Pipestone County, Minnesota - Chapter 34: Pipestone County Biographical, 1911 (part 4 of 7)

PRANK RAYMOND (1887), of Pipestone, chief engineer of the municipal waterworks plant, is a Pipestone county resident of twenty-four years' standing. The son of John and Elvira (Miller) Raymond, natives of Pennsylvania and New York, respectively, he was born in Green county, Wisconsin, October 10, 185S. His father. ,Iohn Raymond, a veteran of the civil war and a machinist by trade, died in 1894 and was sixty-two years of age at the time of his decease. The mother is still living and resides at Port Bragg, California. Besides our subject three other sons and one daughter were born to these parents, namely: Ellsworth and Samuel, or San Francisco; Wilbur, a member of the Tacoma, Washington, police force; and Bessie Barkbnll, of Covello, California.

.Tohn Raymond returned from his long service as a member of company I, Twenty-second Wisconsin cavalry, broken in health. He was compelled to forsake the pursuit of his trade, and in order to improve his condition the Raymond family moved from their old Wisconsin home and settled on a farm in Benton county, Iowa. Frank passed his youth on the home farm. Following his father's inclinations, he mastered the blacksmith's and machinist's trades, which he followed for a number of years In Iowa and Illinois prior to settling in Pipestone in 1887.

Mr. Raymond erected the brick building ' which now houses the Stude garage and for twelve years successfully conducted a leading blacksmith and machine shop in Pipestone. He retired from business to accept his present position with the city. Besides being qualified as an expert mechanic, our subject is possessed of marked inventive ability. He supervised the earlier work of the installation of Pipestone's first water system in 1888; he constructed the city's first steam pump and has Installed each succeeding one; also he is credited with an important share in the building of the first electric lighting plant and operated the same for a time.

At Belle Plaine, Iowa, on August 10, 1884, Frank Raymond was joined in marriage to Lizzie Pollock, a native of Illinois. To this union the following named eight children have been born: Nita, Gladys, Burt, Mabel, Samuel, Fay and Dorothy. Mr. Raymond is affiliated with the lodges of the Modern Brotherhood, Modern Woodmen, Odd Fellows and Sons of Veterans.

WILLIAM J. BANISTER (1899), a farmer of Osborne township, was born in Lafayette county, Wisconsin, the second day of February, 1863. He is the son of Preston Banister, a native of the Hoosier state, and Elzina (Knott) Banister, a Canadian by birth.

The Banister family moved from Wisconsin to Blackhawk county, Iowa, when William was in his second year. He was reared on his father's farm in that county and educated in the near by district schools. He resided on, and assisted in the management of, the home farm until 1884, the year he attained tne age of twenty-two years. He then rented land and commenced farming for himself, first in Blackhawk and then in Lyon county, Iowa. On moving from Iowa, Mr. Banister became a resident of Minnesota. He farmed in Nobles and Murray counties prior to 1899, when he settled in Pipestone county. He has rented and farmed the southwest quarter of section 6, Osborne township, since 1904. Our subject raises considerable stock. He is the overseer of road district No. 2. He and his sons, George and Harry, are members of the M. W. A. lodge.

On March 25, 1884, in Blackhawk county, Iowa, William J. Banister was joined in the bonds of matrimony to Martha Kennedy, a native of Indiana. She was born August 30, 1864, and is the daughter o'f Andrew and Sarah (Medlin) Kennedy. Ten children have been born to these parents

OTTO F. LANGE (1896), Sweet township farmer. Is the oldest living son in a family of eight children who were born to Peter and Anna (Otten) Lange. Both parents were born in Germany and came to this country a short time before their marriage, an event which was solemnized in the city of Green Bay, Wisconsin. Three of the children, Alvina, Theodore and Dora, have died. The names of the surviving children are Otto, Edward, John, Ernst and Lydia.

Peter Lange was a minister of the German Lutheran church, and it was while he was stationed as pastor at Peshtigo, Wisconsin, on November 13, 1873, that Otto F. Lange of this sketch was born. He was yet an infant when the family moved to Lowell, in the same state, and from there a move was made to LaCrosse county. Rev. Lange was stationed there for about nine years. In 1886 he moved with his family to Pipestone county, having bought the southwest quarter of section 11, Sweet township, from the railroad company. He resided on his land for eleven months and then returned to Wisconsin to accept the pastorate of the church at Weyauwega, where he died in 1900.

At that place Otto attended high school and was later a student at Northwestern university, at Watertown. He left school and learned the butcher's trade, which he followed for two years. In 1896 Mr. Lange settled permanently on the Sweet township farm of his father, which is now

LEWIS V. DIETMEIER (1899), who engages extensively in farming and stock raising in Elmer township, is a native of Stephenson county, Illinois. He was born September 25, 1878, the son of Richard and Margaretta (Jonas) Dietmeier. The former parent was born in Baden, Germany, and the mother in New York state.

Lewis attended the country Schools of his native county and resided on the home farm until attaining his majority. In 1899 he came to Pipestone county and bought the west half of section 29, Elmer, upon which he has since maihtained a residence. His farm is substantially improved. In the raising of stock - especially Shorthorn cattle and Poland China hogs - Mr. Dietmeier has been unusually succesful. He served as the treasurer of Elmer township two years and for six years guarded the funds of school district No. 17. Our subject holds membership in the I. O. O. F. and M. W. A. lodges.

On November 6, 1898, in Green county, Wisconsin, Lewis V. Dietmeier was united in marriage to Mildred Boeck, who was born in Germany January 30, 1879, the daughter of Frank and Louisa (Tafes) Boeck. To these parents have been born six children, as follows: Victor C, born August 20, 1899; Twit L., born February 26, 1901; Roland E., born July 9, 1903; Ellery N., born August 19, 1906; Orval L., born January 17, 1908; and Gertrude B., born June 7, 1910.

.TENS M. BECK (1901), a farmer of Aetna township, is the owner of the northwest quarter of section 21. All the land is thoroughly improved, solely through Mr. Beck's efforts. A native of Denmark, Jens was born August 19, 1865, the son of Anders and Jacobie (Rasmussen) Beck, small farmers of that country. He attended the Danish common schools until sixteen years of age, when he crossed the Atlantic to commence the battle of life for himself in a strange country but in a land of opportunity. His brother, Louis, acconi- panied him on the journey, and the two boys located at Kankakee, Illinois, near which place they secured employment on a farm. Mr. Beck left Illinois in 1901 to become a Pipestone county farmer. He bought his land at that time and has since been successfully engaged in general farming and stock raising.

Our subject was married at Kankakee. Illinois, December 6, 1887, to Hannah Sorenson, also a native Dane. She was born August 5, 1880, the daughter of Chris and Magdaline Sorenson. Mr. and Mrs. Beck are the parents of four children: Chris A., Leanous, Charles and Edward. The family belong to the Danish Lutheran church of Ruthton. Mr. Beck has efficiently served as assessor of Aetna township for eight years. He is a member of the M. W. A. lodge.

SAMUEL L. GILLILAND (1896) is one of the enterprising and substantial agriculturists of Troy township. He settled in Pipestone county fifteen years ago and is now the owner of two of the most thoroughly improved quarter sections of land in his home precinct, the northwest quarter of section 34 and the southwest quarter of section 30. He engages extensively in high grade stock raising, especially of cattle and sheep.

A native of Illinois, Samuel was born in McHenry county October 23, 1860, a son of James and Nancy (Davis) Gilliland, the former an Irishman by birth and the latter a native of New York. After completing the course of the district school, our subject was for two years a student in the Marengo high school: then he turned his attention toward agricultural pursuits, a calling In which he has since continued. He assisted with the management of the home farm until after his twenty-fifth birthday; then for eleven years he rented and farmed land in Mc- Henry and Kane counties, Illinois. He departed from that state in 1896 to establish his residence in Pipestone county. Mr. Gilliland is the president and a director of the Farmers Elevator company of Cazenovia, and he is also a stockholder in similar institutions at Pipestone and Airlie. He has served twelve years as treasurer of school district No. 10 and for nine years has guarded the treasury of the township. In a fraternal way he is affiliated with the M. W. A. and R. N. A. lodges.

On December 17, 1890, at Harmony, Illinois, Samuel L. Gilliland was joined in wedlock to Mary J. Grimes, who was born in Illinois February 28, 1869, the daughter of Sol. K. and Mary Grimes. To Mr. and Mrs. Gilliland were born these five children: Millard, born February 9, 1893; Lester, born February 26, '1898; Clifford, born December 2, 1899; Mabel, born September 14, 1907; and Loran, born June 9, 1907, died August 14, 1907.

WILLIAM T. NICHOLSON (1905) is a young and progressive business man of Ruthton. His education has been mainly received in the school of hard knocks, in which he was enrolled at the age of thirteen. He has succeeded through push and ambition. A native of Murray county, Minnesota, he was born in the village of Slayton May 2, 18S5. He left school at an early age and was employed as clerk in several Slayton general stores until the age of twenty, when he located in Ruthton. He clerked in a general store until 1908, when, in company with C. A. Scherer, he bought the Nelson & Daly drug store. Mr. Nicholson is the active manager of the business. The firm carries a full line of drugs, stationery, well paper, jewelry, etc.

William is the son of James and Mary Nicholson, the former an Englishman by birth and the latter a native of Australia. They were married in England and came to the United States about 1880. They homesteaded in Murray county, which was their home until twelve years ago, when they moved to a farm in Grange township, a few miles north of Pipestone. James and Mary Nicholson are the parents of seven children, who besides William T. of this review are Fannie, Florence, -lames. Amy, Mary and Arthur.

A native Scot, our subject first saw the light of day in the county of Perth on the fourth of January, 1863. He is the son of Thomas and Jeanette (Morrison) Campbell. Thomas attended the common schools in Scotland and resided on the farri. of his father until attaining the age of twentyfour years. Then he came to America and became identified with its prosperity. He was located for a number of years in Tama county, Iowa, first working out at farm labor, then renting land to farm for himself. In 1892 Mr. Campbell departed from Iowa and established his residence in Pipestone county. He owns stock in the Farmers Elevator company of Holland. He is treasurer of school district No. 7, an office he has held for five years, and is a trustee of the Holland Praebyterian church.

Tama county, Iowa, is the place where occurred the marriage of Thomas Campbell to Jemima Brown on July 19, 1890. Mrs. Campbell is also a native of Scotland and was born March 16, 1865, the daughter of Robert and Jeanette (Wilson) Brown. The following four children have been born to this union: Maggie, born September 26, 1891; Jeanette, born August 16, 1896; Thomas, born April 11, 1902; and Ella M., born February 9, 1904.

JACOB G. JOHANNSEN (1895) is the owner of a well improved farm of 240 acres on section 22, Sweet township, upon which he has lived since 1902. Most of the improvements have been made on the place since it came into the possession of Mr. Johannsen.

The parents of our subject, Claus and Fredericka (Loucks) Johannsen, are still living and reside in Pipestone. Jacob was born in Pottawattamie county, Iowa, on the fourth of September, 1874. He was reared on a farm and educated in the district schools of his native county, which was his home until he was twenty-one years of age. Then, in 1895, he came to Pipestone county to farm land owned by his father, on section 31, Sweet. He resided there until buying the farm he now conducts. Mr. Johannsen raises stock quite extensinvely. He is a stockholder in the Farmers Elevator company of Pipestone.

In Sweet township, on November 9, 1897, occurred the marriage of Jacob G. Johannsen to Maggie Tanck, who came to the United States when seven years old She was born on tie Island of Fehmen, a part of the .German empire. May 30, 1875. sons have been born to this union, as loUows: Arthur, born August 3, 1898; John, born November 30, 1901; Albert, born April 28, 1903; Louis, born November 20, 1907; and the baby, born August 24, 1910. Mr. Johannsen and family are members of the German Lutheran church of Pipestone.

THADDEUS E. NASH (1880), cashier of the Pipestone State Bank, has been a resident of the county for all except the first four years of his life. He is the son of Register of Deeds G. W. Nash and Emma (Fish) Nash, both natives of New York state. Besides our subject two daughters, ."Vdah and Pearl, a public school teacher at Preston, Minnesota, have been born to these parents.

Thaddeus was born in Jones county, Iowa, on August 29, 1876. From Iowa the family moved to Blue Earth, Minnesota, and in 1880 settlement was made in Pipestone county, at Woodstock, where for many years G. W. Nash was agent for the Omaha railroad. Our subject was educated in the public school of Woodstock. At an early age he assisted his father with the work in the railway station, and at the age of fifteen he was assigned as station agent to Magnolia, Rock county. After a year, in 1892, he succeeded his father at AVoodstock, continuing in charge of that station four years. Mr. Nash was then for nine months employed as bookkeeper by the State Bank, now the First National Bank of Jasper. He then returned to the railroad service as station agent at Pipestone and was so employed until 1901, when he became assistant cashier of the Pipestone State Bank. He has been with that institution since that time, except a few months in 1905 and 1906. He

In Mason City, Iowa, on October 23, 1901, our subject was joined in marriage to Elizabeth Rehm. Mr. and Mrs. Nash are the parents of three daughters. In a fraternal way Mr. Nash is affiliated with the Masonic, Knights of Pythias and Modern Woodmen lodges.

WILLIAM RUDEBUSCH (1897), farmer and large stock raiser of Altona township, has been a subject of Uncle Sam since he was twenty-three years of age. He was born in Oldenberg, Germany, May 29, 1866, the son of Albert and Annie (Krye) Rudebusch. William was educated in the German public schools. On immigrating to America, he went to Dodge county, Nebraska, where he followed agricultural pursuits until 1897, the year of his settlement in Pipestone county. He has since owned and lived on the northwest quarter of section 2, Altona. Mr. Rudebusch owns stock in the Verdi creamery and in the local telephone company. With his family he belongs to the German Lutheran church.

On September 27, 1898, in Lincoln county, our subject was united in marriage to Mary Hanson, a native of Clinton county, Iowa. She was born March 26, 1875, the daughter of August and Katherine Hanson. To Mr. and Mrs. Rudebusch have been born the following six children: Dorthia, born September 28, 1899; Charlotte, born September 3, 1901; Albert, born January 8, 1903; Louisa, born May 3, 1904; Helena, born May 2, 1906; and Carl, born August 2, 1909.

WILLIAM BREIHOLZ (1901) is one of the leading and most influential citizens of the village of Holland, where he is engaged in the general mercantile and furniture business. He owns and occupies two store buildings on Main street, exclusively for the accommodation of his flourishing line of trade. For five years he ably served on the village council and at present is president of the local board of education. No movement is inaugurated for the betterment of Holland in which Mr. Breiholz is not an active participant.

William is the oldest in a family of four children born to Henry and Maggie Breiholz. John, Edward and Annie are the other members of the family. Both parents were born in Germany, came to the United States at an early age, and were married in Davenport, Iowa. That city was the family home until 1872, when a removal to Belle Plaine, and later to Remsen, Iowa, was made. The elder Mr. Breiholz and wife settled in Holland in 1902, which is still the home of the latter, who is now in her sixty-seventh year. Mr. Breiholz passed away on July 23, 1909, at the age of seventy-two years.

William Breiholz was born in Davenport, Iowa, on January 26, 1869, and two and one-half years later accompanied his parents in their removal to Belle Plaine. He commenced his education in the public schools of that town and later completed the course offered by the Remsen, Iowa, high school. For a time following his high school days, William was a student at Northwestern college, of LeMars. He clerked in several stores in Remsen until locating in Holland in 1901. Since that year he has conducted his present line of business, having purchased the store ot A. W. Dressel & Co. Mr. Breiholz carries a complete and up-to-date line of seasonable merchandise, dry goods, groceries, shoes, furnishings, etc., and in connection conducts his furniture business.

The marriage of our subject occurred at Remsen, Iowa, on the second of March, 1892, when he wedded Minnie Sievers, a native of Luzerne, Benton county, Iowa. Five children, Arthur, Walter, Esther, Elmer and Ethel, have been born to these parents. Mr. Breiholz is affiliated with the K. P. lodge of Jasper and is also a member of the Workmen order.

DAVID E. EVANS (1890), Osborne township farmer, was born in Iowa county, Wisconsin, May 25, 1857. His parents, Edward and Sarah (Davis) Evans, came to the United States from Wales at an early date and settled near Dodgeville, Wisconsin. Edward Evans died when our subject was four years of age, and he was fourteen when he was left entirely an orphan by the death of his mother.

David was educated in the district schools and grew up on the old family farm. After the death of his mother the place was rented out to some neighbors, but David and his sister remained thereon, the latter keeping house for the occupants. He worked out on different farms much of the time, and after marrying, at the age of twenty-six, he rented the farm of his uncle, which he worked four years. Following three years employment on the railroad, Mr. Evans, in July, 1890, located in Pipestone county. He worked at farm labor for a year, and after that for three years was employed on the railroad section at Edgerton. He returned to agricultural pursuits and rented the northwest quartei; of section 20, which he farmed until moving to his present location, the southwest quarter of section 17, in 1904. Mr. Evans was a road overseer two years. He is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen lodge.

At Barneveld, Wisconsin, on Januai-y 22, 1884, our subject was married to Georgiana Jones, of Welsh birth. She was born October 9, 1857, the daughter of John and Jane (Thomas) Jones. The following five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Evans: Sarah Jane, born December 31, 1884; Edward John, born March 7, 1886; William David, born September 28, 1887; Ira Milton, born October 24, 1890; and Bernice Edith, born June 22, 1894.

.TAMES A. VINING (1884) carries the mail for Uncle Sam out of Jasper, over route one. His birth occurred December 6, 1865, in McLean county, Illinois. He is the son of Reuben and Mariah L. (Sackett) Vining, who are both natives of Delaware county, Ohio. In the early sixties they moved to McLean county, Illinois, being among the pioneers of that section. Their next home was in Adair county, Iowa. There they bought land and lived until 1884, when they identified themselves with the interests of Rock county, Minnesota. A home was established in Ross Dell township, and there Reuben Vining died on September 4, 1900, aged fifty-nine years. The mother lives in Jasper. They were the parents of seven children, five boys and two girls. They are James A.,

Almond, Lydia (Mrs. Hart Onan), Thomas, Edmond, Myrtle (Mrs. Dan Drawz) and Rufus. All the children with the exception of James, Mrs. Onan and Mrs. Drawz reside in Dakota.

James A., with whom this biography is concerned, at the age of five years moved with his family to Adair county, Iowa. There he secured his education and resided until 1884, when the family came to Rock county. For four or five years hfe lived on the home farm in Rose Dell township, and then for several years rented a place and engaged in farming for himself. Leaving the farm, he moved to Luverne and operated a restaurant until 1900. Selling out, he lived for a year in various parts of Missouri and Iowa. Returning to Minnesota in 1901, he settled in Jasper and for four years was employed by Dr. Bong. In 1905 he received the appointment to his present position.

Captolia Jones, a native of Kentucky, and in earlier years a resident of Missouri and Iowa, became the wife of Mr. Vining on March 11, 1895, the marriage taking place at Greenfield, Iowa. Mrs. Vining died July 13, 1908, at the age of forty-two years. There were no children. Mr. Vining is associated with the Knights of Pythias lodge.

THOMAS EINUNG (1889), a farmer of Eden township, was born in West Fjord Dahlen, Norway, May 16, 1867. His parents, Hans and Aaget (Bhole) Einung, were small farmers in that northern country. Thomas lived on the farm of his birth until immigrating to the United States in 1889, at the age of twenty-two years. He made Jasper his destination, and for a number of -years was employed at farm labor near that town. He then bought land in Rose Dell township. Rock county, which he farmed for three years; then he bought and located on his Pipestone county farm, the southwest quarter of section 22, Eden.

In Jasper, on July 9, 1905. our subject was married to Ida Bondal, also a native of Norway. She was born May 4, 1882, the daughter of Kittel and Margretta Bondal, who still reside in the old country. Two children have been born to this

ADOLPH ABRAHAM (1891) has lor a score of years been engaged in farming and stock raising in Burke townsiiip. He is the owner of a quarter section of thoroughly improved farm land on section 9, of that precinct, and he breeds high grade stock on a large scale.

The subject of this review is the £.ou of Carl and Frederica (Schultz) Abraham and was born in Brandenburg, Germany, on February 21, 1857. He received a common school education in his native land and continued to make his home in Germany until his twenty-fourth year. Then, in 1881, he took passage for the new world and went direct to Henry county, Illinois, where he was destined to reside a decade. For fire years Adolph was employed at farm labor, and for the same length of time he farmed rented land on his own account in Illinois. He moved to Pipestone county in 1891 and at once settled on" the farm he still occupies. Mr. Abraham has given fifteen years of service as a director of school district No. 32. lie owns stock in the Farmers Elevator corn pany of Woodstock, and with his fa-.-niy belongs to the German Lutheran church.

December 21, 1884, is the date, aud Kewanee, Illinois, the place of the mar riage of Mr. Abraham to Mary L. Fursi, who was born in Germany September 1, 1854, the daughter of Carl and Augusta (Beyer) Furst. Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Abraham are the parents of the following live children: Carl, born November 7, 1S8T; Martha, born December 30, 1889; Augusta, born April 27, 1891; Mary, born February 11, 1894; and Anna, born March 1, 1896.

HORACE E. RIFFEL (1892), a well known farmer and stock raiser of Gray township, first saw the light of day in Des Moines county, Iowa, September 24, 1875, He attended the district schools of that county and there lived until seventeen years of age. In 1892 he accompanied his parents, William and Harriet (Parvii) Riffel, in their removal to Pipestone county. His father bought a 240 acre farm on sections 13 and 14, Gray, which he later sold tc become the owner of the south half of section 8, the farm which Horace now conducts. Mr. Riffel breeds Polled Angus cattle and Duroc- Jersey hogs. He is a member of the Catholic church and the Modern Woodmen lodge.

Horace E. Riffel was married at Pi^- stone October 20, 1909, to Mary Manley, who was born in Erin county, Wisconsin, the daughter of Michael and Ellen (Minnehan) Manley. One child, Leslie Edwin, was born to these parents, on August 2, 1910.

JOHN W. COOK (1892) conducts an exclusive drug and prescription business in Pipestone, of which he has been a resident since 1892. On coming to the city at that time he entered the employ of T. F. Robinson, the druggist, who was located In the building now occupied by Nason's pool hall. Five months later Mr. Cook opened a drug store of his own and in 1902 he purchased the Dr. Taylor stock of drugs and has since conducted the combined stores in his present location.

Mr. Cook was born in London, England, on December 13, 1864. In that city were also born both of his parents, Joseph and Frances (Carter) Cook. They came to the United States and Minnesota in 1882 and located in Slayton, Murray county, which was their home until both were called by death. They left seven children, of whom John, the subject of this sketch, is the oldest. The names of the others are Lizzie, Cecelia, Alice, H. A., .Tosephine and Alfred.

At the age of sixteen John severed home ties and struck out to see the world. He made his own way to South Africa, and after a short sojourn there went to Sydney, Australia, where he secured employment as a pharmacist's apprentice, and there he learned the drug business. He was the manager of a store during the last four years of his residence there. He came to the United States In the fall of 1891 and at once made settlement in Pipestone. Mr. Cook is the possessor of a token, an am-ple proof of his efficiency as a pharmacist. It is a gold medal, suitably inscribed.

which was presented to him by the president of the board of pharmacy of New So'uth Wales at the annual board meeting in August, 1888. This medal was granted to Mr. Cook as a mark of recognition for his success in attaining the highest standing of 224 candidates for licenses as pharmacists at the final examinations.

From April, 1894, until 1909 Mr. Cook was the Pipestone agent for the United States Express company, and since then has served in a similar capacity for the Wells Fargo Express company. For the past four years he has been a member of the board of education and is its present treasurer. He served as president of the board during the year commencing in 1908. Our subject has filled chairs in both the Blue Lodge and Chapter branches of the Masoric order and in the Odd Fellows and Encampment. He has been chancellor commander of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias.

At Pipestone, on August 12, 189t;, John W. Cook was united in marriage to Emma D. Petersmeyer, a former principal of the Pipestone high school. , She is a native of Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Cook have two sons: Kyrwood, born .June 28, 1900, and Kenneth Carter, born October 13, 1909. An only daughter, Ayleen, who was born March 6, 1902, died February 16, 1904.

GRANT E. RIPLEY (1899), a farmer of Eden township, is a native of New York, where he was born November 18, 1869, When a year old he moved from the Empire state with his parents and located with them in Lyon county, Iowa. In that county he lived until attaining the age of thirty years. He commenced at the age of eighteen to work out, and after his marriage he rented land and commenced farming on his own account. On coming to Pipestone county in 1899 he resided for six years in Elmer township, then moved to the place he now rents and farms, the northeast quarter of section 26, Eden. The parents of our subject, Eugene and Julia (Harrington) Ripley, are residents of George, Iowa and are sixty-three and sixty-one years of age, respectively.

to Etta McNelly, the daughter of John Mc- Nelly, of Houston county. Mrs. Ripley was left motherless when a babe. Ten children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Ripley, all but one of whom are living. Their names are: Rose, born August 7, 1891; Earl, born March 30, 1893; Alida, born October 27, 1894; Wallace, born December 28, 1896; Alma, born October 23, 1898; Ernest, born January 26, 1901, died May 26, 1901; Gladys, born May 8, 1902; Edgar, born August 9, 1904; Harold, born August 20, 1906; and Kenneth, born December 17, 1909. Mr. Ripley holds membership in the lodge of the Modern Woodmen of America.

CLARENCE E. GRIFFIN (1884) is a substantial Pipestone county farmer whose land lies within the incorporation of the village of Trosky. His parents were J. A. and Isabelle B. (Gray) Griffin, natives of New Hampshire and Scotland, respectively. The mother died July 5, 1908, at the age of sixty-five years. There were eleven children in the Griffin family, of whom four sons and three daughters are still living. The names of the living children are Clarence E., Arthur, Harry, John, Hattie (Mrs. L. G. Jones), Eva (Mrs. P. O. Wahlford) and Nellie (Mrs. J. A. Kieffer).

Clarence was born on a farm in Delaware county, Iowa, June 21, 1863. He attended the public schools of his home county and assisted with the farm work until 1884, when he accompanied his parents in their removal to Pipestone county. He located with them on the northwest quarter of section 21, Elmer township, which has ever since been his home. He bought the place from L. P. Kenyon in 1902. In addition to his own land, he rents and farms a half of section 21 and a quarter on section 28. He is an extensive breeder of fancy cattle and hogs. He is a member of the Odd Fellows lodge and has occupied all the chairs in that order. Mr. Griffin is unmarried.

PETER MYHRE (1882), of Aetna township, farms the land on which occuiTed his birth. He is the son of Andrew and Annie Myhre, who came from their native land of Norway to the United States in

1878. They selected Pipestone county as the field of their endeavors, Andrew Myhre pre-empting the southwest quarter of section 20, Aetna, on whicji has since been the family home.

Peter Myhre, the fifth in a family of two sons and four daughters, was born August 28, 1882. He was educated in the district schools of Aetna township and assisted his father on the home farm until 1906, when he rented the place and has since successfully conducted it.

ALTON E. BEAN (1882) is one of the younger business men of Woodstock, of which he has been a residence since 1900. He is a native Minnesotan and was born in Steele county the eleventh of December, 1875, the son of Arb. and Mary (Dietz) Uean, now residents of Milbank, South Dakota.

The family moved to Flandreau, South Dakota, when that place was a frontier Indian trading post. The journey from Steele county was made overland in an ox-cart. Alton was but an infant at the time of removal to South Dakota. His father established a flour and grist mill at Flandreau, hauling the lumber from Luverne by ox-team. The family located in Pipestone, then a small village, in 1882, and there Alton secured an education in the graded schools. He spent his earlier vacations as a herd boy in the adjoining country. On leaving school he took up his residence with his grandfather, David Dietz, in Burke township. For the first six years after locating in Woodstock, Mr. Bean clerked in the general store of C. J. Meys and then established his present business, which has thrived from the start. He carries in stock a full line of dry goods, groceries, shoes, hats, caps, etc.

W. W. FLETCHER (1887), a leading grain, coal and live stock merchant of Pipestone, has since 1878 been in close touch with Pipestone county progress. At the age of fourteen years he became a resident of Moody county. South Dakota, where his

LaCrosse, Wisconsin, is the birthplace of our subject, his nativity having occurred February 22, 1864. He is the son of Thomas Fletcher, an Englishman by birth, who was married after coming to the United States to Ann Webster, also a native of England. They resided in Wisconsin until 1878, when settlement was made in Moody county, South Dakota, where his father died. His mother died in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, in 1870.

Mr. Fletcher, whom we are considering, was twenty-two years of age when he departed from the Moody county homestead and commenced his successful career in Pipestone. He at once secured employment with Ezra Rice, the pioneer grain merchant of Pipestone, and, following the disposal of that gentleman's business interests to E. A. Brown, our subject continued as the manager of the Pipestone elevator of that firm twelve years. He then engaged in the grain business on his own account and. built the elevator now owned by O. P. Nason. That he conducted four years, then established himself in his present location, the elevator purchased from the Cargill Elevator company. Of late years he has also dealt in coal and live stock in conjunction with his grain business.

On November 25, 1886, in Pipestone, our subject was united in marriage to Emma Peart, who was born in Illinois. Three children, Walter, William and Alice, have been born to this union. Mr. Fletcher is affiliated with the Masonic and United Workmen orders.

.lACOB H. WIENER (1897), a stock buyer of Hatfield, was born in Germany on January 30, 1866, and three years later immigrated with his parents to the United States and located with them at Ashton, Lee county, Illinois. After a fourteen years' residence in Illinois, the family moved to Tama county, Iowa. The father of our subject, William H. Wiener, now a resident of Luverne, Iowa, bought land across the line from Tama county in Benton county. On that farm Jacob lived until he

The year of his marriage Mr. Wiener established liimself as an independent farmer in Benton and Tama counties, where he was located until coming Pipestone county in 1897. He located on the southeast quarter of section 35, Gray township, land he bought two years previous. In 1901 he began buying live stock for the Hatfield Grain & Lumber company, of which firm he became a member after six months' connection, and that prompted him to build a home and move to Hatfield. Shortly after, Mr. Wiener drew out of the company, having bought the live stock and general merchandise business. After two years, he disposed of his general store to William Lockwood, and since that time has devoted his time exclusively to buying and shipping stock. He was postmaster of Hatfield for five years following 1901.

The marriage of Jacob H. Wiener to Lizzie K. Pippert was solemnized at Dysart, Iowa, on November 8, 1888. Mrs. Wiener was born in Lee county, Illinois, February 16, 1866. The following eight children have been born to these parents: William H., Lilly K., Fred B., Esther, Gertrude, Loran, Walter and Marain.

Mr. Wiener is the owner of a farm in Clark county, South Dakota. He has served as a justice of the peace for the past three years and is an ex-member of the board of school district No. 13. He is a member of the German Evangelical church of Pipestone and has been superintendent of the Hatfield Sunday school for a number of years. Our subject is clerk of Hatfield Camp No. 10,397, M. W. A. lodge.

THEODORE P. HERMANSON (1905) is the manager of the Ruthton branch of the Lampert Lumber company. He was born in Denmark February 8, 1871, but he ha^ no recollection of his native land, as he accompanied the family the year of his birth to their new home in America. His parents, Peter A. and Bodil (Peterson) Hermanson, brought up a family of seven children, all of who are living. Their names are Andrew, Anna (Mrs. A. C. Prandsen), Hannah (Mrs. Ole Espe), Theodore P., Nels,

Walter and Mamie (Mrs. Louis Townswick). Peter A. Hermanson is still a resident of Story county, Iowa, where he settled in 1871 upon his arrival from Denmark. His wife, the mother of our subject, died in 1898.

Theodore P. Hermanson was educated in the common schools of Story county, Iowa, and as a young man took up the study of pharmacy at Highland Park college, Des Moines. After completing the course, he clerked for three years in a drug store at Goldfield, Iowa; then for twelve years he was a druggist of Roland, Iowa. Mr. Hermanson became a resident of Ruthton in 1905. At that time he bought an interest in the First National Bank, of which he is still vice president. For the benefit of his health he discontinued active work in the bank and accepted his present position with the Lampert company. He is the owner of a 250 acre farm in the close vicinity of Ruthton. Mr. Hermanson is the treasurer of the Ruthton board of education.

In Story county, Iowa, on July 21, 1894, our subject was married to Bessie O. Townswick, who was born in Norway the thirtieth of November, 1870. Mr. and Mrs. Hermanson are the parents of three living children: Angle, Peter and Hazel. One .son, Theodore, born March 20, 1906, died on March 10, 1908. They also have an adopted daughter, Frances Allen, who is now the wife of Hon. S. B. Duea.

GUSTAV BOEHMKE (1899) is the cashier and leading stockholder of the State Bank of Holland, a position he assumed in August, 1910, as a successor to P. M. Serrurier. He is the son of Emil and Anna (Weiben) Boehmke, natives of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. They were married in the United States and were residents of Benton county, Iowa, until 1883, when they moved to their present home in Plymouth county, Iowa.

It was while the family were living in Benton county, on March 28, 1876, that Gustav Boehmke of this review was born. He was seven years of age when he moved with his parents to Plymouth county, where he grew to manhood on his father's farm. The education he received in the district school of his precinct was supplemented by a course in the LeMars normal school. In 1899 Mr. Boehmke became a resident o£ Pipestone county. For Ave years thereafter he farmed the west half of section 17, Rock township, land he owned at the time. Later he disposed of that property and purchased a farm in Fountain Prairie town ship, which he still possesses.

In 1904 Mr. Boehmke established his residence in the village of Holland, at that time entering the employ of the Minnesota & Western Grain company as buyer. Six months later he bought the business of the Baker Elevator company in Holland and conducted it in his own name for three years, disposing of the same to become the manager of the Farmers Co-operative association. He retired from the grain business to become a banker, as noted above. He also deals in real estate.

Our subject is one of the prominent and influential men of affairs in Holland. He has served without interruption as the treasurer of the board of education since the first year of his residence in the village. He is also a member of the local board of health and of the village council. He has been a member of the council three years and for two terms was its president. Mr. Boehmke is "a stockholder in the Farmers Co-operative association and is a member of the I. O. O. F. and M. W. A. lodges of Holland.

Gustav was married in Plymouth county, Iowa, on October 25, 1899, which was the birthday of his bride, Anna Breiholz. She is a native of that county and was born ir 1879. They are the parents of three children: Pearl, born August 6, 1902; Vera, born August 22, 1903; and Roy, born April 29, 1905.

PRATT M. SERRURIiiR (1879) was until the beginning of the present year a well-known and successful Pipestone coun ty banker, through his connection with the Holland State Bank, of the affairs of which he was the active manager for ten years - from the date of its founding. He moved in January, 1911, to Lynden, Washington, where he continues his banking career as the head of the Lynden State Bank.

Pratt is the oldest in a family of six children born to Alex T. and Flora (Taylor) Serrurier, residents of Holland. The other children in the family are Theodore, Charlie, Lawrence, Alice (Mrs. D. R. Walker) and Florence. Alex T. Serrurier, the father of our subject, was born in Australia, of German-French parentage, while his wife is a native of Wisconsin, of English-Norwegian extraction. Mr. and Mrs. Serrurier settled in Pipestone county in the spring of 1879, and, with the exception of a few years spent in Iowa, they have maintained their residence in the county since the date mentioned. A. T. Serrurier is now a banker and hardware merchant of Holland.

Pratt M. Serrurier is a native of Pipestone county. He was born on the homestead of his grandfather in Grange township on December 12, 1879. When a child the family moved to Jones county, Iowa, where they remained six years, returning then to Pipestone county and locating on the southwest quarter of section 10, Grange township, which the father had taken as a tree claim. Pratt attended the district schools and later the Pipestone high school, from which he was graduated with the class of 1899. The same year he accepted the position of assistant cashier of the Woodstock State Bank, with which institution he was connected until February, 1901. Then he moved to Holland, and, in company with his father and R. W. Green, bought the private bank of Harris and Jacobs.

The Bank of Holland was conducted as a private enterprise until 1903, when it was reorganized as a state bank and a number of new stockholders added. Under Mr. Serrurier's control, in the official capacity of cashier, the bank prospered and developed into one of the leading and most substantial financial institutions in the county. The bank was able, through its earnings, to increase the $5000 working capital, which it had at the time of organization in 1901, to a present capitalization and surplus fund of $25,000, and has at the same time paid an average annual dividend of ten per cent. The neat little building which houses the bank was erected in 1908. In August, 1910, the bank and its business passed into the hands of a new administration, headed by Gus Boehmke as cashier.

During his residence in Pipestone county Mr. Serrurier earned a wide reputation as a successful banker and as a prominent man of affairs in his home community and the county at large. In May, 1910, he was honored by election to the presidency of the State Banker's association of the second congressional district. In 1908 he was chosen chairman of the republican county central committee and served in that cajacity one year. He was for several terms the president of the Holland village council and clerk of the school district. Mr. Serrurier holds membership in the I. O. O. F., M. W. A. and A; P. & A. M. lodges.

The subject of this biography was married in Holland on the twelfth of August, 1902, to Rozetta Sass, a native of Wisconsin. She was born in Sauk county October 1, 1877, and is the daughter of Heiman Sass, an early settler of Pipestone county who now resides at Holland. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Serrurier: a son, Gordon, born September 17, 1906, and a daughter, Beulah, born July 9, 1908.

DR. HENRY C. DOMS (1905) has for six years been a practising physician and surgeon of the village of Holland and is a native son of Pipestone county. He is the son of Dr. W. M. Doms, of Woodstock, the present coroner of Pipestone county. His mother is Anna (Ingley) Doms, a native of Minnesota. The elder Dr. Doms is a native of Wisconsin. Dr. and Mrs. Doms were pioneer settlers of Burke township, where they resided until locating in Woodstock.

Dr. Henry C. Doms was born on his father's farm in Burke township on March 29, 1880. He was educated in the district schools of his native precinct and in the Pipestone high school. On deciding to take up the study of medicine, he matriculated in the medical department of the university of Kansas, from which he was graduated in 1905. Dr. Doms attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in Minneapolis, during the year 1903-04, and at the same time served as an assistant police surgeon in St. Paul. He located in Holland in 1905 and has since built up an extensive practice. He also conducts the Holland drug store, a business he purchased from A. H. Ellis.

Our subject was married in the city of Pipestone on July 9, 1905, to Anna Marie Thlel, a native of Marcus, Sioux county, Iowa. Dr. and Mrs. Doms are the parents of one daughter, named Elizabeth Ann. Dr. Doms is president of the village board of health and is village recorder. He is affiliated with the Odd Fellows. Modern Woodmen and Royal Neighbors orders.

WILLIAM J. SCHROEDER (189(;), one of Grange township's enterprising farmers, is a native of Cook county, Illinois. The date of his birth is July 31, 1868, and he is the son of Frederick and Frederika (Byer) Schroeder, both of whom came to this country from their native land of Germany. Frederick Schroeder was a shoemaker by trade and he followed that occupation in the town of Addison, Illinois, until our subject was in his second year.

The Schroeder family moved from Illinois to Platteville, Grant county, Wisconsin. The father followed his trade in that town for several years, then bought land in the vicinity and engaged in farming. After securing a district school education, William was for a year a student at the state normal school at Plattsville. He assisted his father in the management of the home farm until 1896, the year of his advent to Pipestone county. At that time he bought the farm which has since been his home, the northeast quarter of section 15, Grange. Mr. Schroeder devotes considerable attention to fine stock raising, especially Durham cattle and Duroc-Jersey hogs.

Our subject is identified with a number of the foremost enterprises of his home community. He is the secretary of both the Farmers Elevator company of Holland and of the co-operative creamery at that place. He is the clerk of school district No. 4 and a member of the German Lutheran church of Holland, being the church treasurer. William is the oldest In a family of seven children, three sons and four daughters. He is unmarried.

1857. He is the son of John Dittmann, a laborer, who died in Chicago in 1908, ana Freda (Bouto) Dittmann, who is buried in Germany. She passed away in 1871, when our subject was fourteen years of age.

August spent the first twenty-four years of his life in the land of his birth. He was brought up in the town of Sanof, was educated there, and at the age of sixteen years commenced work as a foundry man. He followed that occupation until coming to America, excepting two years (1878-79), when he served in the German army. Mr. Dittmann's first home In the new world, to which he immigrated in 1881, was at Atlantic, Iowa. He resided there nine years and was employed in construction work on the Rock Island railroad. He spent the next ten years as a section loreman on the Rock Island system at Shelby, Iowa.

Mr. Dittmann became a Pipestone county resident in I'JOll and has since lived on the one farm, the north half of section 12, Osborne township, land he had bought in 1899. He set out a fine grove of trees on the place and erected substantial buildings. His herd of stock generally averages about sixteen horses, forty-five head of cattle and thirty hogs. Our subject owns stock in the Farmers Elevator company of Edgerton. He is a member of the German Lutheran church of the same place.

The marriage of August Dittmann to Hulda Hitts occurred at Sanof, Pommern, Germany, September 24, 1880. Mrs. Dittmann was born December 11, 1857. The following nine children have been born to these parents: Paul, of Canada; Minnie (Mrs. Wilson Mills), of Osborne; Emma (Mrs. Jacob Smith), of North Dakota; George, Willie, Martha, Freda, Rosa and John. The last six named reside at home.

WILLIAM J. PATTERSON (1882), of Edgerton, first settled in that village in 1882, and that summer he built the present public school building. Early in the year following Mr. Patterson homesteaded land in Moulton township, Murray county, upon which he maintained a residence until 1895, when he established a permanent residence in Edgerton. He operated the Edgerton flour mill for nine months, then for seven years was well known as the landlord of the Howard hotel. Since retiring from the hotel business our subject has led a retired life in the village or his choice. For twelve years he has presided over the justice court.

A native of Canada, William J. Patterson was born in Clark township, seventeen miles distant from the city of Toronto, on October 10, 1841. When three years of age he crossed the border line with his parents and located with them In Kane county, Illinois, where he grew to manhood and became versed in the carpenter's trade. At the call for volunteers in the sixties Mr. Patterson offered his services to the union cause. He enlisted at Elgin, Illinois, in company B, Thirtysixth Illinois cavalry, and served for two years. He was a participant In the battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, as well as other memorable engagements.

Alter his career in the army our subject became a resident of Minnesota. He engaged in the business of contracting and mill wright in the town of StewartvlUe until 1879, moving then to Spring Valley, where he was similarly employed. In July, 1882, Mr. Patterson arrived in Edgerton, which was destined to be the home in his declining years. He is a member of the Odd Fellows lodge.

At Rochester, Minnesota, on July 18, 1866, William J. Patterson was joined in marriage to Catherine E. Bonner, who was born in Mt. Pleasant, Wade county, Pennsylvania, March 21, 1842. To this union have been born the following nine children; Willis A., of Hingham, Montana; Jessie (Mrs. C. S. Howard), of Edgerton; Edwin F., of St. Cloud, Minnesota; Charles B., of Edgerton; Margaret, of California; George, of Edgerton; Nelueen (Mrs. C. P. Suerman), of LaCrosse, Wisconsin; Catherine E. and Merlyn, both of Edgerton.

JOHN W. STURDY (1899) is the owner of 240 acres of well improved land on section 17, Eden township. He has been a resident of the county since 1899. John and Matilda (Bagley) Sturdy, the parents of our subject, came from England about the year 1849 and settled in Herkimer

John was three years of age when the family departed from the Empire state and located on a farm in Delaware county, Ohio. There he was educated and lived until 1871, when Union county, Ohio, was made the family home. Ten years later Mr. Sturdy moved to Benton county, Iowa, and there farmed rented land for two years. The next nine years were epent on a homestead claim in Hand county. South Dakota, whence he moved to Belle Plaine, Iowa. He was employed on the railroad in that Iowa town until making settlement in Pipestone county. Mr. Sturdy is a stockholder in the Farmers Elevator company of Ihlen. For three years he was clerk of scliool district No. 22 and is now the road overseer of district No. 2.

John W. Sturdy has been married twice. In Ohio he was wedded to Martha J. Wallace, who was born January 30, 1859, and who died March 13, 1891. Seven children were born to this union, named as follows: Lillie v., Iva I., Samuel O., Frank A., Homer H., Ada M. and Walter W. At Toledo, Iowa, our subject was married to Annie Heal, who was born in November, 1848, the daughter of Warner and Tressia Heal. Mr. Sturdy is a member of the I. O. O. P. lodge and the Baptist church.

SAMUEL B. ROCKEY (1890), Pipestone county's clerk of court, is a native son oir Illinois. He was born in Stephenson county July 23. 1852, the son of W. P. and Elizabeth Rockey, both born in Pennsylvania. The latter parent has been dead foia number of years, but W. F. Rockey is still living and resides at Lincoln, Nebraska, at the advanced age of eighty-four years. Besides our subject there was one other child in the Rockey family. She is Emma (Mrs. F. M. Tyiiell), of Lincoln, Nebraska.

In early youth Samuel moved with his parents to Jo Daviess county, Illinois. He was educated in the public schools of Nora, and on attaining his majority engaged in the general mercantile business at that point. In 1886 Mr. Rockey became a resident of Minnesota. At that time he moved to Chandler, Murray county, and continued his mercantile career. Two years later he disposed of his business and went to Kingsbury county. South Dakota, to remain until establishing his present residence in Pipestone, which was in 1890. Before leaving Illinois our subject acquired experience as an auctioneer and continued to follow that line of work after coming to Pipestone county. He was also the proprietor of a millinery and notion store, which Mrs. Rockey conducted. For several years Mr. Rockey was one of Pipestone's justices of the peace. He was elected to the office he now holds in the fall of 1906.

At Nora, Illinois, on December 23, 1871, Samuel B. Rockey was joined in marriage to Ella Bancroft, a native of New York state. One son, Foster W., was born to these parents, November 23, 1872. Foster met with an accident at Iowa Falls, Iowa, on January 4, 1901, which resulted in his death on that date.

HANS H. JEPSEN (1899) is a successful Sweet township farmer who has prospered since making Pipestone county his home twelve years ago. The parents of our subject came to the United States from their native land of Germany in 1865 and located in Scott county, Iowa. His father, Thomas Jepsen, is now a farmer of Atlantic, Cass county, Iowa. His mother, Christina (Jessen) Jepsen, died in the spring of 1894.

Hans was a year old infant when the Jepsen family moved from Scott county, where he was born September 15, 1869, to Goose Lake, Clinton county, Iowa. Two yearfe later another move was made, to Cass county, and in the country schools of that county our subject secured his education. In 1894 he assumed the management of the old homestead and conducted the same three years. For two years prior to coming to Pipestone, county in 1899, Mr. Jepsen farmed near Walnut, Pottawattamie county, Iowa. He farmed in Sweet township for a year, then bought the northwest quarter of section 2, Eden, which he improved and upon which he made his home until the spring of 1911. He now leases his own farm and rents and farms the south.

In Cass county, Iowa, on March 24, 1891, the subject of this biography was married to Christina Paulsen, who was born in Germany September 16, 1873, and who came to this country in 1890. Mr. and Mrs. Jepsen are the parents of the following four children: Christ, born August 5, 1896; Harry, born April 18, 1898; Greth, born November 3, 1900; and Louis, born December 11, 1903.

SEVERT GULLICKSON (1904) has for seven years been a resident of Pipestone county and Ihlen, the little town of north Eden township. He Is the manager of the Farmers Elevator company, a concern organized and incorporated in 1904 by a number of prominent agriculturists in the locality to buy and sell grain and coal. The elevator of the company has a capacity of 30,000 bushels. Following are the officers of the company: President, C. F. Pri-ce; secretary, W. C. Duea; treasurer, L, K. Villand. These officers, with the addition of John Dahlmeier and E. G. Wilson, constitute the board of directors. Mr. Gullickson is also a director of the Lutheran church and clerk of his school district.

Severt Gullickson of this review is a native of Minnesota and was born in Goodhue county on December 19, 1867. He is the son of GuUick and Margaret Kittilson, who came to America from their native land of Norway in 1862 and made settlement in Columbia county, Wisconsin. A removal to Minnesota was made, the family locating first in Goodhue county and later in Yellow Medicine county, where Gullick Kittilson homesteaded land. For a number of years he followed the trade of blacksmithing and died there in 1908 at the age of eighty-seven years. His wife, Margaret Kittilson, still resides in Yellow Medicine county.

Severt was in his second year when he moved with his parents to Yellow Medicine county, which was his home until 1904, the date of his settlement in Ihlen. He attended the district schools until fifteen years of age, then struck out in lite for himself. He worked at the trade of carpenter for a number of years and in 1894 commenced his career in the grain business. He bought grain for the Peavey Elevator company at Hanley Falls for three years, then moved to Granite Falls, where he was interested in the Granite Palls Hardware company. He then re-entered the employ of the Peavey company and was located at Echo for a year. For two years prior to moving to Ihlen he clerked in a general store in the town of Cottonwood. For five years previous to accepting his present position Mr. Gullickson managed the interests of the Northwestern Elevator company at Ihlen.

At Granite Falls, in 1899, our subject was married to Betsy Anderson, a native of Yellow Medicine county, where she was born Octover 18, 1878. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Gullickson, as follows: Alpha T., Mamie G., Harriet, Geneva and Ruth.

JAMES L. HENDREN (1886), of AVoodstock, has a continuous residence in Minnesota of fifty-six years to his credit. A native of North Carolina, he was born in Eagle Mills, Iredell county, on Decenibf^r 9, 1843. As a child he moved with his parents to Boone county, Indiana, and later to Cedar Falls, Iowa. In 1855 the family moved to Wabasha county, Minnesota, where James grew to manhood.

At the call to arms to preserve the union James L. Hendren volunteered his service. He enlisted in company G, Eighth Minnesota regiment, on August 13, 1862, and served with distinction for three years, until mustered out in August, 1865. During the latter part of the great struggle he was in General Sibley's command and engaged in the frontier campaign, in which the army crossed the country to the west and penetrated as far as Idaho against the redskins.

With the return of peace our subject settled at Reed's Landing, Wabasha county, and for two years experienced the life of a riverman. He later farmed in the same county, and in 1878 he moved to the western part of the state, settling in Murray county, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1886, the date of his settlement in Woodstock. For four or five years thereafter Mr. Hendren farmed, but of late years he was conducted a livery and feed stable. He has been constable of his precinct for the past twenty-three years, and for fifteen years he served as village marshal. He is a member of Stephen Miller Post No. 139, G. A. R., of Woodstock.

In Wabasha county, October 16, 1868, James L. Hendren was united in marriage to Mary M. Sherren, born in the Keystone state in 1847. Thirteen children were born to this union, three of whom, Elizabeth (Mrs. Addison Hughes), John and Florence, are dead. The names of the ten surviving children follow: George, James, Arthur, Ernest, Fred, Walter, Frank, Alice, Agnes and Mamie. A granddaughter, Stella Hughes, born on September 25, 1890, has lived in the home since the death of her mother, Elizabeth Hughes, on November 25, 1892.

ALEX MITCHELL (1892) is a well known resident of Jasper, which has been his home for the past nineteen years. He came to the village in 1892 to assume the management of the E. A. Brown elevator, which he later bought and conducted in his own name for a number of years. In March, 1910, he disposed of his elevator and extensive grain business to the Heaton Grain company. Since that time Mr. Mitchell has devoted his attention to his broad farming interests and to the business of buying and feeding stock. He owns a half section of productive Rock county land and 500 acres in Pipestone county.

Alex Mitchell is a native of bonny Scotland and was born in Aberdeen shire the eleventh of December, 1862. His parents, John and Isabella (Gray) Mitchell, are both buried in the land of the Scots. Alex received a careful education in his native country, and in 1883, during the first year of his manhood, he crossed the Atlantic and resided in Canada nine years. For part of the first year of his coming to the States he lived at Ashcreek, Rock county, and then established his present residence in Jasper. In 1909 Mr. Mitchell was a member of the village council. For a number of years past he has been president of the board of education. He holds membership in the JI. W. A., M. B. A. and K. P. lodges.

On September 9, 1896, Alex Mitchell was wedded to Julia Fauth, a Hoosier by birth. The ceremony was solemnized at Jasper. To these parents the following named children have been born: Robert, Louise, Marion and John Alexander.

EDWIN S. THORNDYKE (1894) is one of the substantial farmers and successful stock raisers of Osborne township. In that precinct he has lived seventeen years, and he is the owner of a half section of its productive soil. A native of Wisconsin, he was born in Ripon, Fond du Lac county, on October 8, 1864. His father, William Thorndyke, of Ripon, was born in England in 1842 and came to the United States twelve years later. The mother of our subject was Eliza M. (Spencer) Thorndyke, who died November 6, 1891. She was born in Utica, New York, in 1837 and was the great-granddaughter of General Nathanael Greene, of revolutionary fame.

Edwin spent his first thirty years amid the scenes of his birth. He was reared on a farm, and after graduating from the high school at Dartford, Wisconsin, was for two years a student at Ripon college. On attaining his majority, he commenced farming in partnership with his father near Ripon and was so engaged up to the time of his coming to Pipestone county in 1894. At that time he located on his present farm, the northeast quarter of section 22, Osborne township, land he had purchased the year before. In addition to that farm, he is now also the owner of a quarter on section 15. He is a large breeder of high grade stock and superintends their shipment and marketing himself. Mr. Thorndyke served one term as treasurer of Osborne township, and for one term served on the Edgerton board of education. He is a member of the M. B. A., M. W. A. and K. P. lodges of Edgerton.

At Rosendale, Fond du Lac county, Wisconsin, on the first of .lune, 1893, our subject was married to Ida E. Hyde, the daughter of Calvin and Adelaide E. (Flint) Hyde. Her father lives in Rosendale, but the mother died A\igust 14, 1883. Both the Hyde and Flint families are of old New York stock, and both are of English origin. Mrs. Thorndyke was born in Fond du Lac county, Wisconsin, February 21, 1867. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Thorndyke. They are Marguerita K., born May 16, 1894: W. Keith, born March 16, 1896; and Royal J., born June 1, 1901.

TOM HAGEN (1894), Sweet township farmer and stock raiser, is a German by birth. His nativity occurred February 8, 1879, in the province of Schleswig. He immigrated to America with his parents at the age of seven years and located with them In Scott county, Iowa. His father, John Hagen. a farmer by occupation, died in North Dakota May 18, 1906. His mother, Doris (Wolff) Hagen, still resides in Scott county.

Tom was reared on a farm and educated in the district schools of Scott county, which continued to be his home until 1894. That year the Hagen family moved to Rock county, Minnesota. Our subject lived on the home farm and hired out in Springwater township until 1902, when he rented the Pipestone county farm he now conducts. The farm comprises 240 acres of section 10, Sweet. Mr. Hagen is one of the large stockraisers of the precinct. He makes a specialty of Polled Angus cattle and Duroc- .lersey hogs. He is a stockholder in the Farmers Elevator company of Pipestone.

On September 9, 1904, in Sweet township, our subject was married to Katie Booth, who was born in Paullina, Iowa, December 24, 1884. There have been three children from this union: Elsie, born June 6, 1905; Herman, born .Tuly 25, 1906; and Harold, born October 28, 1909.

I'ATUICK 11. POWERS (1886), the efficient care-taker of Pipestone county's handsome court house, was born in Rockland, Michigan, August 10, 1860, of Irish parentage. He is one of three living sons, the names of the others being John J., of Wabasha county, and Edward, of Burke township. Their parents were Lawrence and Johannah (Nash) Powers, who came to America after their marriage in the Emerald isle. One daughter, Margaret, died in the state of Washington in April, 1905.

was a miner in Ireland and continued in that occupation after coming to this country and northern Michigan. The elder Mr. Powers died in 1887 in Wabasha county, Minnesota, to which place the family moved when Patrick was an eleven year old lad. He was brought up on a farm and educated in that county, which was his home until identifying himself with Pipestone county interests a quarter of a century ago. Mr. Powers bought the northeast quarter of section 27, Burke township, which he farmed until moving to the city of Pipestone in 1895. For ten years he was engaged in the threshing business, then in July, 1905, became the court house janitor. During his residence in Burke our subject served several years as a director of school district No. 48. He is a member of the Pipestone fire department and fraternally is allied with the Ancient Order of Hibernians.

Mr. Powers was married in the county on June 19, 1889, to Agnes O'Neill, who came with her parents, John and Rose O'Neill, from Canada and settled in Rock township in 1885. Mr. and Mrs. Powers are the parents of three children: Anna, a graduate of the Pipestone high school and Mankato normal, born April 2, 1891: Frank, born March 21, 1893; and Agnes, born Jan uary 15, 1895.

DIETRICH WINTER (1900) is one of the large landowners and successful farmers of Gray township. A native of Germany, he was born June 15, 1849, the son of Dietrich Winter and Mary Winter.

Mr. Winter was six years of age when he crossed the Atlantic with his parents and located with them, first in Sioux City, and later in Plymouth county, Iowa. There he grew up, bought land and farmed until establishing his residence in Pipestone county in 1900. At that time he bought the north half of section 9, Gray, upon which he makes his home. He later became the owner of the northeast quarter of section 16 and the east half of the southwest quarter of section 3, which makes a total of 560 acres of productive soil now farmed by Mr. Winter and his sons. He devotes considerable attention to the rasing, buying iind shipping of the best grades of stock.

In Plymouth county, Iowa, on May 12, 1879, the subject of this biography was married to Augusta Tiesler, who was born August 5, 1857, the daughter of Fred and Louise Tiesler. Mr. and Mrs. Winter have three sons, William, Fred and George.

ALBERT FRITZ (1897), of Rock township, was born across the seas, on a farm in West Prussia, October 30, 1874. He is the son of John and Mary (Roggenburgk) Fritz. Albert attended the common schools of his native land until sixteen years of age. Then he severed home ties and undertook the long journey alone to America. Arriving in the new world, he went to Hartley, Iowa, where resided an uncle, upon whose farm he was employed until 1897. That year Mr. Fritz cast his lot with Pipestone county's men of progress and bought the southwest quarter of section 21, Rock township, which has since been his home. He raises considerable stock, devoting especial attention to the breeding of thoroughbred Hereford cattle and Duroc-Jersey hogs. Mr. Fritz is a stockholder in the farmers' elevator of Woodstock, and he is a member of the Odd Fellows lodge and the German Lutheran church.

The marriage of our subject to Katie Tjards occurred at Hartley, Iowa. Mrs. Fritz was borj in Illinois July 4, 1882, the daughter of Daniel and Lydia (Gardas) Tjards. Mr. and Mrs. Fritz have the following named children; John, born December 25, 1898; Henry, born March 8, 1901; Otto, born June 16, 1903; .loseph, born March 20, 190.5; William, born June 2, 1907; Lydia, born June 2, 1907; and Annie, born May 8, 1909.

G. E. SELLERS (1898), president of the Pipestone city council, and one of the city's representative men of business, is a native of Illinois. His father, Thomas J. Sellers, who was born in Delaware county, New York, and his mother, Eliza (Richardson) Sellers, a native of New Albany, Indiana, are now residents of Ottumwa. Iowa. They settled in Warren county, Illinois, in the

In Warren county Mr. Sellers grew to manhood. He was graduated from the high school at Alexis, following which he was for two terms a student at Knox college, Galesburg, Illinois. At the age of twentyone he moved to Des Moines, Iowa, where he was located for a brief period, going from the capital city to the town of Walnut, where he was engaged in the furniture business until establishing his present residence in Pipestone. On July 6, 1898, our subject arrived in the city that was to be the field of his future successful endeavors. He bought the business of Alex. Powell, the pioneer furniture dealer of Pipestone, which under Mr. Sellers' ownership has developed to large proportions. It is now the only exclusive furniture and carpet store in the city.

While a resident of Walnut, Iowa, on May 13, 1888, G. E. Sellers was united in marriage to Minnie L. Dunlap, who was born in Albany, Wisconsin, March 11, 1862. To these parents two children have been born; Bernice E., born April 11, 1895, and M. Liona, born November 3, 1902.

Mr. Sellers is now serving his first term as president of the city council. He is a prominent figure in fraternal circles, holding membership in two branches of the Masonic order, in three branches of the Odd Fellows, in the Rebekahs, Eastern Star, Modern Woodmen of America and the Royal Neighbors. Mr. Sellers is a pastmaster of the A. F. & A. M. lodge.

L. K. VILAND (191)7), of Eden townshii), is the owner of a well improved farm of 240 acres located in section 3 of that precinct. Mr. Vilaud was born in western Norway August 12, 1865, the son of Knut and Carrie (F'ronsdall) Viland, both deceased.

The subject of this biography was less than a year old when the family departed from. Norway to seek a home in the new world. They settled in Story county, Iowa, and in the district schools of that county L. K. Viland acquired his education. He was left fatherless at the age of eight years. When he became of sufficient age he undertook the management of the home farm for his mother untU after his twentyfourth birthday. His mother died in Iowa in 1900. Our subject farmed rented land for five years, then bought a farm which he conducted until 1907, the year of his settlement in Pipestone county.

Mr. Viland owns stock in two leading enterprises of Ihlen, the Ihlen State Bank and the Farmers Elevator company. He was chosen a director of the elevator company in 1910 and of the bank in 1911. He was elected to the directorship of school district No. 66 in 1908. With his family he belongs to the Zion Lutheran church of Ihlen.

While a resident of Story county, on January 30, 1890, Mr. Viland was married to Christina Hill, who was born in Polk county, Iowa, June 29, 1866. Three children have been born to this union: Clarence, born January 1, 1891; John, born May 22, 1893; and Vinnie, born September 20, 1897.

DR. THOM.\S LOWE (1904), of Pipestone, is a physician and surgeon of more than Iccal prominence. He has been a member of the state board of medical examiners for the past nine years. Of this important body he served one term as president and is the present vice president. Dr. Lowe has been the head physician in the state of Minnesota for the Modern Woodmen order since 1901, and since 1907 in addition has held a similar position for the Canadian province of Manitoba.

Dr. Lowe is a Canadian by birth and one in a family of seven children, the others being .Tames, of Slayton; David, of Cheney, Washington; ,Tohn, of Hadley, Minnesota; Dr. William, of Madison, South Dakota; Minnie (Mrs. W. B. Stine), of Minneapolis; and Alex, of Hadley. Th^ parents of our subject were James and Minnie (Chalberg) Lowe, both natives of Scotland, who early in life come to America and settled in Quebec, Canada. .Tames Lowe died in Murray county, Minnesota, in 1896, at the age of seventy-six years, and his faithful wife preceded him to the grave by thirteen years. Mrs. Lowe was fifty-eight years of age at the time of her death.

Ten years later the family crossed the border to the United States and settled in Bremer county, Iowa. There James Lowe engaged in farm.ing until 1877, when the family became residents of southwestern Minnesota. The father and his three oldest sons, James, David and John, all homesteaded land in Murray county.

The early district school education of our subject was supplemented by a course in the Decorah, Iowa, institute. After a career of two years as a school teacher, Thomas Lowe decided on medicine as his profession and matriculated at the Hahnemann Medical college of Chicago. He was graduated from that institution in 1885 and immediately thereafter entered upon the practice of his profession at Slayton, Murray county, where he resided until 1904, when he established his present residence in Pipestone. Dr. Lowe has taken extensive post-graduate work, at th,e New York Post-Graduate Medical school and special study of the eye, ear, nose and throat at a leading Chica.go college. He is a member of the American Medical association, American Institute of Homeopathy, the Minnesota State Medical society and the Southwestern Minnesota Medical society. Dr. Lowe is the medical examiner for the New York Life, the Equitable Life, the Phoenix and other of the leading life insurance associations, and for various fraternal orders.

At Slayton, on June 18, 1887, Dr. Lowe was united in marriage to Sadie Southwell, a native of Wenona, llHnois, and the daughter of Captain Oran M. Southwell. To these parents have been born four children; William, born in 1892; Alice, bom in 1894; Margaret, born in 1897: and Duncan, born in 1900. In fraternal circles Dr. Lowe is prominent. He holds membership in the following orders: Masonic, including the Royal Arch; Modern Woodmen, Modern Brotherhood of America, Yeomen, Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias.

HENRY BONINE (1887), one of the young and successful farmers of Grange township, is a native of that precinct. He is the second son in a family of six children born to Carl and Matilda Bonine, both deceased, who were born in Germany. Carl Bonine, a former well known resident of

Grange, died in 1895, and twelve years later, in 1907, his wife and the mother of our subject was called to her reward. Henry was born May 4, 1887, grew up on the parental farm and received a district school education. In 1908 he was awarded the southwest quarter of section 9, Grange, from his father's estate, and that is the place he has since made his home. Mr. Bonme is unmarried. He has three sisters, Louise, Hulda and Edith, and two brothers, Richard and Albert. He belongs to the German Lutheran church.

JOHN F. MAHL (1897), Elmer township farmer and landowner, was born across the seas, in Holstein, Germany, September 24, 1876. His father, Carl Mahl, formerly a Pipestone county farmer, returned in 1908 to Germany to spend his declining years in the land of his birth The mother of our subject, Maggie (Sindt) Mahl, is also living.

At the age of fifteen John closed his career as a student in the German schools and with an uncle set sail for the newworld. They located at Keystone, Benton county, Iowa, and there he was employed at farm labor until 1897, the year he moved to Pipestone county with his parents. Mr. Mahl assisted his father with the management of the home farm on section 20, Elmer, until 1902, when he bought and moved to his present farm, the southeast quarter of section 32, upon which he has made most of the improvements. In October, 1909, he bought the northeast quarter of the same section, which he leases.

On January 16, 1902, John F. Mahl was married to Carolina Sindt, a native of Keystone, Iowa, her birth having occurred January 6, 1880. The ceremony was solemnized in that town. One son, Carl, was born to these parents, on June 28, 1908. Mr. Mahl holds membership in the Modern Woodmen lodge at Trosky.

GEORGE G. STONE (18!I0) is the editor and publisher of the Farmer's Leader, of Pipestone, the leading democratic organ in the county and the official newspaper. Mr. Stone has been connected with the Leader in an editorial capacity for the past twentyone years and since 1895 has been the sole owner of that influential journal. He located in Pipestone in October, 1S90, buying the paper at that time in partnership with C. C. Goodnow, who retired from the firm at the end of five years.

The entire life of George G. Stone has been passed in southwestern Minnesota. A native of Jackson county, he was born August 22, 1867, on the homestead of his father in Petersburg township. His parents were George D. and Elizabeth Ann (Isbel) Stone, both natives of St. Lawrence county. New York. They were among the very first settlers of this section of Minnesota, settling in Jackson county in 1865. George D. Stone died while visiting at the home of a daughter in Estherville, Iowa,' and was sixty-seven years of age at the time. His wife passed away on the old homestead, having lived to the age of fortyfive years. There were eleven children in the Stone family, of whom the following seven survive: Genta, Edward, Will, George G., of this review; Leon, Lewis and Elvin.

George commenced attending school at the age of five years, his first teacher being Mary Bordwell, who meted out knowledge to the young hopefuls in an old log shanty. In the fall of 1882 he moved to the village of Jackson and there finished his education and later was married. He learned the printer's trade and acquired the journalistic instinct in the office of the .lackson Republic, on which he was employed from March, 1887, to the commencement of his labors in Pipestone.

A tew months before leaving Jackson, on April 29, 1890, Mr. Stone was united in marriage to Clara M. Gilbert, whose birth occurred in Freeborn county, Minnesota, on August 16, 1871. Her parents, Warren and Helen (Burlock) Gilbert, were among the very earliest settlers of Freeborn county. Her brother. Will Gilbert, built the old water-power mill on the Des Moines river, a short distance north of .Taekson, in the pioneer days, and it was by reason of this (hat the old historic landmark was and is still known as the Gilbert Mill. Helen Burlock, the mother of Mrs. Stone-, was the first white child born in the state of Minnesota according to all authentic records. Her father, Captain Burlock, was a mem- ber of the garrison at Fort Snelling stationed tliere in the early thirties to protect government interests against the savage redraen. Captain Burlock had been accompanied from the east by his wife and in that frontier army post, on February 6, 1830, their daughter, Helen, was born. Mr. and Mrs. Stone are the parents of an only child, Lorna R., who was born the first day of February, 1895.

J. P. FEYBREISEN (1900) is a wellknown resident of Burke township, in which precinct he owns and farms the south half of section 26 and engages to a large extent in the breeding of the highest grades of stock. There were but a few minor improvements of the farm when it came into the possession of Mr. Feyereisen ; now he has a farm home that is unrivalled in the township. A fine new residence and barn were erected on the place during the summer of 1910.

Luxemburg is the native land of our subject. He was born February 28, 1864, the son of Steffen Feyereisen, a farmer by occupation, who died in 1884 at the age of eighty-two years, and of Mary (Pier) Feyereisen, also deceased. She passed away in 1887, being in her sixty-second' year at the time.

Mr. Feyereisen resided on the home farm until after his twentieth birthday, then bade adieu to the scenes of his nativity and crossed the broad Atlantic to become an adopted son of Uncle Sam. For eleven years he farmed in Plymouth county, Iowa, then moved to Pocahontas county, where he bought a quarter section of land and continued his agricultural career. He disposed of his Iowa holdings in 1900 and invested in his present Pipestone county real estate. For six years past our subject has served as a director of school district No. 21. Me is also a director of the Farmers Elevator company of Woodstock.

While a resident of Plymouth county, Iowa, in November. 1893, J. P. Feyereisen was joined in wedlock to Mary Annie Mounts, a native of Germany. She came to

America the year of her marriage. To this union have been born eight children, as follows: Henry, born September 4, 1894; Gabriel, born December 12, 1895; Albert, born March 20, 1897; Laura, born August 9, 1898; Willie, born April 29, 1900; Nick, born May 2, 1902; Emily, born January 4, 1904; and Frances, born July 27, 1905.

ARNOLD PILLING (1899) is one of the foremost business men and public spirited citizens of the village of Fkigerton. He has resided there since 1899, that year having bought the lumber business and yards of the Bank of Edgerton, to which he later added a full line of farm implements, a business he has conducted to the present date. He carries a commplete stock of building materials, cement, farm machinery, etc.

To the parents, William and Louisa (Baker) Pilling, natives of England and New York, respectively, Arnold Pilling was born February 24, 1858, in the town of Huron, Wisconsin. The father of our subject died in 1885 at Flandreau, South Dakota, but his mother is still living. When Arnold was six years of age the family moved to Dodge county, Minnesota, where he was educated and grew to manhood. At the age of twenty-three, in 1881, he went to Moody county. South Dakota, and took a homestead, upon which he lived eight years. He then engaged in the implement business and later in the lumber business in the town of Flandreau and continued so until 1896, when he moved to Fulda, Minnesota, to accept the management of the Colman Lumber company's yards at that point. In 1899 Mr. Pilling established his present business in Edgerton.

For a better and more progressive Edgerton Mr. Pilling has labored incessantly since becoming a resident of the thriving Pipestone county community. For the past ten years he has faithfully served as clerk of the board of education and holds an equally good record for service on the village council. Mr. Pilling is a prominent lodge man. He belongs to three ranks of the Masons - the Blue Lodge, the Royal Arch Masons, and the Comniandery - and is also affiliated with the Workmen and Modern Woodmen orders.

In Dodge county, Minnesota, on July 28, 1S80, the subject of tliis biography was married to lona A. Harwood, who was born in Wisconsin July 4, 1862. To these parents the following four children have been born; Pear! Mary (Mrs. H. B. Francis), of Minneapolis; Roy William, of Chester, Montana; Clara Alice, a school teacher; and Beva lone.

JAMES S. BROWN (1898) farms 200 acres of Altona township's soil and engages extensively in stock raising. He was born near Sandwich, Illinois, May 5. 1874, one in a family of nine children, two of whom are deceased. His parents were Andrew M. Brown, a native of Chemung county. New York, who died November 17, 1906, and Clara Jane (Davis) Brown, who was bom In New York state May 29, 1842, and who now lives with her son. Andrew M. Brown, of Scotch-German descent, settled in Illinois and farmed continuously until his death at the age of fifty-six years, first in Illinois and later in Iowa. The Davis family is of German origin.

James was five years of age wlien the family made settlement in Calhoun county, Iowa, and there he passed the ensuing nineteen years of his life. He was educated in the district school and in the public schools of Gowrie. He commenced his self-supporting career as a well digger. He owned an outfit and conducted the business three years; then for five years he was engaged, most of the time, in pressing hay. Mr. Brown established a residence in Pipestone county in 1898. He was a Fountain Prairie township farmer until 1909, when he located on the farm on section 24, Altona, which he now rents. For eight years our subject served as clerk of school district No. 27, in Fountain Prairie township.

Mr. Brown is unmarried. He makes a home for his mother and two sisters, Annie and Eva. Two brothers, B. J. and Willis Brown, are dead. The remaining children in the Brown family are Sarah (Mrs. I. W. Cline), of Calhoun county, Iowa; Phoebe Jane (Mrs. W. J. Vance), of Green county, Iowa; W. M. Brown, of Calhoun county, Iowa; and Rosie (Mrs. C. H. Sowden), of Lincoln county, Minnesota.

DR. ELMER H. ARGETSINGER (1898), a prominent dentist of Pipestone, has been engaged in the practice of his profession in that city since 189S. A native of New York state, Dr. Argetsinger was born the thirteenth of May, 187.3. Early in life he accompanied his parents in their removal to Minnesota, the family first settling in the city of Faribault and later establishing themselves at Mapleton, Blue Earth county. Graduating from the dental department of the university of Michigan with the class of 1896, our subject immediately thereafter located in his home town, Mapleton. Two years later Dr. Argetsinger commenced his residence in Pipestone. In 1903 a partnership was formed between Dr. Elmer H. Argetsinger and his brother. Dr. Ernest E. Argetsinger, in the conduct of their profession. Their offices are located over the State Bank of Pipestone.

G. W. and Mary Jane (Maricle) Argetsinger, the parents of Dr. Argetsinger, were natives of the Empire state and descended from early colonial stock. The mother died in September, 1907, and since that time G. W. Argetsinger has resided with his daughter at Mapleton, Minnesota. There are ten children in the Argetsinger family, all living. They are George F., of Pipestone; Mrs. John Burgett, of Faribault; Albert H., of Willets, California; Mrs. Joseph Stevens, of Mapleton; Ulysses G., of Mapleton; Norman E., of Oakes, North Dakota; Edward A., of Missoula, Montana; Elmer H., of Pipestone; Ernest E., of Pipestone; and Mrs. E. E. Newcomer, of Minneapolis.

On June 29, 1898, Dr. Argetsinger was joined in marriage to Carrie Lawrence, and to this union three children have been born: Genevieve, Elmer Erland and Alfred Glenn. The doctor holds membership in five different branches of the Masonic order, the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Eastern Star, Scottish Right and Shrine, in the Modern Woodmen and the Modern Brotherhood of America. He is a rrember of the Pipestone Library board.

AMEL E. SHUBERT (1887), who farms the northeast quarter of section 12, Gray township, has resided in the county twenty-four years. The date of his nativity is

At the age of seventeen Amel left Iowa and with his parents, Martin and Tersie (Klotcher) Shuhert, moved to Yellow Medicine county, Minnesota, where the father bought land. Our subject became identified with Pipestone county interests three years later. He was employed in Pipestone three j'ears by Stanley Bros.; then he commenced his career as an independent farmer. He rented his present farm in the spring of 1910 and has lived there since. Mr. Shubert has for seven years been clerk of school district No. 32. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. lodge and the Catholic church.

At Marshall, Lyon county, on October 17, 1905, was performed the ceremony which united Amel E. Shubert and Kate Panck in the bonds of matrimony. Mrs. Shubert is a native of Wisconsin and was born in 18S2, the daughter of Steven Panck. Three children have been born to these 'parents, namely, Mabel, Miland and Amel.

GEORGE R. STEVENS (1906) has been the manager of the Farmers Co-operative association of Ruthton since its organization. This flourishing company was organized and incorporated in June, 1906, by a number of prominent business men and farmers of Ruthton and vicinity. The company owns the former elevator property of the Minnesota & Western Grain company and handles grain, coal, feed and flour. The following is the present list of officers: President, J. J. Beal; secretary, \V. L. Rogde; treasurer, S. 15. Uuea; manager, G. R. Stevens. The directors are Ed. Ginzel, M. M. Bly, Christ Hansen and Alva Smith.

The subject of this biography is a native of the south, having been born in Gallatin, Tennessee, on the fifth of August, 1868. He was the eldest child born to John B. and Martha (Gregg) Stevens, both of whom are deceased. The former was a native of Ohio and the latter of Pennsylvania. George was in his first year when the family moved to Nebraska, and on his father's farm in that state he developed into manhood.

At the age of twenty-one Mr. Stev-sns forsook the shelter of the parental roof and became a resident of Minnesota. He farmed near Currie, Murray county, for two years and was similarly engaged near the town of Lake Wilson. He clerked in a Lake Wilson store for three years prior to 1906, the year of his settlement in Ruthton and commencement of the duties of his present position. Mr. Stevens is one of Ruthton's councilmen. He is a member of the Blue Lodge of Ruthton, the Royal Arch Chapter at Pipestone, and of the Modern Woodmen lodge.

While a resident of Lake AVilson, on September 1, 1895, George R. Stevens was married to Susan Saboin, who was born near Alma City, Waseca county, Minnesota, August 14, 1870. A son and a daughter have been bom to these parents. They are Harold, born July 30, 1896, and Mildred, born December 26, 1898.

ED. B. MALOSH (1901) is one of Sweet township's enterprising agriculturists. He is a native of Ohio and was born in Miami county November 21, 1855. In that county his father, Jerome B. Malosh, was also born, on April 1, 1827. The father of Jer ome B. Malosh came from France and his mother was a native of Scotland. The mother of our subject. Catherine (Phillips') Malosh, was born in the state of New York February 17, 1831. The Phillips family are of old Pennsylvania Dutch stock. Both parents are living and reside in Wisconsin.