An illustrated history of the counties of Rock and Pipestone, Minnesota, Part 87

Author: Rose, Arthur P., 1875-1970
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: Luverne, Minn. : Northern History Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 924

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Twelve years after the birth of our sub- ject the family moved from Wisconsin to Hand county, South Dakota, where the fa- ther homesteaded land, upon which John lived until attaining his majority. He es- tablished himself in Rock county at the age of twenty-one. He hired out as a farm laborer in Monnd township for five years, then rented land and commenced his career as an independent farmer. In 1900 he bought eighty acres on section 2, Mound, disposing of the same a year after to become the own- er of a quarter on section 7, Denver town- ship. This he sold, and a year later he came into possession of his present farm. Mr. Mannigel raises Shorthorn cattle and Duroc-Jersey hogs. He was for four years the assessor of Denver township and was clerk of school district No. 49 for six years. He owns stock in the Farmers Ele- vator company of Hardwick.

Mr. Mannigel was married in Denver township on December 13, 1897, to Anna Richard, who was born August 6, 1874, the daughter of William and Elizabeth (Therow) Richard, natives of Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Mannigel are parents of the follow- ing four children: Elfreida E., born January 16, 1900; Victor A., born October 17, 1902: Oswald R., born April 22, 1904; and Lucile H., born February 26, 1907. The family are members of the German Lutheran church.

JOHN W. ULRICH (1886) has been con- nected with the Luverne department store of Nelson Brothers for a period of twenty- one years and is now the secretary of the firm and the manager of the clothing and shoe departments. He entered the employ of the store as a minor clerk when a boy of eighteen years and won deserved pro- motion, finally, in 1907, being admitted as an active member of the firm.

John Ulrich is a native German. He was born on the thirteenth of December, 1872, the son of Henry and Christina Ulrich, the latter of whom is deceased. Henry Ulrich is now a resident of Adrian, Nobles county. In 1884 the Ulrich family departed from the fatherland and made settlement in Am- orica. They were for one year residents of Davenport, lowa, going from that city direct to a Rock county farm. After a life

of five years on the home farm our subject, in 1890, commenced his residence in Lu- verne and entered upon the career in which he has been eminently successful.

At Luverne, on October 25, 1890, John W. Ulrich was joined in marriage to Rena Gunderson, a native of Iowa. To these parents has been born one son, Russell. .

BENJAMIN G. SUURMYER (1884) has lived on the Rock county farm he now con- ducts since he was a lad six years of age. Both of his parents, Geerd and Antha (Hagedorn) Suurmyer, were natives of Ger- many, came to this country at an early day and settled near Freeport, Illinois, where the subject of this hiography was born February 9, 1878. In 1884 the family moved to Rock county and settled on land pur- chased by the father, the northwest quarter of section 14, range 47, Springwater town- ship. Benjamin was educated in the dis- trict schools and assisted his father in the management of the home farm. In 1905 he rented the place from his father and has since conducted it for himself.

At Lake Benton, Lincoln county, on March 7, 1905, Benjamin G. Snurmyer was joined in wedlock to Elizabeth C. Meyer, who was born October 21, 1887, the daughter of August and Mary Meyer, of Lake Benton. Four children have been born to this un- ion: Annie M., born June 25, 1906; Albert A., born November 7, 1907; Benjamin C., born January 6, 1909; Lucele Lottie, born October 27, 1910. Mr. and Mrs. Suurmyer are members of the Baptist churchi.

R. ARENDS (1894) is a Clinton township farmer, residing on the northeast quarter of section 33, who has prospered since taking up his residence in Rock county seventeen years ago. Hanover, Germany, is his birthplace and the date of his na- tivity is January 16, 1871. His father, A. Arends, still lives in the old country, but his mother, Annie (George) Arends, passed away from this life on December 1, 1904.

Germany was the home of our subject for the first twenty-three years of his life. While there his main occupation was that of farming, though he worked for a time at the machine business and operated a thresh-

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ing machine. In 1894 he came to America and direct to Rock county. The first three years after his arrival he worked on his brother's farm near Steen. Then for seven years he rented and conducted the farm on section 28, Clinton township, which is just across the road from his present loca- tion. He bought his farm in 1906, and there he has since resided. Mr. Arend's land is of an exceptionally productive quality. Since the farm has came into his possession he has expended more than $2300 in improve- ments.

Mr. Arends was married in Martin town- ship on March 22, 1899, to Gesana Ennenga, also a native of Hanover, Germany. They are the parents of seven children, all liv- ing at home, namely: Annie, Arend, Mabel, Ralph, John, Gretus and Fannie. The fam- ily are members of the Evangelical church of Steen.

DAVID W. MCKAY (1885), who farms the south half of section 15, Battle Plain township, is by nativity a Highland Scot, his birth having occurred in Sutherland shire, Scotland, on the fifteenth of August, 1854. His parents, Angus and Helen (Wood) Mckay, are both deceased. Angus Wood is buried in Scotland and his wife, who later came to this country, died in Rock coun- ty in 1889.

David's life as a Scotch school boy ter- minated at his fourteenth year, departing at that time from the land of his birth to go to London, and in the world's metropo- lis he resided for nearly twenty years. Dur- ing that whole period he was in the em- ploy of a lady of the nobility in the capacity of a footman and trusted servant. His em- ployer was an extensive traveler and as a result Mr. McKay, who invariably accom- panied the lady on her trips, visited nearly every quarter of the globe. He came to America and direct to Rock county in 1885. With no previous experience at farming, he commenced an agricultural career that has been entirely successful. For the first five years he farmed near Ashcreek, for half that length of time was located in Luverne township, and then moved to his present location. Mr. Mckay is an enthusiastic stock raiser and always maintains a large herd of the best breeds.

David W. Mckay was married in London in May, 1880, to Matilda Rollins, of English birth. This union has been blessed by the birth of the following seven children: Nel- lie, William, Fred, Augustus, George, John and David. The family are members of the Presbyterian church.

WILLIAM MACFADDEN (1885) has re- sided in Luverne more than a quarter of a century. A Canadian by birth, he was born In the city of London, Ontario, May 31, 1851. At the age of fifteen years he first crossed the border and for four years was located in Dubuque, Iowa. William then returned to Ontario, completed his educa- tion at Guelph and then secured employ- ment as a clerk in one of that city's stores.

Mr. Macfadden permanently settled in Uncle Sam's domain in 1874. For eight years he made his home at Dyersville, Iowa, where he engaged in the drug business; then he moved to LeMars, where he was interested in the operation of a bottling plant. He arrived in Luverne on June 26, 1885, and that year in company with Dal- ton Bros. he established the bottling works, under the firm name of Macfadden & Dal- ton Bros. Our subject retired from the business at the end of two years and until 1892 he clerked in the store of J. A. Har- roun. The eight succeeding years were spent as a knight of the grip for a large wall-paper house; then in 1900 Mr. Macfad- den commenced his service with Nelson Bros., with which firm he was connected eleven years. In the early nineties he ser- ved two terms as assessor of Luverne. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Ma- sons, the Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen.

Our subject was married on December 30, 1875, at Dyersville, Iowa, to Polly Ches- terman, and to this union have been horn two sons: Cornelius, a practising dentist at Sherburne, and Harry, of Portland, Oregon, a traveling representative of the American Tobacco company. Mr. Macfadden owns a a fine home in Luverne, built in 1901.

WILLIAM V. ALLEN (1897), who has farmed the southeast quarter of section 31, Martin township, for the past fourteen

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years, is of Irish and German descent and was born in Winneshiek county, Iowa, on the first day of February, IS71. llis par- ents, Edward and Mellisa (Cooley) Allen, are resident of Castalia, lowa. The former is a native of Illinois, while Mrs. Allen was born in New York state.

William of this sketch was brought up on his father's farm and educated in the dis- trict school near by. Winneshiek county continued to be his home until after his twenty-sixth birthday. At that age, in 1897, he moved to Rock county and located on the farm before described, which he rents from his father. Mr. Allen is affiliated with the M. W. A. lodge of Hills.

In Winneshiek county, in October, 1896, Mr. Allen was united in marriage to Bertha Logsdon, a native of that county. She was born April 2, ISSO. They are the parents of three children: Glenn, born September 23, 1897; Velma, born March 3, 1899; and Lee, born January 18, 1905.

GEORGE LESLIE (1890) farms 420 acres of Rock county land, located on sections 22 and 26, Springwater township. In Tama county, Iowa, on the seventh of September, 1874, occurred the nativity of George Leslie. His parents, Sylvester and Jenetta (Colaw) Leslie, natives of Pennsylvania and Vir- ginia, respectively, settled in lowa at an early date. At the age of sixteen George accompanied the family in their removal to Rock county and located on the farm bought by his father, the southeast quarter of section 23, Beaver Creek township. Our subject completed his education in the Rock county schools and at the age of twenty- two rented land and began farming on his own account. He has resided on his present location, the south half of section 22, since 1905.

In Luverne, February 12, 1898, George Leslie and Abbie Gates were joined in the holy bonds of matrimony. Mrs. Leslie is a daughter of Elmer and Mattie (Mason) Gates, the former an Ohioan by birth and the latter a native of the Hawkeye state. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Leslie: Roy G., born December 11, IS99; Elmer S., born June 26, 1902; and Elsie M., born August 22, 1909.

HENRY SAVOLD (1888) is one of the younger business men of Hills, but one that is meeting with success. He is the proprietor of the village meat market, of which he came in possession in the fall of 1910.

Mr. Savold is a Rock county boy and the son of two well known and long established residents of Martin township, Halvor Sa- vold and Mary (Thompson) Savold. The former parent is a native of Winneshiek county, lowa, who came to Rock county in the late seventies and bought two quarter sections of Martin township's fertile soil. For a time Halvor Savold taught school in that precinct. He was married to Mary Thomp- son, a native Norwegian, and their home has always been on section 18. Seven chil- dren have been born to this esteemed cou- ple, who. besides our subject, are Minnie (Mrs. Ramer Jorgenson), Elmer, Sam, Ella and Roy.

Henry was born on the Martin township home farm November 23, 1888. He attend- ed the district school and later completed a course in the Sioux Falls Business college and also studied telegraphy in Minneapolis. Mr. Savold entered the employ of Carl Omodt, the Hills butcher, from whom he learned that trade, and in 1910 he succeeded to the business of his employer.

The subject of this review was married at Sioux Falls July 19, 1909, to Mabel Con- ner, of Garretson, South Dakota, whose birth occurred in Des Moines, Iowa, March 18, 1889. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Savold, one a daughter named Marjorie, and a baby girl named Hazel. Henry Savold is the assistant chief of the Hills fire department.

CHARLES A. PALMER (1882) has been engaged in the practice of dentistry in the city of Luverne for nearly thirty consecu- tive years. A native of New York, he was born in Onondaga county March 20, 1858, the son of Ashley H. and Katherine (Ford) Palmer, also natives of the Empire state. The former named parent died in the city of Syracuse in 1896; the mother still lives there and is in her seventy-seventh year. Charles A. is the oldest living child in a family of six children. An elder brother,

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Willis H., has been dead for a number of years.

At an early age our subject removed with his parents to the town of Skanea- teles and later to Oswego county. Charles was educated in the high school in the town of Mexico and at the age of sixteen years commenced teaching school, in which he was engaged two and one-half years. He farmed during the summer months and for awhile was employed in the construc- tion of a road then building to Syracuse. Mr. Palmer took up the study of dentistry and for awhile was engaged in practice in Syracuse. He then moved west, locating at Cherokee, Iowa, for one year, and there in company with his brother, Willis, he bought out a leading dentist. Since 1882 he has practised his profession in Luverne. He has his office over the Rock County Bank.

Dr. Palmer was married in Cherokee, lowa, October 22, 1884, to Cora D. Meeker, who was born in Plattsville, Wisconsin. She is the daughter of A. and E. J. Meeker. They have two children: Douglas, born October 7, 1893, and Ida M., born May 5, 1901.

Dr. Palmer is a prominent Mason, being affiliated with the Blue Lodge and Com- mandery at Luverne, the chapter in Pipe- stone and the Shrine at Sioux Falls.

VERNIE RAYMOND (1888), who farms in Springwater township, is Rock county horn and bred. He is the son of Emmet and Clara (Nelson) Raymond, natives of Michigan and Illinois, respectively, who, in 1886, settled in Rock county. It was on his father's farm in Rose Dell township that Vernie was born, the eighteenth of December, 1888. He was educated in the district schools and assisted his father with the work on the home farm until the spring of 1910, when he commenced farm- ing on his own account. He makes his home on the northwest quarter of section 1, range 47, of Springwater township. Mr. Raymond is a member of the A. O. U. W. lodge of Luverne.

On the eighth of April, 1907, in Luverne, Vernie Raymond was joined in marriage to Mary Maurice. She was born March 27, 1888, and is the daughter of Charles and

Emma (Bourne) Maurice. Two children have been born to these parents: Lester V., on October 6, 1908; and Walter, on De- cember 2, 1909.

W. F. LYNCH (1884) is a Clinton town- ship farmer who has spent all but the first four years of his life as a resident of Rock county. He is the son of John and Bridget (Fitzgerald) Lynch who are well-known residents of Luverne.

W. F. Lynch is a native Minnesotan, born in Fillmore county February 14, 1880. lle moved with his parents to Rock county in March, 1884, the family taking up their abode on the land in section 5, which had been hought by the father and which is today the scene of the son's operations. Our subject's education was received in the district school near the home farm, and after growing to manhood he assisted his father in the management of the place. In the spring of 1907 the elder Mr. Lynch moved to Luverne, and since that date W. F. has rented and successfully farmed the place. He farms two quarter sections, one located on section 5 and the other on sec- tion 8.

At Rock Rapids, Iowa, on the twenty- sixth of February, 1908, Mr. Lynch was married to Agness M. Kachelhoffer, who was born in Freeport, Illinois, November 14, 1885. To this union two children were born, Frances Perryetta, on April 9, 1909, and Bridget Devon, on October 24, 1910. Joseph Kachelhoffer, the father of Mrs. Lynch, is still living, but her mother, Lena Kachelhoffer, died July 2, 1892.

Mr. and Mrs. Lynch are members of the Catholic church of Luverne. He is at pres- ent serving as treasurer of school district No. 43, receiving the appointment in Feb- ruary, 1910.

GEORGE G. DELATE (1884) is a lead- ing plumber of the city of Luverne. His parents, G. W. and Lucy (Delameter) Delate, were early settlers of Stephenson county, Illinois. The father died in that county in 1871, at the age of forty-seven. Ilis wife, the mother of our subject, lived with her son in Luverne township in 1884.

George G. Delate of this review is a na-

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tive of Stephenson county, Illinois, and was born August 12, 1869. He was two years old when his father died but he continued on the home farm with his mother until attaining the age of sixteen years, since which time he has been a resident of Luverne. He attended the pub- lie schools one year, was employed on a farm for two years, and was engaged in various other occupations. In 1896 he be- came connected with the Lnverne electric light and water plant, serving for a time as a lineman, later becoming superintend- ent and engineer of the plant. In 1901 Mr. Delate entered the employ of W. E. E. Greene, plumber. Four years later he be- came a partner in the business, an asso- ciation which still continues under the firm name of Greene, Delate & Fritz. The members of the firm are practical and up- to-date plumbers and heaters and do an extensive business. The excellent plumb- ing and heating systems found in the prin- cipal buildings of Luverne have been in- stalled by this firm.

The marriage of Mr. Delate occurred in Jo Daviess county, Illinois, on November 20, 1895, when he wedded Addie King, a native of that county, having been born in 1869. One child, Neaita, has blessed this union. She was born January 30, 1901.

Mr. Delate was at one time a member of the Luverne fire department and he is now a member of the Knights of Pythias lodge.

GEORGE G. BELL (1904) has been a Beaver Creek township farmer for the past seven years and resides on the southwest quarter of section 11, of which he is the owner. lle is the son of Andrew and Sarah (Dayton) Bell, natives of Pennsyl- vania and New York, respectively, both descendants of old American families. An- drew Bell, born in 1819, died at Eldridge, lowa, on July 4, 1908. In that Iowa town his wife still resides.

George G. Bell of this review first saw the light of day in Scott county, lowa, on the fourth of September, 1867. He was reared on his father's farm near the city of Davenport and received a country school education. He resided with his par- ents on the farm of his birth until attain-

ing the age of twenty-five years. He then rented land and commenced farming for himself, an occupation he followed in Seott county ten years. His residence in Rock county began in 1904. He rented his present land from his father-in-law, but came into possession of the property the following year. Mr. Bell owns stock in the Farmers Elevator company

of Beaver Creek and in the Independent Harvester company of Plano, Illinois. He served as a director of school district No. 16 for three years. He holds membership in the M. B. A. lodge of Luverne.

Mr. Bell is a man of family. He was married at Davenport, Iowa, to

Ella Rochan, the daughter of Frederick and Kathryn (Stoltenberg) Rochau, both de- ceased. She was born in Scott county April 23, 1872. Mr. and Mrs. Bell are the parents of the following named children : Irene, born Angust 19, 1894; Ransom, born September 19. 1895; George, born April 14, 1897; Ory, born November 9, 189S; Irvin, born December 24, 1900; Ethel, born No- vember 1, 1902; Lulu, born August 20, 1903; Ila, born June 14, 1905; Arden, born September 15, 1908; and William, born June 6, 1910.

THEODORE S. PAULSON, M. D., (1908), coronor of Rock county and a practising physician of the village of Hills, has been a resident of the county since 1908. He was born in Norway February 4, 1878, the son of S. Paulson and Mina (Hauge) Paul- son. For four years after their arrival in America, in 1881, the family lived in the village of Porter's Mills, Wisconsin, and then moved to a farm which the elder Mr. Paulson bought near Dalton, Otter Tail county, Minnesota, and there he still resides. Mrs. Paulson, the mother of our subject, died in 1885.

Theodore spent the first three years of his life in the land of his birth. His education commenced in the public schools of Otter Tail county and was continued at Park Region Luther college, of Fergus Falls, the Fergus Falls high school and the state nor- mal school at Moorhead. On leaving the last named institution he was a successful teacher for three years in the counties of Otter Tail, Grant and Clay. He then ma.

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triculated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Hamline university, at Minne- apolis, from which he was graduated in June, 1908. During the last year and a half of his medical school course, Dr. Paul- son served as an interne at the Norwegian Deaconness hospital in Minneapolis. In the spring of 1908 he located at Hills for the practice of his profession, in which he has been eminently successful. In the summer of 1910 he built a fine modern residence of cement blocks.

Dr. Paulson was elected to the office of county coroner in the fall of 1908. He is the president of the village board of health and is a member of the citizens" league. He also holds membership in the Minnesota State Medical association and the Southwestern Minnesota Medical asso- ciation.

At Sioux Falls, on June 8, 1910, Dr. Paul- son was united in marriage to Bertha Sal- vesen, a daughter of Rev. C. S. Salvesen, of Sioux Falls, and a native of that city, born April 19. 1883.

ERNEST BENDT (1889), a prominent Luverne township farmer and stock raiser, first saw the light of day in the province of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, on the twen- ty-third of November, 1869. His parents, Peter and Doris ( Wiese)

Bendt, are living and reside in Lismore township, No- bles county.

Our subject grew to manhood in his na- tive land. His father was a farmer, and Ernest as a youth assisted with the work and attended the neighboring schools. In 1889 his career in America began. He jour- neyed direct to Luverne, arriving there on the sixteenth of Angust of the year men- tioned. For a little more than a year he worked on a farm near the city and then went to Scott county, Iowa. He secured employment in the saw mills of Davenport and later engaged in farm lahor in the im- mediate vicinity of that city.

But in July, 1893, convinced that there was no place that could beat Rock county, Mr. Bendt returned and has ever since been a resident of the county. For seven years, in partnership with his father, he farmed the old Sam Griffith place in Kanaranzi township. At the expiration of that period

he rented his present farm, the northwest quarter of section 25, Luverne township, and has successfully conducted the place to the present date. He devotes a good deal of attention to the breeding of fancy stock and makes a specialty of the Poland China hog.

Mr. Bendt was joined in the bonds of matrimony to Minnie Harloff in Luverne on February 1, 1901. Mrs. Bendt was born in the same locality in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, as her husband, on June 23, 1883, and came to the United States in 1900. Mr. and Mrs. Bendt are the parents of the following children: Retta, born December 17,1901; Nellie, horn March 16, 1903; Harry, born April 16, 1904; Paul, born March 23, 1906; and Lizzie, born May 4, 1909.

EDWARD BUCKLEY (1883), chief of po- lice of the city of Luverne, was born in Dubuque, Iowa, January 17, 1860, in which city he lived untit 1872. His mother died when he was less than a year old, and un- til his father's death in 1872 he made his home with his father and stepmother. At the age of twelve years he accompanied his stepmother to Vermilion, Dakota territory, where he lived until 1882, working on his stepmother's farm and working out.

Mr. Buckley located in Sioux Falls in 1882, where he resided a short time, work- ing at the plasterer's and brick mason's trades. The next year he located in Lu- verne, which has ever since been his home. Until the year 1903 he worked at his trade; then he engaged in the implement business in partnership with M. Ryan. Three years later he sold out and during the next three years was engaged in the real estate busi- ness. He was appointed chief of police in the spring of 1909. Mr. Buckley owns farm lands in Nobles county and in Canada. He is a member of the M. W. A. lodge.

The parents of our subject were Michael and Hannah (Driscoll) Buckley, natives of Ireland. The mother died in 1860. The father, who was a stone cutter by trade, came to the Uinited States when a young man and located in Dubuque, Iowa. Later he engaged in farming in lowa and died in the spring of 1872 at the age of fifty-four years. Edward is the youngest of a family

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of four children, the other living children being Mary Hart and Hannah Rogers.

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An illustrated history of the counties of Rock and Pipestone, Minnesota, Part 87

Author: Rose, Arthur P., 1875-1970 Publication date: 1911 Publisher: Luverne, Minn. : Northern History Publishing Company Number of Pages: 924

Author: Rose, Arthur P., 1875-1970
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: Luverne, Minn. : Northern History Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 924