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Mr. Sorem was married in Ransom town. ship Feb. 19. 1902, to Emily Larson, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larson, of Ran- som. Mrs. Sorem is a native of that town- ship. having been born there Feb. 19, 1876. Both Mr. and Mrs. Sorem are members of the Lutheran church of Ransom. He is township treasurer and a director of school distriet No. 20, both of which offices he has held two years.
STEPHEN A. COMER is an Indian Lake township farmer living one and one-half miles southwest of Round Lake village. Al. though not a resident of the county many voars he takes a lively interest in the history of the county of his adoption.
New Jersey is Mr. Comer's native state, he having been horn in Hunterdon county Jan. 15, 1856. His father was Samuel Comer, also a native of New Jersey, and a veteran of the civil war. He died soon after his muster out of service. His mother is Nancy (MeNear) Comer, who is still living. She was a native of the same state as her
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husband. The first twenty years of the life of our subject were spent in the county of his birth. There he secured a common school education and for a time was engaged in office work.
In 1877 he started out in life for himself, going from his old home in New Jersey to Joliet, Ill. He located on a farm twelve miles west of Joliet, and ever since that date farming has been his occupation. He remained there two years and then moved to Prince- ton, in the same state, where he farmed for ten years. His next home was in Wright county, Iowa, where he engaged in farming for ahont twelve years. In the spring of 1902 he came to Nobles county and located four miles south of Rushmore. He was there three years and then moved to his present location on section 26, Indian Lake township, where he is engaged in farming the whole of the section upon which he lives.
Mr. Comer was married in 1880 at Prince- ton. Ill .. to Mary Bodine, daughter of Isaac Bodine. Mr. and Mrs. Comer are the parents of the following children, all of whom are living: Cloyde. Mahel (now Mrs. Severt Sorem), Walter. Irvine, Edna and Flier.
ROBERT FRANCIS KERR, mail carrier. Rushmore, was the first white child born in Olney township, the date of his birth being August 29, 1873. ITe is the son of William and Margaret (Thom) Kerr. who reside in Oregon. Removing from Nobles county with his parents when a child on account of the grasshopper scourge, he returned with them in 1882, and Nobles county has been his home ever since.
His early schooling was obtained in the district schools of Olney and Dewald town- ships and the Rushmore school. During the years 1892 and 1893 he attended the graded schools of Worthington, and completed his education in the Minnesota school of agri- culture at St. Anthony Park during the term of 1894-95. After his school days he worked on his father's farm until 1900, when he moved to Rushmore, which has been his home since. He hought a one-half in- terest in the harness shop of E. S. Whipkey and for two years was in that business. Ho then engaged in farming one year. In 1903 he was appointed mail carrier of route No.
1. Rushmore, and he is still engaged in that occupation.
Mr. Kerr was married June 21. 1899, to Miss Mary MeChord. daughter of W. R. D. McChord. one of the pioneer settlers of the county. Mrs. Kerr is also a native of Nobles county, having been born in De- wald township Sept. 15, 1877.
JAMES V. HYNES resides in Olney town- ship, one and one-half miles north of the village of Adrian. that having been his home for the last twenty-eight years. He owns and resides upon the west half of the southwest quarter of section 6, and he and his sister own an eighty acre tract in section 7, adjoining on the south, formerly the property of their mother.
Mr. Hynes was born in the city of Brook- lyn (eastern division), N. Y .. Feb. 14, 1858, the son of Patrick Hynes and Mary (Lam- bert) Hynes. The father was born in the county of Galway. Ireland, and came to the United States in the 40's. For ten years he resided in New York city and then took up his residence in Brooklyn, He was an employe of the J. B. Sheffield Paper com- pany in New York city for eleven years. TIe was the owner of a valuable business property in Brooklyn, which was sold in 1869 to the Phoenix Insurance Co. for a branch office. He died in New York city of simstroke in 1863. Mrs. Hynes was also a na- tive of county Galway, Ireland. She came in Nobles county with her son and died here Feb. 9. 1892. aged 62 years,
The subject of this sketch was raised in the city of his birth. He received his edu- ention in Brooklyn and in a Catholic school at Flushing. Long Island, and latter, in 1875, he- came an employe of the Chas. Serihner Publishing company. with which he was con- nected until ISSO. That year. with his moth- er and two sisters, he moved to Nobles enunty and bought a homestead relinquish- ment from Rev. Chase, who was a minister of the United Brethren church.
The land he thus secured was the righty acres where he has since made his home. One sister. Sarah T. Hrnes, died June, 1884. Mr. TTrnos is unmarried. His sister, Inlia K. Hynes, makes her home on the original homestead. She was born in Brooklyn. Both he and his sister are members of the Catholic church of Adrian.
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Mr. Hynes has always been a strong pop- ulist and in the days of the party's strength was an influential man in its ranks. When the Farmers' Alliance was organized in No- bles county in 1888 he took an active part in its deliberations and was the secretary of the organization during its life. He was one of the incorporators of the Adrian Alli- aree Mercantile and Elevator company, which was organized in 1890-one of the first corporations of its kind in the state. He served as secretary of the company for fifteen years. When the Adrian Cooperative Grain company was organized in 1907 he was one of the incorporators. He is still a share-holder in the company _and is its secre- tary.
THEODORE 1 .. MITCHELL. proprietor of a general merchandise store in Worthing- ton. and a dealer in fuel and feed, has re- sided in the county sent of Nobles county twenty-four years. He was born in Wayne county. N. Y .. Dee. 6, 1844, next to the youngest of a family of six children. His parents, Jacob and Catherine (Kniffin) Mitchell, were natives of Wayne county, N. Y., and. both died in Oswego county, of the same state. some years ago.
When Theodore Mitchell was one year of age his parents moved to Oswego county, and there he grew to manhood and lived until 1884. when he came to Worthington. After growing to manhood he spent the greater part of his time at railroad steam shoveling work in Oswego county. After coming to Worthington he opened a whole- sale butter, egg and fruit house, which he operated abont four years. He then went into the mereantile business, later adding fuel and feed to the commodities dealt in. and has since been in that business. His sons. G. E. and T. L., now have an inter- est in the business.
Mr. Mitchell was married in Richmond- ville. Schoharie county, N. V., Nov. 1. 1867, to Mary Rogers, a daughter of Elisha and Mary Rogers, of that county. Mrs. Mitch- ell died Jan. 10, 1898. To Mr. and Mrs. Mitehell were born five children, as fol- lows: Ernest R., born July 20, 1869, died Dec. 15. 1883: Mamio (Mrs. John Mackay). born Feb. 13, JS71, died Jan. S. 1896; Glenn E., horn at Hannibal. N. Y., July 3. 1875; Nellie (Mrs. Guy Tolls), born at Hannibal,
N. Y., Sept. 1, 1879; Theodore L., Jr., born in Worthington Dec. 11, 1885.
THOMAS J. FAGAN is one of the older settlers of Grand Prairie township. His home is just east of Ellsworth village. He owns GS0 acres of land in southern Grand Prairie township, of which he farms 360 acres, renting the rest.
Washington county, Wis,, is the birthplace of Mr. Fagan and 1860 was the date of hi- birth. His parents were Thomas and Mary (Dunn) Fagan, the former having died in 100], the latter about thirty-tive years ago. In Wisconsin Mr. Fagan lived until 1877. Then he came into contact with advertising matter telling of the Bishop Ireland colony. and he came to Nobles county. He bought the farm property where he has ever since resided. Ile has one of the many fine farm homes of Grand Prairie. For eight or ton years Mr. Fagan served as a director of school distriet No. 54.
At Earlville, Ill., Oci. 24, 1905, Mr. Fagan was married to Elenor Hensler, who wa born at Ottawa, Lasalle county, Il.
WILLIAM WULF is a farmer who lives in Willmont township, just cast of the village of St. Kilian. le was born in Schleswig-holstein, Germany. April 8. 1800 His father. Clans Wulf. was a stone mason by trade. Ile died in his native country at the age of 60 years when our subject was fifteen years of age. Our subjec 's mother, Fredericka Wulf, died at the age of 18 years when William was thirteen years of age.
William was raised on a farm and made his home in Germany until he was twenty- one years of age. He landed in New York March 15, 18SI, and from there went di- road to Davenport, Iowa, near which city it worked on the farm eight years. Ile moved to Holstein, Jowa, in 1889 and farm- od ou rented land one year. It was on March 5, 1890, that Mr. Wulf arrived in Adrian, and since that date he has been a resident of Nobles county. He rented the northwest quarter of section 32. Willmont township, and farmed the place two years, In the fall of ISS9 Mr. Wulf had first come io Nobles county with a party of land- scekers, and while here had bought the cast
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half of the northwest quarter of section 27. Willmont township. In 1892 he erected buildings on the place and moved on. He now owns 240 acres in the same township, all of which he farms. He raises consid- erable stoek and has an orchard on the place.
Mr. Wulf was married in the city of Davenport, Iowa, Feb. 6, 1889, to Annie Alp, daughter of Henry and Margarita Alp. now of Galva, Iowa. She was born in Schleswig-Holstein July 22. 1870, and came to the United States with her parents in 1881, loeating at Davenport. To Mr. and Mrs. Wulf have been born the following children, all of whom reside at home: Wil- ham, born Feb. 1, 1890: Adala, born June 11, 1892; Levina, born Nov. 23, 1894; Alma. born June 1, 1900.
Fraternally Mr. Wulf is an Odd Fellow and a Woodman. He has been a school officer of distriet No. 16 for the last seven years, and was road overseer one year.
ALBERT C. SEVERSON, manager of the St. John Grain company of Brewster, was born in Alba township. Jackson county, Min., Nov. 15, 1876, the son of pioneer residents of Jackson county. His father, Sever Severson, was born in Norway and came to America when three years of age. Ile lived in Madison, Wi -. , until 1873, when he settled in Jackson county. lle died there Jan. 5. 1907. at the age of 58 years. Our subject's mother is Julia Sever-on. She was born near Madison, Wis., and now lives in Jackson county at the age of 56 years. Albert is the third of the following family of six children: Bessie, Herman. Albert, Oscar, Sarah and George.
Until he was fourteen years of age Al- bert lived on his father's farm in Alba township. Then he went to work on the railroad at Brewster, and for sixteen years was so employed. being section foreman during the last nine years of that time. He entered the employ of the St. John Grain company Oct. 1, 1907. and since the first of March, 1908, has been the manager of the elevator.
Mr. Severson was married at Brewster Aug. 30, 1898, to Miss Margare! Kaufman,
daughter of John and Johanna Kaufman, early settlers of Nobles county. To Mr. and Mrs. Severson have been born two
children : Margaret, born Jan. 22, 1900; Julia, burn Jan. 22, 1904. The family are members of the Norwegian Lutheran church of Brewster.
MICHAEL SCHWARTZKOPF owns and farms an 120 acre farm on section 3, Lar- kin township. Ile is a native of Benton county, lowa. having been born there July 29, 1872. His father is Anton Schwartzkopf, a retired farmer living at Wallake, Sae county, Iowa. He was born in kreis Un- terfranken. Bavaria. in 1842, came to the United States in 1866 and settled in Benton county, Iowa. Catherine (Weipert) Schwartz- kopf, our subject's mother, was born in Bavaria in Ist0, came to America in 1867. and died in Sac county in 1894.
The family moved from Benton to Sac county, Iowa, in IS73, and there Michael lived until 1895, securing a common school (ducation and working on his father's farm. In the year last named he moved to Ashton, Osceola county, Iowa, and there engaged in the threshing business ten years. During the last three years of this time he also farmed. In the spring of 1905 he moved to Nobles county and located on his Lar- kin township farm, eighty acres of which he had bought in 1904. For the first two or three years he engaged in threshing as well as farming, but now devotes his energies exclusively to agricultural pursuits. TIe is chicken fancier and raises thoroughbred a White Wyandottes.
Mr. Schwartzkopf was married Jan. 20, 1900, at Ashton, Iowa, to Mary Heister- kamp, daughter of Anton and Elizabeth (Meinega) Heisterkamp. The father is dead. The mother resides with her daughter. Mrs. Schwartzkopf was born near Dyers- ville, Towa, March 10. 1878. To these parents have been born five children: Liz- zie, Joseph. Mary, Rose and Eddie. Both parents are members of the Catholic church of St. Kilian. and Mr. Schwartzkopf belongs to the M. W. A. lodge of Wilmont.
ALBERT NELSON, in partnership with his brother. Martin, farms the cast half of section 22, Grand Prairie township. which is owned by their father. He was born on the farm where he has ever since resided. The date of his birth was Oct. 13, 1878, and
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he is the son of llenry and Carrie (Larson) Nelson, of Ellsworth.
Albert was educated in the di-triet school of Grand Prairie township and in the Ells- worth public schools. Prior to 1904 he worked on the home farm for his father and at other places in the vicinity and in Ellsworth.
Mr. Nelson was married in Adrian Dee. 25, 1906, to Marie Gilbertson. Mr. Nelson is a member of the M. W. A. and Royal Neigh- bors lodges of Ellsworth.
NELS STANGELAND has resided on his Lismore township farm for the last twenty- two years. lle is a Norwegian by birth and was born Feb. 18, 1860. His parents, Nels and Bertha (Larson) Stangeland, live in Norway.
In his native country Nels lived until he reached his majority. lle then came to the I'mited States, arriving in June, 1881, and settled in Kendall county. ]]]. Ile farmed there five years and then came to Nobles county, and settled in Lismore township. lle bought the northeast quarter of section 17 and on that place he has resided ever since.
Mr. Stangeland was married in February. 1894, to Miss Anna L. Johnson, a native of Illinois and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lars Johnson. To them were born four elildren. of whom the following three still live: Sarah. Leonard and Arthur. Mrs. Stangeland died in March, 1903. Mr. Stangeland's second marriage occurred Feb. 19, 1905, when he wedded Mrs. Belle Jacobs, of Ransom township, to whom one child has been born. Melvin. She was born in Grundy county. Ill .. in 1872. and moved to Osceola county, Iowa, in 1886, where she resided with her parents. In 1892 she moy. el to Nobles county. and in 1895 married Thos. Jacobs, who died Feb. 28, 1896, to whom was born one child Tharva. The family are members of the Norwegian Luth- eran church.
JACOB VERSTEEG. of Leota village, de- votes his energies to several lines of work. Ile is a native of Pella, Marion county, lowa, and was born July 4, 1870. lle is the son of Gysbert and Frances (Van der Meile) Versteeg. The former is a native
of llolland and now resides in Orange City, Iowa. The mother, a native of Iowa, died in 1873.
When Jacob was less than three years of age the family moved to Sioux county, Iowa, and there he made his home until 1891. He was raised on a farm and after growing io manhood assisted his father in the threshing business. le came to No- bles county from Sioux county, Iowa, and located in Leota township, where he farmed until 1894. Ile also engaged in the thresh- ing business and has followed that during nearly all the time he has resided in the county. In 1894 he moved over the line into Moulton township and for three years was engaged in threshing and farming there. Returning to Leota, he has since made his home there with the exception of parts of two years, which were spent in Bemidji and Norman counties, Minn.
Mr. Versteeg is the manager of the Leota Horse company, having charge of the com- pany's Belgian horses, Davis and Noel. Ile has served as road overseer of his district for several years and also holds the office of constable of Leota township. Ile owns five and one-half acres of land in the vil. lage of Leota and a residence. He is a mom- ber of the First Reformed church.
A. T. LATTAA, Worthington dry goods merchant, was born in Grandview. Jowa. the son of Humphrey II. Latta and Mary .1. (Hubbard) Laita. He was raised on a farm, and lived in the county of his birth until eighteen years of age, securing an education in the public schools.
Mr. Latta went from his home to Sioux Falls, S. D., where he resided five years. In 1894 he eame lo Worthington as manager of the E. J. Daniels dry goods store, which was established at that time as a branch of the Sioux Falls house. On Jan. 6, 1896. Mr. Latta purchased the stoek, and has since conducted the store. He has built up an excellent business and has one of the finest dry goods stores in southwestern Min- nesoia.
Mr. Latta is a member of the Methodist church and is an active worker in that or- ganization. He holds the office of trustee and is secretary and treasurer of the board of stewards. He has been superintendent of the Sunday school for the last twelve
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years. He has served four years as a member of the Worthington school board, and during that time has held the office of clerk. He has taken an active part in many private and semi-public enterprises, and was one of the organizers of the chautauqua association.
April 21, 1898, Mr. Latta was married to Aliss Celia E. Cutler.
ANDREW G. DOEDEN owns and farms 269 acres of land in section one, Bigelow township, where he has lived during the last nineteen years. He was born in Prus- sia March 12, 1871, and is the son of George and Gretje (Jansen) Doeden, of Worthing- ton.
Until he was ten years of age Andrew Doeden resided in his native country. 11 the spring of 1881 he came to the United States with his parents and located in Mc- Lean county, Ill. A little later the family moved just over the line into Livingston county. The Doedens came to Nobles county in 1891 and located on the farm which Andrew now owns, the father having pur- chased the place. The subject of this sketch worked on his father's place until the spring of 1896; then he began farming the place for himself. In 1899 he purchased 160 acres of his present farm from his father and in 1905 he bought the other 110 acres from his brother, Herman.
Mr. Doeden was married in Ewington township, Jackson county, Nov. 2, 1895. to Mary Jansen, a dangliter of John G. and Johanna (Schmidt) Jansen. Mrs. Doeden was born in Livingston county, Ill., Oct. 25, 1876. They are the parents of the follow- ing children: Grace, born Sept. 5, 1896; Hannah, born July 18, 1898; John, born Feb. 20, 1901; George, born June 15, 1903; Flora and Mary (twins) born Dec. 23, 1905. Mr. Doeden is a member of the German Evangelical church of Worthington. Dur- ing the last twelve years Mr. Doeden has served as clerk of school district No. 83.
JOSEPH NAZARENUS, Elk township farmer, was born in Plymouth county, Iowa, June 13, 1885, the son of Asmus and Emma (Jammar) Nazarenus. Ile came to Nobles connty with his parents in 1889 and was raised on his father's Elk township farm,
securing a common school education in dis- trict 53.
He resided on the farm until 1902, and during the next few years worked at dif- ferent occupations in Iowa, in Worthington and Minneapolis. He was married at Brew- ster Aug. 27, 1905, to Bertha Herman, who was born in Russia May 18, 1883. She is . the daughter of Otto Herman of Worthing- ton township. To this union one child has been born-Francis. After his marriage Mr. Nazarenus began farming his father's place in Elk township.
FRED D. INULSER owns and farms the southwest quarter of section 35, Bloom township. He was born in Oswego county, N. Y., Jan. 22, 1855, the son of Divan and Margaret (Dygert) Ilulser. His father, who in early life was a canalman but later a farmer, was born in New York state Dec. 4, 1817, and died at Alta, Buena Vista county, Iowa, March 7, 1880. The mother Was born at Frankfort, N. Y., Sept. 5, 1823. She is living and makes her home with her son. Both parents were of Ger- man descent.
In his native county Fred lived until the spring of 1869, when the family moved to Will county, III. In that and Kankakee couu- ties he made his home on his father's farms until the spring of 1880. Ilis educa- tion was secured in Hastings, N. Y., and in Illinois. In the spring of 1880 our subject moved to Buena Vista county, Iowa, farmed there three years, and in O'Brien county, Iowa, until the spring of 1900. That year he moved onto his Bloom township farm, which he had purchased the year before.
Mr. Hulser was married in Chicago Jan. 19. 1897, to Mary E. West, daughter of Henry and Sarah (Lawton) West. She was born in Grundy county, Ill., Feb. 26, 1860 They are the parents of two children- Lyle D., born in O'Brien county. Iowa. Aug. 19 1898; Yolade M., born at Reading March 24, 1901. Mr. Illser and his family are members of the Presbyterian church of Read ing and of the Yeomen lodge. Ile has served as clerk of school district No. 86 for four years.
PAUL COOK. Olney township farmer, was born in Racine county, Wis., May 6, 1860, the son of German parents. His fatlı-
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er, Theodore Look, anne to the United Salles when a young man and was an calls settler of Wisconsin. He died sixteen years ago, aged 75 years. Om subject's mother, Margaret (Jacoby) Look, diel eleven years ago, aged 75 year -.
When Paul was seven years of age the Cook family moved to Kenosha county, Wis., and with the exception of one year spent in Illinois that was his home until 1890. That year he moved to Brown county, Minn., and engaged in farming seven years. It was mu 1897 that Mr. Cook came to Nobles county and bought his present tarm of 320 acres the north half of section 9 and on that place he has since lived. lle also owns 100 acies ou section 3, Westside township.
At Adrian on Jan. 22, 1891, MIr. Cook was matrried to Miss Kate Lenz, daughter of the late Peter Lenz. They are the parents of the following living children: Theresa, Mar- tin, Annie, Veronica, Regina, Philemania, Lawrence and Matt. Mr. and Mrs. Cook are members of the Catholic church.
JAMES REDDY, of Ellsworth, in partner- ship with Nerris Fischenich, owns and con duets oue of the Ellsworth saloons. lle ha- been a resident of the county since he was eight years of age, having arrived here wich his parents July 10, 1881.
Jolin Reddy, the father of our subject, was born in Ireland and emigrated to America when eighteen years of age. Was a taner by trade and followed that or- cupation in Boston many years. Later h moved to Milwaukee, Wi-,, and in 1881 eame to Nobles county. Purchasing a farm in Grand Prairie township, one mile north of the present location of Ellsworth, he en- gaged in farming there until 1904. He then sold his farm, and in the fall of 1907 moved to Midland county, South Dakota, where he took a land claim and where he now resides. The mother of our subject is Mary (Nelson) Reddy, who is now os years of age.
To these parents in Boston, Mass, on Feb. 24, 1873, was born James Reddy, of this sketch. When he was two years of age the family moved to Sheboygan, Wi -.. and in the summer of Issl fo Nobles cola ty. James Reddy resided on his father's farm, one mile north of Ellsworth, until 1904. Ile then moved to town and in part-
nership with Edward Fogarty embarked in the saloon business, purchasing the building of Chas. Loveland. This partnership con- tinued two years, at the end of which time Nerris Fischenich purchased Mr. Fogarty's interest, and during the last two years the business has been conducted by Reddy & Fischenich.
Mr. Reddy is a member of the Catholie church of Ellsworth and of the Catholie Order of Foresters. He is unmarried.
DANIEL FITZGIBBONS, a retired farmer of Adrian, is one of Nobles county's early day settlers, lle was born in the county of Cork, Ireland, in October, 18410, and came to America in May, 1857. Hle eame direet to St. Peter, Minn., and is one of the pio- neers of the state.
Mr. Fitzgibbons came to Nobles county in April, 1879, and bought the southeast quar- ler of section 21, Olney township. L'pon that place he lived until the spring of 1900, when he moved to Adrian, where he has since lived a retired life. He has a fine residence property in the extreme south- eastern part of the village, and takes great pride in keeping the premises and house in order.
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