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Assessed Valuation Rates, 1875. 390
Assessed Valuations
406
Attorneys
513
Auditors, County
414
C
Captivity of Benedict Juni.
L
1
I
1
1
336
Catholic Churches
493
1
1
1
1
1
524
Anti-Horse Thief Association.
Officials, First
1
429
1
1 1
Organization
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Catholic Order of Foresters
539
Christian Church 486
Church of Christ 486
Churches
480
Clerks of the District Court
415
Commissioners, County, List of.
412
Coroners
416
County Attorneys
416
County Auditors
414
County Commissioners, List of
412
County Commissioners, Proceedings 381
County Fairs
551
County Finances, 1868.
386
County Finances, 1870
388
County Finances, 1874
390
County Finances, 1897
404
County Finances, 1915
405
County Government
381
County Medical Society
519
County Officers' Salaries and Bonds 398
County Officials, First
381
County Representation
410
County Seat, Locating the
394
County Superintendents
417
County Surveyors
417
County Treasurers
414
County Treasury Robbed
407
Court Commissioners
416
Court House Corner-stone Laying_
577
Court House History
399
Creameries
548, 553
Customs of Indians
370
D
Dairy Statistics
553
Darfur ---
Assessed Valuation 406
Bank
531
Business Interests
422
Churches
484,
491
Improvements
422
Incorporation
422
Officials, First
422
Platted
422, 572
President of
422
Schools
508
Daughters of Rebekah
1
534
Deeds, Early
376
Dexter Township
389
Doctors
516
Doctors' Fees
520
Dodd, Captain, Death of.
359
Drainage
407
Drainage of the County
327
Drewsville Township
388
Drift
330
F
Early Conditions
436
Early Transportation Troubles
584
Eastern Star, Order of
533
Echols
572
Education
503
Elgin Colony
551
Episcopal Church
487
Evangelical Lutheran Churches
482
Execution of Indian Murders
364
F
Farm Names
550
Farmers Mutual Fire Ins. Co.
451
Farming Interests
548
Ferry-boat Fees
388
Fieldon Township-
Altitude
329, 571
Area
430
Assessed Valuation
406
Buildings Assessed, 1894
406
Creation of
386
Lakes
328
Land Entries
430
Organization
430
Population
430, 570
1
School Houses
510
Settlement
430
Vote on Bond Issue
403
First County Officers 381
First House, the
583
First Settlements
376,
380
Foresters, Catholic Order of
539
Fraternal Orders
532
G
Geology
327
Glacial Drift
330
Graded Schools
509
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Grand Army of the Republic 539
Grasshopper Plague
580
589
Grasshopper Relief 392
Gravel
332
Grogan
462, 572
Growth of Watonwan County.
579
H
High Schools 509
House, the First 583
I
Independent Order of Odd Fellows_ 533
Indian Character 334
Indian History 334
Indian Massacre of 1862, Causes of 344
Indian Traders, Schemes of 347
Indian Treaties
334
Indian Violence
351
Indians, Last Raid of 370
Indians, Their Peculiar Customs
370
J
Jail
403
Juni, Benedict, Captivity of 336
K
Knights of Pythias
534
L
Lakes 327, 331
376
Land Transfers, Early
LaSalle-
Bank 529
Business Interests 459
Lodge 537
Platted
459
572
Postoffice 460
513
Lawyers
Lewisville-
Assessed Valuation 406
Banks 529
Business Interests 426
Churches 486
Improvements
425
Incorporation 425
Lewisville-Cont.
Lawyers 515
Location
425
Lodges
536
1
1
Officials, First
425
1
Platted
425,
572
Population 426
Postoffice
425
Presidents of 425
Schools 508 1
Libraries 504
Little Crow Uprising 353
Local Option Vote, 1915 594
Lodges
532
Long Lake Township-
Altitude 329, 572
Area
431
Assessed Valuation 406
Boundaries
431
Buildings Assessed, 1894 406
Churches
488, 490
Creation of
386
Indian Atrocities
433
Johnson Murder
556
Lakes
328, 431
Land Entries 432
Norwegian Settlement 437
Organization 431
Population 431, 570
School Houses 510
Settlement
432
Vote on Bond Issue 403
M
Madelia-
Altitude 328, 571
Assessed Valuation 406
Banks 525
Buildings Assessed, 1894 406
Business Interests, 1885 447
Business Interests, 1916 449
Business Men's Association 451
Churches ____ 480, 483, 485, 486, 487, 492
Commercial Club 450
County Seat 394
Creamery 553
Early Business Interests
444
Fires
449
Incorporation 448
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Madelia-Cont.
Indian Scare 444
Lawyers 515
Location
443
Lodges
533, 535, 536, 539
Mill
448
Municipal History 448
Name
443
Newspapers
521
Officials
448
1
Platted
572
1
1
Population
570
I
Postoffice
444
Schools
505
Vote on Bond Issue 403
Madelia Township-
Altitude
329, 571
Area
439
Assessed Valuation 406
Buildings Assessed, 1894 406
Lakes
327, 440
Land Entries
440
Location
439
Population
440, 570
Railroad Interests
440
1
School Houses
510
Settlement
440
Streams
440
1
Vote on Bond Issue 403
Markets, Early
591, 592
Masonic Order
532
Massacre at New Ulm
369
Medical History
516
Medical Society
$19
Mennonite Churches
491
Methodist Episcopal Churches
480
Military History
546
Militia, First Officers
384
Modern Brotherhood of America
537
Modern Woodmen of America
535
Murders
556
N
Name of the County 381
Nationality of Population 571
Natural Drainage
327
Nelson Township-
Altitude
329, 572
Area
451
Nelson Township-Cont.
Assessed Valuation 406
Buildings Assessed, 1894 406
Land Entries
452
Location
451
Name
452
Organization 452
Population
451, 570
1
School Houses
510
1
Settlement
452
Vote on Bond Issue 403
New Ulm, Defense of 355
New Ulm Massacre
369
Newspapers
521
North Branch Township 389
Northfield Bank Robbery
560
Norwegian Lutheran Churches
487
Norwegian Settlers
437
Odd Fellows
533
Odin-
Assessed Valuation 406
Banks
528
Business Interests
457
Creamery
457
1
1 Improvements 456
Location 456 1 1 1
Lodges
537
Officials
1
1
456
1
1
Platted
456, 572
1
Population
456
Postoffice
457
Schools
508
Odin Township ---
Altitude 329, 572
Assessed Valuation 406
Boundaries
453
Buildings Assessed, 1894
406
Creation of
389
Lakes 328,
453
Land Entries
454
Location
453
Organization
453
1
Population
453, 570
1
School Houses
510
Settlement
454
Vote on Bond Issue
403
Wild Birds
455
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Officials, First County 381
Old Settlers' Reunion 573
Order of the Eastern Star 533
Organization of the County
381
Ormsby-
Assessed Valuation 406
Banks
529
Business Interests 439
Fire Protection 439
Location
439
Municipal History 439
Name
439
Officials, First
439
Platted
439
572
Presidents of
439
Schools
508
Outrages 556
P
Peat
333
Pensioners of Sioux Uprising. 369
Physicians
516
Pioneer Days, Story of 461
Pioneer Heroes
588
Pioneers, Privations of
586
Plattings
572
Poor, Care for the 403
Population of the County 570
Presbyterian Churches 485
Presidential Vote
410
Press, the
521
Prices, Early Market
592
Privations of Pioneers 586
Probate Judges
416
Prohibition Candidates
418
Prohibition Question
593
R
Railroads 541
Rebekahs 534
Registers of Deeds 415
Religious Societies 480
Reminiscences
583
Representatives
411
Riverdale Township-
Altitude
329, 571
Area 458
Assessed Valuation 406
Riverdale Township-Cont.
Buildings Assessed, 1894 406
Creation of
388
Land Entries
458
Location
458
Organization 458 1 1 1
Population
458, 570
Railroad Interests 1
458
School Houses
510
Settlement
458
Vote on Bond Issue
403
Rivers
327
Rosendale Township-
Altitude
329, 572
Assessed Valuation
406
Buildings Assessed, 1894
406
Churches
488
Creation of
389
Lakes
460
Location
460
Organization
460
Pioneer Days
461
Population
460, 570
Railroad Interests
460
Schools
507, 510
Settlement
461
Vote on Bond Issue 403
Royal Neighbors of America
536
Russian Thistle
594
S
St. James-
Altitude
328, 571
Assessed Valuation 406
Banks
525
Buildings Assessed, 1894 406
Business Interests, 1870 468
Business Interests, 1885 468
Business Interests, 1916
477
Business Men's Association 473
Churches
480, 485, 487, 489, 492
Commercial Club 472
County Seat
396
Creamery
555
Fire Department 471
First Events 468 1
First Settlers
468
T
First Store
380
Home-coming
478
J
1
1
1
HISTORICAL INDEX.
St. James-Cont.
Horse and Cattle Fair
552
Hospital
474
Improvements
470
Incorporation
470
Industries
475, 479
515
Lawyers
Library
473
Lodges.
472, 532, 534, 535, 537, 539
Municipal History
470
Name
467
Newspapers
522
Officials, First
470
Officials, Present
470
Park
474
Platted
467, 572
Population
570
Railroad Interests
467, 543
Sanitarium
474
Schools
505
Vote on Bond Issue
403
St. James Township-
Altitude
329, 572
Assessed Valuation
406
Boundaries
464
Buildings Assessed, 1894
406
Creation of
388
Lakes
328, 464
Land Entries
465
Location
464
Organization
464
I
Pioneers
464
1
Population
464,
570
School Houses
510
Settlement
464
Vote on Bond Issue
403
School Examiners
417
School Lands
379, 504
School Statistics
509
Schools
503
Schools in 1875
505
Secret Societies
532
Senators, State
411
Settlements, First
376, 380
Sheriffs
415
Sioux, Punishment of the
362
Situation of the County
327, 381
Soil
329
Soldiers' Bounty
385
Soldiers Lodge
350
"Song for the Old Settlers"
575
South Branch Township-
Altitude
329, 572
Assessed Valuation
406
Boundaries
462
Buildings Assessed, 1894
406
Churches
484
Creation of
388
Goblinski Murder
557
Lakes
463
1
1
1
1
1
Land Entries
463
1
Location
1
1
1
I
1
1
462
Organization
463
Population
463, 570
School Houses
510
Settlement
463
Vote on Bond Issue
403
Spanish-American War
547
Spelling School
573
Springfield Township
389
State Representatives
411
State Senators
411
Stock Raising
548
1
Storms
576
Streams
327
Surface of the County
327
Surveyors, County
417
Swedish Lutheran Churches
489
T
Timber
329
Timber Claims
376
Topography
328
Townships of the County
419
Traverse des Sioux, Treaty of.
334
Treasurers, County
414
Treaties with Indians
334
V
Village Plattings
572
W
Wakefield Township
386
Wild Animals
582
Woman's Relief Corps
540
Woodmen of America, Modern
535
Y
York Township
386
Younger Brothers
560
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX
VOLUME II
A
Abel, Frederick 449
Adrian, John
189
Albrecht, Richard 311 1
180
Anderson, Amund
345
Anderson, Andrew H
395
Anderson, Bertel
267
Anderson, C. H.
171
Anderson, Carl C., D. V. S.
46
Anderson, Charles
483
367
Anderson, Christian
399
Anderson, John A.
55
Anderson, Nels
1
1
237
Anderson, Ole
1
Anton, Frank T
105
Armstrong, Moses K
275
99
Arneson, Theodore J.
B
Balzer, Frank 318
Balzer, Jacob J. 144
95
Balzer, Solomon
146
Beise, Henry C., D. M. D 390
316
Bill, James J.
1
400
Bisbee, John
414
Bjoin, O. A. L 1
429
Bolin, Amel 188 1 1
254
Bolin, Charles W
1
155
Bondhus, Thomas 1
1
370
Bonin, Ferdinand 1
219
Dryden, T. N.
Dummett, William H.
121
Bradley, George 174
204
C
Cadwell, Mason N.
62
Carpenter, Frederick J
107
Cassem, T. P.
456
Christensen, Fred T.
183
Christenson, Ole L.
387
Churchill, Leroy C.
369
1
1
Clark, Willis J. 1 70 1 1
200
1 1 Collins, Thomas C. 33
Comnick, Gottlieb
249
Cook, William A.
422
1
1
Cooley, Charles H.
1
I
448
Crowley, Charley T.
1
64
Curtis, Will
D
Dammann, C. W.
366
158
Davies, James T.
290
Davies, Joseph
380
DeGonda, Anthony P.
1
1
1
426
Dempsey, Gerald
375
Dewar, Frank
438
Dewar, John, Sr
43
De Wolf, Milo T.
470
Doerksen, Jacob
P
282
Drake, George
I
1
1 1
328
Dyer, Francis M.
Brogger, Eivind
Brogger, Jacob 283
Brown, John A.
440
Burley, Fred
233
Burton, William C.
383
Anderson, Albert
I
1
1
1
1
1
1
1 1
1
1
1
53
Braathun, C. O. 1
1
Bishop, Carl R. 1
1
1
Clement, Berton F 1 1 1
123
Biel, Albert F.
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
E
Eichstad, Emil H. 455
Ellingsberg, Anton 135
Engeswick, John A. 464
Englin, John S.
285
Englin, Theo. 225
Englund, A. W 327 1
Erickson, Elof 1
346
Erickson, Nils
365
Ewert, David
45
F
Fast, Herman J. 187
Fast, Jacob J. 320
Fast, John H.
356
Fast, Peter P.
427
I
Fering, Severt J.
67
I
1 Fester, E. O. 358 1 1
Fisch, Michael L. 119
Flaig. Arthur J.
293
Flitter, H. C.
403
Flogstad, Martin H.
245
Flogstad, Paul
228
Foss, Julius E.
201
Foss Mercantile Company
201
Foss, William H.
201
Franz, Martin
317
Franz, Peter J.
211
Fredrickson, August
353
Friesen, Abraham B.
140
Fuller, Walter A.
185
G
Gall, Frank 222
Gertner, Gottlieb 203
Gibbs, Edson A.
461
Gilbertson, Gustav E.
71
Gillam, Charles W.
88
Gillis, Rev. Benjamin C.
209
Gjertson, John
194
Glasier, Jacob M.
347
Goertzen, Cornelius
354
Goosen, Peter F.
460
Graff, Adolph
465
Grant, George W. 192
Grant, John G.
360
Grunenwald, Albert
361
Gushman, Leo A.
118
Gustafson, Charles A.
310
Gustafson, John F.
176
H
Hage, Siver 481
Haislet, Herman W. 125
Hale, Walter M.
137
Halvorsen, Ole A.
167
Hammerstad, Ole 73 1 I
Hammond, Milton H. 42
Hammond, Hon. Winfield S
35
Hamre, Andrew C.
394
Hansen, Jens C.
260
Hansen, Severt 74
Hanson, Andrew M.
51
I
1
Hanson, Henry E.
120
1
1
Hanson, Jens
195
1
Harbitz, Monrad
326
I
Harper, Arthur 251
Hartmann, Rev. M. K.
232
Hasenheyer, Gottlieb
132
Haugen, Hans A. 453 1 1 1
1
Haycraft, Emery
205
1
1
Hedquist, Olaf 58 1
1
1
1
Heggerston, E. E.
166
Henderson, John
128
1
Henderson, Martin
388
1
Hengtgen, Jacob
131
Heppner, John
475
Hiebert, Jacob G.
86
1
Hofstad, Rudolf
350
1
Hofstrom, Charles O.
1
1
371
Hohenstem, Otto E.
1
76
Holen, Soren
208
Holte, Even O.
138
I
Hovden, Ben
395
1
Hoyt, Ole C.
I
1
351
Huffman, John C.
450
Hunter, William W.
304
I
Iverson, Iver O.
234
J
Jackson, Samuel
431
Jacobsen, Lars O.
469
Jacobson, Abraham
256
1
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Jacobson, Gunder 436
Janzen, Abraham 54
Janzen, David C. 480 1 I
Jencks, Perry M. 382 1 1 1 1
Jensen, Jens C.
321
1
1
Jensen, Soren P. 181 1
Johnson, Albert E. 134 1
Johnson, Gunder 314
Johnson, Hon. J. E. 52
Johnson, John F.
148
Judd, Frank E., D. V. S 197
Juhnke, William
337
K
Kabrick, O. A., M. D 410
Kintzi, Theodore 90
1 1 Klaras. Fred H. 385 1
Kleven, Helge O.
259
1
1
Klocow, Frank D.
173
I
392
Knudson, Carl S. Knudson, Elmer E. 179
I I Kobs, Johann W. 217 I
Kopperud, John E.
266
Krause, Herman C.
443
I
Krueger, Kumbert
63
L
Laingen, Thorsten P. 298
Lande, O. C. 389
Langley, David P. 112
Lantz, John A.
486
Larkin, Charles 287 1 1 1 1 1
Larson, Lauritz 446 1
Leffler, Lorenz 288 1 1 1
Leonard, E. I.
405
Leonard, H. P.
252
1
Le Tourneau, George 87
Lewis, James 207
1 Lewis, Roy W. 477
1
Lien, Charles A.
103
Lindquist, August E.
271
Lindquist, Gustav 452
Linscheid, Jacob J. 218
Lobben, Jens L. 432
Loewen, Henry F. 483
Loewen, Nic F.
485
1
1
Loughran, Barney 424
Ludemann, Johann D. 471
Lundholm, Rev. Algot T
220
Mc
McCarthy, W. J., M. D 280
McCauley, Edward
151
McClean, Alfred J.
458
McLaughlin, William W
274
M
Madson, Mabel S. 136
Martin, Henry A.
330
Mather, James S. 333 1 1 1
Mathisen, George W. 1
1
368
Mattison, N. C. 323 1 1 I
Mead, Wallace E. 65 1
Melheim, Claus 428
Mertens, August W. 79
1 Messenbrink, Fred C. 300 1 I
335
Meyers, Rev. John
133
Miller, Michael P.
1
196
Milligan, Bert
419
Minder, Emil F.
68
Minion, Nathaniel P. 272
Missling, Gustav 409 I
Mitchell, Harris
173
1
1
I Mooers, Ellison D. 21.3 I I 1
Moore, John E.
421
1
Mullen, William A.
J
411
Muller, Gustav
1.29
Musland, Jens T.
447
N
Natterstad, G. T. 359
Natterstad, Knute 302
Nelson, Christian N. 478
Nelson, John
89
1
1 Nelson, John E. 117
Neufeld, Peter G.
104
Nickel, August W. 342
Nickel, David A. 386
Noble, David A.
113
Norman, Rev. Frantz C. E. 48
I 1
1
1
1
1
1
1
Meyer, A. F.
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
O
Rasey, Elwin Z. 160
Ratzlaff, Benjamin J. 420
Reinert, Ole
303
Reisdorph, John A. 372
Reisdorph, Robert
141
Rolf, Johan, D. D. S.
1 221
Rossing, Anton
165
Rossing, William L. 1
255
Roxin, John 215 1 1 1
Ruhberg, Carl H. 404 1 1
Ruhberg, Peter A.
212
1
1
Running, Amel
78
I
1
1 Rupp, Jacob 229 1 1 I
Rupp, John E.
2.11
1
1
Rydeen, John
253
S
Sanborn, Benjamin C.
437
Sartorius, William
1.24
Savage, Donald R. 139
Savage, Rev. Edward
115
Schaffer. Arthur L. 376 1
Schmotzer, Edward F.
352
Schroeder, Frank
106
Schroeder, Heinrich
416
Schroeder, Louis E.
484
Schulte, William
307
Schultz, David D. 324 1
Schultz, Isaac D. 402
Schwandt, George 1
248
Scribner, B. J. 289 1 1 1
56
Selnes, O. E.
83
Senst, Herman A.
457
Senst, Otto
223
Shaner, Charles H.
1
199
1 Siem, Nels 407 1
1 Sivertson, George P. 127 1 1
Sizer, Michael
467
Skjedser, Niels
445
Skrabeck, Halvor T.
243
Sletta, Alfred
433
Sletta, Ole E. 343
Smestad, Edward E. 191
1 Smestad, Hans P. 98
J
Smith, Willard C.
454
1
Solete, Fred
435
I
Somers, John W.
332
Sonnesyn, C. N.
80
1 I
1
Potter, Edward C. 308
1 1 Potter, William A. 100
Prokes, Rev. Francis J 50
Purrington, Lewin M.
417
Q
Quade, August
306
Quevli, Andrew A. 82
R
Radtke, John F. 240
Rand, Alvin 312
Randall, John S. 258
Rank, Elmer E.
175
Rasche, Gustav T. 162
1
1
1
244
Pederson, Iver I
377
Pederson, Lars P.
264
Pederson. Torvel
231
Pedvin, John 286
Perkins, Judge Alfred D. 37
Peters, Dietrich D. 238 1
296
Peterson, August E. 398 1
Peterson, Chester R. 77
Peterson, Laurits
268
Peterson, William A. 1 1 1 1
152
1 Pierce, Charles B. 142 I 1 1
1 1 Pietz, H. R. 294 1
1 1 Porter, Matthew S. 91 1
Seely, Whalen D.
1 1
1 1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
I Otesa, O. A. 193
Ottum, Chris I 442
P
Palmer, U. H. 384
Pankow, Rev. Erdman A 216
Parr, M. W.
413
1 1 Paulson, Samuel 379
Pedersen, Christ
97
Pederson, George
363
Olson, Oluf T. 247 1 I
Osland, Ole 1
1
Offerdal, Thomas 130
Olson, Hilmer J. 380
Olson, Knut 235
Olson, Mathias 364
Olson, Ole A.
338
1
1
1
Peters, Henry D. 1
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Sonnesyn, J. K. 111
Sorensen, Neal C. 153
Stark, Arthur O. 261 1
Sterrie, Peter N. 75 I 1 I
V
Vagstad, Hans M. 434
Villa, John E.
96
Vold, M. C.
284
1
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BIOGRAPHICAL
THOMAS C. COLLINS.
The late Thomas C. Collins, former mayor of Windom, president of the Cottonwood County Bank at Windom and later president of the Farm- ers Bank of that same city and for years actively engaged in the milling business, which is now being carried on there by his son, was a native of Canada, born on January 26, 1857, son of Samuel and Tamar (Kaye) Col- lins, both natives of England, who were married in Canada and who came to Minnesota in 1859.
Samuel Collins was a millwright and an experienced miller. Upon coming to this state he first located at Faribault, where he was engaged in the milling business for a time, after which he moved to Northfield, thence to Owatonna, where he built a mill, which he later sold and then went to Minneapolis, whence, after a sometime residence, he went to Hastings, where he remained until his removal to Windom in 1878. At Windom he became associated with E. F. Drake, the first president of the Omaha Rail- road Company, and erected a mill, with which he was connected the rest of his life, his death occurring in 1882, he then being fifty-five years of age. His widow survived him for more than thirty years, the most of which time she spent in Minneapolis, her death occurring at Faribault on November 17, 1914, she being seventy-nine years of age at the time.
Thomas C. Collins was but an infant when his parents came to this state from Canada and was twenty-one years old when they located at Windom in 1878. He had received an excellent education and had also been carefully trained in the mills of Northfield and Minneapolis in the details of the milling business. Not long after the Collins mill was built at Windom he was made superintendent of the same and about two years after his father's death he bought the mill and continued to operate the same the rest of his life. Thomas C. Collins from the very beginning of his residence in Windom took an active part in the business and civic life of that city and was one of the organizers of the old Cottonwood County Bank, which
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he served as president as long as it existed, and when it went into voluntary liquidation and the Farmers Bank of Windom was organized he was elected president of the latter institution and held that position until death. Mr. Collins also held extensive commercial and realty interests in the city and was otherwise active in business affairs. He was an ardent Republican, had served his party as a delegate to national conventions and was mayor of Windom for two terms. He was prominent in Masonic affairs, having been a Royal Arch Mason, a Knight Templar and a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, affiliated with Osman Temple, of the latter order, at St. Paul. He was likewise a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, of which his widow is still a member, and was also a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, affiliated with the lodge of that order at Mankato, and of the Modern Woodmen of America and of the Woodmen of the World, also a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He was an active member of the Episcopal church at Windom and for years served that church as warden. His death on October I, 1914, was therefore deeply felt in all circles hereabout, for he had done well his part, not only in the business life of the city, but in the civic and religious life of the same and his memory will long be cherished in this community.
It was on December 15, 1880, something more than three years after his arrival in Windom, that Thomas C. Collins was united in marriage to Ada Belle Smith, who was born in Livingston county, New York, Decem- ber 13, 1860, daughter of Lyman Delos and Diantha (Combs) Smith, both natives of New York state, the former born on July 15, 1835, and the lat- ter, April 22, 1833, who moved to Michigan in 1866, thence, in 1868, to Wisconsin and from the latter state, in 1871, to Windom, where they spent the rest of their lives. Lyman D. Smith erected a store building upon his arrival at Windom and became one of the foremost merchants of the town in its early days. He was a Republican and took an active part in local political affairs, for some time acting as a member of the school board. He was a charter member of the Masonic lodge at Windom and was also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Smith had been reared a Baptist, but his wife was a member of the Episcopal church, in the beneficences of which she took a warm interest. Lyman D. Smith died on February 27, 1881, and his widow survived him many years, her death occurring on November 22, 1910.
To Thomas C. and 'Ada Belle ( (Smith) Collins two children were born, a son and a daughter, Richard Delos and Mabel. Richard D. Collins
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was born at Windom on May II, 1883, and received his elementary educa- tion in the schools of his home town. Upon completing the course in the high school he entered the University of Minnesota, from which he was graduated in 1904. He then became actively associated with his father in the milling business at Windom, under the firm name of T. C. Collins & Son, and since the death of his father has continued to operate the mill. He is a Republican and has served several terms as a member of the Windom city council. On June 1, 1905, Richard D. Collins married Edna Kinyon, of Owatonna, this state. He is a Royal Arch Mason and Knight Templar at Luverne and warden of the Episcopal church.
Mabel Collins was born on January 6, 1887, and following her gradua- tion from the Windom high school attended St. Mary's School for Girls at Faribault. She married the Rev. E. Lofstrom, professor of Greek at Sea- bury Divinity School at Faribault, who died on February 22, 1916, leaving four children, Marjorie, Thomas Collins, Caroline and William Kaye. Mrs. Lofstrom and family reside at Faribault. Mrs. Collins, widow of Thomas C. Collins, still makes her home at Windom and retains her earnest interest in the various social and cultural activities of her home town. She has large property interests, her late husband having had extensive land hold- ings in Cottonwood county besides considerable real estate in Windom, including that section of the city known as the Hutton & Collins addition to the city, about half of the houses in the north part of Windom having been built on that addition. The family also owns a valuable farm in Amo township. Mrs. Collins's father also was the owner of a valuable farm and property in Windom.
HON. WINFIELD SCOTT HAMMOND.
In the memorial annals of Watonwan county and of the second Min- nesota Congressional district no name occupies a higher position than that of the late Gov. Winfield Scott Hammond, of St. James, who died while occupying the high position of chief executive of the great state of Minnesota, December 30, 1915. Though not a native of Minnesota, Governor Hammond had spent all the active years of his vigorous manhood in this state, having come here immediately after his graduation from one of the leading colleges of the East, and as educator, lawyer, statesman and, finally, as head of the state government, did well his part in the development of the great North- west. For years a representative in Congress from the second Minnesota
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