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Pipestone in 1903. The following year, in company with Mr. Calderwood, he bought the implement business of the Evans 1m- plement company, on Frances and Centen- nial streets, where he has since been lo- cated. Mr. Wright is now serving his first term as a member of the Pipestone city conncil.
Our subject was married at Brooklyn, Iowa, on September 2, 1891, to Carrie Cal- derwood. To these parents have been born the following four children: Wil- liam, Catherine, Cameron and Dalton. Mr. Wright is a Mason, holding membership in the Blue Lodge and the Order Eastern Star.
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SAMUEL QUAM (1910), a Fountain Prairie township farmer and stock raiser of recent settlement, moved to Pipestone county from Iowa during the spring of 1910 and bought the northwest quarter of section 8, a finely improved farm. He makes a specialty of raising standard bred horses.
In Stavanger, Norway, on November 30, 1865, occurred the birth of the subject of this biography. He is the son of Ole and Enga (Tan) Quam, who were small farmers in that Norwegian province. Sam- nel was left motherless at the age of twelve, and four years later Ole Quam sold out his interests in the northern country and with his family immigrated to America in 1881. The family settled in Marshall county, Iowa, on a farm pur- chased by the father, and it was there that our subject grew to manhood and complet- ed his education. In 1893 Mr. Quam rent- ed land and commenced his career as an independent farmer. Hle later bought an eighty acre farm, which he disposed of on moving to Pipestone county as already noted. He is a member of the Norwegian Lutheran church and the Maccabee lodge.
Samuel Quam has been twice married. He returned to Norway to secure his first bride, Jennie Quam, who was born July 25, 1869, and to whom he was married on February 11, 1893. Mr. and Mrs. Quam journeyed to America the following spring and established a residence in Marshall county, Iowa, where she died October 15, 1900. Two children were born to this
union : John R., born October 28, 1896,
and lda O., born June 4, 1899, In Mar- shall county, on June 16, 1902, our subject was joined in wedlock to Enga Larson, who was born in Stavanger, Norway, Jan- uary 30, 1876, the daughter of Torkuld and Allette (Christopher) Larson. Mr. and Mrs. Quam are parents of the fol- lowing named children: Theodore 0., born March 9, 1903; George, born October 9, 1904; Selma, born March 22, 1907; and Otto, born June 17, 1910.
GEORGE A. MILLER (1879) has enjoy- ed the longest continual residence in Woodstock of any person now living in the village. He has lived and been en- gaged in blacksmithing there for the past twenty-seven years, or since 1884. His residence in the county commenced five years prior to that date. A Pennsyl- vanian by birth, our subject was born in Crawford county on the sixth of Jann- ary, 1851, the son of Abner and Adaline Miller, natives of Maine and Pennsylvania, respectively.
Five years after his birth George accom- panied his parents in their removal to the west. The family located in Winne- bago county, Wisconsin, where they re- mained until the fall of 1867, becoming at that time residents of Oronoco, Olmsted county, Minnesota. There George A. Mill- er learned the trade of blacksmith, a line of work he followed in connection with farming in Dodge county from 1873 until the fall of 1879, when he moved to Pipe- stone county. lle filed a homestead claim to the southwest quarter of section 4, Burke township, and lived there five years prior to entering upon his business career in Woodstock. He shared in all the early day hardships and can recall more than one trying experience in the dreaded prairie blizzards. In Burke township Mr Miller served on the township and school boards, and for seven years he was Wood- stock's efficient village treasurer.
The marriage of George A. Miller to Eliza White was solemnized in Oronoco, Olmsted county, in 1872. Mrs. Miller is a native of the Buckeye state. Five chil- dren have been born to this union, but one son, Elmer, is dead. The remaining
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members of the family are Charles S., of Woodstock; Edna May, Elena (Mrs. H. S. Alexander), of St. Paul; and Nellie. Our subject holds membership in the A. F. & A. M. and A. O. U. W. lodges of Wood- stock.
DR. JOHN E. SCHAPLER (1898), dentist of Pipestone, was born in Brooklyn, Powe- shiek county, lowa, the eleventh of De- cember, 1886. He attended the public schools of that place until thirteen years of age, when he moved to Pipestone with his parents. He was one of a class of twenty girls and three boys that was gradu- ated from the Pipestone high school in 1905. In the fall of that year he entered the college of dentistry of the university of Minnesota, from which he was granted his diploma in June, 1908. The same month Dr. Schapler opened an office in the Max Brown building, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Odd Fellows.
Dr. Schapler is the son of Louis and Nellie M. (Wood) Schapler, of Pipestone. His father, a native of Northern Ger- many, came to this country at the age of eigliteen and for a number of years was employed at his trade of painter in Michigan City, Indiana. Ile was next located in Rockford, Illinois, and then moved to Poweshiek county, Iowa, where he was married and lived until moving his family to Pipestone in 1898. Besides our subject Louis and Nellie Schapler have two other living sons: Ilarry F., born December 3, 1888, and Freddie L., born March 13, 1899. One son, Frank, died in 1891, at the age of two years.
At St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 20, 1910, Dr. Schapler was united in mar- riage to Alma Gaither, who was born in the capital city June 30, 1891. She is the daughter of John and Allie C. (Holmes) Gaither, former residents of Pipestone.
SAMUEL EVEN (1893), until lately a resident of Altona township, first saw the light of day in the town of Pekin, Illinois, on March 23, 1874. Both his father and mother, Harm Even and Stena (Freeks)
Even, are natives of Germany and now re- side in Pipestone.
Samuel lived only a year in the town of his birth. With the rest of the family he moved to Grundy county, Iowa, where he was destined to reside eighteen years. He was brought up on a farm and educated in the district schools of Grundy county. Harm Even, the father, bought land in Pipestone county, the southeast quarter of section 30, Altona, and moved thereon with his family in 1893. Our subject re- sided on the home farm until 1898, when he engaged in farming on his own account in Cottonwood county for a year. For the next three years he followed the same oc- cupation in Sweet township and then lo- cated in Pipestone, where he was for some time engaged in teaming. Mr. Even once more became a tiller of the soil, rent- ing and conducting the home place until the spring of 1911. Since September, 1910, he has managed the farmers' elevator at Ward, South Dakota. Mr. Even is a member of the Baptist church of Cazenovia.
At Bingham Lake, Cottonwood county, on September 8, 1898, the subject of this biog- raphy was married to Amelia Balszukat, a native of Germany. She was born De- cember 12, 1879, and came to the United States at the age of twelve years. Mr. and Mrs. Even are the parents of three chil- dren: Harry, born July 10, 1899; Ida, born October 1, 1901; and John, born August 19, 1904.
GUSTAV FRIEDRICH (1899), the proprie- tor of one of Jasper's most enterprising and successful business establishments, is a German by birth. The son of Carl and Amilie (Laemmrich) Friedrich, both de- ceased, he was born in Saxony on May 4, 1859. As a boy he received a good edu- cation and then became an apprentice to learn the tinner's trade. After mastering lis trade, he worked for awhile in Berlin and other cities in the fatherland.
Determining to cast his fortune in the land beyond the sea, he immigrated in 1884 to the United States. His first home was in Menasha, Wisconsin, where he se- cured employment at his trade in a hard- ware store. His next location was at Spencer, Wisconsin, where for three years
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he plied his craft. Sauk Rapids, Minnesota, next became his home. For thirteen years he clerked and worked as a tinner in a hardware store. Seeking a location to en- gage in business for himself, his choice fell upon Jasper.
In 1899 Mr. Friedrich came to the village and bought the hardware business of A. P. Smith, of which he is at the present time proprietor. Prosperity as the fruit of la- bor has been his. He owns the handsome stone building which houses his business. In 1910 he found it necessary to build on an addition, 25x80 feet, to accommodate the rapidly growing trade. He has since added a complete line of furniture.
Mr. Friedrich was united in marriage in Spencer, Wisconsin, on June 8, 1885, to Laura Hendel, also a native of Germany. They have five children : Otto, Frieda, Carl, Martha and Elsie. In 1903 Mr. Fried- rich held the office of village recorder, and he is now a member of the village coun- cil. He is a member of the German Luther- an church.
FOREST II. MORLEY (1908) farms the north half of the northwest quarter of sec- tion 5, Gray township. He owns that land and also the southwest quarter of section 32, Grange. Mr. Morley is the son of Sam- nel and Lucy (Noble) Morley, natives of Massachusetts and early day settlers of Ogle county, Illinois. It was there that Forest was born May 14, 1853.
The year following that event the fam- ily became residents of Fayette county, Iowa, where our subject was reared on a farm and educated in the district schools. Following the death of his father in 1871, with his brother, Frank, he rented the home farm and conducted it for a year. Mr. Mor- ley then heeded a beckon from the west. For twelve years ho followed agricultural pursuits in California, was in Nebraska three years, and then went to Illinois, where he remained until 1908, the date of his advent to Pipestone county. At that time he bought the farm upon which he now lives. He owns stock in the Grange Rural Telephone company of Pipestone and is a member of the I. O. O. F. lodge.
In Lincoln county, Nebraska, September 28, 1890, the subject of this biography was
joined in marriage to Jane Ewing, who was born in La Salle, Illinois, January 11, 1858. She is the daughter of Samuel and Mar- garet (Simpson) Ewing, both natives of Scotland. Two children, Lucy and Claude, have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Morley.
OLE E. RANHEIM (1898) has been a til- ler of the soil in both Rock and Pipestone counties. He was born in Romsdal, Nor- way, January 19, 1871, the son of Erick O. and Guri (Boksasp) Ranheim. Ole was ed- ucated in the common schools of his native land and resided on the home farm until twenty-three years of age, when he crossed the Atlantic to make settlement in America. He journeyed direct to Minnesota and work- ed the first summer at farm labor near Dawson, Lac qui Parle county. During the winter seasons for several years he was employed in the Minneapolis saw mills and in the northern pineries. After his marri- age Mr. Ranheim moved to Rock county and farmed in Martin township until the fall of 1910, when he settled on his present . farm in Rock township, Pipestone county, the northwest quarter of section 15. He bought that land in 1909.
The subject of this sketch was married at Minneapolis November 13, 1897, to Anna Thompson, whose birth occurred in Har- danger, Norway, February 16, 1869. Seven sons have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Ran- heim, as follows: Engval, Melvin, Glenn, Arthur, Clifford, Arnold and Elmer. The family are members of the United Norwe- gian Lutheran church.
JOHN FRAHM (1892), landlord of the Sherman hotel, Pipestone, is a native Ger- man. He was born May 28, 1860, the son of Jurgen and Anna Frahm, who lived and died in the land of the kaiser. Besides our subject they were the parents of five other children, who are Peter, of Clinton county, lowa; Peter, of Dakota; Mary, of California; Catherine and Claus, of Germany.
John passed the first nineteen years of his life in the land of his birth. On coming to America in 1879, he located in Clinton county, lowa, whence he moved after a two years' residence to Tama county, in the same state. He farmed in Tama county
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eleven years, or until 1892, when he made settlement in the new town of Trosky, Pipestone county. During Cleveland's sec- ond administration Mr. Frahm was Trosky's postmaster, and for a number of years after retiring from that office he conducted the hotel in that village. From Trosky our subject moved to Pipestone to engage in the real estate business, which he did suc- cessfully until 1906. Since that date Mr. Frahm has devoted his attention to the care of the traveling public. He is the possessor of some choice Pipestone county real estate, owning the east half of section 19, Elmer township, and a part interest in the south half of section 9, Gray.
The marriage of Jolin Frahm to Margaret Freiberg, also a native of Germany, oc- curred in Tama county, lowa, April 21, 1881. The following named eleven children have been born to these parents: George, Henry, Katie, Christina, Mary, John, Maggie, Peter, Lilly, Frank and Edmond. With the excep- tion of Henry Frahm, who lives in North Dakota, all the children live at bome.
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TAD A. BAILEY (1900), the junior mem- ber of the firm of Payne & Bailey, the only exclusive fire and tornado insurance firm in the city of Pipestone, was born in Carroll, Iowa, July 19, 1871. He is one in a family of five children, the others being Lizzie, Elma, Lenn, Charles (deceased) and Fred L. The father of our subject was C. C. Bailey, a native of New York, who as a young man came west. He was graduated from Oberlin college, Ohio, and was a prac- tising attorney at Carroll, Iowa, where his death occurred in 1879. He was married to Delia L. Squires, a native of Vermont. She lived until 1895.
At the age of ten years Tad moved to Grinnell, Iowa, where he was educated in the high school and grew to manliood. He clerked in stores at Brooklyn and Perry, Jowa, then went to Springfield, Illinois, where for six years he was employed as clerk in a patent attorney's office. On ac- count of failing health Mr. Bailey in 1900 sought the clime of Pipestone county. He became associated with F. M. Payne in the insurance business and after four years of service was admitted as a partner in the firm.
In 1905 our subject left Pipestone and was gone several years. He was located at his home town of Grinnell for a year, was in Minneapolis for a like period, and then returned to Pipestone to enter the employ of the Harrington Grain company. When this company removed to Sioux Falls Mr. Bailey was transferred to that point. In July, 1910, he once more took up his resi- dence in Pipestone and resumed his part- nersmp with Mr. Payne. Mr. Bailey was treasurer of Pipestone during the years 1904 and 1905. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Elks and the Knights of Pythias.
ANDREW CARLSON (1905) has since 1905 owned and farmed the southwest quarter of section 19, Sweet township. He was horn in the adjacent county of Moody, South Dakota, September 21, 1876, the son of Atle and Eli (Lunde) Carlson, both natives of Norway. Andrew passed the first twenty-five years of his life on his father's Moody county homestead; then he rented land and commenced farm- ing on his own account, being so engaged in Moody county until buying his present Pipestone county farm. Mr .. Carlson is a director of school district No. 8.
The marriage of our subject to Lena Gunwall occurred at Luverne. Mrs. Carl- con is also a native of Moody county and is the daughter of Ole and Gunild Gun- wall. The following four sons and two daughters have been born to this union: Leonard, born April 8, 1903; Reuben, born August 23, 1905; Eddie, born January 28, 1908; William, born November 16, 1909; Gladys, born May 1, 1904; and Myr- tle, born August 21, 1907.
JULIUS P. PETERSON (1894) is a member of one of the pioneer business firms of Jasper, G. Peterson & Sons, deal- ers in general merchandise. The business was founded by Gilbert Peterson, the fa- ther of the subject of this sketch. The elder Mr. Peterson was born in Chris- tiania. Norway, and came to the United States when a youth. He first located at Lansing, Iowa, from which place he moved to Hesper, Iowa. During his residence there he took as his wife, Mary Lien, also
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a native of Norway. Their first home was at Cresco, Iowa, where Mr. Peterson work- cd as a shoe repairer. In the early sev- enties the Petersons became residents of Minnesota, settling first at Leroy, from which place, in 1876, they moved to Granger. It was from there that they came to Jasper in 1894, Mr. Peterson set- ting up in the shoe business.
Julius Peterson is a native Minnesotan, having been born May 27, 1875, at Leroy. It was when he was but one year old that the family moved to Granger, and it was in that village that Julius received his education and grew to manhood.
He came to Jasper in 1894 with his family, and for the first three or four years was employed as a clerk in one of the general stores. In 1898 he entered into partnership with his father in the man- agement of the shoe business before men- tioned. At first an exclusive shoe store, other lines were added until the firm be- came dealers in general merchandise. He is in charge of the business, his father having retired from active work in the firm several years ago, though he contin- ues to reside in Jasper. In 1903 his broth- er, Gus M. Peterson, was taken into the firm.
Mr. Peterson was married in Jasper on September 20, 1900, to Josie LeSuer, who was born at Canby, Minnesota, on March 9, 1882. She is the daughter of E. P. LeSuer, a former proprietor of the LeSuer hotel, who died in June, 1910. Mr. Peter- son holds membership in the Knights of Pythias and M. W. A. lodges.
HANS L. PETERSEN (1906). Since March, 1911, the subject of this sketch has farmed 200 acres of land just over the line in Lincoln county. He engages extensively in dairying and the breeding of high grade stock. Mr. Petersen was for a number of years prior to his late re- moval a well-known agriculturist of Aetna township.
Hans L. Petersen was born in the land of the Danes Angust 10, 1874, the son of Peter Jacobson, a
farmer, and Mary (Christensen) Jacobson. Both parents lived and died in Denmark. That country was the home of our subject until 1891, the
year he commenced his career in Uncle Sam's domain. He spent nine years as a farm laborer in the Iowa counties of Blackhawk and Grundy, following which he was similarly engaged for a year and a half in Tennessee. Mr. Petersen moved to Minnesota in 1900 and commenced farm- ing for himself in Lincoln county. Six years later he became a resident and farmer of Aetna township, Pipestone coun- ty, and then returned to Lincoln county, as already noted. He is a member of the Danish Lutheran church of Ruthton.
Our subject was married in Lincoln county May 4, 1900, to Annie Olson, also a native of Denmark. She was born May 30, 1874. They are the parents of three sons and one daughter, named as follows: Albert, born September 15, 1901; Olof, born August 20, 1903; Mary, born March 30, 1907; and Frederick, born April 22, 1910.
CHARLES J. SIGMOND (1899), veteri- nary surgeon of Pipestone, was born in Cook county, Illinois, on the third of Feb- ruary, 1867. His father, Charles Sigmond, was born in Lorraine, Germany, which at the time was French territory. He came as a boy to the United States and settled in Cook county, Illinois, his home until called by death in June, 1869. Mr. Sig- mond, Er., served for three years and ten months in the civil war with company A, Sixteenth Illinois regiment. He married Louisa Goebel, a native of Cook county. To these parents were born three children: Emma (Mrs. Frank Hawkins), of Aber- leen, South Dakota; Charles J., of this sketch; and George A., of Minneapolis. Frank Horton, of Minneapolis, is a half- brother of our subject.
Charles was not yet three years of age when he was left fatherless. Several years later the family moved to Minne- sota, residing two years in Stearns county, and then went to Hennepin county. He fin- ished his grammar school education in Minneapolis and for a number of years was employed in drug stores of that city. He was graduated from the Ontario Vet- erinary college of Toronto in March, 1893. Immediately thereafter he located in Du- luth for the practice of his profession. A
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year later he moved to Austin, Minnesota, and remained there until 1899, when he established his present residence in Pipe- stone.
Dr. Sigmond was united in marriage at Mapleton, Blue Earth county, on Novem- ber 29, 1898, to Anna L. Brooks, a native of Waseca county. Our subject holds mem- bership in the Masonic, Yeomen and Mod- ern Brotherhood of America.
NICK BORNHOFT (1900) has prospered since settling in Pipestone county eleven years ago and now is the owner of a sub- stantially improved farm, the north half of section 17, Elmer township. He built a large barn in 1910 and he is responsible for most of the other improvements on the place. He raises stock quite extensively.
A native of Schleswig-Holstein, Ger- many, Nick Bornhoft was born October 15, 1867. His father, John Bornbott, a weaver by trade, died in the old country some twenty years ago. He was two years old when his mother, Martha Bornhoft, died. Nick was brought up and educated in the town of Gammendorf. In 1883, at the age of fifteen years, he undertook the long journey to America. For a year he was employed at farm labor near Ham- mond, Indiana, and was similarly engaged two years in Scott county, lowa. Cass county, in the same state, was then made his home, where he resided until 1900. He worked out five years, then rented land and commenced his career as an in- dependent farmer. In the year mentioned he established his residence in Pipestone county. Our subject is a member of the MI. W. A. and I. O. O. F. lodges of Trosky.
At Atlantic, Cass county, lowa, on No- vember 29, 1889, Nick Bornhoft was joined in wedlock to Louisa Duwe, who was born in that county November 1, 1873. A son and a daughter have been born to these parents: Arnold, born May 22, 1897; and Martha, born January 17, 1899.
AUGUST JOHANNSEN (1888), Sweet township farmer, is a native of Pipestone county. He was born June 23, 1888, on the southeast quarter of section 31, Sweet township, land which his father, Peter
Johannsen, bought in an early day. Peter Johannsen and his wife, Tinie (Dahms) Johannsen, came originally from Germany. Besides Angust, of this sketch, they are the parents of another son, William, and two daughters, Minnie (Mrs. Gus. Boock) and Eda.
Our subject was educated in the district schools and until 1908 assisted with the cultivation of the home farm. In the year mentioned he rented the southwest quar- ter of section 32, Sweet, which he now con- ducts. Mr. Johannsen raises lots of cat- tle, hogs and sheep.
August Johannsen was married to Maud C. Jessen, a native of Clinton county, Iowa.
ALEXANDER H. SLAGG (1900), of Pipestone, is the proprietor of the Cash department store in that city, a concern which opened for business May 14, 1910, and which is headquarters for a complete stock of general merchandise. Mr. Slagg has been engaged in business in Pipestone since 1900. That year he established the "Fair" store, which he conducted alone for two years and then admitted W. P. Russel to partnership. The "Fair" was un- der the control of Slagg & Russel eight years and was then sold.
Dane county, Wisconsin, is the place of Mr. Slagg's nativity. He was born Decem- ber 2, 1863, the son of John and Hannah (Brelsford) Slagg, both of English parent- age. In early childhood John Slagg and Hannah Brelsford accompanied their par- ents to America, the families locating in Albion township, Dane county, Wisconsin, and there they grew up, were married, and established a home. Of the six children born to this union Alexander is next to the youngest. Four other sons and one daugh- ter comprise the family. They are Edward, Joseph, Albert, Charles and Anna.
At the age of twenty years Alexander Slagg went to the city of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, where he completed a high school education, and then for ten years was in the employ of the Milwaukee Cas- ket company as traveling salesman. On retiring from a career as "knight of the grip," Mr. Slagg engaged in the grocery and bakery business at Fort Atkinson. He conducted a store for three years, and on
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selling out moved to Pipestone and became a merchant of that city.
While residing at Fort Atkinson, Wiscon- sin, on June 25, 1890, Alexander H1. Slagg was married to lda M. Robinson, a na- tive of Butler county, lowa. They have two daughters: Ruth, born October 4, 1893, and Mildred, born January 11, 1903. Our subject is a Mason and Modern Wood- man.
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