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Joseph Parker, retired farmer of Sauk Centre, was born in Erie county, New York, September 4, 1842, son of William and Ann (Fullam) Parker who brought their family first to Wisconsin and then to Minnesota. As a youth Joseph Parker devoted considerable attention to farming. In 1863, he en- listed in Company A, Ninth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry and served two years and four months. This started a series of adventures which extended over many years. After leaving the army, he started work on the old over- land freight route between St. Paul and Winnipeg. It was in this employ that he first came to Sauk Centre. Later he accompanied many expeditions to the Northwest, sometimes as a soldier, and sometimes in charge of wagon trains.
MR. AND MRS. DAVID PANGBURN
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It was in 1873 that Mr. Parker gave up his life as a frontiersman, married, and settled down as a pioneer in Ashley township, this county. Starting with a wild tract of eighty acres, he erected a small log shanty, and began his career as a prosperous farmer. He increased his holdings, until he now owns 240 acres, equipped with modern buildings, and suitable equipment. He was chairman of the board of supervisors sixteen years, and also served in other town positions as well as in school office. He has been a Democrat nearly all his life but for a time was associated with the farmers' move- ments which flourished under such names as the Grange, the Anti-Monopo- lists, the Greenbackers and the Populists. He has ably filled the chair as commander of the B. R. Palmer Post, No. 4, G. A. R., of Sauk Centre. Mr. Parker married Ella Stewart, a native of Wisconsin, and a daughter of George Stewart, an early settler of Stearns county. Mr. and Mrs. Parker have five children : Henry, Roscoe, Joseph, Bessie and Orick. Henry is a representa- tive farmer of Sauk Centre township; Roscoe lives in Minneapolis; Bessie is now Mrs. Arthur W. Bierman, of Northfield, Minn .; Orick is in the Coast Ar- tillery at California, as a soldier in the regular army.
William Parker was born in New Jersey, of English descent. He mar- ried Ann Fullam, of Irish blood. After their marriage they settled in New York. Later they went to Florida, where Mr. Parker was engaged in the campaign against the Indians for two years. After the Indian troubles there were over, they returned to New York. In 1861 the family came to Minnesota and located in Rochester, making the trip from the Mississippi by means of a team of horses. William Parker died in 1865, outliving his wife about a year. William Parker was the father of Henrietta, born in Florida; James, Catherine, Henry, Mary and Joseph, born in Wisconsin; and Emma, Harriet, Sylvia and Abslom, born in Minnesota. Henrietta married Henry Home, of Wisconsin, now deceased. She makes her home in Sauk Centre, with her brother, Joseph. James served during the Civil War, in the First Wisconsin Cavalry and in Hancock's Veteran Corps. He is now in the Soldiers' Home, at Milwaukee, Wis. Catherine and her husband, William Barry, both of Sauk Centre, are dead. Henry was killed by a threshing machine. Mary Ann and her husband, Andrew Whitehead, are both dead. Joseph lives in Sauk Centre. Emma is the wife of Lorenzo Bennett, and lives in Rochester, Minn. Harriett is the wife of Clark Case, of Sauk Centre. Sylvia is the wife of James Smith, of Rochester, Minn. Absolom was killed at Spokane Falls, Wash.
David Pangburn, retired brick manufacturer, living in Sauk Centre, was born in Scotland, New York, August 27, 1832, son of James D. and Polly (Houck) Pangburn. He received his education in his native state, and there grew to manhood. It was in 1856 that he came to Minnesota, and located at Nininger, in Dakota county. In 1861 he came to Stearns county, and took a claim in Sauk Centre township. In 1864 he located here permanently, and engaged in farming. Soon afterward, he went into making brick. Later he bought the large farm on which the present plant is located. It is on the shore of Sauk Lake, just over the line in Todd county. Here he has carried on general farming and done a large business in brickmaking. Being on
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the shore of the lake he has been able to raft his bricks, and then tow the rafts to Sauk Centre with his barge. The bricks, both red and gray are in wide favor, and nearly all the buildings in Sauk Centre and Melrose are constructed from them. Since dividing his farm among his sons, Mr. Pang- burn has purchased a home in Sauk Centre, where he will spend his declining years in well deserved rest after a busy life filled with successful endeavor. . He has been an active man in everything that had for its object the progress and betterment of the community, and for several years he served as super- visor of Sauk Centre township. Although eight-two years of age he is still hale and hearty. Every fall he goes on hunting expeditions to the pine woods, and never fails to bring home a good bag of game.
David Pangburn was married May 9, 1854, to Hattie P. Davenport, born in Saratoga county, New York, January 25, 1835. They have had eleven children : George N., born December 3, 1856; Hattie A., February 22, 1858; Fred L., August 4, 1859; William E., March 31, 1861; Frances A., September 30, 1862; Arthur M., September 10, 1864; Reginald H., May 4, 1866; James B., November 17, 1867; David A., June 16, 1869; Elmer F., March 20, 1871 (died June 18, 1873) ; and Edwin F., born May 15, 1874.
James D. Pangburn came to Sauk Centre in 1866 and took a homestead. He lived to see himself the founder of one of the largest families in this vicin- ity. In 1882, after a long life, filled with useful accomplishments, he died at the good old age of eighty years.
Mr. Pangburn married Polly Houck, a native of New York state. She died in 1898 at the age of ninety years. In the family there are ten children : Margaret, Nicholas, David, Magdalena, Julia, Paulina, Hiram, William, Henry and Frank S. It is a fact worthy of note that Margaret, the oldest of these children, is still living, at the age of ninety years.
Arthur M. Pangburn was born September 10, 1864, son of David and Hattie P. (Davenport) Pangburn. He is engaged in farming in Todd county, just over the line from Sauk Centre township. Arthur M. Pangburn was first married to Della Fredinburg. After her death he married Lizzie Knudson.
D. A. Pangburn was born in Sauk Centre township, June 16, 1869, son of David and Hattie P. (Davenport) Pangburn. He is a mason by trade and does general contracting and building. Mr. Pangburn married Agnes Diebel, and they have five children : Hazel H., May, Earl, Edith and Marie, all born in Sauk Centre. The family faith is that of the Congregational Church.
William Pangburn, one of the respected citizens of Sauk Centre, was born in New York state, May 12, 1836, and was there reared to young man- hood. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted, and was in the service throughout that bloody conflict, being confined in a southern prison fourteen months of that time. He was discharged at Madison, Wisconsin, after which he came West, reaching Sauk Centre May 12, 1865. He took up a homestead in Sauk Centre township, broke the land, erected suitable buildings, and car- ried on general farming until 1879, when he moved to the city. He has been a member of the city council for sixteen years, and is now serving another two-year term. For one term he was president of the council. He is treasurer of Palmer Post, No. 40, G. A. R., and a member of the I. O. O. F. William
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Pangburn married Ella Barnard, and they have seven children: Minnie, Frank T., Josie, Maude, Jessie, Ralph and Leon. The parents of William Pangburn were James D. and Polly (Houck) Pangburn.
George Pangburn was born in St. Paul, December 3, 1856, son of David and Hattie P. (Davenport) Pangburn. He is engaged in farming and brick- making with his father. George Pangburn married Julia Henderson, of Eagle Bend, Minn. They have five children: Ray, Lucy, Eva, Lester and Alice.
Ray C. Pangburn was born in Sauk Centre, July 24, 1884. After at- tending school he learned the trade of mason, which he has since followed. He lives over the line in Todd county. Ray C. Pangburn married Mary Knott, and they have three children: Howard, Lawrence and Irene.
Frank T. Pangburn was born in Sauk Centre township, December 14, 1871, son of William and Ella (Barnard) Pangburn. He attended the public schools and also had the advantages of courses in the Pioneer Business School, of Sauk . Centre. For some years after attaining the years of maturity, he devoted his life to farming. For a time he was identified with the L. S. Bishop Co. of Sauk Centre. Mr. Pangburn is a great believer in education, and served for a time on the school board of one of the rural districts. He is a member of the Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen. Frank T. Pangburn married Margaret E. Johnson, of Grove Lake, Minnesota. They have two children.
J. B. Schoenhoff was born in Germany, October 8, 1868, and came to America in the middle of 1885. He lived in Spring Hill township, Meier Grove and Melrose, all in this state, before coming to Sauk Centre. A mason by trade, he has also done considerable farming for seven years. For about five years he was in the restaurant business, and for something like a similar period conducted a laundry. He is at present running a first-class saloon, the best in the state. He belongs to the Catholic Order of Foresters, and to the G. R. K. Benevolent Society of Minnesota; also, for the last ten years local agent for the National Casualty Co., the best sick and accident company in the state of Minnesota. Has lived in the city of Sauk Centre 22 years. He is a live member of the Commercial Club and Stearns County Fair Asso- ciation.
Mr. Schoenhoff first married Catherine Wulfekuhle, now deceased. No children by first wife. His present wife is Annie Walcher. In the family are five children: Leo, Anthony, Bernard, Richard and Robert. Two girls are dead.
J. A. Schoenhoff was born in Germany in 1875, and has lived in Sauk Centre about twenty-one years. He is a popular man in the community, is secretary of the local lodge of the Catholic Order of Foresters, and is active in the St. Joseph Benevolent Society.
Mr. Schoenhoff married Magdalena Schaefer, of Albany, Minn., and they have three children: Valarian B. and Julia E. and Mary Magdalene. Mrs. Schoenhoff comes of an old Stearns county family. Her father was born in St. Cloud, and is now living in Albany, in this county. By his first wife, Julia Schultz, he had twelve children : Magdaline, Julia, Carl, Thomas, Henry,
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Leo, Anton, Otto, Joseph, George, Roman and Genevieve. By his second wife, Magdaline Marshall, he had six children: Richard, Celestine, Carl, Edmond, Gertrude and Margaret.
Harry Allen, mason, of Sauk Centre, was born here December 9, 1886. He belongs to the Bricklayers' Union and the Ancient Order of United Work- men. John Allen, also a mason, the father of Harry Allen, was born in Penn- sylvania, July 12, 1851, and came to Minnesota in 1887. He married Maria Schaefer, and they had five children: Harry, Howard, Kate, Benjamin and Alice.
Isaac Allen, grandfather of Harry Allen, was a mason by trade, and lived in Pennsylvania. He married Hannah Clemmons, and they had eleven children, of whom there are still living four: Garrett, Rebecca, Anna and John.
John Boutell, proprietor of the Palmer House Buffet, Sauk Centre, was born in Woodstock, Canada, December 18, 1862, and came to Sauk Centre from Wapington, North Dakota, in 1890. He is one of the clean-cut, intelli- gent men of the city, has served on the city council for some time, and be- longs to the Eagles, the Red Men, and the Sauk Centre Commercial Club.
John Boutell married Mary Mccarthy, of Benson, Swift county, Minne- sota, and they have one son, who graduated from the University of Minne- sota in 1913.
Alice C. Cawley, who with her two daughters, Marie and Eveline, is con- ducting the millinery establishment long owned by Mrs. Swift, came to Sauk Centre from Big Stone county, Minnesota, where her husband, Mr. Cawley, died in 1906. Mrs. Cawley's father was Matthew Smith, and her mother was Marie Loubier. In the family were eight children: May, Lucy, Alice C., Ellen, John, Jean, George and Gilbert.
J. H. Simonton, pioneer journalist, agriculturist and business man, was born in Perry county, Penn., Nov. 15, 1840, son of Dr. Thomas and Elizabeth (Baxter) Simonton. He attended school in his native county, and at the age of twelve years moved with his parents to Wilmington, Ill., where he com- pleted his education. He came to Minnesota in 1857, and learned the printer's trade. He was interested in newspaper work in Sauk Rapids and St. Cloud. In 1866 he sold his interest in the St. Cloud "Times," to N. F. Barnes and went to St. Paul where he worked in the office of the "Pioneer." In the spring of 1867 he came to Sauk Centre. On June 6, 1867, J. H. Simonton started the Sauk Centre "Herald." This paper was printed on the first press ever brought to Minnesota, formerly the property of James M. Goodhue, who on April 28, 1849, printed, at St. Paul, the "Minnesota Pioneer," the first paper ever printed in the territory. Mr. Simonton was soon joined by his brother, Samuel Simonton, and the paper was published by them jointly until August, 1879, when it was sold to Charles F. Hendryx. When J. H. Simonton retired from newspaper work, he took up farming for a few years. Then he became a groceryman in Sauk Centre, continuing this business for over two decades. The members of the younger generations who were not alive during his newspaper career, remember him best as the genial grocer. Some nine years ago he sold out to McCracken & Burgess and retired. Mr.
MR. AND MRS. MATHIAS WANISH
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Simonton is a prominent man in the community, and for some time was secre- tary of the Sauk Centre Business Men's Association which is not now in existence. He is a charter member of the Star in the West Lodge, No. 60, A. F. & A. M., of Sauk Centre. A Republican in politics, he was assessor for twenty years. At various time he has also served in other positions of public trust and private honor.
Mr. Simonton was married in 1870 to Jennie M. Stabler, and they have had six children. Benjamin P. lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Frank E. lives in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada; Mildred E. resides at home; Wil- liam A., Alfred and an unnamed infant are deceased.
Alfred Talbot Watson, of the Central Minnesota Power and Milling Co., was born in England, April 25, 1859, son of Richard and Louisa (Talbot) Watson, the former of whom traced his ancestry back to 1580, and the latter of whom was of traditional Norman blood. Alfred T. came to America in 1881, and from Owatonna, Minn., went to Waseca, a few miles away. Then he located in Paynesville, in Stearns county. He became a prominent man and was elected the first recorder of New Paynesville. He assisted in organiz- ing the Protestant Episcopal Church, he and his wife being two of the original five members. In 1899 he came to Sauk Centre. He has been identified with the Northwestern Radiator Co., and with the Keller Manufacturing Co. His present position dates back some three or four years. Mr. Watson is a member of the Odd Fellows, the M. B. A. and the A. O. U. W. He is senior warden of the Sauk Centre Protestant Episcopal Church. Mr. Watson was married August 8, 1883, to Mary Lee, a native of New Jersey, a daughter of the Englishman, James Lee, who brought his family to Owatonna in 1863. Mr. and Mrs. Watson have two children. Mary C. graduated from the Illinois Women's College at Jacksonville, Ill., in 1914, receiving the degree of B. S. in domestic science. Marguerita L. is a student at the same school.
Mathias Wanish, a retired farmer of Sauk Centre, was born in Bohemia, February 24, 1840, second son of Frank and Mary Wanish, who in 1854, set- tled in Manitowoc, Wis., with four children, Frank, Mathias, Anna and Rachael. In 1862, Mathias enlisted in Company F, Twenty-sixth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and served three years, following the fortunes of that regiment throughout the Civil War. After the war he returned to the home of his parents. In 1868, he came to Sauk Centre, and secured a farm on the southern line of the township. At first he built a log cabin, and cultivated a small piece of land. Prosperity came with the years, and in time he be- came the owner of 400 acres of valuable land. About twenty-five years ago he and his wife retired and moved to the village of Sauk Centre, where they now make their home. Mr. Wanish is a member of Palmer Post, No. 40, G. A. R., of Sauk Centre. Mr. Wanish was married June 28, 1867, to Mary Yench, born in Bohemia, February 20, 1850. To them have been born nine children : Libbie, Mary, Rose, Joseph, Anna, Mary, Mathias, Emma and Hattie. Libbie is dead. She was born April 28, 1868, married Joseph Ring- smith, and left five children : Mabel, Leo, Pearl, Pauline and Mathias. Mary died in infancy. Rose was born April 1, 1873, married Herman Donart, and is the mother of four children: Carl, Paul, Helene and Anna Virginia. Joseph
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was born February 22, 1875, and is now farming at Great Falls, Montana. He married Mary Appel and they have three children: Harry, Lillian and Olive. Anna was born April 16, 1877. She married Harry Leisen, and they live in Chicago. Mary was born July 3, 1880. She married Samuel Kendrick, and they live in San Diego, California. Mathias was born June 1, 1882, and lives in Seattle, Wash. Emma was born August 15, 1884, and married James Mathies. They live in Sauk Centre and have four children: James, Elvira, Leonard and Pearl. Hattie died in infancy.
Josiah Wood, a retired farmer of Sauk Centre, and a veteran of the Civil War, was born in Ephrata, Montgomery county, New York, September 2, 1828, son of Gardner and Fannie (Cook) Wood, who moved in 1840 to Dodge county, Wis., where they spent the remainder of their days. Josiah was brought to Wisconsin by his parents, but at the age of fifteen started out to see the world, going first to Illinois, and then back to New York. Later he again came to Wisconsin. He spent his early life as a teacher. In 1861 he located with his wife's people in Blue Earth county, Minn., and on December 24, 1863, he enlisted in Company E, Second Minnesota Volunteer Infantry. He followed the career of that regiment, and was mustered out, November 22, 1865. In March, 1866, he brought his family to Sauk Centre. For a time, they lived in a stockade which had been erected for the protection of the settlers against the Indians. He acquired a farm of 160 acres, one mile and a half west of Sauk Centre, and combined farming with school teaching. By hauling lumber from Sauk Centre with an ox-team, he was enabled to build a large frame house which was one of the show places of the early days. His hard work won success and in time he added eighty more acres to his place. In the late eighties he retired and moved to Sauk Centre village, where he has since resided. Mr. and Mrs. Wood are members of the Seventh Day Adventist Church.
Mr. Wood was married in 1861, to Naomi S. Cooper, who was born in Cataraugus county, New York, July 21, 1842, a daughter of Ezra and Theresa (Armes) Cooper, who came to Wisconsin in 1829, and to Blue Earth county, Minn., in 1861. Mr. and Mrs. Wood had three children: C. A., Amy T. and Grace. Amy T. is the wife of H. J. Hagen, a banker of Fargo; Grace died at the age of six years. C. A. Wood lives on a farm near Grey Eagle and Josiah Wood and wife are now living near him on the same farm.
William Carl Woodruff was born in Spencer township, Tioga county, New York, December 5, 1836, son of John S. and Nancy (Cowell) Woodruff. He lost his father when he was twelve years of age, at which time the family was living in Illinois. When the Civil War was raging, the subject of this sketch enlisted, in 1864, in Company C, 146th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of the conflict. Upon his return from the army he was employed in engineering and construction work in the vicinity of Pecatonica, Illinois. In 1869 he came to Minnesota, and secured 160 acres of land in Faribault county. Later he came to Sauk Centre, where he continued to engage in construction work. He has a pleasant home on the outskirts of the village, and is highly regarded in the community. Mr. Woodruff is an enthusiastic member of B. R. Palmer Post, G. A. R., of Sauk Centre.
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William Carl Woodruff was married at Freeport, Ill., October 3, 1859, to Huldah Jones, born October 22, 1840, daughter of Livingston and Hannah (Woodward) Jones. Mr. and Mrs. William Carl Woodruff have had nine children. Isaac was born November 8, 1862, and died June 23, 1903; Niles was born December 12, 1863, and died January 20, 1864; Jay was born April 3, 1865, and died March 2, 1894; Ralph was born March 18, 1867, and died April 1, 1869; Harry was born November 20, 1869, and now lives in Mil- waukee; William was born March 28, 1872, and died December 6, 1893; Alta was born June 14, 1874; Belle was born August 3, 1876; Joey was born June 17, 1878, and died September 15, 1878. Alta married Hugh Watson of Minneapolis. They have two children: Harry, born December 10, 1897; and Robert, born December 21, 1902. Belle married R. W. Borland, of Sauk Centre, and they have two daughters, Alta, born December 8, 1905; Alberta, born January 23, 1913.
John S. Woodruff was born in Connecticut about 1802, the son of Isaac Woodruff. He was married in New York state in 1827 to Nancy Cowell, the daughter of Abram and Elizabeth Cowell. Some years after their mar- riage, Mr. and Mrs. John S. Woodruff located in Illinois, and took up land one and a half miles west of Rockford, on the state road. He died suddenly in 1848 in Chicago, to which city he had gone to sell some wheat and pur- chase some lumber. His wife was left with six children. Later in life she married Henry Mease. At the time of her death, January 16, 1890, she had reached the good old age of eighty years. The children of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Woodruff are as follows. An unnamed child was born May 13, 1828, and died in infancy. Lewis was born November 20, 1830, and died October 22, 1840. Harvey was born August 4, 1833, and was killed in a well on the farm, August 12, 1849. William Carl, the subject of this mention, was born De- cember 5, 1836, and lives in Sauk Centre. Lydia was born July 22, 1840. She married George LaFollette, and died December 29, 1877. Isaac was born June 21, 1843, and died December 25, 1883. He was a veteran of the Civil War. John was born February 15, 1847, enlisted in the Twelfth Illinois Cav- alry, and died in service, April 1, 1865.
Abram Cowell was born May 4, 1781, and Elizabeth, his wife, was born April 16, 1783. Their children were: John, born January 10, 1803; Deborah, January 30, 1805; Diana, March 13, 1807; Nancy, July 23, 1809; Anna, Feb- ruary 8, 1812; Joseph, October 7, 1814; Lorena, February 23, 1817; Mary, July 18, 1820; Chauncey, June 24, 1822.
Livingston Jones was born in Rockland county, New York, son of Ben- jamin and Mary Jones, February 2, 1812. He died February 19, 1894. He was married February 2, 1835, to Hannah Woodward (later shortened to Woodard), the daughter of Joseph and Rachael (Towner) Woodward. Han- nah (Woodward) Jones was born in Bath, Steuben county, New York, April 22, 1818, and died November 27, 1912. Livingston and Hannah (Woodward) Jones had the following children: Mary, born December 15, 1836; Rachael, July 23, 1838; Huldah, October 22, 1840; Rosetta, February 8, 1842; Win- field Scott, January 30, 1845; Patience, July 3, 1848; Hannah, July 2, 1849.
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Benjamin Jones, the son of Isaac Jones, was born September 5, 1786, and died March 26, 1872. His wife Mary was born in 1790 and died May 18, 1853. They were the parents of nine children: Absalom, born March 3, 1910; Livingston, February 2, 1812; Erastus, born December 14, 1814; Erantus, born August 22, 1817; Wakefield, born May 2, 1821; Pierson, July 12, 1824; Ralph, September 8, 1826; Benjamin and Mary. Isaac Jones had the follow- ing children: Joseph, born December 12, 1775; John, born April 24, 1777; Abraham, born November 14, 1781; Timothy, born January 11, 1784; Benja- min, born September 5, 1786; Sarah, born March 31, 1792; and Isaac, born November 3, 1798. Joseph Woodward married Rachael Towner, the daugh- ter of John Towner. Their children were as follows: Lovisa, December 2, 1793; Esther, April 29, 1795; Eunice, September 28, 1796; Rachael, July 17, 1798; Sarah, August 20, 1800; Joseph, April 29, 1802; Abram, April 13, 1804; Anna, December 25, 1806; William, October 9, 1807; Alva, July 28, 1809; Susan, December 25, 1811; Tamar, June 8, 1813; John, May 7, 1815; Hannah, April 22, 1818.
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