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Accompanied by his bride, the young stone cutter returned to America and to his employment in Sioux Falls. From that point he went to Dell Rapids, in the same vicinity, where he worked at his trade un- til he became identified with the stone in- dustry at Jasper, his home since the year of the town's founding. Mr. Rae has always been a zealous booster for his home town and has devoted much of his
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energy in the promotion of every worthy enterprise that has meant for Jasper's ad. vancement. He was for four years a mem- ber of the village council, and he is at the present time chief of the fire department and president of the Commercial club, an active agency in the town's material wel- fare. Mr. Rae is a prominent member of the Presbyterian church, an organization of which he has served as trustee for the past nineteen years. In a fraternal way he is affiliated with the Blue Lodge of the Masons, of which he is pastmaster, is a member of Triune Chapter No. 51, R. A. M., of Pipestone, and of the Eastern Star, which he serves as worthy patron; the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Broth- erhood of America lodges.
CHARLES W. DENHART (1882), a gro- cer of Pipestone, has been a resident of the county for all except the first five years of his life. He is the son of John Denhart, a Pennsylvanian hy birth, who moved at an early day to Stephenson county, Illinois, where he was married to Emma Babcock. In 1882 the family became residents of Pipestone county and have continued so to this date. Besides Charles there is another son, Frank, and a daughter, Myrtle Krull, in the family, and they are also residents of Pipestone.
Stephenson county, Illinois, is the place. and September 18, 1877, the date of the birth of Charles W. Denhart of this review. Coming to Pipestone county five years after his birth, he lived on the Elmer town- ship farm of his father until eighteen years of age. Then he located in Trosky, where he clerked in a store until 1900. At that time he moved to Pipestone and bought a half interest in the grocery business of J. Il. Parker, which was then located in the building now occupied by the Fair store. The firm of Parker & Denhart continued for a year and a half, when Mr. Parker sold to John Denhart, the father of our subject. Charles bought his father's interest in the business in 1908 and has since conducted the store under his own name. Denhart's grocery has occupied its present location since 1904.
At Trosky, on May 3, 1899, Mr. Den- hart was joined in marriage to Mary Corey,
the daughter of A. P. Corey, of that Pipe- stone county village. Mrs. Denhart was born in Sioux county, Iowa, October 19, 1879. One daughter, Irma M., was born to these parents, on July 3, 1901. Our subject holds membership in the Odd Fellows (Can- ton and Encampment) and Workmen lodges.
ELMER C. VAUGHN (1890) is manager of the branch yard of the A. Pilling Lum- her company at Hatfield, the headquarters of the concern being at Edgerton. He was born in Mankato, Minnesota, on the last day of October, 1885, and four years later moved to Edgerton with his parents, who are Clark and Christina Vaughn, now resi- dents of Seattle, Washington. Elmer is the only sou, but he has a sister, Maud Vaughn.
Our subject was educated in 'the public schools of Edgerton. He early acquired a more than local notoriety as a base ball player, and for several seasons he earned a livelihood as a salaried ball player. He was signed by the Flandreau and Belle 1908 season. Fourche, South Dakota, teams during the He accepted his present position and moved to Hatfield in June, 1909. The Pilling company carries a stock of hardware and other merchandise at its Hatfield branch. Mr. Vaughn is also the postmaster of Hatfield. He is a member of the K. P. and M. W. A. lodges.
At Edgerton, on July 3, 1907, Elmer C. Vaughn was united in marriage to Ida Mary Glass, who was born at New Hamp- ton, lowa, February 28, 1866. A daugh- ter, Beaulah, was born to these parents, on May 23, 1908.
FRED WIEGERT (1886), who owns and successfully farms a quarter of section 24, range 47, Sweet township, has been a resident of Pipestone county for a quar- ter of a century. A native of Rochester, New York, he was born August 18, 1867, the son of Frederick and Henrietta (Koep- ing) Wiegert, natives of Germany. Both parents are deceased, Frederick Wiegert having died March 19, 1909, and his wife August 18, 1906.
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During the infancy of our subject the family moved from New York to Free- port, Illinois. On a farm in that locality Fred was reared, and his education was secured in the near by district school. 1886 the Wicgerts became residents oľ Pipestone county. They located on the farm in Sweet which the father had bought, the one now conducted by our sub- ject. He lived at home until his marriage in 1893. He then rented fand in Sweet township for six years, at the end of that time buying an eighty acre farm on sec- tion 18, upon which he lived until the spring of 1911. Then Mr. Wiegert moved to the farm formerly owned by his father. He was for two years the clerk of school district No. 8. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Odd Fellows of Pipestone.
At Pipestone, on May 18, 1893, occurred the marriage of Fred Wiegert of Lillian Green, who was born in Warren township, Winona county, Minnesota, September 15, 1871. Mrs. Wiegert is the daughter of George D. Green, an ex-sheriff of Pipe- stone county, and Anna E. Green, of Pipestone, who was born at Racine, Wis- consin, January 5, 1840. The Greens were pioneer settlers of Sweet township, arriv- ing in the county March 23, 1879, At the time they homesteaded there were only two other settlers in a neighborhood of wide radins, Mr. Green, who was born in St. Lawrence county, New York, April 19, 1830, died May 17, 1898. Mr. and Mrs. Wiegert are the parents of six living children, as follows: George, born June 22, 1894; Edwin, born February 29, 1896; Lulu, born March 5, 1901; Erma, born De- cember 9, 1905; and William and Wilma, twins, born March 27, 1910. The third son, Henry Leslie, born December 23, 1897, died August 16, 1900.
DETLEF JURGENSEN (1892) has resid- ed on and farmed the northwest quarter of section 2i, Eden township, since 1892. His land is all thoroughly improved. A native of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Mr. Jur- gensen was born July 25, 1857. He is the son of Peter and Dorthia (Foss) Jurgen- sen, both of whom lived and died in the land of the kaiser.
Our subject was educated in the common
schools of his native land. Until he was twenty-six years of age he assisted with the management of the home farm. On sever- ing home ties, he crossed the Atlantic and commenced his career in the new world, Until moving to Pipestone county nineteen years ago, Mr. Jurgensen was a resident of Luzerne, lowa. He worked at tiling, farm labor, on the railroad and for the last five years of his stay there was section fore- man on the Northwestern railroad. Mr.
Jurgensen raises Shorthorn cattle. He
owns stock in the farmers' elevators at Jasper and Ihlen, and of the latter concern served as director for two terms. He is a director of school district No. 26 and a trustee of the German Lutheran church of Jasper.
Delef Jurgensen was joined in the bonds of matrimony to Emma Hanson in Benton county, Iowa, on July 14, 1887. Mrs. Jur- gensen was born in Germany. in 1853, the daughter of Hans and Catherine (Hanson) Hanson. To these parents have been born three children: Valte, born April 6, 1891; William, born April 21, 1892; and Roiv, born April 29, 1896.
THOMAS P. JENSEN (1896), well known farmer of Aetna township, became a resident of Pipestone county in 1896. A native Dane, he was born March 18, 1866, the son of Peter and Karen Margareta (Thomassen) Jensen. The former parent was born in 1840, was a laborer by occupa- tion, and died in his native land at the age of fifty-three years. The mother, who was born in 1839, still resides in Denmark.
Thomas was brought up in a small agri- cultural community and was educated in the Danish country schools. When of suf- ficient age he commenced to work out as a farm hand. He was twenty-five years old when he immigrated to the United States. He located on a farm near Tyler, Lincoln county, where he resided until 1896, when he became identified with Pipestone county interests. Mr. Jensen bought a homestead right to forty acres on section 2, Rock township, upon which he proved up and resided five years. He bought his present eighty acre farm on section 35, Aetna, in 1898, and on disposing of his Rock town- ship land in 1901 he moved to that location
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and has since substantially improved the place. He also farms eighty acres adjoin- ing his farm in Rock township. Our sub- ject is clerk of school district No. 34, and is the secretary of the Co-operative Creamery company of Ruthton. He is a member of the Danish Lutheran church and is president of the Danish Brotherhood lodge of Ruthton.
Before leaving Denmark, on December 8, 1888, Mr. Jensen was married to Sophia Ce- celia Nelson, who died July 13, 1895. Two children were born to this union: Nels Peter, born March 5, 1891, and Carl, who was born May 6, 1894, and died April 5, 1895. In Pipestone, on October 30, 1901, Mr. Jensen was joined in marriage to Anna
Elizabeth (Rasmussen ) Mathiesen, who was born in Denmark December 3, 1864. Mr. and Mrs. Jensen have had two chil- dren: Carl, born November 20, 1903, and WViggo, who was born July 8, 1910, and died January 26, 1911. Mrs. Jensen is the mother of two children by a former mar- riage. Their names are Edward Mathiesen, born July 26, 1897, and Harry Mathiesen, born June 10, 1899.
OLE H. GREGERSON (1888), who owns and farms the northwest quarter of section 34, Osborne township, has been identified with the agricultural interests of Pipestone county for the past twenty-three years. He is a native Minnesotan and was born in Fillmore county January 24, 1868. His fa- ther, Herbjorm Gregerson, settled in that county in 1851, among the very first, and died there in 1880. He was born in Norway in 1831. The mother of our subject, Gro Gregerson, also of Norwegian birth, died August- 2, 1870, a year and one-half after his birth. Mrs. Gregerson was born August 9, 1841.
Ole received a district school education and resided on his father's Fillmore county farm until 1888, the year he became twenty years of age. Then he settled in Pipestone county. For a decade he farmed land which he had bought seven miles south of Pipe- stone, and from there he moved to a half section farm he purchased in Osborne township, four miles cast of Edgerton. Two years later he disposed of that property and has since resided on the farm he now
owns, the northwest quarter of section 34. That became his property in 1902. Mr. Gregerson is a leading stock raiser and maintains herds of the highest grades. He belongs to the Norwegian Lutheran church of Edgerton.
At Ihlen, on November 23, 1891, our sub- ject was joined in the bonds of matrimony to Ingeborg Dorothy Ring, the daughter of N. ]. and Karen Ring, of Ihlen. Mrs. Greg- erson was born in Christiania, Norway, July 31, 1872, and came to the United States at the age of ten years. Five chil- dren, three of whom are deceased, have been born to these parents. The two sons living are Herman, born February 12, 1894, and Carl, born April 24, 1897. Nora, born March 22, 1905, died March 8, 1906; Lulu, born April 22, 1907, died July 25, 1907: and Eleanor, born April 21, 1909, died April 22, 1909.
CHARLES FRENCH (1891), a prominent citizen and farmer of Trosky, is a native of Oneida county, New York, where he was born June 6, 1851. He is the son of John and Elizabeth (Wenham) French, both na- tives of England, who settled in America about 1850. Both parents are deceased, the former having died in New York and the latter in Sioux county, lowa.
During his eighteenth year Charles French departed from his native state and moved to Blackhawk county, lowa, where he was a farmer for two years. Then for twenty years, or until 1891, he farmed in Sioux county, of the same state. In the year mentioned he came to Pipestone coun- ty and located on his present productive farm, the south half of section 16, Elmer township, land which lies within the cor- porate limits of the village of Trosky. He is also the owner of another eighty acres on section 16, making a total of 400 acres of which Mr. French superintends the cul- tivation. He has a finely improved farm, up-to-date in every particular. As a feeder and shipper of high grade stock, he has made a great success.
Mr. French has always taken an active interest in the civic and political affairs of his town and county and has been called upon repeatedly to give of his talent in the furthering of such interests. He was presi-
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dent of the Trosky village council for six years and a trustee for four years, and be served as a school director for eight years. He was also Trosky's postmaster for six years. Ever since coming to the country he has served as a member of the repub- lican county central committee. In lodge circles Mr. French is also prominent. He was instrumental in the organization of Trosky Lodge No, 213, 1. O. O. F., which re- ceived its charter in November, 1893; and also of Trosky Camp No. 3850, M. W. A. He was the first noble grand of the first named order.
In Sioux county, Iowa, on October 22, 1872, Charles French was married to Mel- lissa A. Burkett, who was born in lowa in October, 1856. To them eleven children have been born, of whom the following seven are living: Emma (Mrs. Alonzo Stew- art), Olie (Mrs. Charles Frankenberger), Ella (Mrs. Louis Nilson), Orphie, postmis- tress of Trosky; Essie, the deputy postmis- tress; Lester and Lila.
LOUIS BUCHHOLZ (1884), of Holland, is a native of Pipestone county and has spent his entire life within its borders. His par- ents, Christ and Molly Buchholz, are na- tives of Germany. They came to America early in life and were married in Grange township. For many years they resided on section 2, Grange, land which they took as a homestead in the late seventies. They now reside in Holland, their son, Henry, having taken charge of the farm. There are five sons in the family, and, with the exception of Louis, they all reside at home. Their names are Henry, Walter, Edward and Albert.
Our subject was born on the Grange township homestead October 20, 1884. He was educated in the district schools and until he was twenty years of age assisted with the work on the home farm. For a number of years thereafter he was em- ployed on other farms in the neighborhood. On May 24, 1910, he located in Holland and in company with William Roschke engaged in the pool hall and restaurant business. On October 5, 1910, Mr. Buchholz purchased Mr. Roschke's half interest and now con- ducts the business alone.
CLAUS BLOMGREN (1892) has resided in Pipestone county ever since becoming an adopted son of Uncle Sam. He was born in Sweden Decemebr 12, 1877, the son of Carl and Josephine (Anderson) Blomgren. Clans lived on the home farm until fourteen years of age, when he undertook the long journey to America alone. He came direct to Pipe- stone county and upon his arrival he took employment at farm labor. He was so en- gaged in Pipestone county until 1900, with the exception of two years spent in the western states and on the Pacific coast. He returned and in 1900 rented land and com- menced farming for himself. Since 1904 he has rented and worked the south half of section 33, Gray township. Mr. Blomgren owns stock in the farmers' elevator at Pipestone. He is a member of the M. W. A. and I. O. O. F. lodges and of the Swedish Lutheran church.
Our subject was married at Pipestone on October 9, 1903, to Emma Johnson, also a native of Sweden. She was born February 23, 1886, the daughter of John and Christina (Pearson) Johnson, Four children, three sons and a daughter, have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Blomgren. Their names are Clar- ence, born June 7, 1904; Evelyn, born Feb- ruary 28, 1906; Carl, born June 8, 1907; and llarry, born April 11, 1909.
SAMUEL W. FUNK (1880), recorder of the city of Pipestone for the past nine years, is one of the early day settlers of the county and city. He dates his residence in Pipestone from April 8, 1880. His par- ents, John C. Funk, a native of Guernsey, Ohio, and Nancy A. ( Walker) Funk, whose birth occurred in Christian county, Illinois, were early settlers of Shelby county, Illi- nois, where both resided until called by death, the former in 1905 and the latter in 1908.
Samuel W. Funk of this review first saw the light of day in Shelby county, Illinois, on January 28, 1860. At an early age he entered the employ of the Eagle Mills, and later assisted with the conduct of his fa- ther's farm. He was twenty years of age when he severed home ties and came to Pipestone. He learned the barber's trade in the shop of J. A. Cohb, who was of Span- ish descent and familiarly known as
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"Jack," his shop being located at the time on the site of the present First National Bank block. Mr. Funk bought out the busi- ness of his employer in 1891 and conducted the same for the next seventeen years, when he sold the Calumet shop, as it is known, to L. E. Krull. Since 1908 he has been employed as bookkeeper by the Minne- apolis Brewing company, in addition to his duties as city recorder. In a fraternal way our subject is affiliated with the K. P., I. O. O. F., Rebekah, M. W. A. and F. O. E. lodges.
In Pipestone, on April 27, 1885, Samuel WV. Funk was joined in marriage to May C. Smith, the daughter of Sam T. Smith and a native of Fillmore county, Minnesota. Three children have been born to this union: Hazel M. (Mrs. Lee Lockwood), of Pipestone; Archie, of Pipestone; and Franklyn S., who is with the Russell Miller Milling company, of Minneapolis.
EARL T. STUART (1882), of Aetna township, was born and has passed his entire life within the borders of Pipestone county. His father, Duncan Stuart, ex- commissioner of Pipestone county, was one of the very earliest of Sweet township's set- tlers. le homesteaded the northwest quar- ter of section 4, upon which he lived until his death, with the exception of three years spent in the city of Pipestone. Duncan Stuart was born in Ontario, Canada, Sep- tember 9, 1823, and died July 5, 1907. He grew to manhood in his native province, and for many years prior to his settlement in Pipestone county was a resident of Fill- more county, Minnesota. While living in that county he was married to Jenet Hut- ton, who was born in Scotland, near the city of Glasgow. Jonet (Hutton) Stuart survives her husband and makes her home in Spring Valley, Minnesota.
Four children were born to the parents, of whom two, Jennie (Mrs. S. B. Duea) and Norman, are deceased. Earl is the younger of the two surviving, the other member of the family being Mrs. William Brown. Ile was born on the old homestead in Sweet township September 19, 1882. He attended the district schools of his home precinct, the public schools of Pipestone, and later was a student in Brown's Business college of
Sioux City. He lived on the Sweet town- ship farm until twenty-five years of age, then until 1909 was a resident of Pipestone. That year he commenced farming in Aetna township. During the winter of 1909-10 Mr. Stuart was a stock-buyer in Ruthton. He bought his present eighty acre farm on section 22 in the summer of 1910 and bas since resided thereon. In addition to that land he also owns the southwest quarter of section 23, which he rents out, and has a controlling interest in a 240 acre Murray county farm, five miles east of Ruthton.
Earl T. Stuart was married in Troy town- ship March 11, 1909, to Rose B. Keller, who was born in lowa June 23, 1890. They are the parents of a sou. Gerald, born Septem- ber 29, 1910.
ALBERT GAMBER (1894) has for seven- teen years past reaped prosperity from Pipestone county's productive soil. He is the owner of 240 acres of section 32, Os- borne township, which he farms. Mr. Gam- ber is credited with being the largest cul- tivator of potatoes in the county. He is largely interested in the breeding of high grade stock and makes a specialty of Short- horn cattle and Poland China hogs. He feeds and ships all his stock.
A native of Rock Island county, Illinois, Albert Gamber was born July 29, 1857, a son of Nicholas and Christina (Linke) Gamber, both born in Germany. Father and mother are both deceased, the mother having died in Minnesota in 1902, and the father in Illinois in 1905. Our subject grew to manhood on his father's farm in Illinois. That he rented and commenced working for himself at the age of twenty-four, mov- ing to Minnesota in 1894. He then bought his present land in Pipestone county and has since lived thereon. Mr. Gamber is treasurer of school districts No. 50 and 52, and is a stockholder in the Farmers Ele- vator company of Edgerton. He is a mem- Der of the M. W. A. and K. P. lodges.
Albert Gamber was united in marriage at Rapid City, Illinois, on December 27, 1881, to Katerine Haller, a native of Germany, born August 22, 1859. She is the daughter of David Haller, who died in Minnesota in 1909, and of Katerine ( Wosner) Haller, who survived her husband and resides in Illi-
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nois. Mr. and Mrs. Gamber are the parents of the following children-nine boys-(two children passed away at the ages of one day and two days): Charles N., born July 13, 1883; David G., born August 27, 1884; Joseph J., born December 29, 1885; Gott- lieb G., born April 6, 1887; Albert F., born March 10, 1891; Andy G., born September 13, 1892; and Howard B., born January 28, 1901. The last named son died on July 10, 1910.
WILLIAM P. EGGERS (1893), one of Sweet township's progressive agricultur- ists, is a native German. He was born April 17, 1867, the son of John and Mar- garet (Disselkamp) Eggers. William was fourteen years of age when the family im- migrated to America and settled in Daven- port, Iowa. There they lived two years and then went to Dysart, lowa. On a farm in that locality Mr. Eggers grew to manhood.
In 1893 the Eggers moved to Pipestone county, the father, John Eggers, having bought the northwest quarter of section 34, Sweet township. That farm has been developed into one of the finely improved farms of the precinct. In 1901 William bought the southwest quarter of section 34, where he has since resided. Mr. Eggers raises a large amount of stock. He is treasurer of school district No. 24 and a stockholder in the Farmers Elevator com- pany of Pipestone and of Ihlen.
At Dysart, Iowa, on February 28, 1894, William Eggers was united in marriage to Annie D. Jessen, who was born in Scott county, Iowa, October 10, 1870, the daugh- ter of Hans and Anna (Jurgensen) Jessen. The following named six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Eggers: Theo- dore J. Eggers, born February . 10, 1895; Maggie D. Eggers, born April 30, 1896; Hilda E. Eggers, born May 2, 1899; Wil- liam H. Eggers, born March 26, 1901; Har- ry H. Eggers, born April 1, 1904; and Irene C. Eggers, born January 26, 1906.
SAMUEL T. MARSHALL (1887), a busi- ness man of Pipestone, has been a resi- dent of the county for nearly a quarter of a century. He is the oldest in a family of
five children, the others being John L., Wil- liam F., Louise K. and Eleanor J., who were born to the parents, John C. and Elea- nor C. (Young) Marshall. The father, John C. Marshall, came originally from Pert- shire, Scotland. Mrs. Marshall was born in New York state, of English parentage. They came to Pipestone county in 1887 and there both are buried.
In the town of Alderly, Dodge county, Wisconsin, on November 7, 1869, the birth of the subject of this review occurred. Samuel attended the village school and completed his education later in the Pipe- stone high school. He was eighteen years of age when the family moved to Pipestone county and located on a farm near Edger- ton. He assisted his father on the home farm until 1897, during which time he and his father were engaged jointly in breeding full blooded Galloway cattle and Percheron horses. Then for three years following he conducted the place himself. Mr. Marshall was married in 1901 and commenced farm- ing on his own account.
Two years later, in 1903, our subject re- tired from active farming and moved to the village of Trosky, where he bought the Bank of Trosky, a private banking institu- tion owned by Briggs & Evans, and this business he conducted two years. Mr. Mar- shall next moved to Jasper to engage in the hardware and implement business. After residing there a year he took J. P. Gregg as a partner in the business, and it was to him that he finally disposed of his Jasper interests in the fall of 1907. Immediately thereafter Mr. Marshall established his present residence in Pipestone. He dealt in buggies and vehicles until the spring of 1909, when he bought the farm machinery business of John Evan, combined the stocks, and now conducts a first-class es- tablishment.
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