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Leevilla
306
Leslie
307
Leslie Township
237, 288, 303
Lincoln 291
Little Elk Township __ 217, 237, 293, 303
Little Sauk
251, 288, 301
Little Sauk Township
237, 288, 304
Living Early Settlers
222
Long Prairie __ 211, 217, 218, 221, 224, 237
250, 254, 256, 273, 280, 281
282, 285. 286, 296, 304, 306
Long Prairie-Mississippi Road
223
Long Prairie Township
229, 232, 237
286, 304
Lutheran Churches
250, 254
M
Material Resources. 214
Methodist Episcopal Churches.
.250
251
Mills 230
Missionaries, Pioneer
250
Moran Township __ 226, 229, 237, 289, 304
N
Navigation, River 231
New England Settlers 229
Newspapers 233, 273
Norwegian Lutheran Church
250
Norwegian Synod
250
O
Oak Hill 288
Officers, First County 232
Official Roster 239
Organization of the County. 232
Osakis
237, 287, 304
Osakis Lake
212, 217, 227, 287, 305
Philbrook
229, 292, 306
Pillsbury 227, 250, 293
Pioneer Attractions 215
Pioneer Church History 251
Pioneer Conditions 215
Pioneer Missionaries 250
Pioneers of 1865 225
Pioneer Privations. 221
Pole-raising, Old Fashioned 218
Poles as American Citizens. 271
Poles, Character of 271
Polish Church at Browerville. 255
Polish Settlers 226, 256
Polish Sisters of St. Benedict 263
Poor-farm Experiment 236
Poor Relief
234
Population of Todd County 303
Prairies
213
Presbyterian Churches 250
Presidential Vote. 242
Privations of Pioneers 221
Probate Judges
241
R
Railroad, Coming of the
227
Registers of Deeds 241
Relief for the Poor 234
Report of Schools 276
Representatives
239
Reynolds Township
236, 233, 237
292, 304
Rivers
211
Roads, Early 223
Rock Exposures
213
Roster of County Officials
239
Round Prairie
224, 250. 276
293, 296, 306
Round Prairie Township
232, 237
249, 293, 304
Rural Churches
254
S
St. Joseph's Church
255
Salaries of County Officers
237
Scandinavian Settlers
229
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
School Districts
232
School Examiner 232
School of Holy Angels 259
School Statistics. 276
School Superintendents.
234, 235, 242
Schools, the 276
Senators, State
239
Settlement, Permanent 222
Settlers, Living Early 222
Sheriffs
241
Sioux Indians. 216, 219
Sisters of St. Benedict 263
Sliters Beach
306
Social Life, Pioneer
215
Soil
213
Staples
228, 237, 250, 274, 280
281, 284, 291, 295, 304, 307
Staples Mill
307
Staples Township 237, 291, 304
State Representatives 239
State Senators
239
Stowe Prairie Township
228.
237
289, 304
Streams
211
Sunday School, the First 253
Superintendents of School __ 234, 235, 242
Surface Features.
211
Surveyors, County
241
Swedish Episcopal Church
250
Swedish Lutheran Churches
250
Swedish Mission Church
250
T
Timber
213
Todd County Agricultural Society
247
Topography of County
212
Townships of Todd County
286
Trading with the Indians
216
Transportation Problems, Early
231
Treasurers, County
240
Turtle Creek Township
237, 293, 304
U
United Brethren Church.
250, 253
V
Valuations, Assessed
237
Van Cleve, General
218, 220
Versatile Pastor
251
Villard Township
237. 292, 304
Ward Township __ 226, 229, 237. 289. 304
Wards Springs
287. 306
Water Supply
244
Wells
213, 244
West Union
237, 250, 280, 287
298. 304, 306
West Union Township
232, 237
287. 304
Whiteville
225
Winnebagoes
217. 219
Wykeham Township.
_228, 237, 290, 304
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BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX
A
Adams, E. P. 505
Andersen, Hans C. 479
Anderson, Alex
653
Anderson, Frank
641
Andre, Camille H. D. M.
471
Andwood, John A.
564
Ayer, Lyman W.
661
Chapman, Clinton E. 440
Chirhart, George N. 436
Chirhart, Joseph J. 415
Cochran, Survetus C.
587
Corbin, Dura 507
Cox, Bennett B. 393
Cox, William H.
381
Crossfield, John W.
502
D
Dally, Willis C.
424
Dalquist, Carl O. 537
Davies, Frank P. 656
Dobbyn, Prof. Frank W.
375
Docken, John H.
496
Dubbels, George
649
627
Dvorak, Peter
F
Eckblad, Axel
525
Edden, William 634
Edeburn, George
705
1
Ehr, Ethel M.
435
Erickson, Carl J.
607
1
Erickson, Rubin
403
1
Erlandson, Erick
580
1
Etzell, George A. 1 637
F
Falk, James W.
389
Farrow, Franklin P. 481
Featherston, James W. 454
Fenn, Andrew J.
495
Flood, Edward A. 395
Fortier, George M. A., M. D 490
Franzen, Gust
698
Freeman, Fred
531
B
Balcom, Kyle H. 685
Barnes, Prof. Martin E. 356
Bastien, Frank X.
499
Bates, Benjamin B.
706
Bennett, Silas T.
610
Bergheim, Nels Nelson 1
448
Berglund, John
654
Bergman, Axel
422
Biteman, Isaac
379
1
Blom, Sven M.
626
Boehm, Frank
371
Bolander, Carl
1 498
Borgstrom, Axel M. 404
Borgstrom, Rasmus
476
517
Bottemiller, Charles
Bouck, Hon. Charles W
372
Brick, Otto J.
657
Brick, Simon P. 376
Brockway, William C.
378
Brooks, Warren W.
527
Brown, Charles H. 432
511
Brown, Otis J., M. D
Bujalski, Rev. Stephen
592
Burton, Barney
489
C
Calhoun, George
444
Callahan, Thomas F.
679
Cameron, Donald M.
521
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G
K
Gassert, Henry
426
Kalis, Frank 674
Kasparek, Valentine E. 669
Keehr, Fred 683
Kempenich, John 552
Kerkhoff, Edward H. 430
Kiewel, Jacob 595
Kjeldergaard, Ole O. 473
Knapp, Perry
701
Koslosky, Austin F.
400
Kroll, Rev. Peter J
670
H
llall, Elmer E., M. D 360
Hanson, John W. 538
Hanson, Willie 623
Hart, James 652
Hartmann, Joseph B. 398
Hartmann, Philip A. 387
Haymaker, Ernest G. 460 J
Hedin, Henry
411
Hedin, John 640
Ilegg, John
659
Hennen, Nicholas J. 560
llerum, Andrew 590
Herrmann, Chris
524
Hitzemann, Otto Il. 385
Hokenson, Henry E. 408
Holmgren, Pear A. 550
Honstrom, Andrew W. 437
Houn, Joseph 555
Hoystrom, Peter O. 677
llusmann, John H. 691
Hutchinson, Wilber E.
672
I
Isaacson, llans
600
J
Jacobs, Sherman W. 462
Janski, Rev. Joseph C. 419
Jaschke, l'aul 540
Johnson, James P. t
681
Johnson, John O.
467
Johnson, Ole A. 598 1 I
Jones, John David
I 368
1
LaFond, Edward M. 585
Lambert, James M. 622
Lamothe, Rev. Arthur 384
Landahl, Henning
353
Lee, Rudolph 519
Lee, William E. 468 1
Lisle, John W.
I
1
358
Lockwood, Vernie
1
589
Loegering. August
696
Logan, Frank B.
J
611
1
Logan, Harry M.
603
1
Lyon, Frank W.
477
Mc
Me Dougall, Thomas 621
MeGivern, Frank C.
458
McNairy, Bartlett Y.
515
McRae, John J.
361
M
Malm, Olaf 443
Marlin, John D., Jr. 647
Martin. J. Kenneth 416
Massy, Gerald W. 464
Metcalf, Joseph L. 363
Millspaugh, Joseph G., M. D 504
Molde, Christian 533
Monson, Mathias T. 005
Morey, William N. 693
Mueller, John P.
610
Muncy, Leslie
513
Gendreau, Paul 528
Gordon, Thomas C. 509 1
Gothman, Henry
1
I
1
703
1 Gravel, Charles, Sr. 401
Gravel, Charles E. 383 I
Groover, Leslie A.
559
Gunderson, Mark J. 684
Gutches, Merton E. 704
I
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
N
S
Nagl, Rt. Rev. Mgr. Edward. 480
Nelson, Albert O. 446
Nelson, Frank A. 488
Nelson, George O. 439
Nelson. Hans
618
Nelson, Hoken 663
Nelson, Louis 632
Newman, J. H., D. V. S. 483
Nichols, Jerry C. 549
Nutter, Hugh A. 624
Nygaard, Bernard
690
Nygaard, Ole 535
Nylen, Peter 688
O
Odor, Francis T. 636
Olson, Maurice 593
P
Palm. Jones 571
Parker, George F. 576 1
Pedley, William 512 1
Pehrson, Alfred 412
Perkins, John C. 671 1
1 Perry, Tim 428 1
Person, Nels
617
Person, Ola
619
Peterson, John H. 406
R
Ragan, George 680
Randall, Phil S. 493
Rekosiak, Rev. Theodore J 544
Remillard, Cyprien A. 456
Renick, Frank 665
Rennie, John 675
Rhode, Otto A. 365
Riedner, George M. 569
Roberts, Lemuel M., M. D 392
Rodman, William 643
Roese, Alfred E. 530
Rosenberg, Edward M. 484
Runquist, Carl W. 562
Rydholm, Andrew 567
Samuelson, Olof 575
Sandahl, August 573
Schallern, Victor 486
Scherer, Rev. Michael 602
Schermerhorn, George 354
Sehmolke, John 566
Schultz, George 399
Schwanke, August 638 1
Sears, Fred P. 463
Seely, Charles E. 466
Shaw, Hon. Edward F 367
Shutt, Sylvester J. 582
Signer, Edwin 628
Sjodin, Ole
614
Smith, Alfred P.
547
Snow, Heman D. 584
Sparrow, William 396
Stenholm, Charles
687
Stephenson, John W. 522
Stoll, Alfred M. 413
Suszezynski, Rev. Sigismond 608
Swanson, Henry 546
Swanson, Oscar E. 545
Swedback, Charles J.
409
T
Tanner, Leigh V. 501
Tedford, Samnel 599
Thelander, John A. 557
Thorsen, Richard
630
V
Vasaly, Peter J. 658
Vasaly, Dr. Spirit J. 474
Vasaly, Stephen C. 650
Vernon, Archibald H. 516
Vertin, John
520
Viehauser, Peter 417
W
Waage, Nels O. 442
Wait, John
541
Waldron, Herbert L. 699
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BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Waller, John C 695
Wilson, George E. 391
Warnberg, Seth
554
Winscher, Charles 667
Wermerskirchen, Melchior 433
Wise, Elwin H. 615
Werner, Charles H.
420
Wetzel, John
449
Z
Wilson, Alfred
451
Wilson, Byron R.
423
Zitur, Rev. Francis 459
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BIOGRAPHICAL
HENNING LANDAHL.
It is by no means an easy task to describe within the limits of a brief review the career of a man who has been eminently useful in the community where he lives and who by exercising his own personal abilities has attained a position of prominence in the commercial life of a county. Henning Landahl has enjoyed a most remarkable career in the agricultural develop- ment of Morrison county, having brought in settlers to purchase and improve thousands of acres of land in this county. As a matter of fact all the large and prosperous Swedish settlements in this county except that of Upsala, which is of an earlier date, were founded by him; the county has him to thank for a large number of its best and most progressive farmers, for many of its most valuable farms, and he can look with pride on his accom- plishments.
Mr. Landahl himself has large holdings in Morrison county real estate. including several farms under cultivation, and he owns a beautiful home in Little Falls on the banks of the Mississippi river. He is particularly inter- ested in horticulture and by his own success in his spacious garden has proved that fruit, especially apples of the highest grades, can be raised with profit in Morrison county.
Born in Vestergotland, Sweden, the son of Fredrik Landahl, a high dignitary in the Swedish state church, who died in 1898 after having reared a family of eight children, Henning Landahl attended the graded schools of his native land, was graduated from the high school and attended college. He completed his education by spending four years in Germany, and after a visit home came to America in 1887, making the trip by the way of Canada. At that time he had an uncle who owned a ranch on the upper Missouri river in North Dakota and after remaining with the uncle for a couple of months, Mr. Landahl went to St. Paul, Minnesota, and obtained a position with the A. E. Johnson & Company, as foreign correspondent ;
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this company was then engaged in selling land for the Northern Pacific railroad. Mr. Landahl remained with this firm in the St. Paul office for about a year and was in 1889 sent to Little Falls to take charge of their land office at that place.
The railroad lands around Little Falls were soon disposed of but Mr. Landahl remained, purchased different tracts of farm lands and secured control of all the property that was owned by the Little Falls Improvement Company, a Louisville, Kentucky, corporation, which included the most valuable business property in the city, that located on Broadway East, and in a few years built up a large land and real estate business.
While essentially a man of the out-of-doors, Mr. Landahl finds time for much studying and reading and his library, containing classic as well as modern literature in the English, German and Swedish languages and com- prising some two thousand volumes, gives him much recreation and pleasure.
In 1890 Henning Landahl was married to Amy Borchert, a native of Germany, who has borne him two children, Olga and Carine. The former is the wife of Harold Spink, of Duluth, Minnesota. The latter lives at home with her parents.
GEORGE SCHERMERHORN.
One of the older citizens of Randall, Morrison county, Minnesota, and one who stands high in the regard of his fellow citizens, is George Schermer- horn, a retired farmer and veteran of the Civil War.
Mr. Schermerhorn is a native of the state of New York, born at Kinder- hook on March 2, 1833, eldest son of Francis and Rebecca (Conine) Schermerhorn. They were the parents of four other children: Elizabeth, deceased; William, resides in California; Spencer, the youngest, lives in Janesville, Wisconsin, and Mary. Francis Schermerhorn was born in New York in 1809, and while still a young man became quite expert in the manu- facture of leather articles. He had an excellent reputation as a maker of saddles, harness and trunks and was also known as an expert carriage trim- mer. When near middle age, he had come west and located at Janesville, Wisconsin, and at that point he enlisted as drum major of the Fifth Regi- ment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, at the nation's first call to arms in 1861. He was at that time a veteran of the Mexican War, having served as drum major through that campaign. He served throughout the Civil War, but did not live long after receiving his honorable discharge, his death
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occurring in 1866. Mr. Schermerhorn's mother also died the same year, and both lie buried at Janesville. She also was a native of Kinderhook, New York, born about the year 1810.
Mr. Schermerhorn passed his boyhood days in Wayne county, New York, attending the public schools of Arcadia, and in 1853 he went to Seneca, that state, and became apprentice to the molders' trade. About four years later, in 1856, he came into this section of the country and at St. Paul became employed by the government as clerk in the Dubois Indian agency. He severed that connection within eight months, and went to Grant, Wis- consin, where he mastered the cooper's trade and then went to Janesville, where he worked at that trade for about three years. The latter part of 1858 he went to Davenport, Iowa, working there as a cooper for about a year, when he went to Geneseo, Illinois, and there enlisted in Company F, Sixty- ninth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and saw service in the South under Gen. E. A. Thomas. In June of 1862 he was made a commissioned officer, with the rank of second lieutenant, and later in that same year he was discharged from his three years' enlistment in Chicago. He immediately re-enlisted, this time at Moline, Illinois, in Company H, One Hundred and Thirty-second Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and after that was in some of the leading battles of the war, among them being that of Lookout Mountain, Pittsburg Landing, and others. In 1864, at Chicago, Illinois, he received his honorable discharge, ranking as second lieutenant.
After leaving the service, Mr. Schermerhorn located at Moline for the next few years, following his trade of molder, and in 1872 he went to Minneapolis, where, for the following six years, he followed his other trade of cooper. For four years he lived at Elk River, Minnesota, where he was in charge of large cooper shops and still later followed that same trade at Anoka, this state. In 1891 he came to Morrison county and homesteaded a claim on what is now section 8 of Darling township. That land when he obtained possession of it was covered with brush and timber and he cleared and broke up twenty-five acres of it. He had erected a comfortable house and a log barn and other buildings and had in all done an immense amount of work about the place. He later sold his farm with the exception of twenty acres, ten of which he presented to his granddaughter, Bertha Mon- son. About 1898 he came to Randall for permanent residence, purchasing a half-acre tract with dwelling thereon, and there he and his faithful wife are passing their declining years in comfort and such health and vitality as are seldom granted to people of their years.
Mrs. Schermerhorn was born on March 19,1836, and before her
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marriage was Mary Ward, a native of New York. For many years she has been a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal church and stands high in the regard of friends and neighbors. Mr. and Mrs. Schermerhorn are the parents of four children, the eldest of whom, Nettie, is deceased ; George is making his home with his parents; Frank is located at Spokane, Washing- ton; and William lives in Little Falls, this county, where he follows his trade of cooper.
Mr. Schermerhorn is a strong supporter of the Democratic party and in earlier years was very active indeed within its ranks. In 1908 he was elected mayor of Randall. serving efficiently two terms and was out of office until 1914, when he was again elected mayor, which office he fills at the present time. About twenty years ago he was a deputy sheriff under Leon Hood and at a time when such services called for the best of courage and diplomacy in a man. He has from the time of his earliest residence here taken a most active interest in the question of good roads and bridges and has been instrumental in bringing to pass the good conditions in this respect which now prevail within the limits of Morrison county.
Mr. Schermerhorn is a faithful member of the Knights of Pythias. He has the distinction of being a charter member of the first lodge of that order ever organized in the state of Minnesota, that being at Minneapolis. and being active in the work from the first. he has helped to organize a number of lodges since. By virtue of his services during the Civil War, he is a member of Little Falls post, Grand Army of the Republic. Mr. Schermerhorn possesses in large degree the fraternal spirit, and to this trait is doubtless due his vital interest in anything that makes for the welfare of the community, whether along material, social or moral lines.
PROF. MARTIN EDGAR BARNES.
It is eminently fitting and proper to determine a man's success by the estimation in which he is held by his fellow citizens, since they understand the scope of his daily work, know his relations in the family circle, are familiar with his code of morals and bear witness of his conduct in all of the relations of society. In this connection, it is not too much to say that Prof. Martin Edgar Barnes, the superintendent of the Morrison county schools. enjoys the confidence not only of the educational profession in this county. but of the public generally, having made an eminent success of educational
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work and having risen gradually and by sheer merit to his present position at the head of the schools of this county.
Martin Edgar Barnes was born on a farm near Maquoketa, Jackson county, Iowa, August 4, 1875. He is the son of Nathan and Eliza ( Butters) Barnes, the former being born in Ohio, November 25, 1838, and who died on September 3, 1907. Educated in Ohio, Nathan Barnes went to Iowa with his parents in 1855, and after working there for a time moved to Illinois and worked as a farm hand until the Civil War broke out.
Nathan Barnes enlisted in 1861 in the Eighty-fifth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served until the end of the war, participating in the battles of Nashville, Fort Henry, Fort Donelson and the siege of Atlanta. He was with Sherman on his memorable march from Atlanta to the sea, and during the war was taken prisoner but was exchanged a few months later.
After the war, Nathan Barnes went back to Iowa and purchased a farm near Grand Mound. He married Eliza Butters on June 3, 1875, and they went to housekeeping on the Barnes farm, where they lived until 1882, when they sold out and moved to Crawford county, Iowa. There he owned two farms, but rented both and lived in town. In 1891 he sold out and moved to Worthington, Minnesota, near where he owned farm lands and where he lived retired until his death. His wife, a native of Iron Hill, Jackson county, Iowa, who was born on July 5, 1855, is still living. She was educated in Jackson county, Iowa, and made her home with her parents until her marriage. She bore her husband three children, Mary Grace, Eva Pearl and Martin Edgar, the subject of this sketch. Mary Grace is the wife of J. T. Leahy, of Mandan, North Dakota. Eva Pearl is the wife of Thomas G. Larson, of Lyons, Nebraska.
Martin E. Barnes attended the common schools of Vail, Iowa, and the high school at Worthington, graduating from the latter institution with the class of 1896. Afterward he attended the Mankata State Normal, graduating in June, 1898. He then taught school near Worthington and one term of school in Wadena county, at the village of Aldrich. After one term at Round Lake, Minnesota, as principal of the village schools, Mr. Barnes was principal of the graded school at Motley. in Morrison county. He then taught at Royalton, Minnesota, until Christmas, 1902, when he became superintendent of the high school at Atwater. He was next principal of the school at Motley for three years, until November, 1908, when he was elected superintendent of the Morrison county schools. He was re-elected in 1908,
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1910, 1912 and 1914, the last time to a term of four years. His long tenure in this office is a better evidence than anything which could be cited of his efficiency, not only as an instructor. but as an educational supervisor. The schools of Morrison county have made great progress during the past nine years, much of which is due to his conscientious and capable adminis- tration.
Martin Edgar Barnes was married on August 4, 1902, to Margaret A. Norris, a native of Kankato, Minnesota, and the daughter of Charles E. and Sarah A. Norris. She was educated at Motley and Long Prairie, Minnesota. She made her home with her parents until her marriage. Two children have been born to Professor and Mrs. Barnes, Ronald Edgar and George Douglass, who are attending school in Little Falls.
Martin Edgar Barnes is identified with the Republican party and has been more or less active in the councils of the party ever since he attained his majority. He is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, the Order of the Eastern Star, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Daughters of Rebekah, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Modern Woodmen of America. Here in Little Falls, where Professor and Mrs. Barnes live, they have an attractive residence and both are popular in the social and civic life of Little Falls.
JOHN W. LISLE.
John W. Lisle, a retired farmer of Royalton, Minnesota, is widely known as one of the honored pioneers of Morrison county. Ohio, who, for more than a quarter of a century, has been a valuable factor in the develop- ment of this county and prominently identified with its various interests. His well-directed energy in the practical affairs of life. his capable business management and his sound judgment have demonstrated what can be accom- plished by a man of ambitious impulses. He occupies a modern. two-story brick residence, the construction of which he himself superintended several years ago. From 1904 to 1911 he rented his farm, but in the latter year sold the farm.
Jolin W. Lisle is a native of Wayne county. Ohio, born on May 29. 1847. His parents. James and Alice ( Rogers) Lisle, were both natives of Ohio, and spent all of their lives in the Buckeye state. James Lisle was born at Cadiz, Ohio, and there received his education. At the time of his
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death, at the age of eighty-three years, he owned a farm of one hundred acres in Wayne county, Ohio. In his early life he was a Republican in politics, having cast his vote for Abraham Lincoln, but in later years was independent in political affairs.
James and Alice (Rogers) Lisle were the parents of nine children, of whom four are living. Thomas died in 1905; Mary Jane died in 1911; George died in 1913: William died recently in Ohio, and one died in infancy. Those living are Mrs. Margaret Stoffer, a resident of Mansfield, Ohio; John W., of whom this narrative speaks ; James D., of Worcester, Ohio, and Mrs. Harriet Stimbring, a resident of the state of Ohio.
John W. Lisle received his education in the public schools of Wayne county, Ohio, his first teacher having been P. P. Pomerene. After leaving school Mr. Lisle learned the carpenter's trade, but made his home with his parents until his marriage to Miranda Moorhead, which occurred on Septem- ber 5, 1872. During the next ten years he and his wife lived on a rented farm in Ripley township, Wayne county, Ohio. They then moved to Minne- sota, purchasing eighty acres of land near St. Cloud. One year later they purchased eighty acres adjoining the original farm, and after five years sold out and moved to Morrison county in 1888. Here they purchased two hun- dred and eighty acres of land in Buckman township, in section 24.
This farm was well improved and had some good buildings on it. Here Mr. Lisle raised grain, including corn and oats, keeping large herds of cattle which grazed on the wild land in the neighborhood. He continued cattle raising and farming until 1897. when he sold out his holdings in Buckman township, and purchased a farm of two hundred and forty acres adjoining the town of Royalton-part of the land being within the city limits. A little later he erected modern buildings on this farm, and in the construction of these buildings drew upon his knowledge as a carpenter, being skilled in this trade. After living on this farm until 1904, he retired, from active farm life, and having purchased two city lots in Royalton, built a modern, two-story brick house, in which he is now living. After renting his farm for several years, in 1911 he sold his land holdings, and is now living in quiet retirement and well-earned ease and comfort in Royalton. Mr. Lisle owns an automobile, which he drives.
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