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place. As time passed he made many improvements on the place and now owns 400 acres of land and keeps a good grade of stock. He is a member of the Norwegian Lutheran church. Mr. Erieson was married to Mary Johnson, born in Norway. They have the following children: Agnes, John, Josie, Laura (deceased), Speneer, Henry, Laura, Mabel, Martin and Leonard. Agnes married Frank Cordell, who was killed in an automobile aeeident in 1915. Josie married Bernhard Eckard, of Minneapolis.
Thomas Simmons, a progressive man of Brookfield township, was born in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada, December 29, 1852, son of William and Mary Ann (Finnemore) Simmons. Mary Finne- more Simmons died in 1893 at the age of seventy-nine years. William Simmons was a native of Cornwall, England, born August 19, 1811, son of William and Anna (Gale) Simmons, who both lived and died in England. There were five children : Hannah, William, Mary, James and John. Hannah died in England, but the rest of the children came to America. Mary died in Cobourg, Canada. William eame in 1848, coming to Quebee by sailing vessel, being six or seven weeks on the trip. He had married in England and six children were born there. He wished to found a home and chose Canada as a suitable place. He eame alone and his wife and children joined him the following year being eight weeks on the water. The children were James K .. William H., Anna Maria, John, Mary Jane, Walter G., and Eliza who died just before the family left Europe and was buried the day before they sailed. The family settled at Cobourg where the father farmed. The country back from the farm abounded in many kinds of wild game. Three more children were born here: David, Thomas and Richard. James K. had loeated a farm in Iroquois county, Illinois, and here in 1863 he was joined by the father, William, and all of the children, with the exception of William H. and Mary Jane, who remained in Canada. The father, William Simmons, lived in Illinois fourteen years until 1877 when he came to lIntehinson, McLeod county. In 1878 he moved to Renville county and made his home with Thomas where he died September 5, 1897, at the age of eighty-six years and his wife died March, 1893, at the age of seventy-nine years. They were Bible Christians in Canada and later became Methodists. He was a class leader and local preacher from 1864 up to the time of his death in 1897. In Canada he was an enthn- siastic worker in reform polities and progressive in all things. Thomas received his early education in the district school of his locality in Canada and when he grew up to manhood engaged in farming in Illinois. Then he moved to Minnesota, coming with horse team and covered wagon. He started from Loda, Iroquois county, June 3, 1875. and after six weeks arrived in Boone Lake township elose to his present place. The next year
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he obtained a homestead in section 25, Brookfield township, a tract of 80 acres of wild land. In 1876 he built a small shack for a home. In July, 1876, the grasshopper plague prevented any erops from being harvested and it was not until 1878 that he began to live permanently on the place. The house was a sod covered building with a ground floor. 8 by 10 feet, having a. bedroom 6 by 12 feet and 4 feet high, with a lean-to on the side for the children. Besides his own family the father, mother and grandmother also lived with the family in this house. They began farming with one eow and later bought oxen as horses were too expensive. They worked hard and after a number of years acquired more land. the farm now consisting of some 400 acres. Modern buildings have been built and Mr. Simmons raises good horses and cattle and keeps Duroe Red hogs, Rhode Island Red chickens and Museovy ducks. He is a stockholder of the Buffalo Lake Elevator Company, and was treasurer at the time the elevator was purchased. He was secretary of the Churchill Creamery and assisted in its organization. He is also a share- holder and president of the Boon Lake Percheron Ilorse Com- pany as well as a member of the Swine Breeders' Association. He served as township supervisor for a number of years and was school clerk for eleven years. He also was justice of peace and road overseer for a period. He was the Republican delegate to the County Convention as early as October, 1879, and is now on the State committee. In the fraternal societies Mr. Simmons is the president of the Modern Brotherhood of America and Past Grand of the I. O. O. F. Gary Lodge No. 125. He joined the Methodist Episcopal church at Buffalo Lake; Hutchinson in 1876, has been on the official board of his present church for thirty years, has been superintendent of the Sunday school, and is now a teacher in the Bible class. Mr. Simmons is a fearless advocate of the principles of temperance and is a broadminded and progressive man who has established an ideal home and enjoys life in the midst of a happy family cirele. le was married February 2, 1873. to Laura Georgiana Walker, born April 13. 1853, in Devonshire, England, daughter of George and Charlotte (Finnemore) Walker, who lived and died in England. George Walker was a marine for twenty-two years and then joined the navy, receiving a medal for long service. He died October. 1896. at the age of seventy-four years. His wife died March 30, 1895. at the age of seventy-one years. They had six children: Mary, Elizabeth. Lanra, Rosena, Adeline and Emily. Rosena and Laura came to Loda. Illinois, in 1872. Mr. and Mrs. Simmons have had the following children : William G., born September 25, 1874, is farming in Brookfield township. He married Zylphia Porter, and they have three children, Clarence Thomas, Loida Grace and Ori- wyn James. Mary Charlotte married Charles JJacobus and lives
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at Montevideo. They have three children : Henry L., Ethel I., and Ina May. Sarah E .. born October 28, 1878, married Glenn A. Kimble, and lives in Des Moines, lowa. They have seven children: Roy T .. George. Hazel D., Laura L., Frank and Charles JJ. and Martha G. Walter John. born Febru- ary 28, 1880, is at home. James Thomas, born December 4, 1882. died August 19, 1911. Charles Henry, born April 27, 1885, is at home. Nellie Florence, born March 25. 1887, is married to Albert E. Peterson, and lives at Montevideo. Ernest Ilarrison. born October 27, 1888. is at home. Laura Luella, born August 24, 1890, married Joseph F. Katzenmeyer, who is farming in Hector township. Edward Robert, born May 5, 1892. is at home. Etta May, born October 21. 1894. is at home. Roy Stanley, born November 22, 1896, is at home.
Charles Glesener, an influential citizen of Norfolk township, was born in Germany July 11. 1857, son of William and Katrina '( Willmes) Glesener. The father came to America in 1867 and lived in Illinois two years. Then he moved to Blue Earth county where he lived three years and next moved to Nicollet county where he farmed until his death, April, 1884, at the age of sixty- three years. The mother died in 1893 at the age of seventy-three years. In 1877 Charles bought 80 aeres in section 24, Norfolk township, where he still lives and now has increased his farm to 480 acres. Ilis first house was 12 by 14, made of boards with a shed roof, and had two windows of a half sash each. When he first started Farming he had one team of horses and a seeder. Now he has a full equipment of machinery and tools, carries on general farming. does considerable dairying and has forty or fifty hogs. Three hundred of his acres are under enltivation and three acres are set out in fruit. In 1903 he built a barn, 32 by 76 by 18 feet and in 1913 he built a fine twelve-room house. Mr. Glesener has served on the township board as chairman for twenty years. Ile has served as clerk of the school board for twenty-four years. He is the treasurer of the Eddsville Creamery and director and treasurer of the Farmers' Elevator Company at Bird Island. He is also director of the State Bank of Bird Island, and treasurer of the Eddsville Telephone Company. He is a member of the Catholic church and of the St. Joseph's Society of Bird Island. Jannary 4, 1880, Mr. Glesener was married to Mary Wadenspanner, born July 2, 1859. ller father, John Wadenspanner, was born in Germany, June 22, 1822. came to America in 1857 and to Minnesota in 1862, engaged in farming in section 36, Norfolk township, and died February 8. 1906. His wife, Magdelene (Fernkes) Glesener, was born May 26, 1825, and died January 9, 1908. Mr. and Mrs. Glesener have had the following children: Margaret, born April 29, 1881, married to Bernhardt Korkemeier, a farmer of Norfolk township; Magdelene,
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born August 18, 1883, married to Martin Paar; Katrina, born September 8, 1885, married J. B. Keltgen on June 24, 1912, a farmer of Judd, North Dakota; William J., born February 18, 1887, who rents the home farm, married Theresa Schummer and had one child, Walter, born June 29, 1914, and died April 5, 1915.
Leonard H. Jewell, a progressive farmer of Norfolk township, was born in Saratoga county, New York, November 10, 1842, son of Joseph HI. and Hannah (Greenfield) Jewell. His father was born February 14, 1800. in Dutchess county, New York, and became a carpenter, going to Geneva, Wisconsin, in 1846. He was deputy sheriff for six years at that place. In 1856 he went to Ontgamie county. Wisconsin. where he died March 30. 1872. The mother was born February 15, 1799, and died February 17, 1890. Leonard Jewell enlisted at Hortonville, Wisconsin, in 1862, in Company I, Third Wisconsin Cavalry, and was discharged in May. 1865. He took part in the defense at Baxter Springs at the time of Quantrell's raid on Lawrence, Kansas, and assisted in repelling his forces. He returned to Outgamie after the war and lived there from 1865 to 1888. Then he moved to Renville connty and lived in Birch Cooley township one and a half years. Next he moved to section 35 in Norfolk township, where he now lives. Ile has held the office of township assessor for two years. On November 15, 1866, Leonard Jewell was married to Martha J. Dey, who was born August 7, 1846. Her father. John Dey, was born May 17. 1825, and died December 4. 1913. He was a farmer of Outgamie county. Ile served nearly four years in Company D, Twenty-first Wisconsin Infantry, and was at Gettysburg. Look- ont Mountain and with Sherman on his March to the Sea. Ile was wounded in the hip while at Gettysburg. He was very prominent as a horticulturist and was the president of the Out- gamie Wisconsin County Fair Association, which position he held for many years. Ilis wife, Evaline (Kling), was born October 18, 1826, and died March 5, 1903. Ten children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Jewell: John H .. horn November 3. 1867, a farmer at Spooner, Wisconsin : William L., born August 28, 1869, and died July 13, 1872: George W., born January 23. 1872. a farmer in Pine county. Minnesota: Esther M .. born April 30, 1874. married to W. D. Tracy, a farmer of Hazelton, North Dakota; Elsie E .. born April 15, 1876. and died in infancy; Joseph 11., born September 22, 1877, and died April 15, 1878; Leon E., born November 22, 1879. and died May 30, 1882: James G., born January 12, 1882, at home ; Jesse M., born September 25, 1884, a farmer in Pine county. Minnesota, and Harvey L., born March 18, 1887, at home. The family are all members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Franklin.
Martin W. Paar, son of Martin and Adeline (Statz) Paar, was born in Dane county, Wisconsin, March 2. 1874. His father was
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a farmer in Germany and died in 1874 at the age of forty years. His mother is still living in Dane county at the age of seventy years. Martin Paar worked out from 1895 to 1904. Then he purchased 160 acres of land in section 14, Norfolk township. He rebuilt and remodeled the residence into a fine seven-room house and in 19II erected a barn 30 by 52 by 16 feet. He raises llol- stein eattle and has forty Yorkshire hogs, all registered. Ile also raises Belgian horses aud has White Leghorn Roseeomb chickens. Two acres of land are devoted to fruit raising and all his farm is fenced with woven wire. The farm is modern and well developed in every way and reflects much credit on its energetic owner. Mr. Paar has been the chairman of the school board for four years and is a member of the Catholic church and the St. Joseph's Society of Bird Island. He is a stockholder in the Norfolk & Pahnyra Creamery at Eddsville and also of the Farmers' Tele- phone Company at Bird Island. Mr. Paar was married April 26, 1904. to Magdelena Glesener, born August 18, 1883, daughter of Charles and Mary ( Wadenspanner) Glesener. Mr. and Mrs. Paar have one chikl. Marie Magdelene, born January 24, 1906.
Xavier Phillips, Jr., a well to do farmer of Norfolk township, was born in Bhie Earth county, Minnesota, October 9, 1867. The father, Xavier Phillips, was born at Buffalo, New York, in 1841, and served in Company D, First Minnesota Heavy Artillery. He enlisted October 18, 1864, and was discharged September 26, 1865. The regiment was ordered to Chattanooga to take charge of the heavy guns and forts of that place. Men were recruited from the country districts and it was expected that Hood would attack Chattanooga with his reorganized army. The men served on half rations and displayed great vigilanee during that period of anxiety. The mother, Frances (Kachelmeier) Phillips. died September 3, 1912, at the age of seventy years. They were mar- ried at Mankato in 1863 and had five boys and four girls. Xavier being the second oldest child. Xavier Phillips, Jr., remained at home on the farm until his marriage. Then he bought the home farm of 120 acres in section 1, Norfolk township, at which time his father moved to Bird Island, where he lived until his last illness, when he was taken to St. Joseph Hospital, where he died March 10, 1903. The subject of this sketch at once started improving the home place. He soon creeted a six-room house and in 1902 built a barn, 29 by 44 by 12, with a full basement. IIe raises Holstein cattle and has two aeres set out in fruit. He is a stockholder in the Farmers' Elevator Company in Bird Island and a member of the Catholic church and of St. Joseph's Society at Bird Island. Mr. Phillips was married May 2, 1899. to Mary Beck, born in Austria, February 15, 1880, youngest of the seven children of Joseph and Elizabeth (Bochm) Beck. Her father was a farmer of Austria and died in 1887 at
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the age of forty. Her mother died December 8. 1907, at Bird Island. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips have three children : Cecelia Maria, born September 2. 1902: Rosa Elizabeth. born August 30. 1910. and Maria Francesca, horn November 19. 1912.
Paul Revier, Sr., an eminently prosperous farmer of Norfolk township,, was born in New York, March 29, 1842. Ilis father. Gabriel Revier, was born in Canada and Farmed in New York, dying at the age of sixty-two years in 1860. His mother, Mary (Derosia ) Revier, died May 23, 1893, at the age of eighty-one years. Panl Revier, Sr., remained at home until he was twenty- five years of age, when. in 1867, he came to Renville county. homesteaded eighty acres and bought eighty acres in section 26. Norfolk township. He lived there thirteen years, then sold out and purchased 160 acres in section 34. Norfolk township. where he now owns 460 arres. When he started farming all he possessed was a team of horses. He built a frame house 14 by 20 and ent hay with a seythe. The county seat at that time was at Beaver Falls, where there was a small courthouse and three stores and a mill. When he came to Norfolk township there were only six other families there. He has improved his farm and prospered. and is a stockholder in the Citizens' Milling Company at Franklin and in the Luce Electric Line. Mr. Revier has been chairman of the township board for ten years and has served as township treasurer for five years, constable two years and assessor two years. Mr. Revier was married July 6, 1868, to Ellen MeLaughlin, born September 22, 1848, daughter of John and Isabel (Lynch ) Revier. Her father was born May 9, 1812, and came to Renville county in 1868, where he engaged in farming. He died October 22. 1899. Ilis wife was born April 4, 1816, and died January 19. 1891. Mr. and Mrs. Revier have had the following children : Jlerbert V .. born October 26, 1869. and died April 11, 1876: George, born November 29, 1871. and died June 14. 1912: Mary 1 .. born September 1, 1873. died April 8. 1876; John E., born Novem- ber 4, 1875, died October 23, 1877; William, born October 4, 1877, a farmer of Redwood county: James L., born August 1, 1879, a farmer of Redwood county; Frank J., born April 9. 1881. a farmer of North Dakota : John P., born December 25, 1882, on his father's farm in Redwood county; Frederick, born August 6, 1884, at Barrows, Minnesota: Robert, born October 23, 1885, a farmer of Birch Cooley township: Ralph, born October 23, a farmer of Birch Cooley township: Louis, born July 28, 1887, at home ; Julius, born August 22, 1888, died in infancy; Paul, Jr., born April 8, 1892, and Margaret Gallagher Revier, born June 15, 1899, adopted. The family are all members of the St. Patrick's church at Birch Cooley township. June 2, 1915, Mr. Revier rented his farm to his son Paul. Jr., purchased a one-half block and resi- dence in Franklin village and retired.
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Peter O. Olson, a successful farmer of Norfolk township, was born in Sweden, May 19, 1838, son of Ole and Bentta (Pearson) Oison. The father was a farmer of Sweden, who died April 12, 1852, at the age of fifty-nine years. The mother was born in 1804 and died in 1894. Peter O. Olson came to America in 1867 and worked in Paxton, Illinois, for four years. He worked as a tailor in San Francisco two and a half years and in St. Paul for seven years. In 1891 he purchased 167 acres of land in section 19, Norfolk township, where he still lives. He began with one cow and twelve chickens. His first house was 12 by 16 feet and he suffered many hardships in the early days of his farming. In 1902 he built a barn 36 by 48 by 14 with a seven-foot base- ment. In 1906 he built a seven-room house and in 1914 a silo of a capacity of 125 tons. Mr. Olson is a prominent man in the com- munity and is a stockholler in the Farmers' elevator and cream- ery at Olivia. Peter Olson was married September 6, 1883. to Pannilla Olson, who was born in Sweden, November 5, 1848, and came to America in 1880. This union has been blessed with three children: Osear Olaf, who died at the age of fourteen months, and Alvin and Edward. Alvin and Edward have operated the home farm for the past five years under the name of the Olson Brothers.
Olson Brothers. Alvin and Edward Olson carry on extensive farming and stockraising operations under the firm of Olson Brothers. Their specialty is feeding cattle. On the home farm is a herd of about sixty, about thirty of which are fed on ensilage. There is also a herd of about sixty Duroc Jersey and Poland China hogs and about thirty are fed in addition. The raising of Perch- eron horses is another specialty. One of the features of the farm is a two-aere orchard set in apples and small fruits. In addi- tion to the home place in Norfolk township, which is under the direct supervision of Alvin Olson, the brothers own a fine farm of 160 aeres in Meeker county, which is under the direct super- vision of Edward Olson. Both are stockholders in the Farmers' State Bank, at Olivia. Peter Olson is a stockholder in the cream- ery and Farmers' Elevator at Olivia.
Delbert G. Avery, a successful farmer of Norfolk township. was born in Ontario, Canada, May 12, 1861. His father, Benja- min Avery, was a blacksmith in Canada and died in 1890, at the age of sixty-four years. His mother, Christina (Cameron) Avery, died in 1891, at the age of sixty-four years. Delbert came to the United States in 1886 and lived in Michigan for a few years. Then he came to Menominee, Wis., where he lived one year. Later he lived in Minneapolis. At one time he was foreman in a lumber camp. In 1891 he bought 160 acres in section 8. southwest quarter of Norfolk township, where he still lives. Ile now owns 240 acres and has built a niee six-room house. In 1913
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he built a very fine barn, 36 by 80 by is, with a cement base- ment. There are stanchions for twenty cows and room For sixteen horses, the hay loft having a capacity of 100 tons. A silo was built in 1912 with a capacity of seventy-five tons. Mr. Avery raises Poland China hogs and Shorthorn cattle and carries ou dairying. He has five aeres of fruit land. Mr. Avery has served as township constable for five years and as school treasurer for twenty-one years. He is a stockholder in the Farmers' Ele- vator Company, at Olivia and at Bird Island, and in the Edda- ville Creamery. He is a member of the Catholic church at Olivia and the C. O. F., at Morton. On April 16, 1894, Mr. Avery was married to Annie Ederer and the following children were born . Florence Christina, born JJanuary 29, 1895, and died September 5, 1895; Irene Grace, born March 8. 1897, and died October 2. 1902; Maurice Raymond, born May 18, 1899; Vineent Felix, born January 1, 1902: Delbert Irenaeus, born March 3, 1904, and Ger- ard Henry, born January 28, 1911.
Thomas H. Tisdell, one of the successful farmers of Norfolk township, was born in Dakota county. Minnesota, February 7. 1865, son of Henry and Elizabeth (Connelly ) Tisdell. Henry Tisdell was born in Ireland in 1837 and came to America in 1852. In 1859 he was married at St. Louis to Elizabeth Connelly, who was born in London, England, in 1840, came to America as a young girl, lived in Cohoes, New York, for a while, and in 1854 came to Minnesota to keep house for her brothers. After their marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Tisdell lived for a while in Savage, Minne- sota. Later they came to Birch Cooley township, where they homesteaded land in section 10 and purchased land in section 16. They had many interesting experiences. Their first house, built with sloping walls, in the form of a letter A. had the appearance of a roof set on the ground. With the years they prospered and became leading people in the community. In 1910 they retired. Then they moved to Northfield, Min., residing there until May, 1913, when they moved to Lakeville, Minn., at which place Mrs. Tisdell died, July 10. 1913, at the age of seventy-three years, after an illness of three weeks duration. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tisdell had ten children, six boys and four girls. Thomas Tisdell bought 80 acres in section 29, Norfolk township, in 1886 and has enlarged and improved his farm until he now owns 440 aeres. In 1892 he built a fine seven-room house and in 1913 a barn, 36 by 70 by 12 feet, with basement and hip roof. He raises Poland China and Chester White hogs and is a stockholder in the Farm- ers' Elevator Company at Morton and also in the Morton Rural Telephone Company. He has served on the township board for nine years and has been treasurer of the school board for nine years. Ile is a member of the Catholic church. Mr. Tisdell was married to Ellen Lorden, January 28, 1896. She was born Sep-
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tember 20. 1873, daughter of Dennis and Mary (Connelly) Lor den. Dennis Lorden was born in Ireland, March, 1815, and re- mained there until he was twenty-three years of age, when he immigrated to Rochester, Min. He was one of the first settlers in the township of Palmyra, Renville county, and has lived on his farm in Birch Cooley since 1878. He was married in 1872 to Mary Connelly, and they are the parents of five children : Ellen, Katie, Mary and Sarah, and one child who died. Mrs. Lorden died May 18, 1912. Mr. and Mrs. Tisdell have nine chil- dren : Mary, born February 2, 1897 : Helena, born June 12, 1899; Veronica, born January 27. 1901 : Clarence, born December 12, 1902; Francis, born March 28, 1903: Alice, born July 12, 1901 : Mande, born March 30, 1906; Thomas, born December 7, 1907; and Elizabeth, born February 7, 1910.
Anthony V. Haubrich, a well known farmer of Norfolk town- ship, was born in Flora township, Renville county, June 13, 1884. The father, Anton Haubrich, was born in Germany and eame to America in 1862, purchased 80 aeres in section 12, Flora town- ship, and now owns 320 acres. The mother, Mary (Weisenrather) Haubrich, died in 1903, at the age of forty-six years. Anthony V. Haubrich has rented the Kennedy farm since 1907. In 1910 he rebuilt the house and in 1914 built a fine barn, 40 by 64 by 14. He raises Durham cattle and Poland China hogs. He is a mem- ber of the Catholic church at Olivia. On October 1, 1907, Mr. Haubrich was married to Katherine Anna Kennedy, born Novem- ber 16, 1884, the only child of William Kennedy, who died May 27. 1913, at the age of sixty-two years. William Kennedy was born in Canada and in 1880 seenred a homestead of 160 acres in section 18. Norfolk township, where he lived until his death. His parents were Patrick and Anna Kennedy. He was married August 7. 1883. to Bridget Dunnigan, born January 14. 1851. Her father and mother were James and Bridget (Gannon Dun- nigan. Mr. and Mrs. Haubrich have two children, Mary Mar- garet, born March 18, 1910, and Edmund Vincent, born September 2, 1912.
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