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On Dec. 28. 1881, Mr. Erwin was married in Effingham county to Miss Elizabeth Thompson. They are the parents of the following children: William C., born in Illi- mois Jan. 5, 1884; Charles R., born in Illinois Jan. 3. 1888; Eifa, born in Nobles county Dec. G. 1890. Mr. and Mrs. Erwin are members of the Methodist church, and Mr. Erwin affiliates with the M. W. A. and Odd Fellows lodges. Ile served several terms as school clerk in Ransom township and was treasurer of Worthington town- ship in 1905, which office he resigned upon moving to Worthington later in that year.
WILLIAM WHELAN, of Summit Lake township, is a native of Ferbane, Kings county, Ireland. having been born on April 7. 18GG. llis father, William Whelan, died in the Emerald Isle in January. 1876; his mother. Bessie (Coolohan) Whelan, lives in Summit Lake township and is eighty years old.
Coming to the United States in IS82, Mr. Whelan located in Benton county, lowa, where he lived until 1892. Ile then came to Nobles county and with his brother bought the southeast quarter of section 12, Sum- mit Lake. lle lived on that farm until 1903, when he bought the northwest quarter of scetion 18. Elk township, adjoining. He resided on the Elk township farm until the
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spring of 1908, when he built improvements on his present place-the south half of the southwest quarter of section 12-and has made his home there since. TIe owns 200 acres of land.
Mr. Whelan was married in Elk township Dec. 17, 1902, to Coris Young, daughter of Mr. and Mr -. B. F. Young, of Elk. To them have been born three children: Bessie, Wil- liam D. and Kieran J. Mr. Whelan is a member of the Catholic church and of the Masonie and Odd Fellows lodges.
MERRITT EDWARD LAWTON, real es tate dealer of Worthington, has been a resi- dent of the county seat town since 1889. Ile was born Oct. 22, 1860, at Manville, Liv- ingston county, Ill., the son of William Edward Lawton and Sarah Ann (Snyder) Lawton. His father died Nov. 26, 1894, and his mother Sept. 14, 1894.
The first thirteen years of the life of our subjeet were spent in Manville. There lie obtained a common school education and worked on the farm. The family moved to Carroll, lowa, in April, 1873, and there Mr. Lawton lived for thirteen years. He completed his education there and in 1876 was made assistant postmaster of Carroll. which position he held for ten years. He moved to Lakefield, Minn., July 4, 1886, where for two years he was employed in a bank. Giving up that position, he spent the next two years as a traveling salesman. Hle moved to Worthington May 23, 1880, opened a real estate office there, which he has maintained to the present time-a period of nearly twenty years.
Mr. Lawton was united
in marriage April 28, 1886, to Miss Luella Little. To this union have been born three children. all of whom are living: John Edward, horn March 30. 1888; Sterling L., horn June 25, 1889: Merritt Lynn, born Dec. 3. 1895.
During his residence in Lakefield Mr. Law- ton served one term as mayor of the city. lle is a member of the Presbyterian church and a member of the Knights of Pythias, of which organization he has been a member for the past twenty-five years. He owns a fine home in the city of Worthington, and also has some farm land in Ottertail county.
CHARLES RUSIIO, proprietor of the Lis- more city meat market and buyer and ship- per of live stock, is a native of Port Wash- ington, Wis., where he was horn April 23, 1854. He was the son of Anthony and Al- mira (Morris) Rusho, natives of France. They first came to Canada and then to Port Washington after their marriage, and re- sided there many years. Later in life the father moved to Washington. He died at Rathdrum, Idaho, at the age of eighty years. Mrs. Rusho died in Faribault coun- ty, Minn., at the age of 60 years.
When Charles was ten years of age the family moved from Wisconsin to Faribault county, Minn., and there he was educated and grew to manhood. Upon reaching his majority Mr. Rusho went to Loup county. Neb., and took a quarter section homestead on North Loup river on the site of the present town of Taylor, county seat of Loup county. He farmed in Nebraska six- teen years, and then returned to Faribault county, Minn. He came to Nobles county in 1896 and engaged in farming in Will- mont township until 1905. He then moved to Lismore and purchased the meat mar- ket of William Higgins. He owns a resi- dence in Lismore and residence property in Wilmont. Fraternally he is an Odd Fellow. holding membership in the Wilmont lodge.
Mr. Rusbo was married at Ventura, Cali- fornia, Oct. 24, 1876, to Miss Frances Masey. who was born in Falmouth, England, of which country her parents were natives and where she received her edneation. She came to California in 1875. To Mr. and Mrs. Rusho have been born the following children: Charles, Edward, Evelyn, Leonel, Inez, Otto, Fern and Georgina. Lê
THOMAS H. PRIDEAUX. proprietor of a general merchandise store at Rushmore. has been a resident of Nobles county for the last thirty-six years. He was born at Dodge- ville. Wis., April 3, 1865, the son of R. Prideaux and Mary (Sims) Prideaux, now residents of Worthington. Until he was seven years of age the subject of this sketch lived in the town of his birth. Then, in Oc- tober, 1872, he came with his parents to Nobles county and during the next twenty-
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three years of his life his home was with li- parents in Ransom township. There he received a common school education and engaged in farm work. Most of this time was spent in working on his father's farm. but during the last four years of his resi. dence there he farmed for himself.
In 1895 he moved to Rushmore and en- gaged in the implement business, which business he conducted about two years. Dis- posing of his business interests in Rushmore, he moved to Worthington. where he resided one year. During the next three years he was at Brewster, engaged in buying grain for the IInbbard & Palmer company. He then returned to Rushmore, and during the next two years was the grain buyer for I. P. Devereux & Co. He then bought an interest in the Rushmore Mercantile Cn. and became the manager of that company's store. He continued in that capacity until March 1. 1907, when he purchased his part- ners' interests, and since that time he has conducted the store alone.
Mr. Prideaux was married April 15. 1903. to Bessie Stewart, daughter of Mrs. C. Stow- art. Three children have blessed this union- Richard S., Edith and a baby boy.
Mr. Prideaux served one year as village recorder in Rushmore the year 1905.
WILLIAM N. SHANKS, farmer and breed- er of fancy stock. resides on the north- west quarter of section 2. Elk township. Te was born July 8, 1878, of Scotch par- ents, who were living at the time in County Dawn. in the north of Ireland. His father. William Shanks, now resides in North Da- kato. His mother, Jane (MeDonald) Shanks. died in November. 1904.
When the subject of this sketch was two years of age his parents moved to the I'nited States and Incated at Clifton, Ill .. where they resided eight years. They tlen lived four years in Gilman. Ill .. and in 1991 moved to Nobles county and located in Seward township. Until his marriage in 1902 William lived with his parents on the Seward township farm. His education was received in the public schools of Gilman and Worthington. having completed the first grade in the high school in the latter place. Mr. Shanks was married March 5, 1902, in
Seward township, to Miss Flossie Booth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William 11. Booth, among the first settlers of Seward town- ship, in which township Mrs. Shanks was born. To them nas been born one child. Doris. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Shanks moved onto their Elk township farm, which had been purchased in 1899.
During the last few years Mr. Shanks has devoted his energies largely to the breeding . and raising nf Duroe-Jersey hogs, and he has one of the finest herds in the county, which now consists of about 130 head. Among the number are some noted animals which have been prize winners in some of the big fairs of the country.
In the early part of 1908 Mr. Shanks sold his Elk township farm and bought 200 acres of the University traet in the cor- porate limits of Worthington and expects to take up his residence on his new place in 1909.
R. S. HURD. of Worthington, was born at Sandgate, Vermont, April 19, 1845. and that was his home until his removal to Worthington in the spring of 1885.
In 1863 he enlisted in company A. of the Tenth Vermont infantry, and remained in the service until the close of the war, being mustered out at Burlington, Vt. He partici- pated in the battles of the Wilderness, Spott- sylvania. Petersburg and other engagements. After the war he went into the manufactur- ing business in his home town, in which ne was engaged many years.
Mr. Hurd came to Worthington in 1885 and engaged in the meat market and stock buying business, being the first to shin hogs and horses from Worthington in ear load lots. Of late years he has been ro- tired from active business pursuits, and de- votes his tine to the management of his farm, which consists of 200 aeres on section 29, Lorain township. Besides his farm prop- erty. Mr. Hurd owns a fine residence in tre village at the corner of Eleventh street and Fifth avenue.
.At Sandgate. Vt., in 1872. Mr. Hurd was united in marriage to Cornelia Turner. To them has been born one son -- Minor G .. a Worthington liveryman. Mr. Hurd is a member of the G. A. R.
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JAMES H. HARRINGTON has been a resident of Nobles county twenty-two years, the last thirteen of which he has been a rural mail carrier out of Bigelow. Mr. Harrington was born in Fulton, Oswego county, N. V., Nov. 12, 1846, the son of Hen- ry L. Harrington, who died Jan. 29, 1882, and Esther Jane (Bradt) Harrington, who died March 2, 1882.
When a child the subject of this sketch moved with his parents to Ohio, and in 1856 to Illinois, in which state he grew to man- hood. He enlisted in company H, of the 45th Illinois volunteer infantry, on May 18, 1862, and served until Aug. 18, 1865, taking part in many of the important bat- tles of the civil war. He was wounded in the Seven Days' Battle of the Wilderness and in the campaign about Vicksburg in 1864. He is now a member of the G. A. R.
Mr. Harrington was married Aug. 1, 1868, to Sarah M. Clark. To them have been born eight children, seven of whom are living. The names of the children, in the order of their birth, and their present places of residence are as follows: Leroy, died Jan. 28, 1886; Esther Jane (Mrs. John Gifford), Sibley, Iowa; Henry L., Lake City, Iowa; Norman, Ray, N. D .; Sarah May, Fargo, N. D .; Inez, Ray, N. D .: Roscoe C., Bigelow ; Lena Ray, Bigelow.
From Illinois Mr. Harrington moved to Iowa in 1884, and two years later he came to Bigelow, where he has since resided. Dur- ing the first seven years of his residence there he was engaged in farming and stock buying, since which time he has been a mail carrier.
GEORGE V. WEIDMAN, manager of the Greig & Zeeman elevator at Worthington, has lived in Nobles county nineteen years. Ile is a native of Stark county, Ill .. where he was born April 19. 1857. He lived in his native state over thirty years, fol- lowing the occupation of farming.
In the spring of 1889 MFr. Weidman came to Nobles county, hought the northeast quarter of section 12. Worthington town- ship, of S. S. Morton, and farmed the place five years. During his residence in the township he served as a member of the town board. After leaving the farm, he moved to Worthington and entered the em-
ploy of W. P. Devereaux & Co., hay deal- ers, with which firm he was associated five years. He next took employment with the Douglas Grain company, as manager of the Worthington elevator, and when that firm sold out to Greig & Zeeman in 1904, he retained his position . with the new firm. He sold his farm in 1905 and purchased residence property in Worthing. ton on Second avenue.
Mr. Weidman was married
in Stark county, Ill., Feb. 22, 1887, to Clara L. Joli. To them was born one child-Bernice J., born in Nobles county Aug. 9, 1890. Mrs. Weidman died March 20, 1891. Mr. Weid- man was married the second time at Worth- ington Dec. 10, 1898, to Anna D. Klasy, daughter of the late Thomas Klasy and Ersula (Marty) Klasy, now of Kermit, N. D. Her parents were pioneer settlers of Nobles county, having settled in the St. Kilian country in the early days, where her father was a homesteader. Mrs. Weid- man was born in Stillwater, Minn. To them have been born three children: Er- sula M., born at Worthington Jan. 18, 1900; Florence A., born at Rushmore Jan. 20, 1001; Walter, born at Worthington Jan. 18, 1903.
Mr. and Mrs. Weidman are members of the Presbyterian church of Worthington, of which Mr. Weidman is one of the trus- tees. He is also a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen lodges.
FRANK H. HORTON, son of the late Isaac Horton and Charlotte (Hare) Horton, and proprietor of the Round Lake blacksmith shop, is one of Nobles county's pioneers.
He was born at High Forest, Olmsted county, Minn .. Jan. 25, 1862, and in 1867 went with his parents to Spirit Lake. Towa. Two years later the family moved to Indian Lake township, in Nobles county, and there Frank has resided ever since. Until the spring of 1882 he resided on . the farm with his parents. He then took a position firing for the Omaha road, at which he was employed four months. During the winter of 1882-83 he worked in the Northern Pa- cific car shops at Brainard. For several years thereafter Mr. Horton worked sum- mers in the implement warchouse of J. D.
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Ilimi-ton at Worthington and put in the fall months threshing.
In 1994 Mr. Horton bought a half in- torest in a blacksmith shop at Round Lake, nd for seven years operated it in partner- ship with Fred Toel. At the end of that time he bought his partner's interest in the shop, and has since condneted the busi- news alone. His shop was destroyed by a new shop, 20x10 feet, in which he is still doing business.
Mr. Horton was married in Bigelow town- chip on July 3, 1897, to Jennie MI. Fulweiler. daughter of Alman Fulweiler, one of the pioneer settlers of Bigelow township. To them have been born the following children: Bernice, Leona, Earl and Loren.
MICHAEL J. MARTIN, Worthington mer- chant. has resided in Nobles county twenty- one years. He was born in Monaghan coun- ty. Ireland, March 23, 1870, the son of John and Rose (McCarville) Martin. John Martin was born in the county of Fermanagh. Ire- land. and his wife in the county of Monag- han. where they were married. They came In the United States in 1888, and for many years resided on a farm in Jackson county. three miles southeast of Brewster. Mr. Mar- tin now lives in Worthington with a daughter; his wife died Jan. 2, 1903, aged 68 years.
Mr. Martin of this sketch came to the l'nitod States from Ireland in the spring of 1887. and located first at Brewster. There for six years he was engaged in railroad work. He then purchased a farm in Hersey township, which he farmed for several years. Disposing of that he bought land in Lorain Inwnship, farmed there two years, and then traded his land for a stock of general mer- chandise in Worthington. Since December. 1906, he has conducted the store, which is rext door to the city hall.
Mr. Martin was married in Charleston, Mass .. Feb. 11, 1901, to Catherine Deighen. To them. have been born two sons - Fran- ris Joseph. born in Lorain township Jan. 26. 1903; Len Patrick, born in Worthington April 27. 1906.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Martin are members of the Catholic church of Worthington. and he is a member of the Catholic Order of Foresters and American Yenmen lodges.
CHARLES BRINKNOU'S owns and farms the northwest quarter of section 34, Dewald township, which has been his home for the last seven years. He was born in Clayton county. Iowa. Oct. 31, 1869. His parents were both natives of Germany, his father coming to America when eighteen years of age. Anton Brinkhous, the father of our subject, died Jan. 7, 1SS7. Augusta (Tucker) Brinkhons, our subject's mother, died Jan. 6. 1874.
Charles Brinkhons lived in his native county until 19 years of age. He secured a fairly good education, attending the
country schools of Clayton county, and for ten months heing a student at the high school of Dixon, Ill. He left his old home in December, 1888, and took up his resi- dence in Dawson county, Neb. For one or two years he worked for wages; then pur- chased land and engaged in farming until 1899. He sold out in Nebraska and moved to Doon, Towa. There he purchased a fur- niture store, which he ran about one year. He moved to Rock Rapids in 1900, farmed near that city one year and then came to Nobles county, purchasing the land upon which he has since resided. He engages extensively in stock raising.
Mr. Brinkhons was married in Dawson county, Neb., Jan 31, 1891, to Annie Kost- man. who was born in Clayton county, Towa. Oct. 3. IS71. To this union have been horn five children, all whom are living at home: Lilly, Freda. Katie, Ilulda and Amanda.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Brinkhaus are members of the German Lutheran church of Rush- more. Mr. Brinkhons has served as clerk of school district No. 89 ever since coming to the county. He served as assessor dur- ing the years 1906, 1907 and 1908.
HENRY H. MARTENS is one of the ex- tensive stockraisers and farmers of Lismore township. He owns the east half of section 28 and farms in addition to that the south- west. quarter of section 27. Ile is an ex- tensive feeder of cattle and hoge, shipping right car loads during 1907. He breeds Percheron horses. Shorthorn cattle and Ches- ter White lings.
Mr. Martens was born in Grundy county, Iowa, April 17, 1874, where he lived, attend-
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ing school and working on his father's farm, until he was twenty years of age. In March, 1894, he moved to Nobles county and bought his present farm, where he has since lived.
Our subject is one of a family of seven living children: Lou, Louise, Charles, Dora, Henry, William and Ella. The father of this family was John Martens, a native of Germany. He came to the United States soon after his marriage and settled at Free- port, Ill., where he lived nine years. He then moved to Grundy county, Iowa, where hc resided until his death in September. 1893, being 58 years of age at the time of his death. Our subject's mother is Fred- ericka (Miller) Martens. She lives in Los Angeles, California, and is 67 years of age. She owns 480 acres of land in Lismore town- ship.
Mr. Martens was married at Adrian Oct. 30, 1901, to Miss Fannie Oien, a native of Norway and the daughter of the late Peter Oien, who conducted a tailor shop in Adrian for so many years. To Mr. and Mrs. Mar- tens has been horn one child-Esther, born Fch. 18, 1903. Mr. Martens in a member of the Odd Fellows and Woodmen lodges.
MINOR G. INU'RD, proprietor of a Worth- ington livery barn and a buyer and shipper of horses, is a son of R. S. and Cornelia (Turner) Ilurd. of Worthington. He was born at Sandgate, Vt., May 9. 1879, and came with his parents to Worthington in the spring of 1885. where he has since ret sided. In August, 1900, he started in the livery business, and a few months later bought out the livery barn of Gray & Craig, just south of the Allen house, and has since conducted the barn.
Mr. Hurd was married in Canyon City, Colo., to Miss Emmogene Stoutemyer, daugh- ter of the late W. F. Stoutemyer.
FRED MEIER owns and farms 160 acres of land on section 30, Lorain township. a short distance southeast of Worthington. He was born in Hardin county. Iowa. June 13. 1874, the son of Fred and Mary (Raske) Meier, natives of Germany. The father died in Iowa March 30, 18SS; the mother is living with her son.
When four years of age Fred was taken by his parents to Franklin county, Iowa, which was his home until 1900. There he was raised on his father's farm and secured a common school education. After his father's death Fred worked out at farm work, and in 1895 hegan farming for him- self. Coming to Nobles county in 1900, he bought his present farm and has since made his home on it.
Mr. Meier was married at Sheffield, Iowa, June 4, 1903, to Amanda Krusemark, a native of Wisconsin. They are the parents of two children, Edna and Raymond.
JOHN R. SMITH owns and, in partner- ship with his sons, farms the northwest quarter of section 13. Worthington township. just north of the village of Worthington. IT is a native of Watertown, Jefferson county, Wis,, where he was born in January, 1845. He is of Duteh and Scotch descent. His father was Stephen VanRanseller Smith, who was born in Albany county, N. Y., in June. 1821. and died in June, 1898. His mother was Harriet (Rockwell) Smith, who was born in Albany county, N. Y., in Sep- tember, 1817, and died in 1882.
When the subject of this review was nine years old his parents moved to Albany county. N. V. After a residence there of one year the family again came west, and in the year 1856 located in Mitehell county. Towa. at a point which was then 110 miles from the nearest railroad. There he lived un- til 1879. He started to learn the miller's trade when he first arrived there and fol- lowed that occupation during the entire time he was there. For a part of the time he was an employe, and for several years was the owner of the mill at St. Ansgar. In 1879 Mr. Smith moved just over the line into Worth county and from that time to the spring of 1896 he engaged in farming. The next four or five years were spent in farming operations near Nora Springs. Floyd county. and then in Decem- ber. 1900, he came to Nobles county. bought a quarter section in Worthington town- ship, and has since been engaged in farm- ing there.
Mr. Smith was married at St. Ansgar, Iowa. in January. 1868, to Angusta A. Rogers, who died Dec. 23. 1902. To them
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were born the following children; Chann- cey, horn Jan. 24, 1870, died in 1894; Charles M., born May 1, 1873; Percy, born February, 1875; Robert, born 1882.
SEVERT M. SOREM, of Ransom township, is a son of Mons N. and Sarah (Ostram) Sorem, also residents of Ransom township. Both parents were born in Norway. the father in May, 1840. and the mother in 1836. They were married in their native land and came to the United States in 1867.
Severt was one of a family of six sons and three daughters born to these parents. This birth occurred in Norway on Sept. 30, 1866, only a few months before the family rmigrated to America. The first home in the new world was made in Grundy coun- ty. Ill., where for nineteen years the sub- jeet of this sketch resided on his father's farm and attended school. In 1885 the Sor- ems purchased the south half of section 21. Ransom township, then unimproved land. The next year they came west and Incated in Osceola county. Iowa-just across the state line from Ransom township. having also purchased a farm there. On the Jowa farm Severt Sorem lived six years, and then. in 1894, he bought the south half of the southwest quarter of section 16, Ran- som, erected buildings thereon, and farmed the place three years. Disposing of that property. he bought the east half of section 9, built upon and otherwise improved the place. and made his home there two years He then traded his property for western land. moved to the village of Bigelow, and for two years was engaged in buying stock and running a feed mill. During the next three years he farmed on rented land on seetion 19. In 1906 he bought the farm mpon which he has since resided-the north- west quarter of section 12, Ransom town- ship.
Mr. Sorem was married in Hamilton conn- ty, lowa, Dec. 22. 1896, to Miss Anna Hov- land, a native of Norway and the daughter of Edling and Gurd (Ostebo) Hovland. Mrs. Sorem came to the United States in 1894. and prior to her marriage resided in Story county, Iowa. Both Mr. and Mrs. Sorem are members of the Norwegian Luth- cran church at Ransom.
FRANK E. EGGLESTON, proprietor of the Worthington Hotel livery, is one of the carly day settlers of Nobles county and native of Minnesota. Ile was born a in Goodnue county Oct. 4, 1863, and with the exception of thirteen months spent in the state of Washington has been a resi- dent of the state ever since. His father was Mason O. Eggleston, who was born in Ohio Nov. 28, 1832, moved to Goodhue county in an early day, and to Nobles county in 1878. He was a large land own- er in Worthington township, and lived in Nobles county until 1891, when he re- turned to his old home in Goodhne county. where he died the following year. The moth- er of our subjeet is Mary W. (Bullard) E.g- glesion, who was born in Iowa April 21. 1840, and is now a resident of Worthington.
Frank lived in Goodhne county with his parents until 1878, and then came with them to Nobles county. In 1888 he took as a homestead the west half of the south- west quarter of section 26, Summit Lake township, upon which he lived and farmed until 1902. He then spent one year in the state of Washington. Returning, he located in Reading, bought a livery barn there and con- dueted it five years. He sold out in October, 1907, and moved to Worthington. In February. 1908, he purchased from J. W. MeBride the Worthington Hotel livery barn, and has since conducted it.
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