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Mr. Colburn, together with O. P. Nason and J. H. Robson, were the most actively interested in the organization and the early development of the Pipestone Commercial club, which has been of inestimable value in attracting widespread attention to the many commercial and industrial ad- vantages offered by Pipestone to the inves- tor and home seeker. Mr. Colburn was the club's first secretary, and on retiring from the office was by succeeded J. H. Nichols. Fraternally he is allied with the Odd Fellows. Modern Brotherhood, United Commercial Travelers and .M. W. A.
At St. Paul, on October 20, 1900, Robert W. Colburn was united in marriage to Emaline Snow, of Vinton, Iowa, a native of Ursa, Adams county, Illinois. They are the parents of two children, Frances and Robert.
CURTIS 1. GROVER (1900), Gray town- ship farmer, was born in Tama county, Jowa, January 19, 1874, the son of George and Katherine (Fullmer) Grover. He was educated in the district schools and resided on the home farm in Tama county until 1895, when the family moved to Harris, Osceola county, Iowa. There the Grovers remained five years, at the end of which time they became identified with Pipestone county interests, George Grover in 1900 buying the east half of section 36, Gray. The first year in the Minnesota connty Curtis broke prairie and raised a crop of flax; then he rented his father's farm, which he has since successfully conducted. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen lodge.
At Pipestone, on January 2, 1901, Mr. Grover of this review was joined in mar- riage to Ida Zimmerman, the daughter of Martin and Louisa (Kemnetz) Zimmer- man. She was born in Floyd county, Iowa, July 10, 1885. Mr. and Mrs. Grover are the parents of the following named chil- dren: Grace, born February 4, 1902; Hazel, born January 30, 1904; Curtis, born April 12, 1906; Martin, born October 4, 1909.
WILLIS E. DOAN (1896) is an Edgerton grain buyer. He was born in Ingham coun. ty, Michigan, October 25, 1858, the son of Alonzo and Betsey E. Doan, the latter of whom is still living. The father died in 1898.
Willis E. Doan grew to manhood on his father's Michigan farm. On attaining his majority he went to Kansas, remained there two years, and then homesteaded and lived in Hand county, South Dakota, ten years. In 1895 he located in Luverne for a year, was a Burke township farmer for twice that length of time, then settled in Edgerton, and has since been employed in the different elevators. He also oversees a small farm. He is a member of the M. W. A. lodge and his wife of the Royal Neighbors.
In Mason, Michigan, on December 30, 1888, Willis E. Doan and Etta DuBois were made man and wife. Mrs. Doan was born in Cass county, Michigan, August 6, 1869, the daughter of C. C. and Alsina (Phelps)
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DuBois, the latter of whom is deceased. The father, C. C. DuBois, is a resident of Lansing, Michigan. Two sons have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Doan, namely: Vance E., born August 27, 1890, a brakeman on the Milwaukee railroad; and Mort A., born April 15, 1894, who is the night operator at the Edgerton depot. In May, 1909, Mrs. Doan opened a cafe and restaurant in Ed- gerton. She serves meals, short orders, and deals in confectionery, bakery goods, etc.
JESSE C. WALTER (1905) is a con- tractor and builder of the village of Trosky. He was born in Stephenson coun- ty, Illinois, the ninth of June, 1883, the son of Albert and Mary (Clarno) Walter, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Illinois. They are now resi- dents of Illinois.
Our subject was reared on his father's farm and lived there until attaining his majority. He then went to the town of Orangeville, where he learned the curpen- ter's trade and was employed at such occupation at that place until 1905, the date of his settlement in Trosky. For awhile he worked with J. L. Chaney, then established his present contracting and building business. He has erected many of the substantial buildings in Trosky and vicinity.
At Edgerton, on December 12, 1907, Jesse C. Walter was joined in wedlock to Mollie E. Frankeberger, also a native of Stephenson county, Illinois, where she was born September 12, 1882. One child, Wen- dell W., was born to these parents, Oc- tober 17, 1908. Mr. Walter holds men- bership in the Odd Fellows lodge.
HENRY FLYGARE (1909), of Ruthton, is the manager of the branch yard of the H. W. Ross Lumber company at that point. He is a native Minnesotan, having been born in Atwater, Kandiyohi county, on August 2, 1879. His parents, Andrew and Mary (Hallberg) Flygare, came to the United States from their native land of Sweden when young. They were married at Providence, Rhode Island, and settled in Kandiyohi county in an early day. They now reside at Atwater.
Henry was educated in the graded school of Atwater and in the commercial depart- ment of Highland Park college, Des Moines, lowa. Ou completing the course of the latter institution, he entered the em- ploy of the Security Bank of Atwater as bookkeeper. At the age of twenty-four he became a grain buyer, and in that ca- pacity was located a year and a half at Guelph, North Dakota, and for three years at Green Valley, Minnesota. While living at the latter place Mr. Flygare became connected with the H. W. Ross Lumber company, and was transferred from the management of the yard at Green Valley to liis present position in 1909. He is the venerable counsel of Ruthton Camp No. 3694, Modern Woodmen of America.
Henry Flygare was married in his na- tive town on May 17, 1906, to Clara Irene Davidson, who was born in Atwater June 9, 1881. A daughter, Alice, was born to these parents on May 7, 1907.
ADOLPH SMALLFIELD (1905), who farms the southeast quarter of section 26, Gray township, was born at Davenport, Iowa, October 11, 1859. His father, Wil- liam Smallfield, a German by birth, settled in Davenport in 1848. For a number of years he was a merchant in that city, then became a Scott county farmer. The mother of our subject was Mary (Steinhilber) Smallfield, a native of Ohio. Adolph lived on, and assisted with the management of, the home farm until after his twenty-third birthday. Then he married and com- menced farming on his own account. He left Iowa in 1901 to go to Rock county, Min- nesota. He farmed in Kanaranzi township three years and then became identified with agricultural interests in Pipestone county. Prior to moving to his present place, our subject farmed rented land on sections 17 and 7, Gray township.
In Scott county, Iowa, on February 3, 1883, Mr. Smallfield was joined in wedlock to Alvina Schroeder, a native of that county. She was born Angust 14, 1864, the daughter of Henry and Catherine (Mar- tin) Schroeder, both natives of Holstein, Germany. . To Mr. and Mrs. Smallfield have been born the following seven chil- dren : Albert, born November 27, 1883;
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William, born February 24, 1885; Theodore, born March 13, 1887; Otto, born June 14, 1890; Arthur, born December 4, 1893; Meta, born November 6, 1896; and Bertha, born July 31, 1903.
PAUL LANYON (1898) farms 800 acres of Pipestone connty land, which includes all of section 36, range 47, Altona, and the northeast quarter of section 1, range 47, Troy. He is also a large raiser of high grade stock.
To the parents, Jolin Lanyon, a native of England, and Annie (Sherrill) Lanyon, a native of Wisconsin, was born Paul Lan- yon of this review in Lafayette county, Wisconsin, September 8, 1886. Both par- ents are still living and are residents of Pipestone county. Paul attended the dis- triet schools of his native county until fif- teen years of age. Then, in 1901, the fam- ily moved to Humboldt county, Iowa, where the father engaged in farming two years. For similar periods the Lanyons were lo- cated at Milford and Terrill, lowa. Our subject was employed in the railroad shops in Oelwein, Jowa, for a year previons to coming to Pipestone county, which was in 1908. Since August, 1910, Mr. Lanyon has managed the E. A. Brown elevator at Cresson.
SIDNEY ROBSON (1908) is the treas. urer of the firm of Robson-Hilliard com- pany, wholesale grocers, which is counted among the foremost of Pipestone's substan- tially established commercial enterprises. Because of Pipestone's exceptional advan- tages as a railroad center the city is a fruitful field for the operation of such a house as the Robson-llilliard company, as its success and increasing volume of busi- ness attests. The Robson-Hilliard com- pany employs an able corps of salesmen, who cover a large tributary territory, and the quality of the output compares favor- ably with that of the largest of the state's wholesale grocery houses. The Pipestone company was organized in 1907 and began business in July of that year. The paid-in capital stock is $75,000 and lhe follow- ing are the officers: J. Il. Robson, presi- dent; J. W. Hilliard, vice president; James
A. Robson, secretary; Sidney Robson, treas- urer.
Sidney Robson of this sketch is the son of J. H. Robson, of Owatonna, Minnesota, and Anna G. (Schad) Robson, deceased. Both parents were born in Geneva, Free- born county, in the pioneer days of the state's history. Mrs. Robson was the first white child born in the county of Free- horn. Sidney was born in the city of Owa- tonna, September 2, 1882. Following his graduation from the Owatonna high school, he was for a year a student at the uni- versity of Minnesota. His school days over he engaged in a banking career, which was marked with success. For two years he held the position of cashier of the Security State Bank of Owatonna; then, until mov- ing to Pipestone in 1908, he was employed in a similar capacity with the Mouse River Bank, of Towner, North Dakota.
The marriage of Sidney Robson to Selma Peterson occurred at Owatonna on May 2, 1907. Mrs. Robson is a native of Towner, North Dakota.
R. A. HYDE (1905) is the junior member of the firm of Green & Hyde, real estate brokers, of Pipestone. A native of Eng- land, he was born at Staleybridge October 23, 1877. He was four years of age when he crossed the sea with his parents and miade settlement in the United States. On the farm of his father near LeMars, Iowa, Mr. Ilyde resided until after his twenty- second birthday. He was educated in the district schools of his home county.
For eight years Mr. Hyde was connected with the Advance Thresher company, as traveling representative. His headquarters were for most of the time at Mitchell, South Dakota, though in the years 1905 and 1906 he was located at Pipestone. In 1909 he formed a partnership with W. A. Green in the real estate business at Gentry, Arkansas. The firm moved from that point to Pipestone in April, 1910, and now con- duct an office in the Commerce block. In addition to real estate, Green & Hyde deal in automobile supplies and are agents for the Overland car.
At Pipestone, on June 22, 1904, R. A. Hyde was joined in marriage to Alice Howes, a native of Merrill, lowa. To this
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union two daughters, Margaret and Eliza- beth L., have been born. Mr. Hyde is a member of the order of United Commercial Travelers.
JOSEPH STURZL (1902), blacksmith of Pipestone, is a native German. He was horn June 19, 1878, the son of Bartholomew and Theresa Sturzl, both deceased. They were parents also of two other sons, Xavia and Frank, and of two daughters, Helena and Josephine.
When a child of six years Joseph crossed the Atlantic with his parents and located with them at Medford, Taylor county, Wis- consin. Two years later the family moved to Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, and there Jo- seph divided his time between attendance at the public schools and learning the black- smith's trade in the shop of his father nntil he was thirteen years old. He was then left fatherless, and until 1897 he was employed in different shops, completing his trade. In the year mentioned Mr. Sturzl reopened the shop of his father in Sleepy Eye and conducted the same until locating in Pipestone five years later. He bought the shop of L. H. Moore and the tools of Charles Davis and has built up a well equip- ped plant for general work. Mr. Sturzl is an expert horse shoer. He owns his residence in Pipestone.
At New Ulm, Minnesota, on July 30, 1902, Joseph Sturzl was married to Barbara Platzer, a native of Germany who came to this country in early childhood. Three sons and one daughter have been born to these parents, namely : Jerome, Law- rence, Joseph and Josephine.
WILLIAM C. ASLESEN (1902), who is associated with his brother, Erick J. As- lesen, and John Rudd in the conduct of Jasper's big and successful mercantile es- tablishment of Aslesen Bros. & Rudd, was born in Brownsville, Minnesota, August 20, 1877. He is the son of that esteemed and honored couple, Christ and Sigrid (Ellef- son) Aslesen, resident of Jasper of whom mention is made in this volume under the sketch of Erick J. Aslesen.
The year of his birth William accom- panicd his parents in their journey to es-
tablish a home in Minnehaha county, South Dakota, where his father filed on a home- stead claim. When he was a boy of five, the family moved to Sioux Falls, remained there seven years, and then returned to the old farm. William's early education was received in the public schools of Sioux Falls and Jasper and later he was graduated from Macallaster college, St. Paul. His school days over, he went to Hills, Min- nesota, and for a year and a half clerked in the store of Olaf Skyberg. In 1902 he removed to Jasper and entered the firm in which he has since been interested.
Aslesen Bros. & Rudd is an institution of which Jasper may well be proud. In point of actual business transacted, it stands in the lead of any similar concern doing business in Pipestone county. The firm carries a full and complete line of general merchandise and clothing, the business being housed in two separate buildings. In addition, the firm owns other property in Jasper and considerable farm land in South Dakota.
At Watertown, South Dakota, on May 26, 1909, Mr. Aslesen was married to Miss Nettie Wells, who was born in Mankato, Minnesota, February 27, 1882, the daughter of James and Mary (Fields) Wells. One daughter, Mary, was born to these par- ents, March 4, 1910. Mr. Aslesen holds membership in the K. P. and M. W. A. lodges.
AUGUST C. KALLSEN (1910), farmer and stock raiser of Eden township, is a na- tive Iowan. lle was born in Benton coun- ty August 26, 1888, the son of Peter and Matilda (Miller) Kallsen. Peter Kallsen is a native German, but the mother was born in Benton county. August was reared on a farm and was educated in the district and parochial school at Keystone. He started to work ont at the age of fifteen years and was so employed three years. Then he rented land and farmed for himself in Iowa. In the spring of 1910 he came to Pipestone county and has since rented and farmed the east half of section 36, range 47, Eden, land owned by his father. He is engaged quite extensively in the raising of sheep.
Our subject was married in Pipestone on September 21, 1910, to Laura Meyer, also
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a native of Benton county, lowa. She was born November 22, 1891, the daughter of Louis and Anna (Petermann) Meyer, now residents of Pipestone. Mr. and Mrs. Kallsen are members of the German Lll- theran church.
CHARLES W. STUDE (1907) caters to the automobile trade of Pipestone. He con- duets a garage and an up-to-date repair shop and is the local agent for the Ford ear. Charles is the third in a family of four sons and one daughter, the names of the other children being Henry, Christ, Louis and Annie. He was four years of age when his father, Christian Stude, died. His mother, Margaret Knoa, married a sec- ond time and now resides in the state of Washington.
Our subject passed the first sixteen years of his life on the farm of his father in Livingston county, Illinois, where he was born February 6, 1878. He was educated in the district schools and later in the pub- lic schools of Streator. In the fall of 1893 Mr. Stude was adopted by the state of Minnesota. He worked for a year on a farm near Brewster, Nobles county, then took employment in the MeChesney black- smith and machine shop in that village and became proficient as a mechanic. For a number of seasons he was engaged as al engineer in a threshing crew. He establish- ed the first feed mill in Brewster, which he conducted two years, selling out on his removal to Pipestone in 1907.
Charles W. Stude was joined in matri- mony on June 20, 1906, at Brewster, to Minnie Pinz, the daughter of Herman Pinz, one of Nobles county's early settlers. A daughter, Dorothy, has been born to this union.
ELMER R. SANDERS (1904), who suc- cessfully farms the southwest quarter of section 20, Grange township, is a native Jowan. lfe was born on the farm of his father, George W. Sanders, in Benton coun- ty, on April IS, 1866. Ilis father, a na- tive of Virginia, died in 1886. The mother of our subject, Ellen (Goff) Sanders, a na- tive of Wisconsin, still resides in Benton county. Besides Elmer there are seven
other sons and two daughters in the San- ders family, namely: Isaac B., Charles T., Albert J., Will, Perry E., Fred, George, Ln- cinda and Martha,
Elmer Sanders was educated in the dis- triet schools of his native county, where he also began his career as farmer at the age of eighteen years. In 1896 he moved to Wright county, lowa, farmed there eight years, and then established his residence in Pipestone county. Ile engages exten- sively in the threshing business. Mr. Sand- ers' 1910 crop of barley yielded twenty-five bushels to the acre, his oats, forty-five bushels, and his corn, fifty bushels.
Our subject was married July 14, 1910, in Pipestone to Mrs. Maggie Furnia, a na- tive of Michigan. Mrs. Sanders has an only son, Joseph Furnia, of Chicago. Mr. Sanders holds membership in the Odd Fel. lows lodge.
ALBERT II. DIETZ (1905) is the man- ager of the yard of the Lampert Lumber company at Holland. Ile is a native Min- nesotan and was born in Cottonwood coun- ty on March 25, 1881. His father, Henry Dietz, is also a son of the North Star state and was born near New Ulm. Henry Dietz married Mary Gluth, who came to the United States in early childhood from her native land of Germany. The Dietz family were early settlers of Cottonwood county and are now residents of Sanborn, Min- nesota, at which place Henry Dietz is a general merchant. Besides Albert H., of this review, there are eight other children in the family, as follows: Lilly, Anna, Charlie, Gertie, Lilly, Walter, Esther and Arnold.
Albert was five years of age when the family moved from Cottonwood county to Sanborn, and in that town he received a graded school education and commenced the career he has since followed. At the age of eighteen he entered the employ of the Lampert Lumber company as second man in the branch at Sanborn, a position he held six years. lle then became the manager of the Mississippi Lumber & Coal company's yard at Monticello, Minnesota. He remained at that place six months, leav- ing in 1905 to accept his present position in Holland. Mr. Dietz holds membership in
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the Modern Brotherhood of America lodge.
At Sanborn, Minnesota, on January 12, 1905, our subject was married to lda M. Leopold, the daughter of Jacob and Mary Leopold, of Sanborn. She was born in that town May 26, 1882. Mr. and Mrs. Dietz are the parents of two children: Clifford, born August 9, 1906, and lvan, born January 9, 1910.
JOHN M. AREND (1907) is a blacksmith of Trosky. A native of New York, he was born at Sheldon January 8, 1879. At the age of four he moved with his par- ents to Gibertsville, Iowa, where he grew to manhood on his father's farm. At the age of fifteen he began to learn the black- smith's trade, and on attaining his majority he went to Colman, South Dakota. For two years he did carpenter work, then bought a half interest in a blacksmith shop and was engaged in its conduct until March 20, 1907, the date of his settlement in Trosky. He owns one of the neatest little shops in the county and does general blacksmith and wood work and repairing.
On June 3, 1908, at Gilbertsville, lowa, Mr. Arend was joined in marriage to Mary Demuth, who was born at that place in July, 1881. Mr. Arend has served as jus- tice of the peace for the past three years. He is a member of the Catholic church.
THEODORE CARSTENS (1909) is the junior member of the firm of Henning- Carstens Company, proprietors of the "Fair" store at Pipestone. This enterpris- ing business institution has been under its present management since November, 1909. At that time Mr. Carstens and Carl Henning came to the city and bought the dry goods stock of Sommerville Bros, and the general merchandise stock of E. J. Beaudry. These two businesses were combined into the "Fair," which now occupies the double room in the Syndicate block and is recognized as the largest department store in the county.
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, is the birthplace, and August 2, 1865, the date of the birth of Theodore Carstens. His parents, John and Emily Carstens, are both natives of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. They came to this country early in life and were mar-
ried in Wisconsin during the pioneer days of that state. For the past twenty-eight years Mr. and Mrs. Carstens have been residents of Medford, Wiscousin. Eight years after his birth our subject moved to New Holstein, Wisconsin, where he was a student in the public schools until his fifteenth year. Then the family home was established at Medford. Theodore was as- sociated with his father in the meat and provision business in that town for twenty years. He traveled at intervals and finally disposed of his interests in the Wisconsin town to locate in Pipestone. .
At Renville, Minnesota, on June 24, 1896, our subject was united in marriage to Ber- tha Henning, and to this union have been born two daughters, Caroline and Dorothy. Mr. Carstens holds membership in the Masonic and Modern Woodmen orders.
JOHN H. BONG (1898) is one of the high- ly esteemed citizens of Jasper and a prac- tising physician and surgeon in that thriv- ing community. He is one of the success- ful practitioners in the county and is a man who has risen through adverse circum- stances to a position of affluence. Dr. Bong makes a specialty of the diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat and intends in the future to devote his entire attention to such practice. He has taken special post- graduate work in a leading Chicago school with that intent.
A native of Sweden, Dr. Bong was born July 25, 1872. He came alone at the tender age of eight years to this country and direct to Minnesota. He grew to man- hood in the village of Carlton, near Du- Juth. Starting unaided and without means, he owes his rise in the world entirely to his own efforts. After completing a public school course, he worked his way through Valparaiso university and completed the scientific course. He then taught school for a number of years, following which he entered the medical department of the uni- versity of Minnesota, from which he was graduated as an M. D. with the class of 1897. After practising for a year and a half in the city of Minneapolis, Dr. Bong located in his present field of labor.
Jasper can boast of no more public spir- ited citizens than is Dr. Bong. He has
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been the president of the local board of health since the first year of his residence there, and has been a capable chief execn- tive of the Commercial club. He organized the Jasper telephone service and was the first president of the controlling com- pany. In the past he has been a director of the Farmers Elevator company, secre- tary of the Co-operative Creamery company, and a member of the board of education. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Ma- sons, Knights of Pythias, Maccabees, Mod- ern Woodmen, Ancient Order United Work- men and Royal Neighbors orders. He is the medical examiner of the three last named lodges and for all the old line insur- ance companies doing business in the vil- Jage.
The doctor owns a beautiful home in the village and two Rock county farms. On one of his farms, south of Jasper, is lo- cated the Blue Jasper stone quarry, the only blue stone known in the vicinity. It takes a beautiful polish and is very much in demand for building, trimming and mon- umental purposes. The quarry has been opened and worked to some extent.
At Jasper, on the twenty-seventh of Feb- ruary, 1899, Dr. Bong was married to Mrs. Louise Johnson, the former wife of Dr. M. Johnson, deceased, a well known ear- Jier physician of Jasper. Mrs. Bong is a native of Marshalltown, Iowa. She is a pharmacist and at one time was proprietor of Johnson's pharmacy. One son, John Nor- man, was born to these parents, on Febru- ary 19, 1903.
F. W. PRATT (1891), for twenty years a resident of Pipestone, is the manager of the Minneapolis Brewing company's branch at that point. The Pipestone branch is one of the important and early established dis- tributing points of the company and the manager of it has supervision over all the others in southwestern Minnesota and southeastern South Dakota, extending to the Missouri river, a territory which
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