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In 1902, after many years of faithful en- deavor, Mr. Hartigan retired from active work on the farm and settled in Woodstock, which is still his home. He was engaged for three years in the saloon business, in a building he erected for the purpose. He then became the street commissioner of the village, serving in that capacity for a year. He is now engaged in the manage- ment of a billiard hall and soft drink em- porium in the building formerly occupied by the saloon.
The year before leaving St. Lawrence county, New York. Patrick J. Hartigan was wedded to Julia Sullivan, also a native of the Emerald isle. This union has been blessed by the birth of seven children, five sons and two daughters, two of whom, John and Julia, are dead. The living children
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are Michael, William, James, Patrick and Mary. The family are members of the Catholic church.
EDWARD L. READER (1886) is one of two brothers-the other being Leonard J. Reader-who have been highly esteem- ed citizens of Pipestone for a quarter of a century and from small beginnings have built up a business that is unrivalled in magnitude and completeness by any simi- lar concern in southwestern Minnesota, ontside of Mankato. Their line is plumb- ing, heating, windmills and pumps, a busi- ness they were literally born into and which they learned the mastery of in the shop and under the tutelage of their fa- ther. Leonard J. Reader settled in Pipe- stone in March, 1886, and formed a part- nership with Martin Mulville. Edward L. Reader came in Angust of the same year, bought Mr. Mulville's interest in the new- ly established business, and since then, as Pipestone has grown and developed, so has the Reader Brothers' establishment. Their present commodious two story shop and sales rooms was erected in 1896. All the big plumbing contracts in the city, including the work at the court house and the government Indian school, have been entrusted to this enterprising and capable firm.
At Delevan, Walworth county, Wiscon- sin, on the natal day of our nation, July 4, 1865, occurred the birth of Edward L. Reader. In that town he was educated and learned the ins and outs of the plumb- er's trade from his father. In the first year of his manhood he moved to Pipe- stone and has since been engaged in a prosperous career. The parents of our subject, John J. and Charlotte (Williams) Reader, have resided in Walworth county, Wisconsin, since 1837 and are still hale and hearty at the ages of eighty-three and eighty-one years, respectively. The father is a native of Oneida county, New York, while the mother was born in Pennsyl- vania. Six children were born to this venerable conple, all of whom are living and married. They are lda M. (Mrs. James Davidson), of Delevan; Leonard J. and Edward L., of Pipestone; Amos H., of Delevan; John B., of Delevan; and
Gertrude L. (Mrs. Clarence Ingalls), of Chicago.
Edward L. Reader was married in Pipe- stone on December 3, 1891, .to Nellie L. Kepner, a native of Rochester, Minnesota, where she was born January 2, 1866. Two daughters have been born to this union: Marian G., born September 8, 1895, and Madeline J., born April 18, 1898.
Leonard J. Reader is the elder of the two brothers and was born in Delevan March 17, 1855. tn that town he was reared and married. His marriage to Agnes L. Rogers, a native of New York, occurred February 1, 1882. The date of her birth is April 10, 1853. One son, Rob- ert C., who is in the employ of bis fa- ther's firm, was born to these parents November 9, 1882.
Having fallen a victim to rhenmatism, Mr. Reader generally spends the winter months in California as a relief from the malady. He is a member of the Odd Fel- lows lodge.
ABRAHAM H. BELLAND (1899), who owns and farms the southwest quarter of section 2, Eden township, has resided in Pipestone county since he was eighteen years of age. His parents, Halvor and Bertha (Donhowe) Belland, natives of Nor- way, on coming to America settled in Story county, lowa, where the subject of this re- view was born on March 19, 1881.
Abraham attended the district schools of his native precinct. In 1899 the Belland family hecame residents of Pipestone coun- ty, the father having bought the southwest quarter of section 2, Eden. Onr subject assisted in the management of the home farm until 1905, in which year he moved to the village of Ihlen, where he had bought an interest in the Ihlen Mercantile com- pany. He was connected with that con- cern for eighteen months; then for a year and a half he was employed by the Dahlmeier Bros. Lumber company. He bought the home farm in 1907, upon which he has resided since the spring of 1910. Mr. Belland is a member of the Norwegian Lutheran church.
At Ihlen, on November 25, 1908, Abra- ham Il. Belland was joined in the bonds of matrimony to Margaret Larson, a na-
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tive of Pipestone county. She was born June 3, 18SS, the daughter of Erick R. and Bertha (Egeland) Larson, of Eden. To these parents one child, Opal, was born, March 3, 1910.
H. JACOB BOTH (1898), farmer of Al- tona township, has been for thirteen years a resident of the county. His parents, Jacob and Margretta Both, natives of Germany, resided for many years in the Iowa counties of Tama and O'Brien, later establishing the family home in Pipestone county, where both are now buried. Jacob Both died in October, 1909, having sur- vived his wife four years. Mrs. Both's death occurred in November, 1905.
In Tama county, Iowa, on February 3, 1878, the subject of this biography com- menced his earthly career. Jacob was seven years of age when the family moved to O'Brien county, where bis schooling was acquired. Jacob Both, senior, bought the northeast quarter of section 17, Al- tona, in 1897, and a year later he departed from Iowa and made settlement on the Pipestone county land. On coming of age our subject commenced working out at farm lahor, and in 1904 he rented the home farm of his father and has since conduct- ed it. Mr. Both owns stock in the Farm- ers Elevator company of Ward, South Dakota.
At Pipestone, on November 30, 1904, H. Jacob Both was joined in marriage to Emma Tank, the daughter of John and Dora Tank, of Pipestone. Mrs. Both was born March 30, 1884.
OSCAR A. GREEN (1885), who is the able editor and manager of the Edgerton Enterprise, has been a resident of tbat vil- lage for all except the first four years of his life. His birth occurred at Clinton, Iowa, March 13, 1881. His parents are Frank and Thea (Moe) Green, natives of Sweden and Norway, respectively. They were married in Clinton, Iowa, where they lived until 1885, since which time they have been respected residents of Edger- ton. Mr. Green is now in his sixtieth year, and his wife is two years younger.
They have a second son, Ernest W., of Willow Lake, South Dakota.
Oscar was educated in the schools of Edgerton and early commenced acquiring the fundamentals of the art preservative in the office of the Enterprise. He was employed for a time at the printer's trade in Pipestone; then in 1900, in com- pany with L. W. Lockwood, he bought the Enterprise, the partnership containuing four years. At the time of taking posses- sion of the paper, Messrs. Green and
Lockwood enjoyed the distinction of being the youngest editors in the state, the for- mer being nineteen and the latter seven- ·teen years of age. Mr. Lockwood disposed of his interest in the publication to Ed. Yocom, and the firm of Green & Yocom existed for three years. The paper was then sold to William Lockwood, but its editorial control and management is still retained by our subject.
In Edgerton, on February 18, 1903, Mr. Green was married to Lois Woodworth, who was born in Lakefield, Minnesota, July 17, 1882. The following four children have blessed this union: Lyman A., born May 13, 1904; Zelma L., born April 3, 1905; Roy O., born August 3, 1907; and Willard W., born October 5, 1909. Mr. Green is a member of the Congregational church and of the Knights of Pythias lodge.
The Edgerton Enterprise was founded in 1883 by A. R. Burkdoll, who conducted it three years as a seven column folio and then sold to J. C. Marshall. Under his regime of nine years the paper was an influential democratic organ and its edi- tor a prominent factor in the local life of that party. He relinquished the paper upon being elected to the office of county judge of probate. He later served as county auditor. The next editor was E. C. Brake, who sold after a year and a half to William Lockwood. From that time the Enterprise has been an expound- er of the principles and doctrines of re- publicanism.
Mr. Lockwood employed as manager of the paper A. P. McDowell, of Minneapo- lis, and later William McCune, of Worth- ington. Three partnership firms, those of Ham & Akers, Green & Lockwood, and Green & Yocom, presided over the des-
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tinies of the publication in direct succes- sion; then the paper reverted to its pres- ent owner, William Lockwood, with O. A. Green in the editorial chair.
The first change from the original size of the sheet was inangurated by Ham & Akers, who made it a five column quarto. Green & Lockwood went one better and made it a five column, all home print. A year later it was changed to its present acceptable style, six columns, alt home print.
FRANK RAYMOND (1887), of Pipestone, chief engineer of the municipal water- works plant, is a Pipestone county resi- dent of twenty-four years' standing. The son of John and Elvira (Miller) Raymond, natives of Pennsylvania and New York, respectively, he was born in Green coun- ty, Wisconsin, October 10, 1858. His father, John Raymond, a veteran of the civil war and a machinist by trade, died in 1894 and was sixty-two years of age at the time of his decease. The mother is still living and resides at Fort Bragg, Califor- nia. Besides our subject three other sons and one daughter were born to these par- ents, namely: Ellsworth and Samuel, of San Francisco; Wilbur, a member of the Tacoma, Washington, police force; and Bessie Barkball, of Covello, California.
.John Raymond returned from his long service as a member of company Twenty-second Wisconsin cavalry, broken in health. He was compelled to forsake the pursuit of his trade, and in order to improve his condition the Raymond family moved from their old Wisconsin home and settled on a farm in Benton county, Iowa. Frank passed his youth on the home farm. Following his father's inclinations, he mastered the blacksmith's and machin- ist's trades, which he followed for a num- ber of years in Iowa and Illinois prior to settling in Pipestone in 1887.
Mr. Raymond erected the brick building which now houses the Stude garage and for twelve years successfully conducted a leading blacksmith and machine shop in Pipestone. Ile retired from business to accept his present position with the city. Besides being qualified as an expert me- chanic, our subject is possessed of marked
inventive ability. He supervised the earl- ier work of the installation of Pipestone's first water system in 1888; he constructed the city's first steam pump and has install- ed each succeeding one; also he is credit- ed with an important share in the buitd- ing of the first electric lighting plant and operated the same for a time.
At Belle Plaine, Iowa, on August 10, 1884, Frank Raymond was joined in mar- riage to Lizzie Pollock, a native of Illinois. To this union the following named eight children have been born: Nita, Gladys, Burt, Mabel, Samuel, Fay and Dorothy. Mr. Raymond is affiliated with the lodges of the Modern Brotherhood, Modern Wood- men, Odd Fellows and Sons of Veterans.
WILLIAM J. BANISTER (1899), a farm- er of Osborne township, was born in Lafay- ette county, Wisconsin, the second day of February, 1863. He is the son of Preston Banister, a native of the Hoosier state, and Elzina (Knott) Banister, a Canadian by birth.
The Banister family moved from Wis- consin to Blackhawk county, Iowa, when William was in his second year. He was reared on his father's farm in that county and educated in the near by district schools. He resided on, and assisted in the management of, the home farm until 1884, the year he attained the age of twenty-two years. He then rented land and commenced farming for himself, first in Blackhawk and then in Lyon county, Iowa. On moving from lowa, Mr. Banis- ter hecame a resident of Minnesota. Fle farmed in Nobles and Murray connties prior to 1899, when he settled in Pipestone county. He has rented and farmed the southwest quarter of section 6, Osborne township, since 1904. Our subject raises considerable stock. He is the overseer of road district No. 2. He and his sons, George and Harry, are members of the M. W. A. lodge.
On March 25, 1884, in Blackhawk coun- ty, Towa, William J. Banister was joined in the bonds of matrimony to Martha Ken- nedy, a native of Indiana. She was born August 30, 1864, and is the daughter of Andrew and Sarah (Medlin) Kennedy. Ten children have been born to these parents
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as follows: George P., born September 30, 1885; Ira A., born May 23, 1887, died December 6, 1906; Della S., born January 24, 1889; Harry H., born May 10, 1890; Elsia M., born May 19, 1892; William J., born September 19, 1895; Charles E., born March 31, 1897; Roy L., born May 18, 1903; Marie V., born September 6, 1905: Lum R., born November 7, 1910. Two of the children are married. Della S. Ban- ister was married to C. S. Vogt March 17, 1909, and resides in Pipestone county. George P. Banister was married to Sarah Madden July 20, 1910, and now resides in Emmett county, Iowa,
OTTO F. LANGE (1896), Sweet township farmer, is the oldest living son in a family of eight children who were born to Peter and Anna (Otten) Lange. Both parents were born in Germany and came to this country a short time before their mar- riage, an event which was solemnized in the city of Green Bay, Wisconsin. Three of the children, Alvina, Theodore and Dora, have died. The names of the surviving children are Otto, Edward, John, Ernst and Lydia.
Peter Lange was a minister of the Ger- man Lutheran church, and it was while he was stationed as pastor at Peshtigo, Wisconsin, on November 13, 1873, that Otto F. Lange of this sketch was born. He was yet an infant when the family moved to Lowell, in the same state, and from there a move was made to LaCrosse county. Rev. Lange was stationed there for about nine years. In 1886 he moved with bis family to Pipestone county, hav- ing bonght the southwest quarter of sec- tion 11, Sweet township, from the rail- road company. He resided on his land for eleven months and then returned to Wisconsin to accept the pastorate of the church at Weyauwega, where he died in 1900.
At that place Otto attended high school and was later a student at Northwestern university, at Watertown. He left school and learned the butcher's trade, which he followed for two years. In 1896 Mr. Lange settled permanently on the Sweet township farm of his father, which is now
owned by the estate. The mother and part of the family have lived on the farm since the death of Rev. Lange.
LEWIS V. DIETMEIER (1899), who en- gages extensively in farming and stock raising in Elmer township, is a native of Stephenson county, Illinois. He was born September 25, 1878, the son of Richard and Margaretta (Jonas) Dietmeier. The former parent was born in Baden, Ger- many, and the mother in New York state.
Lewis attended the country schools of his native county and resided on the home farm until attaining his majority. In 1899 he came to Pipestone county and bought the west half of section 29, Elmer, upon which he has since maintained a residence. His farm is substantially im- proved. In the raising of stock-especially Shorthorn cattle and Poland China hogs- Mr. Dietmeier has been unusually succes- ful. He served as the treasurer of Elmer township two years and for six years guarded the funds of school district No. 17. Our subject holds membership in the I. O. O. F. and M. W. A. lodges.
On November 6, 1898, in Green county, Wisconsin, Lewis V. Dietmeier was united in marriage to Mildred Boeck, who was born in Germany January 30, 1879, tbe daughter of Frank and Louisa (Tafes) Boeck. To these parents have been born six children, as follows: Victor C., born August 20, 1899; Twit L., born February 26, 1901; Roland E., born July 9, 1903; Ellery N., born August 19, 1906; Orval L., born January 17, 1908; and Gertrude E., born June 7, 1910.
JENS M. BECK (1901), a farmer of Aetna township, is the owner of the north- west quarter of section 21. All the land is thoroughly improved, solely through Mr. Beck's efforts. A native of Denmark, Jens was born Angust 19, 1865, the son of An- ders and Jacobie (Rasmussen) Beck, small farmers of that country. He attended the Danish common schools until sixteen
years of age, when he crossed the Atlan- tic to commence the battle of life for him- self in a strange country but in a land of opportunity. His brother, Louis, accom-
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panied him on the journey, and the two boys located at Kankakee, Illinois, near which place they secured employment on a farm. Mr. Beck left Illinois in 1901 to become a Pipestone county farmer. He bought his land at that time and has since been successfully engaged in general farm- ing and stock raising.
Our subject was married at Kankakee, Illinois, December 6, 1887, to Hannah Sorenson, also a native Dane. She was born August 5, 1886, the daughter of Chris and Magdaline Sorenson. Mr. and Mrs. Beck are the parents of four children: Chris A., Leanous, Charles and Edward. The family belong to the Danish Lutheran church of Ruthton. Mr. Beck has effi- ciently served as assessor of Aetna town- ship for eight years. He is a member of the M. W. A. lodge.
SAMUEL L. GILLILAND (1896) is one of the enterprising and substantial agri- culturists of Troy township. He settled in Pipestone county fifteen years ago and is now the owner of two of the most thoroughly improved quarter sections of land in his home precinct, the northwest quarter of section 34 and the southwest quarter of section 30. He engages exten- sively in high grade stock raising, espec- ially of cattle and sheep.
A native of Illinois, Samuel was born in MeHenry county October 23, 1860, a son of James and Nancy (Davis) Gilliland, the former an Irishman by birth and the latter a native of New York. After com- pleting the course of the district school, our subject was for two years a student in the Marengo high school; then he turned his attention toward agricultural pursuits, a calling in which he has since continued. He assisted with the manage- ment of the home farm until after his twenty-fifth birthday: then for eleven years he rented and farmed land in Mc- llenry and Kane counties, Illinois. He departed from that state in 1896 to es- tablish his residence in Pipestone county. Mr. Gilliland is the president and a direc- tor of the Farmers Elevator company of Cazenovia, and he is also a stockholder in similar institutions at Pipestone and Air- lie. He has served twelve years as treas-
urer of school district No. 10 and for nine years has guarded the treasury of the township. In a fraternal way be is affiliated with the M. W. A. and R. N. A. lodges.
On December 17, 1890, at Harmony, Illi- nois, Samuel L. Gilliland was joined in wedlock to Mary J. Grimes, who was born in Illinois February 28, 1869, the daughter of Sol. K. and Mary Grimes. To Mr. and Mrs. Gilliland were born these five children: Millard, born February 9, 1893; Lester, born February 26, 1898; Clif- ford, born December 2, 1899; Mabel, born September 14, 1907; and Loran, born June 9, 1907, died August 14, 1907.
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WILLIAM T. NICHOLSON (1905) is a young and progressive business man of Ruthton. His education has been mainly received in the school of hard knocks, in which he was enrolled at the age of thir- teen. He has succeeded through push and ambition. A native of Murray county, Minnesota, he was born in the village of Slayton May 2, 1885. He left school at an early age and was employed as clerk in several Slayton general stores until the age of twenty, when he located in Ruth- ton. He clerked in a general store until 1908, when, in company with C. A. Scherer, he bought the Nelson & Daly drug store. Mr. Nicholson is the active manager of the business. The firm carries a full line of drugs, stationery, well paper, jewelry, etc.
William is the son of James and Mary Nicholson, the former an Englishman by birth and the latter a native of Australia. They were married in England and came to the United States about 1880. They homesteaded in Murray county, which was their home until twelve years ago, when they moved to a farm in Grange township, a few miles north of Pipestone. James and Mary Nicholson are the parents of seven children, who besides William T. of this review are Fannie, Florence, James, Amy, Mary and Arthur.
THOMAS CAMPBELL (1892) owns and farms two choice quarter sections of Rock township land, the southwest quarter of
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section 10 and the southeast quarter of section 9. He is a large breeder of high grade stock.
A native Scot, our subject first saw the light of day in the county of Perth on the fourth of January, 1863. He is the son of Thomas and Jeanette (Morrison) Campbell. Thomas attended the common schools in Scotland and resided on the farm of his father until attaining the age of twenty- four years. Then he came to America and hecame identified with its prosperity. He was located for a number of years in Tama county, Iowa, first working out at farm labor, then renting land to farm for himself. In 1892 Mr. Campbell departed from Jowa and established his residence in Pipestone county. He owns stock in the Farmers Elevator company of Holland. He is treasurer of school district No. 7, an office he has held for five years, and is a trustee of the Holland Presbyterian church.
Tama county, lowa, is the place where occurred the marriage of Thomas Camp- bell to Jemima Brown on July 19, 1890. Mrs. Campbell is also a native of Scot- land and was born March 16, 1865, the daughter of Robert and Jeanette (Wilson) Brown. The following four children have been born to this union: Maggie, horn September 26, 1891; Jeanette, born Au- gust 16, 1896; Thomas, born April 11, 1902; and Ella M., born February 9, 1904.
JACOB G. JOHANNSEN (1895) is the owner of a well improved farm of 240 acres on section 22, Sweet township, upon which he has lived since 1902. Most of the improvements have been made on the place since it came into the possession of Mr. Johannsen.
The parents of our subject, Claus and Fredericka (Loucks) Johannsen, are still living and reside in Pipestone. Jacob was born in Pottawattamie county, Iowa. on the fourth of September, 1874. He was reared on a farm and educated in the dis- trict schools of his native county, which was his home until he was twenty-one years of age. Then, in 1895, he came to Pipestone county to farm land owned by his father, on section 31, Sweet. He re-
sided there until buying the farm he now conducts. Nr. Johannsen raises stock quite extensively. He is a stockholder in the Farmers Elevator company of Pipe- stone.
In Sweet township, on November 9, 1897, occurred the marriage of Jacob G. Johannsen to Maggie Tanck, who came to the United States when seven years old. She was born on the island of Fehmen, a part of the German empire, May 30, 1875. "ix sons have been born to this union, as follows: Arthur, born August 3, 1898; John, born November 30, 1901; Albert, born April 28, 1903; Louis, born November 20. 1907; and the baby, born August 24, 1910. Mr. Johannsen and family are men- bers of the German Lutheran church of Pipestone.
THADDEUS E. NASH (1880), cashier of the Pipestone State Bank, has been a resi- dent of the county for all except the first four years of his life. He is the son of Register of Deeds G. W. Nash and Emma (Fish) Nash, both natives of New York state. Besides our subject two daughters, Adah and Pearl, a public school teacher at Preston, Minnesota, have been born to these parents.
Thaddeus was born in Jones county, Iowa, on August 29, 1876. From Iowa the family moved to Blue Earth, Minnesota, and in 1880 settlement was made in Pipe- stone county, at Woodstock, where for many years G. W. Nash was agent for the Omaha railroad. Our subject was educat- ed in the public school of Woodstock. At an early age he assisted his father with the work in the railway station, and at the age of fifteen he was assigned as sta- tion agent to Magnolia, Rock county. After a year, in 1892, he succeeded his father at Woodstock, continuing in charge of that station four years. Mr. Nash was then for nine months employed as book- keeper by the State Bank, now the First National Bank of Jasper. He then return- ed to the railroad service as station agent at Pipestone and was so employed until 1901, when he became assistant cashier of the Pipestone State Bank. He has been with that institution since that time, ex- cept a few months in 1905 and 1906. He
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