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EUGENE TAPLIN was born Apr. 18, 1850, in Sheboygan Co., Wis. He worked at farming a few years and went to Nebraska about 1880, where he had a stock ranch about fifteen years. In the spring of 1899 he came to his present farm in section 24, town of Burns. He has 160 acres, about 80 acres of which are under cultivation. Mr. Taplin has been twice married. His first wife was Emily Currier, of Hingham, Wis., who died in 1893. His second wife was Mattie McGee, to whom he was married in 1895. Mrs. Mattie McGee Taplin was born in Preston Co., West Va., was educated in the public schools and the Fairmount Normal school of that state, and for ten suc- cesive years taught in the public schools of her native county. In 1886 she removed to David City, Neb., afterward taking a claim with her cousin, Miss Minnie McGee, in Cheyenne Co., which land they still own. Mrs. Taplin was county superin- tendent of schools of Cheyenne Co., Nebraska, for four years.
MONTRAVILLE. L. TAPLIN was born at Sherman, Sheboygan Co., Wis., June 22, 1852. He attended the schools at Lyndon in that state, and followed farming as an occupation. With the exception of six months spent in California and four years in New York, he lived in Wisconsin until 1892, when he moved to Anoka county and settled upon a farm in section 13, tow:1 of Oak Grove. Mr. Taplin has served as town clerk since
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1896. He was married Jan. 1, 1878, to Elizabeth S. Dunn. Chil- dren : Edna (Mrs. Herman Case), and William A.
E. S. TELLER was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, Oct. 24, 1821, but his childhood was spent in New York city. Thence he removed to Harden county, Ohio, and lived on a farm. At the age of twenty he was married to Martha Thompson. Three years later he took a claim in Iowa and lived there fourteen years, during which time his wife died, leaving three small children. One of these was Mrs. J. Hosford. A son, John Wesley, was killed at the battle of Corinth. Mr. Teller was married again in 1848 and had two children, Mrs. Maggie Frit- zell and Mrs. Dora McLeod. Mr. Teller came to Anoka about 1858, and was in mercantile business for many years. Later he engaged in the real estate business. He resided at Anoka con- tinuously until his death, Oct. 4, 1888.
HIRAM THORNTON was born in Yorkshire, Cattaraugus Co., New York, Mar. 19, 1826. He was reared on a farm and re- ceived a common school and academic education. He studied law in his native town and was admitted to the bar May 17, 1860. . During the war he acted as recruiting agent for the eastern assembly district of Cattaraugus Co. In 1870 he came to Anoka and opened a law office. He served several terms as judge of probate and also as municipal judge. He was mar- ried July 9, 1846, to Nancy Smith. They had one child, Chloe H. Judge Thornton died March 20, 1902.
HEMAN L. TICKNOR (deceased) was born Dec. 6, 1827, a: Great Barrington, Mass. He engaged in the dry goods business several years in Ohio prior to his coming to Anoka in 1855. He conducted a general store several years in Anoka, and after- wards was the leading druggist of the place for thirty-five years, up to the time of his death, which occurred March 10, 1897. He was married Jan. 3, 1865, to Mrs. Anna M. Greenwald (nee Sweeney). One daughter was born, Zale (Mrs. J. H. Niles, died February 20, 1902). Mrs. Ticknor had two sons by her first husband, Aaron Greenwald: William A. (died April 22, 1894), and Louis J. (See portrait, page 70.)
BERGER TITTERUD was born Nov. 14, 1870, in Ham Lake, Anoka Co. Attended the common school and the School of Ag- riculture connected with the University of Minnesota .. He
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served as town clerk four years. He was married Feb. 21, 1900, to Nellie S. Hanson. Children : Mabel S., Morris B. Mr. Tit- terud owns the N. E. quarter of section 20, which includes the old plat of Glencarie.
H. M. TITTERUD was born in Norway, Feb. 12, 1838. His youth was spent on a farm, and he followed logging and farm- ing until his departure for America in 1866. He first located in St. Francis, but soon after settled on the farm where he still lives in the town of Ham Lake. He has held various town offices at different times.
ANDREW TURNQUIST was born in Sweden March 23, 1842, followed the life of a farmer most of the time, serving two years in the army. Came to America and to Minnesota in 1869, locating at Stillwater for a year, thence to St. Paul for two years, then to Rockford, Ill. He came to Anoka in 1874, where he worked for W. D. Washburn & Co. in the lumber business for about five years; thence to the farm in St. Francis (sec. 28) in 1879, where he still resides. On the 18th of No- vember, 1872, he married Christine Swanson, formerly of Hel- singland, Sweden. Children: Ada Caroline (Mrs. O. G. Turn- quist), Oscar Alfred (deceased), Emil J., Andrew E., Theo- dore (deceased), Arthur W. Mr. Turnquist served on the board of supervisors for thirteen years and was also a mem- ber of the school board in district No. 26 for several years.
ISAAC C. VARNEY was born Feb. 4, 1827, at Lowell, Maine. He taught school for a time and came to Minnesota in 1854, settling on a farm in the town of Ramsey. During the Civil War he served in Hatch's Battalion. After the war he re- turned to his farm, and served as assessor for many years and in other positions of trust. His wedding was one of the first in the county, he having been married to Helen A. Sinclair July 3, 1856. Children: Alice (Mrs. J. T. Perkins), Ida (Mrs. W. C. Brown), Helen (Mrs. J. D. Medlock), Medora (Mrs. Miles Milton), Nellie (Mrs. M. C. Lewis), Luilda, Lera (Mrs. E. A. Rither), Willis, John and Ernest.
OSCAR F. VARNEY was born in the town of Ramsey, Anoka Co., April 5, 1859. At the age of nine his parents removed to
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Elk River, where they remained about five years. In 1873 he removed with his parents to a farm in section 15, town of Burns, where he lived until 1881, when he married and moved upon 80 acres in section 26, where he now lives. He spent two and a half years in Humboldt Co., California, where he went in the spring of 1888, with which exception he has lived
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ever since on his farm in Burns. He was married April 17, 1881, to Abbie M. Hill. Children : Ada E. and Morris E.
HENRY VEIDT spent seventeen years in the schools of Ger- many and several years in military service, the latter falling upon the time of the Franco-Prussian war, before coming to America in 1876. He was in the siege of Paris, being a men- ber of the engineer corps. His native town is Essen, where he
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was born October 1, 1851. He first came to Baltimore, then to Chicago, in each city spending a few months. In 1878 he came to Minneapolis, where he laid brick for six years, and i11 1884 came to Anoka and engaged in business, establishing a soda water bottling works on south Second Ave., in which business he has ever since been engaged. He is a member of the Odd Fellows, Independent Order of Foresters, and Royal Arcanum. Mr. Veidt was married in 1875 to Johanna Marie Vestor. Children: Johanna H. A., Marie Helen, William George, Henry Eugene, and Wilhelmena Theodora.
JAMES WARHURST was born in Boston, Lancashire Co., England, Oct. 4, 1831. There he worked as a cotton spinner. In 1876 he came to Minnesota and to Anoka Co., purchasing a farm in section 28, town of Bethel. He was married in 1860 to Hannah Bardsley, who died in 1876. In 1878 Mr. War- hurst was married to Sarah W. Wyatt. Children: Benjamin, Levi, and Elizabeth (Mrs. Louis Blake).
CHARLES WELDON was born Apr. 22, 1822, in Orange, Ohio. He learned cabinet making, coming to Minnesota and to St. Francis in the spring of 1856, where he did farming. In the year 1844 he was married to Charlotte Smith. Children: El- vira (Mrs. Frederick Bond), Lycurgus, Francis, Alice (de- ceased). Charles Weldon is still living at the age of eighty- two. Until about twelve years ago he kept bees at Champlin, a business in which he was very successful. He was known far and wide as the " honey man," and always gave to the poor, making many friends.
ROBERT F. WHIDDEN, county surveyor, was born Jan. 7, 1841. at Dartmouth, N. S., but at the age of six his parents removed to Penobscot Co., Maine. At sixteen he entered employment in lumbering and followed this business for fifty years. Ir 1864 he went to Michigan, and was in both the Detroit and Bay City districts. After several years in Maine again, he came to Anoka in September, 1873. The county commissioners appointed him county surveyor Sept. 14, 1903, and at the election of 1904 he was chosen as his own successor. Mr. Whidden was married at Burlington, Maine, in 1866 to Lucy E. Warren. Children: Walter (Everett, Wash.), and Inez E. (Mrs. Frank Gillis).
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FRANKLIN WHITNEY was born in Cumberland Co., Maine, Sept 21, 1830. When a young man he followed the sea, prin- cipally in the West India trade; later he came west and en- gaged in railroad construction in Ohio. In 1855 he came to St. Francis, Anoka Co., settling the next summer in Oak Grove, where he lived up to the time of his death, Jan. 19, 1899. Mr. Whitney served in the state legislature two terms, and a number of years as county commissioner. He was post . master at Oak Grove continuously from 1860 until the time of his death. Mr. Whitney was married Aug. 13, 1857, to Mary Head.
ANDREW E. WICKSTROM was born in Sweden Oct. I, 1844. He worked at farming until coming to America in 1864. He enlisted the same year in the Second Minn. Regiment. Was inustered out with the regiment in 1865. After the war he came to Anoka and worked most of the time for Ammi Cut- ter in the saw mill until 1870, when he purchased 160 acres in sections 17, 18 and 19, town of Oak Grove, where he lias since lived. He was married May 7, 1870, to Bessie Bodfors, who died in August, 1903. Children: Ida W. (Mrs. Charles Rose, Dyer, Wash.), Clara L. (Lafayette, Ind.), Rosa E. (Mrs. W. C. Cutler, Seattle, Wash.), Adolf F. (Brewster, Wash.), Lizzie B., Charles A., Hattie and Andrew G.
W. E. WILBERG was born in Krusemark, Saxony. Feb. 22, 1862. He attended the schools in Germany and the English schools after coming to Anoka. He learned the trade of a harness maker in his native country, and came to Minnesota in 1882, arriving in Anoka Oct. 14th of that year. After working at his trade one year for W. B. Wilson, he purchased the busi- ness, Oct. 14. 1883, and has continued ever since at the same stand. He was chief of the Anoka fire department from May 1. 1894, to May 1, 1903, and has been alderman of the First Ward since April 6, 1904. He has also been leader of the Anoka Cornet Band fifteen years and of Wilberg's Orchestra five years. He was married March 29, 1890, to Verena Zopfe. Chilrden: Ed- ward and Dorothea.
HENRY Z. WILHELM was born June 3. 1838. in Venango Co., Penn. He came to Minnesota Apr. 25, 1866, and to Anoka Co., Oct. 25, 1884, settling on a farm in section 14, town of
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Anoka. At different times Mr. Wilhelm has held all the school offices in his district. He enlisted July 4, 1861, as corporal in Co. C, Sixty-second Pennsylvania Volunteers, serving as color guard. He is a member of J. S. Cady Post and of the Masonic order. He was married Oct. 16, 1862, to Fiann Myers. Chil- dren : Gilmore (deceased), Pernellia (deceased), Hugh, Ja- cob and Myra E.
JAMES HERBERT WILSON was born in the town of Ramsey, Anoka Co., Dec. 27, 1862. He attended the common schools in Ramsey and in Paynesville, Minn., where his father lived eight years. He has been a farmer all his life. He bought his pres- ent home and 30 acres of land in section 35, town of Ramsey, in 1898. He was married July 27, 1890, to Blanche M. An- derson. They have four children: Anna E., Clara, Ruby and Pearl.
JOHN W. WILSON was born in Ramsey, Anoka Co., Jan. 12, 1858. He was educated in the common schools of Ramsey and Paynesville, Minn. Mr. Wilson is a farmer, owning ninety acres in section thirty-five, about forty of which are under cultivation. He has been town treasurer for two years and school district treasurer for three years. He was married June 13, 1880, to Ida M. Edgarton. They have one son. Henry H.
BERNARD J. WITTE was born in Westphalia, Germany, Nov. 20, 1863. He received his education in Germany and in Bur- lington, Iowa. In 1885 he came to St. Paul, Minn., and in 1895 to Anoka, where he has kept a drug store. He was mar- ried Nov. 25, 1887, to Frances B. Beck. They have two sons, Bernard and Francis.
ALBERT WOODBURY (deceased ; son of Dwight Woodbury), was born at Groton, Mass., Aug. 5, 1835. He received his higher education at Andover College and came to Anoka in 1858, where he became a member of the firm of Smiley & Woodbury, operating the Anoka Flour Mill, which they pur- chased from his uncle, Caleb Woodbury. He was the first member initiated into the Masonic lodge at Anoka after its organization and also the first to be raised to the degree of master mason. At the outbreak of the Rebellion he was active in the organization of a company of volunteers which was in-
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tended as a part of the First Regiment. This company was not accepted, however, and Mr. Woodbury turned over his milling interests to his brother, Charles T., and engaged with Captain Wm. A. Hotchkiss in the organization of the Second Minnesota Battery, of which he became first lieutenant. At the battle of Chickamauga he commanded the battery, and was so severely wounded that he died in the hospital Oct. 29, 1863.
CHARLES T. WOODBURY (son of Dwight Woodbury), was born Apr. 17, 1839, in Columbus, Ohio. He lived with his grandfather while attending the academy at Munson, Mass. After leaving school he became manager of a shoe factory. He came to Minnesota and to Anoka in 1862 and purchased an interest in the flour mill from his brother Albert, who had just enlisted for the Civil War. The firm of Smiley & Wood- bury continued the milling business until the mill was sold to John Mayall, since which time Mr. Woodbury has been engaged in real estate, insurance and lumbering. He has served two terms in the Minnesota legislature (1874-5), and one term as county commissioner. In 1897 he was elected mayor of Anoka, almost without his knowledge, his friends writing his name on their ballots in opposition to the regular nominees of the conventions. Mr. Woodbury is unmarried.
DWIGHT WOODBURY (deceased) was born at Charlton, Worcester Co., Mass., Oct. 26, 1800. At the age of seventeen he went to Tompkins county, where he was a clerk in stores and also taught school. For nine years he conducted stores near Atlanta and at Macon, Georgia, and then opened a store at Columbus, Ohio, where he remained until 1843. The next twelve years he was in the wholesale and jobbing dry goods business in New York city, and in 1855 came to Anoka, where his son Albert had preceded him. He bought large tracts of land in what is now St. Francis, and built a dam and mills at that point. In conjunction with the late A. M. Fridley, Mr. Woodbury was at one time largely instrumental in saving the charter of the St. Paul & Pacific railroad (the original name of the Great Northern). The charter had lapsed, and it was only by adroit management that the legislature was persuaded to grant an extension. Mr. Woodbury was twice married. His
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first wife was Mercy D. Town, to whom he was married Sept 17, 1832, and who died June 18, 1848, leaving four chil- dren : Mary (died, 1853), Albert (died from wounds received at Chickamauga), Charles T., and George D. Mr. Woodbury's second wife was Sally Spurr, to whom he was married Sept. 24, 1857. Children: Mary D. (Mrs. I. A. Caswell) and John S. (died Sept. 27, 1902). Mr. Woodbury died March IS, 1884.
EDWARD K. WOODBURY was born at Sutton, Worcester Co., Mass., Apr. 9, 1845. He was educated in the public schools and engaged in farming. In January, 1861, he came to Anoka. where he has been engaged in the boot and shoe industry. Mr. Woodbury was married June 28, 1880, to Minnie C. Laird They have one son, Roy R.
JOHN SPURR WOODBURY (deceased) was born Feb. 22, 1862, in Anoka. He received his education in the Anoka high school and in Eastman Business College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. After leaving school he worked in his father's office and after the death of his father became manager of the St. Francis Milling Co., and took _up his residence at St. Francis, where he also built a hotel. He died Sept. 27, 1902.
ALGERNON R. WOODMANSEE was born at St. Paul, Minn., Oct. 12, 1867. He resides in Anoka, although his busines in- terests are in Minneapolis. He was married in November, 1900, to Minnie Hutchins.
BENJAMIN D. WOODMANSEE was born in Hamilton, Ohio, in February, 1839. He was one of the most famous and suc- cessful horsemen in the Northwest, and for many years was manager of the Midway Driving Park. He was married to Hattie Davis, daughter of Azariah Davis. They had one son, Algernon R. Mr. Woodmansee died April 9, 1897.
ARTHUR J. WOODRUFF was born in Connecticut Jan. 2, 1849. Came to Iowa in 1865. Came to Anoka county about 1869, and located at St. Francis, where he engaged in wagon making until about 1892, since which time he has been chiefly engaged in millwright work. His wife was Mrs. Maria J. Dorsey (nee Seelye), to whom he was married in 1878. Children Evange- line and Charles.
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PHILLIP EUGENE WOODWARD was born in Minneapolis in 1867, where he attended the graded and high schools. His first service was that of cash boy for George W. Hale. He later went to Frederick, S. D., where he opened a dry goods store, and was assistant postmaster. He left South Dakota in 1882, and returned to Minneapolis, where he entered the employ of Shotwell & Clerihew as city salesman. He sold woolens to the manufacturing trade in the East for three years for Deering, Millikan & Co., New York. He sold silks in Chicago for a year for A. J. Cameron, Philadelphia. Later he was three years with Wyman, Partridge & Co., Minneapolis. In 1894 he came to Anoka, and in company with his father opened a dry goods store under the firm name of P. G. Woodward & Co. Both father and son affiliate with the Loyal Legion and Masonic fraternities. P. E. Woodward was married in 1895 to Millie B. Lane of Minneapolis, daughter of J. S. Lane, the lumberma'1. Children : Philip Eugene and Jane.
PHILIP GRENVILLE WOODWARD was born at Orange, Mass., Aug. 20, 1837. After leaving school he conducted an art store at Lockport, New York, and later was in the same business at Rochester, New York. He was in the grocery business in Minneapolis two years and was United States store keeper five years during the time the Minneapolis Exposition was open. He was postmaster and kept a general store three years at Frederick, S. D. He enlisted in August. 1862, as a private in Co. H, Thirty-sixth Massachusetts Infantry: was promoted sergeant, first sergeant, acting sergeant major, and commis- sioned by Gov. John A. Andrew as second lieutenant, first lieu- tenant and captain. Was mustered out with the regiment in June, 1865, at the close of the war. Captain Woodward first came to Minnesota in August, 1858, and has beeen a resident of Anoka since May, 1894, his business here being that of a dry goods and shoe merchant. He served as alderman of the city of Anoka in 1901-2 and has been a member of the school board. He has also held offices in the following orders : Masons, Eastern Star, G. A. R. and U. V. U. He was married in October. 1860, to Hannah Evelyn Ryan. Children : Jennie Evelyn (Mrs. E. J. C. Atterbury, deceased), Effie Agnes (Mrs.
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Bert J. Warde), Philip Eugene, Charles Warner (deceased) and Lester Stuart.
HON. GEORGE H.WYMAN, attorney at law and senior member of the firm of Wyman & Blanchard, Anoka, was born August 24, 1852, at Chester, Penobscot county, Maine. After attend- ing the schools of his native town, also Mattanacook Academy, at Lincoln, and the Lee Normal School, he graduated from the Maine Central Institute, of Pittsfield, in 1873. Afterward he
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entered Bates College at Lewiston, Maine, graduating there- from in 1877. Having been well grounded in academical train- ing, he decided to devote his life to the legal profession, and forthwith commenced reading law with Brown & Simpson, and later with Plaisted & Smith, both distinguished prac- titioners of Bangor, finally finishing his legal training in the school of actual practice with Lebrooke & Parsons, of Foxcroft,
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Maine. He was admitted to practice law, including a hearing before the supreme court, in 1881. In 1884 Mr. Wyman came to Anoka, his parents following two years later. During his residence here his law practice has been varied, extensive, and eminently successful. He has held several important po- sitions in the gift of the people, and is now a representativ : of this, the Forty-fifth district, in the state legislature, having been elected without an opposing candidate. He is also a member of the Republican State Central Committee. His lodge affiliations are K. P., R. A. and M. W. A. Mr. Wyman was married in Anoka June 30, 1886. to Orie D. Storms of Han- nibal, Oswego Co., N. Y. Children : May. Orabelle and Mar- guerite.
YosT YoST was born at Nottwyl, Switzerland, Nov. 19, 1829. Learned the trade of a nailmaker and came to the United States Nov. 10, 1853. landing in New York on that date. Learned and worked at blacksmithing in New York and moved to the town of Columbus, Anoka Co., in 1857, settling on the farm where he now lives in 1857. All of his children were born here. He enlisted in Co. E, Hatch's Battalion, in August. 1864. Served on the frontier in Dakota and Minne- sota for two years. He has been influential in town affairs, and has held every office in the gift of the town, town clerk, justice of the peace, etc., for many years. He was a candidate for county commissioner two or three times, but was defeated on acount of his party being in the minority He received a majority in his district, but as the county then elected at large, he was defeated. He received in Columbus and Centre- ville 118 votes to his opponent's four the first time he ran. Mr. Yost was married July 9, 1855, to Agatha Gassman. Chil- dren : Mary (Mrs. Edward Ryoux), Josephine (Mrs. W. H. Jastrom, St. Croix Falls, Wis.). Joseph (Brainerd, Minn.), John, Agatha (Mrs. James Smith, Gordon, Wis.), Anna (Mr". Daniel Monroe, Mountain Iron, Minn.), Rose (Mrs. Frank Youngquist, Gordon, Wis.). (See portrait. page 162.)
JOHN YOST was born in the town of Columbus, Dec. 19, 1861. He worked several winters logging and cutting ties and a short time in car shops in Stillwater, Minn. Aside from that he has lived almost continuously on the farm taken up by his
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father in 1856, and which he now owns jointly with his brother Joseph. He also owns considerable other land in the towns of Columbus and Forest Lake. He was married Jan. 5, 1898, to Jennie Landgrabe. Children: Lester and Myrtle A.
HON. JARED BENSON (deceased), was born in Worcester Co., Mass., Nov. 8, 1821. He came to Minnesota in 1855, and pur- chased a farm in the town of Ramsey. Four years later he moved to a farm in the town of Anoka, where he continued to live up to the time of his death. He was a member of the state legislature during the early sixties and served through four sessions as speaker of the House of Representatives. He was again a member of the House in 1878. He was married Feb. 5, 1843, to Martha Taft, of Mendon, Mass., and seven chil- dren were born to them.
AMOS B. BALLARD was born at Smyrna, New York, Oct. 26, 1829. His early life was passed on a farm. He came to Anoka in 1856, and in 1862 enlisted in Co. A, Eighth Minnesota Reg- iment, being transferred to the Third Minnesota Battery May I, 1863. After the war he returned to Anoka, where he was engaged chiefly in house painting. He was married Nov. 19, 1855, to Jane B. Schaffer.
B. K. BALLOU was born in Bristol, New Hampshire, Mar. 14, 1832. He removed to Anoka from Princeton in 1865. He was married Mar. 14, 1858, to Lavinia Elder. Children: Mrs. Wm. Watson and Mrs. W. I. Case.
J. H. BATZLE was born in Metz, Germany, April 23, 1830. He lived on his father's farm until 1847, when the family came to America and located at Buffalo, N. Y. In 1855 Mr. Batzle came to Minnesota, and was the first to settle in the town of Columbus, arriving there May 17, 1855. He has held various offices in his town and school district.
ALBERT J. BISBEE came to Minnesota in 1857 and lived in Anoka until 1875, after which he removed to Minneapolis, where he died Dec. 14, 1890. During his residence at Anoka he taught classes in bookkeeping and penmanship. His elder dauglı- ter, Cora, was a teacher for years in the Minneapolis schools.
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The younger daughter was married to Charles H. Wingate, a leading merchant of North Minneapolis.
GEORGE W. BRANCH (son of Samuel Branch) was born at St. George, New Brunswick, Feb. 11, 1827. He came to Rum river in 1849, and the next year came here to live. He purchased land on the west side of Rum river now included in the city limits of Anoka, and joined with the Shaws and Wood- burys in platting the town of Anoka in 1852. He was married to Mary Elizabeth Shumway. Mr. Branch died in Shasto Co., California, Jan. 4, 1892.
SAMUEL BRANCH was a veteran of the war of 1812. He came to Minnesota in 1851 and took a claim on the east side of Rum river on land now included in the Insane Asylum grounds. He died at Anoka and was buried in the Anoka cemetery.
JOHN C. BROADBENT was born in Southbridge, Mass., and was reared on a farm in Jefferson county, New York. In 1869 he came to Anoka, where he was employed in the lumber mills, a considerable portion of the time as engineer. Later he purchased a farm in the town of Grow, where he lived up to the time of his death. Mr. Broadbent was married Jan. 20, 1858, to Caroline C. Leonard.
MOSES BROWN was born at Milford, Maine, Feb. 13. 1823, and came from there to Anoka in 1852, purchasing a farm in the town of Ramsey, where he lived until 1866, removing thence to Minneapolis, where he lived until his death in 1904. Mr. Brown was married in 1855 to Sarah C. Bowen, one of the first school teachers in the county. Children: Jennie (Mrs. R. H. Steeves, Chelan, Wash.) and Adelaide E. (Mrs. J. J. McHale, Minneapolis).
NATHAN W. CURIAL was born in Philadelphia Feb. 22, 1822. His father died when he was five years old, and he was put at hard work on a farm and could only see his mother at long intervals. He learned the carpenter's trade, and for a time operated a shingle mill in Maine. He came to Anoka in 1854. In 1862 he enlisted in Co. A, Eighth Minnesota Regiment. He was promoted sergeant and was discharged for disability 111 1865. After the war he returned to Anoka and engaged in the meat, grocery and provision business with Harvey Richards.
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He was married May 29, 1850, to Mary S. Thorndyke. They had one son, Edward L., who is still a resident of Anoka. Mr. Curial died May 14, 1897.
GEORGE E. COTTON was born at Derry, New Hampshire, Nov. 17, 1836. He learned the trade of a tinsmith and followed this business during most of the time of his residence at Anoka, where he came in 1872. Mr. Cotton was elected mayor of Anoka in 1879. About 1890 he removed to St. Paul. He was married Feb. 27, 1863, to Mary H. Gove. Mr. Cotton died Jan. 27, 1892.
D. C. DUNHAM, M. D., was born at Brownhelm, Ohio, July 13, 1841. He took the scientific course at Oberlin College, and graduated at the Cleveland Medical College in 1867. He practiced medicine at Anoka a few years and later engaged in the lumber business, and in the manufacture of sach and doors. He was for many years a member of the school board and served several terms in the city council.
EZRA C. GREENFIELD was born in Edinburg, New York, in 1830. When a small boy his parents removed to Bleecker, Fulton County. In 1853 at Bleecker he married Miss N. J. Vanness. Four years later they removed to Illinois, where they remained until 1860, when they came to Minnesota and located at Anoka. Mr. Greenfield followed the trade of a plasterer during the greater part of the time that he lived at Anoka. He died Nov. 30, 1891, from the effects of a fall. Children : Edward, Frederick and Clarence.
EDWIN Q. HASKELL was born in Eaton, Maine, in 1850. Can:e to Anoka in 1868, where he worked two years at farming, and during the remainder of his residence at lumbering. In 1876 he married Leonora A. Hammons. He served two terms as alderman of the first ward. He died at Nickerson, Minn., from the effects of a fall in June, 1896.
T. G. JONES (deceased) was born at Eastport, Maine, in 1818. For several years he was cashier of the Bank of Farm- ington, Maine, and served two years in the legislature of that state. In 1855 he went to Dubuque, Iowa, and to Anoka in 1858. He was collector of internal revenue under presidents. Lincoln and Johnson and was chosen as a presidential elector
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in 1868. He was for many years agent for the Phoenix Life Insurance Co., with offices at Anoka and later at Minneapolis. He died Aug. 13, 1869.
D. H. LANE was born at Ashburnham, Mass., coming at an early age to Kenosha, Wis., where he was engaged in flour milling and real estate. When the Civil War broke out he organized a company at Kenosha, which became a part of the First Wisconsin Regiment. Mr. Lane was made Lieutenant Colonel, and was in command of the regiment during the greater part of the war. After the war he came to Anoka and was interested with A. P. Lane in the flour mill at Champlin which was washed into the river. In association with a Mr. Underwood he was the inventor of the first rotary plow. Mr. Lane died about 1880.
JAMES McGREGOR was born in Glasgow, Scotland, April 12, 1848. He came to Minnesota with his parents in 1858 and re- sided in Linwood up to the time of his death, Feb. 10, 1897. He served one term as county commissioner, was town treas- nrer twelve years and justice of the peace fourteen years. He was married in 1877 to Mary F. Putnam. Children : Mary, Fergus, Annie and James.
EDWARD MORTON (son of Thurman W. Morton) was born Jan. I. 1866, at Anoka, where he attended the public schools. He worked on his father's farm until 1882. He then went to Rosebud. Mont., where he engaged in sheep raising with his brother Frederick, remaining there three years. He then returned to Anoka Co., and has since resided on his farm ia the town of Burns. He has 120 acres in section 24. He Was married Oct. 18. 1894, to Nora Tripp, who died in 1897, leaving one child. Morris. Mr. Morton was again married March 17, 1901. to Minnie Seelye.
JARVIS L. NUTTER (deceased) was born at Lubeck, Maine, July 4, 1834. In 1853 he came to Anoka county and two years later took one of the first claims in the town of Oak Grove. In 1862 he sold his farm and enlisted in Co. A, Eighth Min- nesota Regiment, and served throughout the war. After the war he purchased a farm in the town of St. Francis, where he lived until the time of his death.
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HENRY B. SCHOLBROCK was born near Berlin, Germany, in 1854. The same year his father removed to Racine Co., Wis., where he remained seven years, removing thence to Winnieshiek Co., Iowa, where he lived until 1878. In that year Mr. Schol- brock came to Burns, Anoka Co., working in the pineries and on the river and farming until about 1888, when he removed to his farm in section 15, where he resided up to 1904. He is unmarried.
THEODORE H. SCHOLBROCK was born at Wheatland, Wis., Dec. 15, 1851. While an infant his father removed to Win- neshiek Co., Iowa, where he remained until twenty-one years of age. In 1872 he purchased 40 acres of land in the town of Burns, where he still lives. Mr. Scholbrock has dealt in cattle and wholesale meats for some twenty years, besides carrying on his farm. He was married in 1871 to Matilda Richter. They have four living children: Anna L. (Mrs. Merriam W. Smith, Nowthen, Anoka Co.), Amelia G. (Mrs. Albert Bra- deen, Anoka) Lucy and Charlotte.
RUSSELL WHITEMAN, M. D., was born in Essex, New York, where he lived until fourteen years of age. He graduated from Union College, Philadelphia, in 1844. In 1857 he came to Minnesota and took a claim in Meeker county. At the time of the Sioux Indian outbreak he escaped with his family to an island in Cedar Lake, where he remained six weeks, going ashore at night for provisions. In 1864 he came to Anoka, where he practiced medicine until his death, Feb. 26, 1893. Dr. Whiteman was married in 1849 to Mary Cheever, who died in 1865, leaving six children: George R., Mary F., Anna R., William C., Minnie L., Charles C. Dr. Whiteman was married again in 1867 to Sarah A. Mayall, who died in 1879, leaving three children: Harry, Jessie and Warren.
FRANCIS ROBERT WYATT was born in Lee Mill Bridge, Devonshire, England, June 23, 1859. For some time he worked in a paper mill. He came to Anoka Co. in 1877, settling on a farm in section 28, town of Bethel. He was married to Harriet Clarkson April 13, 1882. Children : Maude (deceased), Edith, Jennie, Thomas and Mary Ann.
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