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1897-President, S. C. Brace; trustees, E. C. Erickson, C. D. Taber, A. Jones; treasurer, V. H. Gilmore; recorder, Fred W. Bacon; justice, H. E. Wheaton; constables, William Harkness, J. M. Bolland.
1898-President, S. C. Brace; trustees, E. C. Erickson, C. D. Taber, A. Jones; treasurer, V. H. Gilmore; recorder, Fred W. Bacon; justice, D. P. Bacon; constable, J. M. Bolland. At this election the people voted to divide the village from the township as a separate election and assessment district.
1899-President, D. A. Haines; trustees, C. D. Taber, J. N. Johnson, E. C. Erickson; treasurer, V. H. Gilmore; recorder, Fred W. Bacon ; justice, J. N. Johnson; constables, J. M. Bolland, G. P. Onsgard.
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1900-President, D. A. Haines; trustees, C. D. Taber, E. C. Erickson, K. Olson; treasurer, V. H. Gilmore; recorder, A. L. Tollefson; justices, J. N. Johnson, William Harkness; constable, J. M. Lein.
1901-President, D. A. Haines; trustees, C. D. Taber, E. C. Erickson, H. II. Hammer; treasurer, V. H. Gilmore; recorder, A. L. Tollefson ; justice, D. G. Stewart ; constables, J. M. Bolland, G. P. Onsgard.
1902-President, D. A. Haines; trustees, H. H. Hammer, L. O. Lein, M. C. Christopherson ; treasurer, A. L. Tollefson; recorder, C. E. Meader; justice, J. N. Johnson.
1903-President, D. A. Haines; trustees, M. C. Christopher- son, L. O. Lein, O. H. Tollefson; treasurer, A. L. Tollefson; recorder, Brady Olson ; justice, D. P. Bacon; constables, C. A. Dahl, G. P. Onsgard.
1904-President, H. H. Hammer; trustees, L. O. Lein, E. C. Erickson, O. H. Tollefson; treasurer, A. L. Tollefson; recorder, Brady Olson; justice, J. N. Johnson.
1905-President, H. H. Hammer; trustees, E. C. Erickson, L. O. Lein, O. H. Tollefson; treasurer, A. L. Tollefson; recorder, Fred W. Bacon; justices, John N. Johnson, D. P. Bacon; con- stables, E. S. Trimbel, L. J. Antrim.
1906-President, H. H. Hammer; trustees, Tollef Lee, Ole Burreson, M. C. Christopherson; treasurer, A. L. Tollefson; recorder, F. W. Bacon.
1907-President, S. C. Brace; trustees, Ole Burreson, E. A. Carrier, K. Olson; treasurer, A. L. Tollefson; recorder, Fred W. Bacon; justices, J. N. Johnson, D. P. Bacon; constables, Fred Wemett, L. J. Antrim.
1908-President, H. II. Hammer; trustees, D. A. Haines, Martin Walhus, Ole Burreson; treasurer, A. L. Tollefson; recorder, Fred W. Bacon.
1909-President, H. H. Hammer; trustees, Martin Walhus, D. A. Haines, Ole Burreson ; treasurer, W. C. Bacon; recorder, Fred W. Bacon; justices, D. P. Bacon, J. O. Backman; constables, Fred Wemett, L. J. Antrim.
1910-President, Martin Walhus; trustees, John N. Johnson, M. C. Christopherson, O. P. Dahl; treasurer, W. C. Bacon; recorder, Fred W. Bacon.
1911-President, H. H. Hammer; trustees, M. C. Christopher- son, J. N. Johnson, Ole P. Dahl; treasurer, W. C. Bacon; recorder, G. L. Gabrielson; justices, J. O. Backman, JC White; constables, Hans Faraason, L. J. Antrim.
1912-President, H. H. Hammer; trustees, G. Fawcett, P. C. Johnson, Martin Walhus; treasurer, N. H. Nelson; recorder, G. L. Gabrielson; assessor, Edward Rank.
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Water Works. After considerable agitation in favor of water works, the people of Mabel held an election April 14, 1896, and voted $5,000 bonds for the purpose of furnishing the village with a system of water works. Owing to technicalities and the diffi- culty of disposing of the bonds, two successive elections were held on the question, December 22, 1896, and March 16, 1897. Finally on April 13, 1897, an election was held which resulted in thirty-four for and eight against the improvement. The bonds were sold to John Jacobson. The system was completed in the fall of 1897 and has received several additions since then. The mains cover the principal business and residential portions of the village. The power plant contains a twenty horse boiler, steam power. The water tank is located on Butler's hill and rests on a thirty foot tower. It has a capacity of 3,500 barrels.
Fire Protection. The Mabel Volunteer Fire Department was organized in November, 1897, with C. D. Taber as chief. The fire apparatus is in good condition and the water pressure is sufficient for all needs. In 1905 the department was reorganized. C. A. Dahl is the present chief. JC White is the chairman of the company ; Ole Dahl treasurer and G. L. Gabrielson secretary. The captain of the hose company is L. J. Antrim. The captain of the hook and ladder company is Henry Danielson. The com- pany at the present time consists of twenty men, divided into a hose company and a hook and ladder company. The present members of the department are: T. C. Lee, Otto Faraason, Hans Faraason, M. C. Christopherson, G. L. Gabrielson, A. C. Lee, L. J. Antrim, Ole Dahl, Christ Dahl, Ole Bersie, Knute Olson, William Malder, Fred Wemett, JC White, R. Danielson, Henry Danielson, John Sedsvold, Carl Ramlo, Oscar Wemett, John Halseth.
NEWBURG TOWNSHIP.
Newburg is in the southeast corner of the county, Houston being on the east, Iowa on the south, Canton on the west and Preble on the north. Few sections of country seem to be more abundantly supplied with natural advantages than this. The contour of the land is slightly undulating, dotted with small groves of timber, and the soil is a uniform dark rich loam with a clay subsoil, well adapted to the cereals and to root crops or for grazing. The southwest sections are covered with heavy timber. Fresh water is abundant from numerous springs with which other parts of the county are not so highly favored, but the farmers resort to drilled wells from 150 to 200 feet deep, from which a plentiful supply of good water is raised, usually by wind-mill power.
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Riceford creek rises near the southwest corner of the town and runs in an easterly direction for some distance, when it dives beneath the surface to reappear just as it leaves the township, in section 24. During a high stage of water the surplus beyond the capacity of the subterranean channel flows on the surface. Another stream arises near the village of Newburg, and another loops down into section 6, and uniting runs north into the next town. A small creek rises near the western edge of section 1 and runs east to Riceford creek.
Early History. The first claim staked off in Newburg was by Kincaid, a married man, March 8, 1851, the claim being in section 32, where the "West farm," so called, is now located. On the same day a second claim was staked off by - Stevens, a single man, and was a part of section 28, now known as the "Edmunds farm." March 9 Mr. Kincaid and Mr. Stevens, in company with Albert Nichols, who two days before had made a claim on section 25, Canton, returned to their homes on Fountain prairie, in Wisconsin, to prepare for making settlement on their claims in Minnesota.
They returned to Minnesota in May of the same year, with their outfit consisting of oxen, wagons, cows, breaking plows and provisions for a part of the summer, arriving at their claims about June 1. Albert Nichols found his claim unmolested, but Mr. Kincaid and Mr. Stevens were surprised to find their claims in the possession of others.
Joseph Lovesey and family, who hailed from Illinois, had made settlement on Mr. Kincaid's claim, in section 32, and George Cannon and family, who also came from Illinois, were in possession of Mr. Stevens' claim in section 28. Mr. Lovesey retained his claim until July 1, 1853, and then sold to Abram West and removed to Houston county. George Cannon held his claim for about four years, then sold to Hiram Edmonds, and also went to Houston county, where he died.
Calvin Chandler put in an appearance in the spring of 1852. He was from Bangor, Me., and made residence for a time in Beloit, Wis. IIe located in section 30, and remained about eighteen years, when he removed to Martin county, where he died.
It is alleged that a man named Evans settled near the Iowa line in 1851 or 1852, but the information is not verified.
John M. Monroe and family left Rockford, Ill., June 3, 1852, with one span of horses, two pairs of oxen and provisions and sought the "Western wilds," and after the experience of "camp- ing out" about a month, arrived in Minnesota and staked off a claim on what is now section 26, where some of the family has since resided.
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Lars Tollefson came to this township in 1851, and after look- ing the country over, went back to Wisconsin. In 1852 he brought his family here, among the children being E. L. Tollefson, who afterward became so prominent a citizen. Lewis L. Tollefson, son of Lars Tollefson, was born July 4, 1852, his being the first white birth in the county. As is usual in arriving at the first birth in a county, this point is disputed, but A. L. Tollefson, the Mabel banker, who has been much interested in the study of early his- tory, has often heard this date given by his father, E. L. Tollef- son, and the date was also often given by Lewis L. Tollefson him- self. The same date is also inscribed on his tombstone.
The following list of early settlers, prepared by William Will- ford, differs somewhat from the foregoing account :
1851-Joseph Lovesey, George Cannon, Calvin Chandler.
1852-John M. Monroe, G. E. Monroe, Louis Monroe, Levi Monroe.
1853-Hans Valder, Lars Tollefson, Francis Inghram, William Loomis, Edmund Bell, Henry Bell, E. L. Tollefson, A. D. Gray, Sr., T. L. Tollefson, Abraham West, William McIIenry, William Weir, William Bly, Ilans Arneson, A. G. Ellestad, I. G. Ellestad, G. G. Ellestad, George Dibble and Alanson Loomis.
1854-Lars Reirson (Halstenrud), Ole B. Garnaas, Hans B. Garnaas, John Plomteaux, Charles B. Reynolds, Jeremiah Clark, Austin P. Goldberg, Elias Morey, David Taber, George Edmonds, Arne P. Goldberg, Swen P. Goldburg, Andrew Ingerbret, John Edmunds, Nels Gaarnes, A. II. Butler, Hiram Edmunds, Dr. F. Worth, Park Williams, Enoch Wickersham, Alexander Orin, Moses Orin, Horace Kingsbury, E. S. Kingsbury, Hiram Willsie.
1855-Milton Sherburne, Justus Seelye, Hial N. Sherburne, George Miles, Gabriel Gabrielson, Alonzo Gustavous Gray, Jonah Cadwallader, A. D. Gray, Jr., Christopherson Hellickson, Alfred Clark, B. Randall, Ezra Stroud, William Stroud, James K. Stroud, Montgomery Stroud, Lars Jacobson, Michael Tollefson, Lester Griswold, Eben Seelye, Thomas Seelye, Asa Seelye, W. N. Gilmore, John Rank, Andrew Miner, J. G. Miner, Levi IIamlin, Matthew Gagen.
1856-John Willsie, Paul Hanson, Lemuel Jones, Joshua Gove, Ed. Harkness, James Harkness, Nelson H. Miner, Louis Hark- ness, M. J. Willsie.
1857-Peter P. Thompson, Lars Thompson, Joel B. Harkness, George Harkness, Sr., Ole Helgeson, William R. McDonald, James McDonald, Lyman McDonald, William Ramsey.
1858-Youngs Allen, Andrew Schei, Anthony Schei, Soren Nelson, Swen Nelson, Nels Thompson, Ole Tollefson (Big Ole), Ole Olson (Black Ole), William Thorp, Orrin Dibble, Charles W. Bacon, Colby Bacon.
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1859-Maxson L. Potter, Stephen W. Hiatt, Joseph R. Gris- wold, Peter Johnson, Harvey Johnson, Ira Morey, C. Merwin, Aaron Merwin, William Merwin, Anson Merwin, John Donald- son, Gilbert Donaldson, Joel Butler, Frank Newcomer, Samuel Newcomer.
Land Office Records. The first titles to land in Newburg town- ship were issued by the government in 1854. Those who obtained land that year were as follows, the date of the issuance of the warrant being given first, then the name of the owner and then the section in which the land was largely located: August 8, William T. Bly, 6; August 8, Calvin Chandler, 30; August 8, Andrew W. Gray, 7; August 8, George R. Miller, 6; August 11, Jeremiah Clark, 18; August 11, Elias C. Koonts, 19; August 16, Archibald Donald, 31; August 16, Even Ellison, 31; August 16, Lars Johnson, 8; August 16, Wade Madeson, 5; August 16, Soren Nielson, 8; August 16, Thore Oleson, 4; August 16, Peter Peter- son, 4; August 17, Edwin Blackmarr, 32; August 17, Jonas Edmunds, 32; August 17, Hiram Edmonds, 28; August 17, Abra- ham West, 32; August 18, Enos T. Gray, 7; August 23, Niles Oleson, 34; August 23, Arne Pederson, 32-33; August 23, Swend Pederson, 33; August 24, Ellert Evenson, 31; August 28, Francis Ingraham, 19; August 31, Christopher Hellikson, 19; September 1, John Plomtaux, 5-6; September 1, William Ramsay, 6; Septem- ber 1, Elizabeth Server, 6; September 2, Andrew Bronson, 28-29; September 2, Engoobrick Christopherson, 20; September 2, Enge- brick Engebrickson, 20; September 2, Ever Gulbrandson, 20; Sep- tember 2, Gulbran Gulbranson, 29; September 2, William Weir, 21; September 5, Ole Jorgenson, 5; September 5, Thore Nelson, 5; September 7, Arne Arneson, 33; September 7, Ole Bareson, 18; September 7, Nels Bareson, 17-18; September 7, Bear Oleson, -; September 7, Austin Peterson, 18; September 9, George West, 33; September 14, Alexander H. Butler, 28; September 23, John Louisson, 31; October 17, George R. Edmunds, 32; October 18, Hans Gullingorud, 33; November 28, Harvey Bell, 25; November 29, Hiram J. Willsie, 7; December 15, Alfred Clark, 29-30; December 30, John II. Hann, 30.
Early Days. Newburg is one of the most historic towns in the county. Coming as it did in the Winnebago territory, it was opened to settlement earlier than the larger part of the county, and received many settlers from 1851 to 1856. William Willford has written the following account of early days in Newburg :
This prosperous township claims as an "old land mark" an historic mill on Riceford creek in Houston county which was located but a few rods east of the Newburg township line and was built, owned and operated by W. H. Rowe. Mr. Rowe was
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a rare genius, a natural mechanic and built this mill according to his own notions and plans. The water wheel and machinery of this mill, with the exceptions of a few bolts and castings were all wrought by his own hands. The mill stones were taken from the hill side near by and hammered and chisled in shape to suit his idea of buhrs necessary to do the contemplated work. I never visited the mill myself, but will relate what a Methodist minister who was known in Colorado as the "snow shoe itiner- ant," and whose name was John L. Dyer, the proprietor of Lenora, tells in his autobiography about this historic mill of 1856 and 1857. He said: "On this charge there was one of the most diminutive mills that was ever seen in Minnesota. While we were looking at it doing its level best two other men new in the country gazed on it with astonishment. And one of them who always would speak in approbation of anything he could, whined out, 'Why, it is the most industrious little mill I ever saw. Just as fast as it grinds one grain it begins on another.' We turned away from the first mill erected in the county with the idea of industry on our minds."
I will narrate another statement made in regard to this little mill in pioneer days as related by a man who resided in Hesper, Ia., for a time and later in Mabel, who had made many visits to this little mill to ascertain the amount of business done. He said in the fifties it was quite difficult to procure wheat flour, for the teams then used were oxen, making travel slow, and tedious, and the flouring mills were somewhat remote from the settlement. It was then quite customary when an early settler exhausted his supply of wheat flour to take a sack containing about a bushel of corn on his shoulder and travel on foot to this little mill and have it ground. On one occasion a near-by neigh- bor of the miller took his bushel of corn to this mill and requested the miller to grind it so he could take it home with him that day. To this the miller assented. The corn was put in the hopper and the sack was hung to the spout to receive the meal. Mr. Rowe then invited his customer to his house for a "chat" while the mill was grinding the corn. After a short time had elapsed the miller said they would return to the mill, as he thought the corn must be about ground. Mr. Rowe took the lead with his customer following. They entered the mill, went to the buhrs, looked in the hopper and saw the corn was all gone. The miller then took hold of the sack and gave it a slight kick with his foot and found to their astonishment that the sack was empty. They then began to look around to see where the corn meal was. Upon scrutinizing the buhrs of the mill closely they espied a chipmunk seated below the lower end of the hopper, and this unraveled the whole mystery as to where the
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corn had gone. I do not think that my informant ever posed as a Methodist preacher, but I am sure that he was a "Mabelite."
I will again quote from Rev. J. L. Dyer, the "snow-shoe itinerant," who tells in his autobiography how the pioneers of the "fifties" in this great and historic township of Newburg felt on the importance of their salvation. He says: "About the 1st of December, 1857, I undertook to hold a protracted meeting in what was called the red schoolhouse which was quite a large one for those early days of settlement. There, in that vicinity, I visited twenty-seven families-about all in the school district -and found but one old lady that gave evidence of saving grace. I saw all but one family. The day before on my way there I met a boy and asked him about them, and he said 'They have gone away. They expected you would be there and give them the devil.' I heard of a family at the edge of the settlement that was called religious and hoped to have a good time. The man was a shoemaker. I rapped at the door, was invited in and told them who I was and my business and inquired of them if they enjoyed religion. The lady had been an Episcopalian but the man said he made no pretense but had more religion than men running around to every house and raising such a stir among the people. He had a religion of his own and reverenced his God." Well, the preacher asked him for a bit of his experience and how he performed before his God. He gave no response to the questions, only said he would as soon hear a man swear as pray. "I said, 'We generally ask to pray, but I will waive it on this occasion.' The woman said, 'I hope you won't go away without prayer.' 'Well, if you will kneel with me we will pray.' We knelt and offered a short and pointed prayer. I noticed that the man kept his hat on. When we got up I asked him how he liked the prayer. 'Oh, very well,' he said. 'Now, sir, if you had reverenced your God half as much as you professed you would have taken off your hat while we prayed.' 'I beg pardon,' he said, 'and hope you will excuse me. I never thought of it.' Of course I squared accounts by a promise that he would come to meeting. But while I was visiting some of the leading men got together and resolved to close the schoolhouse and not let me preach any more. That night, near time for service, I met in the vestibule two of the school directors, one a Quaker. He said, 'Mr. Dyer, how long does thee intend to hold these meet- ings?' 'Don't know.' 'Well, we have concluded these excite- ments that thee gets up will hurt our school.' I told him that it was thought that religion and education went together, and I was sure that they were not religious enough yet to hurt the school or prevent the children from learning. 'Well,' he replied, 'Mr. J- thinks the weather is too bad for people to be called
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out every night.' 'I suppose Mr. J- doesn't think it too bad to run opposition twice this week with a dance at his house,' I responded. And so, saying that we could have the house that night they passed on. We had a large audience and good atten- tion, and if ever I gave a warm mess it was on this occasion. At the close I said, 'If there is anyone who wishes to have the meetings continue we would like to have him say so in the con- gregation.' No one said a word. Then I asked the school directors what they had to say. One of them said, 'You can have the house on Sunday in the daytime, but not in the evening.' 'You all three agree to this?' They replied in the affirmative. I gave them a few words on leaving and said I was about to do as the devil never did, and that was to leave them. I was sorry to do so, as my only desire was to see them converted and saved in heaven. I dismissed the meeting and left. The common talk was that the red schoolhouse was closed against the preacher."
Indian Village. John J. Johnson, who settled in the South Fork valley in the spring of 1854, relates that near his place there was an Indian village containing about one hundred "bucks, squaws and pappooses." While breaking some land a few of the Indians wanted to assist in driving the oxen, but the cattle were afraid of them, and then they tried to hold the plow, but were also unsuccessful in this feat. These Indians were the Winnebagoes, the southeastern part of the county being in their territory.
Political. The town meeting to organize the township was held on May 11, 1858, at the schoolhouse in the village of New- burg. Only one of the regularly appointed judges of election was present. Gabriel Gabrielson, Jeremiah Clark and Calvin Chandler were appointed to fill the vacancies. Alfred Clark was appointed clerk. The officers elected were: Supervisors, A. H. Butler (chairman), John Willsie and John Craig; town clerk, Alfred Clark ; assessor, G. Gabrielson; collector, Justus Seelye; overseer of the poor, Hiram Edmonds; justices of the peace, Hans Valder and James Harkness; constables, W. R. McDonald and Thomas R. Seelye. The meeting voted that "hogs and sheep should not be free commoners, within the limits of the town." A tax of $250 was voted. The schoolhouse in dis- trict No. 38 was designated by acclamation as the place for town meetings.
War Bounty. At a town meeting held on August 23, 1864, it was voted that each volunteer who should enlist and be cred- ited to the quota of the town should receive $300, to be paid, $100 when enlisting, and the balance in two and three years, and to meet this obligation, bonds to the extent of $1,700 were author- ized with interest at 10 per cent. The largest expenditure in
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any one year was in 1865, when it went up to a total of $1,930.30.
Bellville. In the spring of 1853, two brothers, Edmund and Henry Bell, started from Mercer county, Ohio, with teams of horses and mules, and a stock of about $500 worth of goods. Stopping in Lansing they procured some lumber, and after a journey of twenty-one days arrived in Newburg, put up their shanty, and opened their goods which they began immediately to sell. They also began to break up and cultivate some land. The lumber cost them, laid down at their door, $58 per 1,000 feet. Lansing, which was thirty miles away, was the nearest from which to replenish their stock of goods. Their building was 20x24 feet, with a shingle roof, which was considered a great luxury at that time. After the first season the goods were pro- cured from Brownsville. The mercantile business was continued up to 1861. In 1855 Edmund Bell secured the kindly offices of H. M. Rice, then territorial delegate, and procured the establish- ment of a postoffice under the name of Bellville. He was post- master nine years and C. B. Reynolds was his successor. Later the office was moved to the westward with James M. Donald as postmaster. When the railroad came through the office was moved to Mabel. At an early day a schoolhouse was erected at Bellville, and a hotel and a number of buildings erected. Nothing now remains of the village.
Newburg Village. In the summer of 1853 Hans Valder and family, with six other men and their families, came to this place from La Salle county, Illinois. Mr. Valder located on section 8, the site of the village. At first a log structure 14x16 feet afforded his family a shelter. Basswood bark was peeled off to form a roof and some boards were obtained from Decorah for a floor. He named the place Newburg, which became the postoffice and the town name. The postoffice was secured in 1854, with Mr. Valder as postmaster. On December 18, 1855, the village having been platted, was recorded. Three days after Mr. Valder estab- lished himself, Hans Arneson came and began the building of a blacksmith shop of poplar poles, 10x12 feet, which was the first shop of this kind within a circuit of fifteen miles. Mr. Valder soon made an addition to his cabin home and put in a few gro- ceries, and a short time afterwards Gabriel Gabrielson came, and in September, 1855, began business in Mr. Valder's shanty. Three months later he built a log building, 16x20 feet, which was the first regular store in the village. His first stock of goods was procured in Brownsville of J. HI. Smith, and consisted of fifty pounds of coffee, two pieces of cotton sheeting, two pieces of denims, several pieces of calico and a few yankee notions, the whole bill footing up about $100. Afterwards he began buying goods in Dubuque. In 1859 Mr. Valder was in business with
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