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For two years, 1903 to 1905, Mr. Blad- holm was state boiler inspector, with head- quarters at Marshall. He is a member of the Masonic and Modern Woodmen lodges.
The marriage of our subject to Anna Pher- son occurred in Marshall July 15, 1897. Mrs. Bladholm was born in Sweden and came to the United States when eleven years of age with her parents. Before her marriage she lived with her parents. John and Mary Pher- son, on their farm four miles north of Mar- shall. Her father is dead; her mother now resides in Marshall. To Mr. and Mrs. Blad- holm have been born five children, named Myrtle, Oscar, Albin, Clifford and Evelyn. All the children were born in Marshall.
JOHN BLADHOLM (1891) is one of the proprietors of the Marshall Machine Shops, which is engaged in several enterprises, among others the building of steel and con- crete bridges. The institution is the leading one of the kind in Lyon county and Blad- holm Brothers, the proprietors, do an enor- mous business.
John Bladholm is a native of Sweden and was born July 21, 1871. His father, Frans O. Bladholm, still resides in his native land. His mother, Johanna Bladholm, died in Swe- den when John was only seven years of age. There are five living children in the family, as follows: Emily, of Paxton, Illi- nois; Axal, Herman and John, of Marshall; and Agada, of Sweden.
After his mother's death the family was broken up and from the tender age of seven years John Bladholm had his own way to make. He came to America at the age of ten years and made his home with an uncle in Chicago, Peter Thorell, a cabinet maker by trade. When about thirteen years old
BRIDGE OVER THE REDWOOD AT MARSHALL
Sixty-foot Span, Built for the City of Marshall by Bladholm Brothers, Contractors and Bridge Builders, Marshall.
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he took employment with the Pullman Car Company as messenger boy, was promoted several times, and was in the employ of the company until 1891. Three years after he took employment with the company he began working in the machine shop and learned his trade.
During the last few years of his employ- ment for the Pullman Car Company Mr. Bladholm and his brothers, Axal and Her- man, and Alfred Stone conducted a little experimental machine shop, working in it during the evenings and making designs, engines, etc. They collected a good deal of machinery, and in 1891 they decided to leave the Pullman Company and set up in business for themselves. They located in Marshall that year and established a machine shop, the beginning of the present immense busi- ness of Bladholm Brothers. Five years after its founding the other partners sold to Axal Bladholm, and our subject returned to Chi- cago and for the next six years was again an employe of the Pullman Car Company, during the latter part of the time being in charge of the machine repair and blacksmith shops. He returned to Marshall in 1902 and rebought an interest in the machine shop, which in the meantime had been conducted by Axal Bladholm, and the firm of Bladholm Brothers was formed.
In 1903 the brothers added to the shop a steel and concrete bridge building depart- ment and installed heavy machinery for that purpose. They do heavy forging and ma- chinery work and manufacture a boiler feed pump of their own design. They have a well equipped shop for the kind of work they do and both brothers are first-class workmen. They construct from twelve to seventeen bridges a year, among others they have put in being two over the Redwood river in Marshall, one at Minneota over the Yellow Medicine river, one over Three-Mile creek between Marshall and Ghent, and one in Yellow Medicine county over the river of the same name. Bladholm Brothers keep on hand a stock of structural steel for bridge work. They also handle the Glyco babbit metal, being agents for this territory. An- other important device they have recently begun to manufacture is a boiler safety plug.
Mr. Bladholm was married in Marshall June 3, 1892, to Sigrid Johnson, who was also born in Sweden and who came to Amer-
ica at the age of sixteen years. To Mr. and Mrs. Bladholm have been born four children, of whom the following three are living: Oscar, Arthur and Grace. One child, Albert, died June 27, 1906.
PATRICK J. MCGUIGAN (1906), of Mar- shall, was born in Dubuque, Iowa, March 18, 1874, and when a baby of eleven months his family moved to Farley, Iowa, where Patrick grew to manhood. The farm on which the boy spent his youth was taken as a home- stead by his grandfather, Laurence Mc- Guigan, who located in that country in 1846, and the old stone house built by the grand- father is still standing on the place.
At the age of twenty-one Patrick left the old home and went to Sioux City, Iowa, and there learned the plumbing trade. He re- mained there four years and then located in Chicago and worked at his trade six years. It was in 1906 that our subject came to Lyon county. He made his residence in Russell four years, working at his trade the greater part of the year and running a traction engine in the falls. In 1910 he moved to Marshall and entered the employ of Adams & Son, plumbers. He was with that firm until January, 1912, when Mr. McGuigan opened a shop of his own, and he has since been doing plumbing and heating.
Patrick J. McGuigan is a son of Laurence and Grace (Bradley) McGuigan, natives of Londery, Ireland. Patrick is the only child living, and his parents are deceased.
WALLACE W. CLARK (1910) is a com- paratively new arrival to Lyon county. For the past two years he has farmed the south- east quarter of section 34, Stanley township, and engages quite extensively in the rais- ing of horses, cattle and hogs.
Mr. Clark was born in Calhoun county, Michigan, October 17, 1877. His father, George A. Clark, was born in 1846 and died in 1893; his mother, Juliette (Jennings) Clark, lives at Bolivar, Missouri. When our subject was a child the family moved to Missouri, and there young Clark grew up. He attended school until sixteen years of age. Then he worked on his father's farm two years, on farms in Kansas three years, at the same occupation in lowa three years,
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and then for a number of years was em- ployed as a coachman in Webster City, Iowa. In 1910 he rented the Stanley township farm which he has since conducted.
Alma Segar became the wife of Mr. Clark in 1903. Her father, Benjamin E. Segar, died February 19, 1912; her mother, Maria Segar, lives in Blairsburg, Iowa. Six chil- dren have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Clark. Their names and dates of births are: Gladys, born November 20, 1904; Bernice, born December 22, 1905; Robert, born July 1, 1907; Francis, born October 16, 1908: Hazel, born April 25, 1910; Edman, born July 11, 1911. The family are members of the Methodist church.
HENRY A. TEUFEL (1885) is a clerk in the hardware store of J. H. Carlaw at Bala- ton. He is a native of Lyon county and was born in Lyons township August 5, 1885. The parents of our subject are F. W. and Bertha Teufel, natives of Germany who came to America in the seventies. In the early eighties they moved to Lyons town- ship, where they still reside. They are the parents of nine children, as follows: Henry A., Ernest, Lena, Minnie, Mary, Gustav, Louise, Erna and Eddie.
Henry Teufel grew to manhood on his father's farm in Lyon's township and at- tended the country schools. In 1910 he en- gaged in farming, but in February of the following year he entered the employ of J. H. Carlaw at Balaton as clerk. He has prac- tically had charge of the hardware store since that date.
IRA W. HENDRICKSON (1911) is a new arrival to Lyon county. He farms 240 acres of land on section 3, Eidsvold township, and engages in breeding and feeding Duroc-Jersey hogs quite extensive- ly, having on hand about 100 head of thoroughbred animals.
Washington county, Iowa, is the birth- place of Mr. Hendrickson and July 23, 1878, was the date of his birth. He at- tended the district schools of his native county and until he was twenty-two years of age lived on his father's farm. Then he started in business for himself, farmed one year in his native county, and came
North, to Yellow Medicine county. He farmed rented land in Norman township of that county nine years and in the fall of 1911 rented his present place from his father-in-law. During his residence in Yellow Medicine county Mr. Hendrickson served as a justice of the peace.
Mr. Hendrickson was married in Mar- shall November 17, 1909, to Alma Pearson. His wife was born in 1887 on the farm on which she now resides and is a daughter of Swen Pearson, one of the early settlers of Eidsvold township and now a resident of Minneota.
The parents of Mr. Hendrickson are Aus- tin and Isabelle (Tindall) Hendrickson They were born in Indianapolis, Indiana, moved to Washington county, Iowa, in the early seventies, and still live on a farm there. There are seven children in the family, named as follows: Thomas, an auctioneer of Columbus Junction, Iowa; Charles and George, of Louisa county, Iowa; Ira W., of this biography; Ione, of Little Rock, Arkansas; Lettie ( Mrs. Da- vid Owens), of Colorado; Minnie ( Mrs. Edgar Todd), of Louisa county, Iowa.
AMOS S. MORGAN (1901), of Lake Marshall township, was born in Orleans county, New York, June 7, 1857. His par- ents are Courtland and Lois (Colton) Mor- gan, the former a native of Connecticut and the latter of Massachusetts.
At eight years of age Amos accompanied his parents to Kankakee county, Illinois, where the father purchased land. There our subject received a district school edu- cation and later attended the high school of Kankakee. He then assisted his father with the farm work, worked out as a farm hand falls, and was employed in the coal mines of Illinois for some time.
In 1901 Mr. Morgan came to Lyon coun- ty and with his brother, James C., and sis- ter, Grace, purchased the northeast quar- ter of section 30, Lake Marshall township, and he has since made his home there. The subject of this review is a member of the Modern Woodmen lodge and he is a director of school district No. 7. He is unmarried.
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WALTER PEARCY (1906) farms 240 acres of land on section 19, Lynd town- ship. He is a native of Benton county, Indiana, and was born February 9, 1877. His parents, John and Carrie ( Walls) Pearcy, were born in Canada and located in Indiana in 1875.
Walter received his schooling in Indiana and was brought up on a farm. At the age of eighteen years he moved to Hum- boldt county, Iowa, and until his marriage in the fall of 1899 he worked at farm labor. Then he commenced farming for himself and was so engaged in Humboldt county until 1906. That year he moved to Lyon county and rented the farm on which he has ever since lived. He con- ducts the place in partnership with his brother, William Pearcy. They raise Aber- deen Angus cattle and Chester White hogs. Mr. Pearcy bas stock in the Farmers Ele- vator Company of Lynd.
The marriage of Mr. Pearcy to Alma Plantz occurred in Humboldt county, Iowa. August 30, 1899. His wife was born in the county in which she was married on September 16, 1880, and is a daughter of Jacob and Sarah (Sands) Plantz. Her father is a native of Michigan, her mother of Illinois. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Pearcy: Fern, born July 17, 1900, and Helen, born January 20, 1905.
SORN A. ANDERSON (1910) has been farming in Island Lake township since 1910, in which year he moved there from South Dakota and bought the northeast quarter and the north half of the south - east quarter of section 1. He is success- fully farming the 240 acres and is devot- ing some time to stock raising.
Our subject's parents were natives of Norway. Hans and Ronoge (Hagen) An- derson came from Norway when quite young and were married in this country. The father was a shoemaker by trade and followed that occupation many years in Mankato, Minnesota. Sorn was born in that city July 9, 1876, and was brought up there and attended school until the age of fifteen years. The family then moved to Kossuth county, Iowa, where the father
rented land and became a farmer and later bought eighty acres.
Sorn was at home with his parents until. 1900; then he went to Brown county, South Dakota, bought a half section of land, and commenced farming for himself. He later sold 160 acres and then farmed his remaining quarter until 1910, in which vear le sold out and came to Lyon county. He purchased the land where he now re- sides and has made a well-improved prop- erty out of it.
The ceremony which united Sorn Ander- sou and Hannah Quist in the holy bonds of matrimony was performed in Nicollet county, Minnesota, February 12, 1903. To this union three children were born, Olive, Victor and Throdore. Mrs. Anderson was born in Nicollet county April 3, 1876, and is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nels Quist.
REV. J. H. SLANEY (1910), pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Cotton- wood since 1910, was born in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England, May 2, 1856. His parents, Robert Emery and Sarah Ann (Wayman) Slaney, are deceased. The early education of our subject was ob- tained in the common schools of the dis- triet, and at the early age of fourteen he was sent to the Congregational college at Sheffield, England, from which the young student was graduated in 1882.
Serving five years as a lay minister in England and with a good education and a season of practical experience for assets, young Slaney came to America and settled in Brooklyn, New York, where he served in the capacity of city missionary for the next four years. In 1891 he accepted a call to the First Congregational Church of Morton, Illinois, where he was ordained and filled the pulpit two years. The Con- gregational Home Missionary Board per- suaded him to again take up missionary work, and Rev. Slaney again entered that field, which received most of his attention until 1904. During that time he spent an- other year in Brooklyn and returned to England for a stay of a year and a half.
Rev. Slaney had by this time decided to devote himself to ministerial work, and in 1903 took charge of the church at Fort Madison, Iowa, where he served as pastor
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and from which place he also supplied sev- eral of the surrounding churches until 1906. That year he moved to Minneapolis and under the Minneapolis Presbytery had charge of the churches at Waverly and Eden Prairie. In October, 1910, he moved to Cottonwood and has since been pastor of the Presbyterian church.
Rev. Slaney's marriage to Jennie Coulton occurred in England March 2, 1881. Mrs. Slaney was born in England July 14, 1854. To this union one child has been born, Al- fred Ploughton, on October 13, 1896.
AUGUST C. PRECHEL (1904) rents the southeast quarter of section 10, Lucas township, farms very successfully 240 acres, and engages in the raising of grade cattle and hogs for marketing.
Christ and Bertha Prechel, parents of our subject, both now living in Posen town- ship, Yellow Medicine county, were born in Germany and came to this country and lo- cated in Blue Earth county, Minnesota, in 1868, where they resided until 1900, mov- ing to their present home that year. They had fifteen children, twelve of whom are living, as follows: Augusta (Mrs. Charles Meyer), of Blue Earth county; Paulina (Mrs. Herman Preuss), of Yellow Medi- cine county; Minnie (Mrs. Alfred Radke), of Crookston; Henry, of St. Paul; August C., of this review; and Fred, Rudolph, Ernest, Edward, Bertha, George and Freida, all of Posen township.
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August Prechel was born in Blue Earth county, Minnesota, June 4, 1883. He re- ceived his education in the common schools and resided in his native county until sev- enteen years of age. During the last two years of his residence in Blue Earth county he worked for his father on the farm and for a neighbor, and after the family moved to Yellow Medicine county in 1900 August continued to live with his parents the next two years. At the end of that time young Prechel started out for himself and after working out two years he came to Lyon county and continued his work in Lucas township eighteen months, after which he rented the Eliason farm and conducted it five years. Mr. Prechel then moved to the farm he now runs and where he has since resided.
The subject of this sketch was married October 19, 1906, at Marshall to Constance Twedt, a native of Norway, born February 24, 1889. They are the parents of two children: Arvied, born February 4, 1908, and Esther, born November 19, 1909. Mr. and Mrs. Prechel are members of the Eng- lish Lutheran church of Cottonwood.
LUCIEN PILOTTE (1899) owns and farms the southeast quarter of section 26, Westerheim township, and is rated among the substantial men of his precinct. He has a finely improved farm and is a suc- cessful stock raiser, making a specialty of Percheron and Norman horses, Poland China hogs and Shorthorn cattle.
Jacob and Restitude ( Proulx) Pilotte were the parents of our subject. The father was born in France, the mother in Quebec. They located in Kankakee coun- ty, Illinois, in 1843 and had residence there until their deaths. The father died in 1880, the mother in 1886.
To these parents, in Kankakee county, Illinois, on June 20, 1851, Lucien Pilotte was born. He was given a good educa- tion, a good start in the battle of life. Until he was thirteen years of age he was a student in the common schools of Kanka- kee county and Bourbonnais College; for two years he attended the public schools of Iroquois county; for three years he was a student at Notre Dame Academy, of Notre Dame, Indiana, taking a commercial course.
After securing his education young Pi- lotte engaged in farming with his father in Illinois until he reached his majority. Then he purchased an eighty-acre farm in Kan- kakee county ( which was later increased to a quarter section), was married, and started in life for himself. After eight years on the farm Mr. Pilotte moved to the city of Kankakee. He served six months on the police force and for six and one- half years he clerked in a hardware store. He returned to the farm, conducted it one year, and then sold and moved to Salix, Woodbury county, Iowa.
Near that village Mr. Pilotte bought a quarter section farm, which he conducted six years. During his residence there his place was struck by one of the most de-
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structive cyclones that ever visited Iowa. Five children of one family were killed and great damage was done. Mr. Pilotte lost most of his buildings. In the spring of 1899 the subject of this review and his family came to Lyon county and located on the farm they now own-land which had been purchased the fall before. On that place they have since lived. The family are members of the Catholic church of Ghent.
Mr. Pilotte has held a number of offices of trust. He was treasurer of the city of Kankakee one year, and for three years he was a highway commissioner of Kankakee county. He was clerk of his school district in Iowa six years, and for three years he was clerk of school district No. 44, Lyon county.
Louise Savoie became the wife of Mr. Pilotte át Sainte Marie, Illinois, October 21, 1872. She was born in Kankakee county August 15, 1853, the daughter of John and Rosalie ( Beland) Savoie. Her parents were born in Quebec. Her mother died in * 1906; her father, who is now eighty-four years of age, resides with his daughter.
The children of Mr. and Mrs. Pilotte are as follows: Eveline ( Mrs. Joseph Leri- gier), of Sloan, Iowa, born November 9, 1875; Herman, of Fairview township, born March 29, 1878; Georgiana (Mrs. Levi Prairie), of Westerheim township, born July 25, 1879; Joseph, of Sodus township, born July 11, 1881; Alexina, born Septem- ber 9, 1889; Paul, born April 22, 1894. The two last named reside at home.
ANTON PETERSON (1895), the newly elected constable of Shelburne township, is one of the successful farmers of the com- munity. He lives on the southwest quar- ter of section 12, Shelburne township, which he has rented since December, 1911. Mr. Peterson was elected constable of the township in March, 1912.
Our subject was born in Racine, Wiscon- sin, April 22, 1882, and in 1895 he moved with his parents to Lyon county, the family first locating in Coon Creek township. There they remained only one year, the father buying the northwest quarter of sec- tion 10, Shelburne. Anton resided on the
home farm until recently, when he rented the quarter where he is now living.
Anton's parents are Peter Peterson and Christina ( Nelson) Peterson, both natives of Denmark, now living on the home farm on section 10. There were four children born to them, all of whom are living: Hans, of Racine, Wisconsin; Lawrence, at home; Anton and Magdelina (Mrs. John De Kiere), of Marshall.
On December 2, 1911, Anton was mar- ried to Elsie Peske, a native of Germany who came to the United States with her parents when thirteen years of age. Her father is Albert Peske, now living in Shel- burne township.
WILLIAM DENNIS CARNINE (1906) is a young Lyon county farmer who has re- sided here for the past six years. He is a native of Switzerland county, Indiana, and was born. April 29, 1879. He is the son of Calvin and Sarah (Chambers) Carnine. His father died when William was fifteen years of age.
Mr. Carnine attended country school un- til sixteen years of age. He is a member of the German Evangelical church of Clif- ton township and is a member of the Mod- ern Woodmen lodge at Dudley, Minnesota. He engages extensively in stock raising, making a specialty of Shorthorn cattle and Duroc-Jersey hogs.
At Fonda, Iowa, on September 27, 1904, Mr. Carnine was united in marriage to Lydia M. Cross, a daughter of August and Marguerite Cross, of Marshall. To this union has been born one child, Leona, born May 14, 1905, at Fonda, Iowa.
Mr. Carnine rents the northeast quarter of section 12, Lake Marshall township, and is a successful farmer and stock raiser.
THOMAS H. MURPHY (1906) is the proprietor of the Riverside Hotel at Rus- sell. He is a native of the Gopher State, and was born in Wabasha county August 27, 1856. His parents were John and Elizabeth Murphy, natives of Ireland who came to the United States when young. They settled in Wabasha county in the early sixties and moved to Redwood county in 1881, where the father homesteaded land in Westline township.
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The father died there; the mother re- sides in Cass county, Minnesota. They were the parents of the following children: Thomas and William, of Russell; Martha O'Connell, of Mitchell, South Dakota. In early days, before schools were organized, the father had a school in his house for two years in Wabasha county.
In 1872 our subject moved to Redwood county and resided on his father's farm un- til 1901. After his father's death he pur- chased the place, in 1896. In 1901 he moved to Cass county, where he purchased a farm and operated it five years. He still owns that place.
In 1906 Mr. Murphy came to Lyon coun- ty and located on a farm in Coon Creek township, where he resided until the spring of 1911. Then he moved to Russell and has since had charge of the Riverside Ho- tel. He is a member of the Catholic church and of the Modern Woodmen lodge While a resident of Redwood county Mr. Murphy was chairman of the Township Board of Supervisors. They were in need of another school in his district and through his efforts it was obtained and he was a member of its board for several years.
Mr. Murphy was married in Vernon county, Wisconsin, February 27, 1889, to Annie O'Connell, a native of that county. Mr. and Mrs. Murphy are the parents of ten living children: John, William, Mary, Ag- nes, Bernard, Thomas, Leo, James, Michael and Clement. Three children are deceased.
NELS POLSON (1910) is a farmer of Custer township who rents the northwest quarter of section 34. In addition to gen- eral farming, he raises Shorthorn cattle and Duroc-Jersey swine.
Mr. Polson was born in Sweden May 16, 1865, and is a son of Per and Christine (Lar- son) Polson, both of whom are deceased. Our subject attended the common school in Sweden until fifteen years of age and then worked on his father's farm two years. About six months were spent by the lad in learn- ing the carpenter's trade, but he discon- tinued that occupation to return to farm labor, which occupied his time until he reached the age of twenty-one years.
In the spring of 1887 Mr. Polson came to
America and located in Minneapolis, work- ing on a farm in the vicinity two years and then finding employment as a teamster in the city and working there three years. Mr. Polson then found a good situation with the Wisconsin Central Railroad and for sixteen years was in the service of that company as car inspector, with headquarters in Min- neapolis. Desiring to return to country life. Mr. Polson in the spring of 1908 moved to Murray county, rented land, and farmed two years; then he moved to Lyon county and rented the farm he now operates.
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