Pipestone County, Minnesota - Chapter 34: Pipestone County Biographical, 1911 (part 3 of 7)

Mr. Jaycox is a native Minnesotan, his birth having occurred in Fillmore county April 29, 1865. His father, A. Jaycox, who was born at Cold Springs, New York, in 1829, married Nancy LaFarge, also a native of that New York town. They moved west and settled in Fillmore county in 1856, among the very first settlers of that county. That hardy pioneer served through three years of the civil war as a member of the Seventh Minnesota regiment. In 1876 he moved with his family to Rock county and still resides on the farm, one mile from Luverne, which he bought at that itme. There are eight living children in the J'.ycox family, who, besides our subject, are Cassie, Garrison, Flavia, Susan, Minnie, Sadie and Nancy.

Abraham was eleven years of age at the time he moved to Rock county. He attended the Luverne public school and until he was twenty-one assisted with the work on the home farm. Then he established his residence in Pipestone county. Mr. Jaycox has held the office of township

At Luverne, oii February 22, 1892, our subject was united in marriage to Nellie Wiggins, who was born in Postville, Allamakee county, Iowa, April 24, 1870. To Mr. and Mrs. Jaycox have been born the following seven children: Everett, born January 17, 1893; Nellie, born September 13, 1894; Grace, born- October 1, 1896; Willard R., born September 24,1898; Mabel, born March 25, 1901; Gertrude, born November 26, 1902; and Nancy, born July 24, 1906.

ANTON WEBER (18S6) has farmed in Pipestone county for a quarter of a century. Born in Germany July 14, 1845, the son of Joseph and Catherine Weber, he was a one year old babe when he crossed the Atlantic and made settlement with his parents in the new world. The family located near Moline, Illinois, where the father farmed until 1852, when he moved to Grant county, Wisconsin. In that county our subject lived and followed agricultural pursuits until making settlement in the southwestern Minnesota county in 1886. At that time he bought his present farm, the southwest quarter of section 22, Gray, upon which he has lived since, with the exception of a few years spent in Elmer township. Mr. Weber is an extensive stock raiser.

While a resident of Grant county, Wisconsin, on June 20, 1870, Mr. Weber was married to Gustina Wiederholdt, who was born in the Badger state December 5, 1850, the daughter of Joseph and Victoria Wiederholdt. Nine children have been born to these parents, named as follows: Edward, John, Anton, Valentine, Sibel, William, Catherine, Frank and Peter. The family are members of the Catholic church. Mr. Weber served as treasurer of Gray township for ten years and was a school director for two decades.

SOAN BERTELSEN (1898) is one of the influential and highly esteemed business men of Ruthton. He served efficiently as president of the council of that village for seven years, 1902 to 1909, and it was largely through his efforts that many of the substantial public improvements in Ruthton were made. Chief among these must be mentioned the splendid system of graveled streets, unequalled by any other village in the county. Mr. Bertelsen sat as a member of the village council tw^ years previous to being called to the presidency. He is also an ex-member of the board of education.

Mr. Bertelsen is a native Dane and was born September 19, 1848. In the land of his birth he early learned the blacksmith's trade, which he followed in Denmark and for five years after coming to the United States in 1881. During that period he was the proprietor of a shop in Litchfield, Minnesota, which he left in 1886, to become a Lincoln county farmer. He bought 200 acres of raw prairie land which he developed into a finely improved farm. He lived on the place until 1898, when he moved to Ruthton, but he still conducts the farm, which lies just over the Pipestone county line. Mr. Bertelsen is engaged in the agricultural implement business, which he established thirteen years ago.

Nine years before leaving Denmark, on November 2, 1872, our subject was married to Annie Johanna Nelson, who was born September 29, 1851. Mr. and Mrs. Bertelsen are the parents of the following four children: Nels C, assistant cashier of the State Bank of Ruthton; Mary (Mrs. Con. Naily), of Mankato; Anna (Mrs. Charles Lenderman), of Ruthton; and Sorena (Mrs. Henry Harders), of Ruthton.

Mr. Bertelsen is a consistent member of the Danish Lutheran church, and it was largely through his influence and effort that the church building and parsonage of that organization were built in Ruthton. Fraternally he is a Workman.

FRED E. MARQUARDT (1892) owns and farms the northwest quarter of section 11, Eden township, upon which he has resided since 1892. His parents, William and Amelia (Hagen) Marquardt, both natives of Germany, early settled in Benton county, Iowa, where our subject was born December 9, 1869. He was educated in the district school near his father's farm, of which he assisted in the cultivation until moving to Pipestone county nineteen years ago. Mr. Marquardt has been engaged in the business of threshing for the past twenty-three years. He is clerk of school district No 29, a shareholder in the Farmers Elevator company of Ihlen, and a member of the Baptist church.

In the county, on March 7, 1894, the subject of this biography was married to Johannah Rutz, a native of Manitowoc county, Wisconsin. She was born July 5, 1861, the daughter of Andrew and Sophie (Grobie) Rutz, natives of Germany. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Marquardt. Their names are Lydia, Leonard, Merle and Mildred.

ANDREW RAE (1889) is one of the Rae brothers, who are prominently connected with the stone quarrying industry in Jasper. Mr. Rae is one of the original promoters of this most successfully conducted enterprise. The Jasper granite, so much in demand, was first quarried in 1888 by a company styled the Dell Rapids Granite company, of which George Rae, an elder brother of our subject, was one of the organizers. Andrew Rae became an interested party in the concern a year later. The original company was succeeded after a two years' existence by J. M. Poorbaugh &. Company, and that firm gave way to the Sioux Valley Stone company.

In 1896 the Jasper Co-operative Stone company was organized with Andrew Rae as president and manager; William Rae, secretary and treasurer; and with Robert Rae and Alexander Rae as other promoters. That company leased and operated the quarries until 1908, when the present controlling concern, the Jasper Stone Quarry company, was formed, with the Rae brothers as leading stockholders. This concern is incorporated for $50,000 and has the exclusive quarrying rights to the rich building stone beds lying adjacent to the town of Jasper. The present officers of the company are J. O. Meham, president; C. H. Atkinson, auditor; A. L. Rowe, secretary and treasurer; Andrew Rae, quarry manager. From fifty to seventyfive men find employment in the quarries during the season of full operation.

its excellence and dui-ability and it has been used in the construction of some of the finest stone structures, both public and private, in the northwest and the country at large. The stone has been shipped as far east as New York City. Some of the prominent buildings Jasper [.tone has entered into the construction of include the residence of George Van Dusen, in Minneapolis, costing $150,000; a Methodist church of Chicago, a $20,000 building; the following buildings in Sioux City with their values: The union depot, $230,000; Episcopal church, $60,000; John Poorbaugh, residence, $25,000; Masonic temple, $35,000; the University of the Northwest, $35,000; at Pipestone, the United States Indian school, $30,000; Masonic temple, $15,000; the court house; the Masonic temple at Sioux Falls, and the building of the Edwards Publishing company in Chicago. The paving blocks manufactured by the company are in use in many of the principal cities of the country. At the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago this stone received the first award.

In Scotland, on May 2, 1863, the son of George and Barbara (Farquhr) Rae, was born Andrew Rae of this biography. In the land of Scots he was educated and there became proficient in the stone mason's trade, which he learned under the tutelage of his father. At the age of nineteen, in 1882, Andrew crossed the broad Atlantic to cast his fortunes in the new world. He followed his occupation for a year at Waterloo and Montello, Wisconsin, and then went to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where he worked at his trade. At the end of two years Mr. Rae returned to Scotland, and at Peter Culter, Aberdeenshire, on February 13, 1885, he was joined in marriage to Barbara Wallace.

Accompanied by his bride, the young stone cutter returned to America and to his employment in Sioux Falls. From that point he went to Dell Rapids, in the same vicinity, where he worked at his trade until he became identified with the stone industry at Jasper, his home since the year of the town's founding.- Mr. Rae has always been a zealous booster for his home town and has devoted much of his energy in the promotion of every worthy enterprise that has meant for Jasper's advancement. He was for four years a member of the village council, and he is at the present time chief of the fire department and president of the Commercial club, an active agency in the town's material welfare. Mr. Rae is a prominent member of the Presbyterian church, an organization of which he has served as trustee for the past nineteen years. In a fraternal way he is affiliated with the Blue Lodge of the Masons, of which he is pastmaster, is a member of Triune Chapter No. 51, R. A. M., of Pipestone, and of the Eastern Star, which he serves as worthy patron; the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Brotherhood of America lodges.

CHARLES yv. BENHART (18821, a grocer of Pipestone, has been a resident of the county for all except the first five years of his life. He is the son of .Tohn Denhart, a Pennsylvanian by birth, who moved at an early day to Stephenson county, Illinois, where he was married to Emma Babcoek. In 1882 the family became residents of Pipestone county and have continued so to this date. Besides Charles there is another son, Frank, and a daughter. Myrtle Krull, in the family, and they are also residents of Pipestone.

Stephenson county, Illinois, is the place, and September 18, 1877, the date of the birth of Charles W. Denhart of this review. Coming to Pipestone county five years after his birth, he lived on the Elmer township farm of his father until eighteen years of age. Then he located in Trosky, where he clerked in a store until 1900. At that time he moved to Pipestone and bought a half interest in the grocery business of J. H. Parker, which was then located in the building now occupied by the Fair store. The firm of Parker & Denhart continued for a year and a half, when Mr. Parker sold to John Denhart, the father of our subject. Charles bought his father's interest in the business in 1908 and has since conducted the store under his own name. Denhart's grocery has occupied its present location since 1904.

the daughter of A. P. Corey, of that Pipestone county village. Mrs. Denhart was born in Sioux county, Iowa, October 19, 1879. One daughter, Irma M., was born to these parents, on July 3, 1901. Our subject holds membership in the Odd Fellows (Canton and Encampment) and Workmen lodges.

ELMER C. VAUGHN (1890) is manager of the branch yard of the A. Pilling Lumber company at Hatfield, the headquarters of the concern being at Edgerton. He was born in Mankato, Minnesota, on the last day of October, 1885, and four years later moved to Edgerton with his parents, who are Clark and Christina Vaughn, now residents of Seattle, Washington. Elmer is the only son, but he has a sister, Maud Vaughn.

Our subject was educated in the public schools of Edgerton. He early acquired a more than local notoriety as a base ball player, and for several seasons he earned a livelihood as a salaried ball player. He was signed by the Flandreau and Belle Fourehe, South Dakota, teams during the 1908 season. He accepted his present position and moved to Hatfield in June, 1909. The Pilling company carries a stock of hardware and other merchandise at its Hatfield branch. Mr. Vaughn is also the postmaster of Hatfield. He is a member of the K. P. and M. W. A. lodges.

At Edgerton, on July 3, 1907, Elmer C. Vaughn was united in marriage to Ida Mary Glass, who was born at New Hampton, Iowa, February 28, 1866. A daughter, Beaulah, was born to these parents, on May 23, 1908.

FRED WIEGERT (1886), who owns and successfully (arms a quarter of section 24, range 47, Sweet township, has been a resident of Pipestone county for a quarter of a century. A native of Rochester, New York, he was born August 18, 1867, the son of Frederick and Henrietta (Koeping) Wiegert, natives of Germany. Both parents are deceased, Frederick Wiegert having died March 19, 1909, and his wife August 18, 1906.

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During the infancy of our subject the family moved from New York to Freeport, Illinois. On a farm in that locality Fred was reared, and his education was secured in the near by district school. In 1886 the Wiegerts became residents of Pipestone county. They located on the farm in Sweet wliich the father had bought, the one now conducted by our subject. He lived at home until his marriage in 1893. He then rented land in Sweet township for six years, at the end of that time buying an eighty acre farm on section 18, upon which he lived until the spring of 1911. Then Mr. Wiegert moved to the farm formerly owned by his father. He was for two years the clerk of school district No. 8. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Odd Fellows of Pipestone.

At Pipestone, on May 18, 1893, occurred the marriage of Fred Wiegert of Lillian Green, who was* born in Warren township, Winona county, Minnesota, September 15, 1871. Mrs. Wiegert is the daughter oJ George D. Green, an ex-sheriff of Pipestone county, and Anna E. Green, of Pipestone, who was born at Racine, Wisconsin, January 5, 1840. The Greens were pioneer settlers of Sweet township, arriving in the county March 23, 1879. At the time they homesteaded there were only two other settlers in a neighborhood of wide radius. Mr. Green, who was born in St. Lawrence county. New York, April 19, 1830, died May 17, 1898. Mr. and Mrs. Wiegert are the parents of six living children, as follows: George, born June 22, 1894; Edwin, born February 29, 1896; Lulu, born March 5, 1901; Erma, born December 9, 1905; and William and Wilma, twins, born March 27, 1910. The third son, Henry Leslie, born December 23, 1897, died August 16, 1900.

DETLEF JUR6ENSEN (1892) has resided on and farmed the northwest quarter of section 21, Eden township, since 1892. His land is all thoroughly improved. A native of Schleswig-Holstein. Germany, Mr. Jurgensen was born July 25, 1857. He is the son of Peter and Dorthia (Foss) Jurgeiisen, both of whom lived and died in the land of the kaiser.

schools of his native land. Until he was twenty-six years of age he assisted with the management of the home farm. On severing home ties, he crossed the Atlantic and commenced his career in the new world. Until moving to Pipestone county nineteen years ago, Mr. Jurgensen was a resident of Luzerne, Iowa. He worked at tiling, farm labor, on the railroad and tor the last five years of his stay there was section foreman on the Northwestern railroad. Mr. Jurgensen raises Shorthorn cattle. He owns stock in the farmers' elevators at Jasper and Ihlen, and of the latter concern served as director for two terms. He is a director of school district No. 26 and a trustee of the German Lutheran church of Jasper.

Delef Jurgensen was joined in the bonds of matrimony to Emma Hanson in Benton county, Iowa, on July 14, 1887. Mrs. Jurgensen was born in Germany in 1853, the daiighter of Hans and Catherine (Hanson) Hanson. To these parents have been born three children; Valte, born April 6, 1891; William, born April 21, 1892; and Roiv, born April 29, 1896.

THOMAS P. JENSEN (1896), well known farmer of Aetna township, became a resident of Pipestone county in 1896. A native Dane, he was born March 18, 1866, the son of Peter and Karen Margareta (Thomassen) Jensen. The former parent was born in 1840, was a laborer by occupation, and died in his native land at the age of fifty-three years. The mother, who was born in 1839, still resides in Denmark.

Thomas was brought up in a small agricultural community and was educated in the Danish country schools. When of sufficient age he commenced to work out as a farm hand. He was twenty-five years old when he immigrated to the United States. He located on a farm near Tyler, Lincoln county, where he resided until 1896, when he became Identified with Pipestone county interests. Mr. Jensen bought a homestead right to forty acres on section 2, Rock township, upon which he proved up and resided five years. He bought his present eighty acre farm on section 35, Aetna, in 1898, and on disposing of his Rock township land in 1901 hfe moved to that location and has since substantially improved the place. He also farms eighty acres adjoining his farm in Rock township. Our subject is clerk of school district No. 34, and is the secretary of the Co-operative Creamery company of Ruthton. He is a member of the Danish Lutlieran church and is president of the Danish Brotherhood lodge of Ruthton.

Before leaving Denmark, on December 8, 1888, Mr. Jensen was married to Sophia Cecelia Nelson, who died July 13, 1895. Two children were born to this union: Nels Peter, born March 5, 1891, and Carl, who was born May 6, 1894, and died April 5, 1895. In Pipestone, on October 30, 1901, Mr. Jensen was joined in marriage to Anna Elizabeth (Rasmussen) Mathiesen, who was born in Denmark December 3, 1864. Mr. and Mrs. Jensen have had two children: Carl, born November 20, 1903, and Wiggo, who was born July 8, 1910, and died January 26, 1911. Mrs. Jensen is the mother of two children by a former marriage. Their names are Edward Mathiesen, born July 26, 1897, and Harry Mathiesen, born June 10, 1899.

OLE H. GREGERSON (1888), who owns and farms the northwest quarter of section 34, Osborne township, has been identified with the agricultural interests of Pipestone county for the past twenty-three years. He is a native Minnesotan and was born in Fillmore county January 24, 1868. His father, Herbjorm Gregerson, settled in that county in 1851, among the very first, and died there in 1880. He was born in Norway in 1831. The mother of our subject, Gro Gregerson, also of Norwegian birth, died August- 2, 1870, a year and one-half after his birth. Mrs. Gregerson was born August 9, 1841.

Ole received a district school education and resided on his father's Fillmore county farm until 1888, the year he became twenty years of age. Then he settled in Pipestone county. For a decade he farmed land which he had bought seven miles south of Pipestone, and from there he moved to a halt section farm he purchased in Osborne township, four miles east of Edgerton. Two years later he disposed of that property and has since resided on the farm he now owns, the northwest quarter of section 34. That became his property in 1902. Mr. Gregerson is a leading stock raiser and maintains herds of the highest grades. He belongs to the Norwegian Lutheran church of Edgerton.

At Ihlen, on November 23, 1891, our subject was joined in the bonds of matrimony to Ingeborg Dorothy Ring, the daughter of N. I. and Karen Ring, of Ihlen. Mrs. Gregerson was born in Christiania, Norway, July 31, 1872, and came to the United States at the age of ten years. Five children, three of whom are deceased, have been born to these parents. The two sons living are Herman, born February 12, 1894, and Carl, born April 24, 1897. Nora, born March 22, 1905, died March 8, 1906; Lulu, born April 22, 1907, died July 25, 1907; and Eleanor, born April 21, 1909, died April 22, 1909.

CHARLES FRENCH (1891 J, a prominent citizen and farmer of Trosky, is a native of Oneida county. New York, where he was horn June 6, 1851. He is the son of John and Elizabeth (Wenham) French, both natives of England, who settled in America about 1850. Both parents are deceased, the former having died in New York and the latter in Sioux county, Iowa.

During his eighteenth year Charles French departed from his native state and moved to Blackhawk county, Iowa, where he was a farmer for two years. Then for twenty years, or until 1891, he farmed in Sioux county, of the same state. In the year mentioned he came to Pipestone county and located on his present productive farm, the south half of section 16, Elmer township, land which lies within the corporate limits of the village of Trosky. He is also the owner of another eighty acres on section 16, making a total of 400 acres of which Mr. French superintends the cultivation. He has a finely improved farm, up-to-date in every particular. As a feeder and shipper of high grade stock, he has made a great success.

Mr. French has always taken an active interest in the civic and political affairs of his town and county and has been called upon repeatedly to give of his talent in the furthering of such interests. He was presi- dent of the Trosky village council for six years and a trustee for four years, and he served as a school director for eight years. He was also Trosky's postmaster for six years. Ever since coming to the country he has served as a member of the republican county central committee. In lodge circles Mr. French is also prominent. He was instrumental in the organization of Trosky Lodge No. 213, I. O. O. F., which received its charter in November, 1893; and also of Trosky Camp No. 3850, M. W. A. He was the first noble grand of the first named order.

In Sioux county, Iowa, on October 22, 1872, Charles French was married to Mellissa A. Burkett, who was born in Iowa in October, 1856. To them eleven children have been born, of whom the following seven are living: Emma (Mrs. Alonzo Stewart), Olie (Mrs. Charles Frankenberger), Ella (Mrs. Louis Nilson), Orphie, postmistress of Trosky; Essie, the deputy postmistress; Lester and Lila.

LOUIS BUCHHOLZ (1884), of Holland, is a native of Pipestone county and has spent his entire life within its borders. His parents, Christ and Molly Buchholz, are natives of Germany. They came to America early in life and were married in Grange township. For many years they resided on section 2, Grange, land which they took as a homestead in the late seventies. They now reside in Holland, their son, Henry, having taken charge of the farm. There are five sons in the family, and, with the exception of Louis, they all reside at home. Their names are Henry, Walt;er, Edward and Albert.

Our subject was born on the Grange township homestead October 20, 1884. He was educated in the district schools and until he was twenty years of age assisted with the work on the home farm. For a number of years thereafter he was employed on other farms in the neighborhood. On May 24, 1910, he located in Holland and in company with William Roschke engaged in the pool hall and restaurant business. On October 5, 1910, Mr. Buchholz purchased Mr. Roschke's half interest and now conducts the business alone.

CLAUS BLOMGREN (1892) has resided in Pipestone county ever since becoming an adopted son of Uncle Sam. He was born in Sweden Decemebr 12, 1877, the son of Carl and Josephine (Anderson) Blomgren. Claus lived on the home farm until fourteen years of age, when he undertook the long journey to America alone. He came direct to Pipestone county and upon his arrival he took employment at farm labor. He was so engaged in Pipestone county until 1900, with the exception of two years spent in the western slates and on the Pacific coast. He returned and in 1900 rented land and commenced farming for himself. Since 1904 he has rented and worked the south half of section 33, Gray township. Mr. Blomgren owns stock in the farmers' elevator at Pipestone. He is a member of the M. W. A. and I. O. O. F. lodges and of the Swedish Lutheran church.

Our subject was married at Pipestone on October 9, 1903, to Emma Johnson, also a native of Sweden. She was born February 23, 1886, the daughter of John and Christina (Pearson) Johnson. Four children, three sons and a daughter, have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Blomgren. Their names are Clarence, born June 7, 1904; Evelyn, born February 28, 1906; Carl, bom June 8, 1907; and Harry, born April 11, 1909.

SAMUEL W. FUNK (1880), recorder of the city of Pipestone for the past nine years, is one of the early day settlers of the county and city. He dates his residence in Pipestone from April 8, 1880. His parents, John C. Funk, a native of Guernsey, Ohio, and Nancy A. (Walker) Funk, whose birth occurred in Christian county, Illinois, were early settlers of Shelby county, Illinois, where both resided until called by death, the former in 1905 and the latter In 1908.

Samuel W. Funk of this review first saw the light of day in Shelby county, Illinois, on January 28, 1860. At an early age he entered the employ of the Eagle Mills, and later assisted with the conduct of his father's farm. He was twenty years of age when he severed home ties and came to Pipestone. He learned the barber's trade in the shop of J. A. Cobb, who was of Spanish descent and familiarly known as

"Jack," his shop being located at the time on the site oi the present First National Bank block. Mr. Funk bought out the business of his employer in 1891 and conducted the same for the next seventeen years, when he sold the Calumet shop, as it is known, to L. E. Krull. Since 1908 he has been employed as bookkeeper by the Minneapolis Brewing company, in addition to his duties as city recorder. In a fraternal way our subject is affiliated with the K. P., I. O. O. P., Rebekah, M. W. A. and F. O. E. lodges.

In Pipestone, on April 27, 1885, Samuel W. Funk was joined in marriage to May C. Smith, the daughter of Sam T. Smith and a native of Fillmore county, Minnesota. Three children have been born to this union: Hazel M. (Mrs. Lee Lockwood), of Pipestone; Archie, of Pipestone: and Franklyn S., who is with the Russell Miller Milling company, of Minneapolis.

EARL T. STUART (1882), of Aetna township, was born and has passed his entire life within the borders of Pipestone county. His father, Duncan Stuart, excommissioner of Pipestone county, was one of the very earliest of Sweet township's settlers. He homesteaded the northwest quarter of section 4, upon which he lived until his death, with the exception of three years spent in the city of Pipestone. Duncan Stuart was born in Ontario, Canada, September 9, 1823, and died July 5, 1907. He grew to manhood in his native province, and for many years prior to his settlement in Pipestone county was a resident of Fillmore county, Minnesota. While living in that county he was married to Jenet Hutton, who was born in Scotland, near the city of Glasgow. Jenet (Hutton) Stuart survives her husband and makes her home in Spring Valley, Minnesota.

Four children were born to the parents, of whom two, Jennie (Mrs. S. B. Duea) and Norman, are deceased. Earl is the younger of the two surviving, the other member of the family being Mrs. William Brown. He was born on the old homestead in Sweet township September 19, 1882. He attended the district schools of his home precinct, the public schools of Pipestone, and later was a student in Brown's Business college of

Sioux City. He lived on the Sweet township farm until twenty-five years of age, then until 1909 was a resident of Pipestone. That year he commenced farming in Aetna township. During the winter of 1909-10 Mr. Stuart was a stock-buyer in Ruthton. He bought his present eighty acre farm on section 22 in the summer of 1910 and has since resided thereon. In addition to that land he also owns the southwest quarter of section 23, which he rents out, and has a controlling interest in a 240 acre Murray county farm, five miles east of Ruthton. Earl T. Stuart was m.arried in Troy township March 11, 1909, to Rose B. Keller, who was born in Iowa June 23, 1890. They are the parents of a son, Gerald, born September 29, 1910.

ALBERT GAMBER (1894) has for seventeen years past reaped prosperity from Pipestone county's productive soil. He is the owner of 240 acres of section 32, Osborne township, which he farms. Mr. Gamber is credited with being the largest cultivator of potatoes in the county. He is largely interested in the breeding of high grade stock and makes a specialty of Shorthorn cattle and Poland China hogs. He feeds and ships all his stock.

A native of Rock Island county, Illinois, Albert Gamber was born July 29, 1857, a son of Nicholas and Christina (Linke) Gamber, both born in Germany. Father and mother are both deceased, the mother having died in Minnesota in 1902, and the father in Illinois in 1905. Our subject grew to manhood on his father's farm in Illinois. That he rented and commenced working for himself at the age of twenty-four, moving to Minnesota in 1894. He then bought his present land in Pipestone county and has since lived thereon. Mr. Gamber is treasurer of school districts No. 50 and 52, and is a stockholder in the Farmers Elevator company of Edgerton. He is a member of the M. W. A. and K. P. lodges.

Albert Gamber was united in marriage at Rapid City, Illinois, on December 27, 1881, to Katerine Haller, a native of Germany, born August 22, 1859. She is the daughter of David Haller, who died in Minnesota in 1909, and of Katerine (Wosner) Haller, who survived her husband and resides in Illi- nois. Mr. and Mrs. Gamber are the parents of the following children - nine boys - (two children passed away at the ages of one day and two days): Charles N., born July 13, 1883; David G., born August 27, 1884; Joseph J., born December 29, 1885; Gottlieb G., born April 6, 1887; Albert F., born March 10, 1891; Andy G., born September 13, 1892; and Howard B., born January 28, 1901. The last named son died on July 10, 1910.

WILLIAM P. EGGERS (1893), one of Sweet township's progressive agriculturists, is a native German. He was born April 17, 1867, the son of John and Margaret (Disselkamp) Eggers. William was fourteen years of age when the family immigrated to America and settled in Davenport, Iowa. There they lived two years and then went to Dysart, Iowa. On a farm in that locality Mr. Eggers grew to manhood.

In 1893 the Eggers moved to Pipestone county, the father, John Eggers, having bought the northwest quarter of section 34, Sweet township. That farm has been developed into one of the finely improved farms of the precinct. In 1901 William bought the southwest quarter of section 34, where he has since resided. Mr. Eggers raises a large amount of stock. He is treasurer of school district No. 24 and a stockholder in the Farmers Elevator company of Pipestone and of Ihlen.

At Dysart, Iowa, on February 28, 1894, William Eggers was united in marriage to Annie D. Jessen, who was born in Scott county, Iowa, October 10, 1870, the daughter of Hans and Anna (Jurgensen) Jessen. The following named six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Eggers: Theodore J. Eggers, born February 10, 1895; Maggie D. Eggers, born April 30, 1896; Hilda E. Eggers, born May 2, 1899; William H. Eggers, born March 26, 1901 ; Harry H. Eggers, born April 1, 1904; and Irene C. Eggers, born January 26, 1906.

SAMUEL T. MARSHALL (1887), a business man of Pipestone, has been a resident of the county for nearly a quarter of a century. He is the oldest in a family of five children, the others being John L., William F., Louise K. and Eleanor J., who were born to the parents, John C. and Eleanor C. (Young) Marshall. The father, John C. Marshall, came originally from Pertshire, Scotland. Mrs. Marshall was born in New York state, of English parentage. They came to Pipestone county in 1887 and there both are buried.

In the town of Alderly, Dodge county, Wisconsin, on November 7, 1869, the birth of the subject of this review occurred. Samuel attended the village school and completed his education later in the Pipestone high school. He was eighteen years of age when the family moved to Pipestone county and located on a farm near Edgerton. He assisted his father on the home farm until 1897, during which time he and his father were engaged jointly in breeding full blooded Galloway cattle and Percheron horses. Then for three years following he conducted the place himself. Mr. Marshall was married in 1901 and commenced farming on his own account.

Two years later, in 1903, our subject retired from active farming and moved to the village of Trosky, where he bought the Bank of Trosky, a private banking institution owned by Briggs & Evans, and this business he conducted two years. Mr. Marshall next moved to Jasper to engage in the hardware and implement business. After residing there a year he took J. P. Gregg as a partner in the business, and it was to him that he finally disposed of his Jasper interests in the fall of 1907. Immediately thereafter Mr. Marshall established his present residence in Pipestone. He dealt in buggies and vehicles until the spring of 1909, when he bought the farm machinery business of John Evan, combined the stocks, and now conducts a first-class establishment.

Mr. Marshall has also land interests that demand his attention. He owns land in Osborne township and superintends the estate of his father in Gray township. He is an ex-recorder of the village of Trosky. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias lodge. At Brookings, South Dakota, on March 26, 1901, Samuel T. Marshall was wedded to Margaret Murphy, a native of Iowa.

A. V. W. BRUINS (18S7) farms the west half of section 36, Fountain Prairie township, land which he owns. His mother Aaltje (Rens) Bruins, who resides in Sioux county, Iowa, was born in Holland in 1S37. The father of our subject, J. W. Bruius, who died in Pipestone county in 1888, also came originally from The Netherlands, where he was born in 1835. He came to America twelve years later with his parents. The Bruins were pioneers of Pond du Lac county, Wisconsin, and for many years they hauled their farm products to market at Milwaukee, eighty-five miles distant.

In Fond du Lac county, on March 21, 1877, occurred the birth of A. V. W. Bruins of this review. He was ten years of age when the family moved to Pipestone county and located on the farm he now operates, which the father had bought. The elder Mr. Bruins died within a year, and soon after that unfortunate event the family returned to the old Wisconsin home. In Fond du Lac county our subject passed the next ten years of his life, attending the district schools and assisting with the work on the home farm. In 1S98 he accompanied the family to Sioux county, Iowa, and there lived tor another decade. Mr. Bruins learned the carpenter's trade, an occupation he followed for the greater part of his residence in Sioux county. He settleH on the Pipestone county farm and commenced farming in 1908.

In Sioux Center, Iowa, on April 14, 1904, Mr. Bruins was joined in marriage to Hattie Mouw, who was born in Sioux county in 1884. To this union have been born three children: William J., born February 19, 1905; Bennie M., born November 18, 1906; and .Vlice Marie, born September 17, 1908.

HERMAN H. HELLWINCKEL (1899) is a large farmer and stock raiser of Osborne township. He rents and farms the south half of section 30 and the north half of section 31 and is the owner of the southwest quarter of section 29, which he has also farmed since 1907. He is an extensive breeder and shipper of high grade stock, making a specialty of Durham cattle and Duroc-.Tersey hogs.

in Hanover, Gei-maay, .\ugust 16, 186G, the son of Heinrich and Margretta (Sundermann) Hellwinckel. The father owned a farm of 300 acres, upon which Herman was reared and worked until coming to America at the age of twenty-five years. He was educated in the village school near by the home farm. The date of his immigration to this country was 1891. He made the town of Missouri Valley, Iowa, his destination, and near that place he worked for a year at farm labor. He then moved to the city of Council Bluffs and secured employment in the Grand hotel. After a year, he became connected with the New Mayer hotel, in the same city, and served that hostelry in the capacity of bookkeeper for seven years, or until establishing his residence in Pipestone county in 1899. Mr. Hellwinckel is a director of the Farmers Elevator company of Edgerton. He has been one of the township supervisors for the past seven years and is a member of the German Lutheran church.

At Council Bluffs, on February 6, 1895, our subject was joined in marriage to Lena Scheel, a native of Davenport, Iowa. She was born May 9, 1865, the daughter of Peter and Amalia (Hintz) Scheel, the former a native of Germany and the latter of Illinois. To Mr. and Mrs. Hellwinckel the following five children have been born: Herman, born December 25, 1895; Carl, born August 4, 1897; Emma, born September 3, 1900; Rose, born June 22, 1903; and Ada, born August 23, 1909.

W. J. DINGLER (1896), merchant and postmaster of Cazenovia, has been a resident of the county for fifteen years. A native Minnesotan, he was born at Rochester on September 23, 1866, the son of John Dingier and Carrie (Martig) Dingier, both natives of Switzerland. When our subject was two years old the family moved from Rochester to a farm in Dodge county, where the parents are still living.

Mr. Dingier was educated in the district schools of Dodge county and later attended Beaman's Business college at Red Wing. Until he was seventeen years of age he assisted with the work on the home farm. He then secured employment with a threshing crew during the fall months and spent eleven winters working in the pineries. He also engaged in farming and threshing for himself in Dodge and Morrison counties until selecting Pipestone county as his future residence in 1896.

Our subject was for the first two years engaged in farming the northwest quarter of section 6, Troy, then was a resident of Burke township, near Woodstock, for a year. Mr. Dingier returned to Troy and farmed half of section 5 until the fall of 1902, when he located in Cazenovia to accept the management of the Davenport elevator, a position he held for seven years. On October 7, 1903, he bought the general mercantile business of Joseph Moore and has since conducted the store. He was for four years also engaged in the coal business, but sold out that line to the Farmers Elevator company in 1906. Mr. Dingier was commissioned postmaster of Cazenovia on December 23, 1903. He has been clerk of Troy township since 1904 and was first elected to the clerkship of school district No. 64 in 1905. He owns stock in the Farmers Elevator company 'of Cazenovia and has done considerable to advance its interests.

On August 30, 1896, at Fairpoint, Goodhue county, W. J. Dingier was joined in marriage to Rose Fellman, and to this union two children have been born: Florence, born March 30, 1898, and William, born March 12, 1905. Mrs. Dingier was born in Cherry Grove township, Goodhue county, June 15, 1879, the daughter of George and Christina (Sorn) Fellman, both natives of Germany and now residents of Pipestone. Mr. Dingier is an active worker in lodge circles. He was one of the organizers of the Modern Woodmen camp at Cazenovia in 1905, and he has been clerk of the lodge since. He also holds membership in Hope Lodge No. 89, I. O. O. F., and in the Encampment and Canton branches of the I. O. O. F. lodge at Pipestone.

LLEWLLYN G. JONES (1879), one of the early day settlers of Elmer township, became the treasurer of Pipestone county on January 1, 1911, an honor conferred upon him by the voters of the county at the November election preceding.

a native Welshman who commenced an American residence in 1846. He was a pioneer of the pioneers in Green Lake county, Wisconsin, his home for nineteen years. On quitting Wisconsin Mr. Jones made settlement in Fillmore county, Minnesota, where he died June 11, 1908, at the age of seventy years. J. O. Jones married Margaret A. Jones in Green Lake county,' and to this union were born two sons and a daughter: Llewllyn G., of this review; Joseph F., of Northfield, Minnesota; and Maggie A. Newmiller, of Granger, Fillmore county. The mother died October 19, 1908.

On the old Jones farm in Green Lake county, Wisconsin, on the tenth of September, 1863, occurred the birth of our subject. Two years later he moved with the family to Fillmore county, Minnesota, and located with them on a farm near the town of Granger. In 1879, when but a youth of sixteen, L. G. Jones came to Pipestone county to take charge of the property his father had acquired in the then new and undeveloped country. The elder Mr. Jones purchased the southwest quarter of section 17, Elmer township, from the railroad company, and that barren land the son transformed into a productive and valuable farm, of which he came into possession after a few years.

In 1884 Mr. Jones left Pipestone county for a period and spent the next four years in Spink county, Dakota territory, where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits and in teaching school. On returning to Pipestone county he located once more on his Elmer township farm, which he substantially improved and made his residence until called upon to serve his county in an official capacity, moving then to the city of Pipestone. For eleven years Mr. Jones, in addition to managing his agricultural interests, was employed as salesman and collector by the Pipestone plumbing and windmill supply firm of Reader Brothers, and found his field of activity in the county at large.

In Trosky, on November 19, 1890, the subject of this sketch was joined in the bonds of matrimony to Hattie E. Griffin, a native of Delaware, Iowa, and a daughter of J. A. Griffin, one of the county's stalwart pioneers. To this union one daughter.

Byrma E., has been born. Mr. Jones is affiliated with the Masonic and Encampment lodges at Pipestone, and the Odd Fellows and Modern Woodmen of Trosky.

CARL L. ENGEBRETSON (1879), one of Jasper's bankers, is a native of Rock county. He was born on his father's homestead, the northeast quarter of section 3.5, Martin township, on September 2li, 1879. He is the son of Lars and ]\Iartha (Hanson) Engebretson, both natives of Norway. They are now residents of Hills.

Carl grew to manhood on the home farm and was a valuable aid to his father in carrying on the work. His education was received at the Larchwood (Iowa) normal school and at Pleasant View college, Ottawa, Illinois. From the latter institution he was graduated in 1897. Then for several years he was a resident of Chicago, entering the employ of E. B. Miller & Co., wholesale coffee dealers. For a time he was cashier and then was promoted to' a city salesmanship. After serving in such capacity for some time, he was given a larger territory, becoming the general salesman for the firm in South Dakota, with headquarters in Sioux FallS. For five years he made that his business. While in Sioux Falls he was married on October 15, 1905, to Margaret A. Steiner, whose birth occurred in St. Paul in November, 1879. To them one son, Carl L., Jr., was born, on October 15, 1908.

In September, 1909, Mr. Engebretson gave up his position with the Chicago firm and moved to Jasper, where he opened a real estate office in company with his brother Martin. In the same month he assisted in the organization of the Farmers State Bank of Jasper and was elected its first president. The bank opened for business October 2, 1909, the date of the grant of charter, with a capital of $10,000. It is now in successful operation and does a general banking business. The officers are: C. L. Engebretson, president; M. C. Nelson, vice president; T. M. Alexander, cashier. These officers with the exception of Mr. Nelson, together with G. W. Vickerman, A. G. Kartrude, W. L. Kartrude, H. G.- Holter and John Rudd, constitute the hoard of directors.

CHRISTIAN I. RING (1877), of Edgerton, has been the judge of probate of Pipestone county since 1901 and is one of the early settlers of both Pipestone and Rock counties. He is a native of Norway and was born June 11, 1848, on a farm near the city of Christiania. After securing a common school education he was a clerk in several of the leading stores in Christiania. His parents, Iver H. and Inga (Jacobson) Ring, are both buried in the old country. Besides Christian of this sketch, there are two other sons and one daughter living, as follows: Mary (Mrs. Torwald Bock), of Norway; Jacob I., of Norway; and Nels, of Ihlen, Pipestone county.

On attaining his majority in 1869 Christian I. Ring immigrated to the United States and first located in Allamakee county, Iowa. For three years he was a farmer, then until 1877 he clerked in a store in Lansing, with the exception of six months in 1875, when he returned for a visit to his native land. On leaving Lansing, he went direct to Luverne and entered the employ of William Jacobsen, a pioneer merchant, and banker of that place. At that time Pipestone county was unorganized.

For six months in 1879 Mr. Ring was located at Flandreau, South Dakota, then moved to the new village of Pipestone. For two years he clerked in the store of his brother-in-law, H. L. Johnson, and then entered the employ of the John Paul Lumber company. Soon after he was transferred to Edgerton to manage the firm's interests at that point. In 1890 our subject bought his employer's lumber yard at Edgerton, trading his homestead in Eden township, which he had taken in 1878, tor the same. After a successful business career of ten years he was forced to sell out on account of ill health. On resuming active labor he was for several years engaged in carpenter work and in the lumber yard of A. Pilling. In 1900 Mr. Ring was elected on the republican ticket to the office ot judge of probate and has been re-elected at each election since then. Although the discharge of his official duties necessitates his pres-

Mr. Ring has at all times been a prominent participant in all matters of local and civic interest. He was a school clerk and justice of the peace in the early days of Eden township, and was also a clerk of Osborne township. He was the first village recorder of Edgerton and served in that capacity for a great many years. For a score of years prior to 1910 he meted out justice as the judicial officer of his home town. Mr. Ring is a member of the Norwegian Lutheran church, the M. W. A. lodge and the Bankers' Union.

At Lansing, Iowa, on the twenty-fifth of March, 1885, Christian I. Ring and Hokina Johnson were united in marriage. Mrs. Ring was born in Norway August 27, 1844, and came to this country with her parents eleven years later. One daughter, Violet M., was born to this union, October 28, 1889.

C. S. HOWARD (1S78), a pioneer merchant of Edgerton .ind the proprietor of one of the leading department stores in Pipestone county, is a native of St. Lawrence county. New York. He was born December 8, 1842, the son of Adam and Luvica (Ramsey) Howard, both natives of Vermont and of Scotch-Irish parentage.

Our subject was educated in the public schools of his native county and at the age of nineteen went to the then frontier county of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where he labored in the woods and on the river for more than a decade. Minnesota was his next goal, and in Leota township. Nobles county, and in Murray county he filed on timber claims. That was until 1878, the year his long and prosperous residence in Edgerton began. In the infant community of those days Mr. Howard planted the seeds of his present extensive mercantile business. The commodious brick structure of two stories and a basement, 50x100 feet in demensions, was erected in 1902.

In addition to his mercantile business. Mr. Howard is actively engaged in the grain business and in the management of his large farming interests. He was one of .the organizers of a farmers' elevator company, and in 1895 bought the elevator and business of the company and has since personally conducted it. He is the owner of 1300 acres of farm land, which include the old tree chaim in Leota township. Mr. Howard is the president of the State Bank of Edgerton. He has been called repeatedly to fill offices of trust in his town and has served as president of the council and president of the board of education on several occasions. He is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen.

Mr. Howard was united in marriage in Edgerton on January 10, 1889, to Jessie Patterson, who was born in Elgin, Illinois. They have no children.

ROBERT E. THOMAS (1878) is an early settler of Pipestone county and has maintained a continuous residence of thirtythree years on the^ southeast quarter of section 6, Osborne township, land he homesteaded in 1878. He is the son of Orrison and Isabelle (Brown) Thomas, natives, respectively, of New Hampshire and Massachusetts. They were early settlers of Racine county, Wisconsin, where occurred the birth of our subject on July 2, 1850. Batii parents died in Wisconsin within the past ten yesrs.

In early boyhood Robert moved with his family to Sauk county, Wisconsin, where he received a common school education and grew to manhood. As he matured he assisted his father in the management of the home farm and at certain periods worked with a logging crew on the Wisconsin river. Mr. Thomas was one of the very first to locate in Osborne township and has enjoyed a season of prosperity since establishing his residence there. He is a large stock raiser and makes a specialty of breeding Shorthorn cattle. He has been the treasurer of school district No. 43 since its organization in 1885. Mr. Thomas was for five years a member of the township board of supervisors. He owns stock in the Enterprise Telephone company, and fraternally he is affiliated with the Masonic order.

Mr. Thomas was married in Wisconsin on February 15, 1881, to LaEvora Himebaugh, a native of Wisconsin and the daughter of Peter and Maria (Eastman) Himebaugh, the former of New York birth and the latter of Pennsylvania stock. Mrs.

PETER MADSEN (1893), wiio owns the north half of the southeast quarter of section 16, Aetna township, has a thoroughly improved piece of farm property which he has successfully cultivated since 1893. He raises stock quite extensively. A native of North Jyland, Denmark, he was born December 23, 1867, the son of Anders and Christina (Jensen) Madsen. The former parent still conducts the old home farm in Denmark, but the mother died in 1894.

Peter passed the first twenty-one years of his life in the land of the Danes, and there he was educated. On arriving in America he journeyed to Shelby county, Iowa, where for a year he was employed at farm labor. Then our subject went to Manilla, Crawford county, to accept employment in a brick yard, and from there, a year later, he moved to Sioux City, where he became a laborer in one of the large packing plants. At the end of four years he moved from that city to his present Pipestone county farm. Mr. Madsen is a stockholder in the Farmers Elevator company and the Co-operative Creamery company of Ruthton. He is the efficient road overseer of district No. 2. Our subject holds membership in the Modern Woodmen lodge and the Danish Lutheran church.

In Aetna township, on October 7, 1893, Peter Madsen was joined in marriage to Carrie Nelson, who was born in Denmark November 6, 1863, the daughter of Nels and Christina (Olson) Christianson. Five children have been born to these parents, whose names are Annie C, Etna J., Einer K., William and Nels P.

ERIC E. LARSON (1891) has farmed in Eden township for the past twenty years. He now lives on the southeast quarter of section 2 and has a thoroughly improved farm. He is an extensive breeder of high grade stock, making a specialty of Shorthorn and Durham cattle and Poland China hogs. Mr. Larson is a stockholder in the farmers' elevator at Ihlen and is treasurer of school district No. 29.

Eric and Bertha S. (Egland) Larson, the parents of our subject, came to America as children from their native land of Norway and were married in Illinois. They later moved to Story county, Iowa, where Eric E. Larson of this sketch was born on October 18, 1862. He received a district school education and lived on the home farm until twenty-three years of age, when he commenced the shaping of his own career. For a year he bought grain for the C. B. Christianson Elevator company at Story City, then rented land and farmed In Story county until making settlement in Pipestone county in 1891. At that time he bought the northeast quarter of section 4, Eden, which he sold after three years to become the owner of the northwest quarter of section 22. He sold that land after a three years' residence thereon and next bought the southeast quarter of section 16. He farmed that land until buying his present farm, with the exception of two years when he rented and worked the farm of his father on section 9.

Mr. Larson has been thrice married. His first wife was Sophia Christenson, whom he wedded in Hamilton county, Iowa, in 1886, and to them one daughter, Emma, was born June 26, 1888. Mrs. Larson was born March 4, 1861, and died September 11, 1888. His second wife was Helen Christenson. who died March 8, 1892. To that union were born two children, Martin, on December 30, 1889, and Helen, on February 25, 1892. Eric E. Larson was married to Christina Michaelson on January 25, 1893, and to them two daughters have been born: Ida, born December 8, 1893, and Betsey A., born April 24, 1899. Mrs. Larson was born in Nos Hedemarken, Norway, April 24, 1868. and is the daughter of Christian and Engebor (Mengso) Michaelson. The family are members of the Norwegian Lutheran church.

JOHN RUDD (18961 has been engaged in the mercantile business in Jasper since 1902. He is a member of the firm of Aslesen Bros. & Rudd. Since October, 1909, he has also served as cashier of the Farmers State Bank.

try he was born November 28, 1850. His early education was received by private tutorship from officers in the army. His father had been a wealthy man but lost his fortune when John was four or five years old. When a lad of eight he began to hustle for himself, his first work being that of an office boy. Later he became connected with the civil engineering corps of the army and continued in the government service until the year of his departure for the United States. That was in 1872.

His first location was at Brownsville, Minnesota, where he worked on the railroad until the following spring. Then he homesteaded In Minnehaha county. South Dakota, which was his home until 1896. During the first years of his residence in the then frontier country, Mr. Rudd lived in a small shack and hauled supplies overland from Sioux Falls to Worthington.

On January 8, 1880, Mr. Rudd was married to Mary Ellen Erickson. Mrs. Rudd was born in Norway in August, 1862, and accompanied her parents, Erick and Moren Erickson, to the United States when a child six years of age. The family first settled in Blanchardville, Wisconsin, but in 1875 they removed to Minnehaha county. South Dakota, and there both of the parents died. Mr. and Mrs. Rudd have no children.

In 1896 Mr. Rudd left the scene of his labors for twenty-three years and moved to Hills, Minnesota. There for a number of years he was employed as grain buyer for the Kansas City Grain company and also for E. A. Brown. In 1902 he changed to his present residence in Jasper, entering into partnership with Aslesen Bros, in the general merchandise and clothing business, in which he is still interested. He was one of the organizers of the Farmers State Bank and became its first cashier. He is also a member of the board of directors of the bank.

For two terms Mr. Rudd served as a member of the village council, and in 190S he was elected its president. While a resident of Minnehaha county, Mr. Rudd held all the township offices in the gift of the electors. He holds memberslaip in the Masonic and A. O. U. W. lodges.

SAMUEL H. WILSON (1894), of Troy township, owns 800 acres of Pipestone county land. Of this, all but a quarter section in Grange township, is located in Troy. Mr. Wilson devotes special attention to the raising of high grade stock, which he ships to the large markets. He also buys stock.

The son of Hugh Wilson, a native of Ireland, and of Margory (Jameson) Wilson, of Scotch birth, our subject was born January 6, 1861, in Scott county, Iowa, where his parents settled at an early date. Samuel was seven years of age when the family moved to Benton county, and there he received his schooling and grew to manhood on the home farm. At the age of thirty-one he received an eighty acre farm from his father, which he finally sold in 1894 and invested in his first Pipestone county real estate, the southwest quarter of section 12, Troy, which has ever since been his home. Mr. Wilson owns stock in the Farmers Elevator company of Cazenovia. He has been a member of the township board for twelve years, is clerk of school district No. 62, and with his family belongs to the Methodist church.

In Benton county, Iowa, on February 12, 1891, the subject of this biography was joined in marriage to Sadie Gillespie, who was born in that Iowa county December 4, 1871, the daughter of Robert J. and Emma (Kuhn) Gillespie. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have nine children, their names being Hugh, Archie, Gail, Grace, Leland, Dorothea, Leslie, Lillian and Hollis.

LEE W. LOCKWOOD (1884) one of the owners of the Calumet, Pipestone's metropolitan hotel, has been identified with a number of successful business enterprises in that flourishing city. He is a native son of Pipestone coiinty, his birth having occurred in the village of Edgerton on June 2, 1884. That town was his home for the first seventeen years of his life. Lee acquired an education in the Pipestone high school and later completed a course in the Maukato Commercial college.

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in partnership with O. A. Green, he bought the plant of the Edgerton Enterprise, whicli was conducted by Green & Lockwood with gratifying success for two years. Lee disposed of his interest in the paper to Ed. Yocom. Immediately thereafter he began his residence in the city of Pipestone. He was connected with the wholesale grocery firm of Hornby, Nichols & Parker in an office capacity and also as a traveling salesman for an extended period. He resigned his position with that company to engage in the retail grocery business in Pipestone, succeeding Phil Riley.

Mr. Lockwood's next venture was the development of the county's telephone system, through the Enterprise Telephone company, which engaged extensively in the work of construction. In company with his father, William Lockwood, our subject became the owner of the Laird- Norton stock of hardware, and the firm of Lockwood & Son, hardware dealers, was launched. Later Lee W. Lockwood became the sole owner of the large business, finally disposing of the store in July, 1909. While a hardware merchant he acquired a half interest in the Calumet hotel, an interest which he still maintains, h's partner being F. E. Redner.

Lee Lockwood is heavily interested in Idaho real estate in the zone of the North Side Canal company, which embraces a territory of more that 30,000 acres of irrigated land. With his father he has commenced a development project that is meeting with most enthusiastic favor. A company has been organzed to assume the development of a townsite, which lias been named Hazelton, in honor of the wife of our subject. Mr. Lockwood is directly interested in a bank and lumber business in the new town.

The parents of the subject of this review are William Lockwood, a native of Oswego, New York, and Ida May (Burdett) Lockwood. William Lockwood, who is an exmember of the Minnesota legi~lature, became a resident of Minnesota in the early seventies. He was married to Ida May Burdett in Dodge Center in 1878. She died in 1897. Lee is the only son. William Lockwood was one of the pioneer settlers of the Pipestone county village of Edgerton, having located there in 1878, and was identified most prominently with the lite of that town for many years. They moved to Pipeitone in 1900. Mr. Lockwood owns, considerable valuable town property in Pipestone, in which is included the ownership of the Calumet hotel building, and also has extensive real estate interests in the county, the northern part of the state, and in Idaho. In 1898 William Lockwood married M. Estelle Hotton, a native of Oswego, New York.

In Pipestone, on .Tune 17, 1908, Lee W. Lockwood waT married to Hazel M. Funk, a native of that city. She was born on April 17, 1886, and is a daughter of Samuel W. Funk, a pioneer resident of Pipestone and its city recorder for many years. One daughter, Beth, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Lockwood, on July 4, 1910. In a fraternal way our subject is affiliated with the Blue Lodge and Chapter branches of the Masonic order and with the United Commercial Travelers. Of the last named ledge he is tiie pa";* senior councilor of the Pipestone order.

CHARLES ZOBEL (1896), an Osborne township farmer, owns and resides on the northwest quarter of section 18. He is interested largely in tlie raising of thoroughbred stock, his specialty being Shorthorn tattle. He waT born in Prussia, Germany, August 30, 1852, and is the son of a small farmer, who al;0 did tailoring work.

Charles was reared on a farm and educated to his native land, which continued to be his home until after his eighteenth birthday. Then he crossed the Atlantic alcne to join a broither and sister, who had settled "ome years before in Lee county, Illinois. He engaged in farm labor in that county until 1885. going then to Tama county, Iowa. There he rented land and farmed until 1896, the year of his settlement in Pipestone county. He has always lived on the same farm in Osborne township, land he bcuglit three years previous to coming to the county. Mr. Zobel is a member of the German Evangelical church and of the 1. O O. F. and M. W. A. lodges.

In Tama county, Iowa, on the ninth of March, 1881, occurred the marriage of Charle-, Zobel to Catherine E. Heckroth, who was born in Germany May 30, 1882, the daughter of Peter and Christina (Slgman) Heckroth. One daughter, Christina Elizabeth, was born to IVIr. and Mrs. Zobel, on April 2, 1882. She was married December 4, 1901, to Robert J. Butts, of Edgertcn. !VIr. Butts was born in Rushford, Minnesota, July 7, 1872, and is the son of Robert J. and Catlierine J. (Miller) Butts, natives of Pennsylvania, early settlers of Fillmore county, and now of Bellingham, Washington. A son, named Charles Alvin Butts, was born to Robert J. and Christina Elizabeth Butts on October 5, 1910.

HENRY KELLEN (1S90) is one of the progressive agriculturists of Burke township, in which precinct he has maintained a residence since 1890. He was born acrosT the seas, in Luxemburg, on February 24, 1865, the son of John and Mary (gyler) Kellen.

John Kellen, farmer by occupation, died at the age of forty-five years, when our subject was four years old. The mother of Henry Kellen died in 1900. She was seventy-two years of age at the time of her decease.

Henry grew to manhcod in the land of h's birth. He was reared a farmer's son, and in his youth wa-. apprenticed to learn the blacksmith's trade, which he followed for three years before departing for the United States to make his home and fortune. That was in the year 1886. Mr. Kellen was located near Dubuque, Iowa, fcr a year, then was a farm laborer in Sioux county for three yean-. He bought a portion of his present farm on section 36, Burke township, in 1889, but did not move to Pipestone county until the year following. The fir-t summeir in Minnesota he put in a crop in the locality of Lake W'ilscn, commencing at the same time to break his land in Pipestone county.

Until 1897 our subject farmed rented land in Burke in addition to his own place, and for the first few years was so engaged in pairtnership with a brother. He built on his farm in 1897 and has lived on the place continuomly since that date. He now has a fine home and one of the precinct's thoroughly improved farms. Mr. Kellen raises considerable stock, making a specialty of Shorthorn cattle. He has for six years acceptably filled the office of clerk of school district No. 21. Our subject wa^ one of the organizers of the Farmers Elevator company of Woodstock and is the present secretairy of that flourishing enterprise. With his family he belongs to the Catholic church.

At Remsen, Iowa, on March 24, 1894, occurred the marriage of Henry Kellen to Annie Maus, also a native of Luxemberg. She was born on the twelfth of April, 1872. They are the parents of the following named children: Henry John, born January 20, 1895; Mary Elizabeth, born March 23, 1896; Annie Cecilia, born July 11, 1897; Nick Anton, born December 24, 1900; Rosle, bom April 13, 1903; and Lenora, born February 23, 1905.

WILLIAM RAE (1889) is one of the principal stockholders in, and the general manager of, the Jasper Stone Quarry company, the concern which operates the extensive quarrying interests in Jasper, the leading industry in Pipestone county's second town. Mr. Rae commenced his residence in Jasper during the year of its founding and has ever since been prominently identified in many of the movements that have contributed to Its upbuilding.

A native of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, William Rae first saw the light of day on May 24, 1869. In the land of his birth he received a common school education, at the age of seventeen he severed home ties and journeyed to America. For one year ];e was located at Holyoke, Massachusetts, where he was employed as a painter in a sash and door factory. In March, 1887, Mr. Rae concluded his residence in New England and set out for the west. Dell Rapids, South Dakota, was his destination, and there he spent two years familiarizing himself with the many details of the stone cutter's trade.

When the quarries of the Sioux Valley Stone company, in which George Rae, the brother of our subject, was interested, were opened in the village of Jasper, then just coming into being, William commenced an engagement with the new concern and has since been identified with the industry through the successive changes in management. In 1896 a company, organ- ized as the Jasper Co-operative Stone company, was formed by four of the Rae brothers, Andrew, Robert, William and Alexander, and they leased the quarries for a term of years. William Rae served as secretary and treasurer of this company. The Jasper Stone Quarry company, in which the Raes are heavily interested, succeeded to the business in June, 190S. This company is capitalized for $50,000 and conducts its operations on an extensive scale.

Individually William Rae has developed another branch of the stone cutting industry in Jasper, that of the manufacture of granite and marble monuments. He has conducted this line of work, in addition to his other interests, since 1904. For a period of five years following 1895, Mr. Rae was absent from Jasper, during which time he was general superintendent of the granite quarries at Ableman, Wisconsin. During the pbsence, however, he continued his connection with the Jasper industry.

The parents of our subject were George and Barbara (Parquhr) Rae, who came to this country from Scotland in 1891. The mother died the year after settlement in America, but George Rae is still living and resides with his son Andrew in Jasper. He has attained the age of seventyseven years. The following ten children, all living, were born to George and Barbara Rae: James, of Newcastle on the Tyme, England; George, of Jasper; Maggie (Mrs. George Aitken), of Aberdeen, Scotland; Elizabeth (Mrs. Peter Gammie), of Miller Falls, Massachusetts; Andrew, of Jasper; Isabelle (Mrs. James Bain), of Sidney, Australia; Alexander, of Jasper; William, of this review; Robert, of Jasper; and Barbara (Mrs. William Crisp), of Dell Rapids, South Dakota.

At Jasper, on January 12, 1894, William Rae was united in marriage of Isabella Knutson, who was born in Norway and at the age of six months immigrated to America with her parents, Ole and Martha Knutson. The family resided for a number of years at Jefferson, AVisconsin, and in 1882 moved to Moody county. South Dakota. Ole Knutson homesteaded land in that county six miles northwest of the future town of Jasper, and on that land he ha's since resided. Mrs. Knutson died in 1890. Mr. and Mrs. Rae are the parents of foi'r sons: Chester, born July 1, 1896; Donald, born January 24, 1900; William H., born February 28, 1904; and James M., born .January 7, 1907. Our subject holds membership in the order of Modern Woodmen of America.

WILLIAM H. GARLICH (1905) owns and farms the west half of section 35, Sweet township, and is a large breeder of cattle and hogs. He wai bcrn in Washington county, Illinois, January 4, 1878, the son of .John R. and Marie (Niehauser) Garlich, who were also natives of Washington county. The former parent is deceased, but the mother still resides at Addieville, Illincis. Besic'es William H. of thi'; sketch, there were five other children born to these parent:. Their names are Anna, Katie, Minnie, John and Fred.

Our subject was educated in the district schools of Washington county and grew to manhood on his father's farm. For three and cne-half years after attaining h\i majcrity lie traveled and worked in the south and northwest, principally in the states of Oklahoma, Minnesota and Montana. On returning to Illinois, he set up as an independent farmer. In 1905 Mr. Garlich settled in Pipestone county. He rented the half section he now owns, and which became his property in 1910.

Anna Hagge became the wife of William H. Garlich at Pipe-tone on March 8, 1904. To them have been born two children, Olinda and Alfred. Mrs. Garlich was born in Germany but came to this country with her parents in early infancy.

EDWARD ZIMMERMAN (1898), a general merchant of the town of Hatfield, is a native of Floyd county, Iowa, where he was born the tenth of March, 1878. He is one in a family of five sons and two daughters born to Martin and Louise (Kemnetz) Zimmerman, of Hatfield. Both parents were born in Germany and were married in this country, to which they came early in life. From an original settlement in Wisconsin in the early seven-

Edward was educated in the country schools of his native county. At the age of twenty, with his parents, he located in Pipestone county. He farmed with his father in Burke township for several years and then moved to Hatfield, which has since been his residence. For a year he engaged in carpenter worii, then bought the general nerchandise business of John Haubrith, which he now conducts. He owns the building which houses his business.

Alvina Dittburner became the bride of Edward Zimmerman in June, 1900. Mrs. Zimmerman is a native of Germany, but came in early childhood to America with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dittburner, early settlers of Pipestone county. To these parents the following four children have been born: Lettie, Harry, Eli ana Leslie. Mr. Zimmerman has served on the board of school district No. 13. He holds membership in the order of Modern Woodmen.

DR. HERBERT D. JENCKES (1889), a practising physician and surgeon of Pipestone, has been a resident of the county for twenty-one years, or since July, 1889. His birth occurred at Dansville, New York, the first of August, 185U. He was three years of age when he moved west with his parents and located with them on a farm in Dane county, Wisconsin, a short distance north of Madison. The family resided on the farm ten years; then until he was a young man, Herbert lived in different towns of the state to which his father, a Methodist minister, was assigned.

After comp.eting the course of the public schools our subject was a student at the state university, and in 1884 was graduated in medicine from the Chicago College of Physicians and Surgeons. Immediately after graduation Dr. Jenckes located in Lake Benton, Minnesota, for the practice of his profession. In 1885 he was called to Minneapolis to become the head physician in the St. Anthony hospital. On relinquishing that position he moved to Jasper, where he practised medicine for ten years, until establishing his present residence in Pipestone. Dr. Jenckes is the physician for the government Indian school at Pipestone. He has an office in the Syndicate block. He is an e.x-county coroner and for two years filled the office cf judge of probate.

The doctor is one in a family of four children, the names of the others being Walter C, Judd C. and Mrs. Stella Calvin, who were born to Hiram D. and Anne M. (Larish) Jenckes. Hiram I). Jenckes, who was born at Sparta, New York, February 2, 1826, is still living at Marshfield, Wisconsin, and is in his eighty-fourth year. The mother died in 1893 at the age of sixtynine. She was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, in 1824.

The Jenckes family trace their history back to the seventeenth century. The following concerning one of the family is gleaned from an old public document which discussed the mineral resources of New England: "1675 - Rhode Island made iron soon after its settlement in 1636. A forge erected at Pawtucket by Joseph Jenckes, Jr., was destroyed by the Indians in the Wampanoag war." The great great grandfather of Dr. Jenckes, Dickinson Jenckes, a native of Rhode Island, served through the revolutionary war. The father of this patriot was Jeremiah Jenckes, born in 1714.

At Lake Benton, Lincoln county, on May 14, 1883, Dr. Jenckes was married to Anne Stewart Matthews, who was bom at Mineral Point, Wisconsin, in January, 1859. A daugliter, Stella, born to these parents died July 7, 1900, at the age of fifteen years. They have one son. Earl D., a student at Macalaster college. Dr. Jenckes is affiliated with both the Blue Lodge and the Chapter of the Masonic order, and with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

CHRIST MADSEN (1899), prominent Aetna township farmer and stock raiser is the owner of 280 acres of that precinct's fertile soil, part of which is located on section 16 and the remainder on section 9. A native of Svendborg, Denmark, Christ was born March 6, 1862, the son of Christ and Sophia (Viborg) Madsen. His father was a blacksmith by occupation and in that trade our subject became thoroughly versed in his youth. At the age of twenty he severed home ties and immigrated to the United States. He made Ford county, Illinois, his destination, and a£ter working out on farms for several years he rented land and for eleven years farmed there on his own account. From Illinois he moved to his Pipestone county farm in 1899.

Mr. Madsen is a member of the Aetna township board of supervisors and also of the board of directors of his school district. He is a stockholder in the Farmers Elevator company of Ruthton. Fraternally he is a Modern Woodman, and with his family he belongs to the Danish Lutheran church.

On December 10, 1S87, in Ford county, Illinois, occurred the marriage of Peter Madsen to Charlotte Nelson, a native of Sweden. She was born on the third of December, 1864, the daughter of Nels and Sarah (Swenson) Nelson. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Madsen: Marie, born September 4, 1888; Harry, born June 18, 1890; Christ, born March 4, 1893; Rinus, born January 5, 1897; and Carl, born October Z, 1901.

HENRY J. HANSEN (18931 is the leading general merchant in the town of Trosky. He -is a native German and was born in Schleswig November 6, 1865, the son of Hans and Christina (Hering) Hansen, both deceased. Hans Hansen passed away at Pipestone in 1894 and his wife in the old country in 1873.

Henry received a common school training and learned the trade of printer in the land of his birth. He was seventeen years of age when he crossed the Atlantic and became a subject of Uncle Sam. For the first year he worked in a printing office in Dysart, Tama county, Iowa, and for the ne.xt six months was employed in Des Moines. He then returned to Tama county, where he resided until 1893, working at farm labor, on the section, and in a brick yard. During the year mentioned Mr. Hansen settled in Pipestone county. For four years he farmed and for a year clerked in a Pipestone store. For five years thereafter he was in the employ of Hawes & Houg at Luverne. He then engaged in the general mercantile business in the city of Pipestone, and in 1907 he established his present substantial

Mr. Hansen was married in l_,uverne March 31, 1906, to Mrs. Othilie Solberg, a native of Moss, Norway. She came to the United States in 1887. By her first marriage Mrs. Hansen has four children: Jennie, Lilly, Viola and Raymond. Our subject is a member of the village council, the German Lutheran church and the M. W. A. lodge.

BOJE PAULSEN (1896) is numbered among the prosperous and successful agriculturists of Troy township, in which precinct he owns 240 acres of choice land. Mr. Paulsen has never regretted selecting Pipestone county as a permanent home. His farm is thoroughly improved and bears substantial buildings, including a fine farm residence.

A native of Holstein, Germany, the subject of this biography was born December 4, 1860. His father, John Paulsen, who died April 15, 1891, at the age of seventyseven years, in the same house in which he was born, was of the seventh generation of the Paulsen family to reside on and operate the same piece of land in the province of Holstein. Lena (Went) Paulsen, the mother of our subject, died March 23, 1863.

Until the year 1885 Boje Paulsen's destiny was shaped in the land of the kaiser. He attended the common schools and resided on the home farm until sixteen years of age. Then he commenced to work as a miller, an occupation he followed continuously until his departure for America. He landed in New York on May 22, 1885, and immediately thereafter located in the town of Keystone, Benton county, Iowa, where until 1890 he was connected with a flouring mill. In the year mentioned Mr. Paulsen commenced his career as a farmer in Sioux county, Iowa. Six years later he became identified with Pipestone county interests, buying the northwest quarter of section 2, Troy township, at the time. In 1902 he added to his original holding by the purchase of eighty acres on section 3. Our subject has for twelve years served as director of school district No. 9. He holds membership in the M. W. A. lodge at Cazenovia.

In the final month of his residence in Germany, on May 5, 1S85, Mr. Paulsen was married to Augusta Moeller, who was born April 6, 1864. They have the following five children: Walter H., born December 6, 1886; Hattie, born May 5, 1889; John H., born March 14, 1893; William born March 21, 1895; and Gustav H., born September 23, 1897. Walter H. Paulsen is a graduate of the university of Minnesota.

WILLIAM A. NATZKE (1882), of Eden township, was born and has passed his entire life on the farm he now conducts, the northwest quarter of section 12, range 47. His parents, John and Emma (Lange) Natzke, natives of Illinois and Wisconsin, respectively, moved to Pipestone county in pioneer days and proved up on the farm described, which they bought as a relinquishment. William was born February 25, 1882, and was educated in the nearby district school. He assisted his father in the management of the home farm until 1904, since which time he has rented and farmed the place on his own account. Mr. Natzke believes firmly in raising only the highest grades of stock. He makes a specialty of Shorthorn cattle and Chester White hogs.

At Cedar Falls, Iowa, on September 28, 1905, Mr. Natzke was joined in marriage to Dora Feist, who was born in Blackhawk county, Iowa, January 20, 1880, the daughter of Charles and Minnie Feist. Charles Feist was born in Pennsylvania, his wife in Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Natzke are the parents of two children: Harold, born March 3, 1907, and Roland, born February 26, 1910. Our subject is a member of the Evangelical church. He has served for three years as the clerk of school district No. 53.

PATRICK JAMES HARTIGAN (1S79), of Woodstock, is one of Pipestone county's pioneer settlers and one of the first to homestead in Burke township. In many of the stirring events of the formative period of the county'-i making, Mr. Hartigan was an active participant and shared with other sturdy pioneers Ahe hardships in the days of adversity. Not alone of Pipestone county, but of the state of Minnesota, is he an early resident, as he dateis his settlement in the state from 1861. A native of county Limerick, Ireland, our subject was born on Christmas day, 1839, the son of John and Ellen (Kane) Hartigan. The former parent died in London, England, and the mother is buried in Wabasha county, Minnesota.

Patrick J. Hartigan was an eight year old lad when he moved with his parents to London, England, where he passed seven years of his youth. At an early age he learned the floor cloth printing trade, which he followed until embarking for the United States in 1854. He located in St. Lawrence county, New York, where he farmed until his westward move to Wabasha county, Minnesota, in 1861.

After e ghtean years of farming in easter;i Minnesota, Mr. Hartigan in 1879 comn:en:ed his "uccessful career in Pipeistone county. He took as -a homestead claim the southeast quarter of section 34, Burke tovvniihip, where he lived for nearly a Quarter of a century, and in that time built up one of the finest improved pieces of farm property in the precinct. He set cut one of the first groves in the township and is credited with being the builder of the fir:t roads while serving as the township's first road overseer. For many years he was a member of .the board of trustees of Burke town:hip.

In 1902, after many years of faithful endeavor, Mr. Hartigan retired from active work en the farm a~nd settled in Woodstock, which is still h'n home. He was engaged for three years in the saloon business, in a building he erected for the purpose. He then became the street commissioner of the villEgs, serving an that capacity for a year. He is now engaged in the management of a billiard hall and soft drink emporium in the building formerly occupied by the saloon.

The year before leaving St. Lawrence county. New York, Patrick J. Hartigan was wedded to Julia Sullivan, also a native of the Emerald isle. This union has been blessed by the birt.h of seven children, five -sons and two daughters, two of whofn, John and Ju-:ia, are dead. The living children

EDWARD L. READER (18S6) is one of two brothers - the other being Leonard J. Reader - who have been highly esteemed citizens of Pipestone for a quarter of a century and from small beginnings have built up a business that is unrivalled in magnitude and completeness by any similar concern in southwestern Minnesota, outside of Mankato. Their line is plumbing, heating, windmills and pumps, a business they were literally born into and which they learned the mastery of in the shop and under the tutelage of their father. Leonard J. Reader settled in Pipestone in March, 1886, and formed a partnership with Martin Mulville. Edward L. Reader came in August of the same year, bought Mr. Mulville's interest in the newly established business, and since then, as Pipestone has grown and developed, so has the Reader Brothers' establishment. Their present commodious two story shop and sales rooms was erected in 1896. All the big plumbing contracts in the city, including the work at the court house and the government Indian school, have been entrusted to this enterprising and capable firm.

At Delevan, Walworth county, Wisconsin, on the natal day of our nation, July 4, 1865, occurred the birth of Edward L. Reader. In that town he was educated and learned the ins and outs of the plumber's trade from his father. In the first year of his manhood he moved to Pipestone and has since been engaged in a prosperous career. The parents of our subject, .John J. and Charlotte (Williams) Reader, have resided in Walworth county, Wisconsin, since 1837 and are still hale and hearty at the ages of eighty-three and eighty-one years, respectively. The father is a native of Oneida county. New York, while the mother was born in Pennsylvania. Six children were born to thi" venerable couple, all of whom are living and married. They are Ida M. (Mrs. James Davidson), of Delevan; Leonard J. and Edward L., of Pipestone; Amos H., of Delevan; John B., of Delevan; and

Edward L. Reader was married in Pipestone on December 3, 1891, to Nellie L. Kepner, a native of Rochester, Minnesota, where she was born January 2, 1866. Two daughters have been born to this union: Marian G., born September 8, 1895, and Madeline J., born April 18, 1898.

Leonard J. Reader h the elder of the two brothers and was born in Delevan March 17, 1855. In that town he was reared and married. His marriage to Agnes L. Rogers, a native of New York, occurred February 1, 1882. The date of her birth is April 10, 1853. One son, Robert C, who is in the employ of his father's firm, was born to these parents November 9, 1882.

Having fallen a victim to rheumatism, Mr. Reader generally spends the winter months in California as a relief from the malady. He is a member of the Odd Pellows lodge.

ABRAHAM H. BELLAND (1899), who owns and farms the southwest quarter of section 2, Eden township, has resided in Pipestone county since he wais eighteen years of age. His parents, Halvor and Bertha (Donhowe) Belland, natives of Norway, on coming to America settled in Story county, Iowa, where the subject of this review was born on March 19, 1881.

Abraham attended the district schools of his native precinct. In 1899 the Belland family became residents of Pipestone county, the father having bought the southwest quarter of section 2, Eden. Our subject assisted in the management of the home farm until 1905, in which year he moved to the village of Ihlen, where he had bought an interest in the Ihlen Mercantile company. He was connected with that concern for eighteen months; then for a year and a half he was employed by the Dahlmeier Bros. Lumber company. He bought the home farm in 1907, upon which he has resided since the spring of 1910. Mr. Belland is a member of the Norwegian Lutheran church.

tive of Pipestone county. She was born June 3, 1888, the daughter of Erick R. and Bertha (Egeland) Larson, of Eden. To these parents one child. Opal, was born, March 3, 1910.

H. JACOB BOTH (1898), farmer of Altona township, has been for thirteen years a resident of the county. His parents, Jacob and Margretta Both, natives of Germany, resided for many years in the Iowa counties of Tama and O'Brien, later establishing the family home in Pipestone county, where both are now buried. Jacob Both died in October, 1909, having survived his wife four years. Mrs. Both's death occurred in November, 1905.

In Tama county, Iowa, on February 3, 1878, the subject of this biography commenced his earthly career. Jacob was seven years of age when the family moved to O'Brien county, where his schooling was acquired. Jacob Both, senior, bought the northeast quarter of section 17, Altona, in 1897, and a year later he departed from Iowa and made settlement on the Pipestone county land. On coming of age our subject commenced working out at farm labor, and in 1904 he rented the home farm of his father and has since conducted it. Mr. Both owns stock in the Farmers Elevator company of Ward, South Dakota.

At Pipestone, on November 30, 1904, H. Jacob Both was joined in marriage to Emma Tank, the daughter of John and Dora Tank, of Pipestone. Mrs. Both was born March 30, 1884.

OSCAR A. GREEN (1885), who is the able editor and manager of the Edgerton Enterprise, has been a resident of that village for all except the first four years of his life. His birth occurred at Clinton, Iowa, March 13, 1881. His parents are Frank and Thea (Moe) Green, natives of Sweden and Norway, respectively. They were married in Clinton, Iowa, where they lived until 1885, since which time they have been respected residents of Edgerton. Mr. Green is now in his sixtieth year, and his wife is two years younger.

Oscar was educated in the schools of Edgerton and early commenced acquiring the fundamentals of the art preservative in the office of the Enterprise. He was employed for a time at the printer's trade in Pipestone; then in 1900, in company with L. W. Lockwood, he bought the Enterprise, the partnership containuing four years. At the time of taking possession of the paper, Messrs. Green and Lockwood enjoyed the distinction of being the youngest editors in the state, the former being nineteen and the latter seven- 'teen years of age. Mr. Lockwood disposed of his interest in the publication to Ed. Yocom, and the firm of Green & Tocom existed for three years. The paper was then sold to AVilliam Lockwood, but its editorial control and management is still retained by our subject.

In Edgerton, on February 18, 1903, Mr. Green was married to Lois Woodworth, who was born in Lakefleld, Minnesota, July 17, 1882. The following four children have blessed this union: Lyman A., bom May 13, 1904; Zelma L., born April 3, 1905; Roy O., born August 3, 1907; and Willard W., born October 5, 1909. Mr. Green is a member of the Congregational church and of the Knights of Pythias lodge.

The Edgerton Enterprise was founded in 1883 by A. R. Burkdoll, who conducted it three years as a seven column folio and then sold to J. C. Marshall. Under his regime of nine years the paper was an influential democratic organ and its editor a prominent factor in the local life of that party. He relinquished the paper upon being elected to the office of county judge of probate. He later served as county auditor. The next editor was E. C. Brake, who sold after a year and a half to William Lockwood. From that time the Enterprise lias been an expounder of the principles and doctrines of republicanism.

Mr. Lockwood employed as manager of the paper A. P. McDowell, of Minneapolis, and later William McCune, of Worthington. Three partnership firms, those of Ham & Akers, Green & Lockwood, and Green & Yocom, presided over the des- tinies of the publication in direct succession; then the paper reverted to Its present owner, William Lockwood, with O. A. Green in the editorial chair.

The first change from the original size of the sheet was inaugurated by Ham & Akers, who made it a five column quarto. Green & Lockwood went one better and made it a five column, all home print. A year later it was changed to its present acceptable style, six columns, all home print.