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

Mr. Vinton is a native of New York state and was born in Cattaragus county on the sixth of April, 1867. When five years of age he moved from the east with his parents and located with them at Eau Claire, Wisconsin. In that city he was educated antl grew to manhood. On leaving home he became connected with several different show troupes and traveled from one end of the country to the other. He left the road in Colorado, and for four years was engaged in mining at Cripple Creek. He then moved to Victor, Colorado, where he passed a, competitive examination and received an appointment as a city mail carrier, an occupation he followed for ten years. Returning to his old home at Eau Claire, he conducted a moving picture theater for a year previous to settling in Pipestone.

In Denver, Colorado, on November 9, 1905, our subject was married to Jennie Cameron, a native of Ottawa, Canada. Mr. and Mrs. Vinton have two daughters: Hattie, born February 4, 1907, and Lillian, born May 16, 1909. Mr. Vinton holds membership in the lodges of the Eagles and Elks at Victor, Colorado, the Knights of Pythias at Eau Claire, and the Modern Woodmen, the Yeomen and the Blue Lodge and the Chapter of the Masonic order at Pipestone, and the Scottish Rite of St. Paul and Shrine.

CHRISTIAN AMUNDSEN (19001 a progressive farmer of Fountain Prairie township, is a Norwegian by birth. His father, Hans Amundsen, followed the occupation of cabinet maker in the city of Christiania. where our subject was born on the first of March, 1859. Hans Amundsen, and also his wife, Nicoline (Seversonl .\mundsen, are both buried in the land of the midnight sun.

Until he was seventeen years of age Christian was a student in the Norwegian common schools. He Hien took to the sea and for thirteen years was a sailor in the merchant marine, during that time touching many of the leading ports of the world, especially those of England, France, Spain and the United States. In 1888 he made a permanent settlement in the new world. He located in Sioux City, Iowa, where he worked at his trade of carpenter until 1900, when he became a Pipestone county farmer. He lives on and owns the northwest quarter of section 1, Fountain Prairie township. Mr. Amundsen raises cattle and hogs to a large extent. He is a member of the Norwegian Lutheran church.

III Skien, Norway, on April 26, 1885, the subject of this biography was married to Annie Samuelson, the daughter of Severt and Samuel Samuelson. Mrs. Amundsen's birth occurred .January 4, 1858. The following si.x children have been born to these parents: Christina, born in Norway December .5, 1887; Harry, born October 25, 1889; Hedvig, born January 8, 1891; Inez, born April 1, 1894; Yngva, born April 21, 1896; and Theo, born April 3, 1901. Theo was born in Pipestone county and the four remaining children are natives of Sioux City.

PRANK P. JACOBSON (1894), a leading blacksmith of Ruthton, has been a resident of that progressive community for the past seventeen years. A native of Denmark, he was born July 8, 1864, the son of Jacob N. and Metta M. (Franson) Jensen. Both parents are deceased.

At an early age Frank became proficient at the blacksmith's trade, a line of work he followed in his native land until coming to America at the age of twenty-one. He was located in LaCrosse, Wisconsin for two years and then moved to Minneapolis. For a number of years he was the proprietor of a blacksmith shop in that city, leaving in 1894 to establish his present business in Ruthton. In the year mentioned he bought the shop of P. N. Millenbeck. Mr. .lacobson owns both his business building and residence property. He is an ex-president of the village council, of which he was a member for two terms. He belongs to the Danish Lutheran church and lo the Modern Woodmen lodge.

Prank P. Jacobson was married at Osakis, Minnesota, on July 3, 1892, to Lizzie Miller. To these parents has been born one daughter, Laura. She was born July 27, 1893.

ALFRED M. KENDAHL (19091, physician and surgeon, has been a resident of Jasper for a comparatively short time, but in that time he has met with success and built up a healthy practice. He is the son of Anton and Martha (Andersen) Kendahl, who reside in Norway. They are the parents of seven children: Harold, Andrew, John, Alfred, Carrie, Hans and Hilga.

Laurvix, Norway, is the native place of Alfred Kendahl. It was on January 8, 1878, that ,he first saw the light of day. He secured a good high school education in the motherland. After leaving school, he entered the employ of a large mercantile concern in Christiania, where he remained until 1900, the year of his arrival to the United States. He located in Chicago and for several years was a clerk in Marshall Field & Co.'s large department store.

To carry out an early ambition to become a physician, in the fall of 1905 he matriculated in the medical department of the university, of Illinois, graduating from the course four years later. For a year, beginning in 1908, Dr. Kendahl served as an interne in one of Chicago's leading hospitals. In October, 1909, he settled in Jasper for the practice of his profession. He is a member of the Norwegian Lutheran church and of the Knights of Pythias and Modern Woodmen of America lodges. He is also a member of and medical examiner for the Northwestern National Life Insurance company and the Royal Neighbors of America.

EMIL A. EKERN (1910) is the manager of the Airlie Elevator company, a farmers co-operative concern incorporated in 1905. The company deals in grain, seeds, salt and coal and has recently bought the lumber yard at Airlie, which will be restocked. The officers at present are: President. Joseph Crawford; secretary, H. J. Parmer; treasurer, E. W. Davies. The board of managers consists of S. J. Carson, Gust Sundt, Albert Ellefson, Mark Ekern, E. S. Butman and William Daily.

Emil A. Ekern is the son of Mark and Mary (Fremstad) Ekern, natives of Norway. They were married at Whitehall, Wisconsin, and came as pioneers to Moody county. South Dakota, where they still reside on the old homestead. There are eleven children in the Ekern family, who, besides our subject, are Helmer O., Melvin I., Carl J., Willie L., Inga, Anna, Nettie, Emma, Albert and Robert.

Emil was born on the homestead in Lone Rock township on November 28, 1882. He was educated in the district schools of Moody county and resided on the parental farm until July, 1910, when he assumed his duties at Airlie with the elevator company, of which he is one of the stockholders. He served for three terms as assessor of Lone Rock township. Mr. Ekern Is a member of the United Norwegian Lutheran church. He was married October 26, 19'Q*, to Regina Roshien, also a native of Moo'dy county. Mrs. Ekern died January 8, 1907, at the age of twenty years. One son. Alfred M., was born to this union.

HANS KLINKER (1908), proprietor of the Trosky livery and feed barn since the fall of 1910, was formerly an Elmer township farmer. A native of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, he was born July 29, 1875, a son of Hans and Catherine (Kittelson) Klinker. Hans attended the common schools of his native land until seventeen years of age, then crossed the broad Atlantic to seek his fortune in the new world. He was employed at farm labor for two years near Huron, South Dakota, then for a number of years was located in different parts of Soiith Dakota, Nebraska, Montana and Idaho. Mr. Klinker finally homesteaded in Wyoming and farmed in that state for thirteen years. Leaving the west in 1908, he located in Pipestone county. He rented and farmed the southeast quarter of section 12, Elmer, until establishing his residence in Trosky.

The subject of this biography was married in Tama county, Iowa, November 22, 1901, to Emma M. Arp, also a native of Germany. She was born February 21, 1882, the daughter of Henry and Bertha (Shoel) Arp. Three sons and two daughters have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Klinker, as follows: Henry H., born September 3, 1902; Herman C, born April 25, 1904; Edward, born September 31, 1905; Hilda C, born December 8, 1907; and Minnie B., born May 3, 1910.

WILLIAM F. MATSON (1901) manages the Bennett Grain company at Edgerton. He is a native of Morgan county, Ohio, and was born October 17, 1854, the son of Aaron and Anna Matson, natives of Ohio and Pennsylvania, respectively. Aaron Matson died in 1888, but his wife, the mother of our subject, still resides at Fairmont, Minnesota, and has witnessed years to the number of four score. There were seven children in the family, namely: William F., Charles, Lillian, George, Ella, Frank and Pearl.

In early childhood William moved with his parents to Martin county, Minnesota. .4t the age of eighteen years he left home to face the world. For four years after his twenty-second birthday he conducted a hotel in Fairmont, which was before the railorad had built to that town. While there he was employed as assistant grain buyer in an elevator for a period; then he moved to Miner county, South Dakota, where he lived twelve years, employed by the Hodges & Hyde Elevator company and later by the S. Y. Hyde Elevator company. He returned to Fairmont to buy grain for the last named firm, and there he remained until 1901, when he located in Edgerton, to assume the duties of his present position. He is a member of the K. P. lodge.

Mr. Matson was married at Fairmont on December 16, 1876, to Emma L. Snow, who was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, December 20, 1854. Mrs. Matson died November 18, 1909, at the age of fifty-five years. One son was born to this union: Roy S., who is in the employ of the Bennett Grain company at Jackson, Minnesota. Mr. Matson owns his home in Edgerton.

GEORGE M. STRECKER (1909) moved to Bennet, Colorado, in September, 1910, to file on a homestead claim. Prior to that he was an Osborne township farmer, and he still owns, in partnership with his brother, land in that precinct, the northeast quarter of section 23. He was born j\ist over the line from Pipestone county, in Moulton township, Murray county, May 25, 1889. His father, John Strecker, a native of Germany, came to America in 1870 and was an early settler of M\irray county. John Strecker died in Edgerton in the fall of 1909. His wife Mary (Gesche) Hoffman Strecker, survives her husband and resides in Edgerton.

George resided on the parental homestead in Murray county until 1908. He received his education in the district schools and for one vear was a student in the school at

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Edgerton. In February, 190S, he rented land in Murray county and commenced farming on liis own account. Tliere he lived until December, 1909, when he moved to his Pipestone county land. Before moving to Colorado he erected several substantial buildings thereon.

At Edgerton, on September 8, 1908, Mr. Strecker was united in marriage to May Millis, who was born near Chandler, Murray county, August 26, 1889. A son, Melvin George, was born to these parents January 13, 1910. Mrs. Strecker is the daughter of Frank and Fronia Millis. Her mother accompanied the family in their removal to Colorado.

MELVIN M. LAWHEAD (1894), the landlord of Jasper's up-to-date hotel for the past ten years, was born in Chebanse, Iroquois county, Illinois, on the seventeenth day of September, 1862. He is the son of Alfred C. and Katherine (Flint) Lawhead, the former a native of Ohio, while New Jersey was the birthplace of the mother. Both parents have been dead for several years.

When Melvin was about nine or ten years of age, the family moved to Onargo, Illinois, where he secured his education in the public schodls and grew to manhood. The first seventeen years after arriving at his majority were spent in farming in several different states. He started out in his home county, remained one year, and he then heeded a call to Saline county, Nebraska. He worked out on a farm tor a year and the next year rented a place for himself in Adams county, of the same state. Hitchcock, Nebraska, was his next home. He took a homestead claim near there and remained until June 1, 1894. Then he located in Rock county and remained until the following spring. He cast his fortunes in Moody county. South Dakota, for a year and then returned to Rock county and settled on a farm in Rose Dell township, which he successfully conducted four years. Finally abandoning country life, he moved to Jasper and tor one year operated a restaurant. In 1901 he came into the possession of the hotel which he has since built up to its present day prosperity. The

Mr. Lawhead was married at Culbertson, Nebraska, on December 14, 1889, to Lena Seeman, a native of Germany, born Sepl^nber 21, 1871. She came to America wnen a girl of twelve years. One child, Katherine W., was born to Mr. and Mrs. Lawhead, on October 10, 1895. Mr. Lawhead is a member of the M. W. A. lodge and the Merchants Casualty company.

BEN D. MARTINSON (1892) is a well known liveryman of Ruthton, a business in which he has been engaged for the past three years. He is the second son in a family of five children - the names of the others being Ludwig, Al, Lena and Henry - who were born to Henry and Pernellia Martinson. The father and mother are natives of Norway, have lived in America for nearly fifty years, and are now residents of Parker, South Dakota.

In Mason City, Iowa, on November 27, 1870, Ben D. Martinson was born. In early childhood he moved with his parents to Council Bluffs, Iowa, lived with them four years in Kansas, and later in Minneapolis and in North and Soulh Dakota, and finally returned to Iowa. The removals were necessitated by his father's occupation, that of railroading. The father later became a farmer in Wright county, Iowa, and was located near the town of Belmont. There Ben lived until after his twenty-second birthday, leaving home at that time to locate in Ruthton. For three years he was engaged in the well drilling business and then farmed in Aetna township until 1901. For seven years thereafter he was absent from Pipestone county, residing on his farm in Lincoln county. In 1908 Mr. Martinson returned to Ruthton and became the owner of the livery business he now successfuly conducts.

On November 29, 1895, our subject was married to Alma Johnson, who was born in Winona, Minnesota, on May 16, 1877. The ceremony was solemnized in Ruthton. Mr. and Mrs. Martinson are the parents of two children: Mildred, born March 9, 1899, and Merle, born March 1, 1901.

FRANCIS M. KERR (1902), in partnership witli his brother Wesley, farms the south half of section 10, Grange township. The brothers raise considerable stock and make a specialty of Poland China hogs.

The son of Nathaniel and Ann (Williams) Kerr, the former a native of tiie Keystone state, and the latter of West Virginia, Francis M. Kerr of this review was born in Green county, Pennsylvania, May 12, 1866. Ke was two years of age when the family moved from the east to Muscatine county, Iowa, where it was he grew to manhood and was educated. On attaining his majority he commenced working out at agricultural labor; then, following his marriage, he rented land and commenced his career as an independent farmer. He farmed in Iowa until 1902, the date of his settlement in Pipestone county. Four years prior to locating on his present place, our subject farmed other land in Grange. Mr. Kerr owns stock in the farmers' elevator at Pipestone and is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

While residing in Muscatine county, Iowa, on April 25, 1894, Mr. Kerr was married to Josephine Rogers, a native of that county. She was born March 25, 1865, the daughter of Matthew and Margaret (Kain) Rogers. Mr. and Mrs. Kerr are the parents of four children, Altha J., Irene A., Robert M. and May E.

SAM GRABSCHIED (1906), proprietor of the Bell Clothing store at Pipestone, came to the city five years ago from Vinton, Iowa, to manage the Bell store, then the property of Urbach & Lewis, of that Iowa city. Mr. Grabschied became satisfied that for a business and residence town Pipestone was unrivalled, and with the intention of making it his permanent home he purchased the business from his employers in March, 1909, and has since been the sole proprietor. He carries a large and complete line of clothing, gent's furnishings and footwear.

A native of Austria, our subject was born June 12, 1870, the sixth son in a family of eight children born to Isaac and Ida (Gotthelf) Grabschied, who lived and died in Austria. - The names of the other children are Wilhelm, Nathan, Bernhard, Sarah,

Herman, Gustaf and Morris. Sam was sixteen years of age when he bade farewell to native land and undertook the long journey alone to America. He landed in New York City and for two years made tnat his home, clerking the while. He then drifted westward and finally located in Kansas City, Missouri, where for eight years he clerked in a leading clothing house. He was later similarly employed in Carthage, Missouri, and in Dubuque, Iowa, going from the latter city to Vinton, Iowa, in 1898. He managed the Urbach & Lewis store until establishing his present residence in Pipestone. Mr. Grabschied is a member of the Knights of Pythias lodge. -^

At Blue Hill, Nebraska, on October 29, 1902, our subject was married to Caroline Mandelbaum, and to this union have been born the following three children: Margaret, born December 14, 1903; Ervin, born in 1905; and Henry, bora February 11, 1909. Mrs. Grabschied was born in Chicago and is the daughter of Sol. and Adeline (Weinberg) Mandelbaum, both natives of Germany and still living. They also have one son, Jacob Mandelbaum, of Kansas City.

ROBERT L. ELLS (1910), landlord of the Pipestone hotel, is a Missourian by birth. His nativity occurred in the town of Boonville January 3, 1876, and he is the only son born to C. C. and Betty Maria (Redmen) Ells. Mrs. Hlls, also a native of Boonville, died in 1878. The father, C. C. Ells, who was born in Louisville, Kentucky, is a southern farmer and conducts a large plantation at Kllendale, Terrebonne county, Louisiana.

When five years of age our subject moved with his father to Higbee, Missouri, and in the schools of that place and of Salisbury he was educated. As a fifteen year old youth Robert commenced what was to be an extended career in railroad work. He was stationed as telegrapher at the Kirks ville, Missouri, station of the Wabash, then commenced a four years' service as station agent for the Milwaukee road at Jefferson, South Dakota. He then became connected with the Northwestern line and was agent at the stations of Schleswig and Wall Lake. Iowa. In June, 1910, Mr. Ells moved to

Pipestone to become operator at the Great Northern depot in that city, a position he held until assuming the management of the Pipestone hotel in October of the same year. He has remodeled the hostelry and made it up-to-date in every particular.

The subject of this review was married at Clifton Hill, Missouri, February 16, 1895, to Cora Mason, a native of Salisbury, Missouri, she having been born there on September 8, 1882. Mr. and Mrs. Ells have two children, Robert Damon and Raymond Henry. Mr. Ells is a member of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers and with his wife belongs to the order of Knights and Ladies of Security.

JOHN H. MEIER (1902), in partnership with his brother, Henry L. Meier, farms the southeast quarter of section 12, Aetna township. He was born the first day of November, 1874, in Bremer county, Iowa. His parents, Christopher C. and Dora (Kuhrt) Meier, both natives of Germany, are deceased. The father died November 28, 1909, and the mother passed away seventeen years before, in 1892. Henry L. Meier is also a native of Bremer county. The date of his birth is March 6, 1873.

John resided in the county of his birth until 1884, when with his parents he moved to Jerauld county. South Dakota. He was educated in the public schools of Sumner, Bremer county, Iowa, and later in the district schools of Jerauld county. On attaining his majority he commenced working out at farm labor, then in 1902 commenced his agricultural career in Pipestone county. He farmed on section 14, Aetna, for three years, then moved to his present location. Mr. Meier devotes considerable attention to the raising of high grade stock. He is affiliated with the M. W. A. lodge at Ruthton.

HOLLIE R. PERSINGER (1903), who farms the west half of section 21, Osborne township, is a Kansan by birth. He was born in the town of Long Island on May 16, 1877. His parents were Charles L. and Mary E. (Curl) Persinger, natives of Ohio and of German descent.

move was later made to Monona county, the same state, and there he finished his schooling and grew to manhood. He assisted with the cultivation of the home farm until attaining his majority; then, after hiring out for several years, Hollie commenced farming on his own account. His residence in Pipestone county began in 1903. He rented land in Gray township for two years and then moved to the land he now rents In Osborne township. He raises stock, especially cattlfe and hcgs, quite extensively. Mr. Persinger was for two years the treasurer of school district No. 44, in Gray township. He holds membership in the Methodist church and the I. O. O. F. and K. P. lodges.

At Whiting, Iowa, on February 25, 1903, our subject was joined in wedlock to Mary J. Hutchcroft, a native of Sloan, Iowa. She was born September 10, 1881, the daughter of William and Amy (Adbert) Hutchcroft, both natives of the Buckeye state. Mr. and Mrs. Persinger are the parents of four daughters: Wilma, born December 8, 1904; Amy, born September 7, 1906; Grace, born August 31, 1908; and Beulah, born May 23, 1910.

JOHN HOOG (1901) is a prominent business man of Woodstock, where he has resided for the past ten years. He deals in farm implements and coal and, in partnership with J. F. Delaney, buys and ships live stock. He was born across the sea, in Haarlem, Holland, on February 29, 1864. He is the son of Gerard and Bregtje (Van Rossem) Hoog. Gerard Hoog passed away in April, 1895, at the age of sixty-nine years. His wife, the mother of our subject, still resides in Holland, and is in her seventy-seventh year

John received a careful scholastic training in the land of his birth, which he left at the age of seventeen to come to America. He journeyed to Orange City, Sioux county, Iowa, near which place he farmed for five years. He left that locality to go to San Jose, California, and remained there two years, being connected the while with a fruit orchard. Returning to Iowa, Mr. Hoog established and conducted a tow mill in the town of Boyden until 1894, when he established a similar enterprise at Clara

City, Minnesota. After a year, however, lie returned to Boyden and engaged in tlie general mercantile business for two years. He then became a land owner and farmer of Nobles county, Minnesota, where he resided until 1901. Since that date Woodstock has been his home. Mr. Hoog is a member of the village council and a trustee of the local Presbyterian church. He is an active worker in the Masonic order. He belongs to the Blue Lodge at Lake Wilson and the Chapter at Pipestone.

At Harrison, South Dakota, on February 20, 1894, our subject was married to Theodora Josephina LeCocq, of French descent. She is the daughter of Frank and Mary (Van Goekum) LeCocq). Her grandfather, also named Frank LeCocq, came from France and was one of the founders of the Dutch colony at Pella, Iowa, the birthplace of Mrs. Hoog. To Mr. and Mrs. Hoog the following three children, a son and two daughters, have been born: Gerard A., born December 17, 1894; Mary F., born October 12, 1899; and Beatrice, born October 22, 1903.

HARRY ZORGDRAGER (1907) is the manager of the Holland branch of the Rudloff Lumber company, a position he has held since 1907. A native of Amsterdam, Holland, he was born March 22, 1880, the son of John and Nellie (Swartz) Zorgdrager. The former is now a resident of Archer, Iowa; his wife died July 17, 1894.

Harry came to America from the land of the dykes when he was two years of age. He located with his parents on a farm near Sheldon, Iowa, where he passed his youth. He was educated in the public schools of Sheldon and for a time was a student at the Ames Agricultural college, mastering there the art of horseshoeing. At the age of twenty he went to Pueblo, Colorado, where he was employed at his trade five years. He returned to Iowa, and has since devoted his talents to the lumber business. He was in the employ of the Schoenenan Lumber company, first as second man, then as yard manager, at Alvord, George, Parker, Fairview and other Iowa points. He has been stationed at Holland since he became connected with the Rudloff company.

Iowa, on November 16, 1909, to Genevieve Hein, a native lowan, having been born at Cherokee on the twentj'-secnod of July, 1883. Our subject holds membership in the lodges of the K. P. at Ruthton, Pipestone and Pueblo, Colorado, and of the Holland lodge of the Modern Woodmen.

FRANK C. HAND (1909), of Hatfield, is the manager of the local cream station operated by the Farmers Co-operative Cream company of Omaha. He is the son of Frank and Mary (Owens) Hand and was born on a farm near Clinton, Iowa, July 10, 1872. His father died in 1907; his mother, Mary (Owens) Hand, is a resident of Bigelow, Nobles county.

At the age of nine years Frank moved with his parents to Sac county, Iowa, and two years later to Brule county. South Dakota, where the father homesteaded. He resided on the home farm until 1890, when he assumed control of his own course in life. He was located in Sioux county, Iowa, for a number of years, going from there to Little Rock, in the same state; then he went to Nobles county, Minnesota, where he farmed from 1894 to 1909, with the exception of a two years' residence in Worthington. He has been employed in his present capacity in Hatfield since 1909.

Frank C. Hand was married at Heron Lake, Jackson county, in April, 1900, to "Viola S. Wilson, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Wilson, of Worthington, who were early settlers of Nobles county. Mrs. Hand was born in October, 1883. To these parents have been born four children, one of whom, Katie, the only daughter, died in 1902 at the age of three months. The three living sons are Walter, born May 12, 1902; Nicholas, born July 19, 1905; and James, born July 20, 1908. Our subject is a member of the Catholic church and of the Catholic Order of Foresters.

JOSEPH LA VALLA (1905) has been a resident of Edgerton since 190.") and is the junior member of the firm of Uilk & La Valla, proprietors of the leading meat market and butcher business in that town. Of twelve children born to Mitchell and Rosa (Tatro) La Valla, only two sons are now

The subject of this biography was born in Wyandotte, Wayne county, Michigan, near Detroit, September 14, 1862. In the first year of his manhood he moved to Minnesota, locating in the village of Adrian. For several years he was employed on farms in that vicinity and then learned the butcher trade in an Adrian shop. For seven years he was the proprietor of a shop in Bryant, South Dakota; then, on account of ill health, he disposed of the business and homesteaded in Ward county, South Dakota. He returned to Bryant and lived there until 1905, when he went to Edgerton and engaged in his chosen business for a year and a half. He engaged in buying and shipping stock until 1908, when he opened the shop he now conducts. He admitted Fred Uilk as a partner in the b\isiness in January, 1910.

Mr. La Valla was married in Worthington, Minnesota, on the second of September, 1894, to Tressie Lodehoff. She was born in Ripon, Wisconsin, in January, 1862, but in the early seventies accompanied her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hans Lodehoff, to Nobles county. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. La Valla, namely: Margaret, Edward and Max. Our subject is a member of the M. W. A. and K. P. lodges.

JOHN M. BARTON (1907) engages in farming on section 24, Altona township, of which precinct he has been a resident since 1907. The parents of our subject were Uri and Harriet (Wright) Barton, natives of New York, who at an early day settled in Jackson county, Iowa. There John was born August 2, 1857, and in the district schools of that county he secured an education.

At the age of twenty-three Mr. Barton rented land in his home county and commenced farming on his own account, an occupation he followed there and in Rock county, Minnesota, for four years, until 1895. That year he moved to Lake View, Iowa, of which he was a resident for twelve years. During the first five years in Lake View he followed the trade of buttermaker.

and later was the proprietor of a dray line. On coming to Pipestone county in 1907, Mr. Barton rented the southwest quarter of section 24, and he has lived there since.

Ill Jackson county, Iowa, on October 2.3, 1879, our subject was married to Mary Gaddis, a native of that county. She was born January 19, 1860, the daughter of Robert and Deborah (Demming) Gaddis. Mr. and Mrs. Barton are the parents of the following named children: Zada, Ethel. Lulu, Earl, Ray, Edna, Willard, Howard and Donald.

BARNEY F. NAEVE (19041, the proprietor of the Hiawatha saloon at Pipestone, was born in Davenport, Iowa, July 22, 1867, the son of Frederick and Maggie Naeve. Both parents were born in Holstein, Germany. They were married there and immigrated to the United States in 1848. Coming by way of a Mississippi steamboat, they located in Davenport, Iowa, and in that city both lie buried. Besides our subject there were three other children in the family: Mary, of Gladbrook, Iowa; Fred, of Davenport; and Lena, deceased of Sioux City.

Barney F. Naeve attended the public schools of his native city until attaining the age of seventeen years. He then moved to Gladbrook, Iowa, where he finished his schooling, and lie was for many years engaged in farming in that locality. Three years prior to locating in Pipestone in 1904, he was a resident of Marshalltown, Iowa. The first four years in Pipestone were passsed as a bartender in the saloon of J. C. Crook. Mr. Naeve then bought the saloon business of Mike Hauser and has since conducted it. He is a member of the Pipestone fire department.

Our subject was married at Grundy Center, Iowa, on December 2, 1900, to Emma Meyer, a native of Germany, but who came in early childhood with her parents to this country and located with them in Gladbrook, Iowa. To Mr. and Mrs. Naeve eight children have been born. The oldest son, Earl, died in infancy. The names of the surviving seven are Harold, Walter, Arnold, Kerwood, Hazel, Bernice and Viola. There is another son, ."Mfred, by a former marriage.

OLE FOSS (1909) is the junior member of the firm of Oihus & Foss, Jasper's dealers in automobiles, in connection with which they maintain an up-to-the-minute garage. Mr. Foss is a native' of Fillmore county, Minnesota, the date of his birth being August 15, 1885. For three years that was his home, and from there he moved with his family to Pipestone county, where the next three years were spent. Again a move was made, to Rock county, and there the lad attended the public schools until fourteen years of age. Later he completed a course in the business department of Worldorf college at Forest City, Iowa.

Meanwhile the parents had moved to Minnehaha county. South Dakota, where they still reside. Both father and mother, Jacob and Ellen (Dybevog) Foss, are natives of Norway. They are the parents of eight children, namely: John, Ole, Martin, Martha, Henry, Elmer Joseph and Anton. Jacob Foss is the owner of a half section of land in Minnehaha county and farms five quarter sections. His farm residence is one of the finest in the county.

Ole resided on the Minnehaha county farm until 1908, when he entered a school of instruction in Omaha to prepare himself for the automobile business. In the fall of 1909 he settled in Jasper and with Alfred Oihus established a garage and repair shop, which they now conduct. They handle several leading makes of cars, making a specialty of the Buick, Oakland, Franklin and Mclntyre autos and the Wagner motor cycles.