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Mr. Harroun left the family home in 1871 and located in Plymouth county, Iowa, near LeMars, where he took a homestead, en- gaging in teaching school during the winter months and farming during the summer sea. sons. He was elected county superintend- ent of schools of Plymouth county in 1873 and served a two-year term. In August, 1876, he located in the little village of Lu- verne, and that place has since been his home. Upon his arrival in Luverne Mr. Harroun engaged in the book, music and stationery business in partnership with his cousin, C. E. Hurlbut, who later sold his interest to C. O. Ilawes; then the firm be- came Harroun & Hawes and so remained several years. During this time Mr. Hawes was postmaster of Luverne and our sub- jeet served as his deputy eleven years. Mr. llarroun bonght his partner's interest in the store in 1895 and his since been sole pro- prietor. For several terms Mr. Harroun was village recorder and he was a member
of the local board of education ten years. He is a member of the Masonic lodge.
The father of our subject was Alban Har- roun, a native of New York state and a contractor by occupation. He died at Fort Dodge, lowa, in 1889, aged seventy-eight years. Nancy J. Churchill was the maiden name of the mother of our subject. She was born in Connecticut, of English ancestry. She is now living at Cherokee, Iowa, and is ninety-two years of age. Our subject was the eldest of four children born to these parents. The only other surviving child is Mrs. M. Welliver, of Cherokee, lowa.
Mr. Harroun was married at LeMars, Iowa, June 13, 1878, to Kate Mckay, a na. tive of Canada and a daughter of Angus and Harriet Mckay. To this union has been born one child, Eleanor, born May 26, 1883. She is employed as a teacher at Dodge Center, Minnesota.
ADOLPH SCHROEDER (1889), who owns and farms the southwest quarter of section 28, Springwater township, is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, where he was born January 20, 1856, the son of William and Christina (Lang) Schroeder, who came to America from Germany in 1849 and located in New Orleans.
Adolph was educated and for seventeen years lived in New Orleans. In 1873 he moved to Scott county, Iowa, and worked there for three years. In 1876 he went west to California and Oregon, but returned the same fall to Scott county, Iowa, and during the next five years worked on farms. He then engaged in farming in Scott coun- ty, and was so engaged until 1889, when he came to Rock county and located on the farm on which he now lives. After farm- ing the place nine years, he leased it to a tenant and went to Walcott, Iowa, where he engaged in the general merchandise busi- ness in partnership with William F. Ruge. He was in business there nine years and then sold to his partner, returning to his Rock county farm in 1907.
Mr. Schroeder was married at Walcott, Iowa, June 21, 1892, to Anna Ruge. Mrs. Schroeder is a daughter of Claus and Elsabe (Slump) Ruge, both natives of Germany. Mrs. Schroeder was born June 21, 1862. The following named four children have been
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born to these parents: Elsie, born April 11, 1893; Lenora, born July 10, 1895; William, born September 8, 1898; Stella, born March 14, 1901.
LYCURGUS MERKEL (1872), one of Beaver Creek's prominent citizens, has passed all but the first four years of his life in active pursuits within the borders of Rock county. He was born in Rice county, Minnesota, the twentieth of January, 1868, the son of Jacob and Elizabeth N. (Dunn) Merkel, the latter of whom is deceased.
Jacob Merkel, the father of our subject, moved with his family from eastern Minne- sota in 1872 and homesteaded the northeast quarter of section 21, Beaver Creek town- ship, which continued to be the family home until 1900. In that year Lycurgus became a resident of Beaver Creek village and in partnership with his father engaged in the threshing business under the firm name of Merkel & Son. The Merkels have per- haps as complete an equipment for carrying on their business as is to be found in the county. Their outfit consists of two thresh- ing rigs, two clover hullers, a saw mill and a repair shop in Beaver Creek, and during the threshing season they employ a large force of men and engage in their occu- pation on an extensive scale.
Lycurgus Merkel was married in Minne- apolis June 24, 1901, to Blanche English, a native of Bloomington, Illinois. They have two children, named Reeva and Kenneth. Mr. Merkel holds membership in the Yeo- men lodge and is at present serving a term as one of Beaver Creek's councilmen.
GEORGE QUALLEY (1876) is an old set- tler of Martin township and one of the pre- cinct's most practical and progressive agri- culturists, Upon his finely improved farm, the southwest quarter of section 4, has been erected within the past few years a large modern residence and a commodious barn, with but few equals in the township.
George is the son of Jacob J. and Engebor (Johnson) Qualley, and was born in Westre Slideri, Valders, Norway, March 23, 1862. Eight years after his birth he accompanied his parents in their journey to the new world and resided with them for six years in
Winneshiek county, Iowa. The father, who had bought the northeast quarter of section 3, Martin township, moved there with his fam- ily in 1876. On that farm our subject grew to manhood and received an education in the near by district school. At the age of twenty-one he commenced farming for himself. During the next few years, in com- pany with his brother, John, he bought the southeast quarter of section 29 and the southwest quarter of section 4. In 1894 the brothers divided their holdings, George re- ceiving the last described land, which he has since farmed and resided upon, and he has made the many substantial improve- ments found thereon.
In Luverne, on the first day of July, 1893, George Qualley and Helen Knutson were married. She is the daughter of Knut and Olava (Olson) Sire, who came to Amer- ica from Norway in 1874. The mother died July, 1878, in Martin township: the father resides in Hills. To Mr. and Mrs. Qualley the following five children have been born: Irne O., born May 30, 1894; Helmer G., born May 17, 1896: Clara O., born De- cemher 29, 1898; Mabel J., born February 12, 1902; and Lawrence E., born November 28, 1908. The family are members of the Synod Norwegian Lutheran church. Mr. Qualley is clerk of school district No. 39.
LEWIS G. LARSON (1876) is the son of one of the homesteaders of Beaver Creek township, Gunder Larson, who took as his claim in the late seventies the northeast quarter of section 12, range 47. The mother of our subject was Engeger (Blie) Larson,
Lewis G. Larson of this biography was born in Hardanger, Norway, April 20, 1868. When a child two years of age be accom- panied his parents to this country and lo- cated with them in Decorah, lowa. His father was variously employed there un- til 1876, when he brought his family to Rock county. Lewis' education in the dis- trict schools was supplemented by a two years' course in Decorah institute. After leaving school in 1893, he went to Cod- dington county, South Dakota, and taught for awhile, then clerked in general stores at Webster and Bradley for five years. In the fall of 1898 he returned to Rock
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eounty and farmed rented land for eight years, or until moving to his present prop- erty in 1906, the northwest quarter of sec- tion 1. range 47, Beaver Creek township.
Lewis G. Larson was joined in marriage in South Dakota, on July 1, 1898, to Alma Hegna, the daughter of Erick and Martha (Scrabec) Hegna, natives of Norway, Mrs. Larson was born in Mower county, Min- nesota, October 27, 1878. They are the parents of three children: Elmer G., horn July 1, 1902; Reuben L., born March 7. 1904; and Mabel A., born January 11, 1905. Mr. Larson and family are members of the Synod Norwegian Lutheran church.
FREDERICK C. NUFFER (1874) is an carly day settler of Rock county and is now one of the progressive and successful business men of Hills, a reliable dealer in hardware, tinware, cutlery, paints, oils, etc. His birth occurred in Cedar Falls, Iowa, on the second of November, 1871. In his third year Frederick moved with his parents to Rock county and settled with them on the southeast quarter of section 11, Martin township, which his father took as a homestead. Our subject worked for his father until attaining his majority, and then for four years he worked out on other farms. In the spring of 1895 he commenced his business career in Hills. He erected and is the owner of the substantial building which houses his business. In the fall of 1910 he bought the Thompson stock of hardware and com- bined the two stocks in the Thompson building. For the past three years Mr. Nuffer has been the efficient village as- sessor. He is a member of the M. W. A. lodge.
Frederick is the son of Fred and Mar- garet Nuffer, both natives of Germany who came to this country early in life. They lived in the eastern states until about 1865, when they moved to Cedar Falls, lowa. In the early seventies they joined the stolid pioneers of Martin township. Mr. Nuffer lived on the old homestead nn- til 1910, when he took up his residence in Ilills. Margaret Nuffer died a short time after the family came to Rock county. Fred Nuffer was married a second time
in 1878 to Mrs. Patrina Hansen, a native of Denmark.
Frederick C. Nuffer of this review was married in Hills June 28, 1902, to Ingru Aslesen, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Christ Aslesen, of Jasper. Mrs. Nuffer is a native Minnesotan, born September 27, 1876. To these parents three children have been born: Aliee, born May 1, 1903; Al- bert, born March 28, 1906: Margaret, born September 25, 1907.
HENRY QUINBY SNOOK (1882) was for many years a well-known Rock county farmer, but of late he has retired from active pursuits and lives in the city of Luverne. He is the owner of one-half of seetion 30, Vienna township. He is a na- tive of Illinois and was born in Logan county November 24, 1861, the son of George W. and Mary Magdalene (Fuller) Snook. The former parent was born in Maryland and died in April. 1899, aged seventy-six years. The mother of our sub- ject was an Ohioan by birth and followed her husband to the grave the year after his decease. She was seventy-eight years of age at the time. The Snook family are of German descent.
As a lad of six Henry moved with his parents to McLean county, Illinois, where he was educated and grew to manhood on his father's farm, It was in 1882 that the family departed from Illinois and estab- lished their residence in Rock county, He resided on a farm two miles west of Lu- verne for nine years and for two years farmed his land in Vienna township, the home quarter of which had been be- queathed him by his father.
For two years thereafter our subject was absent from Rock county. The time was spent as a farmer in Henry county, Mis- souri. On returning, he rented his own place in Vienna and farmed the original place near Luverne. He resided there a year and for a like period resided just without the corporate limits of the village of Beaver Creek. Abandoning the farm for nine months, Mr. Snook engaged in the restaurant business at Marshall, Minne- sota, but returned to take charge of his Vienna township holdings.
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Mr. Snook lived in Luverne six months in 1902, and then went to Deuel county, South Dakota, where he followed his call- ing for a year. He returned to Luverne to engage in the restaurant and pool hall business, and for one year was the chief of police. From 1907 to the fall of 1910 Mr. Encok added more luster to his career as a Vienna township farmer, and again in 1910 he located in the fair capital city of the county, to make in it a permanent residence.
Henry Q. Snook was joined in marriage at Bellflower, Illinois, on March 9, 1881, to Emma Barnett, who was born in the town of her marriage on July 13, 1864. This union has been blessed by the fol- lowing named children, five sons and one daughter: Charlie Leonard, who conducts the home farm, born April 24, 1882; Wes- ley Albert, of Luverne, born December 9, 1883; Maud Lauretta (Mrs. Elmer Tatge), of Beaver Creek township, born September 8, 1885: Martin Guy, of Luverne town- ship, born December 8, 1887; Benjamin Wright, born August 12, 1892; and Floyd Daniel, born July 25, 1902. The last two named sons reside at home.
While a resident of Vienna township Mr. Snook served for a year as the town clerk, and for a like period as the treas- urer of his school district. Fraternally he is affiliated with the M. W. A. and I. O. O. F. lodges of Luverne.
DELL O. NORTON (1891) is a prosper- ous and extensive farmer and stock raiser of Luverne townsbip, He was born in lowa county, lowa, July 27, 1866. The Nor- ton family is of Irish descent whose resi- dence in America has been of long dura- tion. Albert Norton, the father of our sub- ject, was a native of New York state and died in lowa April 5, 1892, at the age of fifty-five years. His mother. Nancy (Sweezy ) Norton, also a native of New York, resides in Marengo, lowa. The Sweezy family is of German origin.
Dell O. Norton was reared on his fath- er's farm in lowa county, was educated in the rural schools, and remained there un- til after his twenty fifth birthday. Leaving home in 1891, he came to Rock county in company with his brother Ray. Their total
capital on reaching the county was sev- enty-five dollars in cash and six head of horses, which they drove up from Iowa. For the first ten years the brothers farmed in partnership. The first four years they rented 240 acres of David Weise, in Kan- aranzi township, and then for two years were on a place in Martin township a few miles northwest of Steen. The next three years they were located on the Ira Craw- ford stock farm, west of Beaver Creek. In 1898 the brothers commenced buying land. The first purchase was eighty acres of section 5, Beaver Creek township, and soon after they bought the other eighty of the same quarter. In 1899 they came into possession of a quarter section on section 17, Beaver Creek township.
In 1901 Dell and Ray Norton dissolved partnership and the former moved on to the land on section 17, while the brother located on the other farm which they had hought. In 1903 our subject traded the Beaver Creek farm for his present one of 240 acres, including the northwest quarter of section 7. Luverne township. This has been improved and is now one of the best in the precinct. In addition to his own land Mr. Norton rents and farms 240 acres, and his farming is on an ex- tensive scale. He raises considerable stock and keeps in bis herd, on an aver- age, seventy sheep, sixty-eight cattle, 115 hogs and twenty-two horses. During the fall of 1909 he erected a large and com- modious barn on his place. He is the road overseer for his district.
At Koszta, Iowa county, lowa, on April 22, 1890, Mr. Norton was married to An- nie V. Anderson, the daughter of Peter and Lonisa Anderson. Mrs. Norton's father is deceased, but her mother resides at Belle Plaine, lowa. On a farm near that city Mrs. Norton was born November 17, 1876. Mr. and Mrs. Norton are the parents of four children: Floyd, born November 29, 1892; Harvey, born March 30, 1895; Gladys, born February 16, 1898; Vera, born March 5, 1901.
EMIL A. SPRIESTERSBACH (1879) is a substantial agriculturist of Clinton town- ship who has for more than thirty years been prominently identified with Rock county's prosperity. His parents, Adam and
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Christina (Potenus) Spriestersbach, came from Germany to America in 1850. After a residence of two years in Ohio, they came as pioneers to Minnesota.
In Shakopee, Scott county, Emil A. Spries- tersbach was born April 8, 1855. Later he moved with his parents to Red Wing and then to Sauk Center, in both of which places his schooling was obtained. Our subject dates his residence in Rock county from 1879. He hired out to different farmers for five years, at the end of which time he bought the south half of the southeast quarter of section 36, Beaver Creek town- ship. He later became the owner of the north half of the same quarter and made many substantial improvements on the place.
In February, 1910, Mr. Spriestersbach sold his holdings on section 36 and bought the northwest quarter of section 6. Clinton township, upon which he moved in the spring of 1911. He served on the school board of his district five years. He is a member of the Evangelical church and the M. B. A. lodge.
SAMUEL TODD (1900) is the proprietor of a hardware store and meat market in the village of Beaver Creek, where he has resided the past eleven years. He is a na- tive of Illinois and was born in Ford county November 21, 1863. His parents, Jesse and Rosanna (Hagen) Todd, were natives of Indiana but became early set- tlers of Ford county, Illinois, where they died. Samuel attended the district schools and assisted on the home farm in Illinois until he was twenty-three years of age.
At that age Mr. Todd came west. He located at Worthington, Minnesota, where for two and one-half years "he engaged in farm labor and served as a hotel clerk. He then went to the state of Washington, where he bought and conducted a forty- two acre fruit farm and also rented and worked another quarter section. Upon re- tiring at the end of two years, he became a clerk in a general store at Clearbrook, Washington, for a time and then returned to his llinois home, where he remained until 1900, the date of his settlement in Rock county. He farmed in company with his brother in Martin township until the
fall of 1902, when he engaged in the meat market and restaurant business in Beaver Creek. During part of the time he has been in business in Beaver Creek Mr. Todd has also engaged in the furniture and gen- eral merchandise business, but he now confines his attention exclusively to the hardware and meat market business.
The subject of this review owns a farm of 120 acres near Beaver Creek, and in connection with his other business inter- ests he conducts the farm, making a spec- ialty of stock feeding. He also has vil- lage property. When he bought the S. U. Tjaden stock of hardware in April, 1910, he also bought the building which housed the business. He owns the building oc- cupied by the office of the Beaver Creek Banner and a fine residence. In recent years also he bought the Shell & Smith village property, consisting of 127 lots, and he still owns sixty of them. Mr. Todd is a public spirited man and has done much toward the upbuilding of Beaver Creek.
Mr. Todd was married in Martin town- ship October 24, 1901, to Helen M. Nuffer, a native of Lyon county, lowa, and a daughter of the late Fred Nuffer, of Hills. Mr. and Mrs. Todd are the parents of the following named children: Lena, Mand, Ethel and Laura. Mr. Todd has served as a member of the village council. He is a member of the Methodist church and of the A. O. U. W. lodge.
EMIL M. CHRISTIANSON (1906) is a member of the progressive and successful firm of Christianson Bros., furniture deal- ers at Hills. The three brothers who are associated in this business are all young men of integrity and tact, who have demonstrated that success is possible to the furniture dealer in a small town. Theirs is a model store and their business has grown and extended despite the pre- dictions of sincere friends that they would fail in six months.
Emil is one in a family of seven chil- dren, the son of A. C. and Cecelia Chris- tianson, natives of Norway who came to the United States in 1867 and located in Rushford, Minnesota, in the early seven- ties. They later lived in Jackson and Nobles counties, Mrs. Christianson dying
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in the latter location in 1899. A. C. Chris- tianson at the age of seventy-nine resides with his son at Hills.
Our subject was born in Jackson county, Minnesota, May 10, 1877. While an infant he moved with his parents to Nobles county, where the family resided for ten years, and then returned to Jackson county. Emil lived on the home farm with his parents until arriving of age. Going to Jackson village, he learned the tinner's trade in the store of Gillespie & Sons and remained with that firm for two years. After working at his trade for a few months in Worthington, he returned to Jackson and was similarly employed for another year. Then after completing a course in the Mankato Commercial college, he went to Wilmont and clerked in a furni- ture and hardware store for nearly three years. On resigning he went to Minne- apolis to learn embalming, after which, in 1904, he located at Tracy, Minnesota, where he was manager of a leading furni- ture store for a number of years, In 1906 together with his brothers, Nels and Siv- ert, he established the present prosperous business in Hills. In 1909 the firm erect- ed its own commodious building, a struc- ture 25x80 feet. Emil is the possessor of a large and well ordered library, is a per- sistent reader of literature helpful to the conduct of his business, and to this he at- tributes in large measure his success.
Mr. Christianson was married at Adrian, Minnesota, June 25, 1902, to Maud J. Stev- enson, a native of Towa and a daughter of James and Martha Stevenson. To Mr. and Mrs. Christianson have been born three children, Helen, Edna and Ernest. They are members of the Presbyterian church.
SAMUEL C. REA (1892) is a Luverne attorney and ex-county attorney of Rock county, having made his home in Luverne for the past nineteen years. Mr. Rea is a native of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and was born September 2, 1853, the son of John and Hannah B. (Laughlin) Rea. The former was born in Franklin county, Penn- sylvania, the latter in Ireland, having come to the United States when an intant. The father died in Pittsburg, the mother in New Orleans,
Samuel Rea received his primary educa- tion in the public schools of Pittsburg and then entered Princeton college, from which with institution he was graduated the class of 1875.
Thereafter he read law at Pittsburg in the office of Hampton & Dal- zell and was admitted to the bar in Decem- ber, 1878. In 1885 Mr. Rea came west and located in Jackson, Minnesota, where he engaged in the real estate business for a number of years. During four years of his residence in Jackson, Mr. Rea served as court commissioner of Jackson county. He moved to Worthington in February, 1891, and practiced law in the office of George W. Wilson until June, 1892 At that time he moved to Luverne and soon afterward formed a partnership in the law business with L. S. Nelson, the partnership continu- ing until 1895. Since that date Mr. Rea has been engaged in practice alone. He was elected county attorney of Rock county in 1896 and served four years in that capacity. Mr. Rea is a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the M. W. A. lodge.
At Geneseo, Illinois, on July 28, 1898, Mr. Rea was united in marriage to Cora W. Woodruff, a native of that place and a daughter of L. E. Woodruff, now a resi- dent of Luverne. To Mr. and Mrs. Rea have been born two daughters: Dorothy, born September 12, 1899; Marianne, born September 14, 1906.
HENRY GIESE (1890) is one of the progressive agriculturists of Springwater township whose finely improved farm is located on the northeast quarter of sec- tion 21. His large, attractive barn, erect- ed in 1910 at a cost of $1300, has few equals in the precinct.
The parents of our subject were Fred and Sophia (Segener) Giese. Henry was born in the town of Hohenfelder, Holstein, Germany, October 30, 1863, and when a boy worked in a mill in his native town. At the age of nineteen he left the father- land and journeyed to America. He went to Blairstown, Iowa, near which place he worked out for awhile, then rented land and commenced farming. He settled on his present Rock county farm in 1890 and became the owner of the place eight years
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later. For nine years Mr. Giese was a school director and at present he is a member of the township board. He be- longs to the German Lutheran church and the M. W. A. lcdge.
On the first day of November, 1886, in Benton county, Iowa, our subject was wed- ded to Lena Albers, who was born Febru- ary 8, 1863, the daughter of John and Mar- gretta (MIceller) Albers, both native Ger- mans. Mr. and Mrs. Giese are the parents of two children: Matilda S., born May 7, 1888, and Dora M., born March 16, 1892.
HANS NELSON KJERGAARD (1885). It would be hard to find a busier man in Rock county than Hans Kjergaard, who has the distinction of being the one and only business man in the little town of Bruce. His interests are many and varied -storekeeper, grain buyer, postmaster, depot agent and express agent.
Cur subject is a Dane by birth, his na- tive place being Heilsminder, near Kold- ing, where he was born June 2, 1868. His father, Nels Kjergaard, lives at Tyler, Minnesota. His mother, Christina (Skov- gaard ) Kjergaard, passed away in Rock county in April, 1896. In Denmark Hans lived until the spring of the year 1885. After his school days he worked for a number of years in a brick yard. A short time after his confirmation he took to the sea and for two summers shipped before the mast. Mr. Kjergaard spent the first summer after his arrival in America at Greenleaf, Kansas. In November of the year of his arrival, 1885, he came to Rock county and located in Martin township. For several years thereafter he was vari- ously employed, at farm labor, threshing, breaking land and on the railroad. During the spring of 1889 he commenced business in Bruce, one year after its founding. llis first stock of goods, valued at from fifty to sixty dollars, was housed in a small building for which he had traded a team of horses. The same year he was ap- Icinted postmaster and has served in that capacity since. The two elevators located in Pruce are now the property of Mr. Kjergaard. He has been the station agent since 1907.
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