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church affiliation he is a Methodist; fra- ternally he is a Modern Woodman.
In Sac City, Iowa, on March 23, 1886, our subject married Cora D. Greenwalt, who was born September 26, 1862, the daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Sherbundy) Greenwalt. Mr. and Mrs. Teskey are the parents of the following three children: Delila R., horn December 30, 1893; George A., born Novem- ber 7, 1898; and Alva P., born December 15, 1902.
JOHN OYE (1904) is a well known farmer and landed proprietor of Mound township. He is the owner of the northwest quarter of section 6, Mound township, and the northeast quarter of section 1, Springwater township, 320 acres of choice land, improved with substantial buildings.
John was born in Schleswig-Holstein, Ger- many, on March 13, IS64. Two years after his birth he crossed the Atlantic in the company of his parents, Hans and Freder- icka (Koch) Oye, who settled in Scott county, lowa, near Davenport. Our subject received an elementary education and at the age of fourteen commenced the individ- ual struggle for existence. He was an lowa farmer until 1893, when he became identified with prosperity in Minnesota. He bought and farmed land in Nobles county, living there until 1904, since which time Rock county and the land described above has been his home.
Mr. Oye was married in Crawford coun- ty, lowa, February 6, 1886, to Maria Frahm, who was born the first of May, 1864, the daughter of John and Caroline ( Moller) Frahm. To this union have been born the following eight children: Marvin, born Sep- tember 5, 1887, died March 30, 1889; Carl, born August 4, 1889; Theodore, born June 18, 1891; Caroline, born April 21, 1893; Maria, born January 24, 1895; Barbara, born August 28, IS98; Ernest, born September 19, 1901; Doris, born October 3, 1903.
Our subject was for four years a director of his school district, and for three years he was a supervisor of Mound township. He owns stock in the Farmers Elevator company, a flourishing co-operative concern of Hardwick. Mr. Oye is prominent in fraternal circles and holds membership in tive lodges, viz: 1. O. O. F., M. W. A., A. O.
U. W., D. of H. and Rebekahs. With his family he belongs to the German Lutheran church.
ELI M. BACKER (1895) is the proprietor of a hardware store and repair shop in Lu- verne and has lived in the county sixteen years. He was born at Manchester, lowa, March 8, 1870, and when three years of age accompanied his parents to Storm Lake, Iowa. He was educated in that town and made his home there until ISS6. Dur- ing the next three years he lived with his parents on a farm ten miles from Storm Lake; then he moved back to town and for sixteen months read law in the office of C. A. Irwin. For several years thereafter he resided in LeMars, Iowa, engaged in raising trained horses, and then engaged in teaching school in Buena Vista county, lowa.
In 1895 Mr. Backer located in Rock county and during the first season worked on a farm south of Luverne. In 1898 he bought a half interest in a store and repair shop in Luverne and later bought out his part- ner's interest. He added to his stock and after moving into his present building put iu a stock of hardware, guns, paints, etc., continuing the general repair work. Mr. Backer served as village recorder one year. He is a member of the M. W. A. lodge.
The parents of our subject are Wilham and Sarah (Cronk) Backer, both natives of the state of New York. Mrs. Backer is a descendant of an old New York state fam- ily that originally came from Holland. Her uncle, lTiram Cronk, the last surviving pen- sioner of the war of ISI2, died in 1906 at the age of 105 years. He had enlisted in the service at the age of twelve years, Mr. and Mrs. Backer located in Storm Lake, Iowa, in 1873 and since that time have lived in the following places: LeMars, lowa; Coleman, South Dakota; Wentworth, South Dakota; Mentor, South Dakota, uow residing in the last named place. There are three children in the family, Eli M., Earl D. and Lewis E.
Eli M. Backer was married at LeMars, Iowa, January 25, 1894, to Sadie M. Johnson. She is the daughter of August and Johanna C. Johnson and was born in Clinton, Iowa, September 4, 1874. Mr. and Mrs. Backer
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have two children: Walter L., born Feb- ruary 19, 1895; W. Duane, born December 20, 1897.
OLAF KOLSRUD (1880) is Rock county born and hred. His father and mother, Lars and Mary (Nelson) Kolsrud, natives of Norway, are still living on the old farm one mile north of Hills which they home- steaded in the pioneer days of the seven- ties.
It was on this Martin township farm that Olaf was born March 14, 1880, and there it was he resided and served as a valued assistant to his father in the conduct of the place until after passing his twenty-third birthday. His education was secured in the school of district No. 49, the same district he was destined in later years to become one of the directors of. In that capacity he served for three years. In 1903 he com- menced farming for himself on land in sec- tion 23, Martin township, which he rents from his father. He makes a special point of fancy stock raising, especially horses. Among other interests he is a director of the Farmers State Bank of Hills and since 1905 has held the office of treasurer of Mar- tin township.
In his home town, on October 30, 1902, Mr. Kolsrud was united in marriage to Mary Dahl, the daughter of Charles Dahl, a resident of Rock Rapids, Iowa. Her moth- er has heen dead for some time. Mrs. Kolsrud is a native of Norway, born No- vember 12, 1882, and came to this country and to Rock county ten years later. They are the parents of three children, namely : Lars M., born April 26, 1905; Laura E., born December 9, 1906; and Olga K., born March 6, 1909. Mr. and Mrs. Kolsrud are mem- bers of the Trinity Lutheran church of Hills.
WILLIAM McKISSON (1878), of Beaver Creek, is a native Minnesotan and has been a resident of Rock county since 1878. Ile was born in Fillmore county February 13, 1863, the son of John R. and Polly (Mc- Dermott) McKisson, the former a native of Scotland and the latter of Pennsylvania. Both parents are deceased, John R. McKis- son having passed away in 1885 and the
death of our subject's mother having oc- curred April 18, 1908. To this union were born the following children, two sons and two daughters: William H., the subject of this biography; John E., Nina (Mrs. J. W. Foster), who died at Albert Lea, Minnesota, April 6, 1909; and Jennie (Mrs. C. H. Morse), of Madison, South Dakota.
William commenced his education in the district schools of Fillmore county and con- tinued it in Rock county, to which he moved with his parents when a youth of fourteen. His father located on a farm on section 24, Beaver Creek township, upon which he re- sided until his death. Following this event William, in partnership with his brother John, continued the operation of the home place until 1902, when he became a resident of Beaver Creek. Mr. McKisson was vari- ously employed until April, 1909, when he purchased the Myllenhack saloon, of which he has since heen the proprietor. He is unmarried.
GULLIK G. SUNDEM, JR., (1879) has, with the exception of two years, spent his entire life on the farm which was his birthplace. June 8, 1879, is the date of his nativity. He is the son of Gullik and Mary Sundem, who came to Rock county in 1878, settling on the southwest quarter of section 7, Martin township, which has since continued to be their home and that of our subject.
The younger Gullik, of this sketch, passed the life of the average country youth, as- sisting his father with the farm work and attending the district school. The first year of his absence from home was during the time he was a student at Valder Busi- ness college in Decorah, Iowa. Then for a year, commencing in 1891, he was asso- ciated with G. H. Sundem under the firm name of G. H. Sundem & Co., in the gen- eral mercantile business at Hills. He sold his share to J. Braveck and returned to the farm. For a year he worked out, then took up the management of the home place for his father. In 1907 he rented the farm from his father and has conducted it for himself since.
Mr. Sundem's marriage to Enga Nelson took place in Martin township on June 22, 1906. Mrs. Sundem is a daughter of Ole
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and Ragneld Nelson, residents of Martin township. To this nnion one child, Roy N. C., was born on February 17, 1909. Mr. and Mrs. Sundem are members of the Nor- wegian Lutheran church of Hills.
ANDREW HOIME (1889), of Springwater township, was born in Valders, Norway, January 27, 1875, the son of Stephen and Mary (Ellstad) Hoime. The father, who was a small farmer, died when Andrew was six years of age. In 1889, at the age of fourteen, he came with his mother and sister to the United States and direct to Rock county, to the home of his brother, Peder Hoime, in Martin township, who had preceded the family to America several years. For a time our subject hired out to different farmers and in 1899 commeneed farming on his own account. Since 1903 he has rented and operated the east half of section 5, Springwater township. He is a director of school district No. 45.
Andrew Hoime was united in marriage May 15, 1898, to Cora Loeffler, who was born August 15, 1878. To these parents the following six children have been born: Ar- chie, born July 30, 1899: Neva, born Jnne 2, 1901; Florence, born, April 19, 1903; Irene, born January 17, 1905; lola, born February 13, 1909; and Lavera, born Jannary 5, 1907.
NELS A. CHRISTIANSON (1902), the only graduate veterinary surgeon residing in Rock county, has successfully practised his profession in Lnverne since 1902. He maintains a well equipped veterinary hos- pital.
Dr. Christianson is a native Minnesotan. He was born in the village of Rushford, Fillmore county, February 28, 1868, and from that place moved during infancy with his parents to Lanesboro. The Christianson family went to Worthington, Nobles coun. ty, in 1873, shortly after the founding of that town, and in the fall Aage C. Christian- son, the father of our subject, homesteaded land in Ewington township, Jackson county. After making final proof on the land the Christiansons located on a farm just over the line in Nobles county. From 1881 to 1887 they were residents of Worthington. Nels lived at home until twenty-two years
of age. Then, in 1890, he rented the Nobles county farm of his father and conducted it for a number of years. Since his gradu- ation from the Ontario (Canada) Veterin- ary college in 1902, Dr. Christianson has practised his profession in Rock county. He is a member of the Minnesota Veterinary association.
The parents of our subjeet, Aage C. and Cecelia (Weston) Christianson, were mar- ried in Norway and emigrated from their native land to the United States in 1867. They at once settled in Minnesota, first at Rushford, Fillmore county, and then at Lanesboro, the same county. A. C. Chris- tianson erected the first white settler's dwelling in the latter village. He home- steaded land in Ewington township, Jack- son county, in 1873; then for about fifteen years was a well known Nobles county farmer. In 1888 Mr. Christianson bonght the old Gitbert mill farm in Des Moines town- ship, Jackson county. Since the death of Cecelia (Weston) Christianson, Jnly, 1889, lie has resided with his children. Of the children born to this union seven are living. C. C. Christianson, the oldest son, died in 1903. The seven children are Peter, of Hinckley, Minnesota; Christina (Mrs. E. C. Waller), of Stacy; Nels A., of this re- view; John W., a Presbyterian minister of Sisseton, South Dakota; Sivert, of Aber- deen, South Dakota; Emil, of Hills, and Anna J., a gradnate of St. Barnabas hospital, and now the assistant superintendent of Northwestern hospital, Minneapolis.
Dr. Christianson was married at Mag- nolia August 15, 1900, to Grace Wiseman, who was born May 30, 1881, in Westside township, Nobles county, the daughter of John Wiseman, one of the pioneer settlers of that precinet. To Mr. and Mrs. Chris- tianson have been born the following named children : Daisy J., born July 13, 1901; Charles, born September 1, 1903, and died October 6, 1907; Ethel C., born May 10, 1905; Arthur J., born June 17, 1908.
FERDINAND KINDT (1892), a farmer of Denver township, was born in the province of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, on July 1, 1869. His parents were John Kindt, a farm- er, who died in Germany in 1893, and Wiebke (Schmidt) Kindt, who died a year previous
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to her husband. Ferdinand was brought up on a farm and educated in Germany, following agricultural pursuits there until coming to America at the age of twenty- three years.
On landing in this country in 1892, Ferdi- nand Kindt journeyed direct to Rock coun- ty. He worked out as a farm laborer in Mound township for a year and was simi- larly employed in Springwater township for four years. After marrying he com- menced farming for himself on section 1, Springwater township, and resided there seven years. Having bought land in Kan- diyohi county, Minnesota, he moved thereon and remained four years, until moving to Moody county, South Dakota, where he farmed rented land prior to establishing his second and present residence in Rock county. He is engaged in farming 338 acres on section 1, Denver township, and raises lots of stock.
Our subject was married in Springwater township on the first of December, 1896, to Maggie Albers, who was born in Germany Juty 8, 1871, and came to the United States at the age of eleven years. Mr. and Mrs. Kindt are the parents of the following six children: John Nicholas, horn August 29, 1897; Henry Alfred, born April 13, 1899; Wilhelm Ferdinand, born January 17, 1902; Annie Maggie, born July 22, 1904; Clara Wilhelmina Helene, born January 28, 1907; and Peter Max, horn May 26, 1908.
GORDON J. MCKENZIE (1907), for the past four years a substantial Rose Dell township farmer, is a Canadian by birth. He was born May 16, 1873, the son of John and Lucy (Bothwell) Mckenzie. The father, a carpenter by occupation, was a native of Scotland, while his mother, who was of Irish descent, was born and reared in Canada.
Ten years after the birth of our subject the family moved to the United States and to Sherman, South Dakota. There Gorden completed his education, and after the death of his father in 1884, he with an older brother assumed the management of the home farm. Mrs. Mckenzie sold the farm in 1899 and established a residence in the town of Sherman. Her son followed the trade of carpenter there until 1907,
when he settled in Rock county. At that time he bought the southeast quarter of section 25, range 47, which he has thor- oughly improved and where he now makes his home. Mr. Mckenzie is a member of the township board and a director of school district No. 70.
At Sherman, on September 25, 1901, Gor- don J. Mckenzie was united in marriage to lda Hanson, the daughter of Ole A. and Matilda (Christensen) Hanson, of Nor. wegian extraction. Mrs. Mckenzie was born December 26, 1877, on the old homestead of her parents near the place which is now Sherman, South Dakota. Five years prior to her marriage she taught school in South Dakota and Minnesota. These four chil- dren have been born to this union: Gordon Clair, born May 27, 1903; Marvelle Lucile, born March 5, 1908; Jessie Olivette, born May 14, 1909; Donald Malcolm, born August 22, 1910, died September 6, 1910.
THOMAS O. BAKER (1888), who makes his home on and farms the northwest quar- ter of section 15, Kanaranzi township, is a Hoosier by birth, the date of his nativity being July 28, 1883. With his father and mother, John and Anna Baker, the five year old Thomas became a resident of Rock county in 1888. His parents are now farming in Lyon county, Iowa.
The family first made their home on the northeast quarter of section 29, Kanaranzi township, where they remained for a per- lod of two years. Then a removal to the village of Ashcreek was made, and there Thomas attended the public schools. In 1906 he commenced farming for himself by rent- ing the northeast quarter of section 20, Kan- aranzi township. This he worked for three years, until moving to his present location on the northwest quarter of section 15.
At Luverne, on September 26, 1906, Mr. Baker took as his wife Nellie M. Lien, a na- tive of Manchester, Iowa. They are the parents of two children, Milton O., born April 3, 1908, and Charmion E., born Feb- ruary 6, 1910.
FRITZ HERRMANN (1903) is one of the substantial farmers and extensive stock breeders of Springwater township. tn that
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precinct he owns and farms a half sec- tion of productive soil, the northwest quar- ter of section 25 and the northeast quar- ter of section 26.
Fritz is a native German and first saw the light of day in Femarn, Schleswig-Holstein, on the first day of September, 1868. His father, Hans Herrmann, was a day la- borer. His mother was Louisa (Bockwoldt) Herrmann. The first sixteen years of the life of our subject were for the most part spent as a student in the German lower schools. With his brother Nick he then undertook the journey across the Atlantic to make settlement in the land of oppor- tunity. He went direct to Cedar county, Iowa, and for eteven years was engaged in the threshing business during the falt seasons and in general agricultural labor the rest of the time. In 1894 he established himself as an independent farmer, moving eight years later from lowa to his present location in Rock county. Mr. Herrmann is the treasurer of school district No. 46.
At Durant, lowa, on the sixth of July, 1893, Fritz Herrmann was united in marriage to Minnie Bockwoldt, who was born De- cember 20, 1869, the daughter of Peter and Christina (Schnare) Bockwoldt. These par- ents have three children: Amanda L., born September 30, 1894; Welbert H. P., born September 28, 1898; and Edward W., born November 1, 1901.
A. D. LADUE (1885), president of the First National Bank of Lnverne and in- terested in many other business enterprises in the county capital, has spent all except the first twenty years of his life in Rock county, and is one of Luverne's most promi- nent citizens. A comparative young man, he has advanced from a clerkship to the head of one of the foremost financial in- stitutions of southwestern Minnesota. Un- der his guidance the bank, which reached Its present eminence under the efficient management of carlier officers, has not only maintained its standing but has advanced. Besldes his hanking interests Mr. LaDue is president of the Luverne Automobile com- pany, one of the most important manufactur- ing industries of the city: is treasurer of the Luverne Pressed Brick company, treas- urer of the Maplewood Cemetery company, treasurer of the Manitou Hotel company
and treasurer of the Luverne independent school district.
Our subject is a native Minnesotan, hav ing been born in Rochester October 17, 1865. His father is Jay LaDue, one of Luverne's most highly respected citizens and a resi- dent of that city for more than a quarter of a century. His mother is Janette (Buel) LaDue, a native of Chautauqua county, New York. He is one of a family of five children, the others being C. M., John J., L. B. and Mabel.
A. D. LaDue received his education in his native city. His first practical employment was a position of bookkeeper in the Union National Bank of Rochester, which he held from 1883 until he arrived in Luverne on June 1, 1885. Upon his arrival to Luverne he accepted a position as bookkeeper in the Rock County Bank and was later made assistant cashier, remaining with that in- stitution until the fall of 1891. Then, in partnership with the late William Jacob- sen, he bought an interest in the First Na- tional Bank and became the cashier. In 1905 he became president of the institution and has since been at the head of the bank. Mr. LaDue is a member of the Knights of Pythias and Modern Woodmen of America lodges.
Mr. LaDue was married in Luverne in 1890 to Laura Huntington, daughter of George C. Huntington. To them have heen born the following named five children: Jay FI., George M., Russell N., Charles M. and Laura B.
JOSEPII W. HAWKINSON (1906), osteo- path physician of Luverne, is a native of Chisago county, Minnesota, and was born October 29, 1872. He is one of a family of ten sons, alt except one living. His par- ents, Gustaf and Caroline Hawkinson, were born and married in Sweden, came to the United States about 1860 and settled in Chi- sago county, Minnesota, where both died on the old homestead.
Our subject lived on the farm and attend- ed the rural schools until about eighteen years of age. Then he was a student two years in a Minneapolis college and later two years in the Red Wing normal college, of which he is a graduate. He docided to take up the study of osteopathy and in 1902
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RESIDENCE OF DR. J. W. HAWKINSON, LUVERNE
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went to Des Moines, Towa, where he en- tered the Dr. S. S. Still college of oste- opathy and from which he was graduated in 1905. Dr. Hawkinson then located in the city of New Ulm and began the practice of his profession, and in July, 1906, located at Luverne, where he has since been engaged in practice. The doctor has been very suc- cessful in bis work in Luverne. In the sum- mer of 1910 he moved into his elegant new home.
Dr. Hawkinson was married in Center City, Chisago county, Minnesota, April 15, 1905, to Wilhelmina Linnell, a student of Gustavus Adolphus college and a teacher. She is a native of Center City and a dauglı- ter of Mr. and Mrs. August P. Linnell. Two children have been born to Dr. and Mrs. Hawkinson, LaVerna E., born June 24, 1908; Whilma E., born June 29, 1910. Dr. Hawkinson is a member of the Presby- terian church and of the Odd Fellows, Modern Woodmen and Knights of Pythias lodges.
ROBERT D. THOM (1904), the black- smith of Kenneth, is a native Minnesotan, born near Owatonua, Steele county, May 6, 1878. His mother died when Robert was a child of six years, and from that time until after his twentieth birthday he lived with an uncle, Robert C. Thom, and worked at farm labor. Upon the declaration of war with Spain our subject enlisted in com- pany B, Fifteenth Minnesota volunteers, which was stationed at Camp Ramsey, Min- nesota, Camp Meade, Pennsylvania, and Camp Mckenzie, Georgia, and was dis- charged from the service March 27, 1899. After a year spent on the farm, Robert went to Adrian, Minnesota, where he learned the blacksmithi trade and worked at it in that town four and a half years. In July, 1904, he moved to Kenneth and established the business which he has since conducted.
Robert D. Thom is the son of Alexander M. and Lelia (Scott) Thom, the former a native of Scotland and the latter of New York state. Alexander M. Thom is a broth- er of J. C. Thom, ex-sheriff of Nobles coun- ty, William Thom (deceased) and F. W. Thom, who were prominent citizens of No- bles county.
At Adrian, on November 27, 1902, Mr. .Thom was married to Elizabeth B. Murphy, who was born November 13, 1882, and who is the daughter of J. G. Murphy, of Adrian, a member of the board of com- missioners of Nobles county. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Thom, two of whom, Lelia and Joetta, are liv- ing.
WILHELM T.KNUDTSON (1888), manager of the Christianson-Ennis Lumber company's yard at Hills, is a native of Rock county and was born October 9, 1888, on the home- stead of his father in Beaver Creek town- ship. As a boy he attended the district schools and assisted with the work on the home farm. For two seasons after attain- ing the age of seventeen Wilhelm was em- ployed as engineer with a threshing crew. In 1907 he commenced his residence at Hills. For a time he worked as a painter and paper-hanger, then for nine months pre- vious to accepting his present position he was employed in the furniture store of Christianson Bros. Mr. Knudtson is the assistant chief of the Hills fire department.
Our subject is one of a family of nine living children, whose parents are K. N. and Laura M. Knudtson, residents of Hills. Both Mr. and Mrs. Knudtson are natives of Norway. They took as a homestead claim the northwest quarter of section 7, Beaver Creek township, at an early date. Besides Wilhelm of this sketch, the children are Mrs. A. J. Daley, of Luverne; Mrs. George Arneson, of Montevideo, Minnesota; Mrs. S. A. Christianson, of Hills; Mrs. S. L. Jor- dahl, of Canfield, North Dakota; E. H., of Coal Harbor, North Dakota; E. G., of Spo- kane, Washington; Arthur S., of Seattle, Washington; and Clara, of Bryant, South Dakota.
JOHN C. MANNIGEL (1892), a leading farmer and stock raiser of Denver township, is the owner of the southwest quarter of section 30. A native of the Badger state, he was born in Dodge county the fourth day of August, 1871, the son of Carl and Bertha (Grundwald) Mannigel, both of German birth, and early settlers of Dane county, Wisconsin.
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