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The father purchased land in Wester. heim township, where the family resided six years. They then moved to the farm now occupied by the subject of this re- view, where they resided two years, after which they purchased the Youmans farm in Lynd township. The father died at the latter place in 1901, and the mother re- sided there until 1909, when she took up her residence with her son, Louis. She died at the home of the latter on Novem- ber 2, 1909. They were the parents of nine children, eight of whom are living: Frank, John, Hubert, Minnick and Louis, all of whom reside in Holland; Joseph M., of this review; Antonette (Mrs. Frank Deutz), of Fairview township; Mary (Mrs. Jacob Jansen), of Lake Marshall town- ship; Constant, deceased. The father of our subject was at the time of his death one of the largest land holders in the county, his holdings consisting of 1240 acres of fine land.
The subject of this review received his early education in Holland, where he at- tended the common schools until thirteen
years of age, after which he worked for his father on the farm until 1883. Then he accompanied his parents to America and to Lyon county and resided with them until 1905, when he moved to his present farm in Grandview township. He is the owner of 440 acres of fine land and has a well-improved farm. In addition to farm- ing our subject engages somewhat in stock raising, among other breeds raising Durham cattle, Duroc-Jersey hogs and Belgian horses. He is the owner of three full-blooded Belgian horses-two mares and a horse. Mr. Senden is a successful farmer and stock raiser and has been a continuous resident of Lyon county since 1883. He is a member of the Catholic church of Ghent.
On November 28, 1905, occurred the marriage of Mr. Senden to Katherine Bot, a native of Holland. She was born Feb- ruary 20, 1873, and accompanied her par- ents to Lyon county in the early eighties. Mr. and Mrs. Senden are the parents of seven children, four of whom are living. The oldest child died in infancy. The others are: Mary (deceased), born June 5, 1907; Hubert (deceased) and William (twins), born June 2, 1908; Mary, born June 10, 1909; Hubert, born June 25, 1910; Debora, born February 18, 1912.
ARCHIBALD J. CHAMBERLAIN (1896), proprietor of a Marshall grocery store, has spent nearly thirty years in the gro- cery business, the last half of that time in Marshall. He was born in Cattaraugus county, New York, July 22, 1856, the son of Horace F. and Hannah (Hulbert) Chamberlain, both of old New England stock and both natives of Cattaraugus county, New York. The family located in Freeborn county, Minnesota, in 1864, where Mrs. Chamberlain died in 1888. The father of our subject, who was born in 1828, resides in Marshall. There are two children in the family besides the sub- ject of this biography: Leona Manning, of Minneapolis; and Alice Jones, of Ge- neva, Minnesota.
When Archibald was seven years of age he accompanied the family to Minnesota, the journey from La Crosse, Wisconsin, to Freeborn county being made overland.
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That was before the days of railroads in Southern Minnesota, and Albert Lea was a hamlet of only a few hundred people. The father bought land near Geneva, and on the farm our subject grew to manhood, attending the country schools near by. In 1882 he moved to Geneva, bought a gro- cery store and conducted the business un - til 1890. That year he sold out and moved to New Richland, Waseca county, where he engaged in the grocery business three years. The next three years were spent in the same business in Janesville.
In 1896 Mr. Chamberlain located in Marshall and bought the grocery store of Joseph Addison, which was located in the building now occupied by the Palace Grocery. He conducted that business seven years, then sold and bought the Frank Parker store, where he engaged in the business three years. Mr: Chamber- lain has been in his present location in the Messenger Block since December, 1909. He carries an excellent line of fancy groceries and crockery. Mr. Cham- berlain is affiliated with the Chapter, Com- mandery and Shrine of the Masonic orders and with the M. W. A. lodge.
At Albert Lea, on April 26, 1879, Mr. Chamberlain was married to Lilly Phelte- place, a native of Richland, Richland county, Wisconsin. They have three chil- dren, as follows: Alice (Mrs. George A. Joehning), of Redwood Falls, born at Geneva August 4, 1881; George H., a Mar- shall business man, born at Geneva July 11, 1884; and Ione, born at Janesville Feb- ruary 25, 1895.
GEORGE ALBERT VAN DUSEN (1883) is a farmer of Monroe township, renting the northwest quarter of section 9. His parents, Charles E. Van Dusen and Fannie E. (Sta- ley) Van Dusen, took a homestead in Monroe township in 1879. George was born on the Monroe homestead farm June 13, 1883.
Our subject was brought up on the farm and received his education in the country schools. He then went to work for his fa- ther and lived on the parental farm until two years after his father's death in 1907. He then rented the place where he now lives and started farming for himself.
The marriage of George Albert Van Dusen
and Hannah Rydberg occurred February 4, 1908, at Tracy. Mrs. Van Dusen was born in Sweden August 4, 1890, and came to the United States April 8, 1904. To Mr. and Mrs. Van Dusen have been born two chil- dren, Harry Edwin and Clarence Edward. Mr. Van Dusen is a member of the Odd Fel- lows lodge of Tracy.
HENRY VOSS (1890) has been a resident of Clifton township since he was eighteen years of age. In 1900 he bought the east half of the southeast quarter of section 4 from his father and since that time has been farming for himself. He later pur- chased the west half of the southeast quar- ter and in 1911 forty acres on section 9, which makes him the owner of 200 acres of well-improved farming land. Mr. Voss raises considerable stock.
Henry and Amelia (Ladwig) Voss, parents of our subject, were natives of Germany and immigrated to this country when young. Henry was born February 9, 1872, on his father's farm in Rice county, Minnesota. His boyhood was passed there and he completed his education before the family moved to Lyon county in 1890. The father at that time bought the eighty acres on which Hen- ry now makes his home, and the boy lived at home and helped his father with the farm work until buying the place for him- self.
The subject of this sketch married Salma Ladwig March 18, 1896. To this union seven children were born, named Walter, Arthur, Lila, Raymond, Florence, Orien and Louise. Mrs. Voss was born in LeSueur county, Minnesota, April 13, 1879, and is a daughter of William and Augusta (Malzhan) Ladwig, natives of Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Voss are members of the Evangelical church of Clif- ton.
JAMES E. DOYLE (1883) is a retired railroad engineer of the Northwestern rail- road. He was born in Stoughton, Wiscon- sin, August 22, 1862, and when three years of age accompanied his parents to North McGregor, Iowa, where he resided several years. He then moved to Independence, Iowa, where he obtained a common school education.
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The parents of our subject are John and Margaret (Oneill) Doyle, natives of Ireland. They came to the United States when young and were married at LaPorte, Indiana, in 1860. The mother died in 1895 and the father in 1904. They were the parents of one child, the subject of this review.
When sixteen years of age James Doyle entered the employ of the Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Company at North McGregor as brakeman and was so engaged for two years. In May, 1883, he went to Huron, South Dakota, where he worked for the Chi- cago & Northwestern Railroad Company as fireman, and in 1892 he was promoted to en- gineer, his run being on a passenger from Huron, South Dakota, to Alton, Iowa.
Mr. Doyle took up his residence in Lyon county in 1883, when he located at Tracy, and there he has since made his home. On November 10, 1908, he retired from service and has since .led a life of ease. He is the owner of two farms in Lyon county and also owns land near Grand Forks, North Dakota. He is a member of the K. P. lodge.
JAMES J. LAUGHLIN (1891) is auditor of the Hayes-Lucas Lumber Company and the manager of that company's yards at Tracy, having held the position for the past twenty-five years. He has devoted his entire life to the lumber business, as did his father before him.
James J. Laughlin was born at Blooming Grove, Orange county, New York, March 11, 1863. He accompanied his parents to Wino- na, Minnesota, when five years of age and grew to manhood and was educated in that city. When a young man he entered the employ of the Winona Lumber Company. In 1891 Mr. Laughlin located in Tracy and took charge of the company's yards there. Ten years later the Hayes-Lucas Lumber Com- pany purchased the interests of the Winona Lumber Company and Mr. Laughlin has since been in that company's employ. For fifteen consecutive years Mr. Laughlin was secre- tary of the Tracy Board of Education.
CHARLES H. TOPEL (1896), born in Ger- many November 28, 1856, and reared in his native land, came to America at the age of
sixteen. He is now a successful farmer of Rock Lake township, owning the northeast quarter of section 26, upon which he has one of the nicest homes in the precinct. Like many other farmers of the vicinity, he raises stock and pays particular attention to Per- cheron and Belgian horses, Hereford cattle and Poland China swine.
Our subject's father and mother were Carl and Mary Topel, both deceased. Charles completed his education in Germany at the age of fourteen and then worked for an uncle one year. In the spring of 1872 he came to America and located at Chicago, living there some time and working at various kinds of labor. The great fire had swept the city the year before and Chicago was the Mecca for the man seeking employment, as the new city was springing up as fast as human power could rush the work.
Leaving Chicago, Mr. Topel spent a short time at Des Plaines, Illinois, and later did farm labor for a few years in Kankakee county, going from there to Benton county, Indiana, where he worked five years at farm- ing. Returning to Kankakee, he worked in a linseed oil mill two years. In the spring of 1883 our subject located on a homestead and tree claim in Hand county, South Da- kota, and farmed there until 1896, when he moved to Lyon county and made his home on his present farm. While in Hand county Mr. Topel was township treasurer for several years, and he became a member of the A. O. U. W. lodge at Wessington Springs.
At Manteno, Illinois, Charles Topel was joined in marriage to Maggie Moat, January 24, 1883. Mrs. Topel is a native of Kankakee county. The following children have been born to this union: William, of Waseca; Lillian (Mrs. Roy Root), of Balaton; Myrtle (Mrs. Earl Zollar), of Waterloo, Iowa; Kath- ryn (Mrs. Adolph Ronbeck), of Minneapolis; Eliza and Beatrice, of St. Paul; and Mar- garet, Charles and Ruth, residing at home.
ANDREW E. HEAIRET (1885) is the pro- prietor of a livery barn in Minneota. He is a native of Minneota and was born May 25, 1885. His parents were Andrew C. and In- diana (Paulson) Haeiret, natives of Chris- tiania, Norway. In the fall of 1860 they were married and nine years later came to Amer- ica, settling in Galesville, Wisconsin, where
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they lived ten years. In the spring of 1879 they came with their family to Minneota, where they lived until their deaths. The father died October 1, 1909, and the mother died November 25, 1893. They were the par- ents of twelve children, seven of whom are living, as follows: Albert, Pete, Andrew E., Edith, Sarah and Mary. Those who have died were Emma, Christena, Annie, John and Albert.
Andrew E. Heairet attended the Minneota schools and later took a business course. In April, 1905, he purchased the M. J. Kiley dray line and continued in the business until the fall of 1908. On the latter date he sold the dray line and the next spring purchased the A. E. Tibbits livery stable. He has since been engaged in that business. He has both teams and autos.
AIME VANHEE (1880) is a dealer in gen- eral merchandise of Ghent and a former postmaster of that village. He has taken a most important part in the affairs of his village and with his father formed the ad- vance guard of the colony of Belgian Cath- olics who located in Lyon county in the early eighties.
Aime Vanhee was born in Belgium May 12, 1862, the son of Angelus and P. (Van- stechelmon) Vanhee. The father was born March 23, 1839, was married July 29, 1862, came to America in 1880, and died in 1895. The mother died November 6, 1909, at the age of seventy years. There are nine chil- dren in the family, named as follows: Aime, Bruno, Mary, Modest, Achille, Charlie, Peter, Emily and Helen.
In 1880 Angelus Vanhee and his son Aime left their native land and came to Lyon county to view conditions in this country and report to their neighbors in Belgium. They were pleased with the looks of the country about the little village of Ghent and before their return purchased the east half of sec- tion 17, Grandview. They returned to Bel- gium and through their influence came the colony that settled largely the townships of Grandview and Westerheim and part of Val- lers.
The Vanhees returned to Lyon county and were the first Belgian settlers in Grandview township. They located on the farm they had bought and later purchased other lands
and became known as the fathers of the Catholic colony. From 1881 to 1883 there were many additions to the settlement from the old country.
Aime remained on his father's farm until 1894, assisting with the work. That year he moved to Ghent and rented the Gits build- ing, in which he is still doing business. At the same time he bought the Gits hardware stock, but soon after disposed of that and has since dealt in general merchandise. The building was later bought by Mr. Vanhee's mother, in whose name it is still held. Mr. Vanhee sells dry goods, groceries, shoes, notions and furnishing goods and buys cream for the Tracy creamery.
When he located in Ghent in 1894 Mr. Vanhee was appointed postmaster and held the office eight years, turning it over at the end of that time to Mrs. Matilda Blodgett, the present incumbent. He has stock in the Farmers Elevator Company of Ghent, in the Ghent Rural Telephone Company, and in the county fair association. For several terms he was village treasurer. Our subject is a member of the Catholic church and of the Catholic Order of Foresters and Modern Woodmen of America lodges.
The marriage of Mr. Vanhee to Dora A. Van Emelan was solemnized at Ghent July 16, 1895. She was born in Kinmundy, Mar- ion county, Illinois, August 25, 1875, and is the daughter of Louis and Magdelina (Rapp) Van Emelan, natives, respectively, of Illinois and Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Vanhee are the parents of seven children, named as follows: Angelus, Mary, Joseph, Lucy, Agnes, Ange- line and Helen. One daughter, Katherine, died August 29, 1903, at the age of three and one-half years.
MRS. HELENE FURGESON (1881) is the widow of Ole K. Furgeson, who was a homesteader and one of the prominent farm- ers of Island Lake township. She still makes her home on the homestead and she and her sons Gisle and Orvin conduct the farm.
Mrs. Furgeson's maiden name was Helene Gresdalen. She was born in Muskego, Wis- consin, March 25, 1855. Her parents, Lars O. and Ragnild (Gisselesson) Gresdalen, came from Norway in 1850 and 1851, re- spectively, and were married in Wisconsin. When the subject of this review was two
AIME VANHEE AND WIFE Mr. Vanhee is a Merchant of Ghent and an Early Settler.
THE LATE OLE K. FURGESON A Homesteader and Former Prominent Res- ident of Island Lake Township.
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years old the family moved to Freeborn county, Minnesota, and there her parents lived until their deaths, the father in 1897 and the mother in 1909.
Miss Gresdalen spent her girlhood days in Freeborn county and she was married there on June 28, 1881, to Ole K. Furgeson. Mr. Furgeson was born in Winnebago county, Wisconsin, September 15, 1851. His parents, natives of Norway, were Kittel and Mar- grette (Peterson) Furgeson. Immediately after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Ole K. Fur- geson came to Lyon county and took as a homestead claim the farm on which Mrs. Furgeson still lives. Mr. Furgeson farmed that place until his death on June 19, 1908. He was an influential man and one highly esteemed by his neighbors in Island Lake township.
The children of the family are Rudolph, Oscar. Palma, Rachel, William, Martin, Gisle, Anne and Orvin.
GEORGE W. MADDEN (1904). Among the substantial and influential farmers of Lynd township is George W. Madden, who has been a resident of Lyon county for the past eight years. George is a native of Iowa and was born in Bremer county Decem- ber 6, 1867, a son of George W. and Sarah (Martin) Madden, natives of Virginia and pioneer settlers of Bremer county. Mrs. Madden was born October 24, 1831, and died September 8, 1911, at her home in Sumner, Iowa. Mr. Madden died June 5, 1889. They were the parents of eleven children.
The man whose name heads this sketch received his education in the district schools of Bremer county, where he attended school until twenty-one years of age. He then worked at farm labor and bridge work five or six years, after which he engaged in the livery business at Fayette, Iowa, continuing in that work three years, when he sold and worked for a hardware dealer two years. He again returned to farm work, this time for himself. He farmed three years in Fayette county and one year on the old home farm in Bremer county. In 1899 he purchased one hundred sixty acres on section 36, Lynd township, which he rented out until 1904, when he moved to the place and has since resided there. He has since that time put up almost all new buildings.
Mr. Madden is a member of the Yeomen lodge. He is one of the directors of school district No. 1 and was road overseer one year in Lynd township. He raises consid- erable stock, including Poland China hogs, Shorthorn cattle and Barred Plymouth Rock chickens, and is a stockholder and a director of the Farmers Elevator Company of Lynd.
Mr. Madden was married June 5, 1895, to Emma Bloxham, a daughter of Sam Bloxham, of Winneshiek county, Iowa. Mrs. Madden was born in 1869 and died May 9, 1904. To this union were born the following three children: Glenn, born June 28, 1896; Geor- gie, born April 22, 1901; Charles, born March 30, 1904. Mr. Madden was married a second time, to Alice Bloxham, on October 3, 1906. She died in October, 1907. He was married a third time, to Lonise Tiedje, a daughter of Henry and Gusta Tiedje, natives of Germany and early settlers of Carroll county, Iowa. Her father died in February, 1910; her mother resides near Lynd. Mrs. Madden is a native of Iowa and was born in Carroll county January 24, 1886. To this union have been born the following children: Abraham, born February 12, 1909; Clarence, born Octo- ber 22, 1910.
Mr. Madden has seven brothers and six sisters, all living: Ed., Charles, Marcellus, of Lyon county; John, of Spokane, Washing- .ton; Price, of Anthony, Kansas; James, of Sumner, Iowa; Joe, of Halfa, Iowa; Mrs. Will Triptow, of Burt, Iowa; Jennie, of Sumner, Iowa; Maggie, of Sumner, Iowa; Mrs. A. H. Bixby, of Spirit Lake, Iowa; Mrs. Julius Robinson, of Oelwein, Iowa; Mrs. Joe Stuffelbeam, of Denver, Colorado.
TELESPHORE PARADIS (1886) en- gages in farming and stock raising upon his farm on section 27, Lake Marshall township, where he has resided several years. He is a native of Canada and was born January 22, 1851. His parents are Lawrence and Florence (Lenone) Paradis, natives of Canada.
Telesphore attended school and assisted his father on the farm during his minor- ity. In 1886 he came to Lyon county and purchased land in Fairview township, where he lived several years, later selling there and buying his present farm in Lake Marshall. He owns a fine 240-acre farm
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in that township, where, in addition to general farming, he engages in the raising of cattle and hogs. Mr. Paradis is a mem- ber of the Catholic church.
Mr. Paradis was married in Canada on September 10, 1878, to Celina Desmareis, who was born in that country in 1858, and died in August, 1892. To Mr. and Mrs. Paradis were born the following named children: Helen, Vergina, Vade- line, Bernedette, Teles, Phillip, Adel, Laura, Wilfred. Mr. Paradis was mar- ried a second time at Ghent, in 1896, to Lea Surprenant, a native of Canada. She was born December 17, 1861, and came to Minnesota in 1896. To this union have been born two children: Diana, born March 8, 1897, and Leo, born July 21, 1900.
HORATIO R. PAINTER (1897), super- intendent of schools for Lyon county, has devoted his entire life to educational pur- suits, for the past fifteen years as a resi- dent of Lyon county. He was born at Washington C. H., Fayette county, Ohio, June 23, 1875, the son of Jonathan and Mary (Pruddy) Painter. The parents were natives of Pennsylvania but settled in Ohio when children. The father died a number of years ago; the mother now lives at Connersville, Indiana. In the fam- ily are seven children, as follows: Har- vey, Earl H. and Minnie (Mrs. John R. Gray), all of Connersville, Indiana; Lora (Mrs. Sherman Bilby), of Munsie, Illinois; Alice (Mrs. U. T. Ellis), of Wilmington, Ohio; and H. R., of this biography.
When our subject was eleven years of age he accompanied the family from his native state to Connersville, Indiana, and there grew to manhood, having graduated from the Connersville High School. He located in Lyon county in 1897 and for one year was employed as a teacher in Island Lake township. He taught at Hanley Falls one year and at Russell four years, during part of which time he at- tended Drake University, at Des Moines, Iowa. Mr. Painter engaged in teaching at Garvin two years and in the fall of 1906 was elected county
superintendent of schools, an office he has since held. Mr. Painter is a member of the Masonic and Eastern Star lodges.
At Russell, in May, 1902, Mr. Painter was united in marriage to Inez C. Coyle, a native of Sodus township. Her father was Joshua Coyle, who settled in the coun- ty in the seventies and died in 1903. To Mr. and Mrs. Painter one child has been born, Louise, who was born February 21, 1909.
HENRY BURCKHARDT (1902). One of the enterprising farmers of Coon Creek township is Henry Burckhardt, the owner of the southwest quarter of section 10. Henry is a native of Illinois and was born in Freeport on October 26, 1880, a son of J. J. and Bertha (Watzke) Burckhardt, of that city.
Henry received his schooling in the dis- trict schools near Freeport, which he at- tended until sixteen years of age, after which he assisted his father on the farm until twenty-one years old. Leaving home at that time, he spent some time in Iowa and South Dakota, finally locating in Coon Creek township in 1902. He has farmed there since that date on the quarter sec- tion which he owns. He also farms 320 acres of rented land. Besides farming lie raises considerable stock, among other breeds, Poland China hogs and Durham cattle.
Mr. Burckhardt is a member of the Ger- man Lutheran church and of the Masonic and Modern Woodmen lodges. He holds stock in the following enterprises of Rus- sell: Farmers Elevator Company, Farm- ers Mutual Telephone Company and Farm- ers Co-operative Store Company. In an official capacity Mr. Burckhardt has sev- eral times been called upon to serve. He holds the office of clerk of school district No. 70 and was director of the Farmers Mutual Telephone Company for two years. Mr. Burckhardt is a successful farmer and stock raiser.
Mr. Burckhardt is a man of family. On February 24, 1904, he was married to Florence V. Thurston, a native of Lyons township and a daughter of Henry and Viola (Wait) Thurston. She was born October 26, 1882. Mr. and Mrs. Burck- hardt are the parents of two children: Helen Bertha, born December 1, 1905; and Leon Henry, born October 31, 1907.
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Mr. and Mrs. Thurston, the parents of Mrs. Burckhardt, are pioneer residents in Lyon county, having come here when Lynd was the county seat and located in Lyons township. They hauled lumber for their home from New Ulm. Mrs. Thur- ston's father, Ransom Wait, was a Pres- byterian minister who organized several churches in Murray and Lyon counties. Mr. and Mrs. Thurston now reside at Moore, Fergus county, Montana. Mr. Thurston is a veteran of the Civil War, having served three years as a member of Company E, Fourth Minnesota Regiment. His eldest son, C. W. Thurston, is a veter- an of the Spanish-American War.
Mr. Burckhardt has two sisters and two brothers: Katie Sophia, Augusta and Al- bert Cleveland Burckhardt, of Freeport, Illinois, and Frank J., of Coon Creek town- ship. Mrs. Burckhardt has five brothers and one sister, as follows: Stanley and Eugene Thurston, of Moore, Montana; Leon and Floyd Thurston, of Stanford, Montana; C. W Thurston, of Oregon; and Ada Thurston, of Moore, Montana.
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