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county, Wisconsin, February 21, 1867. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Thorndyke. They are Marguerita E., born May 16, 1894; W. Keith, born March 16, 1896; and Royal J., born June 1, 1901.
TOM HAGEN (1894), Sweet township farmer and stock raiser, is a German by birth. His nativity occurred February 8, 1879, in the province of Schleswig. He im- migrated to America with his parents at the age of seven years and located with them in Scott county, lowa. His father, John Hagen, a farmer by occupation, died in North Dakota May 18, 1906. His moth- er, Doris (Wolff) Hagen, still resides in Scott county.
Tom was reared on a farm and educated in the district schools of Scott county, which continued to be his home until 1894. That year the Hagen family moved to Rock county, Minnesota. Onr subject lived on the home farm and hired out in Springwat- er township until 1902, when he rented the Pipestone county farm he now conducts. The farm comprises 240 acres of section 10, Sweet. Mr. Hagen is one of the large stockraisers of the precinct. He makes a specialty of Polled Angus cattle and Duroc- Jersey hogs. He is a stockholder in the Farmers Elevator company of Pipestone.
On September 9, 1904. in Sweet town- ship, our subject was married to Katie Booth, who was born in Paullina, Towa. December 24, 1884. There have been three children from this union: Elsie, born June 6. 1905; ITerman, born July 25, 1906; and Harold, born October 28, 1909.
PATRICK 11. POWERS (1886), the effi- cient care-taker of Pipestone county's handsome court house, was born in Rock- land. Michigan, August 10. 1860, of Irish par- entage. He is one of three living sons, the names of the others being John J., of Wa- basha county, and Edward, of Burke town- sbip. Their parents were Lawrence and Johannah (Nash) Powers, who came to America after their marriage in the Emer- ald isle. One daughter, Margaret, died in the state of Washington in April, 1905.
The mother of our subject died in Febru- ary, 1879. His father, Lawrence Powers,
was a miner in Ireland and continued in that occupation after coming to this conn- try and northern Michigan, The elder Mr. Powers died in 1887 in Wabasha county, Minnesota, to which place the family mov- ed when Patrick was an eleven year old lad. He was brought up on a farm and educated in that county, which was his home until identifying himself with Pipe- stone county interests a quarter of a cen- tury ago. Mr. Powers bought the north- east quarter of section 27, Burke township, which he farmed until moving to the city of Pipestone in 1895. For ten years he was engaged in the threshing business, then in July, 1905, became the court house janitor. During his residence in Burke our subject served several years as a director of school district No. 48. He is a member of the Pipestone fire department and fraternally is allied with the Ancient Order of Hiber- nians.
Mr. Powers was married in the county on June 19, 1889, to Agnes O'Neill, who came with her parents, John and Rose O'Neill, from Canada and settled in Rock township in 1885. Mr. and Mrs. Powers are the parents of three children: Anna, a graduate of the Pipestone high school and Mankato normal, born April 2, 1891; Frank, born March 21, 1893; and Agnes, born Jan- mary 15, 1895.
DIETRICH WINTER (1900) is one of the large landowners and successful farm- ers of Gray township. A native of Ger- many, he was born June 15, 1849, the son of Dietrich Winter and Mary Winter.
Mr. Winter was six years of age when he crossed the Atlantic with his parents and located with them, first in Sioux City, and later in Plymouth county, Iowa. There he grew up, bought land and farmed until establishing his residence in Pipestone county in 1900. At that time he bought the north half of section 9, Gray, upon which he makes his home. He later became the owner of the northeast quarter of section 16 and the east half of the southwest qnar. ter of section 3, which makes a total of 560 acres of productive soil now farmed by Mr. Winter and his sons. lle devotes con- siderable attention to the rasing, buying and shipping of the best grades of stock.
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He is a stockholder in the Farmers Eleva- tor company of Pipestone,
In Plymouth county, lowa, on May 12, 1879, the subject of this biography was married to Augusta Tiesler, who was born August 5, 1857, the daughter of Fred and Louise Tiesler. Mr. and Mrs. Winter have three sons, William, Fred and George.
ALBERT FRITZ (1897), of Rock town- ship, was born across the seas, on a farm in West Prussia, October 30, 1874. He is the son of John and Mary (Roggenburgk) Fritz. Albert attended the common schools of his native land until sixteen years of age. Then he severed home ties and un- dertook the long journey alone to America. Arriving in the new world, he went to Hartley, Iowa, where resided an uncle, up- on whose farm he was employed until 1897. That year Mr. Fritz cast his lot with Pipe- stone county's men of progress and bought the southwest quarter of section 21, Rock township, which has since been his home. He raises considerable stock, devoting es- pecial attention to the breeding of thor- oughbred Hereford cattle and Duroc-Jer- sey hogs. Mr. Fritz is a stockholder in the farmers' elevator of Woodstock, and he is a member of the Odd Fellows lodge and the German Lutheran church.
The marriage of our subject to Katie Tjards occurred at Hartley, Iowa. Mrs. Fritz was born in Illinois .July 4, 1882, the daughter of Daniel and Lydia (Gardas) Tjards. Mr. and Mrs. Fritz bave the fol- lowing named children: John, born Decem- ber 25, 1898; Henry, horn March 8, 1901; Otto, born June 16, 1903; Joseph, born March 20, 1905; William, born June 2, 1907; Lydia, born June 2, 1907; and Annie, born May 8, 1909.
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early fifties, and there the subject of this biography was born, November 3, 1864.
In Warren county Mr. Sellers grew to manliood. He was graduated from the high school at Alexis, following which he was for two terms a student at Knox college, Galesburg, Illinois. At the age of twenty- one he moved to Des Moines, Iowa, where he was located for a brief period, going from the capital city to the town of Wal- nut, where he was engaged in the furniture business until establishing his present resi- dence in Pipestone. On July 6, 1898, our subject arrived in the city that was to be the field of his future successful endeavors. He hought the business of Alex. Powell, the pioneer furniture dealer of Pipestone, which under Mr. Sellers' ownership has developed to large proportions. It is now the only exclusive furniture and carpet store in the city.
While a resident of Walnut, Iowa, on May 13, 1888, G. E. Sellers was united in marriage to Minnie L. Dunlap, who was born in Albany, Wisconsin, March 11, 1862. To these parents two children have been born: Bernice E., born April 11, 1895, and M. Liona, born November 3, 1902.
Mr. Sellers is now serving his first term as president of the city council. He is a prominent figure in fraternal circles, hold- ing membership in two branches of the Masonic order, in three branches of the Odd Fellows, in the Rebekahs, Eastern Star, Modern Woodmen of America and the Roy- al Neighbors. Mr. Sellers is a pastmaster of the A. F. & A. M. lodge.
L. K. VILAND (1907), of Eden town- ship, is the owner of a well improved farm of 240 acres located in section 3 of that precinct. Mr. Viland was born in western Norway August 12, 1865, the son of Knut and Carrie (Fronsdall) Viland, both de- ceased.
G. E. SELLERS (1898), president of the The subject of this biography was less than a year old when the family departed from Norway to seek a home in the new world. They settled in Story county, lowa. and in the district schools of that county L. K. Viland acquired his education. He was left fatherless at the age of eight he undertook the management of the home Pipestone city council, and one of the city's representative men of business, is a native of Illinois. His father, Thomas J. Sellers, who was born in Delaware county. New York, and his mother, Eliza ( Richardson ) Sellers, a native of New Albany, Indiana, are now residents of Ottumwa. Iowa. They . years. When he became of sufficient age settled in Warren county, Illinois, in the
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farm for his mother until after his twenty- fourtb birthday. His mother died in lowa in 1900. Our subject farmed rented land for five years, then bought a farm which he conducted until 1907, the year of his settlement in Pipestone county.
Mr. Viland owns stock in two leading enterprises of Ihlen, the Ihlen State Bank and the Farmers Elevator company. He was chosen a director of the elevator com- pany in 1910 and of the bank in 1911. He was elected to the directorship of school district No. 66 in 1908. With his family he belongs to the Zion Lutheran church of Ihlen.
While a resident of Story county, on January 30, 1890, Mr. Viland was married to Christina Hill, who was born in Polk county, lowa, June 29, 1866. Three chil- dren have been born to this union: Clar- ence, born January 1, 1891; John, born May 22, 1893; and Vinnie, born September 20, 1897.
DR. THOMAS LOWE (1904), of Pipe- stone, is a physician and surgeon of more than lecal prominence. He has been a member of the state board of medical ex- aminers for the past nine years. Of this important body he served one term as presi- dent and is the present vice president. Dr. Lowe has been the head physician in the state of Minnesota for the Modern Woodmen order since 1901, and since 1907 in addition has held a similar position for the Canadian province of Manitoba.
Dr. Lowe is a Canadian by birth and one in a family of seven children, the others being James, of Slayton; David, of Cheney, Washington; John, of Hadley, Minnesota; Dr. William, of Madison, South Dakota; Minnie (Mrs. W. B. Stine), of Minneapolis; and Alex, of Hadley. The parents of our subject were James and Minnie (Chalberg) Lowe, both natives of Scotland, who early in life come to America and settled in Quebec, Canada. James Lowe died in Mur- ray county, Minnesota, in 1896, at the age of seventy-six years, and his faithful wife preceded him to the grave by thirteen years. Mrs. Lowe was fifty-eight years of age at the time of her death.
At. Lachute, Quebec, Canada, on Novem- her 8, 1858, Dr Thomas Lowe was born,
Ten years later the family crossed the bor- der to the United States and settled in Bremer county, Iowa. There James Lowe engaged in farming until 1877, when the family became residents of southwestern Minnesota. The father and his three old- est sons, James, David and John, all home- steaded land in Murray county.
The early district school education of our subject was supplemented by a course in the Decorah, lowa, institute. After a career of two years as a school teacher, Thomas Lowe decided on medicine as his profession and matriculated at the Hahne- mann Medical college of Chicago. He was graduated from that institution in 1885 and immediately thereafter entered upon the practice of his profession at Slayton, Mur- ray county, where he resided until 1904, when he established his present residence in Pipestone. Dr. Lowe has taken exten- sive post-graduate work, at the New York Post-Graduate Medical school and special study of the eye, ear, nose and throat at a leading Chicago college. He is a member of the American Medical association, Amer- ican Institute of Homeopathy, the Minne- sota State Medical society and the South- western Minnesota Medical society. Dr. Lowe is the medical examiner for the New York Life, the Equitable Life, the Phoenix and other of the leading life insurance as- sociations, and for various fraternal orders.
At Slayton, on June 18, 1887, Dr. Lowe was united in marriage to Sadie Southwell, a native of Wenona, Illinois, and the daughter of Captain Oran M. Southwell. To these parents have been born four chil- dren: William, born in 1892; Alice, born in 1894; Margaret, born in 1897; and Dun- can, born in 1900. In fraternal circles Dr. Lowe is prominent. He holds membership in the following orders: Masonic, including the Royal Arch; Modern Woodmen, Mod- ern Brotherhood of America, Yeomen, Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias.
HENRY BONINE (1887), one of the young and successful farmers of Grange township, is a native of that precinct. He is the second son in a family of six chil- dren born to Carl and Matilda Bonine, both deceased, who were born in Germany. Carl Bonine, a former well known resident of
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Grange, died in 1895, and twelve years later, in 1907, his wife and the mother of our subject was called to her reward. Hen- ry was born May 4, 1887, grew up on the pa- rental farm and received a district school education. In 1908 he was awarded the southwest quarter of section 9, Grange, from his father's estate, and that is the place he has since made his home. Mr. Bonine is unmarried. He has three sisters, Louise, Hulda and Edith, and two brothers, Rich- ard and Albert. He belongs to the German Lutheran church.
JOHN F. MAHL (1897), Elmer township farmer and Jandowner, was born across the seas, in Holstein, Germany, September 24, 1876. His father, Carl Mahl, formerly a Pipestone county farmer, returned in 1908 to Germany to spend his declining years in the land of his birth. The mother of our subject, Maggie (Sindt) Mahl, is also liv- ing.
At the age of fifteen John closed his career as a student in the German schools and with an uncle set sail for the new world. They located at Keystone, Benton county, Iowa, and there he was employed at farm labor until 1897, the year he moved to Pipestone county with his parents. Mr. Mahl assisted his father with the manage- ment of the home farm on section 20, El- mer, until 1902, when he bought and moved to his present farm, the southeast quarter of section 32, upon which he has made most of the improvements. In October, 1909, he bought the northeast quarter of the same section, which he leases.
On January 16, 1902, John F. Mahl was married to Carolina Sindt, a native of Key- stone, lowa, her birth having occurred Jan- mary 6, 1880. The ceremony was solem- nized in that town. One son, Carl, was born to these parents, on June 28, 1908. Mr. Mahl holds membership in the Modern Woodmen lodge at Trosky.
GEORGE G. STONE (1890) is the editor and publisher of the Farmer's Leader, of Pipestone, the leading democratic organ in the county and the official newspaper. Mr. Stone has been connected with the Leader in an editorial capacity for the past twenty-
one years and since 1895 has been the sole owner of that influential journal. He lo- cated in Pipestone in October, 1890, buying the paper at that time in partnership with C. C. Goodnow, who retired from the firm at the end of five years.
The entire life of George G. Stone has been passed in southwestern Minnesota. A native of Jackson county, he was born August 22, 1867, on the homestead of his father in Petersburg township. His par- ents were George D. and Elizabeth Ann (Isbe]) Stone, both natives of St. Lawrence county, New York. They were among the very first settlers of this section of Minne- sota, settling in Jackson county in 1865. George D. Stone died while visiting at the home of a daughter in Estherville, lowa, and was sixty-seven years of age at the time. His wife passed away on the old homestead, having lived to the age of forty- five years. There were eleven children in the Stone family, of whom the following seven survive: Genta, Edward, Will, George G., of this review; Leon, Lewis and Elvin.
George commenced attending school at the age of five years, his first teacher be- ing Mary Bordwell, who meted out knowl- edge to the young hopefuls in an old log shanty. In the fall of 1882 he moved to the village of Jackson and there finished his education and later was married. He learned the printer's trade and acquired the journalistic instinct in the office of the Jackson Republic, on which he was em- ployed from March, 1887, to the commence- ment of his labors in Pipestone.
A few months before leaving Jackson, on April 29, 1890, Mr. Stone was united in marriage to Clara M. Gilbert, whose birth occurred in Freeborn county, Minnesota, on August 16, 1871. Her parents, Warren and Helen (Burlock) Gilbert, were among the very earliest settlers of Freeborn coun- ty. Her brother, Will Gilbert, built the old water-power mill on the Des Moines river, a short distance north of Jackson, in the pioneer days, and it was by reason of this that the old historic landmark was and is still known as the Gilbert Mill. Helen Bur- lock, the mother of Mrs. Stone; was the first white child born in the state of Min- nesota according to all authentic records. Her father, Captain Burlock, was a mem-
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ber of the garrison at Fort Snelling sta- tioned there in the early thirties to protect government interests against the savage redmen. Captain Burlock had been ac- companied from the east by his wife and in that frontier army post, on February 6, 1830, their daughter, Helen, was born. Mr. and Mrs. Stone are the parents of an only child, Lorna R., who was born the first day of February, 1895.
Our subject holds membership in the fraternal orders of the Odd Fellows and its auxiliaries, the Yeomen and the Modern Woodmen.
J. P. FEYEREISEN (1900) is a well- known resident of Burke township, in which precinct he owns and farms the south half of section 26 and engages to a large extent in the breeding of the highest grades of stock. There were but a few minor improvements of the farm when it came into the possession of Mr. Feyer- eisen; now he has a farm home that is un- rivalled in the township, A fine new resi- dence and barn were erected on the place during the summer of 1910.
Luxemburg is the native land of our sub- ject. He was born February 28, 1864, the son of Steffen Feyereisen, a farmer by occupation, who died in 1884 at the age of eighty-two years, and of Mary (Pler) Fey- ereisen, also deceased. She passed away in 1887, being in her sixty-second year at the time.
Mr. Feyereisen resided on the home farm until after his twentieth birthday, then bade adieu to the scenes of his nativity and crossed the broad Atlantic to become an adopted son of Uncle Sam. For eleven years he farmed in Plymouth county, Iowa, then moved to Pocahontas county, where he bought a quarter section of land and continued his agricultural career. He dis- posed of his lowa holdings in 1900 and in- vested in his present Pipestone county real ostate. For six years past our subject has served as a director of school district No. 21. the is also a director of the Farm- ers Elevator company of Woodstock.
While a resident of Plymouth county, Iowa, in November, 1893, J. P. Feyereisen was joined in wedlock to Mary Annie Mounts, a native of Germany. She came to
America the year of her marriage. To this union have been born eight children, as fol- lows: Henry, born September 4, 1894; Ga- briel, born December 12, 1895; Albert, born March 20, 1897; Laura, born August 9, 1898; Willie, born April 29, 1900; Nick, born May 2, 1902; Emily, born January 4, 1904; and Frances, born July 27, 1905.
ARNOLD PILLING (1899) is one of the foremost business men and public spirited citizens of the village of Edgerton. He has resided there since 1899, that year hav- ing bought the lumber business and yards of the Bank of Edgerton, to which he later added a full line of farm implements, a business he has conducted to the present date. He carries a commplete stock of building materials, cement, farm machin- ery, etc.
To the parents, William and Louisa (Baker) Pilling, natives of England and New York, respectively, Arnold Pilling was born February 24, 1858, in the town of Hu- ron, Wisconsin. The father of our subject died in 1885 at Flandreau, South Dakota, but his mother is still living. When Ar- nold was six years of age the family moved to Dodge county, Minnesota, where he was educated and grew to manhood. At the age of twenty-three, in 1881, he went to Moody county, South Dakota, and took a homestead, upon which he lived eight years. He then engaged in the implement business and later in the lumber business in the town of Flandreau and continued so until 1896, when he moved to Fulda, Min- nesota, to accept the management of the Colman Lumber company's yards at that point. In 1899 Mr. Pilling established his present business in Edgerton.
For a better and more progressive Ed- gerton Mr. Pilling has labored incessantly since becoming a resident of the thriving Pipestone county community. For the past ten years he has faithfully served as clerk of the board of education and holds an equally good record for service on the vil- lage council. Mr. Pilling is a prominent lodge man. He belongs to three ranks of the Masons-the Blue Lodge, the Royal Arch Masons, and the Commandery-and is also affiliated with the Workmen and Modern Woodmen orders.
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In Dodge county, Minnesota, on July 28, 1880, the subject of this biography was married to Iona A. Harwood, who was born in Wisconsin July 4, 1862. To these par- ents the following four children have been born: Pearl Mary (Mrs. H. B. Francis), of Minneapolis; Roy William, of Chester, Montana; Clara Alice, a school teacher; and Beva lone.
JAMES S. BROWN (1898) farms 200 acres of Altona township's soil and en- gages extensively in stock raising. He was born near Sandwich, Illinois, May 5, 1874, one in a family of nine children, two of whom are deceased. His parents were An- drew M. Brown, a native of Chemung county, New York, who died November 17, 1906, and Clara Jane (Davis) Brown, who was born in New York state May 29, 1842, and who now lives with her son. Andrew M. Brown, of Scotch-German descent, set- tled in Illinois and farmed continuously until his death at the age of fifty-six years, first in Illinois and later in Iowa. The Davis family is of German origin.
.James was five years of age when the family made settlement in Calhoun county, Towa, and there he passed the ensuing nineteen years of his life. He was educated in the district school and in the public schools of Gowrie. He commenced his self-supporting career as a well digger. He owned an outfit and conducted the busi- ness three years; then for five years he was engaged, most of the time, in pressing hay. Mr. Brown established a residence in Pipestone county in 1898. He was a Foun- tain Prairie township farmer until 1909, when he located on the farm on section 24, Altona, which he now rents. For eight years our subject served as clerk of school district No. 27, in Fountain Prairie town- ship.
Mr. Brown is unmarried. He makes a home for his mother and two sisters, An- nie and Eva. Two brothers, B. J. and Wil- lis Brown, are dead. The remaining chil- dren in the Brown family are Sarah (Mrs. I. W. Cline), of Calhoun county, Jowa; Phoebe Jane (Mrs. W. J. Vance), of Green county, towa; W. M. Brown, of Calhoun .county, Iowa; and Rosie (Mrs. C. H. Sow- den), of Lincoln county, Minnesota.
DR. ELMER H. ARGETSINGER (1898), a prominent dentist of Pipestone, has been engaged in the practice of his profession in that city since 1898. A native of New York state, Dr. Argetsinger was born the thirteenth of May, 1873. Early in life he accompanied his parents in their removal to Minnesota, the family first settling in the city of Faribault and later establishing themselves at Mapleton, Blue Earth county. Graduating from the dental department of the university of Michigan with the class of 1896, our subject immediately thereafter located in his home town, Mapleton. Two years later Dr. Argetsinger commenced his residence in Pipestone. In 1903 a partner- ship was formed between Dr. Elmer H. Ar- getsinger and his brother, Dr. Ernest E. Argetsinger, in the conduct of their pro- fession. Their offices are located over the State Bank of Pipestone.
G. W. and Mary Jane (Mariele) Arget- singer, the parents of Dr. Argetsinger, were natives of the Empire state and de- scended from early colonial stock. The mother died in September, 1907, and since that time G. W. Argetsinger has resided with his daughter at Mapleton, Minnesota. There are ten children in the Argetsinger family, all living. They are George F., of Pipestone; Mrs. John Burgett, of Faribault; Albert H., of Willets, California; Mrs. Jo- seph Stevens, of Mapleton; Ulysses G., oť Mapleton; Norman E., of Oakes, North Da- kota; Edward A., of Missoula, Montana; Elmer H., of Pipestone; Ernest E., of Pipe- stone; and Mrs. E. E. Newcomer, of Minne- apolis.
On June 29, 1898, Dr. Argetsinger was joined in marriage to Carrie Lawrence, and to this union three children have been born: Genevieve, Elmer Erland and Al- fred Glenn. The doctor holds membership in five different branches of the Masonic order, the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Eastern Star, Scottish Right and Shrine, in the Modern Woodmen and the Modern Brother- hood of America. He is a member of the Pipestone Library board.
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