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To these parents in Powshick county. Town, Nov. 6, 1876, was born Clyde S. Jones. When he was four years of age he moved with his parents to Audubon county, and there he was renred and educated. Ile as- sisted in the farm work during the summer months and attended school winters, being thus employed until nineteen years old After completing a common school educa- tion in Andubon county he attended n teachers' training school and then became a student at the Iowa state normal school, of Cedar Falls. Afterwards he was grad- nated from a teachers' training school at Spencer. Jowa. In 1896 he began teaching school, at which he was engaged several years in Audubon and Clay counties.
In 1901 Prof. Jones moved to Round Lake. Nobles county. where he was principal of the schools three years. He next served as
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principal of the Rushmore schools two years, and in the fall of 1907 moved to Dundee and accepted the principalship of the schools there.
Prof. Jones was married at Round Lake Nov. 29, 1906, to Miss Bessie Leona Tripp, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Tripp, of Round Lake. She was born in the village in which she was married in 1887, and that was her home until her marriage. She is a graduate of the Round Lake school, and for four years was engaged in teaching school
Mr. and Mrs. Jones are members of the Methodist church, and Mr. Jones holds the office of justice of the peace of Dundee village.
JAMES A. GREIG, of Lismore, is the senior member of the firm of Greig & Glov- ka. hardware, implement and furniture deal- ers. Ile is a native Minnesotan, having been born in Houston county Jan. 26. 1874, the son of James and Mary Greig, early set- tlers and now residents of Olney township.
When a child James 1. Greig came to Nobles county with his parents, with whom he resided on the Olney township farm until the spring of 1903. when he and his brother, George, went to the village of Lis- more and established a hardware and im- plement business under the firm name of Greig Brothers. In 1906 George sold his interest to Henry Glovka.
.James A. was married in Oregon. Dane county, Wis .. on Christmas day, 1902, to Miss Helen M. Sands, a native of Wiseon- sin and daughter of George and Ruth Sands. She was a graduate of the Oregon high school. and a teacher in the public schools for five years. To them have been born two children, as follows: James Mason, horn March 13, 1904. and George Maurice, born June 2, 1905. Mr. Greig is a highly re- speeted citizen, and a member of the M. W. A. of Lismore.
ALFRED J. GOFF, of Worthington, senior member of the grocery firm of Goff & Dean, is a native of Nobles county and has lived his entire life here. He was born in Ran- som township Aug. 30, 1873. the son of Eugene and Emma (Daniels) Goff, now residents of Worthington.
Mr. Goff lived with his parents in Ran- som township until he was five years of age. The family then moved to Worthing- ton. in which city the subject of this biog- raphy has since made his home. Ile was edueated in the Worthington public schools. In 1891; he accepted a position as clerk in II. E. Torrance's department store, which position he held ten years. One year was spent clerking in the store of H. Peter Lewis, and then he went into business for himself. In partnership with James Gibson he started a grocery store in 1901, which was operated for five years under the firm name of Goff & Gibson. In April. 1906, Frank Dean pur- chased Mr. Gibson's interest, since which time the firm has been Goff & Dean.
In Worthington, on July 10, 1894, occurred the marriage of str. Goff to Miss Esther Torrance. daughter of the late H. E. Tor- rance. They are the parents of one child, Miss Clarice Goff.
Mr. Goff is an ardent church worker, being a memher of the First Methodist church of Worthington. and holding the offices of treasurer and trustee of the church society. Ile was elected a member of the village council in the spring of 1907.
OSCAR STERLING, Worthington, is a member of the clothing firm of Sterling Bros., and has lived in Nobles county twen- tv-two years. He was born in Kronoberg lan, in the province of Smoland, Dee. 10. 1865. and is the son of Gustaf and Augusta Caroline (Scheler) Sterling. of Worthington.
Oscar received a common school education in his native land, and during the years he was going to school worked in his father's tailor shop and learned the trade. When sixteen years of age he left home and went to Copenhagen. Denmark. where for one voar he was employed in a chalk factory. Returning to his old home in Sweden, he took employment with a railroad company and for two and one-half years did mason work along the line of the road.
in the spring of 1886 he came to America and direct to Worthington. arriving in that village on the 22nd day of April. The first year of his residence there he worked for the Omaha railroad campany; then he went. to Los Angeles. Cal., where he remained only about half a year. Returning to Worth-
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ington, he again took a position with the Omaha company, which he held eight years. During this time he attended the Breek school at Wilder, Minn., one winter, taking a business course. In 1894 Mr. Sterling accepted a position as clerk in the clothing store of Boh & Nels, at which he worked two winters, his summers being spent with railroad work. He took a position as clerk in the clothing store of A. R. Albertus in 1896. and remained an employe of thai store until February. 1906. Then, in partnership with his brothers, Ernest and Axel. he founded the clothing firm of Sterling Bros., and since that date has managed the store.
Mr. Sterling was married June 2, 1898, at Gowrie, Iowa, to Amelia Lundell, daugh- ter of l'. M. Lundell, of Gowrie. Mrs. Sterling was born in Sweden and eame to the united States with her parents when a chill. To Mr. and Mrs. Sterling have been born three children-Carl Russell, Lin- nen Regina and Ernest Wilhelm. Both Mr. and Mrs. Sterling are members of the Swed- ish Lutheran church of Worthington.
AREND O. SCHMIDT is a Seward town- ship farmer who resides on and owns the northeast quarter of section 11. He has been a resident of the county for the last eighteen years. He was born in Livingston county. Ill .. May 8. 1870. the son of Old man Schmidt and Almut (Polman) Schmidt, hoth natives of Germany. The father died in Bloom township Oct. 31, 1907; the mother died March 24. 1904.
The subject of this biography lived in Livingston county. Ill., till eleven years of age. when the family moved to Iroquois county. in the same state. Young Schmidt worked on his father's farm and seenred his education in the country schools of Illi- nois during his boyhood days. In 1890 he came with his parents to Nobles county and located with them on the northwest quarter of section 15, Bloom township. When he hecame of age the following year he he- gan farming for himself. In 1894 he moved to section 11, Bloom, farmed there six years. and then in 1900 moved to Seward, pur- chased his present farm, and has since re- sided there. Besides his farm he owns resi- dence property in Fulda.
Mr. Schmidt was married Oct. 7, 1891, at Fulda to Sophia Breit, daughter of Mit- chell Breit, of Seward township. Mrs Schmidt is a native of Germany. To Mr. and Mrs. Schmidt have been born five child ren, all living at home, Rosena, Oltman, Henry, Eddie and Carl.
During his residence in Bloom township Mr. Schmidt served as clerk of the school district in which he lived, and he is now treasurer of district No. 73, which office he has held for the last two years.
JOIN P. SELBURG owns and farms 240 acres of land on section 16, Worthington township, and has been a resident of the county twenty-one years. He was born March 25. 1854, in halmer lan, Sweden, the son of P. M. Danielson and Johanna Marie (Selburg) Danielson, who are still living in their native land. In accordance with the Swedish custom Mr. Selburg took as his surname his father's given name, and during the time he resided in his native land went by the name of Peterson. When he came to the United States in 1882 he took the name of Selhurg.
Mr. Selburg received an education in the schools of his native land and during his residence there worked on his father's farm. Coming to the United States. he located first in Ford county, Ill., where he worked five years at farm work. He came to Nobles county in 1887 and located one mile sonth of Org. where he farmed six years. He first bought an eighty acre tract of land there and later purchased an eighty adjoin- ing. In 1893 Mr. Selburg sold out his prop- erty there and purchased his present farin in Worthington township. where he has since resided. He has been a director of school district No. 72 for the last ten years. On Jan. 8. 1892. Mr. Selburg was married in Worthington io Mary Omalia. To them have been born the following children: Carl Richard. Ellen Maria, Emil Clarence, Hilda Josephine. Mabel Clarice and John Arthur.
TRUMAN (FRANK) WALTERS, contrae- tor and builder of Lismore, was among the frat to locate in that town and many of the finest buildings of the village were eree- ted by him. Ife built the residences of
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Mart Graves, John Van Rossen and Gust Johnson, the Rieckoff elevator and the city fire house. He has been working continu- ously at the carpenter's trade ever since he was fourteen years of age.
Mr. Walters is a New Yorker by birth, having heen born at Fonda, in Montgomery county, on May 21. 1854. His father, Henry Walters, was a farmer, born in Dutchess county, N. Y., and died at Fonda about twenty-four years ago at the age of 59 years. Our subject's mother was Lucinda (Weaver) Walters. She was born in New York and died at North Adams, Mass., in 1895 at the age of 72 years.
Truman lived on his father's farm in Montgomery county until he was fourteen years of age. He then went to Fulton county, of the same state, where he started learning the carpenter's trade, and where he remained two years. He then went to Amsterdam, N. Y., where he lived until 1885. During six years of his residence there he was a stage carpenter. during the rest of the time he worked at general ear- pentering.
Mr. Walters came west in 1885 and lo- eated at Omaha. Neh .. where he worked at his trade three years. The next two years were spent in Sioux City. and then he moved to Alton, Iowa. where he helped finish a state bank building and where he spent two years. IJe moved to Adrian in 1892 and has since been a resident of the county. For many years he was employed hy W. F. Rieckoff & Co .. of Orange City. Iowa, in building houses on farms the com- pany owned in southwestern Minnesota and Dakota. When Lismore village was founded in 1900. Mr. Walters moved there and has since been a contractor.
In Amsterdam. N. V .. Ang. 22. 1876. Mr. Walters was married to Miss Annie Briggs. a native of New York state. To them has heen born one child. Henry, horn in . Ams- terdam. N. Y .. May 28. 1879, now a resident of Indianapolis, Indiana.
ZENO M. SMITHI. street commissioner of Worthington, was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, August 4. 1852. one of a family of seven children. His parents were John C and Susie Ann (Rider) Smith. The father was a blacksmith by trade and a native
of Pennsylvania. He moved to Osage county, Ohio. in an early day. During the civil war he bought a farm in Jefferson county, Ohio, and engaged in farming there until his death about 1894. aged 86 years. Our subject's mother died when Zeno was six years old.
On his father's farm in Jefferson county, Ohio. Zeno lived until he was twenty-six years of age. Then he married and moved to Linn county, Missouri, where he bought a farm and lived three years. Selling out there he moved to Grundy county, Iowa, where he engaged in farming two years. His next place of residence was Clarion. Towa, where for ten years be worked as a butter maker. In January, 1892, Mr. Smith moved to Worthington and for one year worked in the Wheeler & Smith creamery. One summer was spent in a creamery at Round Lake. and thereafter his home has heen in Worthington. He has engaged in various occupations, the greater part of the time having been spent in laying sewer tile. In the spring of 1903 he was elected street commissioner, and has since held that office.
Mr. Smith was married in Jefferson county, Ohio. September 29. 1878. to Flora V. House- holder, a native of the Buckeye state. To. these parents have been born six children, as follows: Fred H .. of Lorain township: Grace (Mrs. Ed. Gray). of Minot. N. D .: Lnin, of Eau Claire, Wis .: Earl. Ruth and Ethel. of Worthington. Mr. Smith is member of the Modern Woodmen of Am- erica.
CHARLES D. ANTRITTER. Among the successful young business men of Round Lake village is he whose name heads this sketch. the manager of the John W. Tuthill F.umber company. Coming to Nohles county when a boy, he was brought up and received his training here. his residence in the county covering a period of nearly twenty years.
Charles Antritter was born in Baden, Ger- many. Sept. 18, 1877. His father was Charles Philip Antritter. also a native of Raden. Germany. horn March 19. 1849. died June 30. 1906. His mother. Caroline (Win. terhauer) Antritter. was born in Baden .Tuly 14, 185]; she is still living and resides at Round Lake. The father was a wagon and furniture-maker and followed that trade
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in his native country. In April, 1878, when the subject of this sketch was only a few months old, the family moved to Lyons. France, and there the elder Antritter worked at his trade for six years.
In May. 1884, the family came to America and settled at 1Iull, Iowa. Mr. Antritter. the senior, worked at bis trade in Chicago the first season, but soon joined his family in Towa, and thereafter worked at his trade and engaged in farming near Hull for sev- eral years. In the country schools near that Iowa town Charles D. received his first schooling. In 1889 Mr. Antritter. senior, and the son whose name heads this sketch eame to Nobles county, purchased land on section 1, Indian Lake township, built that season, and the next year the family moved up from the old Iowa home. That Indian Lake farm was the family home for many years.
During the next few years Charles D. worked on the farm summers and attended the publie schools during the winter months. llis attendaner at the country schools con- tinued until he was 18 years of age. In 1896 he accepted a position in A. F. Dichn's general store at Round Lake, where he was employed as a clerk ahout one year. He then went back to his father's farm, where he made his home until 1900. During the years 1900 and 1901 he was at Des Moines. Iowa, a student at Highland Park college.
Mr. Antritter was united in marriage to Miss Louise Pfefferle. daughter of Jacob Pfefferle, of Rock Valley, Iowa, on the 19th of June. 1901, the ceremony heing performed in Indian Lake township. To this marriage have been born three children, all of whom are living: Loren, Ruby and Dorothy. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Antritter lived on the farm nne year. Then Mr. Antritter entered the employ of W. C. Grant, then a general merchant of Round Lake, and was thus engaged for a little over one year. On February 1, 1904, he became the local man- ager for the John W. Tuthill Lumber Co .. and since that time has been manager of the Round Lake office.
During his residence in Round Lake Mr. Antritter has served in an official capacity for a number of years. Ile was elected a trustee of the village in 1904, and was re- elected the following year. On Sept. 1, 1006, he was appointed president of the coun-
cil to fill an unexpired term, and served until March. 1907. In the spring of the last named year he was elected village re- eorder, and is now serving in that capacity Mr. Antritter is a member of the M. W. _ 1. of Round Lake. He was brought up in the faith of the German Lutheran church.
AT P. DARLING, of Worthington, has been a resident of Nobles county thirty- three years, and bas resided in southwestern Minnesota during the whole fifty-two years of his life. He was born in Vernon Center township, Blue Earth county, Minn., Aug. 14, 1856, and was the first white child boru in that township. Ilis parents, John A. Darling and Serepta (Pratt) Darling, eame to Blue Earth county, Minn., when there were very few white settlers in this part of Minnesota territory and were among the very first settlers in their immediate viein- ity. John A. Darling was born in New York state in 1832, and died in Nobles eounty in 1904. His wife was born in New York state Jan. 3. 1830, and died in Nobles county May 17, 1888.
The subject of this sketch lived in Blue Earth county with his parents until 19 years of age. He attended the publie schools of Vernon Center, and for a short time was a student at a high school. In August, 1875. the family decided to make the home in No- bles county, and arrived at Worthington on the 23rd of that month, having made the trip by team. The father purchased a farmi on seetion 12. Elk township, and there for two years A. P. Darling made his home. Hle then took a homestead claim of eighty acres on seetion 6. Hersey township. on which he resided sixteen years. lle then moved to Worthington and during the next four years was engaged in the real estate business. In 1897 he purchased the Oakes farm. one-half mile north of the city limits, and for three years engaged in farming on that property Tle again took up his residener in Worthing- ton in 1900, opened a real estate office. and has since been engaged in that business.
Mr. Darling was married on June 29 1881. to Ida M. Fellows. daughter of Milton Fellows, one of the pioneer settlers of Elk township. To Mr. and Mrs. Darling have been born four children, Harris, Amy, Lil- lian and Ray, all living at home.
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Mr. Darling is a member of the Masonic and Eastern Star lodges, and is a charter member of the latter.
TIMOTHY G. CONLEY, retired farmer of Adrian, is a pioneer settler of western No- bles county. He was born in Rochester, N Y., July 8, 1850. His father was John Con- ley. who was born in Dublin, Ireland, came to the United States at an early age, and settled at Rochester, N. Y., where he was married to Mary O'Bryan, who was also a native of Dublin. The family moved to Milwaukee, Wis., where the father died of cholera on July 28, 1854. The mother died in the same city about 1888.
When the subject of this biography was one year old the family moved from Roches- ter to Milwaukee, and in the vicinity of that city Timothy Conley resided until the spring of 1878. Hle received an education in the Milwaukee schools, and after becom- ing a man engaged in farming. Ile arrived in Nobles county on May 8, 1878, and bonght a relinquishment to Peter Thompson's tree claim-the northwest quarter of section 24. Larkin township-and in 1880 took as homestead the southwest quarter of section 22, Larkin township. When he became a resident of that part of the county Larkin township had not then been organized. He took a part in its organization and for many years served as road overseer. Ile engaged in farming on his homestead and resided there until 1900, when he moved to Adrian. where he has since made his home. Mr Conley is a member of the Catholic church.
At Milwaukee on Feb. 6, 1881, Mr. Conley was united in marriage to Lizzie Cashin daughter of Patrick Cashin, and a native of Milwaukee. They have no children of their own, but have an adopted son, Willie, aged 14, son of Peter Herbert, of North Dakota.
EMIL R. L. RUDMAN, Graham Lakes township farmer, is a native of the north central part of Sweden, where he was born Oct. 3, 1864, the son of J. O. and Ellen (Olson) Rudman, both of whom are living in their native land, the former aged 76 years, the latter 80.
In his native land Emil received a good education, attending school from the time
he was five years of age until he was twen- ty-one, with the exception of two years. After attending the public schools for a number of years he entered a high school, where he was a student two and one-half years. He then matriculated in a military college, which he attended four years and from which he was graduated in 1884.
At the age of twenty-three years, in 1887 he emigrated to America and first located in Republic county, Kansas, where he resided nine months. From the Sunflower state he moved to Galva, Henry county, Ill., where he worked in an implement store one year Returning to Republic county, he entered the employ of a stock buyer, worked for him two years, and then engaged in farming for one year. Mr. Rudman again went hack to Henry county in 1891 and farmed a rented farm in 1892. The next year he started in to learn the carpenter trade, which he followed in the town of Galva for two years. In 1895 he bought eighty acres of land in Henry county and farmed it until 1901. Then, disposing of his farm, he moved to Little Falls, Morrison county, Minn., where he remained three months, and then went to Heron Lake. Purchasing a farm near that town he farmed one year, and then rented the farm where he has ever since re- sided-200 acres on section 23, Graham Lakes township. lle holds the office of treasurer of school district No. 2.
Mr. Rudman was married in Kansas Jan. 15, 1889, to Lottie C. Wickstrom, who was born at Bishop Hill, Ill., Oct. 28, 1862. She is a daughter of the late Peter M. and In- gren (Belgquist) Wickstrom. Her father died Oct. 30, 1890; the mother in 1898.
HARRY B. LEWIS, proprietor of a Worth- ington grocery store, has lived in that vil- lage since he was thirteen years of age. Ile was born in Farmer City, Ill., Ang. 7, 1870, the son of W. S. Lewis, of Worthing- ton, and Martha C. (Berry) Lewis, who died in Worthington in 1897.
In September, 1883, the family moved to Worthington. In the public and high schools of that village Harry completed his educa- tion, which had been begun in his native town. The elder Lewis purchased a grocery store of A. S. Husselton upon his arrival and in that store Ilarry worked until the
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store was sold to C. J. Smallwood in 1590 Un March 10, 1597, the subject of this sketch opened a grocery store, which he has con- ducted ever since, having built up an ex. cellent business.
Mr. Lewis was married in Worthington May 1, 1895, to Miss Grace Newkirk, daugn- ter of Mr. and Mrs. 1. B. Newkirk, earty settlers of Nobles county, now residing at Corona, Cal. Mrs. Lewis was born in Worth- ington township. They are the parents of two children-Lawrence R. and Vera E.
Mr. Lewis has taken an active part in the affairs of the village in which he has lived so long. Both he and his wife are members of the Congregational enurch, and he holds the office of church treasurer. Mr. Lewis is a member of the K. P. and M. W. A. lodges; and has been a member of the Worthington fire department since the second year after its organization. ile was one of the or ganizers of the Chautauqua association.
DOMINICK KELLEN, SR., Olney township farmer, was born in Luxemburg, Germany, March 25, 1840, the son of Dominick and Catherine Kellen. Both his parents died in their native country, the father aged 50 years and the mother aged 35 years.
Mr. Kellen came to America in 1867 and located in Caledonia, Minn., where he farmed four years. lle then went to Minneapolis, in which eity he was married Oet. 23, 1872, to Annie Frisch, also a native of Germany They are the parents of the following living children : John, Dominick, Mary, l'eter. Katie, Maggie, France, Nick, Lizzie, Martha, Joseph. After his marriage Mr. Kellen went to Houston county, Minn., where he farmed a rented place five years. Returning to Minneapolis, he worked for three years in a paper mill. Giving up his position there, le again turned to farming, and during the next seven years farmed near Alton, lowa In 1891 Mr. Kellen moved to Nobles county and bought the northwest quarter of section 10, Olney township, where he has since re- sided. Ile now also owns an eighty acre tract on the southeast quarter of the same Section. He raises stock extensively, making a specialty of thoroughbred Duroe-Jersey swine.
Mr. and Mrs. Kellen are members of the Adrian Catholic church and he belongs to
St. Joseph's society. Mr. Kellen served on the Olney township board four years -- from 1902 to 1906.
JACOB METZ, is a Westside township farmer. lle was born in Marion county, lowa, May 1, 1862, and is the son of George and Josephine (Miller) Metz, who still live in Marion county, he at the age of So years and she aged 79. The father was born in Germany and came to America when twelve years of age. Until his 21st birthday he lived in Indiana; then he moved to Marion county, lowa, homesteaded, and there he has ever since resided. Our subject's mother was also a native of Germany, but came to America when a child. Mr. and Mrs. Metz, senior, are the parents of the following child- ren : Valentine, Kate, John, Jacob, George, Fannie, Maggie and Frank.
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