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In the Ausen family besides our subject are five sons and two daughters, as fol- lows: Thorvold, who farms the old Rose Dell homestead; Erick, a Rose Dell farm- er; Ludvick, of Luverne; Ole, of Garret- son, South Dakota; Albert, Dora and Clara, all of Jasper.
On October 6, 1900. Oscar MI. Ausen was married to Helen Norvold, the daughter of P. H. and Maren Norvold, of Jasper. They are the parents of one son, Walter, born December 31, 1905, and one daughter, Edna, born November 4, 1910. Mr. and Mrs. Au- sen are members of the Norwegian Luther- an church of Rose Dell.
ANDREW J. EBERLEIN (1890), Clinton township farmer and successful breeder of Shorthorn cattle and Duroc-Jersey swine, first saw the light of day in Kane coun- ty, Illinois, on December 14, 1863. His fath- er, Andrew Eberlein, and mother, Barbara (Bower) Eberlein, are both natives of Ger- many. The former died in 1887, but the mother still lives with a daughter in Alt- man, South Dakota.
The first ten years of Andrew's life were spent in the county of his birth. Then the family moved to a farm near Parkers- burg, lowa, and there on his father's place he grew to manhood. He worked out for two years after reaching his majority, at the end of which time he returned to his home and took charge of the farm after his father's decease. He remained there until 1890, the year of his arrival in Rock coun- ty. He traded the old lowa farm for a farm on section 15, Clinton township, and operated it for a number of years in part- nership with his brother Ed. Since 1899 he has conducted it alone and now has one of the up-to-date farms in the precinct, with good buildings and modern improve- ments. The whole north half of section 15 has of late become his property. He has taken a marked interest in the civic and school affairs of his township and at pres- ent is a member of both the town board and the board of school district No. 65. He is a member of the Woodmen lodge.
Mr. Eberlein's marriage to Viola Vannat- ta, of Plymouth county, lowa, took place in Clinton township in August, 1895. They are the parents of three living children: .Jay
O., born August 9, 1897; Beulah O., born January 27, 1899; and Erma E., born De- cember 31, 1901. One son, Lee E., born June 23, 1896, died April 26, 1903; and a daugther, Vira C., born October 1, 1905, passed away July 5, 1906.
EUGENE V. BARCK (1881), who con- duets a finely appointed barber shop in Lu- verne, has been a resident of that city, with the exception of two years, for tlie past three decades.
He is the second son in a family of five children born to Thomas and Mary (Van- dercar) Barck, both natives of the state of New York. Thomas Barck was born in the city of Oswego and Mary Vandercar in the vicinity of Troy. Before the civil war both moved west to Illinois with their par- ents and at Bloomington, in 1871, they were married. That Illinois city was the home of the Barcks until settlement was made in Luverne in 1881. There Mrs. Barck died on August 20, 1888. Mr. Barck now a resident of Seattle, Wash- is
ington, to which place he moved in 1904. The following, besides the subject of this sketch, are the children born to these par- ents: Louis T., of Mitchell, South Dako- ta; Raphael, of Portland, Oregon; Albert, of Huntington, Oregon; Thomas, of Seat- tle. One son, Henry, passed away during infancy.
At Bloomington, Illinois, on August 9, 1875, the birth of Eugene V. Barck occur- red. He was six years of age when the family departed from Illinois and establish- ed a residence in Luverne. After securing an education in the Luverne public scohols, he commenced working at the trade he has ever since followed. After completing his apprenticesbip in the shop of Sydney Dyer, he was employed for several years in the Luverne shops; and in 1898 he went to Butte, Montana. He remained there two years and then returned to Luverne, and until he opened his present shop in the Do- bell building he was employed by Tom J. McDermott. He commenced business on his own account in May, 1901. Mr. Barck has been a member of the Luverne fire department since 1893 and was chief of the company for two and one-half years. He is an Odd Fellow by fraternal affiliation.
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At Luverne, October 13, 1897, the sub- ject of this review was joined in marriage to Jessie Allen, who was born in Rock county's metropolis on May 25, 1878. To this union one daughter, Hazel Mary, was born September 28, 1898. Mrs. Barck is a daughter of William and Cassie (Jaycox) Allen, early settlers of the county. Wil- liam Allen has been dead since 1905; his widow resides in Luverne.
INGEBRET K. ONERHEIN (1888) has owned and farmed the west half of the southwest quarter of section 2, range 47, Beaver Creek township, since 1888. South Bergenhuus, Norway, is the scene of his birth, which occurred January 12, 1846. Both his parents, Knut and Annie (Enge- bretson) Onerhein, are burfed in the old country.
Our subject was in the first year of his manhood when he left the land to come to America. He located in Illinois and found employment at farm labor, working out by the month. In 1887 he returned to his Norwegian home, but remained only until early in the following year. Then he es- tablished his present residence in Rock county, buying the land before described, which he continues to farm.
While living in Illinois, in 1884, Mr. On- erhein was married to Margeretta Eitrein, who was born, January 4, 1860. Three children have blessed this union, namely: Anne, born February 25, 1885; Knut, born February 22, 1886; and Enga, born Janu- ary 2, 1895. The family are members of the Synod Norwegian Lutheran church.
H. A. KUEHL (1901) owns and farms 160 acres of land on section 15, Mound township, where he has lived during the last ten years. His birth occurred in the hamlet of Oldenberg, province of Holstein, Germany, on December 18, 1850. His fath- er, Claus Kuehl, died at Davenport, Iowa, in 1906. His mother, Lena (Ruege) Kuehl, is a resident of the town of Renwick, Hum- boldt county, lowa.
The subject of this biography departed from native land and accompanied his par- ents to America at the age of twelve years. He located with them at Davenport, Jowa,
and in that locality he was destined to pass the next forty years. He lived in the city ten years, much of the time working at the butcher's trade, then engaged In farming within ten miles of Davenport. . Mr. Kuehl became identified with Rock county interests in 1901. The first year he conducted the Mound farm of R. B. Hinkly, then successively rented and worked the J. E. Leslie and the Dysart farms, the lat- ter for a period of four years. He bought the land he now owns in 1907, moving thereon the following year, and since that time has vastly improved the place. He is a large breeder of high grade stock.
On October 1, 1874, at Davenport, lowa, our subject was joined in marriage to Lena Egger, who was born in Scott county the tenth of October, 1856. The following eight children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Kuehl: John, of Luverne; Willie, of Mound township; Henry, Eddie, Albert, Lizzie (Mrs. John Welzenbach), of Mound township; Carrie (Mrs. John Meinfelder), of Omaha, Nebraska; and Tillie (de- ceased). Henry, Eddie and Albert live at home.
H. A. Kuehl has efficiently served as supervisor of his road district for the past three years. He was for two years a di- rector of school district No. 45. He be- longs to the Hardy-Gardy lodge of Daven- port.
WILLIAM R. MINARD (1886) is the editor of one of Rock county's represen- tative journals, the Hardwick Star. Of this paper he became the publisher in Au- gust, 1910, purchasing the plant from E. D. Lum, the former proprietor, and has since conducted the Star in a most credit- able manner and in the best interests of his home town and the county at large.
Mr. Minard is a Rock county boy. His parents, William and Johannah (Dixon) Mi- nard, both natives of Ontario, Canada, the former of Irish-French descent and the lat- ter of English-Irish parentage, were num- bered among the Rock county settlers of the seventies. The Minards maintained a continuous residence of thirty-two years in Rock county, departing in 1908 to make their home in Deadwood, South Dakota. In that city William Minard, Sr., passed
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away in October, 1909. Johannah (Dixon) Minard still resides there. The following eight children, all living, were born to this esteemed couple: Fred J., of Missoula, Mon- tana; Hattie Olson, of Mankato; Emma Stephen, of Luverne; John J., of Stockport, lowa; George, of Spearfish, South Dakota; Harry, of Missonla, Montana; Edward, of Deadwood, South Dakota; and William R., of this review.
The birth of our subject occurred in Lu- verne on October 22, 1886. He was edu- cated in the public schools of that city and early in life entered the employ of the Rock Connty Herald and became thoroughly proficient in the printer's art. For some time William was employed on various papers in South Dakota; then in 1903 he went to Omaha, where he resided four years, during which time he was employed at his trade by the Omaha Printing com- pany and the Reese Printing company. He left that city to go to the Black Hills country, to which his parents later moved. For two years Mr. Minard was connected with the Daily Pioneer Times, of Dead- wood, in the capacity of night foreman. From that locality he returned to Luverne, where he resided until his connection as publisher and editor of the Star commenced.
At Sibley, Iowa, on June 5, 1910, William R. Minard was joined in marriage to Edith Bramley, of Little Rock, Iowa. Mrs. Mi- nard is a native of Lyon county, lowa, and a daughter of Joseph H. Bramley. Fra- ternally our subject is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen, Royal Neighbors, Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias orders.
HEINRICH STUCKINBROKER (1903). Among the thoroughly improved farms of Denver township, one of large and sub- stantial buildings and trim appearance, be- tokening the success and prosperity which has befallen the owner, is the one belong- ing to the gentleman of this review. Mr. Stuckinbroker is the owner of 400 aeres of Denver township's most productive soil, located on sections 11 and 14. lle has achieved distinction as a stock raiser and always maintains largo herds of the highest grades, averaging ninety cattle, twenty-one horses, 100 hogs and a few sheep. Ile
is the owner of the celebrated Belgian stal- lion, Geldzoeker.
Heinrich was born in Holstein, Germany, the fourth day of May, 1859. Both his par- ents, John and Christine (Hohen) Stuck- inbroker, are deceased and lie buried in Germany, the former having died in 1902 and the latter in 1878. The father owned a brick yard, in which our subject worked two and a half years. In his younger days he was engaged in farm work and team- ing, and for two years following 1881 he was an enlisted soldier in the kaiser's army.
In 1884, at the age of twenty-five, Mr. Stuckinbroker departed from native land and joined the tide of immigration to the United States. He worked for a month in a Chicago brick factory, then pushed on to Belle Plaine, lowa, where he was located for three years, employed succes- sively in railroad construction work, in a blacksmith shop, and on the section of the Northwestern railroad. After a year spent as a farm laborer in Benton county, Iowa, he went to Lyon county, the same state, where he commenced his career as a farm- er, first on rented land, then on his own property. He sold out in Lyon county in 1903, and since then has been identified with progress in Rock county, continu- ously on the farm of his present residence.
At Rock Rapids, lowa, Steena Smith, al- so a native of Holstein, Germany, who came to this country in 1890, became the wife of Heinrich Stuckinbroker, Six chil- dren have been born to this union, namely: John, born June 9, 1892; Herman, born De- cember 17, 1893; Olga, born March 8, 1897; Harry, born March 15, 1901; Willie, born May 30, 1903; and Henry, born June 24, 1906. The family belong to the Lutheran church of Hardwick.
HENRY ROLFS (1891) owns and farms the north half of section 20, Battle Plain township, and is one of the stock raisers of that precinct. He has large herds of grad- ed Shorthorn cattle and Chester White hogs. He is the son of John T. and Anna (Engelland ) Rolfs, natives of Germany, who came to America in 1868 and settled in Ben- ton county, Iowa.
In Benton county, Iowa, on July 15, 1871, the birth of Henry Rolfs of this review oc-
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curred. He was reared on his father's farm and educated in the country schools of his native county and at Tilford's academy, of Vinton, Jowa. His first acquaintance with Rock county was acquired in the summer of 1891, when he came here to work and remained until after the harvest season. He spent the winter at his Iowa home, but re- turned to Minnesota's richest county the following spring to make permanent set- tlement. He bought the northwest quarter of section 10, Mound township, upon which he moved after his marriage in 1894. Two years later he became a Springwater town- ship farmer, and in 1903 he sold his farm and bought his present land, the north half of section 20, Battle Plain township, upon which he has since resided. Mr. Rolfs is a stockholder in the Farmers Elevator com- pany of Hardwick. With his family he be- longs to the German Evangelical Lutheran church.
Henry Rolfs was married at Luverne on December 17, 1894, to Matilda C. Hoeck, the daughter of Lawerance and Lena (Gro- vert) Hoeck, natives of Germany. She was born in Benton county, Iowa, July 16, 1877. Four children have been horn to this union, as follows: Emma, born Oc- tober 12, 1897; Harry, horn October 22, 1900; Amelia, who was horn August 23, 1903, and died in infancy; Walter, born March 15, 1909.
THOMAS P. WOODLE (1885), at present a resident of Mead county, South Dakota, was for many years a resident of Rock county, removing therefrom in the spring of 1910. Mr. Woodle is a native of Green county, Wisconsin, and was born July 19, 1849. At the age of six years he moved with his parents to Fillmore county, Min- nesota territory, when that county was wild and only thinly settled, the nearest post- office to the family home being twenty-two miles distanst-at Decorah, Jowa. In Fill- more county young Woodle secured an edu- cation in a little log school house and worked on his father's farm.
At the age of seventeen years Mr. Woodle left Fillmore county and located in Allama- kee county, Iowa, and two years later mov. ed to Newton county, Missouri. He was in the south six years, most of the time in
Newton county, Missouri, but parts of three years of this time were spent in Texas, Ar- kansas and Kansas. During this period of his life he worked at carpenter work, paint- ing and farm work. Mr. Woodle was mar- ried in Central City, Linn county, Iowa, in 1876, and in July of that year he returned to Fillmore county, Minnesota, and contin- ued to make his home there until 1878. That year he located in Pipestone coun- ty, taking a pre-emption claim in Fountain Prairie township. Two and one-half years later he sold out and located in Sac coun- ty, Iowa, driving a bunch of cattle down there during the winter of 1880-81 and being caught in the severe blizzard of Oc- tober 15, of that memorable winter sea- son.
After living a short time in Sac county, Mr. Woodle located at Marcus, Iowa, lived there two and one-half years, spent one summer in LeMars, and then, in 1885, took up his residence in Luverne, and from that time until the spring of 1910 he was a resident of Rock county, living in Luverne all of that time with the exception of the year 1893, when he was on his farm in Monnd township. He worked at the car- penter's trade for a number of years, and during the last eighteen years of his resi- dence in Luverne was in the real estate business.
Mr. Woodle is one of a family of nine children born to Thomas and Rachael Woodle, both natives of Pennsylvania. They moved west and were among the first set- tlers of Green county, Wisconsin. The father of our subject who was the first judge in Fayette county, Iowa, died in that county. Mrs. Woodle married Joseph Woodle, her first linsband's brother, and died in the state of Oregon.
The subject of this biography was mar. ried at Central City, Linn county, Iowa, April 10, 1876, to Victoria A. Blount, a native of New York state. Seven chil- dren were born to this union, as follows: Myrtle M. (Mrs. William Waldrip), born March 6, 1879; Guy E., horn January 17, 1881; Beulah (Mrs. A. J. Thomas), born October 8, 1883; Lerla (Mrs. J. J. Puiser), born April 6, 1885; Edna (Mrs. Anthony Grisey), born May 5, 1890: Vena 1., born August 11, 1892; Victoria N., born June 20, IS91. Guy E., the second child, served
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a nine months' enlistment in the Spanish- American war. Mr. Woodle is a member of the M. W. A. lodge.
EDWARD A. WALKER (1907) owns and farms the northeast quarter of section 21, Beaver Creek township. He is a native of Athens county, Ohio, as were both his par- ents, William C. and Lizzie A. (Reynolds) Walker. William C. Walker was born of native English parents September 27, 1842, and died January 18, 1893. During the civil war he served four years with the Seventy- Fifth Ohio volunteer infantry. The mother of our subject is now a resident of Storm Lake, Iowa.
Edward A. Walker of this review was born in the town of Athens on March 6, 1872. Eight years later he moved with his parents to a farm in Macon county, II- linois, which was his home until reaching man's estate. His education in the district and public schools of Macon was supple- mented by a course in the Northern Illi- nois normal school at Dixon. During his twenty-first year, the one of his father's death, with two brothers, one sister and his mother, Edward moved to Storm Lake, Buena Vista county, lowa, where he was destined to reside fourteen years. He was engaged in farming during that entire per- iod. Since the spring of 1907 he has lived on and farmed his present Rock county land, which he had come into possession of the preceding fall.
At Storm Lake, lowa, on January 20, 1897, our subject was joined in marriage to Minnie C. Doxsee, the daughter of John W. and Margaret Ann Doxsec, the latter of whom is living. A native of Buena Vista county, Mrs. Walker was born October 22, 1877. Two children have blessed this un- ion: Lloyd W. D., born March 31, 1899, and Vadna O., born December 23, 1906. Mr. Walker is a member of the l. O. O. F. and M. W. A. lodges, holding membership in the lodge of the first named order at Storm Lake, and in the Truesdale, lowa, lodge of the Modern Woodmen.
JAMES TAYLOR (1888), is a well known and successful farmer of Rose Dell town- ship, which has been his home for the past
twenty-two years. He was born in Lan- cashire, England, on June 18, 1843, the son of John and Martha (Bury) Taylor. The father was by trade a mason and stone ent- ter and died in 1844, the year following the birth of our subject. His mother later came to America, in 1870, and died at Jack- son, Minnesota. on August 4, 1879. James is the youngest in a family of two sons and two daughters. The other son, Robert, was killed in East India in 1858 while serving in the English army. Jane died in 1869. The surviving daughter is Ann (Mrs. J. Brooks), who has always lived in England.
James Taylor of this biography received a grammar school education in the land of his birth, of which he was a resident for the first twenty-three years of his life. He crossed the sea to America in 1866 and for two and a half years thereafter he worked as a weaver in the cotton mills of Fall River, Massachusetts. He was next lo- cated for a short period in Fayette coun- ty, Jowa, then found his way to Jackson county, Minnesota. He homesteaded in En- terprise township and lived on his claim for ten years. Leaving that county in 1881, he was engaged for the next seven years in railroad and stone cutting work at dif- ferent places. He has plied his craft in localities all the way from Massachusetts to Montana.
In 1888 Mr. Taylor made his advent to Rock county. He was employed in the erec- tion of the court house at Luverne, then for a short time worked in the quarries at Pipestone. Deciding to settle perma- nently in the garden spot of southwestern Minnesota, in October, 1889, he bought a farm of 120 acres on section 16, Rose Dell township. This he has farmed until re- cently, when he rented out the land, but he still resides thereon. Mr. Taylor has also other farm property, 200 acres in Marshall county, Minnesota, and also a quarter section claim of Indian land in Red Lake county.
CHARLES E. NUTTING (1902) is the proprietor of the Vienna bakery and res- taurant of Luverne. He is a native of Ver- mont and was born in the town of Versha, Orange county, August 15, 1861. He is the son of William W. and Marcia (Abbott)
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Nutting, who were both descended from early day families of the Green Mountain state. Charles E. is the second in a fam- ily of five children, one of whom, Ray- mond, is dead. The other three are Dr. W. W. Nutting, of Boston; Mrs. C. H. Flow- ers, of Minneapolis: and Mrs. Hubbard El- kins, of The Wiers, New Hampshire.
Mr. Nutting attended the schools of his native town and continued to live there un- til after his twentieth birthday. He then departed for the west, locating first at Au- rora, Illinois, where he was engaged for some time in the grocery business. For three years thereafter he lived in Cherokee, lowa, where he was likewise a grocer and also was interested in a retail meat market. For nine months previous to settling in Lu- verne in 1902, our subject was located at Mitchell, South Dakota. During the year mentioned. Mr. Nutting became the own- er of his present business, buying the bak. ery and restaurant and the building in which they were contained from L. D. Man- chester, now of the Manchester Biscuit com. pany, Sioux Falls. Mr. Nutting conducts a model restaurant and carries a complete line of confectionery, etc. He makes a specialty of fine baking, and Nutting's bread, a superior product, is known and demanded in a large territory tributary to Luverne.
At Dallas, Texas, in 1886, Charles E. Nutting was married to Cora Mills, a na- tive of Jackson, Michigan. This union ex- isted until May 14, 1908, when Mrs. Nutting was summoned by death at the age of forty. two years. Three children were born to these parents: Ray, Carl and Forrest. Mr. Nutting holds membership in the Masonic, Knights Templar, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and Modern Woodmen orders.
OLE NERGORD (1890), of Vienna town- ship, is a native of Gulbrandstan, Norway, where he was born March 6, 1870. He is the son of Ole and Gjoa (Feten) Grendstu, the former of whom is still hale and hear- ty at the age of eighty-five and conducts the old farm in Norway. The mother died in 1898.
Ole received a common school training in his native land and at the age of twenty forsook home ties and journeyed to Ameri- ca and direct to Rock county. He worked
out for three years in Clinton township; then, in partnership with his brother Ole, he farmed rented land in the same pre- cinct for two years. He was employed for a year on the Hazzard farm in Mound town- ship, leaving there to farm with Peter Remme in Vienna township. On the disso- lution of that partnership, Mr. Nergord was employed for a time by Kittel Olson, and then spent four years in the city of Min- neapolis, where he was a street car motor- man. He returned to Rock county and since 1903 has farmed the land he now rents, the southeast quarter of section 4 and the northeast quarter of section 9. He raises considerable stock. For a number of years our subject has efficiently served as the road overseer of his district. He is a mem ber of the Blue Mounds United Norwegian. Lutheran church.
On September 14, 1901, Ole Nergord was married to Bertha Larson, who was born in Hedemarken, Norway, May 9, 1878. The ceremony was performed at Minneapolis. To these parents have been born four chil- dren: Hazel, born February 7, 1903; Od- mear, born December 29, 1904; Agnes, born April 30, 1907; and Edwin, born May 29, 1909.
MRS. OLE TWETON (1880) is the widow of Ole Tweton, for many years a prominent farmer of Rose Dell township, whose death occurred September 27, 1907. He was the son of Ole and Annie Tweton, who came from Norway and settled in Wisconsin at an early date, going from there to Lansing, Allamakee county, Iowa. Ole Tweton, Jr., was born in Wisconsin.
The subject of this review is the daugh- ter of Gullick and Carn (Peterson) Oestern, pioneer Norwegian settlers of Allamakee county, lowa, where she was born March 3, 1856, and where she was reared and edu- cated. Miss Caroline . Oestern was mar- ried to Ole Tweton on December 4, 1877, at Lansing, lowa. Three years later the young peaople established a home in Rock county. After renting land four years, they bought the southwest quarter of sec- tion 1. Rose Dell township. There the husband died, and there the family home is still maintained.
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