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In Benton county, Iowa, on February 12, 1891, the subject of this biography was joined in marriage to Sadie Gillespie, who was horn in that lowa county December 4, 1871, the daughter of Robert J. and Emma (Kuhn) Gillespie. Mr. and Mrs. Wil- son have nine children, their names be- ing Hugh, Archie, Gail, Grace, Leland, Dor- othea, Leslie, Lillian and Hollis.
LEE W. LOCKWOOD (1884) one of the owners of the Calumet, Pipestone's met- ropolitan hotel, has been identified with a number of successful husiness enterprises in that flourishing city. He is a native son of Pipestone county, his birth having occurred in the village of Edgerton on June 2, 1884. That town was his bome for the first seventeen years of his life. Lee acquired an education in the Pipestone high school and later completed a course in the Mankato Commercial college.
Our subject was only sixteen years of age when he commenced an active career in the world of business. At that time,
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in partnership with O. A. Green, he bought the plant of the Edgerton Enterprise, which was conducted by Green & Lock- wood with gratifying
success for two years. Lee disposed of his interest in the paper to Ed. Yocom. Immediately there- after he began his residence in the city of Pipestone. He was connected with the wholesale grocery firm of Hornby, Nichols & Parker in an office capacity and also as a traveling salesman for an extended period. He resigned his position with that company to engage in the retail grocery business in Pipestone, succeeding Phil Riley.
Mr. Lockwood's next venture was the development of the county's telephone sys- tem, through the Enterprise Telephone company, which engaged extensively in the work of construction. In company with his father, William Lockwood, our subject became the owner of the Laird- Norton stock of hardware, and the firm of Lockwood & Son, hardware dealers, was launched. Later Lee W. Lockwood became the sole owner of the large busi- ness, finally disposing of the store in July, 1909. While a hardware merchant he ac- quired a half interest in the Calumet ho- tel, an interest which he still maintains, his partner being F. E. Redner.
Lee Lockwood is heavily interested in Idaho real estate in the zone of the North Side Canal company, which embraces a territory of more that 30,000 acres of irri- gated land. With his father he has com- menced a development project that is meeting with most enthusiastic favor. A company has been organzed to assume the development of a townsite, which has been named Hazelton, in honor of the wife of our subject. Mr. Lockwood is directly in- terested in a bank and lumber business in the new town.
The parents of the subject of this review are William Lockwood, a native of Oswe- go, New York, and Ida May ( Burdett) Lock- wood. William Lockwood, who is an ex- member of the Minnesota legislature, be- came a resident of Minnesota in the early seventies. Ho was married to lda May Burdett in Dodge Center in 1878. She died in 1897. Lee is the only son. Wil- ilam Lockwood was one of the pioneer settlers of the Pipestone county village
of Edgerton, having located there in 1878, and was identified most prominently with the life of that town for many years. They moved to Pipestone in 1900. Mr. Lock- wood owns considerable valuable town property in Pipestone, in which is inchud- ed the ownership of the Calumet hotel building, and also has extensive real es- tate interests in the county, the northern part of the state, and in Idaho. In 1898 William Lockwood married 31. Estelle Hor- ton, a native of Oswego, New York.
In Pipestone, on June 17, 1908, Lee W. Lockwood was married to Hazel M. Funk, a native of that city. She was born on April 17, 1886, and is a daughter of Samu- el W. Funk, a pioneer resident of Pipe- stone and its city recorder for many years. One daughter, Beth, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Lockwood, on July 4, 1910. In a fra- ternal way our subject is affiliated with the Blue Lodge and Chapter branch- es of the Masonic order and with the Unit- ed Commercial Travelers. Of the last named lodge he is the part senior council- or of the Pipestone order.
CHARLES ZOBEL (1896), an Osborne township farmer, owns and resides on the northwest quarter of section 18. He is in- terested largely in the raising of thorough- bred stock, his specialty being Shorthorn cattle. He was born in Prussia, Germany, August 30, 1852, and is the son of a small farmer, who also did tailoring work.
Charles was reared on a farm and edu- cated to his native land, which continued to be his home until after his eighteenth birthday. Then he crossed the Atlantic alone to join a brother and sister, who had settled "ome years before in Lee county, Illinois. He engaged in farm labor in that county until 1885, going then to Tama coun- ty, lowa. There he rented land and farm- ed until 1896, the year of his settlement in Pipestone county. He has always lived on the same farm in Osborne township, land he bought three years previous to coming to the county. Mr. Zobel is a member of the German Evangelical church and of the I. O O. F. and M. W. A. lodges.
In Tama county, Iowa, on the ninth of March, 1881, occurred the marriage of Charles Zobel to Catherine E. Heckroth, who was born in Germany May 30, 1882,
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the daughter of Peter and Christina (Sig- man) Heckroth. One daughter, Christina Elizabeth, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Zobel, on April 2, 1882. She was married Decem- ber 4, 1901, to Robert J. Butts, of Edger- ton. Mr. Butts was born in Rushford, Min- nesota, July 7, 1872, and is the son of Rob- ert J. and Catherine J. (Miller) Butts, na- tives of Pennsylvania, early settlers of Fillmore county, and now of Bellingham, Washington. A son, named Charles Alvin Butts, was born to Robert J. and Christina Elizabeth Butts on October 5, 1910.
HENRY KELLEN (1890) is one of the progressive agriculturists of Burke town- ship, in which precinct he has maintained residence since 1890. He was born across the seas, in Luxemburg, on Febru- ary 24, 1865, the son of John and Mary (Syler) Kellen.
John Kellen, farmer by occupation, died at the age of forty-five years, when our subject was four years old. The mother of Henry Kellen died in 1900. She was seventy-two years of age at the time of her decease.
Henry grew to manhcod in the land of h's birth. He was reared a farmer's son, and in his youth was apprenticed to learn the blacksmith's trade, which he followed for three years before departing for the United States to make his home and for- tune. That was in the year 1886. Mr. Kellen was located near Dubuque, lowa, for a year, then was a farm lahorer in Sicux county for three years. He bought a portion of his present farm on section 36, Burke township, in 1889, but did not move to Pipestone county until the year following. The first summer in Minnesota he put in a crop in the locality of Lake Wilson, commencing at the same time to break his land in Pipestone county.
Until 1897 our subject farmed rented land in Burke in addition to his own place, and for the first few years was so engaged in partnership with a brother. He built on his farm in 1897 and has lived on the place continuously since that date. He now has a fine home and one of the pre- cinct's thoroughly improved farms. Mr. Kellen raises considerable stock, making a specialty of Shorthorn cattle. He has
for six years acceptably filled the office of clerk of school district No. 2I. Our subject was one of the organizers of the Farmers Elevator company of Woodstock and is the present secretary of that flour- ishing enterprise. With his family he be- longs to the Catholic church.
At Remsen, Jowa, on March 24, 1894, occurred the marriage of Henry Kellen to Annie Maus, also a native of Luxemberg. She was born on the twelfth of April, 1872. They are the parents of the fol- lowing named children: Henry John, born January 20, 1895; Mary Elizabeth, born March 23, 1896; Annie Cecilia, born July 11, 1897; Nick Anton, born December 24, 1900; Rosie, born April 13, 1903; and Le- nora, horn February 23, 1905.
WILLIAM RAE (1889) is one of the principal stockholders in, and the general manager of, the Jasper Stone Quarry com- pany, the concern which operates the ex- tensive quarrying interests in Jasper, the leading industry in Pipestone county's sec- ond town. Mr. Rae commenced lis resi- dence in Jasper during the year of its founding and has ever since been promi- nently identified in many of the movements that have contributed to its upbuilding.
native of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, William Rae first saw the light of day on May 24, 1869. In the land of his birth he received a common school education, at the age of seventeen he severed home ties and journeyed to America. For one year le was located at Holyoke, Massachu- setts, where he was employed as a painter in a sash and door factory. In March, 1887, Mr. Rae concluded his residence in New England and set out for the west. Dell Rapids, South Dakota, was his destl- nation, and there he spent two years fa- miliarizing himself with the many details of the stone cutter's trade.
When the quarries of the Sioux Valley Stone company, in which George Rae, the brother of our subject, was interested, were opened in the village of Jasper, then just coming into being, William commenc- ed an engagement with the new concern and has since been identified with the in- dustry through the successive changes in management. In 1896 a company, organ-
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ized as the Jasper Co-operative Stone com- pany, was formed by four of the Rae brothers, Andrew, Robert, William and Al- exander, and they leased the quarries for a term of years. William Rae served as secretary and treasurer of this company. The Jasper Stone Quarry company, in which the Raes are heavily interested, succeeded to the business in June, 1908. This company is capitalized for $50,000 and conducts its operations on an exten- sive scale.
Individually William Rae has developed another branch of the stone cutting indus- try in Jasper, that of the manufacture of granite and marble monuments. He has conducted this line of work, in addition to his other interests, since 1904. For a period of five years following 1895, Mr. Rae was absent from Jasper, during which time he was general superintendent of the granite quarries at Ableman, Wis- consin. During the absence, however, he continued his connection with the Jasper industry.
The parents of our subject were George and Barbara (Farquhr) Rae, who came to this country from Scotland in 1891. The mother died the year after settlement in America. but George Rae is still living and resides with his son Andrew in Jas- per. He has attained the age of seventy- seven years. The following ten children, all living, were born to George and Bar- bara Rae: James, of Newcastle on the Tyme, England; George, of Jasper; Mag- gie (Mrs. George Aitken), of Aberdeen, Scotland; Elizabeth (Mrs. Peter Gammie), of Miller Falis, Massachusetts; Andrew, of Jasper; Isabelle (Mrs. James Bain), of Sidney, Australia; Alexander, of Jasper; William, of this review; Robert, of Jas- per; and Barbara (Mrs. William Crisp), of Dell Rapids, South Dakota.
At Jasper, on January 12, 1894, William Rae was united in marriage of Isabella Knutson, who was born in Norway and at the age of six months immigrated to America with her parents, Ole and Martha Knutson. The family resided for a num- ber of years at Jefferson, Wisconsin, and in 1882 moved to Moody county, South Dakota. Ole Kmitson homesteaded land in that county six miles northwest of the future town of Jasper, and on that land
he has since resided. Mrs. Knutson died
1890. Mr. and Mrs. Rae are the par- ents of four sons: Chester, born July 1, 1896; Donald, born January 24, 1900; William H .. born February 28, 1904; and James M., horn Jannary 7, 1907. Our sub- ject holds membership in the order of Modern Woodmen of America.
WILLIAM H. GARLICH (1905) owns and farms the west half of section 35, Sweet township, and is a large breeder of cattle and hogs. He was bern in Washington county, Illinois, January 4, 1878, the son of John R. and Marie (Niehauser) Garlich, who were also natives of Washington coun- ty. The former parent is deceased, but the mother still resides at Addieville, IlIi- ncis. Besides William H. of this sketch, there were five other children born to these parente. Their names are Anna, Ka- tie, Minnie, John and Fred.
Our subject was educated in the district schools of Washington county and grew to manhood on his father's farm. For three and one-half years after attaining his ma- jority he traveled and worked in the south and northwest, principally in the states of Oklahoma, Minnesota and Montana. On re- turning to Illinois, he set up as an inde- pendent farmer. In 1905 Mr. Garlich set- tled in Pipestone county. He rented the half section he now owns, and which be- came his property in 1910.
Anna Hagge became the wife of William H. Garlich at Pipestone on March 8, 1904. To them have been born two children, Olinda and Alfred. Mrs. Garlich was born in Germany but came to this country with her parents in early infancy.
EDWARD ZIMMERMAN (1898), a gen- eral merchant of the town of Hatfield, is a native of Floyd county, lowa, where he was born the tenth of March, 1878. He is one in a family of five sons and two daughters born to Martin and Louise (Kemnetz) Zimmerman, of Hatfield. Both parents were born in Germany and were mar- ried in this country, to which they came early in life. From an original set- tlement in Wisconsin in the early seven-
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ties, they moved to Floyd county, lowa, where the father farmed for many years.
Edward was educated in the country schools of his native county. At the age of twenty, with his parents, he located in Pipestone county. He farmed with his father in Burke township for several years and then moved to Hatfield, which has since been his residence. For a year he engaged in carpenter work, then bought the general n erchandise business of John Hau- brith, which he now conducts. He owns the building which houses his business.
Alvina Dittburner became the bride of Edward Zimmerman in June, 1900. Mrs. Zimmerman is a native of Germany, but came in early childhood to America with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F'red Dittburner, early settlers of Pipestone county. To these parents the following four children have been born: Lettie, Harry, Eli and Leslie. Mr. Zimmerman has served on the board of school district No. 13. He holds membership in the order of Modern Woodmen.
DR. HERBERT D. JENCKES (1889), a practising physician and surgeon of Pipestone, has been a resident of the county for twenty-one years, or since July, 1889. His birth occurred at Dansville, New York, the first of August, 1850. He was three years of age when he moved west with his parents and located with them on a farm in Dane county, Wisconsin, a short distance north of Madison. The family re- sided on the farm ten years; then until he was a young man, Herbert lived in different towns of the state to which his father, a Methodist minister, was assigned.
After completing the course of the public schools our subject was a student at the state university, and in 1884 was gradu- ated in medicine from the Chicago College of Physicians and Surgeons. Immediately after graduation Dr. Jenckes located in Lake Benton, Minnesota, for the practice of his profession. In 1885 he was called to Minneapolis to become the head physician in the St. Anthony hospital. On relinquish- ing that position he moved to Jasper, where he practised medicine for ten years, until establishing his present residence in Pipe- stone. Dr. Jenckes is the physician for the
government Indian school at Pipestone. He has an office in the Syndicate block. He is an ex-county coroner and for two years filled the office of judge of probate.
The doctor is one in a family of four children, the names of the others being Walter C., Judd C. and Mrs. Stella Calvin, Who were born to Hiram D. and Anne M. (Larish) Jenckes. Hiram D. Jenekes, who was born at. Sparta, New York, February 2, 1826, is still living at Marshfield, Wiscon- sin, and is in his eighty-fourth year. The mother died in 1893 at the age of sixty- nine. She was born in Easton, Pennsyl- vania, in 1821.
The Jenckes family trace their history back to the seventeenth century. The fol- lowing concerning one of the family is gleaned from an old public document which discussed the mineral resources of New England: "1675-Rhode Island made iron soon after its settlement in 1636. A forge erected at Pawtucket by Joseph Jenckes, Jr., was destroyed by the Indians in the Wampanoag war." The great great grand- father of Dr. Jenckes, Dickinson Jenckes, a native of Rhode Island, served through the revolutionary war. The father of this patriot was Jeremiah Jenckes, born in 1714.
At Lake Benton, Lincoln county, on May 14, 1883, Dr. Jenckes was married to Anne Stewart Matthews, who was born at Min- eral Point, Wisconsin, in January, 1859. A daughter, Stella, born to these parents died July 7, 1900, at the age of fifteen years. They have one son, Earl D., a student at Macalaster college. Dr. Jenckes is affili- ated with both the Blue Lodge and the Chapter of the Masonic order, and with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
CHRIST MADSEN (1899), prominent Aetna township farmer and stock raiser is the owner of 280 acres of that precinct's fertile soil, part of which is located on sec- tion 16 and the remainder on section 9. A native of Svendborg, Denmark, Christ was born March 6, 1862, the son of Christ and Sophia (Viborg) Madsen. His father was a blacksmith by occupation and in that trade our subject became thoroughly versed in his youth. At the age of twenty he severed home ties and immigrated to
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the United States. He made Ford county, Illinois, his destination, and after working out on farms for several years hie rented land and for eleven years farmed there on his own account. From Illinois he moved to his Pipestone county farm in 1899.
Mr. Madsen is a member of the Aetna township board of supervisors and also of the board of directors of his school dis- trict. He is a stockholder in the Farmers Elevator company of Ruthton. Fraternally he is a Modern Woodman, and with his family he belongs to the Danish Lutheran church.
On December 10, 1887, in Ford county, Illinois, occurred the marriage of Peter Madsen to Charlotte Nelson, a native of Sweden. She was born on the third of December, 1864, the daughter of Nels and Sarah (Swenson) Nelson. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Madsen: Marie, born September 4, 1888; Harry, born June IS, 1890; Christ, born March 4, 1893; Rinus, born January 5, 1897; and Carl, born October 3, 1901.
HENRY J. HANSEN (1893) is the lead. ing general merchant in the town of Tros. ky. He is a native German and was born in Schleswig November 6, 1865, the son of Hans and Christina (Hering) Hansen, both deceased. Hans Hansen passed away at Pipestone in 1894 and his wife in the old country in 1873.
Henry received a common school train- ing and learned the trade of printer in the land of his birth. He was seventeen years of age when he crossed the Atlantic and became a subject of Uncle Sam. For the first year he worked in a printing of- fice in Dysart, Tama county, lowa, and for the next six months was employed in Des Moines. He then returned to Tama coun- ty, where he resided until 1893, work- ing at farm labor, on the seetion, and in a brick yard. During the year mentioned Mr. Hansen settled in Pipestone county. For four years he farmed and for a year elerked in a Pipestone store. For five years thereafter he was in the employ of Ilawes & Houg at Luverne. He then en- gaged in the general mercantile business in the city of Pipestone, and in 1907 ne established his present substantial
business in Trosky. He conducts a cream station in connection.
Mir. Hansen was married in Luverne March 31, 1906, to Mrs. Othilie Solberg, a native of Moss, Norway. She came to the United States in 1887. By her first mar- riage Mrs. Hansen has four children: Jen- nie, Lilly, Viola and Raymond. Our sub- ject is a member of the village council, the German Lutheran church and the M. W. A. lodge.
BOJE PAULSEN (1896) is numbered among the prosperous and successful agri- culturists of Troy township, in which pre- einct he owns 240 acres of choice land. Mr. Paulsen has never regretted selecting Pipe- stone county as a permanent home. His farm is thoroughly improved and hears substantial buildings, including a fine farm residence.
A native of Holstein, Germany, the sub- ject of this biography was born December 4, 1860. His father, John Paulsen, who died April 15, 1891, at the age of seventy- seven years, in the same house in which he was born, was of the seventh generation of the Paulsen family to reside on and operate the same piece of land in the province of Holstein. Lena (Went) Paulsen, the moth- er of our subject, died March 23, 1863.
Until the year 1885 Boje Paulsen's des- tiny was shaped in the land of the kaiser. He attended the common schools and re- sided on the home larm until sixteen years of age. Then he commenced to work as a miller, an occupation he followed continu- ously until his departure for America. He landed in New York on May 22, 1885, and immediately thereafter located in the town of Keystone, Benton county, Iowa, where until 1890 he was connected with a flour- ing mill. In the year mentioned Mr. Paul- sen commenced his career as a farmer in Sioux county, Iowa. Six years later he became identified with Pipestone county interests, buying the northwest quarter of section 2, Troy township, at the time. In 1902 he added to his original holding by the purchase of eighty acres on section 3. Our subject has for twelve years served as director of school district No. 9. He holds membership in the M. W. A. lodge at Cazenovia.
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In the final month of his residence in Germany, on May 5, 1885, Mr. Paulsen was married to Augusta Moeller, who was born April 6, 1864. They have the follow- ing five children: Walter Il., born De- cember 6, 1886; Hattie, born May 5, 1889; John H., born March 14, 1893; William B., born March 21, 1895; and Gustav H., born September 23, 1897. Walter H. Paulsen is a graduate of the university of Minne- sota.
WILLIAM A. NATZKE (1882), of Eden township, was born and has passed his entire life on the farm he now conducts, the northwest quarter of section 12, range 47. His parents, John and Emma (Lange) Natzke, natives of tilinois and Wisconsin, respectively, moved to Pipestone county in pioneer days and proved up on the farm described, which they bought as a relinquishment. William was born Febru- ary 25, 1882, and was educated in the nearby district school. He assisted his father in the management of the home farm until 1904, since which time he has rented and farmed the place on his own account. Mr. Natzke believes firmly in raising only the highest grades of stock. He makes a specialty of Shorthorn cattle and Chester White hogs.
At Cedar Falls, Iowa, on September 28, 1905, Mr. Natzke was joined in marriage to Dora Feist, who was born in Black- hawk county, Iowa, January 20, 1880, the daughter of Charles and Minnie Feist. Charles Feist was born in Pennsylvania, his wife in Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Natzke are the parents of two children: Harold, born March 3, 1907, and Roland, born February 26, 1910. Our subject is a mem- ber of the Evangelical church. He has served for three years as the clerk of school district No. 53.
PATRICK JAMES HARTIGAN (1879), of Woodstock, is one of Pipestone county's pioncer settlers and one of the first to homestead in Burke township. In many of the stirring events of the formative period of the county's making, Mr. Hartigan was an active participant and shared with other
sturdy pioneers the hardships in the days of adversity. Not alone of Pipestone coun- ty, but of the state of Minnesota, is he an early rezident, as he dates his settle- ment in the state from 1861. A native of county Limerick, Ireland, our subject was born on Christmas day, 1839, the son of John and Ellen (Kane) Hartigan. The former parent died in London, England, and the mother is buried in Wabasha coun- ty, Minnesota.
Patrick J. Hartigan was an eight year old lad when he moved with his parents to London, England, where he passed seven years of his youth. At an early age he 'learned the floor cloth printing trade, which he followed until embarking for the United States in 1854. He located in St. Lawrence county, New York, where he farmed until his westward move to Wa- basha county, Minnesota, in 1861.
Atter e ghteen years of farming in east- cra Minnesota, Mr. Hartigan in 1879 com- iconced his successful career in Pipestone county. He tock as a homestead claim the southeast quarter of section 34, Burke township, where he lived for nearly a quarter of a century, and in that time built up one of the finest improved pieces of farm property in the precinct. He set cut one of the first groves in the township and is credited with being the builder of the first roads while serving as the town- ship's first road overseer. For many years he was a member of the board of trustees of Burke townchip.
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