Pipestone County, Minnesota - Chapter 34: Pipestone County Biographical, 1911 (part 5 of 7)

Ed. was a six months old babe when the Malosh family departed from the Buckeye state and made settlement in Vernon county, Wisconsin. There he was educated and resided until arriving at the age of twentyone years. That year, 1876, he severed home ties and became a resident of Olmsted county, Minnesota. He was employed at farm labor for seven years and then returned to Wisconsin for two years. He spent a year in Berrien cqunty, Michigan, and for a like period was employed in the pineries of northern Wisconsin. We next find our subject as a farmer in Moody county. South Dakota, where he remained three years; then he resided on a farm in his old locality in Wisconsin for eleven years.

In February, 1900, Mr. Malosh once more effected a settlement in Moody county. South Dakota. In another year he made his first acquaintance with Pipestone conn- ty. He farmed four years in Sweet township; tlieu once more located in Moody county. That time he remained two years and then was lured back by the advantages of Pipestone county, his home since. He has for four years been located on his present place, the north half of section 19, Sweet township.

At Flandreau, South Dakota, on November 21, 1S87, our subject was married to Josie Johnson, who was born in Norway March 22, 1866, and who came to this country in 1883. Mr. and Mrs. Malosh are the parents of two children: Roy, born October 14, 1888; and Cora, born August 2, 1890.

JOHN J. NATZKE (1882), real estate dealer of Pipestone, is a native of McHenry county, Illinois. He is one of four living children, the names of the others being William, Augusta and Hannah, who were born to August and Louisa Natzke, both natives of Germany and now deceased.

The date of the birth of our subject was December 8, 1860. When four years of age he moved with his parents to Butler county, Iowa, where he was educated and grew to manhood. When twenty-two years old John cast his lot v/ith the young but promising Pipestone county. He bought the northwest quarter of section 12, Eden township, which he improved and upon which he made his home until moving to Pipestone City in 1904. He still owns his Eden farm, together with three other quarter sections in the same precinct. During, his residence in that township he served as a member of the board of supervisor* and also as treasurer of his school district. Mr. Natzke has devoted his attention to the real estate business and the mana.gement of his property interests since moving to the county seat. He recently completed a handsome bungalow in the city, planned after a building of the same type he became impressed with while on a trip through southern California.

Mr. Natzke was married in Eden township on January 26, 1881, to Emma E. Lange, a native of Dane county, Wisconsin. They are the parents of the following four children: William, who operates the home farm; Clara (Mrs. Frank Ettner), of Elgin, Illinois; Elmer, who married Josephine Nelson and resides at Sioux City, Iowa; and Lillian, of Pipestone.

CHRIS F. RIECK (1902) owns and farms (he east half of section 7, Osborne township, and is an extensive breeder of Shorthorn cattle and Duroc-Jersey hogs. His home has been in Pipestone county since 1902. A native of Mecklenburg, Germany, he was born January 25, 1863, the son of Chris and Dorathea Rieck, who immigrated to the United States when our subject was a child.

The family first located in Iowa county, Iowa. For three years they lived in the town of Amana and then the father en gaged in farming. After six years the family home was established in Benton county, the same state, and there our subject lived and farmed until becoming a resident of Pipestone county in 1902. He has made many substantial improvements on his farm, completing in the summer of 1910 a fine residence and barn costing over $4000. Mr. Rieck is a stockholder in the Farmers Elevator company of Edgerton, is a member of the township board and clerk of school district No. 43.

In Benton county, Iowa, the twentyeighth day of February, 1886, Chris P. Rieck was united in marriage to Emily J. Wehrman, the daughter of Henry and Sarah (Elder) Wehrman. She is a native of Iowa and was born September 19, 1863. Four sons have been born to these parents. They are Fred, born March 13, 1887; Rudolph, born March 7, 1889; Edward, born July 8, 1893; and John, born March 23, 1905. The family are members of the German Lutheran church.

NICHOLAS VOS (1898), farmer and stock raiser of Elmer township, owns the southwest quarter of section 23 of that precinct. His parents, Rokus and Nellie (Denberger) Vos, were natives of The Netherlands who settled in Marion county, Iowa, at an early date. In that county our subject was born January 14, 1862. Nicholas was fourteen years of age when the family moved to Sioux county, Iowa, and there he finished his schooling. At the age of twenty he commenced the shaping of his own career. He farmed rented land five years, was employed on the railroad ten years, and in 1S9S established himself on the Pipestone county farm he now owns. Mr. Vos makes a specialty of breeding Durham cattle. He owns stock in the farmers' elevator at Trosky and is a member of the M. W. A. lodge.

The subject of this biography was married at Alton, Iowa, February 22, 1882, to Cornelia Depenning, who was bom April 17, 1862, the daughter of Leonard Depenning. Mr. and Mrs. Vos are the parents of the following nine children: P. Nellie (Mrs. A. J. Grandia). born January 18, 1883; Leonard, born April 28, 1885; Kate (Mrs. James Swart), born March 30, 1887; Walter, born December 1, 1892; Roy, born November 1, 1895; Lydia, born February 9, 1897; John P., born February 5, 1899; Clarence A., born .June 28, 1902; and Nicholas C, born Junuary 10, 1906.

EDWARD BURG (1889) is the manager of the Farmers Elevator company at Jasper and is president of the village council. He has always been prominent in the civic affairs of his home town and on several occasions has served as a member of the council.

Edward Burg was born in Fond du Lac county, Wisconsin, October 3, 1862. Up to his seventeenth jear his life was passed on his father's iarm in the native county. On leaving home he went to the iron range district of Michigan, where for six years he was employed in the mines and at various other occupations. On leaving Michigan he made North Dakota his destination, and in that state he worked as a mechanic with an elevator construction crew, maintaining headquarters at Wahpeton. Atfer two seasons at such employment our subject went to Danvers, Minnesota, where he accepted a position as grain buyer for the Northwestern Elevator company. .Xfter a year he was transferred to Ihlen, Minnesota, and in 1888 to Jasper, which has been his liome continuously since.

He had charge of the Northwestern company's interests in Jasper for nineteen years, or until July, 1908, when he accepted his present position. The farmers' elevator, of which he is the manager, was built three years, ago by a company of representative farmers of Pipestone and Rock counties. The organizers were John W. Wehrman, John Kahler, Andrew Enger, John Seeman, W. J. Drew, F. H. Everett, Canuel Van Acker, P. H. Norval, F. E. Seeman, Otto K. Steen, P. O. Olson and T. T. Bieber. The present officers are: I'resident, John W. Wehrman; vice presi dent, P. H. Hermanson; secretary, W. J. Drew; treasurer, F. C. Bauman; directors, John Kahler, Gunder Peterson, Emil Madetcke, J. H. Manion and Otto K. Steen; manager, Edward Burg. The company is incorporated and does a general grain and fuel business.

Edward is the son of John and Hildgard Burg, botli natives of Germany, who came to this country at the ages of six months and sixteen years, respectively. They were married in Fond du Lac county, Wisconsin, and there Mr. Burg still resides. His wife has been dead for twenty-seven years.

Our subject was married in the county of his birth July 29, 1888, to Christina Berrens, born in the same county May 16, 1863. Mr. and Mrs. Burg are the parents of two living children: Hiram A., born October 4, 1891, and Lester H., born August 15, 1895. One child, Mark C, was born August 19, 1889, and died November 7, 1889. Mr. Burg is a member of the Masonic and Workmen lodges.

^WILLIAM BOYCE (1890), Gray township farmer, was born in Allamakee county, Iowa, on the nineteenth of February, 1872. His parents, Samuel Boyce, a New Yorker by birth, and Philema (Young) Boyce, a native of Ohio, were early settlers of that Iowa county. William was eleven years of age when the Boyce family moved to O'Brien county, Iowa, whence they moved, after a seven years' residence, to Pipestone county. Samuel Boyce bought the northwest quarter of section 10, Gray township, and that farm our subject has rented and farmed since 1900. Mr. Boyce is a large stock raiser. He is the treasurer of school district No. 5. In a fraternal

At Woodstock, on June 19, 1900, our subject was joined in marriage to Louise Carpenter, who was born in Champaign county, Illinois, June 3, 1862. Mrs. Boyce is the daugther of James and Mary E. (Feeks) Carpenter, both natives of New York.

OLE WILLIAMS (1908) owns and farms the northeast quarter of section 6, Aetna township, land which he bought on first coming to the county three years ago. His parents, Johannes and Guri (Knutson) Wilhelmson, were small farmerT in Hangesund, Norway, where occurred the birth of our subject on July 27, 1866. In the first year of his manhood Ole embarked from native shores and journeyed to America alone. He was employed for three years on a farm near Sanborn, Iowa, then engaged in ditching and tiling work at Lake City, Iowa. Mr. Williams later rented land and farmed in Sac county, Iowa, of which he was a resident until coming to Pipestone county in 1908.

On December 30, 1894, while visiting at his old home in Norway, Ole Williams was married to Annie Halvorson, the daughter of Peter and Mari (Larson) Halvorson. They are the parents cf the following five children: Martin, born December 8, 1895; Gilbert, born May 23, 1897; William, born January 18, 1899; Mabel, Ijorn October fi, 1901; and Melvin, born September 8, 1907. The family are members of the Norwegian Lutheran church.

DR. ERNEST E. ARGETSINGER (1897), of Pipestone, is associated with his brother, Dr. Elmer H. Argetsinger, in the practice of the dental profession. Argetsinger & Argetsinger have been established m commodious quarters over the Pipestone State Bank since 1903.

Our subject is one in a family of ten children born to G. W. and Mary Jane (Maricle) Argetsinger, both of whom were natives of New York. The former parent is "till living and is a resident of Mapleton, Minnesota, but Mary Jane (Maricle) Argetsinger has been deceased since September,

1907. Shortly after the Argetsingers moved from the east and settled in Minnesota, on April 8, 1879, Erne"t E. of this review was born. At the age of three years he moved with his parents from Faribault, the city of his birth, to Mapleton, which was the family home for many years. In 1895 a removal to Wisconsin was effected, and from that state two year-; later the family came to Pipestone county and established a residence. Dr. Argetsinger has been a Pipestone denti'St since 1903, the year of his graduation from the university of Michigan.

At Mankato, on June 15, 1905, Dr. E. B. Argetsinger was married to Anna Deem, a native of Ohio. The following three children have been born to this union: John D., Ellsworth B. and Harry. Fraternally our subject is affiliated with the Masonic and Modern Woodmen orders, and for several years he haT been a member of the Pipestone board of education.

G. L. CHESLEY (1887) has for twentyfour years been known as the artistic photographer of Pipestone. His studio is a model of its kind and is excelled for arrangement and equipment by none in southwestern Minnesota.

The subject of this biography is a native Minnetotan, his birth having occurred at Owatonna on December 5, 1860. There he was educated and learned the photographer's art in the studio of his father. On leaving home Mr. Chesley worked as a photographer in various cities, among them St. Louis,' Milwaukee and Minneapolis. He settled in Pipestone in 1887.

The marriage of Mr. Chesley to Dora M. Pierson occurred in Pipestone October 20, 1892. Mrs. Chejley was born in Mankato, Minnesota. There have been there children as the result of this union: Donald and Dorothy, twins, aged fifteen years, and Eloise, aged eight years.

ANDREW H. NELSON (1889) is one of Jasper's pioneer citizens and business men, having come to the village the spring following it-; founding. He erected a small building and in a modest way engaged in wagon making. His business grew from the start, and a few years after his arrival it became necessary to increase his facilities. He erected the building which now houses his business, which is styled the Jasper wagon shop. In addition, he buys and sells old iron and metals.

Andrew's birthplace is Green county, Wisconsin, the date of his nativity, December 14, 1855. That was his home for the fir>t four years of his life, when he moved with his parents to Winneshiek county, Iowa. There he grew to manhood, securing his education in a Norwegian parochial school. Starting out in the world, he first went to Waukon, Iowa, where he learned the trade of wagon maker, and for tei years tha* was his home. W'j next find him in Rock Rapids, Iowa, where for three years he worked at the carpenter trade. Following this, he turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, farming three years in Martin township. Rock county. Then for six months he was the proprietor of a hotel at the then new town of Bruce. Prom Bruce he went direct to Jasper, which is still his home.

Andrew Lesney and Isabella Lesney, the parents of Andrew Nelson, were both natives of Norway. The father died in Wisconsin a few months before Andrew was born. His mother was married a second time to Nels Sjurson. She died some years ago at Hills, IMinnesota.

On July 30, 1S83, at Luverne, Mr. Nelson was united in marriage to Annie Peterson, a Norwegian by birth, who came to America when only a year and one-half old. To them were born eleven children, of whom the following six are still living; Arthur Henry, born August 14, 1892; Addie Carl, born .lanuary 14, 1895; Pearl Mabel, born March 12, 1896; Wyeth Philip, born November 24, 1901; Daphine Louise, born April 23, 1904; Andrew Wilfred, born May 2, 1909. Of the five deceased children, three died within a few days of each other of black diphtheria. The dates of the births and deaths of the children who have passed away are as follows: Ida Millia, born April 20, 1884. died February 12, 1892; Clara Louise, born November 20, 1885, died February 13 1892; Arthur Henry, born February 20, 1888, died February 7, 1892; Peter William, born April 3, 1890, died December 7, 1909; Magdlen Emily, born February 10, 1907, died March 7, 1907.

HANS RUSSAU (1906), now a retired farmer of Pipestone, until recently owned and farmed the northeast quarter of section 34, Troy township, which was his home since 1906. A native of Germany, Hans was born in the province of Holstein May 19, 1864, the son of John Russau, a laborer, and Catherine (Haij) Russau. He bade farewell to native land at the age of seventeen years and became an adopted son of Uncle Sam. For a year and a half he was employed as a gardener and teamster in Chicago, then became a Tama county, Iowa, farmer. Five years ago he settled In Pipestone county. While on the farm Mr. Russau engaged extensively in stock raising and made a specialty of Shorthorn cattle. He is a stockholder in the Farmers Telephone company.

Recently Mr. Russau sold his farm, for which he obtained a record-breaking price per acre. On January 11, 1911, he held a public sale, when he also obtained recordbreaking prices for his cattle and sheep. Mr. Russau has now retired from active pursuits and makes his home in Pipestone.

Cur subject was married in Chicago on February 19, 1903, to Annie Jarmuth, whose birth occurred December 12, 1870, at Niles Center, Illinois. Mrs. Russau is the daughter of Charles and Sophia (Peters) Jarmuth, both natives of Mecklenberg, Germany. They came to the United States in 1855 and homesteaded land near Chicago.

JAMES A. ROBSON (1907), secretary of Robson-Hilliard Company, the wholesale grocery concern that has contributed in a large measure to the fame of Pipestone as a commercial center, has been a resident of that city since the organization of the enterprise. The company of Robson-Hilliard was organized in 1907 and is capitalized for the sum of $75,000.

sota. J. H. Robson was an early settler of that eastern Minneiota city and was born in Fillmore county when that territory wai3 just commencing to be opened for settlement. J. H. Robson married Anna G. Schad, now deceased, who had the distinction of having been the very first white child born in Freeborn, one of Minnesota's oldest counties. March 6, 1885, is the date of the birth of Jame-s A. Robson, the event occurring in the city of Owatonna. He was educated in Pillsbury academy and the university of Wisconsin, and came direct from the latter institution to assume his present duties in Pipestone in May, 1907.

At Minneapoli-?, on June 22, 1908, Mr. Robson was joined in marriage to Lora Seeley, a Canadian by birth To these parents has been born one daugnter, Jane.

JOHN P. ASHBAUGH (1884), for twentyseven years a resident of Edgerton and the proprietor of a drug store at that place, was born in Pike county, Ohio, November 25, 1856. He is the son of Nimrod and Elizabeth (Glea"on) Ashbaugh, natives of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and Wooster, Ohio, respectively. His mother died in 1894 and his father passed away July 28, 1910, at the age of .seventy-six yeari, at the home of a daughter in Albany, Oregon.

During his sixteenth year John moved with his parents from the Hoosier state to Tama county, Iowa, and three years' later went with 'them to Nobles county, Minnesota, the father taking a homestead in Ransom township. In 1884 Mr. Ashbaugh moved to Edgerton, which has been his home ever since. In company with his brother-inlaw, George Gulick, he bought and conducted a grocery store for awhile, then traded the business to William Lockwood for the Edgerton hotel, which the two gentlemen operated nine years. On dissolving partnership, Mr. A'Bibaugh bought and farmed land two miles east of the village for eight years.

On retiring from farm life our subject resumed his residence in Edgerton, built a home, and in 1904, in company with H. B. Francis, bought the drug store of Dr. T. B. Francis. This partnership existed for two years, and since then Mr. Ashbaugh has conducted the business alone. He carries a complete line of drugs, toilet articles, stationery, etc. He served as president of the Edgerton village council in the early nineties, and for the past three years has been the village treasurer. Mr. Ashbaugh is the owner of a quarter section of land in Osborne township and of a half section in South Dakota. He i" a member of the Masonic, K. P. and M. W. A. lodges.

John P. Ashbaugh was married in Dodgeville, Wisconsin, February 14, 1885, to Bessie Gulick, who was born in that place in 1854. Mr?. Ashbaugh died April 12, 1910, aged flfty-six years. Two sons were born to this union: Vergil J., on July 12, 1893, and Alfred M., on April 9, 1895.

JOSEPH G. McGLASHEN (1899), a well known Osborne township farmer, is an lowan by nativity and was born in Tama county October 23, 1880. His father, James McGlashen, of Edgerton, is a native of Scotland. His mother, Mary (Steen) Mc- Glashen, died the month following the birth of our subject, in November, 1880. She was born in Scotland, of Irish parentage.

In early boyhood Joseph moved with his father from Tama to Grundy county, Iowa, and resided there until fifteen years of age. He was reared and educated in the town of Morrison. On leaving Iowa, the father and son resided for a year near Winnipeg, Manitoba, then settled in Minnesota. For three years he was employed in a grain elevator at Chandler, Murray county, then in 1899 came to Pipestone county.

Mr. McGlashen resided four years in the village of Hatfield, where he was a grain buyer and manager of the lumber yard. During two winters before leaving Chandler he had found opportunity to take a course in the Cedar Rapids Business college. He left Hatfield to become manager of the large Fay farm, of which his father was the financial manager. This farm comprises the whole of section 33, Osborne township, and he ably conducted the large tract for a period of six years. In the spring of 1910 Mr. McGlashen rented and moved to his present farm, the

On June 3, 1903, at Edgerton, Josepli G. McGlashen was married to Sarah Jane Evans, the daughter of David Evans, of Osborne townsliip. She was born In Iowa county, Wisconsin, December 31, 1884.

RALPH G. HART (1881), the present editor of the Pipestone County Star, Is the youngest of three sons born to Isaac L. and Mary E. (Gardner) Hart, who settled in the city of Pipestone during the first year of its existence.

The subject of this review has passed his entire life in the city of Pipestone. Ralph was born February 6, 1881, and was graduated from the Pipestone high school with the class of 1899. From his earliest school days he devoted his spare time in familiarizing himself with the many phases of the printing business and was well prepared to assume the editorship of such a paper as the Star, which he did in 1900. In a fraternal way Mr. Hart is affiliated with the United Workmen and Sons of Veterans orders.

On August 20, 1903, Ralph G. Hart was united in marriage to Lulu Heath Reed, who was born in Brooklyn, Iowa, September 9, 1883. Mr. and Mrs. Hart have three children: Grace L., born December 8, 1904; Reed G., born January 4, 1908; and Donovan H., born August 1, 1909.

JOHN BECK (19U8J, a business man of Ruthton, was born in Iroquois county, Illinois, on July 16, 1889. He is the son of Christ and Julia Beck and is one in a family of nine children, the following six of wliom are living; Peter, Andrew, Julius, Amelia, John and Arthur. The parents emigrated from their native land of Denmark in 1871 and arrived In Chicago the evening before the commencement of the disastrous conflagration in which the city was nearly destroyed by fire. The family settled in Iroquois county, Illinois, where both the father and the mother died.

John was reared on his father's Illinois farm and was educated in the near by district schools. He farmed two years after the death of his father and in 1908 came to Ruthton. He was employed for nearly a year with a threshing crew and then accepted a position in the Dean Hansen harness shop. In April, 1910, our subject bought out his employer and has since conducted the business. Mr. Beck conducts a harness and shoe repairing department in connection.

AARON S. JACKSON (1897), Gray township farmer, is an lowan by birth. He was born in Floyd county February 26, 1880, the son of Aaron and Mary (Jefferson) Jackson, natives of New Hampshire and Missouri, respectively. Aaron was educated in the district schools of Floyd county and assisted in the cultivation of the home farm, with the exception of three years spent in Cerro Gordo county, until he moved to Pipestone county in 1897. Since the spring of 1910 Mr. Jackson has rented and farmed the southwest quarter of section 29, Gray. He holds membership in the Modern Woodmen lodge.

At Worthington, Nobles county, on April 12, 1905, Aaron S. Jackson was united in marriage to Mary Mickelson, the daughter of Iver and Ause Mickelson, now of South Dakota. Mrs. Jackson was born in Norway December 8, 1879. Three children have resulted from this union: Milton G., born October 26, 1906; Ruth S., born January 24, 1909; and Edward C, born July 17, 1910.

GPJORGE F. ARGBTSINGER (iWl), a Pipestone contractor and builder, is a native of the Empire state. He was born in Steuben county. New York, January 24, 1860, the son of George W. and Mary J. (Maricle) Argetsinger, both of whom were also New Yorkers by birth.

Our subject was fourteen years of age when he moved west with his parents. The family located near Faribault, Rice county, Minnesota, where the father bought land luul engaged in farming. After eight years Mr. Argetsinger went to Mapleton, Blue Karth county, where he was destined to reside nineteen years. He followed the building trade and also was employed in a lumber yard in that town prior to 1901, when he selected Pipestone for his future home and built a residence in which he has since lived. Our subject is a member of the Baptist church and of three fraternal orders, the Odd Fellows, Modern Woodmen and Sons of Veterans.

George F. Ar.getsinger was married at Mapleton, Blue Earth county, on October 14, 1884, to Ella Bowman, a native of that town. Mrs. Argetsinger is the daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Dezell) Bowman, natives of New York, and she was born October 14, 1865. The following five childi-en have blessed this union: Elsie E., born October 14, 1885; George Leslie, born March 7, 1887; Mary J., born -August 21, 1S90; G. Winnifred, born February 20, 1893; and Francis M., born May 9, 1898.

HENRY SHAFER (1893) is numbered among the progressive farmers and large stock raisers of Burke township, in which precinct he owns the southeast quarter of section 17. A native of Livingston county, Illinois, he was born December 23, 1865, and on the farm of his father in that county he grew to manhood. His parents were John and Martha (Leisterl Shafer, both of whom came from Germany.

At the age of twenty-one Henry went to Nebraska. He bought an eighty acre farm near North Platte, Lincoln county, but at the end of a year sold his right to the land and returned to his native state. He farmed in Illinois until 1893, the year of his advent to Pipestone county and Burke township. For twelve years our subject has been the treasurer of school district No. 32 and has served the town of Burke in a similar capacity for three years. He is a shareholder in the farmers' elevator at Woodstock.

The marriage of Mr. Shafer to Adelia Rickerman was solemnized in Grange township November 21, 1894. Mrs. Shafer, the daugther of George and Jane (Roessler) Rickerman, was born in Clifton, Wisconsin, August 19, 1868. Three children have

HUGH CORRIGAN (1900) is numbered among the prosperous and progressive farmers of Sweet township. In that precinct he owns 480 acres of choice land, located on sections 12 and 13, range 47. That land was originally the property of hia father, John Corrigan, who bequeathed it all, together with a quarter section in Day county. South Dakota, to his son Hugh.

John Corrigan was born on Christmas day, 1834, in county Caven, Ireland, and in 1863 immigrated to the United States. He located near Aurora, Illinois, and from then until his death, which occurred March 31, 1905, he engaged profitably in farming and stock raising in Illinois. He amassed quite a fortune and his landed interests were large, including 900 acres In Livingston county, Illinois, and three quarter sections in Pipestone county, which he had bought as an Investment. The same year that Mr. Corrigan came to America came also Jamima Dunlap, who later became his wife. She was also a native of county Caven, Ireland, and was born April 10, 1843. She survives her husband and lives on the old farm in Illinois.

Eight children, four sons and four daughters, were born to John and Jamima (Dunlap) Corrigan, all but two of whom are living. The names of the children follow: Peter, a Livingston county farmer, born February 23, 1864; Eugene, deceased, born March 25, 1866, died March 25, 1893; Mary (Mrs. James Wallace), of Cottonwood, Minnesota, born August 29, 1SC7; Hugh, of this biography, bbrn May 24, 1869; Alice, who died at the age of twenty-two months; James, in the automobile business at Pontiac, Illinois, born October 25, 1873; Alice (Mrs. Ray Snyder), of Cornell, Illinois, born December 12, 1875; and Maggie (Mrs, James Grant), of Pontiac, Illinois, born June 12, 1878.

The birth of our subject, already noted, occurred six miles north of Chatsworth, in Charlotte township, Livingston county, Illinois. In that county Hugh Corrigan was reared, educated and lived until 1900. He grew up on the farm of his father, then rented land and engaged in farming on his own account. He arrived in Pipestone county March 17, 1900, in company with a brother and a sister, and at once located on the farm, then owned by his father, which has ever since been his home. Mr. Corrigan has made numerous substantial improvements on the farm and recently erected a commodious residence. He is an extensive breeder of high grade stock. He owns shares in the Farmers Elevator company of Airlie.

At Pipestone, on November 30, 1907, occurred the marriage of Hugh Corrigan to Cora Perdue, the daughter of Lee and Lealia Perdue, both of whom are living. She was born in Montgomery county, Virginia, November 12, 1881. Mr. and Mrs. Corrigan are members of the Pipestone Catholic church.

MAX T. G. MENZEL (1891), proprietor of a leading Pipestone drug store, has been engaged in business in that city since 1899, and for eight years prior to that time was in the employ of Robert Scarf as a registered pharmacist. He carries a full line of drugs, sundries, paints, oils and photographic supplies, and makes a specialty of his prescription department. He has prospered in his labors and owns considerable real estate.

A German by birth, our subject first saw the light of day in the hamlet of Giersdorf, province of Silesia, on May 18, 1870. He is the son of Ernest Menzel, a revenue officer in the employ of the German government. When Ma.x was seven years of age the family moved to Hirschberg, in the same province, and there attended the common schools until his departure for America in 1884, at the age of fourteen. He first located at Odessa, Minnesota, and for a number of years was engaged in various occupations. In the fall of 1887 he went to Webster, South Dakota, where he familiarized himself with the drug business under the tutelage of G. D. Peterson. He later completed the course offered by the Minnesota Institute of Pharmacy and in 1891 settled in Pipestone. Mr. Menzel was elected city recorder in 1901. He holds membership in

MATT J. CALDERWOOD (1900) is the junior member of the firm of Wright & Calderwood, dealers in farm machinery, pumps, windmills, etc., at Pipestone. He is a native of Scott county, Iowa, and was born near the city of Davenport September 24, 1858. His father, James Calderwood, is still living at the ripe old age of eighty-four and but recently returned from a visit to Ireland, the land of his binh. The mother of our subject is Henrietta Calderwood, who was born in New York state, of Scotch parentage.

Mr. Calderwood was educated in the district schools and grew to manhood on the Scott county farm of his father. He was twenty-four years of age when the family moved to Poweshiek county, in the same state. After assisting with the management of the home place for three years longer, our subject commenced farming on his own account and was so engaged until 1900, when he moved to Pipestone county. He established himself in the implement business at Ruthton, and two years later became a banker in that town. He moved to Pipestone to form his present partnership with Mr. Wright in 1905. Mr. Calderwood still retains possession of his Iowa farm. He is a member of the Blue Lodge, Commandery, Knights Templar and Eastern Star.

FRED LOMKER (1883), of Altona township, was eleven years of age when he first located in Pipestone county. He was born in Marshall county, Kansas, October 6, 1872, the son of Henry and Christine (Koneke) Lomker, both natives of Germany. The former parent died April 24, 1902, while the mother died in 1891.

From Kansas the Lomker family moved to Pipestone county in 1883. Tliey located on section 13, range 47, Altona, and on the home farm our subject resided until 1900. That year he went to Kenabec county, Minnesota, where he was engaged in farming for nine years. Mr. Lomker returned to Pipestone county in the summer of 1909, and since then has resided on the Altona farm he now conducts, which consists of 240 acres on sections 32 and 33. He owns eighty acres of land in Aitkin county, Minnesota.

During his residence in Kenabec county, at Mora, on June 15, 1903, Fred Lomker was united in marriage to Amelia Pottratz, a native of Pipestone county. She was born August 28, 1885. To this union the following three sons and one daughter have been born: Fred, born March 21, 1904; Robert, born October 6, 1905; Clara, born April 21, 1907; and Leonard, born August 28, 1909. Mr. and Mrs. Lomker are members of the German Lutheran church.

SELAH g. KING (1888), the first and present postmaster of Jasper and the editor of the Jasper Journal, has in the true sense of the word grown up with the town. In the spring of 1888, from which he dates his residence in Jasper, the only visible evidences of a town were the stakes which marked the townsite. He was among the first to build and lay the foundation for Jasper's future prosperity. From the start he has been one of the instrumental agencies in the promotion of every public enterprise and today is one of Jasper's most esteemed and popular citizens.

Near Whitewater, Walworth county, Wisconsin, Selah S. King was born October 15, 1864. At the age of three he accompanied his parents to Jackson county, Minnesota, of which his father is one of the pioneer settlers and influential men of affairs. Our subject lived on the old homestead in Wisconsin township, Jackson county, until 1873, when the family moved to the village of Jackson, where the father, William V. King, assumed his duties as county auditor, to which office he had been elected the same year. In .lackson Selah secured bis education and grew to manhood. In the spring of 1885 he left home and went to Pipestone, where he received his first taste of printer's Ink in the office of the Republican, now defunct. At the end of a year he moved to Elkton, South Dakota, and for the two succeeding years worked on the Elkton Record.

In 1888 he was on the ground at Jasper. In a little building erected in hurry-up time, the Journal was launched on its successful and useful career. The first issue was dated July 25, 1888, and from that day to this it has continued under the same management, an unusual record in country journalism. The paper is a five column quarto. Mr, King received his appointment as postmaster of Jasper during the summer of 1888. He served four years under the appointment. He was again appointed in 1897 and has held the office continuously since that date. At different times he has held offices of trust in the administration of his village and school district.

S. S. King is the son of William V. and Antonette (Porter) King, old and respected residents of Jackson. William V. King was born in Oldham, England, on September 26, 1831. He came to America with his parents four years later. For a while the family home was near Utica, New York; then a move was made to Walworth county, Wisconsin, where Mr. King was married and lived until his thirtieth year. He is a veteran of the civil war, having served as first sergeant in the Forty-third Wisconsin volunteer infantry. At the close of the war, Mr. King took up a residence in Austin, Minnesota, where he resided until the spring of the following year, 1866, when he located in .Jackson county as one of its pioneers. He homesteaded a quarter section in Wisconsin township. During thirty-one years of his residence in Jackson county Mr. King has held county office - a record held by no other man in that county. He has served his county as judge of probate,' superintendent ot schools, county attorney and auditor, having held the last mentioned office twentyone years.

Selah S. King of this sketch was married October 19, 1898, at Flandreau, South Dakota, to Carrie Ramsdell, the daughter of William and Mary A. Ramsdell. Mrs.

King was born in Osage, Iowa, November 5, 1872. They are the parents of four children: Kenneth, born August 16, 1899; Beth A., born October 29, 1902, died October 10, 1910; Paul S., born August. 14, 1908; and Eloise M., born April 21, 1910. Mr. King is a member of the Knights of Pythias, Masonic and Woodmen orders.

HENRY D. SIEBRING (1901), a representative business man of Holland, is a native of Brown county, Illinois. He is the oldest son in the family of eight children, the others being Rena, Claude, Richard, Severt, Morri" and Mabel, who were born to Bartlet and Maggie (Neeland) Siebring. The latter is a resident of Brown county, Illinois.

Henry was horn on the twenty-sixth day of Aiigiist, 1876. He was brought up in the country and received a district school education. He was left fatherless at the age of sixteen, and for six year^ thereafter he assumed the management of the home farm. He left Brown county to move to George, Iowa, where he was employed for three years by Will Colman. In 1901 Mr. Siebring established his residence in Holland. In that year, together with E. J. Feldman, he bought the hardware and implement business of Mahoney Bros. Several years later Mr. Siebring purchased his parner's interest.

He now deals exclusively in farm implements, vehicles, pumps, engines, etc., having disposed of his hardware stock to A. T. Serrurier in November, 1909.

Our subject was married at -George, Iowa, on March 12, 1902, to Helen Hedebrink. who was born in Adams county, Illinois, .lanuary 17, 1879.. The "first child of this union. Bartlett, was born April 18,

ERICK .1. ASLESEN (1900), one of the most prominent and influential, citizens of the town of .lasper and a member of the firm of Aslesen Bros. & Rudd, the largest business house in the town, was born at

Brownsville, Minnesota, October 21, 1872. At the age of five years Erick moved with his parents to the northeast corner of Minnehaha county. South Dakota, where his father homesteaded land ad- Joining the Minnesota line just west of the present site of Jasper. Our subject lived on that farm four years and then removed with his parents to Sioux Falls, where they remained seven years, returning at the end of that period to the old homestead. Erick was educated in the Sioux Falls high school. He returned to the farm with his parents and remained for some time, rie then went to Minneapolis; where he engaged in business for three years with K. Aslesen. On leaving the Minnesota city, he went to Sioux Palls and entered the employ of his cousins, proprietors of the Bob & Nels clothing store. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war in May, 1898, Mr. Aslesen enlisted in the First South Dakota volunteer infantry, which saw service In the Philippines. He enlisted as a corporal but at the time of his discharge, October 15, 1899, he was first sergeant.

In March, 1900, Mr. Aslesen located in Jasper and in company with his cousins of Sioux Falls, before mentioned, he established the clothing business which was known under the firm name of E. J. Aslesen & Co. Two years later he bought out his partners and tlie business was changed to that of general merchandise and clothing. In the expansion of the business Mr. Aslesen took as partners his brother, William C. Aslesen, and John Kudd, and the firm is composed of the same partners today, doing business as Aslesen Bros. & Rudd. The firm owns two stores, one confined entirely to general merchandise and the other to the exclusive housing of the clothing department - the building in which Erick originally began the business.

Erick Aslesen is' the son of Christ Aslesen, a native of Norway w'ho came to this country in 1844 and first settled at Spring Grove, and later removed to Lansing, Iowa, where he married Sigrid Ellefsou, the mother of our subject. She is also a native of Norway, but came to America when five weeks old. The young couple made their first home at Browns- ville, Minnesota, where Mr. Aslesen engaged in the mercantile business In company witli the well-known church worker, Iver Larson, of Decorah, Iowa. Imbued with all the characteristics of the hardy, courageous pioneer, in 1877 Mr. Aslesen moved with his little family to the new and unsettled Minnehaha county. South Dakota. He proved up on a homestead and then moved to Sioux Falls, where he was engaged in the mercantile business for seven years. Returning to the farm soon after disposing of his business, he became interested in the development of the new town of Jasper. That was before the railroad had been pushed through to that point. He bought land and platted the section that is now known as West Jasper. In 1899 Mr. Aslesen took up his residence in the town, which is his home at the present time. He engages in farming land he owns adjourning the town.

Erick J. Aslesen was married October 9, 1907, to Selma Tower, who was born in Pipestone county July 13, 1886, and who is the daughter of W. A. Tower. One daughter, Gertrude, was born to this union, December 15, 1908. Mr. Aslesen has from the very earliest taken a deep and active interest in the civic affairs and welfare of his home town. He is a member of the village council and of the school board. He is affiliated with the K. P.. A. O. U. W. and M. W. A. lodges.

ARTHUR A. BAKER (1901) has been a resident of Osborne township for the past ten years and is. one of that precinct's successful farmers and stock raisers. His finely improved farm of 320 acres comprises the southeast quarter of section 9 and the southwest quarter of section 8. He is a native of Holland, and in that country he was educated and spent the first eighteen years of his life. He is the son of a Dutch farmer and laborer, William Baker, and of Artie (Wesshaus) Baker, and was born on December 23, 1852.

The Baker family immigrated to America in 1870 and the first year resided in New Jersey. Marion county, Iowa, was the next home, and there Arthur commenced his agriculaural career. He worked oul for ten years and then rented land in Nebraska, which he farmed eleven years. Then he farmed in Ringgold and Osceola counties, Iowa, coming from the last named county in 1901 to Pipestone county. He farmed rented land in Osborne township until 1907, when he came into possession of his present property. Mr. Baker was a director of school district No. 44 four years. He is a stockholder in the Farmers Elevator company of Edgerton. With his family he belongs to the Christian Reformed church.

Arthur A. Baker was married in Marion county, Iowa, December 23, 1875, to Elizabeth Beerman, also a native of Holland. She was born March 20, 1855, the daughter of Hessel and Lilly Beerman. The following seven children have been born to this union: Etta, born October 30, 1877; Hessel, born April 1, 1879; Lilly, born January 15, 1881; William, born May 3, 1883; John, born August 31, 1886; Anna, born October 14, 1888; and Henry, born October 6, 1891.

ROBERT F. WRIGHT (1903), a Pipestone dealer in farm implements in partnership with M. J. Calderwood, is a native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he was born August 16. 1867. He is the son of Robert and Catherine Wright, both natives of Scotland. The father died in Halifax the year following the birth of our subject, and his mother passed away in Iowa in 1907. There are seven living children in the Wright family, as follows: Nicholas H., of Brooklyn, Iowa; Nelle (Mrs. A. Ricker), of Los Angeles, California; Maggie (Mrs. G. H. McMurray), of Grinnell, Iowa; Charles, of Brooklyn; John, Belle, of Los Angeles; and Robert of this sketch.

During the infancy of Robert, following the death of his father, the family moved to the United States and for a year and one-half resided in New York City. They then went to Brooklyn, Poweshiek county, Iowa, and there until he was of age Robert made his home on the farm of an uncle, William Deacons. Arriving at manhood, Mr. Wright commenced farming for himself and later purchased real estate in Poweshiek county, which he still owns and which he farmed until moving to

Pipestone in 1903. The following year, in company with Mr. Calderwood, he bought the implement business of the Evans Implement company, on Frances and Centennial streets, where he has since been located. Mr. Wright is now serving his first term as a member of the Pipestone city council.

Our subject was married at Brooklyn, Iowa, on September 2, 1891, to Carrie Calderwood. To these parents have been born the following four children: William, Catherine, Cameron and Dalton. Mr. Wright is a Mason, holding membership in the Blue Lodge and the Order Eastern Star.

SAMUEL QUAM (1910), a Fountain Prairie township farmer and stock raiser of recent settlement, moved to Pipestone county from Iowa during the spring of 1910 and bought the northwest quarter of section 8, a finely improved farm. He makes a specialty of raising standard bred horses.

In Stavanger, Norway, on November 30, 1865, occurred the birth of the subject of this biography. He is the son of Ole and Enga (Tan) Quam, who were small farmers in that Norwegian province. Samuel was left motherless at the age of twelve, and four years later Ole Quam sold out his interests in the northern country and with his family immigrated to America in 1881. The family settled in Marshall county, Iowa, on a farm purchased by the father, and it was there that our subject grew to manhood and completed his education. In 1893 Mr. Quam rented land and commenced his career as an independent farmer. He later bought an eighty acre farm, which he disposed of on moving to Pipestone county as already noted. He is a member of the Norwegian Lutheran church and the Maccabee lodge.

Samuel Quam has been twice married. He returned to Norway to secure his first bride, Jennie Quam, who was born July 25, 1869, and to whom he was married on February 11, 1893. Mr. and Mrs. Quam journeyed to America the following spring and established a residence in Marshall county, Iowa, where she died October 15, 1900. Two children were born to this union: John R., born October 28, 1896, and Ida O., born June 4, 1899. In Marshall county, on June 16, 1902, our subject was joined in wedlock to Enga Larson, who was born in Stavanger, Norway, January 30, 1876, the daughter of Torkuld and Allette (Christopher) Larson. Mr. and Mrs. Quam are parents of the following named children: Theodore O., born March 9, 1903; George, born October 9, 1904; Selma, born March 22, 1907; and Otto, born June 17, 1910.

GEORGE A. MILLER (1S79) has enjoyed the longest continual residence in Woods-tock of any person now living in the village. He has lived and been engaged in blacksmithing there for the past twenty-seven years, or since 1884. His residence in the county commenced five years prior to that date. A Pennsylvanian by birth, our subject was born in Crawford county on the sixth of January, 1851, the son of Abner and Adaline Miller, natives of Maine and Pennsylvania, respectively.

Five years after his birth George accompanied his parents in their removal to the west. The family located in Winnebago county, Wisconsin, where they remained until the fall of 1867, becoming at that time residents of Oronoco, Olmsted county, Minnesota. There George A. Miller learned the trade of blacksmith, a line of work he followed in connection with farming in Dodge county from 1873 until the fall of 1879, when he moved to Pipestone county. He filed a homestead claim to the southwest quarter of section 4, Burke township, and lived there five years prior to entering upon his business career in Wood.'^tock. He shared in all the early day hardships and can recall more than one trying experience in the dreaded prairie blizzards. In Burke township Mr Miller served on the township and school boards, and for seven years he was Woodstock's efficient village treasurer.

The marriage of George A. Miller to Eliza White was solemnized in Oronoco, Olmsted county, in 1872. Mrs. Miller is a native of the Buckeye state. Five children have been born to this union, but one son, Elmer, is dead. The remaining members of the family are Charles S., of Woodstock; Edna May, Elena (Mrs. H. S. Alexander), of St. Paul; and Nellie. Our subject holds membership in the A. F. & A. M. and A. O. U. W. lodges of Woodstock.

DR. JOHN E. SCHAPLER (1898), dentist of Pipestone, was born in Brooklyn, Poweshiek county, Iowa, the eleventh of December, 1886. He attended the public schools of that place until thirteen years of age, when he moved to Pipestone with his parents. He was one of a class of twenty girls and three boys that was graduated from the Pipestone high school in 1905. In the fall of that year he entered the college of dentistry of the university of Minnesota, from which he was granted his diploma in June, 1908. The same month Dr. Schapler opened an office in the Max Brown building, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Odd Fellows.

Dr. Schapler is the son of Louis and Nellie M. (Wood) Schapler, of Pipestone. His father, a native of Northern Germany, came to this country at the age of eighteen and for a number of years was employed at his trade of painter in Michigan City, Indiana. He was next located in Rockford, Illinois, and then moved to Poweshiek county, Iowa, where he was married and lived until moving his family to Pipestone in 1898. Besides our subject Louis and Nellie Schapler have two other living sons: Harry F., born December 3, 1888, and Freddie L., born March 13, 1899. One son, Frank, died in 1891, at the age of two years.

At St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 20, 1910, Dr. Schapler was united in marriage to Alma Gaither, who was born in the capital city June 30, 1891. She is the daughter of John and Allie C. (Holmes) Gaither, former residents of Pipestone.

SAMUEL EVEN (1893), until lately a resident of Altona township, first saw the light of day in the town of Pekin, Illinois, on March 23, 1874. Both his father and mother, Harm Even and Stena (Freeks)

Samuel lived only a year in the town of his birth. With the rest of the family he moved to Grundy county, Iowa, where he was destined to reside eighteen years. He was brought up on a farm and educated in the district schools of Grundy county. Harm Even, the father, bought land in Pipestone county, the southeast quarter of section 30, Altona, and moved thereon with his family in 1893. Our subject resided on the home farm until 1898, when he engaged in farming on his own account in Cottonwood county for a year. For the next three years he followed the same occupation in Sweet township and then located in Pipestone, where he was for some time engaged in teaming. Mr. Even once more became a tiller of the soil, renting and conducting the home place until the spring of 1911. Since September, 1910, he has managed the farmers' elevator at Ward, South Dakota. Mr. Even is a member of the Baptist church of Cazenovia.

At Bingham Lake, Cottonwood county, on September 8, 1898, the subject of this biography was married to Amelia Balszukat, a native of Germany. She was born December 12, 1879, and came to the United States at the age of twelve years. Mr. and Mrs. Even are the parents of three children: Harry, born July 10, 1899; Ida, born October 1, 1901; and John, born August 19, 1904.

GUSTAV FRIEDRICH (1899), the proprietor of one of Jasper's most enterprising and successful business establishments, is a German by birth. The son of Carl and Amilie (Laemmrich) Friedrich, both deceased, he was born in Saxony on May 4, 1859. As a boy he received a good education and then became an apprentice to learn the tinner's trade. After mastering his trade, he worked for awhile in Berlin and other cities in the fatherland.

Determining to cast his fortune in the land beyond the sea, he immigrated in 1884 to the United States. His first home was in Menasha, Wisconsin, where he secured employment at his trade in a hardware store. His next location was at Spencer, Wisconsin, where for three years he plied his craft. Sauk Rapids, Minnesota, next became his home. For thirteen years he clerked and worked as a tinner in a hardware store. Seeking a location to engage in business for himself, his choice fell upon Jasper.

In 1899 Mr. Friedrich came to the village and bought the hardware business of A. P. Smith, of which he is at the present time proprietor. Prosperity as the fruit of labor has been his. He owns the handsome stone building which houses his business. In 1910 he found it necessary to build on an addition, 25x80 feet, to accommodate the rapidly growing trade. He has since added a complete line of furniture.

Mr. Friedrich was united in marriage in Spencer, Wisconsin, on June 8, 1885, to Laura Hendel, also a native of Germany. They have five children: Otto, Frieda, Carl, Martha and Elsie. In 1903 Mr. Friedrich held the office of village recorder, and he is now a member of the village council. He is a member of the German Lutheran church.

FOREST H. MORLEY (1908) farms the north half of the northwest quarter of section 5, Gray township. He owns that land and also the southwest quarter of section 32, Grange. Mr. Morley is the son of Samuel and Lucy (Noble) Morley, natives of Massachusetts and early day settlers of Ogle county, Illinois. It was there that Forest was born May 14, 1853.

The year following that event the family became residents of Fayette county, Iowa, where our subject was reared on a farm and educated in the district schools. Following the death of his father in 1871, with his brother, Frank, he rented the home farm and conducted it for a year. Mr. Morley then heeded a beckon from the west. For twelve years he followed agricultural pursuits in California, was in Nebraska three years, and then went to Illinois, where he remained until 1908, the date of his advent to Pipestone county. At that time he bought the farm upon which he now lives. He owns stock in the Grange Rural Telephone company of Pipestone and is a member of the I. O. O. F. lodge.

joined in marriage to Jane Ewing, who was born in La Salle, Illinois, January 11. 1858. She is the daughter of Samuel and Margaret (Simpson) Ewing, both natives of Scotland. Two children, Lucy and Claude, have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Morley.

OLE E. RANHEIM (1898) has been a tiller of the soil in both Rock and Pipestone counties. He was born in Romsdal, Norway, January 19, 1871, the son of Erick O. and Guri (Boksasp) Ranheim. Ole was educated in the common schools of his native land and resided on the home farm until twenty-three years of age, when he crossed the Atlantic to make settlement in America. He journeyed direct to Minnesota and worked the first summer at farm labor near Dawson, Lac qui Parle county. During the winter seasons for several years he was employed in the Minneapolis saw mills and in the northern pineries. After his marriage Mr. Ranheim moved to Rock county and farmed in Martin township until the fall of 1910, when he settled on his present . farm In Rock township, Pipestone county, the northwest quarter of section 15. He bought that land in 1909.

The subject of this sketch was married at Minneapolis November 13, 1897, to Anna Thompson, whose birth occurred in Hardanger, Norway, February 16, 1869. Seven sons have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Ranheim, as follows; Engval, Melvin, Glenn, .^rthur, Clifford, Arnold and Elmer. The family are members of the United Norwegian Lutheran church.

JOHN FRAHM (1892), landlord of the Sherman hotel, Pipestone, is a native German. He was born May 28, 1860, the son of Jurgen and Anna Frahm, who lived and died in the land of the kaiser. Besides our subject they were the parents of five other children, who are Peter, of Clinton county, Iowa; Peter, of Dakota; Mary, of California; Catherine and Claus, of Germany.

John passed the first nineteen years of his life in the land of his birth. On coming to America in 1879, he located in Clinton county, Iowa, whence he moved after a two years' residence to Tama county, in the same state. He farmed in Tama county eleven years, or until 1892, when he made settlement in the new town of Trosky, Pipestone county. During Cleveland's second administration Mr. Prahm was Trosky's postmaster, and for a number of years after retiring from that office he conducted the hotel in that village. From Trosky our subject moved to Pipestone to engage in the real estate business, which he did successfully until 1906. Since that date Mr. Frahm has devoted his attention to the care of the traveling public. He is the possessor of some choice Pipestone county real estate, owning the east half of section 19, Elmer township, and a part interest in the south half of section 9, Gray.

The marriage of John Frahm to Margaret Freiberg, also a native of Germany, occurred in Tama county, Iowa, April 21, 1881. The following named eleven children have been born to these parents: George, Henry, Katie, Christina, Mary, John, Maggie, Peter, Lilly, Frank and Edmond. With the exception of Henry Frahm, who lives in North Dakota, all the children live at home.

TAD A. BAILEY (1900), the junior member of the firm of Payne & Bailey, the only exclusive fire and tornado insurance firm in the city of Pipestone, was born in Carroll. Iowa, July 19, 1871. He is one in a family of five children, the others being Lizzie, Elma, Lenn, Charles (deceased) and Fred L. The father of our subject was C. C. Bailey, a native of New .York, who as a young man came west. He was graduated from Oberlin college, Ohio, and was a practising a,ttorney at Carroll, Iowa, where his death occurred in 1879. He was married to Delia L. Squires, a native of Vermont. She lived until 1895.

At the age of ten years Tad moved to Grinnell, Iowa, where he was educated in the high school and grew to manhood. He clerked in stores at Brooklyn and Perry, Iowa, then went to Springfield, Illinois, where for six years he was employed as clerk in a patent attorney's office. On account of failing health Mr. Bailey in 1900 sought the clime of Pipestone county. He became associated with F. M. Payne in the insurance business and after four years 'of service was admitted as a partner in the firm.

In 1905 our subject left Pipestone and was gone several years. He was located at his home town of Grinnell for a year, was in Minneapolis for a like period, and then returned to Pipestone to enter the employ of the Harrington Grain company. When this company removed to Sioux Falls Mr. Bailey was transferred to that point. In July, 1910, he once more took up his residence in Pipestone and resumed his partnersaip with Mr. Payne. Mr. Bailey was treasurer of Pipestone during the years 1904 and 1905. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Elks and the Knights of Pythias.

ANDREW CARLSON (1905) has since 1905 owned and farmed the southwest quarter of section 19, Sweet township. He was born in the adjacent county of Moody, South Dakota, September 21, 1876, the son of Atle and Eli (Lunde) Carlson, both natives of Norway. Andrew passed the firjt twenty-five years of his life on his father's Moody county homestead; then he rented land and commenced farming on his own account, being so engaged in Moody county until buying his present Pipestone county farm. Mr.. Carlson is a director of school district No. 8.

The marriage of our subject to Lena Gunwall occurred at 5vuverne. Mrs. Carlson is also a native of Moody county and is the daughter of Ole and Gunild Gunwall. The following four sons and two daughters have been born to this union: Leonard, born April 8, 190.3; Reuben, born August 23, 1905; Eddie, born January 28, 1908; William, born November 16, 1909; Gladys, born May 1, 1904; and Myrtle, horn August 21, 1907.

JULIUS P. PETERSON (1894) is a member of one of the pioneer business firms of Jasper, G. Peterson & Sons, dealers in general merchandise. The business was founded by Gilbert Peterson, the father of the subject of this sketch. The elder Mr. Peterson was born in Christiania, Norway, and came to the United States when a youth. He first located at Lansing, Iowa, from which place he moved to Hesper, Iowa. During his residence there he took as his wife, Mary Lien, also a native of Norway. Their first home was at Cresco, Iowa, where Mr. Peterson worked as a shoe repairer. In the early seventies the Petersons became residents of Minnesota, settling first at Leroy, from which place, in 1876, they moved to Granger. It was from there that they came to Jasper in 1894, Mr. Peterson setting up in the shoe business.

Julius Peterson is a native Minnesotan, having been born May 27, 1875, at Leroy. It was when he was but one year old that the family moved to Granger, and it was in that village that Julius received hiT education and grew to manhood.

He came to Jasper in 1894 'with his family, and for the first three or four years was employed as a clerk in one of the general stores. In 1898 he entered into partnership with his' father in the management of the shoe business before mentioned. At fint an exclusive shoe store, other lines were added until the firm became dealers in general merchandise. He is in charge of the business, his father having retired from active work in the firm several years ago, though he continues to reside in Jasper. In 1903 his brother, Gm M. Peterson, was taken into the firm.

Mr. Peterson was married in Jasper on September 20. 1900, to Josie LeSuer, who was born at Canby, Minnesota, on March 9, 1882. She is the daughter of E. P. LeSuer, a former proprietor of the LeSuer hotel, who died in June, 1910. Mr. Peterson holds membership in the Knights of Pythias and M. W. A. lodges.

HANS L. PETERSEN (1906). Since March, 1911, the subject of this sketch has farmed 200 acres of land just over the line in Lincoln county. He engages extensively in dairying and the breeding of high grade stock. Mr. Petersen was for a number of year- prior to his late removal a well-known agriculturist of Aetna township.

Hans L. Petersen was born in the land of the Danes August 10, 1874, the son of Peter Jacobson, a farmer, and Mary (Christensen) Jacobson. Both parents lived and died in Denmark. That country was tbe home of our subject until 1891, the year he commenced his career in Uncle Sam's domain. He spent nine years as a farm laborer in the Iowa counties of Blackhawk and Grundy, following which he was similarly engaged for a year and a half in Tennessee. Mr. Petersen moved to Minnesota in 1900 and commenced farming for himself in Lincoln county. Six years later he became a resident and farmer of Aetna township, Pipestone county, and then returned to Lincoln county, as already noted. He is a member of the Danish Lutheran church of Ruthton.

Our subject was married in Lincoln county May 4, 1900, to Annie Olson, also a native of Denmark. She was born May 30, 1874. They are the parents of three sons and one daughter, named as follows: Albert, born September 15, 1901; Olof, born August 20, 1903; Mjiry, born March 30. 1907; and Frederick, born April 22, 1910.

CHARLES J. SIGMOND (1899), veterinary surgeon of Pipestone, was born in Cook county, Illinois, on the third of February, 1867. His father, Charles Sigmond, was born in Lorraine, Germany, which at the time was French territory. He came as a boy to the United States and settled in Cook county, Illinois, his home until (ailed by death in June, 1869. Mr. Signion;!, Sr., served for three years and ten months in the civil war with company A, Sixteenth Illinois regiment. He married Louisa Goebel, a native of Cook county. To these parents were born three children: Emma (Mrs. Prank Hawkins), of Aberdeen, South Dakota; Cliarles .1., of this sketch; and George A., of Minneapolis. P>ank Horton, of Minneapolis, is a half- 1; rot her of our subject.

Charles was not yet three years of age when he was left fatherless. Several years later the family moved to Minnesota, residing two years in Stearns county, and then went to Hennepin county. He finished his grammar school education in Alinneapolis and for a number of years was employed in drug stores of that city. He was graduated from the Ontario Veterinary college of Toronto in March, 1893. Immediately thereafter he located in Duluth for the practice of bis profession. A

Dr. Sigmond wa^ united in marriage at Mapleton, Blue Earth county, on November 29, 1898, to Anna L. Brooks, a native of Waseca county. Our subject holds membership in the Masonic, Yeomen and Modern Brotherhood of America.

NICK BORNHOFT (1900) has prospered since settling in Pipestone county eleven years ago and now is the owner of a substantially improved farm, the north half of section 17, Elmer township. He built a large barn in 1910 and he is responsible for most of the other improvements on the place. He raises stock quite extensively.

A native of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Nick Bornhoft was born October 15, 1867. His father, John Bornhoft, a weaver by trade, died in the old country some twenty years ago. He was two years old when his mother, Martha Bornhoft, died. Nick was brought up and educated in the town of Gammendorf. In 1883, at the age of fifteen years, he undertook the long journey to America. For a year he wa3 employed at farm labor near Hammond, Indiana, and was similarly engaged two years in Scott county, Iowa. Cass county, in the same state, was then made his home, where he resided until 1900. He worked out five years, then rented land and commenced his career as an independent farmer. In the year mentioned he establi-jhed his residence in Pipestone county. Our subject is a member of the M. W. A. and I. O. O. F. lodges of Trosky.

At Atlantic, Cass county, Iowa, on November 29, 1889, Nick Bornhoft was joined ^in wedlock to Louisa Duwe, who was born in that county November 1, 1873. A son and a daughter have been born to these parents: Arnold, born May 22, 1897; and Martha, born .lanuary 17, 1899.

AUGUST JOHANNSEN (1888), Sweet township farmer, is a native of Pipestone county. He was born June 23, 1888, on the southeast quarter of section 31, Sweet township, land which his father, Peter

Johannsen, bought in an early day. Peter Johannsen and his wife, Tinie (Dahms) Johannsen, came originally from Germany. Besides August, of this sketch, they are the parents of another son, William, and two daughters, Minnie (Mrs. Gus. Boock) and Eda.

Our subject was educated in the district schools and until 1908 assisted with the cultivation of the home farm. In the year mentioned he rented the southwest quarter of section 32, Sweet, which he now conducts. Mr. Johannsen raises lots of cattle, hogs and sheep.

ALEXANDER H. SLAGG (1900), of Pipestone, is the proprietor of the Cash department store in that city, a concern which opened for business May 14, 1910, and which is headquarters for a complete stock of general merchandise. Mr. Slagg has been engaged in business in Pipestone since 1900. That year he established the "Fair" store, which he conducted alone for two years and then admitted W. P. Russel to partnership. The "Pair" was under the control of Slagg & Russel eight years and was then sold.

Dane county, Wisconsin, is the place of Mr. Slagg's nativity. He was born December 2, 1863, the son of John and Hannah (Brelsford) Slagg, both of English parentage. In early childhood ,Iohn Slagg and Hannah Brelsford accompanied their parents to America, the families locating in Albion township, Dane county, Wisconsin, and there they grew up, were married, and established a home. Of the six children born to this union Alexander is next to the youngest. Four other sons and one daugiiter comprise the family. They are Edward, Joseph, Albert, Charles and Anna.

At the age of twenty years Alexander Slagg went to the city of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, where he completed a high school education, and then tor ten years was in the employ of the Milwaukee Casket company as traveling salesman. On retiring from a career as "knight of the grip," Mr. Slagg engaged in the grocery and bakery business at Fort Atkinson. He conducted a store for three years, and on

While residing at Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, on June 25, 1890, Alexander H. Slagg was married to Ida M. Robinson, a native of Butler county, Iowa. They have two daughters: Ruth, born October 4, 1893, and Mildred, born January 11, 1903. Our subject is a Mason and Modern Woodman.

HARRY A. GANO (1898), of Pipestone, the proprietor of Gano's up-to-date restaurant and cafe, is a native of Buffalo, New York. He is the oldest of four sons born to John and Lena Gano, natives, respectively, of New York and Ohio, and now residents of Pana, Illinois. Harry was born January 13, 1876. George, the second son, died in May, 1904, and the two youngest are named John and Edward.

Our subject was two years of age when he moved with his parents to Cleveland, Ohio, and from that city the family removed successively to Greencastle, Indiana; Louisville, Kentucky; St. Louis, Missouri; and Springfield and Quincy, Illinois. In the last named city Harry was educated and passed his youth. At the age of nineteen he severed home ties anu journeyed to the far west, where for a time he was employed in the smelters of the mining region; then for two years was a rancher in Colorado. His next move was to Minneapolis, where he mastered the carpenter's trade, and then entered the employ of the contracting and building firm of McCuen & Christianson.

Mr. Gano located in Pipestone in 189S, making that city his headquarters while engaged in elevator construction and repair work for McCuen & Christianson in a territory comprising the states of Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota and the Oakotas. He was thus employed five or six years, then became a member of the Pipestone police force and did night duty for three years. In April, 19(19, Mr. Gano bought the Douglas restaurant, whose business at that time was badly run down. The new proprietor remodeled the place and has since built up an excellent patronage. In 1906 Mr. Gano served as chief of the Pipestone fire department. He holds membership in the M. W. A. and I. O. O. F. lodges.

In Pipestone, on May 18, 1902, Harry A. Gano was married to Myrtle Hitchcox, the daughter of County Treasurer J. Hitchcox, a pioneer of the county. They are the parents of two children: Ray, born December 2, 1903, and Mildred, born May 23, 190G.

EDWIN A. MILLIS (1897), now of cennet, Colorado, was for thirteen years prior to his removal in September, 1910, a well-known resident of Osborne township. He was born in Fenton township, Murray county, on October 6, 1882, and is the son of Frank and Fronia (Nichols) Millis.

Our subject lived in and attended the district schools of his native township until attainin.g the age of fifteen years, when he moved with his grandparents to Pipestone county and lived with them on a farm within the corporate limits of the village of Edgerton until the spring of 1910. He finished his schooling in the Edgerton schools and assisted his grandfather with the work of the farm until 1908. Then Edwin rented the place and conducted it until moving to land he had bought, the west half of the northwest quarter of section 22, Osborpe township. He went to Colorado in the fall of 1910 to homestead land and now lives there.

Edwin A. Millis was married in Edgerton February 19, 1909, to Mildred Irene Golden, the daughter of John and Ella Golden, both deceased. Mrs. Millis was born in Zanesville, Ohio, July 20, 1890. A son, Albert Anson, was born to these parents on March 6, 1910. On the removal of the family to Colorado they were accompanied by an uncle, Anson Proctor Nichols.

The parents of our subject's motner, Clark Proctor Nichols and wife, with whom he made his home for many years, were among the pioneer settlers of Fenton township, Murray county. They homesteaded land there in 1879. Both died in Edgerton, but not until both had attained the ripe old age of eighty-seven years.

having been the second child born in that village, his nativity occurring April 18, 1887. Lloyd Ahlan, who takes precedence over Louis as a claimant for first honor in this respect, was born but fifteen days previous.

Our subject is the son of Arne and Marie (Larson) Nilson. both natives of Norway, who came to this country during the early eighties. They were on the ground when the town of Trosky was founded, the father setting up in the blacksmithing business, in which he was engaged up to the time of his death in 1897. His wife is now living at Jasper.

Louis Nilson commenced his career as a fireman on the Great Northern railroad. He was engaged in a similar capacity with the Northwestern road for about a year. In 1907 he accepted his present position with the Rothschilds and has since managed that firm's interests in Trosky. For the past two years he has acceptably filled the office of village assessor. He is connected with the M. W. A. and A. O. U. W. lodges.

Mr. Nilson was married at Pipestone in October, 1907, to Ella L. French, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles French, of Trosky. Mrs. Nilson was born at Ireton, Iowa, July 24, 1887. One son, Ivan Leroy, was born to these parents. May 8, 1909.

WILLIAM C. EVARTS (1887), of Edgerton, manager of the farmers' elevator at that place, -settled in Pipestone county in 1887 and for many years was a well known Elmer township farmer. He is the eldest of five living children born to Elbert O. and Mary T. Evarts, both of whom are deceased. Our subject has four sisters, whose names are May, Alma, Bessie and Harriett.

In Columbia county, Wisconsin, on June 14, 1858, occurred the birth of William C. Evarts of this biography. In that county he was educated and grew to manhood. Arriving at man's estate, he first went to Minnesota and farmed for two years in Blue Earth county. He then returned to his old Wisconiin home and remained there until 1887, the date of his advent to Pipestone county. Mr. Evarts at that time bought the homestead right to the southeast quarter of section 34, Elmer township, which farm he improved and on which he made his home until February, 1907, when he moved to Edgerton to reside. He served for three years a.'i a member of the town board of Elmer.

On September 29, 1881, in the town of Columbus, Wisconsin, our subject was united in marriage to Mary A. Wade, a native of Moundville, Marquette county. Three children have been born to this union. They are Elbert A., deceased, born September 5, 1882; Guy S., born September 21, 1885; and Martha T., born April 18, 1888.

J. WILLIAM ALEXANDER (1900), senior partner in the real estate and insurance firm of the Alexander Land company, has been a reiident of the county since 1900. He is one in a family of five sons and three daughters born to L. W. and Frances (McKenna) Alexander, of Pipestone. The mother is a native of Ohio.

The father of our subject, L. W. Alexander, was born in Benton county, Arkansas, October 20, 1844, and was married to Frances McKenna in Clinton county, Iowa, on January 3, 1870. Mr. Alexander farmed in Blackhawk county, Iowa, for twentythree years prior to moving to Pipestone county in 1900. He farmed for five years in Elmer township, was for a year on the old Stevens farm adjoining Pipestone, and since has been a resident of the city and associated with his son in business. L. W. Alexander is a veteran of the civil war. He enlisted in company F, Seventy-fourth Illinois infantry, on August 5, 1862, and served in the union army three years and one month under Generals Buell, Sherman, Rosencrans and Grant. He was an active participant in the engagements at Stony River, Lookout Mountain, Perryville, Chickamauga, Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta and Nashville. He received his discharge at Nashville in September, 1865, and then served for three months as a special messenger in Tennessee. Mr. Alexander is a prominent member of Simon Mix Post, G. A. R.

he moved with his parents to Blackhawk county, in the same state, where he was educated and engaged in farming until moving to Pipestone county eleven years ago. After farming five years in Elmer township Mr. Alexander moved to Pipestone and became a member of the Allen Land company. After a year he bought the interests of Mr. Allen and lormed a partnership with L. E. Ziegler, of Holland, and his father, L. W. Alexander, styling the association the Ziegler-Alexander Land company. Several years later the Alexanders took over the Ziegler interest and have since conducted the business in their own name. They write Globe and Old Colony insurance.

In Blackhawk county, Iowa, on April 12, 1899, our subject was married to Mary E. McCullion, a native of that Iowa county. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander have one son, Alphonsus C, born June 28, 1901.

HENRY HERMAN LANGE (1887), of Eden township, is a Pipestone county boy. He is the son of William and Louisa (Leumen) Lange, both natives of Wisconsin, and early settlers of Eden township, William Lange having homesteaded the southeast quarter of section 6. On that farm our subject was born March 15, 1887. Henry completed two years of study in the Pipestone high school. In 1907 he rented the home farm from his father and has since successfully conducted the same. Mr. and Mrs. Lange are members of the German Evangelical church of Pipestone.

At Pipestone, on March 16, 1910, Mr. Lange was united in marriage to Alwine Ludolph, who was horn in Nebraska July 18, 1889. Mrs. Lange is the daughter of Christian and Caroline (Meyer) lAidolph, both natives of Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Ijange are the parents of one child, a baby girl born January 11, 1911.

HENRY HARDERS (1895), of Ruthton, is a native lowan. He was born in Scott county November 8, 1880, the son of Henry and Catherine (Clausen) Harders, both of whom came to this country early in life from Germany. They were married in Scott county, Iowa, the family home for many years. To these parents have been born three sons and one daughter, who besides our subject are Adolpli, Herman and Amelia (Mrs. H. W. Meyers). Mr. and Mrs. Henry Harders, Sr., are now residents of Spokane, Washington.

When nine years of age our subject moved with his parents to Lyon county, Iowa, and six years later the family located in Pipestone county. After one year the Harders moved to a farm in Rock county and later went to Minnehaha county. South Dakota. Until he was twenty-three years old Henry assisted in the management of the home farm, then for three years farmed on his own account in Minnehaha county. Mr. Harders settled in Ruthton in 1906. He served as village marshal two years and for a time conducted a billiard hall and engaged in the livery business. Three years ago he entered the employ of S. Bertelsen, the Ruthton implement dealer, as salesman, a position he now holds. Mr. Harders has been chief of the Ruthton fire department since the year he became a resident of the town. He owns the building occupied by the billiard and pool hall.

The marriage of our subject to Serena Bertelsen, the daughter of S. Bertelsen, occurred in Ruthton in September, 1906. Mrs. Harders is a native of Denmark and came to America with her parents when an infant. Three children have been born to this union: Lanceworth, Kenneth and Goldie Leone. Mrs. Harders is a member of the Eastern Star and Royal Neighbors lodges.

JOHN PRIESTER (1903), farmer and stock raiser of Altona township, owns the southeast quarter of section 25 of that precinct. He also farms another eighty acres in the same section, land which he rents. The father of our subject. Matt Priester, was born in Germany April 14, 1846, and died in December, 1907. At the age of twenty years the elder Mr. Priester crossed the seas and made settlement in America. He first was located in Wisconsin and then in Iowa. He was hf trade a cabinet maker and also engaged in farming. At Gottenberg, Iowa, Matt Priester married Elizabeth Backes, who died June 1, 1908. Also a native of Germany, she was

January 6, 1877, is the date, and Delaware county, Iowa, the place where occurred the nativity of John Priester of this review. In early childhood he moved with his parents to Clayton county, Iowa, and two years later the Priesters located on a farm in Lyon county, Iowa, near Rock Rapids. John secured an education offered by the district schools of his home county. He assisted with the work on the farm until 1900, the year of his marriage. Following that event he became a Lyon county farmer and was so engaged until 1903, when his career in Pipestone county began. At that time he located on his present farm, then the property of his father, which he inherited.

In Lyon county, on June 6, 1900, Mr. Priester was married to Annie Wittrock, the daughter of Henry and Lizzie Wittrock, of Rock Rapids. Mrs. Priester was born near Davenport, Iowa, April 7, 1882. Mr. and Mrs. Priester are the parents of three children: Alice Edna, born March 30, 1902; Raymond, born September 23, 1903; ana Herbert, born August 4, 1905. The family are members of the Catholic church of Pipestone.

WINFIELD M. BUCK (1904). One of the leading and most enterprising business institutions in the city of Pipestone is the wholesale produce buying firm of Buck Bros. & Co., of which the subject of this review has been the proprietor and general manager three years. Mr. Buck came to Pipestone in 1904 and formed the company which purchased the butter, egg and poultry business conducted by J. H. Nichols since the eighties, which had developed to large proportions. Fifty carloads of produce are now shipped annually from Pipestone by this company. Mr. Buck has a branch house at Watertown, South Dakota. His brother, W. H. Buck, who was connected with the Pipestone house until three years ago is now interested in plants of a similar nature at Madison and Huron, South Dakota.

his parents to Story county, Iowa, later to Mount Vernon, Illinois, then to South Dakota. In 1891 Mr. Buck engaged In the produce business at Spirit Lake, Iowa, and later established a house at Estherville, where he was located until moving to Pipestone seven years ago. Mr. Buck holds membership in the Blue Lodge and Chapter of the Masonic order and in the Ancient Order of United Workmen.

At Spirit Lake, Iowa, on May 3, 1893, our subject was joined in marriage to Cora M. Blanchard. To Mr. and Mrs. Buck have been born two daughters, Cleo E. and Bessie M.

HENRY MEYER, JR. (1892) is a young and enterprising farmer of Eden township. He is the fourth child in a family of seven children born to Henry and Mary (Meyer) Meyer, natives of Germany, who came to this country in 1882 and settled in lew a county, Iowa. Following are the names ot the other members of the family, of whom there are five sons and two daughters; Reaka, Minnie, William, Herman, George and Frank. During his residence in Iowa, which was divided between the towns ol Luzerne and Belle Plaine, the father of our subject was employed as a section foreman.

Henry Meyer, Jr., was born in Iowa county April 3, 1883, and lived there until nine years of age, when the family moved to Pipestone county. Until 1902 the elder Mr. Meyer farmed rented land in Eden township; then he bought the northeast quarter of section 25, range 47, which our subject now rents and conducts.

E. J. FELDMAN (1903), banker of Trosky, was born at Poreston, Illinois, on the seventeenth of March, 1880. He Is one of a family of seven children whose parents are John and Dena (Schilling) Feldman, residents of George, Iowa.

Two years after the birth of our subject the family moved to Grundy county, Iowa, where they resided until 1895, when another move was made, to Lyon county, in the same state. Mr. Feldman assisted his father with the work on the home fai?ii in both locations and after completing the course of the district sclaools, attended tlie Cedar Rapids Business college. A year later, in 1901, he accepted a position as stenographer in the George Savings Bank, of George, Iowa. He resigned to engage in the hardware business at Holland, Minnesota. On selling out in 1905, he located m Trosky, the same year buying the Bank of Trosky. Since the reorganization of that institution into a state bank he has discharged the duties of cashier.

Mr. Feldmanwas married at Holland on August 29, 1903, to Martha Zempke, whose birth occurred in Osceola county, Iowa, February 9, 1885. One son, Floyd M., was born to these parents August 13, 1904. Mr. Feldman has been the village recorder from the first year of his residence in Trosky and has been the school clerk for the past four years. He is treasurer of the Pipestone County Agricultural society. He is the noble grand of the local I. O. O. F. lodge and the clerk of the M. W. A. lodge.

The State Bank of Trosky is the successor to the Trosky Bank, which was established as a private institution by W. C. Briggs and Maurice Evans in 1902. In 1904 the bank was sold to J. C. Marshall & Son, and a year later E. J. Feldman came into possession of the business. The reorganization as a state bank took place in 1908. The bank does a general banking, real estate and loan business and is capitalized at $10,000. The present officers are: President, Henry Ewoldt; vice president, Q. E. Keister; cashier, E. J. Feldman.

SAM L. HIRSCHY (1888), with his brother Charles, conducts the popular cigar store in Pipestone known as Hirschy's Smoke House. The two brothers are the only children of Louis and Maggie (Harrison) Hirschy, of Pipestone. Louis Hirschy is a native of Dayton, Ohio, and was one of the homesteaders of Fountain Prairie township, having come to the county in 1879. He has resided in Pipestone since 1888, and is there engaged in the lumber business. His wife, Maggie (Harrison) Hirschy, was born in Highgate, London, England.

In Lake Benton, Lincoln county, on January 22, 1886, the birth of Sam L. Hirschy of this review occurred. He was in his second year when the family moved to

Pipestone, which has since been his home. He was educated in the Pipestone high school, and then for five years was employed as bookkeeper by the Colman Lumber company. In 1908 he bought the George Tousley cigar store. To the original stock he has added a line of Edison phonographs and also caters to the devotees of billiards and pool. Mr. Hirschy is a member of the I. O. O. F. lodge. No. 89, of Pipestone, and the Elks, No. 262, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

DR. GEORGE D. RICE (1905) is associated with Dr. William J. Taylor, the pioneer physician of Pipestone county, in the practice of medicine at Pipestone. Dr. Rice is the son of a Nobles county pioneer, A. J. Rice, who was one of the earliest business men in the town of Adrian, and who is now a banker of Lismore. His mother is Mary (Hitchens) Rice.

The birth of our subject occurred at Adrian on the thirty-first day of August, 1880. After graduating from the high school at that place, he entered the medical department of the university of Minnesota, and while there served as an assistant in the medical dispensary. He received his medical degree with the class of 1903 and immediately thereafter was appointed an interne in St. Mary's hospital at Duluth. In 1904 Dr. Rice located at Albert Lea for the practice of his profession, but in the year following came to Pipestone to form his present partnership with Dr. Taylor. Dr. Rice is a Mason and a Modern Woodman, and in 1909 was the master of the Blue Lodge of Pipestone.

On August 28, 1907, Dr. Rice was united in marriage to Irma George, a native of Pipestone and the daughter of H. W. and Belle (Wickham) George, pioneer settlers of the county and now residents of Pegrani, Idaho. Two daughters, Madeline and Margaret, have been born to these parents.

JOHN CAMPBELL (1900) owns and farms the southwest quarter of section 34, Rock township, upon which he has resided since 1900. He is extensively engaged in stock raising and has an especially large herd of Duroc-Jersey hogs. In Washington

Our subject acquired a district school education and resided on the home farm until after his twentieth birthday. He then went to Brookings county. South Dakota, homesteaded land, improved the same, and made that his home for seven years. A portion of that period was spent as an employe of the railroad company. Mr. Campbell departed from South Dakota and went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1887. He was for four years employed as a machinist in that city, then farmed for a time in that vicinity. We next find him in Mitchell county, Iowa, near Osage, where he farmed for seven years prior to making settlement in Pipestone county, on the farm before described. Mr. Campbell is prominently identified with all progressive movements in his community. He is a director of the Farmers Elevator company of Woodstock and a member of the village school board. He belongs to the Catholic church and to the Catholic Order of Foresters.

John Campbell was married in Washington county, Wisconsin, February 3, 1886, to Maggie Kenney, also a native of that county. She was born October 1, 1863, the daughter of Martin and Bridget (Larkin) Kenney, both of whom came originally from Ireland. To Mr. and Mrs. Campbell five children have been born, as follows: Agnes, Eugene, Florence, Walter and May.

ED. H. MANLEY (1890), Troy township farmer and stockraiser, is the son of Mike Manley, of Troy, a native of New York state, and of Ellen (Minnehan) Manley, of Irish birth. Mrs. Manley lived in Troy township until called by death in July, 1909. The birth of our subject occurred in New Richmond, Wisconsin, January 28, 1881.

The Manley family were residents of New Richmond until 1890, the year of settlement in Pipestone county. They resided four years in the village of Airlie, then successively on farms in Eden and Troy townships. Ed. lived with his parents on the home farm until 1906; then he rented the farm he has since conducted, the southwest quarter of section 19, Troy.

At Pipestone, on October 14, 1908, Ed. H. Manley was united in marriage to Katherine Borch, who was born in Hammond, Minnesota, the fifteenth of July, 1S85. One child, Francis, was boni to these parents, on July 15, 1909.

FRED SMITH (1909), a farmer of Gray township, was born in Hardin county, Iowa, the fifth of November, 1882. Before his fifth birthday the Smith family moved to Warren county, Iowa, and from there in 1898. to Lucas county, in the same state. Fred was educated in the district schools of those two counties. On becoming of age he married and farmed in Lucas county until 1909, when his career in Pipestone county began. He farmed the northwest quarter of section 34, Grange, until moving to his present location, the west half of section 27, Gray, in March, 1911.

Both William and Mary (Milker) Smith, the parents of our subject, were born in Germany but came to this country in early childhood. The Smith family settled In Wisconsin and the Milkers established a home in Illinois, near Springfield. William Smith and Mary Milker were married at Springfield and lived there four years; then they went to Lucas, and later to Warren county, Iowa. Mrs. Smith died in 1885, leaving three children, who besides Fred Smith of this review are Sophia (Mrs. B. A. Miller), of Grange township, and Lizzie (Mrs. Leonard French), of Warren county, Iowa. One daughter, Mary, died in infancy.