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WILLIAM E. KEILLOR was born in Chatham, New Brunswick, Oct. 31, 1836, where he lived until the age of nineteen. He spent twelve years in Nova Scotia and Ontario, and then lived again in New Brunswick until 1891, when he removed to Anoka Co. He taught school in Canada for about seven years, and then his health failing, he went to farming, a congenial occupation which he has since followed. In 1901 he purchased forty acres in section 3, town of Ramsey, where he now resides. He was mar- ried Jan. 26, 1856. to Mary J. Crandall. Children : Mary E. (Mrs. James Hunt), Rebecca E., James C., Thomas T. (Albert, New Brunswick), Elizabeth J. (Mrs. Herbert B. Crandall ), Amelia J. (Mrs. Albin Loucks, Malmo, Aitkin Co., Minn.), and Alfred L.
FRANK KELSEY (son of Peter Kelsey) was born at Ashtabula, Ohio, Oct. 23, 1854. The next year his parents removed to An- oka county, settling at Round lake in what is now the town of Grow. From 1869 to 1880 he was engaged in brickmaking with his brothers, afterward spending five years in the mines in the Black Hills. From 1888 to 1893 he was in the grocery busi- ness, and from 1805 to 1900 was chief of police of Anoka. He is now engaged in raising small fruits on east Main street. He was married Sept. 1, 1881, to Ida Allen. They have three chil- dren : Guy, Stanley and Francis.
GEORGE KELSEY was born April 23, 1827, in New York, move1 to Ashtabula county, Ohio, where he worked at shoemaking,
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afterward moving to Pennsylvania and engaging in the man- ufacture of boots and shoes, and was married in 1851 to Lydia Sterling. About five years after this event he located at Round lake, and two years later at Anoka, where he went into the boot and shoe business, from which he later retired and en- gaged in the sewing machine business. He was a county com- missioner in the early days. Children: Clarence (died 1853), Melvin (died 1865), Lydia Jeanette (Mrs. W. P. Macomber, Wilton, N. D.) Ella (Mrs. Magson), Hiram A. (deceased) and Georgia (Mrs. Woodworth).
PETER KELSEY (deceased) was born in New York state in 1825. He came to Anoka county in 1855, settling at Round lake in what is now the town of Grow. He engaged in farming until 1862, when he removed to New York, returning in 1865 to his farm at Round lake, where he died the same year. His wife was Miss Lucy Giddings of Ohio, who died at Round lake in 1886. Children : Claudius L (Eugene City, Oregon), Minnie (Mrs. M. Burns, Grand Forks, N. D.), Porter, Frank, Frances (died 1894), Jackson (drowned in Round lake, 1883).
CHIARLES WOOD KERR was born in St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 7, 1870. When an infant his parents removed to Anoka, where he received his education at the Anoka high school. He has been for some years employed in the postoffice department. His home is in Minneapolis.
JAMES ALLEN KERR was born in Allegheny, Penn., March 15, 1838. He came to Minnesota Sept. 15, 1855, settling in Hen- nepin county, and followed lumbering for a livelihood. Oct. 5. 1861, he enlisted in Peteler's Minnesota Sharpshooters, which became Co. A of the Second United States Sharpshooters. He was wounded in the Wilderness and also at Petersburg. He was mustered out Nov. 6. 1864. He came to Anoka county June 7. 1871, and worked at lumbering for some years. Mr. Kerr was married Aug. 4. 1868, to Emma Parslow Ghostley. Chil- dren : Charles W. and Maude M.
WILLIAM F. KIESEL was born at Langenhagen, in Pommern, Germany, June 10, 1859. Attended the common schools : came to America at the age of twenty-four and spent six years in gar- dening near St. Paul, and then carried on a farm in Maple Grove four years, living meanwhile in Champlin. In 1895 he purchased
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a farm in section 35, town of Burns, where he still lives. He has 80 acres, about 45 of which are under cultivation. He was mar- ried. Feb. 21, 1886, to Rachel Blesi. Children : Anna M., Emma F., Katherine E., Rosa B., Frediline A.
ESTES A. KING was born in Charlton, Mass,. July 29, 1817. He early learned the blacksmith's trade, and having come to Anoka county in 1856 he started a blacksmith shop in Anoka two year later, continuing in that business until about 1875, when he went into the real estate business, which he followed until 1895. He held many school and town offices in the early days. He was twice married .. His first wife was Ann McIntyre, who died leaving one daughter, Mrs. H. M. Lambert. His second wife was Lucy Buss, and they had one son, Frank,. now a resident of Linwood. Mr. King died March 31, 1900.
REV. FREDERICK R. LEACH, pastor of the First Baptist Church, was born Feb. 14, 1864, at Hamburg, N. Y. At about twenty years of age he entered Hamilton (now Colgate) University where he remained four years, after which he attended the Roch- ester Theological Seminary, graduating therefrom in 1891. He was married in 1803 to Mary Gaylord. Children : Gaylord, Har- old and Donald.
CHARLES H. LEATHERS was born in Maine in 1836, and in 1854 came to Minneapolis and later located in Oak Grove. In 1861 he enlisted and served in Co. H, First Minnesota Regiment. participating in various engagements and being wounded at Bristow. At the close of his three years term of service he was mustered out with the regiment. In 1871 he was married to Ouisa Barrett. Children : Alonzo C. (died 1895), John W. (died 1893), George F. (deceased), Lucinda (deceased), Charles (de- ceased).
GILBERT H. LEATHERS was born in New Hampshire, Dec. 12, 1824, in the town of Nottingham. At two years of age his parents removed to Maine. In 1854 he came to Oak Grove town- ship, later removing to Anoka.
HENRY G. LEATHERS was born in Oak Grove, Anoka county, Dec. 11, 1858. He was educated in the Anoka high school and at Carleton College, Northfield, Minn. The first business which he took up was farming. In 1883 he started a general store at
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St. Francis. Mr. Leathers has held various town offices and was appointed postmaster at St. Francis Sept. 1. 1904. He was married to Rose Barden Sept 19. 1888. Children: Robert E. and Blanche L.
LUTHER H. LENNOX (deceased) was born in Knox, Mame, August 9, 1814. He was reared in his native state and learned the trade of a carpenter and millwright, which he followed the greater part of his life. In 1834 he came to St. Anthony and in 1862 to Ancka. Hle served severil terms as supervisor, assess- or and member of the school board. He was married in 1837 to Diana C. Strout. Children : Priscilla N .. Isaac P. ( Minneapolis ). Flora E. ( Mrs. L. W. Gerrish), and Emma H. ( Mrs. F. H. Tilden ).
HENRY E LEPPER (deceased) was born in Watertown, New York, April 19, 1835. He lived when a boy in Ohio, coming to Minnesota in 1857, but removing two years later to Missouri, and afterward to Kansas, where he was a salesman in a lumber yard. He came to Anoka in 1857, and conducted a dry goods store three years. He was county commissioner 1875 to 1877 and county auditor in 1879-80. He was married April 24, 1859, to Emily Getchell. Children: Ella G .. Cora E. (Mrs. C. J. Edgarton, deceased), Homer L., Alice C. (Mrs. Frauman), and William H.
RICHARD M. LOWELL was born in Abbott, Piseitaquis county, Maine, Dec. 2, 1828. He came to Minnesota in 1851, and on the day of his arrival went with a hatteau containing provisions from St. Anthony to meet the log drivers on Rum river. He was married Sept. 26, 1853 to Sophronia M. Smith. and the next spring took up his residence upon a farm in what is now the town of Champlin, where he lived eight years. He then moved to Anoka, where he engaged in lumbering and carpenter work until 1897, when he returned to Champlin, where he lived until his death May 9, 1901. Of three children only one daughter, Mary, is still living. For the past twelve years Mrs. Lowell has been engaged in lecturing for Spiritualist organizations in several western states, and her local work for the past four years has been for the Band of Peace, Minneapolis. ( See portrait, page 171.)
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HENRY C. LOEIIL was born in Chicago May 25, 1855. In 1867 his parents removed to St. Peter, Minn. Before leaving school he had made considerable progress in learning carriage painting and frescoing. He was obliged to leave this business, however, upon medical advice. He then learned the tinner's trade, com- ing in 1875 to Anoka, where he has since lived. The firm of Loehl & Karker began business in the hardware line on Jackson
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street in March, 1898, and moved to their present location in 1901. They carry a' general stock of hardware and stoves. They also do plumbing and steam fitting and all kinds of tin and sheet iron work. Mr. Loehl was married August 30, 1879, to Alice C. Phillips.
PATRICK LYONS was born in Balarat gold fields, near Mel- bourne, Australia, Feb. 22, 1856; went with his parents to Ire-
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land in 1864, thence to America three months later, coming to Minnesota in 1856, settling in St. Anthony, and later at Fridley. In the fall of 1867 he moved to the town of St. Francis, where his father took a homestead. On March 4. 1868. his father was killed on the railroad near what is now Northtown, and the family lived in Fridley and later in Blaine, of which town Mr. Lyons is still a resident. Feb. 23, 1886. he was married to Celia Matushak. They have two children, James Vincent and Ella May. Mr. Lyons served as assessor of the town of Blaine twenty years beginning in 1878. Served on the school board several years. Mrs. Lyons has also served as treasurer of school district No. 47 for ten years. Mr. Lyons has owned the farm where he now lives in section 29 since 1881.
ALEXANDER MCALLISTER was born Ang. 9. 1861, in Harrisburg, Pa. In 1885 he came to Grant Co., Wis., where he remained six years, railreading and farming. In 1896 he took a farm in Cottonwood Co., Minn., where he remained until 1902, when he came to Anoka Co. He now lives on section 15. town of Ramsey. He was married Sept. 8, 1897, to Rosina E. Pfeiffer. Children: Phosa E., Jefferson I .. John J.
JAMES MCARDLE was born at the Firth of Forth, Dumfrie- shire. Scotland, Oct. 4. 1856. He obtained his aducation in a private school in Scotland and in the public schools of Anoka He came to Anoka in November, 1869. In 1893 he settled on section 36. Ramsey, where he owns seventy acres, fifty-five of which are under cultivation. He worked at lumbering, in the woods, on the river and in the Washburn mill from 1872 until the mill was closed. He has served as a member of the school board in his district. He was married April 20, 1885. to Mary J. Smith. Children : Mary Esther, Anna L,. Sarah C., James W., Irene E .. Edmund L., Helen M .. Joseph P.
JAMES McCANN was born at St. Andrews, New Brunswick, July 6. 1814. At the age of seventeen he went to the state of Maine, where he was engaged in lumbering and farming for nearly eighteen years. In 1849 he went to California by way of the city of Mexico, remaining there two years and a half, en- gaging fifteen months in mining and afterward in mercantile business. In the fall of 1851 he returned to Maine, and the fol- lowing spring came to St Anthony, where he engaged in the
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iumber busines. He was also a member of the company which built the first suspension bridge at Minneapolis-the first bridge thrown across the Mississippi river anywhere. In the fall of 1854 he came to what is now Champlin, where he took a claim, but continued his lumbering and logging interests on Rum river. In 1856 he rebuilt the dam, which had just been washed out for the second time. In 1860 he purchased the water power and all the mills then run by it with the exception of the flour mill. In 1863 he erected a second saw mill beside the old one, equipped with more effective machinery, consisting of a circular saw, trimmers, shingle and lath machines, giving a capacity of 20,000 feet per day. About 1871 he sold the water power and his entire milling interests to W. D. Washburn & Co., after which he turned his attention principally to farming. Mr. McCann served one term as mayor of Anoka, and one term as county com- missioner. In 1873 he was a member of the state legislature. Mr. McCann was three times married. His first wife was Abigail Brackett, to whom he was married in 1841, and who died a year and a half later. His second wife was Ruth S. Abbott, to whom he was married Dec. 17, 1845, and who died in June 1877, leaving two daughters : Ella (Mrs. Thurston) and Ada (Mrs. C. W. Sowden). In April, 1882, he was married to Mrs. Sarah A. Bodine. He died Feb. 8. 1883. (See portrait, page 124.)
JAMES MCCAULEY was born in New Brunswick in 1832. At the age of eleven he went to live with his uncle at Machias, Maine. He engaged in lumbering for some years and in the fall of 1856 came to Minnesota and settled on a farm on Rice creek, removing thence to Crooked lake in the town of Grow in 1868, where he lived up to the time of his death. Mr. McCauley was married in 1855 to Eliza McCormick. Children : William H. (died about 1878), James H. (Glenwood, Minn.), Charles E., George A., Fred (deceased), T. F., Eudora (de- ceased), and Louis.
GEORGE A. MCCAULEY (son of James McCauley) was born in the town of Fridley, May 31, 1860. Six years later his parents moved to a farm in the town of Grow, where he lived until 1884. In that year he started in the grain, flour and feed business at Anoka, but sold out previous to the great fire of
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that year. Soon after he again engaged in the same business, and about 1893 he added farm implements and fuel to his other lines, and also seeds and building materials. Mr. McCauley was married in February, 18c8, to Mabel C. Whitten.
SELDEN McGAFFEY was born at East Lincoln, Wis., Oct. 17, 1857. The family came to Meeker Co., Minnesota, about 1858. and to Anoka in 1864, where he received his education at the Anoka high school. He followed the occupation of a clerk and
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bookkeeper for several years, and served as county auditor from 1899 to 1905. He was married Dec. 25, 1880, to Mary W. Gilpatrick. Children: Lester B., Lois E., Frank S. (de- ceased), B. Hazel, Harry L., Helen I., L. Bessie and Caroline B.
ANDREW J. McKENNEY was born in Lowell, Maine. Feb. 20. 1829. He engaged in lumbering in that state until 1850, when he came to St. Anthony. In 1854 he came to Anoka
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county, and bought 120 acres on Trott brook. During the Civil War he served in Hatch's Battallion. In 1855 he married Elizabeth Littlefield. Children : Melvin, Evelyne, Leander, Wallace, Ella, Alma, Herman Urban, Milton.
WALLACE J. McKENNEY (son of Andrew J. McKenney ) was born in the town of Ramsey, Anoka Co., Nov. 9, 1862. Hc has lived on farms in the towns of Ramsey and Burns practically all his life. He now owns 130 acres in sections 1, 5, 7 and 28 town of Burns. In April, 1904, he started a grocery at Nowthen, which has developed into a prosperous business. He was mar- ried in 1885 to Mattie Hillman. They have one child, Noble IV.
DANIEL W. MCLAUGHLIN was born at New Sharon, Maine, July 12, 1831, where his father owned a farm. His father died when he was twelve years of age. He came to Minnesota in 1854, taking a claim in what is now Champlin in September of that year. In 1856, in company with Stephen Howes, he purchased the livery stable formerly owned by Robert and Benjamin Shuler, which stood on the east side of Ferry street just south of Main street. Later he worked as a carpenter and afterward took charge of the lumber yard and office of James McCann five years. After the sale of the mill he was with W. D. Washburn & Co. one year, with the Anoka Lum- ber Co. nine years and with Reed & Sherwood eighteen years. He served two or three terms on the board of supervisors of Anoka before the city was incorporated and two terms as alderman afterward. Mr. McLaughlin has been twice mar- ried. His first wife was Sarah J. New, who left five children at her death: Lila (Mrs. Thomas E. Bennett, died Feb. 7, 1888), Stephen H. (Fernwood, Miss.), Harriet E. (Mrs. James Howie, died about 1894), and Edwin J. (died May, 1891). Mr. McLaughlin's second wife was Martha M. Fitch, to whom he was married May 14, 1870. They had one son, Frederick S., who died in 1875. (See group picture, page 74.)
CHARLES E. MCLAUGHLIN was born at New Sharon, Maine, in March, 1841. He came to Minnesota in 1855 and to Anoka county in 1858. He worked in the saw mills and lumber yards until about 1877, when he moved to a farm in Ramsey, where
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he lived until 1901, since which time he has lived at Anoka. He was married about 1867 to Emma Lane. Children : Charles H., Eugene, Lillian (Mrs. James McKusick), Leonard R., Ben - jamin and Ida May.
EUGENE O. MCGLAUFLIN (son of John S McGlauflin) was born at Anoka Nov. 20, 1856. He received his education in the public schools and the Anoka high school, and was first em-
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ployed in lumbering. Later he was in the employ of Johnson & Hurd, sash and door manufacturers in Minneapolis, and in 1887, in company with P. C. Burfening, purchased a sash and door factory at Anoka. This business was conducted under the firm name of McGlauflin & Burfening until 1895, when the factory was destroyed by fire. While at Anoka Mr. McGlauflin served one term as alderman. He is now (1905)
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general manager of the Northwestern Lumber Co., with offices at Hoquiam, Washington. Mr. McGlauflin was married May 12, 1879, to Nellie M. Goodrich. Children: Eugene G. (Soutlı Seattle), Clarice, March and Kathryn.
JOHN S. MCGLAUFLIN was born at Charlotte, Washington Co., Maine, Nov. 11, 1830. After leaving school he learned the trade of a blacksmith. He came to Minnesota and to Anoka in April, 1855, and found employment in Ford's blacksmith shop. Later he engaged in blacksmithing on his own account, which business he conducted for many years. Mr. McGlauflin has been twice married. His first wife was Sarah B. Harrington to whom he was married Dec. 1, 1853, and who left six chil- dren at her death, Eugene O. (Hoquiam, Washington), George (San Jose, Cal.), Marilia (Mrs. Coburn, died April, 1883), Ida B. (Denver, Col.), John Roy (South Seattle, Wash.), Myra (Mrs. Edmund Huntley, Rush City, Minn.). Mr. McGlauflin's second wife was Alice R. Jordan, to whom he was married Aug. IO, 1881. (See portrait, page 67.)
CHARLES H. MCLAUGHLIN (son of Charles E. Mclaughlin) was born at Anoka, June 7, 1869. He attended the Anoka high school and graduated from the Anoka Business College in 1888. He worked in a grocery for a short time. He has dealt extensively in real estate, in which business he still con - tinues. He purchased the farm where he now lives in 1900. Mr. McLaughlin was married Apr. 9, 1902, to Ida Louise Ed- garton. They have two children, Parker and Vera
ARTHUR HILL MCLEAN (deceased) was born in New Bruns- wick in 1819. He came to Anoka in 1860, and found employ- ment at lumbering, which he followed for thirty-three seasons. He was married Dec. 17, 1840, to Anna Cundy. Children : Tobias G., Norman W., Warren (White Earth Reservation), C. T., (Anaconda, Mont.), George (California), and an adopted daughter, Mrs. E. K. Knight.
NORMAN WILLIAM McLEAN (son of Arthur Hill McLean) was born at St. George. New Brunswick, Feb. 10, 1844. He attended the schools of his native town and learned the black- smith's trade. He came to Minnesota in 1867 and to Anoka a year later, where he opened a blacksmith shop and continued
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at that business for some years. He was the first constable of Anoka after the city was in corporated and was chief of police in 1888 and 1889. He also served two years as deputy sheriff under J. C. Frost and two more terms in 1903-4. He was mar- ried in 1868 to Laura Maria Epps. Children: Maud (Mrs. W. M. Bean), Charles P. and Norma T.
CHARLES PHILO MCLEAN (son of Norman W. McLean) was born at Anoka May 11, 1872. He worked ten years in the gro- cery of McCauley & Oakes. Oct. 15, 1900, he went into the grocery business on his own account, in which occupation he is still engaged. Since he has been in business he has given his work the closest application, having had less than a week's vaca- tion at any one time. Mr. McLean was married to Elizabeth Goss Oct. 24, 1893.
ANDREW MATUSHAK was born in 1839 in Germany ; came to America in 1864; enlisted as a recruit in the First Minnesota Heavy Artillery, serving nine months before the war closed. After the war he returned to Minnesota, settling at Winona. where he remained eight years. He was marired to Julia Scloska November 27, 1865; came to Anoka in 1877, settling soon after on the farm where he now lives in the town of Blaine. Chil- dren : Celia. Francis (died Aug. 1. 1893), John, Frank, Mary and Louis. Mr. Matushak has been prominent in the town in the direction and management of affairs, having acted as chair- man of supervisors for a number of years.
JOHN MEERS was born in Plympton, England, Nov. 18, 1845. He came to Minnesota and to Anoka county, April 10, 1879, set- tling on a farm in section twenty-nine, town of Bethel. He was married Dec. 25, 1868, to Mary Ann Wyatt. Children: Henry W., Alfred F. and George W.
THOMAS R. MESSENGER, manager of the Anoka branch of the North Star Shoe Co., was born Jan. 1, 1847, at Askett, Buck- inghamshire, England, where he received his education. He served his full apprenticeship of seven years at shoemaking. In 1872 he came to St. Paul, Minn., and spent two years at White Bear lake to recuperate his health. He soon entered the employ of the North Star Shoe Co., and about 1897 came to Anoka. His residence is Lindstrom, Minn., but Mr. Messenger spends most
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of his time in Anoka, as may he surmised from his position. Mr. Messenger was married in 1883 to Adelaide Gauthier. The following children have been born: Marie Elizabeth (Mrs. A. E. Grout, Lindstrom, Chisago Co.), Elizabeth Sarah, and Rosabelle Julia.
ABEL E. MERRILL was born at Hiram, Oxford Co., Maine, Sept. 25, 1835. He received his education at the schools in Hiram, at Bridgeton Academy and the Academy of Great Falls, New Hampshire. He taught school two years and then worked for the Third Ave. Street Railway Co. in New York until 1862, when he enlisted in the Eleventh New York Cavalry. He was in the battle of Port Hudson, and was with about 20,000 cavalry guarding plantations and hunting bushwhackers up and down the Mississippi, mostly in Louisiana and Tennessee. After the war closed he was with a detachment which guarded the Freed- men's bureau in Tennessee for several months. He came to St. Paul in June, 1869, arriving in Anoka about Oct. I. He found employment at lathing and painting, and in 1875, moved to a farm in section 28, town of Ramsey, where he still lives. He has served as chairman of the board of supervisors two years and as town clerk about six years. Mr. Merrill was mar- ried June 20, 1858, to Hattie A. Ingalls. Children : Ida H. (died June 24, 1868), Fanny M. (died Dec. 30, 1867). Edwin E. (died June 6, 1868), Frederick O. (Anoka), and Arthur I.
ABRAHAM A. MERRILL (deceased) was born in 1824 at New- berry. N. H., and when quite young spent several years near Quebec, Canada, but was later educated in Ohio, where he learned the tailor's trade. In 1856 he located at Maine Prairie, but later removed to Anoka, where his widow now resides. In 1862 Mr. Merrill enlisted in Co. A, of the Eighth Regiment, served through the war as sergeant, and was mustered out with the regiment July 11, 1865. Mr. Merrill was married in Illinois to Alla S. Mannan, and there were born to them: Rowell (St. Paul, Minn.), Sherburne (died Oct. 26, 1892), Edmond (St. Paul, Minn.), Almond (died Feb. 3, 1896), Chas. Sherman (Burns, Minn.), May Sarina (Mrs. Frank Humphrey, Anoka), William H. P., and Lucinda M.
GEORGE DAVID MIARS (deceased) was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Apr. 17, 1816. The first business that he took up was
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lumbering. He came to Minnesota in November, 1855, and to Champlin Mar. 27. 1871, where he farmed. Nov. 28, 1852, he was married to Syrena Pratt. Children: Emma ( Mrs. S. R. Coleman), Etta (Mrs. HI. P. Sylvester), Ruth (Mrs. E. J. Ripley), Ada (Mrs. Warner Lawson), George W., William F., Eva (Mrs. W. H. La Plant), Evver, and Frank. (Mrs. E. J. Ripley and Evver not living. ) It was through the initiative of Mr. Miais that the Methodist Episcopal church of Champlin was organized, and he was class leader for a number of years.
HENRY C. MILLER was born at Beaver, Penn., Aug. 1, 1831. He followed farming nearly all his life. He moved with his parents to Ohio and came to what is now Anoka county when nineteen years of age. He spent seven years in Anoka county and viciuity, trapping and hunting most of the time. A portion of this time was spent in rafting logs from Still- water to St. Louis. He returned to Ohio in 1861 and married Sarah E. Saffles ; moved to Illinois and thence to Minnesota again. Enlisted in Co. B. First Minn. Heavy Artillery ; served at Nash- ville and Chattanooga until close of the war, about one year. Settled on the farm in section 30, town of Bethel in 1866. Chil- dren : Emma ( Mrs. Ellis Usher), Mary (Mrs. Elmer Stearns). Lucinda (Mrs. Henry Day), William, John, Belle (Mrs. Barton Bridghan ), Jennie ( Mrs. Charles Elwell), Maud (Mrs. Arthur Emrick), and Elmer
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