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PETER PILOTTE (1895) is the renter of a fine quarter section of land in Vallers township, where he has resided ever since coming to the county in 1895.
Mr. Pilotte is a son of Jacob and Reste- dude (Pronix) Pilotte, who moved to Illi- nois in 1848 from Canada and settled in Kankakee county, where Jacob Pilotte bought land at $1.25 per acre. Peter grew up in Kankakee county and received his education in the district schools. He remained on the home farm after his schooling was finished, and it was not un- til he had reached the age of twenty-four years that the young man started farming for himself, on land which he had pur- chased a few years previously.
Our subject sold his farm in 1893 and moved to Iowa, buying forty acres in Woodbury county and farming there one year. He then sold out and took up his residence in Lyon county, renting 320 acres of land on section 16, Vallers town- ship, where he has since resided. He raises considerable stock and is partial to the Durham breed of cattle and the Duroc- Jersey breed of hogs. Every year Mr. Pilotte makes a shipment of cattle to the large markets.
Peter Pilotte and Cecilia Lawrence were married in Illinois October 16, 1877. Mrs. Pilotte was born in Kankakee county Jan- uary 1, 1849, and is a daughter of Lewis and Louise (Martin) Lawrence, natives of New York and Canada. Mr. and Mrs. Pi- lotte are the parents of the following chil- dren: Archie, born March 18, 1881; Ar- thur, born September 11, 1889; Leo, born March 28, 1891; Calix, born February 14,
1893; Fred, born July 12, 1897; and Marie, born January 28, 1900. The Pi- lottes are members of the Catholic church.
HANS P. NELSON (1906) is one of Clifton township's farmers and he rents the north half of section 36. He has a well improved farm and raises considerable stock.
Mr. Nelson is a son of Nels Albertson and Annie Hanson and was born in Den- mark May 29, 1857. There he was brought up and there he received the cus- tomary education of the farmer boy of that country. He was fourteen years of age when he commenced to learn the tailor's trade and he continued in that business in the Fatherland until 1879. That year he came to this country, lo- cated in Chicago and worked at his trade few months. Then he moved to St. Paul and continued working at his trade.
After working in St. Paul several years Mr. Nelson started a shop of his own and remained in that city two years. He then sold out, and during the next seven years at different times he conducted shops in Pipestone and Redwood Falls. Finally he sold his business and invested in 160 acres of farm land in Redwood county, near Redwood Falls, which he operated eighteen years. He sold his land in 1906 and came to Lyon county. He has since been living on the north half of section 36. While in Redwood county Mr. Nelson served seven years as school clerk and six years as a member of the township board.
The marriage of Hans Nelson and Le- nora C. Peterson was celebrated in St. Paul February 2, 1881. She was born in Veile, Denmark, April 20, 1862, and is a daughter of Peter and Annie (Raarup) Peterson, both of whom died in the old country. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson are the parents of eleven children, Nels, Edward, Walter, Anton, Dewey, Louis, Ida, Selma, Helga, Daisie and Alice.
Our subject is a member of the Norwe- gian Lutheran church and his fraternal associations are with the I. O. O. F. lodge.
MICHAEL W. SCHOUWEILER (1912) proprietor of the Klondike Saloon of is
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Marshall. He is a native Minnesotan, having been born in Wabasha county Feb- ruary 25, 1863. Until he reached his majority he resided on his father's home- stead in that county, and then he started out to make his own way in the world.
Mr. Schouweiler has engaged in a great many occupations and has resided in many parts of the country. He farmed near Warren, Minnesota, one and one-half years, lived in Butte, Montana, five months, worked for a brother-in-law in Wabasha county one year, and then completed his education with a year's course in the Wi- nona High School. He spent a short time in North St. Paul thereafter, lived in Lac qui Parle county one season, farmed in Wabasha county one year, conducted a saloon in North St. Paul two years, in Wabasha county two years, and then bought a farm in that county and operated it two years.
Plainview, Minnesota, was the next home of our subject. There he was the proprietor of a saloon one year and of a restaurant and pool hall four or five years. At Pollock, Campbell county, South Da- kota, Mr. Schouweiler erected a building and engaged in the saloon business ten and one-half years. He operated a saloon at Sanborn, Minnesota, six months, and on January 22, 1912, he located in Mar- shall and purchased the Klondike Saloon. He has met with success during his short residence in the city and has built up a good trade. Mr. Schouweiler owns a farm in Campbell county, South Dakota.
The marriage of Mr. Schouweiler to Katie Losch occurred in New Richmond, Wisconsin, July 5, 1888. She is a native of Iowa. They have seven children: Lilly, the wife of Louis Traxinger, who tends bar for Mr. Schouweiler; Laura, Ag- nes, Olevia, Rosa, Jesse and Magdelin.
Frank and Eva (Leonard) Schouweiler, the parents of our subject, were born in Germany, came to America in 1854, lived in Iowa a few months, and then took a homestead claim in Wabasha county, Min- nesota. On that farm they lived the rest of their lives. They celebrated their golden wedding on June 6, 1904, and died a few years later. They had fourteen children, of whom the following named six sons and five daughters are living:
John N., Michael W., Frank, Peter, Gar- rett, Andrew, Katie, Maggie, Jennie, An- nie and Lizzie.
JOHN MAHER (1911), who owns and farms 240 acres of land on section 16, Rock Lake township, is a recent arrival to Lyon county, having spent his entire previous life in Wisconsin. He has a well-improved farm and raises Duroc- Jersey and Poland China hogs.
His parents, Thomas and Julian (Mc- Donald) Maher, are deceased. The father was born in Ireland, the mother in Shells- burg, Wisconsin. John Maher was born in Monroe, Wisconsin, October 1, 1873. He attended school until sixteen years of age and worked on the home farm until he was twenty-three. He then engaged in farming for himself, bought land in his native state, and resided there until 1911. That year he came to Lyon county and purchased his Rock Lake township farm.
Mr. Maher was married at Monroe, Wis- consin, February 15, 1897, to Ella Ward, who was born in the city in which she was married February 9, 1878. They have one child, Mary Genevieve, born May 30, 1899. Mr. Maher is a member of the Catholic church of Russell and of the K. C. and M. W. A. lodges.
PAUL FRUKE (1891) was born in Har- din county, Iowa, August 23, 1890. He is the son of Frederick and Wilhelmina (Blossy) Fruke, who came to this country in 1881. The parents were born near Rugenwalde, Germany.
The Fruke family, coming to the United States in 1881, settled in Iowa. In 1891, when Paul was one year of age, the family moved to Lyon county and located on the southwest quarter of section 24, Shel- burne township, where they lived during the next four years. The father then bought the northeast quarter of section 25, which has since been the home of our sub- ject.
Paul is one of seven children. The others are Bertha, Charles, Minnie, Au- gust, Ernest and Mary. The father died July 30, 1909, after the family had made their home on the Lyon county farm on
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the northeast quarter of section 25. Mrs. Fruke died May 25, 1910.
After the death of Paul's father he and his sister Mary bought the home farm, which they now own, and of which Paul has the active management.
REV. PAUL SCHERF (1905) is the pastor of the German Lutheran church of Balaton. He is a native of Germany and was born in Lichtenstein March 21, 1871, a son of Herman and Caroline (Heuchler) Scherf, both of whom are de- ceased.
Our subject received his early education in the land of his nativity, where he at tended school until fourteen years of age. He then worked at the cabinet-maker's trade until nineteen years of age. In August, 1890, our subject came to Amer- ica and located at Springfield, Illinois, where he entered the Concordia Seminary as a student. He was graduated from the latter institution in. June, 1895, and then came to Minnesota, locating at Fairmont. where he had accepted the pastorate of St. John's German Lutheran Church. He served as pastor of the latter church until January, 1905.
The latter date marks the arrival of Rev. Scherf to Lyon county. He located at Balaton, where he has since served as pastor of St. Peter's German Lutheran Church.
On February 17, 1898, occurred the marriage of Rev. Scheri to Anna Ritz, a native of Illinois. She was born March 31, 1875. Rev. and Mrs. Scherf are the parents of the following children: Her- man, Helen, Martin, Arthur and Harold. One child, Gustaf Adolph, died in infancy.
WALTER O. BREMER (1903) is one of Amiret township's farmers. He en- gages extensively in stock raising and makes a specialty of Shorthorn cattle and Duroc-Jersey hogs. Mr. Bremer also is a breeder of Belgian draft horses.
The subject of this sketch was born in Germany February 17, 1887. He is a son of Andrew and Dorothy (Else) Bremer, both of whom are living in New Ulm, Min- nesota. The family came to America in 1893 and located in Big Stone county,
South Dakota, where they lived three years before moving to Iowa and later to Minnesota.
Walter was only six years old when he came to America. His school education was begun in South Dakota and finished while the family were in Iowa. During that time the father purchased land in Lyon county, and in 1903 the family came to this county and located on the farm in Sodus township. That was Walter's home until 1907. The following spring he rented land and engaged in farming for himself in Sodus township. He then moved to the farm he now operates in Amiret township, and has been conducting the place with success.
Clara Pearl Forbes, a daughter of Isaac and Etta (Brown) Forbes, became the wife of Walter Bremer September 30, 1908, the ceremony being performed in Sodus town- ship. To this union two children have been born: Donald, born August 19, 1909, and Dorothy, born May 23, 1911. Mrs. Bremer's parents were pioneer resi- dents of Lyon county and are now living in Amiret township.
ANTON VAN UDEN (1892) is one of the big farmers of Westerheim township and one of its influential citizens. He owns 320 acres of land on sections 21, 22 and 16 and farms it all, making a specialty of feeding cattle and hogs. The home place is the northeast quarter of sec- tion 21.
The gentleman whose name heads this sketch was born in Holland December 6, 1870. He is one of a family of nine chil- dren, the others being Herman, John, Henry, Berdina, Mary, Annie, Christine and Gertie. His father, John Van Uden, died in 1907 at the age of seventy years; his mother, Johanna (Hermsen) Van Uden, lives with a daughter in Ghent.
In his native land Anton Van Uden se- cured his education and made his home until past twenty-one years old. In 1892 he came with his parents to America and direct to Lyon county. Until 1906 he. lived in Grandview township, conducting his father's farm; then he purchased his Westerheim township farm, and he has since made his home thereon.
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Mr. Van Uden was married in Ghent May 9, 1906, to Mary Hennen. She was born in Holland and is a daughter of Ar- nold Hennen. They have four children, Annie, John, Hubert and Caroline. Mr. and Mrs. Van Uden are members of the Catholic church of Ghent.
PETER F. KELLY (1903) is the owner of the Monarch Saloon in Tracy. He is a native of Goodhue county, Minnesota, where he was born June 3, 1875, and is a son of the late James Kelly. The latter was born in Ireland, came to America in the early seventies, and located in Good- hue county. Later he moved to Swift county, where he died.
At the age of three years Peter accom- panied his father to Swift county and grew to manhood on his father's home- stead. When twenty-six years of age, he moved to De Graff, Minnesota, where he conducted a saloon two years. In the spring of 1903 he came to Lyon county and purchased the saloon he now conducts at Tracy from Lindeman & Peterson. Mr. Kelly owns a fine farm in Swift county.
On June 11, 1901, at De Graff, occurred the marriage of Mr. Kelly to Annie C. Heimer, a native of Adams, Minnesota. They are the parents of six children: Evelyn, Lawrence, Eugene, Peter, Leo and Francis.
CHARLES DONNELLY (1907), who owns and farms a 214-acre farm on sec- tions 4 and 3, Nordland township, has been an actual resident of Lyon county only a few years, but since the early days he has lived just over the line in Yellow Medicine county. He has a good farm and is a successful agriculturist.
County Derry, Ireland, is the birthplace of Mr. Donnelly and he was born in 1847. His parents, Alexander and Ann (Larkin) Donnelly, are both buried in the old coun- try. Charles attended school until twelve years of age and until he was twenty-two worked on his father's farm. He came to America in the spring of 1869 and for the next twelve years worked in a stove factory in the city of Philadelphia.
Mr. Donnelly came West in 1882,
bought land near St. Leo, in Yellow Medi- cine county, and engaged in farming there until the fall of 1907. Then, having bought his present farm in Nordland town- ship, he moved to his new home and has since been engaged in its management. For ten years he served as town clerk of Burton township, Yellow Medicine county. He is a member of the Catholic church of Minneota.
Mary Campbell, also a native of Ireland, became the wife of Mr. Donnelly in 1874. Ten children have been born to them, of whom eight are living. Their names are as follows: Anna (in religion, Sister Sunniva), of St. Paul; Levina, at home; Rose, deceased; Sallie, of Westby, Mon- tana; Mary, at home; Margaret, of Phila- delphia; Kate, deceased; Theresa (in re- ligion, Sister Norbert), of St. Paul; Rob- ert and Charles, at home.
NELS CHRISTIAN SORENSEN (1909) owns and farms the northwest quarter of section 31, Shelburne township, in the ex- treme southwestern corner of Lyon county.
He was born near Alborg, Denmark, May 3, 1880, and spent his boyhood days in the land of his nativity. He attended the public schools until fourteen years of age and then worked on the farm three years. At the age of seventeen he be- gan working at the blacksmith's trade and was so engaged three and one-half years in the old country.
Mr. Sorensen came to America in 1900 . and made his first home in Franklin coun- ty, Iowa. There he worked at his trade and at other lines of work five years. He worked at his trade in Omaha, Nebraska, one and one-half years, at Arlington, Ne- braska, six months, and at Omaha again one year. In 1908 Mr. Sorensen moved to Ruthton, Minnesota, conducted a shop a year and a half, and then turned farmer. It was in 1909 that he located on his farm in Lyon county. Besides general farm- ing Mr. Sorensen engages in stock raising, making a specialty of Shorthorn cattle and Poland China hogs.
The parents of our subject are Lars P. and Ingeborg (Nelson) Sorensen. They came to America in 1902, lived in Frank- lin county, Iowa, five years, farmed a few
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years in Lyon county, and on May 2, 1911, moved to Mille Lacs county, where they now reside.
Nels Sorensen was married in Pipestone August 8, 1908, to Lena Paulson. She was born in the house in which she now lives on July 5, 1892. Her parents, Jess and Christine (Jacobson) Paulson, settled in Lyon county in 1880 and resided on a farm in Shelburne township until they re- moved to Ruthton in the spring of 1911. Mr. and Mrs. Sorensen have two children: Evelyn Eleanor, born November 20, 1909; and Irene born
Beatrice, March 24, 1911,
WILLIAM E. WATKINS (1901) has been conducting the farm on section 29, Amiret township, since he purchased the place in 1901. He is a well-to-do farmer and raises Durham cattle and Duroc-Jersey hogs for market.
William Watkins was born in Green coun- ty, Wisconsin, November 17, 1865. He is a son of John H. and Eliza (Griffith ) Wat- kins, natives of England and Wales, re- spectively. The parents came to the United States and settled in Green county, where they engaged in farming. William was brought up a farmer boy and re- ceived his education in the country schools. He afterward helped on the father's farm until he was twenty-one years of age. He then commenced to work out, and in the fall months he ran a threshing rig. He threshed four falls in Minnesota prior to moving to the state in 1901.
In that year young Watkins came to Lyon county and bought the north half of the northeast quarter of section 29, Ami- ret township, where he has since resided. He has improved the place, has a comfort- able home, and is now the owner of a val- uable 240-acre farm.
The ceremony which joined in marriage William E. Watkins and Nettie Shaver was performed at Tracy November 15, 1900. She was born in Lyon county November 8, 1881, and is a daughter of Edward and Emma (Flick) Shaver, of Clifton town- ship. Mr. and Mrs. Watkins are the par- ents of the following children: John E., born January 26, 1902; Lyle, born June 15, 1904; Leslie (deceased), born Novem-
ber 5, 1906; Persey, born October 24, 1908; and Ruth, born December 21, 1910. Mr. Watkins is a member of the Modern Woodmen lodge.
ELMER JOHNSON (1906). One of the young farmers of Coon Creek township is Elmer Johnson, who has resided in Lyon county the past six years. He is a native of Iowa and was born in Pocahontas coun- ty September 27, 1884, a son of Moody and Matilda Johnson, the former a native of Sweden and the latter of Norway.
Our subject resided with his parents in Iowa, attending school and assisting his father on the farm, until 1906, when he came to Lyon county. The first year in Lyon county was spent working at farm labor, after which he rented land near Florence for two years. He then rented the farm he now operates, the southwest quarter of section 33, Coon Creek town- ship. Besides general farming, he raises a great number of cattle and hogs.
At Pipestone, Minnesota, February 15. 1906, Mr. Johnson was married to Ida Johnson, a native of Murray county and a daughter of Nels and Carline (Larson) Johnson, both natives of Sweden. Mrs. Elmer Johnson was born August 16, 1887. To this union have been born two chil- dren: Edith, born March 25, 1907; Roy, born June 5, 1908.
MATHIAS O. BUE (1910), a Cotton- wood photographer, was born in Norway March 5, 1889. In his native country he received a common school education and began to learn the photographer's busi- ness. He came to America in January, 1907, and located at Granite Falls. For a time he engaged in farm work and ama- teur photography and for a short time worked in a gallery at Granite Falls. In April, 1910, Mr. Bue located in Cotton- wood and bought the gallery of A. N. Hop- land.
Our subject is the son of Ole and Jo- hanna (Hagge) Bue, who reside in Nor- way. There are seven children in the family, named as follows: Hans, Knute and Mathias O., who are in America; Maria, Anton, Ole and Margaret, who live in the old country.
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ANDREW OLSON (1909), a Coon Creek township farmer, was born in Skanna, Sweden, June 27, 1878, and is a son of Ole and Christina (Enbon) Anderson, of Krageholm, Skanna, Sweden. Andrew at- tended school in his native land until four- teen years of age. He also attended the Pullman School in Chicago after coming to the United States.
May 21, 1901, Mr. Olson came to Amer- ica, locating at Chicago, where he worked in Johnson's chair factory for a short time. He then secured employment from the Pullman Car Company as a carpenter, working eight years. In 1908 he purchased the farm he now owns and operates, the southeast quarter of section 16, Coon Creek township, and moved to the place in the spring of 1909. He has made a great many improvements upon the place. He raises some stock, including grade cat- tle, Poland China hogs and Plymouth Rock chickens. He is a member of the Swedish Lutheran church. Mr. Olson has been very successful since coming to Lyon county.
Mr. Olson was married on June 1, 1903, to Elna Nelson, a daughter of Nels and Elna (Anderson) Martinson, of Skanna, Sweden. She was born November 26, 1878. Mr. and Mrs. Olson have two chil- dren: Edith Caroline, born February 24, 1904, and Roy Herbert, born April 28, 1907.
Mrs. Olson has two brothers and one sister, namely: John Nelson, of St. Louis, Missouri; Martin Nelson, of Skanna, Sweden; Mrs. Nels Hallen, of Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Olson has one sister, Mrs. Andrew Olson, of Skanna, Sweden.
PRUDENT B. MENARD (1902), of the job department of the News-Messenger office in Marshall, was born in Kankakee county, Illi- nois. His parents, in company with many other Kankakee county farmers, moved from Illinois in 1902 and located on a farm in Lyon county. Joel A. Menard purchased a large farm near Marshall, but the family have made their home in town.
Our subject attended the public schools in Marshall several years and while yet a stu- dent commenced learning the printer's trade in the job office of Elmer A. Hukee. He was
later eniployed in the job office of George Chamberlain and in the newspaper plant of C. C. Whitney. During the summer and fall of the year Mr. Menard was employed by the F. E. Murphy Auto Company of Minne- apolis, and in November of that year he returned to Marshall and in company with H. E. Persons operated a job printing office until April, 1912, when he accepted his pres- ent position with C. C. Whitney in the News- Messenger office.
Joel A. Menard and Emma M. Menard are the parents of six living children, of whom Prudent is the eldest. The other children are Clara, Rachel, Andrew, Hugo and Virgil.
HECTOR A. MARCOTTE (1900) is a farm- er and land owner of Sodus township. He was born in Cloud county, Kansas, August 24, 1884. His parents are Edward and Jo- sephine (Brosseau) Marcotte, natives of Kan- kakee, Illinois. Hector received his school- ing in the district schools of Cloud county.
When sixteen years of age our subject accompanied his parents to Lyon county and resided with them until 1911, when he rented the farm he now lives on, the east half of the southwest quarter of section 6, Sodus township. He owns and farms in partner- ship with his father the west half of section 5, Sodus township. Mr. Marcotte engages extensively in stock raising and is a suc- cessful farmer. He is a member of the Catholic church and the M. W. A. lodge.
At Marshall, April 20, 1910, occurred the marriage of Mr. Marcotte to Helga Davidson, a native of Marshall, born May 3, 1883. She is a daughter of John and Emma (Rafuson) Davidson, natives of Iceland. The mother died in 1898, and the father lives in Mar- shall. Mr. and Mrs. Marcotte have one child, Fern M., born May 30, 1911.
GUST NELSON (1907), Rock Lake town- ship farmer, was born in Motolo, Sweden, June 9, 1862. His parents, Anders P. and Matilda Nelson, are deceased, the father having passed away in the old country and the mother in New York City.
Gust was a student of the public schools until fifteen years old and thereafter until 1881 he worked at farm labor in his native land. In June of the last named year Mr.
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Nelson crossed the sea, worked in a black- smith shop in New York City one year, was in Chicago for a time, and then located in Ida county, Iowa, where he engaged in farm- ing eighteen years. Mr. Nelson then bought land in Murray county, Minnesota, and re- sided on the farm until the fall of 1907. At that time he came to Lyon county and has since farmed the southeast quarter of sec- tion 17, Rock Lake township. He engages in stock raising as well as grain farming and has been successful. He is a stockholder of the Farmers Elevator Company of Lake Wil- son.
Mr. Nelson was married in 1890 to Anna Matilda Larson, who was born in Sweden June 9, 1863. They have two children, Al- bert and Ellen (Mrs. Albin W. Nelson), both of Rock Lake township.
ARTHUR GARROW (1884) is engaged in tending bar for V. L. LaVoy at Marshall. He was born at Faller, Indiana, January 5, 1879. He is the son of Frank and Mary (Danderand) Garrow, the former a native of Canada and the latter of Indiana. They settled in Indiana, in 1884 came to Lyon county, and now reside in Lake Marshall township. They are the parents of the fol- lowing seven children: Arthur, Frank, Wil- ford, Fred, George, Ida and Louise.
When five years of age, Arthur accom- panied his parents to Lyon county and lo- cated in Marshall, where he has since re- sided. For several years after reaching maturity, our subject operated traction en- gines during threshing seasons. Then he entered the employ of the Marshall Tile & Sidewalk Company and engaged in the lay- ing of sidewalks for about three years. Later he was employed by John Sturgeon in the hitch barn, for whom he worked over three years, and afterwards he worked three months for William Thorburn. In the early part of 1911 he entered the employ of his brother-in-law, V. L. LaVoy, as bartender, a position he has since held.
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