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Martin received his education in South Da- kota and resided with his parents until he came to Jackson county in 1907. At that time he bought the Simon Olson farm on section 3, Des Moines township, famous as the location of part of the old townsite of Belmont, founded in 1858. Mr. Quall is not married, but makes his home with a family employed by him on the farm. He is a member of the Norwegian Lutheran church.
FRED H. MEYER (1903). Petersburg town- ship farmer, was born in Martin county. Min- nesota, Marel: 23, 1878, the son of John and Johanna (Voges) Meyer, both deceased. Fred received a common school education and spent his early days on his father's farm. In 1897 he moved to Fairmont and for a year was employed in the ereetion of windmills.
Mr. Meyer enlisted in the army in 1898 during the Spanish-American war and was in the service seven months, being stationed at Chickamauga. Georgia. In addition to this service he has served three years in the state militia. After his discharge from the army Mr. Meyer engaged in farming in Martin county until 1903. when he located in Peters- burg township, Jackson county. He farms land on section 6. Ile is a member of the German Lutheran church and of the M. W. A. lodge.
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On September 27, 1999. Mr. Meyer was mar ried to Minar Ziemer. To them have been burn the following children: Bildes. ben August 10, 1901; Ellsworth, born July 12. 1901; Ourence, born March In, 190; Rozella, born July 1, 1902, died December 12, 1907.
FRANK ROPESTE (1907) owns and farms the southwest quarter of section 1. LaCrosse township. He is a native of Peoria, Illinois, and was born April 25, 186.
The parents of our subject were Frank and Mary Prochazka Kopeste, both natives of An- tria. They were married in their native land and came to America in 187, living respective- Is in Racine, Wisconsin: Peoria. Illinois : Gibson City. Ilinois: Spirit Lake, lowa: Marshall- town. lowa: and Des Moines, Jowa. Mr. Ko- peste was a farmer and carpet weaver. He died at Des Moines in 1891. aged 63 years, Mrs Kopeste now lives at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Frank is next to the oldest of a family of nine children in this family.
Frank spent his early years with his par- ents, residing in the different places mentioned, engaging in farming and carpenter work after growing to manhood. He worked at his trade -ix year- in Marshalltown, Jowa. and Des Moines. Jowa, and then engaged in farming in Linn county, Iowa. In the spring of 1907 he came to Jackson county and bought bis present farm, the southwest quarter of see- tion t. Lacrosse. township. He is clerk of school district No. 122 and is a member of the Bohemian lodge of Jackson.
Mr. Kopeste was married at Des Moines, Clear Lake creamery on section 21. Hunter Towa, November G. ISSO, to Katie Kesl, who Was born in Belle Plaine. Jowa, in 1872. To them have been born six children, named as follows: Mary, Frank. Agues, Emily, Adelaide and Margaret.
JOHN LARSON (1902) is a Belmont lowu- ship farmer. He is a native of Sweden and was born May S. Ijs, the oldest of a family of six children born to Gustav and Mary (An- der-on) Larson. The other children of this family are Oscar, Augusta, Hannah, Sophia and Tillie Nelson.
Mr. Larson resided with his parents in Swed en until fourteen years old: then he worked out for a few years and in IS75 crossed the wa- ter lo America. The first seventeen years of
hi- hie in the new world were passed as a resi- dont of Bureau county, Illinois, where he worked out for a few years and then engaged in farming. From 1992 to 1902 he lived in Enmet county, lowa, where le bought land and engaged in farming. le came to Jackson county in the year last mentioned. bought his present farm of 10 acres on sections ! and 15, Belmont township, and has since made hi- home there. It is a director of school district No. 123 and has served as road over- spor. He is a member of the M. W. A. lodge.
In Bureau county, Ilinois, our subject was married on June 17. Issa, to Clara A. Larson, a native of Sweden. To this union have been born nine children, named as follows: John Hereare). Suzie, Willie, Esther. Ivan, Mary. Lewis, Levi and Vernie.
THOMAS EDEL (859), who with his broth- ers, have charge of their father's farm the northwest quarter of section 23. Belmont was born in the city of Cleveland, Ohio. September 12. 1876, the son of Joseph and Catherina Pe- terlek) Edel. He came to Jackson county with the family in Iss9 and has ever since made hi- home with his father in Felmont township. securing an education in the district school- and working on the farm. In June. 1907. Mr. Edel filed on a homestead claim in Martin county, North Dakota. He is a member of the 7. C. B. J. lodge.
ANTON MAYRICHEK (1906), who owns the township, is a buttermaker of many year- ex- perience. He was born in the province of Moravia, Austria. November 21, 188, the sun of Anton and Antionette (Vukl) Vasrichiek. When he was one year old the family came to the I'nited States and located at Western College. Linn county, lowa.
Anton received his education in Linn conn- ty and grew to manhood there. After a resj. dence of eighteen years in Linn county ho moved to Spirit Lake, lowa, where he resided seven years. During this time he learned the creamery business, taking a seven months' cuirse in the lowa state agricultural school at Ames. Moving to Colorado, he conducted hi- first creamery there one year: then he ro. turned and located at Spencer, Iowa. He op- crated a creamery there on salary five years,
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and then conducted it for his own account one year. We next find Mr. Vavrichek at Mount Vernon, South Dakota, where for two years he was foreman of a creamery plant. Ile came to Jackson county in May, 1906, bought the Clear Lake creamery, and has since conducted it, building it up to the stan- dard it maintains today. Mr. Vavrichek las served as township supervisor one year. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen lodge.
Mr. Vavrichek was married to Miss Anna C. Anderson, of Spencer, Iowa, on Christmas day. 1899. To them has been born one child, Lloyd, born January 24, 1906.
JOHN A. SALIN (1895), of Jackson, was born in Sweden July 20, 1850, the son of John and Betsy (Benson) Salin. At the age of four years he accompanied his parents to America with the Bishop Hill colony and for thirty-five years lived in Henry county, Illinois. In 1889 Mr. Salin went to Litchfield, Nebraska, lived there six years and on July 19, 1895, located in Jackson, where he has since resided.
FREDERICK W. ALEXANDER (1901) farms the Herman Miller farm on sections 30 and 31, Wisconsin township. He was born in Ger- many May 25, 1861, the son of Frederick and Annie (Clausen) Alexander. Ilis father is dead; his mother lives in the old country.
Frederick received his education in the old country and until he was twenty-two years of age worked on his father's farm. He then came to America and located in Olmsted county, Minnesota. Two years later he went to Clin- ton county, Iowa, which was his home about seventeen years. For several years he worked in the town of Clinton, and after that worked at farm work near the town. He arrived in Jackson county in 1901, and has since been engaged in farming the place upon which he now lives. He is a member of the Odd Fellows lodge.
Mr. Alexander was married in Olmsted county, Minnesota, in October. 1883, to Cath- erine Young, who was born in the county in which she was married September 24, 1864. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander are the parents of eight children, as follows: Peter Frederick. born February 25, 1884; Wilhelm H., born June 20, 1886; Johan Ferdinand, born May 22, 1889; Theodore Otto, born November 27, 1891; Fred-
erick Carl, born August 28, 1897; Frederick Adolph, born Angust 28, 1903; Wilhelmina Magdalena Elisabea, born January 4, 1906; Frederick Wilhelm, born May 4, 1908.
WALTER CAPELLE (1903) is the profes- sor in charge of the Lutheran parochial school of Rost township. He was born in Sheboygan county, Wisconsin, March 13, 1884, the son of llenry and Amelia (Heyse) Capelle, natives of Wisconsin and Germany, respectively. His father died in 1908; his mother lives in She- boygan, county, Wisconsin. Walter is the fourth child of a family of seven children.
Our subject spent the first fourteen years of his life on his father's farm in Sheboygan county, Wisconsin, attending the parochial school. Ife then went to Addison, Illinois, and took a five years' course in the Teachers' Seminary of that place, from which he was graduated in June, 1903. Immediately after his graduation he came to Jackson connty to accept the principalship of the school in Rost, where he has since resided, engaged in the same work.
Professor Capelle was married in Luxem- burg, Wisconsin, July 15, 1906, to Lonisa Goetsch, who was born in that town and who is the daughter of William and Sophia Goetsch. They have one child, Evelyn, born October 5, 1908. Professor Capelle is the organist of the Lutheran church of Rost township.
BARNEY GRAVE (1909), proprietor of a saloon at Heron Lake, was born in Aurich, Ger- many, July 21, 1877, the son of Bergart and Tena (Voght) Grave. lle came to America with his parents in 1880 and settled in Carroll county, Iowa.
Barney lived on the farm with his parents until his mother's death when he was ten years of age. Then he began to battle with the world on his own account. For a few years he worked on farms in the vicinity of his home, doing what little a boy of that age could. From 1892 to 1901 he was employed in hotels in Sioux City and Sibley, Iowa. Ile then took a position as bartender in a saloon at Sibley, lowa. and was so engaged until February 18, 1909, where he moved to Heron Lake and bought the saloon of Frank Appel. Mr. Grave is a member of the German Reformed church. lle owns village property at Sibley, lowa.
Mr. Grave was married at Sibley March 25,
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1902, to Della Beek, who was born in Ger- many and came to America when a child. She is the daughter of B. Beck, of George, lowa. To Mr. and Mrs. Grave have been born two children. Jesse and Delbert.
REINHOLD C. WEGNER (1891) is a school teacher now located at Cass Lake, Minnesota, his permanent home being in Heron Lake town- ship. lle is a native of Buckley, Ilinois, and was born May 16, 1884. At the age of seven years he accompanied his parents to Jackson county and grew to manhood on his father's farm, the southwest quarter of section 22, Heron Lake township. He was educated in the district schools, in the German school at Lakofield, in Concordia college of St. Paul and in the Addison German Lutheran seminary of Addison, Illinois, from which he was gradu- ated in 1908. Since his graduation he has been employed as a teacher in a German Luth- eran school at Cass Lake.
Our subject is the son of Albert and Minna (Giertz) Wegner, natives of Germany. They came to the United States when young and, before they came to Jackson county in 1891, lived at Buckley, Illinois. The family lived on their farm in Heron Lake township after coming to the county. Mr. Wegner died June 21, 1906, aged 68 years. Mrs. Wegner still lives on the home place, the farm being con- ducted by her two sons. Albert and Louis. .There are five children in the family, namely: Reinhold, Charlie, Martha (Mrs. C. J. Mar- quardt), of Princeton, Wisconsin; Albert and Louis.
BERT ALDRICH (1902) is a Middletown township farmer who resides three miles south of Jackson. Ile was born near Hastings, Mich- igan, December 12, 1882, the eldest son of Brice and Lydia (Smith) Aldrich. His par- ents resided in Jackson county several years and are now residents of Colorado, where they have recently taken a government homestead.
Rørt was three years of age when his par- ents moved from Michigan to Springfield, Mis- souri, which was the family home sixteen months. Seven years were spent in Sac coun- ty. lowa, and then the family located in Wright county. lowa, where Bert grew to man- hood. Ile secured a country school education and worked on his father's farm in Wright
county until 1902. Coming to Jackson county in 1902, Bert continued to work for his father in Middletown township until the fall of 190S. Then he married and rented the farm on see- tion I from l'. IT. Sawyer.
The date of the marriage of Mr. Aldrich was August 26, 1908, when he led to the altar Esther A. Johnson, a native of Chicago. One child has been born to this union, a son horn June 28, 1909.
BALSER WEPPLER (1902), saloon keeper of Lakefield, was born in Germany Angust 22, 1865, the youngest of a family of six chil- dren born to Adam and Elizabeth (Wenk) Woppler. Both his parents died in Tazewell county, Illinois.
Balser came across the ocean with his par- ents when eight years of age. The family lo- cated on a farm in Tazewell county. Illinois, and that was the home of our subject until he reached his majority. lle then started out in life for himself and for four or five years work- ed as a farm laborer near Gilman, Iroquois county. After his marriage, which occurred in 1891, he rented a farm in Iroquois county and farmed seven years. Hle then moved to the village of Gilman, where he bought and con- ducted a saloon three years. lle came to Jackson county in 1902, bought a saloon in Alpha, and operated it two years, Moving to Lakefield in 190t, he purchased the saloon of Ed. Kolander, and has since conducted it. Mr. Woppler owns his home in Lakefield.
On the 20th day of December. I891. Mr. Weppler was married to Mary Brill at Gilman, Illinois. Five children have been born to this union: Carl, Frank, died April 8, 1909, at the age of 14 years; Ernie, Lizzie and Martha.
JOUN DIEDRICH BARGFREDE (1905), who is engaged in farming in Petersburg township, was born in Hamburg, Germany, July 31, 1872, the son of Fred and Mary Bargfrede. llis father died October 17, 1908, aged 75 years.
Our subject came to America when nineteen years of age, resided respectively in Armstrong, Emmet county, Jowa; Vale. Crawford county, Iowa: and Arcadia, Carroll county, lowa. Hc arrived in Jackson county, Minnesota, Febru- ary 6, 1905, and has since been engaged in farming on section 23. Petersburg township.
Mr. Bargfrede was married January 18, 1905,
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to Emma Schulte. They are the parents of the following children: Louie, Herman, Alice and Alma. The family are members of the German Lutheran church.
HENRY KABLE (1886) is an Enterprise township farmer. Ile was born at Rushford, Minnesota, August 10, 1878, and is the son of Wensel and Anna Kable. When a little past seven years of age Henry accompanied his parents to Jackson county, and has ever since made his home in Enterprise township. He received a common school education and until reaching man's estate assisted in the farm work on his father's farm. Ile and his broth- er Thomas now farm in partnership and for the past five years have been engaged in the threshing business. He is a member of the Catholic church of Jackson.
JOIIN A. ALBERT (1908) is the proprietor of a restaurant and pool hall at Okabena. He is a native of Germany and was born Novem- ber 6, 1882, the son of Zacharias and Tina (Ed- zards) Albert. In 1893 he came to America with his parents and located in Cumberland, Cass county, Iowa. There he continued his schooling, which had been begun in the old country. In 1895 he moved to Laurens, Iowa, and two years later to Fonda. In 1906 he lo- cated at Round Lake, in Nobles county, and in December, 1908, located in Okabena, where he engaged in the restaurant and pool busi- ness.
Mr. Albert is a member of the German Luth- cran church and of the M. W. A. lodge. He was married at Round Lake September 23, 1908, to Miss Sena Koster, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Koster, of Round Lake, Minne- sota.
EDWARD TEIG (1906), of Christiania town- ship, was born in Story county, Iowa, August 18, 1887, and is the son of Ole K. and Nellie (Raymond) Teig. In his native county he re- ceived a common school education, having been brought up on his father's farm. IIe accompanied his parents to Jackson county in 1906 and has since made his home on the farm on section 15: Christiania township.
Mr. Teig was married May 17, 1909, to Victoria Thompson. He and his wife are men-
bers of the Norwegian Lutheran church of Christiania township.
JOHN S. CRAWLEY (1901), cashier of the State Bank of Alpha, was born in Tuscola, Douglas county, Illinois, February 3, 1865; and in that town spent his boyhood days and grew to manbood. He was educated in the public schools of Tnscola and just be- fore reaching his majority he took a position with the Diamond Prospecting company, of Chicago, a firm handling mining machinery and engaging in general prospecting. Ile remained with this firm five years and then engaged in the loan and real estate business at Tuscola.
Two years later Mr. Crawley moved to Mar- tin county, Minnesota, bought a farm and en- gaged in agricultural pursuits two years. He then located in Sherburn and for the next three years was employed by a real estate firm. The next year he spent working in the Bank of Sher- burn, and in 1901 located in the village of Al- pha. For a few years he was employed as cashier of George R. Moore's private bank, and when the bank was incorporated as a state bank in 1904 he became a stockholder and has since served as cashier.
The bank of which Mr. Crawley is cashier was organized as a private bank in 1899 by George R. Moore and C. F. Albertus, the form- er being president and the latter cashier. On July 1, 1904 it was incorporated as a state bank, capital stock $10,000, and the name was changed to State Bank of Alpha. The pres- ent officers are George R. Moore, president ; J. A. Krause, vice president; J. S. Crawley, cashier. At the present time the bank has a surplus of $2,500. It does a general banking business, makes collections, loans and writes insurance. The bank building was erected in IS99.
The father of our subject was E. S. Crawley, who was born in Tazewell, Tennessee. August 23, 1830. Ilis maternal ancestors were colonial stock, having come from England and settled in Virginia. E. S. Crawley moved to In- diana when thirteen years of age and to Tus- cola, Illinois, in 1855. Ile spent the rest of his life in Illinois, and died in Champaign county at the age of 79 years. The mother of our subject was Alnietta J. (Lester) Crawley, a native of Illinois and a descendant of old Kentucky stock. Iler maternal ancestors came from Scotland and her paternal ancestors from
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England. Her father took part in the Black- hawk war and the old rifle that he carried is now in the possession of our subject. E. S. Crawley and Almotta . Laster were married in Illinois February 4. 1858. She died in Tus- vola, Illinois, at the age of 56 years. There were seven children in the family.
Our subject was married at Indianapolis, In- diana, in April, 1894, to Nora Smith, a native of Douglas county. Illinois, having been born January 10, 1863. She is the daughter of Da-
vid and Ann Smith. For eight years she served as superintendent of schools of Douglas coun. ty, Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Crawley have six living children. They are named Keith, Genc. Rose, Lloyd, Gail and Max. The first born, Wayne, died when five or six years of age.
Mr. Crawley is treasurer of Alpha village, treasurer of the ereamery association and is a member of the local school board. He is a member of the Presbyterian church and of the Knights of Pythias and M. W. A. lodges.
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