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Mr. Dahl is well qualified For the high position he occupies and his official work has won universal commendation. He saw pioneer life in the villages of Beaver Falls, Hector, and Fairfax, and has been actively identified with the growth of Bird Island. Ihr is
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affable and approachable and well liked and highly esteemed by all with whom he comes in contact.
August Prelwitz, of Hector township, was born in Germany, February 20, 1842, son of August and Wilhelmina (Buske) Prelwitz, both natives of Germany. He came with them to Wis- consin in 1854, and after they had come to Minnesota he remained in that state and sent them money to buy food and to secure their claim.
At the outbreak of the Civil War he answered the first call for three-year men and in 1861 enlisted in Company A, 13th Wis. Vol. Inf. Ile was mustered in at Janesville, Wis., and was sent to Little Rock, Ark., serving nine months. He was honor- ably discharged at Leavenworth, Kans., for disability, and re- turned to Wisconsin, so crippled that he was seareely able to walk. Three months later he came to Minnesota and remained on the homestead of his parents in MeLeod county until the next summer. He then worked on farms summers and in the winter worked in the woods. Later he obtained a piece of land in MeLeod county and in 1873 sold this' and came to Renville county where he located a claim of 160 acres and also a tree claim of 160 aeres in section 29, Hector township, close to what is now the village of Hector. Later he added 40 aeres more of railroad land, part of his farm now being within the village of flector. The county was all wild prairie land at that time. He built a shanty 8 by 10 feet, where he lived alone for some time and broke the land by ox team. His market was at Minne- apolis until Glencoe was established, then the terminus of the railroad. Later he built a house 18 by 24 feet. Fuel was very scarce and twisted hay was burned in the sheet iron stove. In 1904 he built a modern house in the suburbs of Hector on the l'arm where he and his wife enjoy life together. Their farm is rented. Mr. Prelwitz helped organize the Farmers' Elevator Company at Hector, and was a member of the first board of directors, an office which he still holds. He also helped organize school district No. 63. He helped to form the Catholic parish, and was one of its trustees. Mr. Prelwitz was married July 12, 1882, to Ama Garske, born May 8, 1859, in Germany, daughter of Stephen and Anna (Schultz) Garske. Mr. and Mrs. Prelwitz have opened their home to a number of children. Their adopted son, George, was born October 15, 1894.
August Prelwitz, Sr., an honored pioneer of MeLeod county, this state, was born in Germany, and there married Wilhelmina Buske. In Germany there were born four children: August, Julia, Joseph (who later died in Wisconsin) and Peter. The family started for America in 1854, and after a long, tedions voyage of twelve weeks aboard a sailing vessel landed at New York harbor. They eame as far as Chieago by rail, thenee to
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Milwaukee by boat, and thence by team, first to Watertown, Wis., and then to Rock county, in that state, where they remained for several years. In the late fifties they located on a homestead in MeLeod county, this state. Here they underwent all the trials and privations of pioneer life. Times were so hard and food was so scarce that had not their son, Angust, then working in Wisconsin, sent them money, they would have been compelled to leave the country. At one time when the family was in actual need of nourishment, the father walked eight miles to a neigh- bor's. traversing the wilderness and fording the Crow river. He obtained some corn, ground two bushels in a large hand mill, and started home with the sack on his back. In fording the Crow river on this return journey he was nearly drowned. As time passed they prospered, built up a fine farm, erected good build- ings and acquired a competence. Both reached the good okl age of eighty-two years, August Prelwitz dying some twenty-five years ago and his wife some thirteen years ago. In addition to the children they brought from Germany, four. Joseph, Otilia, Agnes and Matilda, were born in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Stephen Garske, an estimable early settler of Mcleod county. this state, was born in Germany and there married Anna Schultz. They started for the United States in 1861, bringing their four children, Mary. Frank, August and Anna. After spending thir- teen weeks on the water they reached Quebec, and then settled in Dane county, near Madison, Wis. Four years later they came to McLeod county and settled on a homestead of 160 acres. Ile has now reached the advanced age of eighty-five years and she eighty-two years. In addition to the children born in Germany. they have four children, Agnes, Rosalia, Matilda and Albert, born in the United States. Mr. and Mrs. Garske are among the noble people who have helped to make Minnesota what it is. When they first settled in McLeod county they lived in a brush shanty, and the rain and wind and cold and storm found their way in through the crevices. Oftentimes they had to go eighteen miles after provisions. As the years passed they prospered. became snecessful farmers, and won high regard.
Benjamin F. Sheppard was born in Boon Lake township. Renville county. August 13, 1867, being the first male child born in the township. He received his early education in the district schools, attended Hutchison high school one year, and entered the Mankato high school, graduating in 1889. He taught for eighteen years, all in distriet schools of Renville county, ex- cept one year in the graded schools at Fairfax, and five years which he taught in Hubbard county while living and proving up on a homestead which he took in 1895. In 1900 he returned to Boon Lake township and took up farming on his father's old homestead of 273 acres on the shores of Allie Lake. He breeds
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Holstein-Fresian cattle, five of his herd being thoroughbreds and registered. He has served as town clerk, justice of the peace and on the school board. He is a stockholder and director in Boon Lake Co-operative Creamery Association and is secretary of the Equity Elevator & Trading Co., of Buffalo Lake. He was mar- ried January 1, 1890, to Evalena Braithwait. They have five chil- dren : Marjorie E., Ralph B., Ross, Ray and Harry R.
Christian H. Reuber, a progressive farmer of Hector town- ship, was born in Ontario, Can., September 5, 1862, son of Val- entine and Catherine (Bouelander) Reuber. Valentine Reuber was a farmer in Germany and came to Ontario, Can., where he continued in the same work, later coming to the United States, settling first in Preston, Fillmore county, this state, and then in Dakota county. He spent his last days with his son Christian in Renville county, where he died September 25, 1908, at the age of eighty-eight years, four months and fourteen days. He was a member of the German Evangelical church and helped to estab- lish this church at Preston, and at Millbank, S. D. Mrs. Cath- erine (Bouelander) Reuber died February 24, 1877. In the family there were eight children of whom there are living Dora, Chris- tian, Margaret and Christina. John and Adam and two infants are dead. Christian Reuber was educated in the log and frame schools of his neighborhood in Fillmore county. Then he en- gaged in the carpenter trade, going first to St. Paul and then to South Dakota. In 1888 he came to Hector and engaged in build- ing. From 1891 to 1901 he spent his autumns in the threshing business. In 1898 he purchased 80 acres in section 18, Hector township, on which a crude shanty had been erected. From time to time he added to this tract until he owned a half a seetion. He has sold some of it, however, and his farm now consists of 200 acres, 120 aeres in section 18 and 80 acres in section 19. His residence, which is about one and a half miles west of Hector on the "Yellow Trail" from the Twin Cities to Watertown, S. D., is sightly and comfortable, and his barns are commodious and adequate. He carries on general farming and makes a specialty of raising Shorthorn cattle, Chester White hogs, and graded Norman and Clyde horses. Mr. Reuber is president of the Hector Creamery Co., and was formerly vice-president of the Farmers' Grain Exchange of Hector. He has been a member of the school board of his distriet for ten or twelve years, and also chairman of the Associated School Board. He was chairman of Hector township for six years and took great interest in the affairs of the county. He is a member of the M. B. A. and also of the A. O. U. W. Mr. Reuber was married May 31, 1893, to Kate M. Stengle, born December 27, 1872, daughter of Rev. C. W. Stengle, a Moravian minister, and Christina (Shoemaker) Stengle, both natives of Germany. They came to the United States as chil-
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dren and married in New York City and then he took up his calling, dying at Monmouth, Ore., 1914, at the age of seventy- two years. llis first wife died at Northfield, Minn., 1877, at the age of thirty-two years. He married again, his widow now living in Monmouth, Ore. By the first marriage there were five children. By the second marriage there were five children. Mr. and Mrs. Reuber have the following children: Earl (deceased), Clifford, Wallace, Ralph and Donavan, all living at home.
Henry J. Savela, a representative farmer of Camp township, was born on the farm where he now lives December 9, 1881, son of John J., Sr., and Elsa (Oickarainen) Savela. He attended the public schools and grew to manhood. remaining at home until 1901, when he purchased the north half of the northeast quarter of section 9, Camp township. In 1904 he moved to Franklin Village, this county. where he engaged in carpenter work. In the summer of 1910 he went to Iditarod, Alaska, carpentering and prospecting. During the season of 1911 and 1912 he was operating a garage in Franklin. On November 1, 1914, he re- turned to the home farm in Camp township where he was born and where he is now engaged in general diversified farming and stock raising. llenry J. Savela was married April 11, 1901, to Mary Johnson, who was born January 25. 1881. daughter of Mathias and Albertina ( Frisca) Johnson. This union has been blessed with nine children. Isabel. born March 15, 1902: Leonard, born September 2. 1903: Lillian, born April 20, 1905: Harvey, born December 11, 1907; Margaret. born December 16, 1908; Roselia, born October 20. 1910: Ethel and Edith (twins), born October 6, 1912: Dorothy, born January 11, 1914. The family faith is that of the Finnish Lutheran church.
John J. Savela, Sr., an estimable resident of Camp township for many years, was born in Finland. November 14, 1836 son of John Jakola and Bertha Haikinen. Ile came to America in 1872. and after living in Red Wing. this state, for a year, went to Calu- met, Mich., where he worked five years as a miner. Then he came to Renville county and bought 160 aeres in section 22, Camp township. Ilis first home was of logs, but as time passed he prospered and erected comfortable buildings. He died November 15, 1913. Mrs. Savela now resides on the old farm with her son, Henry J. John J. Savela, Sr., was married November 2. 1861. to Elsa Oikarainen, who was born in Finland, October 9, 1839. the daughter of Henry and Bertha (Moilanen) Oikarainen. Mr. and Mrs. Savela had ten children, two who died in infancy, and Ida, Mathias, Anna. August, Hilma. John J., Ir., Henry J. and Minnie. lda married Joseph Martin, a farmer of Camp town- ship. and died in 1899, leaving three children. William, Joseph and Minnie. Mathias was killed in a mine in Washington in 1895. Anna married Lars Pudas, retired miner, of Minneapolis.
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August was born January 19, 1875, graduated in the Commercial and Scientific courses of Valparaiso University in 1893, attended Carleton College at Northfield, Minn., a year, and in 1907 grad- uated in law from the University of Minnesota. Then he prac- tired law two years in Minneapolis but his health failed just at the threshold of a brilliant career. He returned to the home farm in Camp, where he died May 9, 1915. Hilma died at the age of five years. John J., Ir., is a merchant in Lake Norden, S. D. Henry JJ. is on the home farm. Minnie is the wife of Matt Hiltunen, a farmer of Camp township.
John J. Savela, Jr., a prominent merchant of Lake Norden, S. D., was born March 27, 1879, on his father's farm in Camp township, Renville county, Minn., was there reared and grew to manhood. lle remained at home until 1900, going to Sebeka, Minn., that year, where he engaged in the general mercantile business for two years, after which he returned to the home farm in Camp township, later purchasing a 160-acre farm. located in sections 15 and 22, on which he followed general farming until 1905. He then moved to Minneapolis, remaining there one year. Ile then went to Franklin. Min., this county, where he was engaged in the mercantile business for two years, after which he lived again for one year on the farm, thence going to Lake Norden, S. D., where he has since been engaged in general mercantile business. He was united in marriage March 21, 1900, to Mary E. Salmonson, who was born at Lake Norden, S. D., April 5. 1880. and to this union three children have been born : Gladys Rosabelle, born February 26, 1901 : Eleanor Elizabeth, born November 19. 1903, and Edmund John, horn March 6. 1905.
George J. Saffert, a prominent builder and contractor of Fair- fax, was born in Austria, May 1, 1887. Ilis father, Joseph Saffert, a mason, came to New Ulm in 1890, where he died in 1904 at the age of forty-seven. llis wife, Barbara (Bechtel) Saffert. aged forty-nine. still lives at New Ulm. They had seven children, three girls and four boys. George Saffert is the oldest and after his father's death supported the entire family. From 1904 to 1907 he worked as bricklayer. At the age of twenty he became foreman for a contractor in New Fhm, for whom he worked three years. In 1910 he came to Fairfax and on April 1 of that year became a contractor in mason, concrete, brick and stone work, and also a manufacturer of cement blocks and tile, and any kind of made-to-order artificial stone work. In the base- ment of Bregel Brothers' garage he has an establishment with a floor space 50 by 1271% fort. equipped for all-around-the-year work. Since entering into his present business Mr. Saffert has erected many substantial buildings, such as stores, elevators, mill additions, ete. Mr. Saffert was married September 15. 1908. to Anna Sittauer, who was born July 26. 1889. Her father,
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Joseph Sittaner, was a pioneer of Brown county, Minnesota, and died in 1912, at the age of seventy-five. Her mother, Margaret (Korbel) Sittauer, died in 1913 at the age of sixty-eight. Aside from Anna they had another daughter and two sons.
John Warner, a retired farmer and well-known citizen of Ren- ville, was born February 23, 1838, in MeKean county, Pa., son of Henry and Margaret (Daly) Warner. Henry Warner was a native of Germany, who came to Pennsylvania at the age of twenty-six years. He was a tailor by trade, as was his father before him. He began farming in Pennsylvania and lived there until he brought his family to Dodge county, Wis., in 1847. He drove to Buffalo, N. Y., and went by boat to Milwaukee, buy- ing a farm of 120 aeres from the government at $1.25 per acre in Schield township, Dodge county. Wis. It was mostly timber land and a place had to be cleared before he could build a log house. He had a yoke of steers and borrowed a wagon and break- ing plow, paying for the use of these by working a day for the neighbor for each day they were used. Later he moved to Jeffer- sou county. Wis., where he bought a farm of timber land. Be- fore his death he had partly cleared three farms from timber. He died at the age of eighty-four and his wife died at the age of sixty-four years. While in Germany he was a member of the Lutheran church but later joined the Catholic church. Henry and Margaret Warner had nine children : John, James, Catherine. Mary. Agnes, Henry, Margaret, Timothy and Philip. John Warner received his early education in Wisconsin, attending the country school held at the log school house. After he grew to manhood he engaged in farming and located on a traet of 79 acres on his father's farm in Dodge county. In 1869 he moved to Minnesota, driving to Blue Earth county in a covered wagon. At Blue Earth he traded his team of horses for a team of oxen and drove from there to Renville county, where he spent the first winter with William Powers. In the fall of the next year he moved to his own farm, which he had located in section 22, Emmet township. It consisted of 160 acres, 80 acres being a homestead, the rest having been purchased at the rate of $2.50 per acre. He built a house of hewn logs, 18 by 24 feet, which is still standing. He began breaking the land with his team of oxen. Ile also had one cow when he started farming. He lived on this farm for thirty years, bought 120 acres more, built a modern house and put up other fine buildings. He has now retired from farming and is living at Renville. Mr. Warner has served on the township board and has been the treasurer of the school board of his district for several years. He was one of the organizers of the Farmers' Elevator at Renville, holding the office of director for many years. He also helped organize the Co-operative Creamery before it was sold and was salesman for
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a few years for the ereamery. For six years he served as county commissioner and took great pride in being one of the men who was influential in getting a new court house built at Beaver Falls. He is a member of the Catholic church. Mr. Warner was married in 1867 to Catherine Donahue, born June 26, 1849, in Dodge county, Wis., daughter of Patriek and Mary Ann (Cunningham) Donahue. Her parents were of Irish descent. Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Warner: Agnes, wife of Halvor J. Lee, died August 3, 1907, leaving three sons, Irving W., Horaee J. and Emory J. William E. married Gertine Knudson and lives on the old farm. They have one son, Emerson W. Mary married Normon O. Stadum, of Warren, Minn., and they have one child, Catherine. Margaret married Henry D. Foster, of St. Paul. James died November 14, 1902. Emma, a graduate of the Ren- ville High school and of the Mankato State Normal school, has been a successful teacher for a number of years.
John Thompson, a veteran of the Civil war, was born in Nor- way, July 27, 1846, son of Truls and Turi (Fosse), natives of Norway. His father was born in 1796 and came to America in 1850. engaging in farming in Dane county, Wis., until his death in 1858. Ilis mother died in 1895. John Thompson was four years old when the family immigrated to Wisconsin. Eleven years later the mother and family moved to Fillmore county, Minn. On August 20, 1862, John Thompson enlisted in Co. D., 8th Minn. Vol. Inf., and was discharged July 11, 1865. Com- pany D was made up of Fillmore county people. Mr. Thomp- son took part in General Sully's Indian expedition, taking part in the battle of Kildeer Mountain, battles in the Bad Lands, on the Yellowstone river and back to Ft. Rice. He afterwards fought in the south and took part in the battle of Murfreesboro and battle of Kingston. There was intense suffering in the camp at Washington in February. 1865, waiting for the ice to go out of the Potomae river so they could go to Ft. Fisher. He also had three brothers in the army. Lewis served in Co. F. 11th Wis. Vol. Inf .; Mons served in Co. I, 2nd Miun. Vol. Inf. ; Chris- tian served in Co. D. 8th Minn. Vol. Inf., and at the battle of Murfreesboro, December 7, 1864, was wounded in the torso. After living in Fillmore county some ten years, the Thompson family came to Cairo township in Renville county. John Thomp- son seenred 160 aeres of school land in section 16. southwest quarter, where he is still living. When he purchased the place there was standing on it a log building, 14 by 17 feet, with a sod roof and board floor. He began farming here with a team of horses and a few tools and gradually improved his farm and prospered so that now he has a well improved farm, well stocked and up-to-date in every way. Mr. Thompson has been prominent in public affairs, has served on the township board for one term ..
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has held the office of township clerk and a member of the school board for twelve years. For seven years he did efficient serviee as county commissioner. He is a stockholder in the Creamery and Mill at Franklin. His faith is that of the Hauge's Nor- wegian Lutheran church. John Thompson was married February 26, 1881, to Johanna Johnson, born April 9. 1858, daughter of Ole and Carrie Johnson, both of whom died in Norway. Mr. and Mrs. John Thompson have had ten children : Thomas, of Wetonka, S. D .; Ole, at home; Louisa, wife of Lars Distad, farmer, of Bandon township; John, who died at nine months; Carl, a farmer, of Birch Cooley township, and Rena, John. M., Ingvald, Alfred and Anna, who are at home.
Elwin Roy Borden, proprietor of the Pleasant View stock farm at Buffalo Lake, was born March 4, 1886, on the home- stead of his parents, John and Eliza (Burton) Borden. Elwin R. Borden grew to manhood and received his education in the Buffalo Lake school, taking up work for himself nine years ago. He is now a rural mail carrier from Buffalo Lake postoffice, ronte No. 3. He has twenty-two acres bordering on the village limits of Buffalo Lake, where he specializes in the breeding and shipping of thoroughbred registered Chester White swine of the O. I. C. strain, and also full-blooded White Wyandotte fowl. His terri- tory covers all of Minnesota, North and South Dakota and some of Wisconsin. Mr. Borden was married August 10, 1909, to Francis Buekman, born November 16, 1888.
John Borden, born in Allen county, Ind .. May 25, 1847, was the son of David and Maria (Hagerman) Borden, natives of Michigan. David Borden owned and conducted a sawmill, together with farming, in Indiana. In 1866 he sold out and moved to Cumberland county, Tenu., where he remained until. seventy-five years of age, when he came to Minnesota and made his home with his children. He died November 4, 1902. His wife died in Tennessee on December 2, 1882. While in Tennessee David Borden was engaged extensively in farming. They were the parents of ten children : James, Samuel, Mary, Nancy, John. Eveline, Benjamin, David. William and Olive. John Borden received his education in Indiana and worked with his father in the sawmill and on the farm. In 1865 John Borden enlisted in Co. D, 155th Ind. Inf. and served eight months until the close of the war. Then he returned to Indiana, where he remained six months. October 27, 1866. found him in Renville eounty. where he came to look over the new eonntry. He soon returned to Indiana, where he remained one vear. In 1871 he located permanently in Renville county, settling in the northeast quarter of section 20. in Preston township. This was all wild prairie land. He broke the land and engaged in general farming, expe- riencing all the trials and ordeals of pioneer life. As time passed
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he prospered, erected a fine home, substantial barns and ontbuild- ings, and added to his farm until he had 240 aeres. There he farmed until 1904, when he retired to the village of Buffalo Lake, and purchased his present abode. In 1907 he went to Canada, where he took a homestead, it being the southeast quarter of section 13, near Wadena, Saskatchewan. He proved up on this claim, and remained there four years, after which he returned to Buffalo Lake, where he and his wife are now living, spending the afternoon of life in quiet and retirement. He was united in marriage May 26, 1872, to Eliza Burton, who was born in East Troy, Walworth county, Wis., August 23, 1853. They are the parents of seven children: William, born February 27, 1873. a railroad man at Edmunton, Canada ; Robert, born June 18, 1875, and died March 21, 1902; Alice, born April 9, 1877, now Mrs. H. A. Roepke, of Buffalo Lake, who has one son, Wallaee : Bert, born Deeember 27, 1880, a farmer, of South Dakota, married to Dora Van Riper, and has two children, Violet and Daisy; Arthur, born June 20, 1883, a farmer at Can- ada, married to Ida Harrier, and has three children, Warren, Lloyd and Edna May; Elwin, born March 4, 1886, a farmer at Buffalo Lake: Angie, born September 20, 1888, wife of George Quast, at Dumont, Minn., and has three children, Beatrice, Orval and Miland. John and Elizabeth (Bachus) Burton, parents of Mrs. John Borden, were both natives of Yorkshire, England. They came to this country when young and were married in Walworth county, Wis., November 6, 1852. In 1856 they loeated in Carver county, Minn., being among the earliest pioneers. They located on a tract of wild timber land, which they grubbed and broke, and suffered all the privations and hardships of pioneer life. In 1862, during the outbreak, the Burtons were driven from home by the Indians and took refuge in Waconia Island, Minn. When they returned they found that most of their household goods had been destroyed. August 15, 1862, Mr. Burton enlisted in Co. C. 10th Minn. Vol. Inf. and served until honorably dis- charged August 1, 1865. As time passed they became prosperous and remained on their farm until 1882. They then moved to Bath, S. D., where Mr. Burton took a homestead, where they followed farming until the death of Mrs. Burton, December 10, 1895. Mr. Burton then came to Renville county with his daugh- ter, Mrs. John Borden, with whom he remained until his death. May 14, 1908. They were the parents of seven children: Eliza Hannah. William, Robert. Naney. Eva. Ada and Angie.
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