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Mr. Withers was married in Enterprise township on April 5, 1898, to Mary Nissen daughter of C. P. and Mary Nissen, of Jackson. Mrs. Withers was born in Chicago March 19, 1876.
GJERMUND T. JUVLAND (1870) has lived in Weimer township ever since he was twenty years of age and is one of the very earliest settlers of that precinct. He owns 240 acres of land in Weimer township and a quarter section in La Moure county, North Dakota.
Mr. Juvland in a native of Norway and was born March 11, 1850, the son of Torbjorn and
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Susana iljone) Juvland. Ile accompanied hi- parents from the old country when seven- tren years of age and on June 15, 1867, ar- rived in the village of Red Wing. in Goodhue county. Minnesota. He lived on the farm with his parents there until IS70, and then accom- panied them to Jackson county. The head of the family took as a homestead claim the northwest quarter of section 12, Weimer town- ship, built a dugont, in which the family lived for a number of years, and established the permanent home there.
In the early days the family encountered many hardships, notably during the terrible grasshopper scourge, and young duvland was brought up in the midst of poverty and pio- neer surrounding -. He did not marry and con- timmed to make his home with his parents during their lifetime, His father died in 1873, at the age of 56 years, and our subject be- vame the head of the family. His mother died in 1898, aged SI years. With the exception of the year 1900, when he was in Heron Lake, Mr. Juvland has always lived on the old home- stead. He is a member of the Norwegian La- theran church.
JOHN J. EGGE, JR .. (1872), Christiania township farmer, was born in that precinct and has spent his entire life there. He owns fifty acres of land on the west half of the southwest quarter of section 33, on the bank of Independence lake.
John J. Egge. Jr., was born May 14, 1872, and is the son of John J. and Ingebor Egge, natives of Norway. They came from their na- tive land and located in Decorah, lowa, where Mr. Egge, Sr., worked at the blacksmith Irade. The family came to Jackson county in 1865 and took as a homestead claim the south half of the southwest quarter of section 32. Chris- tiania, and on that place the father of our subject still lives in a log cabin erected in Ists. There were six children in this family, namely : Tollef, a Weimer township farmer, born March 17, ISto: Mary (Mrs. Kante Jack- sont, of Crookston, Minnesota; born Novem- ber It, ANT: John J., Ir .: Theodore, of Del- atield township, born August 8. 1879; Jela, deceased. born February 1, ISG ?: El. deceased, born November 1, 1875.
Mr. Egge was married December 21. 1899, to Martha Niemann. To them have been born the following children: Ethel, born January 19,
1901: Elma, born February 8, 1903; Carl, born October 20, 1905. The family are members of the Lutheran church. He has served as a member of the township board three years and is a member of the M. W. A. lodge.
RE DOLPHI SCHOEWE (1>>3), in partner- ship with his brother, Theodore Schoewe, farms 100 acres of land in Kimball township, the home place being the east half of section 20. He is the son of Edward and Augusta Schoewe, who were bory in Germany and who are now resi- dents of Kimball township. The former came to America when eleven years of age, lived in Carver county, Minnesota, with his father until twenty-one years of age, and then came to Jackson county and took as a homestead claim the southeast quarter of sec- tion 26, Kimball, where he has ever since lived. He is fifty-nine years of age. The other children of the family are Mary (Mrs. William Waswo), of Oklahoma, and Theo- dore.
Rudolph was born on the Kimball township homestead December 1, 1883, and has passed his entire life on that place. He secured an education in the district schools and worked for his father until the spring of 1908, At that time he and his brother rented the 400 aire farm and have since conducted it. They are extensive ferders of hog- and are making success. The brothers are members of the firman Lutheran church of Kimball.
Theodore Schoewe was born on the home farm in 1885, Ile was married October 23. 1907, to Miss Dora Gohr, a native of Chicago.
JOHN AMBROSE OSSH, Wisconsin town- ship farmer and stockraiser, owns eighty acres in section 33, Wisconsin, and eighty acres in section 4, Petersburg. He is a native of Ans- tria and was born August s, Iso1. the son of Paul and Mary Ambrose.
In 1874 our subject came to America with his parents and located at DeSoto, Iowa, where he received his education. In April, ISSt, Mr. Ambrose came to Jackson county with his parents, with whom he continued to reside on the farmer until he was twenty-seven years of age. He married in 1859 and then began farming for himself on a place one mile east of the Jackson depot. A little later he bought a farm one mile sonth of the present location
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of the village of Alpha, farmed that place three years and then traded it for his present farm.
Mr. Ambrose was married March 4, 1889, to Miss Fannie Najt. of Jackson, and to them have been born these children: Annie, born December 1. 1889; John, born October 19, 1891; Edward, born January 5, 1893; Elenora, born October 1, 1894; Lloyd, born August 25, 1896: William, born July 14, 1898; Rose, born June 27, 190]; Leonard, born July 24, 1904, died November 21, 1905; Paul, born July 26, 1909. Mrs. Ambrose was born August 12, 1871, and died Angust 10, 1909.
In addition to his farming Mr. Ambrose has other business interests. He owns stock in the Farmers Cooperative elevator and in the Alpha Creamery association. is Methodist and a member of the M. W. A. and %. C. B. J. of Jackson.
HENRY J. HOOVEL (1865), proprietor of a hardware store at Jackson, is one of the pioneer settlers of the county, having made his home here since he was five years of age. He is the son of John C. and Sophia (Holden) Hoovel, of Petersburg township, and he was born in Wiota, Wisconsin, October 18, 1860.
llenry accompanied his parents in their overland trip to Jackson county in the spring of 1865. ITis father homesteaded a quarter section of land in Petersburg township, and en that farm Ilenry lived until he was twen. ty-one years of age, assisting with the farm work and attending the district school. He left the farm and moved to Jackson in 1881, and during the next tive years clerked in a general merchandise store. In 1886 he bought a half interest in the hardware store of II. G. Anderson and for three years was in the hard- ware business, the firm name being Anderson & Iloovel.
Disposing of his interest in the hardware store in 1889, Mr. Hoovel bought a half in- terest in the general store of O. E. Olsen and for the next six years he had charge of the siore, which was conducted under the name of Olsen & lloovel. He sold out in 1895 and again went into the hardware business, form- ing a partnership with Louis Iverson under the firm name of Iloovel & Iverson. Three years later he bought ont his partner and has since conducted the business alone.
Mr. Hoovel has served as a member of the
Jackson village council. He is a member of the Lutheran church and of the Masonic order. lle was married at Spring Valley, Minnesota, December 24, 1885, to Caroline Kummer.
JOHN L. REEVES (1894) is a Weimer township farmer and resides two miles south- east of Heron Lake, his 210 acre farm being located on the bank of Heron lake. On his farm is located one of the club houses con- ducted by hunters who come to the lake dur- ing the shooting season.
Mr. Reeves was born in Cuyahoga county, Olio, February 23, 1854. At the age of two years he accompanied his parents to Tazewell county. Illinois, and there spent his boyhood days. At the age of seventeen he accompan- ied the family to Champaign county, of the same state, and there he made his home on his father's farm until 1877. That year he moved to Primghar, Iowa, where he learned the carpenter's trade and where he resided, working at his trade, until the year 1894. Mr. Reeves came to Jackson county in 1894, bought eighty acres of his present farm, and has ever since been engaged in farming. He added to his holdings later by the purchase of the fractional 130 acres on the bank of the lake.
Our subject is the oldest of a family of four children. His parents, Horace E. and Harriett N. (Sill) Reeves, were both natives of Jefferson county, New York. They moved to Ohio when children and were married in that state. In 1856 they moved to Illinois and lived in that commonwealth until 1902, when they also came to Jackson county. The father died in Jackson county September 25, 1904, aged 77 years: the mother now lives with a daughter in St. Paul.
Mr. Reeves is a man of family, having been married in Weimer township October 31, 1892, to Emma E. Wood, a native of Mechanicsville, New York, and a daughter of L. C. Wood, an early Jackson county settler. Two children have been born to this union: Helen L. and Elizabeth. Mr. Reeves is a member of the Knights of Pythias lodge.
OSCAR A. LARSON (1893) is one of the extensive and successful farmers of Delafield township. Hle rents 640 acres of land on sec- tions 20, 19 and 30, all except forty acres of
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which is owned by his father-in-law, John Esklund. He engages in stock raising exten- sively, having over one hundred head of cat- tle, besides herds of hogs and horses.
Mr. Larson is a native of Sweden and was born August 21, 1573. His father, Lars Erick Erickson, lives on a farm in the old country; his mother, Ingeborg Katharina (Nelson) Erickson, died in Sweden in December, 1893. Oscar was brought up on a farm and was educated in the country schools of his native land, where he lived until he was nineteen years of age. lle emigrated to America in the spring of 1893. and for a few months lived in Carleton county, Minnesota. In the fall of 1893 he came to Jackson county. The first two and one-half years of his residence in this county were spent working on t.be farm of his future father-in-law, John Esk- lund, in Delafield township. During the next few years he worked as a farm hand in the vicinity of Windom. He made a six months' visit to his old home in Sweden in 1898, and returning began working at the painting and paperbanging trade in Windom and was so en- paged three years. In the spring of 1902 Mr. Larson rented John Esklund's farm and has since conducted it.
At Windom on July 11, 1902, Mr. Larson was nuited in marriage to Jennie Esklund, daughter of John and Johanna Esklund, who were pioncer settlers of Delafield township. To Mr. and Mrs. Larson have been born three children, as follows: Nellie Geneva, born September 30, 1903: Alfred Alexander, born January 15, 1900: Leonard Jennings, born De- cember 16. 1908.
JOHN A. ANDERSON (1886) is a solicitor for the Woodmen Casualty company and re- sides at Lakefield. He was born in Norway October G, Isto, and is the next youngest child in the family of Andrew Johnson and Cath- erine (Peterson) Johnson. The other children of the family are Jennie, of Belvidere, Illi- nois, and Johannes and Peter. who still reside in the old country.
John was educated in his native land and resided on his father's farm until twenty years of age. lle came to America in 1886 and lo- ented in the village of Jackson. Five years later he became a resident of Lakefield, where he has since made his home. During the first eight years of his residence in the new world
and in Jackson county Mr. Anderson worked on the railroad. Then he started a restaurant and confectionery store in Lakefield, which he conducted until July. tuos. Selling out at that time, he took a position with the Wood- men Casualty company, and has since been engaged in securing members for the order. Ile has served two terms as a member of the Lakefield village council and holds member- ship in the following fraternal orders: 1. O. O. F .. M. W. A., Royal Neighbors, Encampment and Rebekahs.
Mr. Anderson was married in Lakefield Feb- ruray 22. 1893, to Nellie lange, a native of that village. To them have been born two children. Gertie and Myrtle.
JENS QUINBY (1890) is the manager of and one of the largest stockholders in the Gil- bert Mercantile company's store at Petersburg. lle is a native of Norway and was born No. vember 1, ist8, the son of Haac and Dorothy (Holden) Quinby, His father is living: his mother died June 13, 1903.
Tens secured a common school education in his native country and lived there until he reached hi- majority. He came to the United States and to Jackson county May 10, 1890, and for fifteen years engaged in farming in Petersburg township. He then sold his farm and engaged in the general merchandise and machine business in the little hamlet of l'et- ersburg. buying a controlling interest in the Gilbert Mercantile company. Besides this busi- ness he has stock in the Petersburg Creamery company and in the Jackson Telephone com- pany. Ile owns a house and lots in Petersburg and forty teres on section 27. He is a member of the Lutheran church and of the Sons of Norway lodge.
Mr. Quinby was married September 21. 1896, to Esther Gilbert, who was born September 24. 1872. To this union have been born the following named children: Dena M., horn September 1, 1899; Mina L., born October 25, 1901: Harry E., born August 28, 1906.
CLEMENT STENZEL (1877). farmer and land owner of LaCrosse township. has been a resident of Jackson county since he was three years of age. Ile was born in Austria No- vember 16. 1874. the second of a family of nine children born to Frank and Maria (Schaf-
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MENZO L. ASHLEY A Pioneer of 1866.
BENJAMIN W. ASHLEY (1839-1905) Who Built the Ashley House.
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H. HENRY HUGHES Jackson Real Estate Dealer.
RAYMOND BARTOSCH Proprietor of a Jackson Harness Shop.
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før) Stenzel. the other children being Frank, Mary, Annie, Rudolph, Emma, Julins, John and Eliza. His parents reside in Weimer town- ship.
Clement came to America with the family in 1877 and until he was twenty-seven years of age resided on his father's farm on section S, Weimer. Then he bought a farm of his own on section 1, LaCrosse, and has sinee been engaged in farming it. He has made all the improvements on the place. He is a member of the Catholic church and of the M. W. A. lodge. lle has held the office of treasurer of school district No. 44 for five years and is one of the supervisors of LaCrosse township.
Mr. Stenzel was married at Heron Lake No. vember 8, 1900, to Sabina Pieschel, a native of LaCrosse township and a daughter of Frank Pieschel, one of the early settlers and still a resident of that precinct. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Stenzel, Harold and Alfred.
OLE AMUNDSON (1881) is a West Ileron Lake township farmer who owns the north- west quarter of section 30, upon which he has resided twenty years. He was born in Norway December 15, 1859, and is one of a family of six living children born to Amund and Mary (Nelson) Amundson. His father is dead; his mother lives in the old country and is 82 years of age.
Ole lived in Norway and worked on farms until he was twenty-one years of age. He came from the old country direct to Jackson county in 1881. The first two years of his life in the new world were spent as a section hand, working out of Heron Lake and Oka- hena. He then married and rented a farm on section 24, Alba township, and began farming. Six years later he bought a homestead right to his present farm, proved up on it, improved the place, and has ever since made his home there.
Jackson county was the place and May 15, 1883, was the date of the marriage of Mr. Amundson. He was wedded to Jennie Olson, who was born in Norway February 3, 1852. Two children, Alfred and Hans, have been born to this union, both assisting their father in conducting the farm. The family are mem- bers of the Norwegian Lutheran church of Heron Lake.
THOMAS H. STALL (1865), senior member of the Jackson mercantile firm of T. H. Stall & Co., is forty-four years of age and bas spent his entire life in Jackson county. Ile was born on section two, Des Moines town- ship, on October 31, 1865, the son of Oliver and Ilelen (Hansen) Stall. These parents were born in Norway and came to the United States when young. They were married in linois and in the spring of 1865, immediately after the discharge of Oliver Stall from a three years' service in the union army, they came to Jackson county. The head of the family took as a homestead claim the northeast quar- ter of section 2, Des Moines township, making the filing in May, 1865. A census of the coun- ty, taken two months after his arrival, showed a total population for Jackson county of 233. Oliver Stall continued to farm his original homestead until 1906, when he retired from active life and is now enjoying the fruits of a well spent and hard working life at the age of seventy years. Our subject's mother died in the fall of 1876. They were the parents of four children, of whom the three following are living: Thomas HI., of this sketch, Mar- tina (Mrs. Jake Johnson), of Windom, and Hans M. Stall, who resides upon the old home- stead.
Thomas Il. Stall lived with his parents on the farm until he reached his majority. He attended the country schools and completed his education in the Jackson high school. At the age of twenty-one years he bonght a farm in Belmont township and conducted it five years. Hle then moved to Jackson and en- tered the employ of J. W. Cowing and elerked in that gentleman's store five years. At the end of that time he bought an interest in the store and remained with the firm two years. In 1899 he formed a partnership with H. E. Anderson and G. A. Husby and opened a gen- eral store in the building in which he is still located. The firm carries a line of general merchandise, dry goods, groceries, clothing and shoes.
Mr. Stall is a member of the Lutheran church and of the E. F. U. and M. W. A. lodges. He has three sons and two daughters, namely: Norin, Tilford, Theodore, Hazel and Ruth.
JONAS IIANSON (1866), deceased, lived up- on his farm on the sonth bank of Independence
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lake, on seetion 4, Belmont township, for for- ty-three years. He was born in Norway De- cember 23, 1823, the son of Hans Ellingson and Anna (Asskerd) Ellingson.
Mr. Hanson resided in his native land until he was past thirty two years of age. He came to America in 1856, arriving in the city of Chi- cago on the nation's birthday. Ile located in Rock county, Wisconsin, which was his home until his arrival to the wilds of Jackson coun- ty. tipon the breaking out of the civil war Mr. Hanson enlisted as a member of company 1. of the 22nd Wisconsin volunteer infantry, and served until his discharge on July 9, 1865. During his army service he was injured in a train wreck in Virginia, and drew a pension on account of his injuries.
After his discharge from the army, Mr. Han- son spent one winter in his old home in Wis- consin. In June, 1866, he arrived in the coun- Ly of Jackson and homesteaded the northwest quarter of section 4, Belmont township, where he resided until his death on December 15, 1909. Hle built a little cabin on Independence lake, in which he lived until he built the pres- ent house. He experienced all the vicissitudes of pioneer life and had many trials to con- tend with. In his younger years he took part in the local affairs of his precinet and served as a member of the board of supervisors.
Mr. Hanson was married in Jackson county in June, 1872, to Maret Larson, who was born on board ship off the Newfoundland banks while her parents were on the way to the new world from Norway. She died in Octo- ber, 1907. aged 51 years. Fifteen children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Hanson, of whom the following eight are living: Mary Ann, Hans T., Elesias, Mondus, Julius, Thore, Tina and Lona.
JOSEPH E. FRITSCHER (1897) is a Weimer township farmer who resides a short distance northeast of Heron Lake. He is an Austrian by birth and first saw the light of day on the last day of October, 1570. Hle is the second child of a family of four children born to Joseph Fritscher, who makes his home with hi- son. and Theresa Hruby) Fritscher.
When fourteen years of age Joseph emi- grated to the new world with his parents and from ISst to 1897 was a resident of Murray county, living near Fulda. He resided at home until his mother's death, which occurred in
Iss7; then he started in life for himself and until 1892 was employed on farms in the vi- cinity of his home. He married in 1892 and for the next five years farmed a rented place in Murray county. Mr. Fritscher came to Jackson county in 1897, and during the next eight years engaged in farming rented land in LaCrosse township.
It was while a resident of LaCrosse town- ship on Louis Hager's farm on the thirtieth of June. 1903, that the terrible eyclone (the story of which is given in the historical see- tion) swept over his place killing his wife and two children and injuring several others of the family. His wife and one child were killed instantly and the second child died a few hours later. Mr. Fritscher was in the house at the time and was blown a distance of ten rods into the grove, but was not seriously injured. llis father was quite badly hurt, but the other children escaped. The buildings were carried away and demolished.
In 1905 Mr. Fritscher moved to Kansas, but a year later returned to Jackson county and rented the Frank Nimerfroh farm, where he has since resided. Mr. Fritscher is a member of the Catholic church and of the Catholic Or- der of Foresters.
Mr. Fritscher's first marriage occurred at Avoca. Minnesota, October 15, 1892, when he wedded Theresa Schwager, who was born in Austria October 5, 1874. She was killed in the cyclone of June 30, 1903. Six children were born to this union. as follows: Aurelia, who met death in the eyelone; Theresa, Henry, Arthur, Agnes and Mary, who was also killed in the cyclone of June 30, 1903.
The second marriage of Mr. Fritscher oceur- red in Heron Lake in June, 1901, when he wed- ded Mrs. Amelia Haberman-Pieschel, to whom three children have been born, as follows: Amelia. deceased ; Aphonse and Alfred.
EDWARD E. OLSON (1869). a Jackson grain buyer, was born in Belmont township forty years ago, on December 6, 1869, and with the exception of a few years spent in Cottonwood county has spent his entire life in the county. His father. Ole E. Olson, same from Sweden when thirteen years old, and at the age of nineteen enlisted in the United States army and fought for the preservation of the union. He located in Belmont township in the sixties and took as a homestead a piece
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of land that had been taken by one of the settlers who was killed in the massacre of 1862. Ile was a resident of Belmont township until his death. Our subject's mother was Christina (Anderson) Olson, who was present at the time of the massacre.
Edward Olson, who was one of a family of eight children, lived with his parents until 1890. He worked on the farm and received an edueation in the district school and in the Breck school at Wilder. He bought a farm in Cottonwood county in 1890 and for eight years lived there, engaged in farming. Selling out in 1898, he located in Jackson and built an elevator in partnership with Lee Brothers, which they conducted three years. Thereafter Mr. Olson bought grain for the Hyde Eleva- for company five years, for James Lowe one year and since that time for M. H. Lee. Mr. Olson owns a home in the village. lle is a member of the Lutheran church.
In Des Moines township March 20, 1897, Mr. Olson was married to Emma J. Lee, a dangh- ter of Oliver Lee and a native of the town- ship in which she was married. Two children, llaves and Clark, have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Olson.
EDWIN SMITH (1869), mail carrier on route three out of Jackson, has been a resident of the county since he was one year old, and is the son of one of the very early settlers of the county. Ilis parents, John J. and Annie (Fields) Smith, were both born in New York state, but located in Wisconsin before the war and were married in Dane county of that state. John J. Smith is a veteran of the civil war, having enlisted in company K of the First Wisconsin regiment and later becoming a member of the Thirty-fifth Wisconsin regi- ment. Ile took part in the battles of Gettys- burg, Bull Run and other important engage- ments. In the spring of 1866 the family came to Jackson county and took a homestead claim on section 32, Wisconsin township. After a two years' residence in the frontier country they returned to Wisconsin, but two years later again moved to Jackson county. Mr. Smith now lives in Jackson and is 73 years of age. Mrs. Smith, our subject's mother, died fifteen years ago.
While the family were temporarily living in Dane county, Wisconsin, after having spent two years in Jackson county, on the second
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