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Mr. Eggleston was married in Summit Lake township Nov. 24, 1885, to Miss Sarah Peitis, who was born in Wi- nona county, Minn .. Oct. 7. 1865, and is the daughter of J. R. Peitis. of Summit Lake township, one of the early settlers of that township. Mr. and Mrs. Eggleston have been the parents of right children, as follows: John M .. born Dec. 15, 1886; Edward L., born Ang. 2. 1888: Nellie A .. horn March 27. 1890: Glenn R .. born April 18, 1893; Alice M .. horn Sept. 20, 1894: I.c W .. born June 5. 1902; Fred N., born Ang. 8, 1904. (died when four months old) ; Car- roll E .. barn Ang. 8. 1906. All the living children were born in Summit Lake town- ship except Lee W., who was born in To- ledo. Wash. Edward L., the second son, was married March 5. 1907, in Emma A. Dilly of Summit Lake township. and Nel- lie A., the oldest daughter, was married
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May 10, 1908, to Ralph B. Long, of Worth- ington township. They now reside in Worth. ington village.
HENRY A. BECKER, a farmer of Larkin townsbip, was born in Norway, Benton county, Iowa, Feb. 7, 1881, the son of Anton F. Becker and Mary (Brandenberg) Becker. The father was born in Germany in 1841, came to the United States in 1863, and lo- cated at Norway, Iowa, where he died June 13, 1902. He was a carpenter and architect, and followed those occupations during all of the time of his long residence there. He was the owner of 400 acres of land in Larkin township, .Nobles county, the same now being held by the estate. The mother of our subject was also born in Germany. She married Mr. Becker at Nor- way in 1880, and to them were born nine children, of whom the following eight are living: Henry A., Elizabeth, Frank, Mary, Rosa, George, Lawrence and Clements.
Henry A. Becker resided on his father's farm near Norway until his arrival in No. bles county on Feb. 28, 1903. He then pur- enased 240 acres in Larkin township, and has since been engaged in farming the place. He has erected new building and made many improvements on the place.
Mr. Becker was married in Benton count- ty, Iowa, Sept. 27, 1904, to Mary Stroemer. She was horn in Germany Nov. 3, 1887, came to the United States with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. August Stroemer, when seven years of age, lived a few years in Penn- sylvania, and then in 1896 moved with her parents to Iowa. Her father died in that state in 1904; her mother still lives, making her home with her children in Larkin town- ship. . Mr. and Mrs. Becker are the parents of two children, a boy, born April 3, 1906: and a girl, born July 2, 1908. They are hoth members of the Catholic church of Adrian.
CHARLES J. STRAMER is the proprietor of the Adrian photograph gallery. of which he became the owner in the spring of 1908. Ile was born in the city of Essen. Rhine province, Germany, April 3. 1883.
His father, August Stramer, was born Sept. 7, 1855. When nine years of age he
began work in Krupp's blacksmith shop, which was operated in connection with the famous Krupp gun works. For twenty- four years he was an employe of that es. tablishment, being foreman of one of the de- partments at the time of leaving their employ. Mr. Stramer assisted in the con- struction of the famous gun exhibited at the word's fair at Chicago-the largest gun ever built. He came to the United States in 1893, and for six months worked in a factory at Pittsburg. Then he moved to Benton county. Iowa, and engaged in farming. He died there June 6, 1903. The mother of our subject is Bertha (Oberthin) Stramer, who now resides on a farm in Larkin township. She was born Aug. 15, 1858, and was married to Mr. Stramer Nov. 29, 1879.
Charles Stramer came to the United States with his parents in August, 1893, and prior to 1907 made his home in Benton county. Iowa, where he lived on his father's farm. In 1900 he began working at the photograph business, and two years later ne opened a gallery in the village of Norway, in Benton county. He conducted that two years and then returned to the farm, continuing his photograph business there. He came to Nobles county in March, 1907, and for one year lived with his moth- er on the Larkin township farm. On March 20, 1908, he purchased Kinsey's gal- lery at Adrian and now conducts the busi- ness. He is a member of the Catholic church at Adrian.
TRWIN F. KELLEY, is a Worthington real estate dealer and produce commission broker, and has heen a resident of Worth- ington seven years. He was born in Bureau county, Ill .. Sept. 6, 1872, the son of E. J. and Margaret (Nelson) Kelley. now of Mitchell. S. D.
Until he was twenty-three years of age Mr. Kelley resided in the county of his hirth. During the last five years of his resi- dence in Bureau county ne was the mana- ger of a cold storage house. In 1894 he moved to Hartley. Iowa, where for two years he was engaged in the produce business, handling hutter, eggs. poultry. ete. He then went to Minneapolis, where he was engaged in the same business until the fall of 1901.
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On November 1, of that year, he came to Worthington and opened a produce establish nient, which he conducted until March, 1900. In the spring of 1903 he erected a creamery in Worthington, which he condueted in con- nection with his produce business.
Mr. Kelley was married at Spirit Lake, Jowa, in October, 1898, in May Kass. To them have been born three children-Mar- jorie and Dorothy (twins) and Waiva.
JOHN SCHULTZ is one of the early day settlers of Little Rock township and one of its substantial farmers. Ile owns the northeast quarter of section 7 and the south half of seetion 5, in Little Rock, as well as a half section in Traverse county.
Mr. Schultz was born in Germany Oct. 19, 1854. He was one of a family of eight children of Jacob and Gertrude (Kalten- berg) Schultz. The father died in Germany in 1862, aged 40 years. The mother died at the home of her son in Little Rock town- ship in December, 1894, aged 74 years. Mr. Senultz eame to the United States in 1872 and located in Dane county. Wis., where he farmed six years. le came to Nobles county in the spring of 1878 and located in Little Rock township. For the first year and a half he lived on scetion 17. Then he bought the northeast quarter of section 7, and has ever since made his home there.
In the village of Adrian on July 17, 1879, Mr. Schutz was married to Miss Lizzie Reifenberger, daughter of Nicholas Reifen- berger. To them have been born the fol- lowing cleven children : Nicholas, Mary, Henry. Caroline, Lena, John, Susie, Lco, Isadora, Martha and Leonard.
The family are members of the Catho. lie church and Mr. Schutz belongs to the St. Joseph's society. For a number of years he was one of Little Rock township's sup- ervisors and he was a director of school district No. 13 for several years.
ALFRED L. SWENSON owns and farms the southwest quarter of section 4, Bige- low township, his farm adjoining the vil- lage of Org. He was born in Carver county, Minn., on May 9, 1862. Ilis father was Swan Swanson, who was born in Sweden in
May, 1822, came to the United States in 1856 and became one of the pioneer set. tiers of Carver county, where he engaged in farming until his death, which oeeurred in September, 1888. The mother of our suh. jeet. Johanna (Nelson) Swanson, died in Carver county in April, 1905.
In Carver county Mr. Swenson seeured his education and grew to manhood. He learned the carpenter's trade and followed that occupation several years. He also beeame an engineer, and during part of the time dur- ing his residenec there ran an engine. A few years before leaving Carver county Mr. Swenson bought a farm and engaged in agricultural pursuits. Ile sold out his in- terests there in February, 1901, moved to Nobles county, bought his present farm of Fred Johnson, and has since made Bigelow township his home.
Mr. Swenson was married in Carver county on March 17, 1894, to Ilannah Abrahamson, a daughter of Piere Abraham- son. She was born in Sweden on June 14, 1867, and came to the United States in 1888. To Mr. and Mrs. Swenson have been born the following children: Herbert Benat, born Jan. 3, 1895: Gilbert Edward. born Aug. 8, 1896; Agnes Blanch, born Mareh 20, 1899: Ruth Addil. horn Sept. 5. 1900; Edith Dorothy, born Jan. 21, 1904. All the children were born in Carver county except the youngest, which was born in Bige. low township. The members of the fam- ily belong to the Swedish Lutheran church of Worthington.
WILLIAM BURCHARD is the senior member of the firm of Burchard & Peter- man, proprietors of the Worthington eream- ery. and is the manager of the plant. The company is cugaged in the manufacture of butter and ice cream, and the plant has a capacity of 10,000 pounds of butter per week. The firm also buys and ships poul- try and eggs, and does a large business in those prodnets. The junior member of the firm is W. IT. Peterman, who is also the owner of a creamery at Waconia. Minn.
William Burchard was born in Pries, Schleswig-holstein, Germany, Nov. 20. 1868. His father was Herman Burchard, who was a German soldier and a government officer in the fort at Friedrichsort. He died in
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Germany in 1886. The mother of our sub- ject was Margaret (Will) Burchard, who died in 1907. The subject of this review came to the United States in 1885, and in this country grew to manhood, attending the public schools and working at the creamery business. He worked in a cream- ery at Elgin, Ill., two years; at St. James, Minn., he was similarly employed one year, and then he went to Waconia, Minn., where for two years he was employed in a creamery owned by Hlenry Peterman, the father of his present partner. Going to New Germany, in Carver county, he erec- ted a creamery and went into business for himself, conducting the business seven years. Mr. Burchard came to Worthington on March 22, 1905, and in partnership with Mr. Peterman purchased the Worthington cream- ery, which he has since conducted. While a resident of New Germany he served four years as a member of the city council.
Mr. Burchard was married at St. James, Minn., in 1894, to Miss Annie Witte, a native of Elgin, Ill. To them have been born five children: Henry, Herman, Dora, Willie and Minnie.
CHARLES ROBERT SAXON, in company with his brother, Walter A. Saxon, farms the old Saxon homestead in Indian Lake town- ship. Hle is a native of Nobles county, hav- ing been born on the Indian Lake homestead of his father, Charles Saxon, on May 25, 1876. With the exception of six months' time that farm has been his home ever since his birth. Ile was united in marriage Nov. 8, 1905, to Miss Lizzie Larson, daughter of Lars Larson, of Indian Lake. One child, Charles Orval, has blessed this union. Mr. Saxon is a member of the Indian Lake Baptist church.
Walter A. Saxon was also born on the Saxon homestead, the date of his birth having been Feb. 12, 1879. Like his brother, Charles R., he has made that farm his home ever since his birth.
H. KLINKHAMMER, Grand Prairie township farmer, was born in Lesnenr county, Minn., Dec. 23, 1875, the son of Peter Klinkhammer and Johanna (Witt) Klinkhammer. Both parents were born in
Germany. The father came to the Uni- ted States in 1853 and located in Wiscon- sin. Later he moved to Lesueur county, Minn., where he still resides. The mother died in Lesueur county Jan. 14, 1894.
The subject of this biography was raised on his father's farm in his native county and there he received his education in the district schools. Peter Klinkhammer invest- ed in farming land in Grand Prairie town- ship, and in 1890 he and his son came to the county and spent that summer working the farm. Returning to the old home C. II. Klinkhammer engaged in farming there five years, and then came to Nobles county to make his home. Ife farmed here two years, then spent two years in Lesueur county. Returning again to Nobles county he has since made his permanent nome here. Ilis father owns the southeast quarter of sec- tion 3, thic southwest quarter of section 2, and the east half of the northeast quar- ter of section 3, and the subject of this sketch farms 280 acres of the land.
Mr. Klinkhammer was married at Ells- worth Oct. 9, 1900, to Miss Barbara Martini, daughter of Peter Martini. To them have been born the following children: Herman, Martha, Wilhelm and Endvina. Mr. and Mrs. Klinkhammer are members of the Catholic church of Adrian. He holds the office of township clerk, to which he was elected in the spring of 1908.
DOMINICK KELLEN, JR., of Olney town- ship, is a son of Dominick and Annie (Frisch) Kelen, of the same township, and was born in Houston county, Minn., Nov. 17, 1876. With his parents he moved to Minneapolis when a child, and after living there a few years the family moved to near Alton, Iowa.
He was raised on a farm and secured his education in the district schools of Sioux county, Iowa, and that of the Thom dis- triet in Olney township, to which place he came with his parents in 1891. Until 1899 Mr. Kellen resided on his father's farm, as- sisiing in the farm work and for a few years running a threshing machine. In 1899 he moved onto the place where he has ever since resided and in 1902 bought the prop- erty. In the spring of 1908, in partnership with Theodore Bullerman, he purchased the
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northeast quarter of section S, his home place being the southeast quarter of the same section.
Mr. Kellen was married in Arian Feb. 7, 1899, to Clara Bullerman, a native of Winneshiek county, lowa, and a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Buller- man. To them have been born the following children: Florian B., born June 15, 1900, died Aug. 5, 1900; Joseph, born Nov. 24, 1901, died April 21, 1904; Dominick F., born Nov. 26, 1903; baby girl, born March 19, 1906, died in infancy.
Mr. and Mrs. Kellen are members of the Adrian Catholic church and he is a mem- ber of St. Joseph's society.
AXEL WASS owns and farms the east half of section 9, Indian Lake township, and has been a resident of the county since 1885. lle was born in Norkopping, Sweden, Jan. 23, 1866, the son of Alfred Wass and Chris- tina (Peterson) Wass, now residents of Org. Axel lived in Sweden until sixteen years of age. He received his schooling there and when old enough to work engaged in fishing and farming. In 1882 he moved with his parents to America and located at Emmets- burg, lowa, where for three years he work- ed on the railroad. He then came to Nobles county and for the next few years worked for wages on farms in different parts of the county. His employers in the order of his service were Oliver Thompson, C. P. Shepard, Henry Haggard, N. N. Langseth, Henry Haggard, Peter Thompson. Oliver Thompson, Langseth Bros. Then, in partner- ship with his father, he spent one year farm- ing his father's land, section 8, Bigelow township.
In 1892 he bought the east one-half of section 9, Indian Lake, and has since been engaged in farming that land. He was mar- ried Jan. 10, 1894, to Hannah Ellingson. They have two children, Cora and Engvel.
FRANK DEAN. member of the Worth- ington grocery firm of Goff & Dean, has resided in Nobles county since he was nine years of age. lle was born in Boone county, Jil .. Ang. 27, 1875, the son of Geo. S. and Julia (Cornell) Dean. Ilis mother died in December, 1875, and his father passed
away at Worthington September 14, 1900, aged 15 years.
When Frank was between nine and ten years old he came with his parents to No. bles county, and for about six years lived with them on a farm in Seward township. lle then came to Worthington, and has lived in that city ever since. Hle secured his education in the Worthington public schools, devoting his winters to study and his sumu- mers to farm work. In 1894 he began clerking in the grocery store of W. W. Loveless, which position he held eight years. After giving up his position there he spent one summer on the farm, and then took a position with the C. L. Coleman Lumber company, with which he was connected one and one-half years. In the spring of 1900 he purchased James Gibson's half interest in the grocery firm of Goff & Gibson and has since been in the grocery business.
Mr. Dean was married in Worthington Jan. 10, 1906, to Miss Clara Gutzler. Both Mr. and Mrs. Dean are active members of the First Methodist Episcopal church o Worthington. -
S. Il. MeMASTER, of Kinbrae, was born in Vermont April 3, 1840, and there he passed his boyhood days, engaged in teach- ing school and farming. In the fall of 1861 he moved to Clayton county, lowa, and engaged in farming. In 1862 he enlisted in company B, First lowa cavalry. and served for eight months in the union army. lle then received an honorable discharge because of disability, and returned to his farming occupation in Clayton county.
Hle returned to his old Vermont home in the fall of 1866, where for several years ar was a sub-contractor, engaged in grad- ing railroads. In March, 1873, he went to Massachusetts, but the following year moved io l'olk county, lowa, where he resided until 1897. lle then moved to Fulda, and the next year look up his residence in Kin- brac, where he has since resided. and where he is now engaged in the grain business.
Mr. Medlaster was married in Vermont Fch. 28, 1860, to Miss Edna M. Ilunt.
DERK WESTENBERG. Leota township farmer, was born in Germany April 18,
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1859, the son of Garret and Jennie (Schiem- ing) Westenberg. The father was a sailor and ship owner. He died ju his native country iu 1867, aged 52 years. The mother came to the United States with her son and died in Michigan in 1898 at the age of 67 years.
Mr. Westenberg came to America in 1883 and located first in Michigan, where for five years he worked at the carpenter trade. He then moved to O'Brien county, lowa, where he bought a farm and engaged in agrienltural pursuits twelve years. During this time he spent nine months in Arkan- sas working at his trade. He came to No- bles county in April, 1900, bought his 320- acre farm on seetions 6 and 7, Leota town- ship, and has made his nome there since.
In Michigan ou May 13, 1883, Mr. Wes- tenberg was married to Truida Kleinheksel, a native of Michigan and a daughter of Henry and Jennie (Kromeyer) Kleinheksel. Mr. and Mrs. Westenberg are the parents of the following named children: John, born Jan. 10, 1884; Henry, born May 10, 1886; Jennie, born June 7, 1887; Annie, born Sept. 29, 1889; Dena, born Dee. 12, 1891; Tillie, born Oct. 10, 1896; George, born May 27, 1900; Josie, born June 11, 1902; James, born Jan. 22, 1905. The family are members of the Dutch Reformed church of Leota. Ile served a term as director of school dis- triet No. 59.
GEORGE C. BIXLER, assistant cashier of the State Bank of Lismore, is a native of Tennessee, having been born in William- son county Sept. 25, 1872. llis father, Joseph Bixler, was born in Pennsylvania, and died at Lemars, Iowa, in 1888, aged 54 years. Our subjeet's mother is Ellen (Candel) Bixler. She was born in Ohio and is now living at Highmore, S. D., at the age of seventy years.
When George Bixler was seven years of age the family moved to Forreston, Ill., and after a residence of seven years there moved to Lemars, Iowa. There he resided on a farm. He completed his education with a course in a Des Moines business college. In 1896 he went to Struble, in Plymouth county, lowa, and for seven years had em- ployment in a lumber yard. In the spring of 1904 he moved to Lismore and entered the employ of J. and W. C. Shull, lumber
dealers. One year later he accepted the position he now holds ju the Lismore bank.
Mr. Bixler was married in Madison coun- ty, lowa, Oct. 24, 1900, to Miss Louise Van Rossum, a native of that county and a daughter of Garrett and Cynthia Van Ros- sum. To Mr. and Mrs. Bixler have been boru two children-Gordon, born Sept. 28, 1903; Philip, born Sept. 12, 1906.
A. C. GRAF, owns and farms the south- east quarter of section 6, Larkin township. Ile has lived in the county ever since he was eleven years of age. He is the son of Emil and Frederica (Zeh) Graf, pioncers of Minnesota, as well as of Nobles county.
The subject of this biography was born at Marine Mills, Washington county, Minn., May 6. ISG8. Ile came to Nobles county with his parents in 1879 and for many years lived with them in Willmont township. He moved to his farm in Larkin township in 1899 and has lived there ever since. The farm which he now owns was first filed on as a tree claim and was later turned into a homestead. Mr. Graf has held the office of township clerk since 1901. He is a mem- her of the Odd Fellows and Woodmen lodges.
Mr. Graf was married at Osceola, Wis., in 1899 to Miss Emma Roettger, who was born at Stillwater, Minn., in 1876. To them have been born three children.
G. C. WINCHELL, manager of the Lam- pert Lumber company's yard at Kinbrae, was born at Broadhead, Green county, Wis., March 4, 1871. His father, G. A. Winchell, born in Vermont Dee. 15, 1842, and died in Salt Lake City in 1889, was a butcher and general merchant. His mother is Mary (Chase) Winchell, born in Kalamazoo, Mich., in 1852.
In August, 1871, the family moved from Wisconsin to Ilannibal, N. Y., to Sut- ton, Neb., in 1876, and to Idaho Springs, Col., in 1882, and in that city our subject was educated, supplementing a common seliool education with an architectural course in the International Correspondence School of Seranton, Pa., in 1902. From Colorado the family moved to Salt Lake City Dec. 16. 1889, and there the elder Win- chell died Dec. 22, 1889. On May 16, 1891, the
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subject of this sketch moved to llenderson, Neb., where he resided until in September, 1894. He then took up his residence at Ma- pleton, Minn., where he lived until Au- gust, 1004, when he came to Kinbrae, where he has since had charge of the Lampert Lumber company's office.
Mr. Winchell was married at Mapleton, Minn., June 5, 1901, to Miss Minnie F. Malenke, who was born at Norwood, Minn., in 1880. They are the parents of one child, a son born in February, 1903. MIr. Winchell is a member of the Methodist church and of the Odd Fellows and Wood- men lodges.
G. A. KELLER, farmer, stock raiser and fruit grower, of Willmont township, has lived in the county eighteen years. He owns and farms the northeast quarter of section 24, Willmont, and the southwest quarter of section 19, Bloom, and business property in Lismore village.
In the kindom of Saxon, Germany, Mr. Keller was born on Ang. 20, 1858. the son of Johann Christlieb and Christiana Will- helmina (Richder) Keller. The father was a knitter by trade, which trade he followed during his entire life. lle died in Germany in 1903, aged 73 years. llis wife pre- ceded him to the grave two years. She was 67 years old at the time of death.
The early boyhood of G. A. Keller was spent on a farm. When he was thirteen years of age he learned the knitter's trade, but did not follow it many years, and re- turned to farm work. At the age of twenty-four years he came to the United States, landing in New York April 3, 1892. During the first four years of his life in the new world he worked on a farm near Le- mars, Iowa, and for a few months there- after at different places in that vicinity. lle went to Osceola county, lowa, in the spring of 1887 and farmed a rented farin three years.
In the spring of 1890 Mr. Keller came to Nobles county and became a landowner. He bought eighty acres of land in Ransom township and farmed it seven years; then he moved to Willmont township and bought land there. Ilo has improved the place won- derfully and has one of the finest farms in the vicinity. lle engages extensively in
stock raising and has large numbers of cat- tle and hogs.
Mr. Keller was married in January, 1592, at Ellsworth to Enga Marie (Olson) Nelson, daughter of Ole and Martha Olson. She was born in Norway July 12, 1854, and came to the United States in October, ISS8. Mr. and Mrs. Keller are the parents of the fol- lowing children, all living at home: Mabel, born Nov. 15, 1892; Milo, born March 11, 1894; Clara, born May 14, 1895; Guy, horn Sept. 20, 1896; Alma, born March 5, 1898; Oscar, born June 20, 1899. Mrs. Kel- ler has a son by her first husband, who died in Norway.
HENRY BOECKER is a Westside town- ship farmer who lives four miles southwest Adrian. JIe owns the south half of section 35, which place has been his home for many years. lle is a native of Borken, Westfallen, Germany, where he was born on the 17th of March, 1846. Ilis father, llen- ry Boecker, died in Germany in 1883, and his mother, Johanna Catherine (Ilustede) Boecker, died in her native country in 1865.
In the land of his birth our subject re- sided until the year ISS1, working on the farm and in the timber. On August 29, ISS], he landed in New York, determined to make his future home in the new world. lle went at once to Winona, Mlinn., where a rel- ative lived, and after stopping there a couple of weeks, came to Nobles county, his al - tention having been called to this country through the advertising of the Catholic Colony company. Ile at onee bought a quar- ter section of his present farm, later buying the other quarter. The land was all prairie at that time and was without im- provements, and for it he paid only $8.50 per aere. During the first winter Mr. Boecker lived in the village of Adrian, but in the spring of 1882 erected buildings and moved onto the farm, where he has resided ever since.
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