with his parents to Pipestone county, the family locating on a farm where the village of Trosky now stands. He was educated in the district schools and later attended the Trosky school. Mr. Griffin was married in 1895 and the same year commenced farming for himself on section 17, Osborne township. Three years later he moved to section 30 and in 1904 located on section 24, where he resided until March 6, 1911. At that time he moved to his own farm, the south half of section 18, township 105, range 43, Murray county, which he bought from William Lockwood October 10, 1910. Mr. Griffin is a large stock raiser. He is the clerk of school district No. 44 and has served in that capacity since 1905. He is affiliated with the I. O. O. F. lodge of Trosky and the M. W. A. lodge of Edgerton.

On January 12, 1888, Harry and two of his brothers met with an unpleasant experience in the never-to-be-forgotten blizzard of that year. The boys were caught in the storm while homeward bound from Trosky. The snow was so heavy and blinding that it was impossible for them to discern one another and it was only by tightly holding to each other's coats that they were able to keep from being separated and lost. They walked eighty rods through the storm before finally reaching home and shelter.

Mr. Griffin was married in Osborne township on September 25, 1895, to Hattie Butts, the daughter of R. J. and Catherine J. Butts, now of Bellingham, Washington. She was born in Rushford, Fillmore county, Minnesota, February 1, 1871, and moved eight years later with her parents to Pipestone county. The following six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Griffin: James .'\., born August 4, 1896; Richard H.. born February 21, 1898; Thelma I., born August 31, 1899: Catherine I., born August 12. 1901; and Hattie M. and Harry M. (twins), born January 3, 1905.

CHARLES LINDSAY (18S3), president of the village council ot Woodstock, is a pioneer merchant of that town, having been established there in the general merchandise business since 1883. He is one of a family of five children whose parents were George and Katherine Lindsay, both deceased. A native of Scotland, our subject was born in Forfar shire October 13, 1859.

Charles received a careful education in his native land and came to the United States in 1883, at the age of twenty-four years. He was influenced to come to America through the inducements offered by a company of Scotch capitalists, formed for the purpose of establishing a Scotch colony in the counties of Pipestone and Murray. This enterprise was launched in the early eighties, large tracts of land were purchased or options secured on them, and the country opened for colonization. The company interested intelligent and successful young Scotch farmers in the venture, and among those was Charles Lindsay of this review, who is one of the remaining few of the original band of colonists now residing in this section.

For some reason or other the colonization project was a failure, and the members of the colony were thrown on their own resources shortly after making settlement in this country. Mr. Lindsay turned his attention to mercantile pursuits, and the year he became an American resident he established his present flourishing general mercantile business in Woodstock. He succeeded to the business of the Althorpe company, which has been materially increased in the twenty-eight years that have elapsed since 1883. Mr. Lindsay carries a full line of dry goods, groceries, shoes, hats, caps, etc. He owns his store building and residence property in the village.

In Pipestone, in June, 1895, our subject joined in wedlock to Mary Fleming, a native of the adjoining county of Murray. One daughter, Marian, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay, on May 17, 1898.

On repeated occasions Mr. Lindsay has been called upon to fill offices of trust in his home community. He is now and has been for many years the treasurer of the board of education and has also enjoyed a long service on the village council, of which he is the present head. Fraternally he is a Mason, belongnig to the Blue Lodge No. 148 and Triune Chapter No. 51, of Pipestone; a Woodman and a Workman.

JOHN W. WEHRMAN (1888), a well known Eden township farmer and stock raiser, was born in Iowa county, Iowa, October 2, 1862, the son of Henry and Sarah (Elder) Wehrman. The father was a German by birth, and the mother was a native of Pennsylvania.

John was educated in the country schools of his native county and until 1886 assisted his father on the home farm. In the year mentioned he rented land and commenced farming on his own account, and two years later he settled in Pipestone county. At that time he bought 240 acres on section 29, Eden, and later became the owner ot another 260 acre tract on the same section. He has now 600 acres of well improved land, on which are substantial buildings. Mr. Wehrman breeds Shorthorn cattle and Poland China hogs. He is president of the Farmers Elevator company of Jasper. Our subject was for fifteen years a member of the township board, and he Is now the treasurer of school district No. 26. With his family he belongs to the German Lutheran church.

Mr. Wehrman was married in 1S90, in Benton county, Iowa, to Annie Schield, who was born in that county March 24, 1868. She is the daughter of John and Dorthia (Bu,dy) Schield, both of whom came originally from Germany. To Mr. and Mrs. Wehrman have been born eight children, as follows: Irene, born May 16, 1891; lona, born September 11, 1892; Ruth, born September 18, 1894; Aurelia, born July 18, 1897; Esther, bom June 18, 1899; Henry, born July 18, 1901; Dorthia, born January 19, 1907; and Robert, born December 19, 1909.

ROBERT L WHITEHEAD (1884) is one of the prosperous young farmers of Grange township, one whose entire life has been passed within the borders of Pipestone county. His father, William W. Whitehead, is one of the very earliest of Pipe- stone county's pioneers. He came first in 1875, as a boy of fifteen years, witli liis fatlier, Josepii Wtiitehead (tlie grandfatlier of our subject), who filed on a timber claim in Sweet township, spent the following winter in Lyon county, Iowa, then returned to make permanent settlement. The Whiteheads helped haul the lumber with which the home of Daniel Sweet, the first erected in the county, was built. William W. Whitehead, who was born in Linn county, Iowa, August 17, 1860, married Jennie Wait, a native of Madison, Wisconsin, and to them four children were born: Robert I., of this sketch; Roy David, Ralph and Minnie Matilda. The parents still maintain a residence on section 2, Sweet.

Robert Whitehead was born on the Sweet township farm February 18, 1884. He resided on the home place until twentytwo years of age. At that time, in company with his father, he bought the north half of section 5, Grange township, which he has improved from barren land to a model farm. He is a large feeder of high grade stock. Mr. Whitehead's crop for 1910 was as follows: Oats, seventy-five bushels per acre from seventy-one acres; wheat, twenty-one bushels to the acre; barley, thirty bushels to the acre; and a bumper crop of corn, thirty-five to forty bushels per acre, from a field of 140 acres.

On the same section where occurred his birth, on January 23, 1906, our subject was united in marriage to Sabina Danneker, the daughter of John and Julia Danneker. Mrs. Whitehead was born on the northeast quarter of section 28, Grange, on November 19, 1883. A daughter, Tressa, was bom to these parents December 12, 1908, and a son, Earnest, on January 6, 1911.

WILLIAM A. SWEET (1879), who owns and farms the southwest quarter ot section 2, Troy township, is the son of one of the first homesteaders of that township, William W. Sweet, who died in 1909. His wife, Nancy J. (McLain) Sweet, the mother of our subject, is still living on the old farm. Mr. and Mrs. Sweet brought up a family of nine children, four sons and five daughters.

William A. Sweet was nine years of age when he accompanied his parents to the new Pipestone county from Cedar county, Iowa, where he was born November 13, 1870. He was educated in the district schools and resided on the home farm, the southeast quarter of section 2, Troy township, until he was twenty-five years of age. He then rented land and commenced farming on his own account. He bought and has lived on his present farm since 1907. Mr. Sweet owns stock in the farmers' elevator at Cazenovia. He is treasurer of school district No. 9. In a fraternal way he is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen, Royal Neighbors and Sons of Veterans orders.

The subject of this biography was married in Troy township August 7, 1895, to Euba Vogt, who was born in Illinois December 14, 1876, the daughter of John and Mary (Young) Vogt. To this union have been born the following named children: Winnie, born March 21, 1897; Violet, born April 28, 1901; Byrdella, born December 12, 1906: and Evelyn, born April 12, 1908. Mr. and Mrs. Sweet are members of the Baptist church.

QUINCY E. KIESTER (1893). On the first of February, 1863, Quincy E. Kiester first beheld the things of earth, in Stephenson county, Illinois. He was one of a family of three sons and two daughters, those besides our subject being William, John, Delia and Jennie (deceased). Their parents were Uriah and Mary (Rocky) Kiester, Pennsylvanians by birth. The former died May 6, 1910, at the age of eighty-three years, while his wife died in August, 1898, and was sixty-three years of age at the time.

Mr. Kiester grew to manhood on his father's Illinois farm. After completing a common school education, he was a student at Carthage college, at Carthage, Illinois; then he began the profession of teaching. He taught school in Green county, Wisconsin, for two years, in Illinois for eight successive years, and in 1893 came to Minnesota and taught for six years in the schools of Trosky and Woodstock. He then took up carpentering and was engaged in building elevators for the Davenport Elevator company. In laOT he assumed the management of the company's business at Trosky. During a season o£ every year he goes over the line and repairs the elevators of the company. He holds membership in the I. O. O. F. and M. W. A. lodges.

On repeated occasions Mr. Kiester has yielded to the wish of the voters and filled positions of trust in his community. He was the first clerk and recorder of the village of Trosky and has served on the council every year with the exception of two since his residence in Trosky began. He Is now president of the council and has served in that capacity the past four years. He is a leading citizen of the town and the local manager of the Davenport Elevator company. He is also a member of the board of education. In 1900 and in 1910 Mr. Kiester was entrusted with the taking of the federal census in his precinct.

Our subject was married in Orangeville, Illinois, October 21, 1S91. to .lennie W Stair, who was born in the Prairie state December 10, 1871. Mr. and Mrs. Kiester have four children: Neli N., Ardath I., Vida M. and George V.

JAIRUS HITCHCOX (1885), who has faithfully guarded the treasury of Pipestone county since January, 1899, is a native of Pompia township, Onondaga county. New York, and is the son of Asahel and Malinda (Davis) Hitchcox, both of whom were also natives of the Empire state. There are four st)ns in the family who, besides our subject, are Amos B., of Belvidere, Illinois; Harry H., of Pipestone; and Frank E., of St. Paul. The father, Ashael Hitchcox, served through the civil war in the One Hundred and For ty-Ninth New York infantry. In 1867 with his family he moved west and located in Kane county, Illinois. Coming to Pipestone county in 1882, he bought land and lived there until moving to Kettle Falls, Washington, in 1908. In that Washington town the venerable old man is still living and is now in his eighty-fourth year. His faithful wife died in Pipestone county on January 8, 1899.

Jairus was eleven years of age when the family moved to Kane county, Illinois, and in that county and later in the adjoining one of McHenry, he was educated and passed his youth and early manhood. He was engaged in farming and stock buying up to the time of settling in Pipestone county in the spring of 1885, and there he continued in the same occupation until called upon to assume the duties of county treasurer. He lived until 1889 on the northeast quarter of section 32, Troy township, and on selling that land he bought 105 acres on section 7, Gray township, land within the corporate limits of Pipestone, which he still owns. Mr. Hitchcox is also the owner of 228 acres of choice land in Swift county. He has lived in the city since holding his present office.

Mr. Hitchcox has at all times been actively interested in the affairs of local and county interest. For all but two years of his residence in Troy he served as chairman of the township board of supervisors. He was also the clerk of school district No.- 57. On the removal of O. T. Gilson from the township he was chosen to fill that gentleman's unexpired term as a member of the board of county commissioners from the second district. Fraternally Mr. Hitchcox is affiliated with the Odd Fellows, Modern Woodmen, Workmen and Sons of Veterans orders.

The marriage of our subject to Ruth Wilson occurred in Huntley, Illinois, on January 7, 1880. She is a native of Mc- Henry county, Illinois. The following three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hitchcox: Myrtle (Mrs. Harry A. Gano), of Pipestone; Vera L. and Aura May.

H. C. GLOVER (1886), a resident of Pipestone county for a quarter century, owns and farms the northeast quarter and the east half of the northwest quarter of section 27, Rock township, upon which he has lived since 1901. For most of the improvements on his farm Mr. Glover is directly responsible. He raises considerable stock, especially throughbred Shropshire sheep, and engages extensively in dairying.

he first beheld the things of this earth. He was five years of age when death called his father, Conklin Glover, a farmer and a native of Long Island, New York. His mother, Sarah (Perkins) Glover, who died in June, 1901, was born in Wayne county.

Mr. Glover was reared on a farm and educated in the district schools of Wayne county, which continued to be his home until 1886. On March 17 of that year he arrived in Pipestone county. He attended the Pipestone high school for a time, and for four years was employed on the farm of C. E. Cunningham in Sweet township. For two years he was absent from the state, farming the while near AVoodlake, Nebraska. He returned to Pipestone county and until his marriage was employed on the Cunningham farm. For one summer he resided in the city of Pipestone and did carpenter work, then rented land in Troy, which he farmed seven years, moving from there to his own farm in Rock township. Mr. Glover holds membership in the Woodstock Presbyterian church.

At Pipestone, on April 12, 1893, the subject of this sketch was joined in marriage to Annie Masek, who was born at Marshalltown, Iowa, October 9, 1874. Mr. and Mrs. Glover are the parents of the following ten children: Laura Belle, born March 5, 1894; Grace Jennie, born October 28, 1895; Harold Emery, born August 9, 1897; Walter Wallace, born August 27, 1899; Nellie Rose, born July 26, 1901; Edward Arthur and Herbert Homan (twins), born May 26, 1903; Ralph Cecil, born July 30, 1905; Donald Rollo, born August 5; 1908; and Francis Laverne, born August 21, 1910.

CHARLES H. MAYNARD (1892), a progressive farmer of Elmer township, is the son of two pioneer settlers of Butler coun ty, Iowa, Curtis G. and Caroline (Hooper) Maynard, both natives of Ohio and of English and Scotch descent. Our subject was born March 15, 1867. He was four years of age when the family moved from Butler to Marshall county. Ten years later the Maynards moved to Sac county, in the same state, and there Charles finished his schooling and grew to manhood. In 1892, at the age of twenty-five years, he commenced his career in Pipestone county. At that time he bought the farm, the northeast quarter of section 35, Elmer, upon which he has since resided. Mr. Maynard is a large stock raiser, and he makes a specialty of Shorthorn cattle and Poland China and Duroc-Jersey hogs. He has been clerk of Elmer township for ten years. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and Modern Woodmen orders.

In Schaller, Iowa, on March 12, 1892, occurred the marriage of Charles H. Maynard to Luella West, who was born May 18, 1874, the daughter of Edward and Elmira (Gere) West. To this union have been born two children: Edward L., born May 12, 1894; and Curtis D., born January 25, 1906.

FRIEND C. BRAKE (1893) is one of the prominent business men of Edgerton. He was one in a family of five children, four of whom are now living, whose parents were Charles and Harriet (Laravee) Brake, natives of Canada and New York, respectively, and both of French descent. The father died in August, 1907, at the age of seventy-eight years, but Harriet (Laravee) Brake is yet a resident of Edgerton. The living children in the Brake family besides our subject are Arthur, of Hancock, Minnesota; Eugene, of Minneapolis; and Mary Atwcod, of Fulda, Minnesota.

Friend C. Brake was born in Leroy, Dodge county, Wisconsin, August 9, 1857. At the age of seven years he moved with his parents to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, where he was educated. In 1868 another removal was made, to Delavan, Faribault county, Minnesota. Friend assisted with the management of the home farm until after his twenty-sixth birthday, then engaged in railroad work. He was employed in the train dispatcher's office at Fulda tor four years and in 1893 located in Edgerton as the station agent and operator at the Milwaukee station. Two years later he commenced in a modest manner his present general mercantile business. He carries a full line of dry goods, groceries, boots, shoes, etc., and owns his store building and one of the finest residences in Edgerton.

nesota, to Sylvia Edwards, whose birth occurred at Lake Mills, Wisconsin, April 23, 1867. To these parents one daughter, Grace (Mrs. W. A. Clelland), of Edgerton, was born April 27, 1882. Our subject is a member of the K. P. and I. O. O. F. lodges and is the grand representative of the local lodge of the first named order.

GUS EGGERS (1891) has for twenty years been a resident of Pipestone county and for that entire period has been a Sweet township farmer. He is a native German and was born November 4, 1860, the son of John and Maggie (Thistlekamp) Eggers. John Eggers was a blacksmith by trade.

Gus was educated in the common schools of his native land, and at the age of nineteen years immigrated with his sister Elizabeth to the United States. His first employment was on a farm near Davenport, Iowa, where he remained until his marriage in 1886. Mr. Eggers then rented land in Tama county, Iowa, which he farmed until coming to Pipestone county five years later. He bought the southwest quarter of section 34, Sweet, upon which he lived twelve years. On disposing of that land, he bought his present farm, the northeast quarter of section 32 and the north half of section 33, upon which he has made many substantial improvements and only recently erected a fine residence. Much attention is given to the raising of high grade stock, especially sheep, on the Eggers farm.

Our subject is a member of the township board and owns stock in the Farmers Elevator company of Ihlen and the Independent Harvester company of Piano, Illinois. Mr. Eggers was married in Tama county, Iowa, March 1(1, 1886, to Mathilda Hanson, who was born in Iowa June 30, 1867, the daughter of Carsten and Mary (Greve) Hanson. To these parents the following named seven children have been born: Mary, John, Henry, Edward, Hannah, Minna and Leona.

M..\TT KELLEY (1878), Aetna township farmer, is a native son of the North Star state. He was born in Wabasha county January 24, 1875, the son ol' Pat and Mary

(O'Conner) Kelley, now residents of Fairmont. Pat Kelley, a native of the Emerald isle, in 1878 homesteaded land in Murray county, adjoining Pipestone county. In those two counties he made his home until the spring of 1909, when he located in Fairmont.

Matt was in his third year when the Kelleys moved from eastern Minnesota to the Murray county homestead. He was educated in the district schools and grew to manhood on the old farm. He assumed control of his own course in lite on attaining his majority. He worked as a farm laborer for a number of years, then became an independent tiller of the soil in Murray county. Two years later, in 1906, he became an Aetna township farmer. He resides on the southwest quarter of section 34, and also farms a quarter of section 3, Rock.

At Mazeppa, Wabasha county, on February 11, 1903, Matt Kelley was joined in marriage to Catherine Hoch, and to this union one daughter, Leona, was born, March IS, 1910. Mrs. Kelley was born in Wabasha county May 4, 1885, the daughter of Severn Hoch and Lottie (Zell) Hoch, residents of Melville, Wabasha county. The former parent is a native of Germany, while the mother was born in Pepin, Wisconsin. Mr. and Mrs. Kelley are members of the Catholic church of Woodstock.

WILLIAM H. LAKE (1881), sheriff of Pipestone county, has been a resident and prominent citizen of the county for the past thirty years. He is one in a family of nine living children, the names of the others being Edwin, Linnian, Bert, Charles, Nellie, Olive, George and Minnie, who were born to William and Olive Lake, both natives of Vermont. They moved west to Juneau county, Wisconsin, in the early fifties, and there both are now buried.

It was in that Wisconsin county on October 8, 1858, that William H. Lake of this biography was born. He was educated in the district schools and grew to manhood on the farm of his father, ten miles from the town of Necedah. On leaving home he journeyed direct to Pipestone county, arriving in the then new country in which his fortune was to be cast on

July 6, 1881. He secured employment at farm labor, later managed the farm of Dr. Taylor, and then until 1888 was a farmer on his own account. In the year mentioned Mr. Lake located in the town ot Jasper, then in the building, and was there engaged in the dray and transfer business for thirteen years. He then associated himself with W. W. Stearns in the general mercantile business, from which he was called, as a result of the election in the fall of 1906, to assume the duties which he has since faithfully performed as upholder of the dignity |ot the law in the county.

Mr. Lake was married in Pipestone county on June 8, 1884, to Etta Lobdell, who died in May, 1898. One son, Arthur, now a barber at Marshall, Minnesota, was born to this union on February 12, 1886. A second time, on October 8, 1907, Sheriff Lake was joined in marriage to Ethel Gilmore, the daughter of William B. and Mary Gilmore, early day settlers of the county. Mrs. Lake is a native of Iowa.

For two terms during his residence in Jasper Mr. Lake served as president of the village council. Fraternally he is affiliated with both the Blue Lodge and Chapter of the Masonic order, the Modern Woodmen, Workmen and Yeomen.

JOHN E. MORGAN (1892), a well-known resident of Grange township, owns and farms the northeast quarter of section 34 and the southwest quarter of section 26. He has made most of the improvements on this half-section farm and has a nice home.

Mr. Morgan first saw the light of day in Knox county, Illinois, March 10, 1868. His father, Robert Morgan, who was born in Scotland March 24, 1833, came to this country at the age of seventeen years and lived successively in the states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois and Iowa, following in different localities his occupation of coal miner. He died August 18, 1893. The mother of our subject is also deceased, her death having occurred March 28, 1910. Margaret (Russell) Morgan was born in Scotland February 26, 1837, and immigrated to the United States with her parents in early girlhood.

On a farm in Polk county, Iowa, to which John at the age of three years moved with his parents from Illinois, our subject was reai-ed, and in the country schools he was educated. On attaining his majority he commenced working out. He farmed one year on his own account in Polk county. In August, 1892, Mr. Morgan moved to Minnesota and Rock county. He farmed for a time in Kanaranzi township and then for seven years was located in Clinton township. From Rock he moved to Pipestone county in the spring of 1901 and has since farmed the land he had bought some time prior, with the exception of one year, 1906. During his residence in Clinton township Mr. Morgan served as a school director. He is ex. clerk of Grange township and of school district No. 18, having held both offices four years. He holds membership in the I. O. O. F. and M. W. A. lodges of Pipestone.

At Ames, Iowa, on February 22, 1894, our subject was married to Jane A. Alderman, the daughter of J. P. and Martha Alderman, of Ames. She was born in Story county, Iowa, October 14, 1866. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan are the parents of three daughters: Mary Mildred, born January 29, 1895; Florence Ruth, born August 15, 1898; and Viva Edith, born February 25, 1900.

LEWIS A. PLANK (1881), a progressive Troy township farmer, owns 320 acres of thorougbly improved farm land in that precinct, the southeast quarter of section 11 and the northeast quarter of section 14. He has resided on the farm first described since 1896.

The parents of our subject were Theodore N. and Emma (Stinard) Plank, who were bom and married in New York and then moved west and settled near Waterloo, in Blackhawk county, Iowa. There Lewis was born October 15, 1868. Moving from Iowa, the family resided for a number of years at Anoka, Minnesota, and in 1881 settled in Pipestone county, where the father bought the southeast quarter of section 10, Troy. After continuing his education through the first year of the Pipestone high school, Lewis devoted himself to duties on the home farm. At the age of twentytwo he engaged in farming for himself. He raises lots of stock, making a specialty of Poland China hogs and Hereford cattle. Mr. Plank owns stock in the farmers' elevators at Pipestone and Cazenovia. He is a member of the Baptist church.

In Plandreau, South Dakota, on November 26, 1896, occurred the marriage of Lewis A. Plank- to Sarah Brakke, a native of Norway. She was born June 4, 1868, and is the daughter of Severt and Martha H. Brakke. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Plank. They are Ruth, born May 18, 1898; Willis, born January 15, 1902; Clifford, born August 29, 1905; and Doris, born June 26, 1909.

RICHARD S. SHEPHERD (1879), sheriff of Pipestone county, is the youngest son of Edgar Shepherd, who rounded out a continuous service of twenty-two years as guardian of the peace in Pipestone county, resigning the office of sheriff in 1906 to move to Bakersfleld, California, where he now engages in farming. Edgar Shepherd was born near Utica, New York, February 10, 1845, and lived in the Empire state until nineteen years of age, at which time he became a resident of Minnesota. He located at Winona and there married Minerva Smith. After a period of residence in Carthage, Missouri, in 1S79 Mr. Shepherd came to Pipestone county and homesteaded the northeast quarter of section 4, Altona township. That farm he operated unfil 1884, the year he entered upon his long and eventful career as sheriff.

Besides our subject, there were born tc Edgar and Minerva (Smith) Shepherd one other son, Edgar S., of Bakersfleld, California, and a daughter, Mary M. (Mrs. L. E. Heilig), of Minneapolis. While the family were residents of Carthage, Missouri, on December 10, 1877, Richard was born. Two years later they moved to Pipestone county. He was educated in the public schools of Pipestone and later attended Brown's Business college, of Sioux City. For a time thereafter Mr. Shepherd managed a shoe store for his brother-in-law, L. E. Heilig, and was connected for a year with a like establishment in Mandan, North Dakota. He served at several different times as deputy sheriff under his father and in 1908 went to Butte county (now Perkins county). South Dakota, and homesteaded land.

Dick Shepherd, as he is familiarly known, is a wrestler of more than local reputation, although he has now retired from the mat. He has met some of the strongest opponents of the welter-weight class in the country and never once suffered defeat until his match with Walter Miller, at St. Paul, for the welter-weight championship. This event was pulled off at a time when Mr. Shepherd had been out of training for a number of years. In 1907 he decisively defeated Johnny Billiter, of Toledo, Ohio, who at that time was the world's light-weight champion.

Richard S. Shepherd was married at Pipestone, in July, 1905, to Julia Roy, a native of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd have two daughtpr.s, Ramona Lois and Maxine Louise.

ARTHUR A. LINCOLN (1893), a successful farmer and large landowner of Altona township, began his earthly career in Scott county, Iowa, the second of August, 1860. His father, Edwin H. Lincoln, a Pennsylvanian by birth, and his mother, Phoebie E. (O'Neill) Lincoln, a native of Ohio, bought land and settled near Davenport, Scott county, in 1853.

Arthur was fourteen years of age when the Lincolns moved to Mills county, of the same state, and there he completed his early education, following which he was for a year a student at Cornell college, at Mount Vernon. On attaining his majority Mr Lincoln bought land and farmed in Sioux county, Iowa, until coming to Pipe stone county in 1893. At that time he bought three quarter sections on section 15, and later became the owner of the southwest quarter of section 10, Altona, making a full section of choice land now controlled by our subject. His herds of stock are large and of the highest grade. Mr. Lincoln is now serving his fourth year as clerk of school district No. 40, and he has been honored with the treasurership of the township for four successive terms. He is a stockholder in the Verdi creamery.

18, 1889, Arthur Lincoln was joined in marriage to Kate M. Follricli, tlie daugliter of H. W. and Maria (Meyers) Follricli. She was born in the city of Chicago. Six sons have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln, named as follows: Edwin G., bom January 23, 1891; Arthur L., born May 1, 1893; Earl, born August 14, 1896; Paul A., born November 12, 1901; Wayne B., born July 10, 1903; and Robert E., born June 15, 1909. The family are members of the Methodist church.

JOHN STEWART (1885), of Aetna township, has farmed in Pipestone county for more than a quarter of a century. The son of John and Ellen (Heins) Stewart, he was born on a farm in Ireland February 24, 1S56. In his native land he was educated, and he resided there until attaining the age of twenty-four years, when he took passage for the new world.

Mr. Stewart was employed in agricultural pursuits in Ontario, Canada, for two years, and from there came to Pipestone county in 1885. He was first located in Fountain Prairie township, but in 1892 he bought and settled upon his farm of today, the northeast quarter of section 18, Aetna. Our subject owns stock in the farmers' elevator at Ruthton. For sixteen years he has been the treasurer of school district No. 58.

Mr. Stewart was married in Canada in May, 1884, to Julia Flanagan, who also was born in the Emerald isle. Three sons, John, Thomas and Michael, have been born to these parents. The family are members of the Catholic church.

NELS N. LUND (1885), with his brother Ben, under the firm name of Lund Bros., carries on a general blacksmithing biisiness in Jasper. He is a Norwegian by birth and education, the son of Nels and Olia (Severson) Lund, both of whom are dead. The death of the mother occurred in the fall of 1897.

Nels was born January 30, 1870. When a lad of fifteen he bade good-bye to native land and crossed the ocean to the new world. He came direct to Luverne, where he was located for about a year.

In Sioux Falls, which was his home for the next three and one-half years, he learned and worked at his chosen trade. From the South Dakota city he removed to Hills, Minnesota, and there he engaged in the blacksmithing business until 1891. That year he settled in Jasper and with his brother opened the shop which they still conduct. They do all kinds of blacksmithing, horseshoeing, machine work, etc.

Mr. Lund was married in Pipestone in 1892 to Maggie O'Brien, a native of Edinburg, Scotland. To them have been born four children, as follows: John, born January 11, 1893; Eval, born December 27-, 1897; James, born August 9. 1894; and Jeff, born September 11, 1901. ,He is a member of the M. W. A. lodge and of the village fire department.

ABRAHAM L. JAYCOX (1886), Sweet township farmer and stock breeder, is the owner of a half section of productive soil in that precinct. He homesteaded the northeast quarter of section 28 in 1886 and several years ago added by purchase the northeast quarter of section 21. Both farms are thoroughly improved, for which Mr. Jaycox is entirely responsible.