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THOMAS MAGSON was born in Lancashire, England, Nov. 13. 1845. On leaving school he learned the trade of a gasfitter and tinsmith. Before coming to America he accepted an engagement to go to Zante, one of the Ionian islands belonging to Greece, in March, 1871, as foreman in works for extracting oil from waste olives by chemical process. He came back to England in 1872. He came to Minnesota and to Anoka in 1881, where he worked at his trade. He served as city clerk from 1896 to 1900 and as deputy county auditor from 1899 to 1905. Mr. Magson's first wife was Sarah Jane Ashworth, to whom he was married June 10, 1869, and who died May 16, 1891. Children : Sarah (Mrs. A. E. Norris), Annie (deceased), Thomas, Jane (deceased ), James, Amy, William, Harry. Mr. Magson was married again Feb. 13, 1903, to Mary Ella Kelsey.
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ALFRED MOLANDER was born at Helsinburg in the southern part of Sweden Aug. 2, 1866. In 1870 his parents came to
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America, and he received his education in the schools of Still- water, Minn. He first took up mercantile business, but later
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went on the stage. The dramatic companies with which he played were touring mostly in the eastern states. He was with Herbert K. Belts, Amile Loosee, Frank D. Long, Wilson The- ater Co .. The Pike Theater Co., Havelin Stock Co., and others- in all about eleven years. Mr. Molander has also written several plays, one of which, a melodrama called "The Atlanta," was
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produced at Anoka for the benefit of the public library, and was a great success. Another play, "A Half Dozen Hearts," may be presented in the East in the near future. At the present time Mr. Molander is manager of the Burke Clothing Co. at Anoka. This business was begun in February, 1900, and in May, 1903, the clothing stock of T. G. McLean was purchased and added to the growing business.
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ORANGE S. MILLER (son of Robert H. Miller) was born in Waterford, Maine, Sept. 6th, 1849. Came to Minnesota with his father's family in the spring of 1854. His educational advantages were limited to the public schools of Champlin, which in his younger days were not of the best. He served two years as clerk in the U. S. land office at Greenleaf, Minn., in 1868-9. He was a member of the House of Representatives in 1883, was teller and assistant cashier in the Anoka National Bank from 1883 to 1900. Has been chairman of the board of supervisors and treasurer of Champlin several times. On Nov. 30, 1871, he was married to Miss Mary E. Wiley. They have one son, Arthur J. Miller, born May 7th, 1875, who is the present post- master of Champlin. Mr. Miller is now president of The O. S. Miller Co., proprietors of the Champlin Flour Mill. (See group picture, page 173.)
ROBERT H. MILLER was born in Denmark, Oxford Co., Maine, January 5. 1820. He was married in January, 1848, to Sarah R. Hill of Conway, New Hampshire, and removed to Waterford, Maine. Two children were born to them, Orange S. and Thirza R. In 1852 Mr. M. came to St. Anthony, Minn., but the family did not come until the spring of 1854. He held a "squatter's claim" in what is now Minneapolis for a short time; then sold his right and improvements and removed to Anoka in August, 1854, and erected the third house built there, which he soon sold, and on Novembr 12, 1854, moved across the river to Champ- lin, the next spring moving upon a claim in what is now Dayton township, which he pre-empted. In 1857 he moved into the village of Champlin, built a residence and shop; having learned the carriage-maker's trade in early life, he carried on that business here several years. He also owned and conducted the hotel several years. He held the office of postmaster front 1860 to 1867 and served several terms as assessor. Mr. Miller died at Champlin, August 27, 1886. ( See group picture, page 173.)
JACOB MILLIMAN was born in Berne, Switzerland, Nov. 16, 1816. He did teaming in his native country, coming to Amer- ica in 1846 and working five years on a farm in New Jersey. He came to Minnesota in 1852. ariving at Rum river in April of that year. There were then but three houses where Anoka now
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stands, two of which were still unfinished. He found employ- ment first on Neal D. Shaw's farm west of south Ferry street, and in the fall began to haul piling for the dam. He took a claim four miles up Rum river, where his son, Samuel C .. was born. When the dam was built his farm was largely flooded and he pre-empted a farm east of Round lake, where he lived nineteen years. He then moved to Isanti county, where he lived twenty-six years. He now lives with his son William in the town of St. Francis. Mr. Milliman was married in 1851 to Ellen G. Lough. Children : Sammel C., Jacob, James, Sarah, William and George.
SAMUEL C. MILLIMAN (son of Jacob Milliman), was born at Anoka, March 19. 1854. The next year his father removed to Round lake, where he lived until 1873, when the family removed to Isanti county. From this time to 1879 Mr. Milliman worked at logging and lumbering with the exception of three years spent in the mines of Colorado. In November, 1879, he bought a farm in Sherburne county, Minn., where he lived until 1888, when he removed to Minneapolis, where he has since resided. In 1897 he was appointed to a position in the State Grain In- spection Department, and is still connected therewith in the capacity of a flax sampler. He was married in March, 1879, to Millie A. Wilber. (See group picture, page 77.)
NELS MOBERG was born in Ostersund, Sweden. July 22. 1845. and in 1866 began his apprenticeship at tailoring. In 1870 he came to Minnesota and June 20. 1873, to Anoka. In 1880 he commenced business on his own account as a merchant tailor. in which occupation he is still engaged. Mr. Moberg was married April 4, 1871, to Sigrid Johnson. Children: A. Amelia (Mrs. C. G. Gronberg), Nicholas P., I. Caroline (Mrs. G. E. Norell), John A., Amanda S. and Oscar E.
NICHOLAS P. MOBERG (son of Nels Moberg), was born at Anoka April 12, 1874. He received his education at the Anoka high school and was employed in his father's tailoring establish- ment. He graduated from the cutting school at Chicago in 1902. Mr. Moberg has been city clerk of Anoka since October, IÇOI.
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THURMAN W. MORTON was born July 13, 1833, in Addison, Vermont. Attended common schools in New York and Smith- port Academy in Mckean Co., Pennsylvania. He then learned the carpenter's trade with his father, and worked at carpenter work and millwrighting for about forty years. He came to , Anoka county in August, 1857, and took a claim at Lake George in the town of Oak Grove, and lived there until the
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Civil War broke out. In 1862 he enlisted in Co. A, of the Eighth Minnnesota Regiment. The company was about eight months in pursuit of the Sioux Indians who took part in the massacre of 1862. Two severe battles were fought, one at Kill- deer Mountain and the second in the Bad Lands. At the con- clusion of the Indian war the company went south and took part
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in the battles of Murfreesboro and Stony River. Mr. Morto. was mustered out with his company in August, 1865. He then lived at Anoka, following his trade until 1878, when he moved to his present farm in the town of Burns. He now owns 145 acres in section 21. about (o acres of which are under cultivation. He was married Aug. 13, 1855, to Rhoda Tripp. Children : Amadore, Frederick H. (Minneapolis), and Edward.
JAMES F. MURPHY was born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, about 1831. Came to Minnesota about 1855, living during the summer at St. Anthony. He engaged in logging and lumbering a few years. In March, 1860, he went to Pike's Peak, where he staid a year. Returning to Anoka, he enlisted in Co. A. Eighth Regiment, and served with that regiment throughout the war. In 1865 he bought a half interest in the shoe store which John McDonnell had just purchased from Kelsey & Kelley. A year later Thomas M. Ryan purchased Mr. McDonnell's interest, and the firm of Murphy & Ryan continued in the shoe business until Mr. Murphy's death, Dec. 26, 1878. He was married Oct. 29, 1859, to Susan M. McGuigan. Children : Mary C. (Mrs. Henry E. Faherty), Sophia (died in infancy), Annie (died in 1874), Aloysius P., Eugene F. (Western Pa. Hospital, Pittsburg, Pa.), James F. (State Hospital, Pueblo, Col.).
JOHN H. NILES, attorney at law, Anoka. is a graduate from Dartmouth (1880), and from the law department of the Iowa State University (1882). He was born in Bethlehem township, Albany county, New York, Nov. 27, 1857. His father died when he was four years of age, and the family removed a few years later to Albany, where Mr. Niles graduated from the high school in 1876. After this he studied law in the office of Hand, Hale & Bulkeley at Albany, just before his entrance to the Iowa State University. He spent one year in the law office of Wilson & Lawrence, Minneapolis, and in the spring of 1883 came to Anoka and opened a law office, and has been in contin- uous practice ever since. In connection with his legal work he conducts an abstract office. Mr. Niles has been on the school board for eight years, and was president of this body for several years. He is secretary of the library board, and has taken an active part in the crection of the fine new library building. Mr. Niles was married Nov. 22, 1887, to Zale Ticknor, and one
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daughter, Natalie, was born to them. Mrs. Niles died Feb. 20, 1902.
CHARLES A. NELSON was born in Sweden Dec. 17, 1861. He came to America and to Minneapolis in 1881. He first found employment on a dairy farm, and for a short time in 1884 worked in Canada for the Canadian Pacific Railroad Co. Returning to Minnesota, he purchased a dairy in the town of Fridley, which
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he has conducted for eighteen years. He has been president of the Minneapolis Dairymen's Union several years, and was also treasurer of the Minneapolis Dairymen's Creamery. In 1898 Mr. Nelson was elected a member of the board of county commissioners of Anoka county, and in January, 1905, became chairman of the board. He has also served as a member of the board of supervisors of Fridley and as a member of the council
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of the village of Fridley Park. He has always been a Republican in politics. Mr. Nelson was married Nov. 25, 1885, to Lizzie Dermott, who died in 1893, leaving four children : Nels A., Jen- nie L., Hattie A. (deceased), and Arthur W. (deceased). He was married a second time in 1894 to Amanda Danielson. Chil- dren : Bernard B., Raymond H., Agnes A., Hattie C. E., Carl A. W. and Theodore.
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PETER J. NELSON was born in Sweden, June 16, 1869. He came to Minnesota in 1888, and after leaving school took up pho- tography. April 18, 1903, he came to Anoka, and established a photograph gallery, which very soon acquired a thriving busi- ness. Mr. Nelson now has branch galleries at Princeton, Milaca and Lindstrom, Minn. He was married in May, 1895, to Mary Hanson. They have one son. Paul B., born Nov. 28. 1903.
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HANS NELSON was born in Sweden Jan. 25, 1846. He came to Minnesota about 1868, settling first in Minneapolis and after- ward- at Anoka. His occupation has usually been that of a me- chanic. He has also at times conducted religious services. He was elected a member of the Board of Education of the city of Anoka in 1903 and re-elected in 1904. He also served in the . city council in 1891. Mr. Nelson was married in 1873 to Christine Swanson. Children: Theodore, Emil, Ella, Edwin Arthur.
CHARLES LEAVITT NOGGLE (deceased) was born at Freeport, Ill., Jan. 16. 1842. He received his education in Illinois and Wis- consin, and after living two years in Kansas, came to Faribault, Minn., where he enlisted Feb. 14, 1862, in the Second Battery of Light Artillery. This battery was ordered south and partic- ipated in several hot engagements. Mr. Noggle was wounded three times the last time being at Stone River, Dec. 31, 1862, where he was shot through the body and a portion of the æsophagus carried away, necessitating the insertion of a silver tube, which he carried during the remainder of his life. In June, 1863, he was able to leave the hospital and came to St. Paul, where he had charge of an omnibus line for ten years. About 1874 he purchased the old Ford farm in section 36, town of Burns, to which his parents removed, Mr. Noggle coming there himself to live a few years later. He never entirely re- covered his health, but took an active interest in public affairs. He was county commissioner four years and held various town and school offices. Mr. Noggle was twice married. His first wife was Emma Wallace, of Faribault, who died Feb. 10, 1870. His second wife was Anna L. Sproul, to whom he was married Dec. 26, 1882. Mr. Noggle died May 2, 1901.
OLOF NORELL was born in Sweden Sept. 24, 1845, and came to America in 1866. He worked for some years as a lumberman on the St. Croix river, and saved enough from his wages to enable him to attend school each winter, principally in St. Paul. In 1873 he came to Anoka, and after working a few months in the store of Cutter & Co., engaged in the grocery business on his own account. Within a few years he had the largest gro- cery in Anoka, and erected several good buildings. In 1885 he retired from the grocery business. He has spent his summers at Crooked lake for the past twenty years. Mr. Norell was
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married Feb. 28, 1874, to Kate Anderson, who died in March, IÇ02.
ALFRED E. NORRIS (son of Alden W. Norris) was born in Oak Grove, Anoka Co., Aug. 3, 1861. He attended the public schools and worked on his father's farm in section 6. His father died in 1893, since which time he has farmed on the old
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homestead. He has 240 acres in Oak Grove and Burns, about 100 of which are under cultivation. Mr. Norris has been town supervisor of Oak Grove four years and school district treasurer eighteen years. He was married Aug. 1, 1889, to Sarah Magson. Children : Bernard A., Thomas Raymond. Nettie, Harold E., Amy, Mildred, Ada and Effie.
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ALDEN W. NORRIS was born in Maine, Oct. 3, 1815. He came to Minnesota in 1856 and bought 128 acres in section 6. town of Oak Grove, where he lived until his death July 30, 1893. He was at one time county auditor and held various town and school offices. He was married Feb. 25, 1842, to Sarahı N. Gaslin. Children: La Forest G. (died June 18, 1884), Thomas A. (died Jan. 8, 1878), Henry H., Ada F. (Mrs. Francis T. Clark), Alden (died Nov. 20, 1877), Willis E., Alfred E., and Hannah E. (Mrs. Guilford Frazer).
WILLIS E. NORRIS (son of Alden W. Norris), was born June 6, 1858, at Norris lake in the town of Oak Grove. He worked on his father's farm until seventeen years of age. He went to Minneapolis in 1879, where in partnership with D. D. Sher- man he conducted a feed business for about eleven years. In 1897 he came to his present farm in the town of Burns. He has about 152 acres, 45 of which are under cultivation. He was twice married. His first wife was Clara L. Plummer, who died Nov. 15. 1893, leaving three children: Archibald B. (Bellingham, Wash.), Hallie B. (Mrs Chester B. Pierce, St. Francis), and Roy P. Mr. Norris' second wife was Mary M. Steinmetz, to whom he was married June 6, 1903.
ERICK OLSON was born in Snulmark in the southwestern part of Sweden, Feb. 11, 1848. He worked on his father's farm until the age of twenty-one, when he came to Red Wing, Minn., near which place he remained about three years. He went to Minneapolis in 1872, and made that city his home until 1876, when he came to Anoka Co., and a year later purchased a farm in the town of Burns. He now owns So acres in section II. He was married Oct. 12, 1877, to Sophia J. Olson. Children : Mary H. (Mrs. Charles J. Swanson, Minneapolis). Charles H. (died May 31, 1902).
N. P. OLSON was born in southern Sweden Feb. 23, 1854. He came to America with his parents at the age of ten. After living two years at Lansing, lowa, the family moved to Meeker Co., Minn., where his father took a claim. There he lived until six- teen years of age, when he took a course at the University of Minnesota. About his first newspaper experience was with the Litchfield Ledger. In 1876 he took charge of the Hutchinson
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Enterprise, which he moved to Glencoe, where it is still published. Later he started the Meeker Co. Tribune. In 1894 he became connected with the Minneapolis Daily Penny Press, and was pro- moted to city editor and finally to managing editor, which position he held until about the time the paner was discontinued.
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He then started the Minneapolis Democrat, which he moved to Anoka in 1901, changing the name to Anoka Free Press. The paper gained rapidly in circulation, and was soon placed on an enduring basis. Mr. Olson was married Feb. 20. 1878, to Frederika Pfaff. Children: Florence M. (died in October, 1903), Alice G., August H., Elmer W. and Fred H.
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REV. SAMUEL S. PAINE was born in Anson, Somerset Co., Maine, Aug. 10, 1831. Attended first the common school and afterward the academy at Anson, finally taking a course at the theological school at New Hampton, New Hampshire. Came to Minnesota in April, 1861, and lived first at Dayton village. During his stay there he had charge of a circuit of Free Will Baptist church organizations at Champlin, Trott brook, Dayton, Otsego and Orono. He enlisted in Company D, Second Minn. Cavalry as a private, and was shortly afterward elected chaplain of the regiment, in which capacity he served until the end of the Civil War. After the war he lived some twenty years at and near Fargo, N. D. He came to his present home in the town of Ramsey in 1903. Mr. Paine has been twice married. His first wife was Mrs. Elizabeth Moore, who died in October, 1861. His second wife was Rebecca Shumway, to whom he was married Jan. 20, 1865. The living children are: Ella Fran- ces (Mrs. O. Dickinson, Helena, Mont.), Almyra (Mrs. Otrad- ovec, Anoka), Lula M., Edgar R.
IRA WALLACE PATCH was born in Prairie du Chien, Wis., Sept. 19, 1852. He was brought to Ramsey in infancy on account of the death of his mother, and lived with his grandfather, Cornelius Pitman. In 1881 he bought eighty acres of the old Pitman farm in sections 25 and 36. For about seven years he peddled dry goods, clothing, etc., all over the state. He was town clerk for six months, supervisor for two years, assessor for four years, member of the school board for about eighteen years, and town treasurer for three years. He was married to Anstress R. Ruffcorn Sept. 19, 1883. Children : Lewis (died Oct. 28, 1885) and Edith L.
JOHN G. PAYNE was born March 27, 1832, at Smithfield, Rhode Island, and came to St. Francis, Anoka Co., in 1857, where he took up a claim but gave it up later. He enlisted in Capt. Cady's company of the Eighth Regiment, and was in the Indian campaign, and in the fall of 1864 went south with the company. Since the war he has been engaged as cook in several mining camps. Mr. Payne was married June 7, 1852, to Ann Rebecca Moore (died 1872), and the following children were born to them: Emma (Mrs. J. M. Reddy, Tacoma, Wash.),
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Ada (Mrs. T. H. Moore, Dayton, Minn.). William Mills, an adopted son, is now residing at St. Francis.
CHARLES H. PAGE, now in the ice business at Anoka, was born at Burlington, Maine; March 15, 1845, where he spent his boyhood days, being educated in the schools of his native town. In 1868 he located at St. Paul, Minn., for a few months, but for about three years thereafter he changed about, and finally
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located in Anoka in 1872. For a period of three years here he followed lumbering, later entering railway service, continuing at this work until recently, when he engaged in the ice business. Mr. Page has been married twice ; first in 1876, to Abbie L. Chase of Wisconsin, who died in 1884, leaving one son, Guy C. Page, of Everett. Washington. On Nov. 12, 1901, Mr. Page was married to Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Connant (nee Hammond).
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SIMEON C. PAGE was born in Burlington, Maine, Dec. 10, 1847, and was married at Waterville, Maine, to Nancy Gonyer. He came to Anoka in 1881, and resided here continuously until his death, May 28, 1900. He was employed by his brothers in the lumber business after his arrival, and later acted as book- keeper for Sawyer & Co. and M. J. Scanlon & Co. He also served one term as county superintendent of schools. Children: Irving, George, Viola, Margaret, May and Louise.
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GRANVILLE S. PEASE was born Sept. 15, 1845, in Albany, New York. In 1857 his parents removed to St. Paul, Minn., where he attended a school taught by Harriet E. Bishop, an author of some note. His father, R. M. S. Pease, was a lineal descendant of Roger Sherman, and entered the banking busi- ness at St. Paul as a member of the firm of Bostwick, Pease & Co .- afterward Pease, Chalfant & Co. The firm
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weathered the panic of 1857, but the burden of losses finally became too great and the bank failed about February, 1859. Young Pease was then obliged to leave school and go to work, and he learned to set type in the office of The Minnesotian, of which T. M. Newson was proprietor and Richard Bradley. fore- man. Later he worked for William S. King on the Minneapolis State Atlas, where he was employed until he came to Anoka, April 2, 1866. The Anoka Union was then about seven months old and was owned by a stock company. Mr. Pease purchased all the stock and became sole proprietor, a position which he has maintained through all the mutations and changes of nearly forty years. The Union's pungent paragraphs are frequently quoted in the daily press, and Mr. Pease has come to be one of the best known men in the state. He was president of the Minnesota State Editorial Asociation in 1892-3. Mr. Pease was married Oct. 17, 1867, to Lucinda Belle Jones, a daughter of T. G. Jones. They have four living children : T. G. J., Carrie A. (Mrs. U. S. Dick, Seattle, Wash.) Mary R. (Mrs. John F. Jackson), and Lura Belle.
T. G. J. PEASE was born in Anoka July 12, 1870. He is a graduate of the Anoka high school and since leaving school has been engaged in printing and reportorial work. He is now local editor of the Anoka Union. Oct. 26, 1892, he was married to Mary Bertena Chase. Children: T. G. J., Jr., and Mary Ber- tena.
HERMAN G. PERSKE was born in Stettin, Prussia, Dec. 8, 1852. Attended the common schools of his native town. Came to America in September, 1872, and lived at Berlin, Wis., about two years and at Ripon, Wis., about four years. At the latter place he learned the cooper's trade. Came to Minneapolis in 1878. He had charge of a cooper shop in Minneapolis belonging to Michael Pauly employing some sixty-five hands. Was su- perintendent two years for David Syme, a manuafacturer of coop- erage supplies at River Falls, Wis. Through the recommenda- tion of Mr. Syme, he was employed in 1882 to take charge of the cooperage department of the Washburn Mill Co., at Anoka, which position he held almost continuously until the new mill was turned over to the Pillsbury-Washburn Flour Mills Co. about 1891. At that time he engaged in the cooperage business
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on his own account, which he continued until 1897, when the continued depression in the milling business and allied industries compelled him to make an assignment. In 1898 he was elected register of deeds, and filled the place with remarkable fidelity for six years.
ED L. PEET was born at Oneota (Duluth), Minn., Aug. 7, 1859. His father, Rev. James Peet, was a Methodist minister, and the family came to Brooklyn Center, Hennepin county,
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the following year, and thence to Anoka. After several more removes they returned to Anoka, where the father died in 1866. Mr. Peet received his education chiefly at the Anoka high school, and worked variously as a printer, farmer and traveling showman in several states. He has been editor and part owner of several newspapers at Minneapolis and elsewhere in the state. About 1895 he purchased the Grantsburg Journal, Grants- burg, Wis., of which he was editor until January, 1905, when he sold the greater part of his interest in the paper. He has served
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two terms as president of the Northern Wisconsin Press As- sociation, and in 1904 was chosen as a presidential elector for the state of Wisconsin. and was further honored with the task of delivering the vote of the state in Washington. Mr. Peet was married Nov. 25, 1893, to Nettie E. Montgomery. They have four boys.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL FRANCIS PETELER was born in Bavaria, Germany, April 19, 1828, and came to New York in June, 1840. He enlisted in Company A, Eighth United States Infantry, and was sent to Mexico. His uncle had been in charge of govern- ment forests in Bavaria, and he was accustomed to the woods. Although but twenty years of age, he was promoted corporal on the field of Vera Cruz, the adjutant who read the order being Pickett, afterward a Confederate general. Longstreet, another Confederate general, was first lieutenant of Company A. After the war Mr. Peteler lived in New York until 1853, and then came to Minnesota, finding employment in August on the Anoka dam. In the spring of 1854 he took a claim near Round lake. At the outbreak of the Rebellion he drilled recruits at Anoka in the St. Lawrence Hotel, and soon after received per- mission from the secretary of war to raise a company of sharp- shooters, receiving his appointment as captain Sept. 17. 1861. This was the second body of troops to leave the state, and con- sisted of the most expert hunters and frontiersmen. It became Company A of the Second Regiment, United States Sharp- shooters, of which Captain Peteler was made Lieutenant Colonel. After the second battle of Bull Run Colonel Peteler was granted a furlough on account of the Indian outbreak in Minnesota. During the winter of 1862-3 he was in command of Fort Aber- crombie. After the war he purchased a farm in Bloomington, Hennepin Co., where he lived until 1871, when he began the manufacture of dump cars. In 1871 he graded the first six miles of the M. & St. L. Railway. He was president and owner of the Peteler Car Works at Minneapolis until Jan. 1, 1905, turn- ing the business over to his sons on that date. Colonel Peteler was married in May, 1853, to Margaret Heines. Children : Ed- win. Philip, Frank C. (died Nov. 1, 1903). Minnie (Mrs. Edwin Ellingsen, Bloomington Ferry), and Charles. (See portrait, page 99. )
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