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children were born to this marriage: Anna (deceased), Emma, Anna and Frank. Mr. and Mrs. Mihm had twelve children, of whom nine are living: Henry, Joseph, Katherine, Peter, John (deceased), Julia, George, Edwin (deceased), Mamie, Alfred, Frank and Leo (deceased). Henry was born July 3, 1874, and is engaged in the barber business at Ladysmith, Wis. He was married in 1904, to Edith Arndt, of Norwood, Carver county, Minnesota. Joe was born June 1, 1876, and married in 1904 to Edith Branham, of Ilector, Renville county. They have five children : Archie, Earl, Lloyd, Arnold and Julia, who lived on a farm in St. Louis county, Minn. Kate, born January 16, 1878. was married in 1905, to Frank Tegner, of Heetor. They had one boy, Stanley. She is now a widow and keeps house for Mr. Haley, on a farm in Floyd, lowa. Peter was born June 20, 1879, and married to Lizzie Kugler, of Waconia, Carver county, in 1896. They have three children: Gertrude, Mamie and Loretta, who lives in northern Wisconsin, on a farm. John, born Febru- ary 12, 1881, was a barber by trade and died in Hector, Deceni- ber 5, 1906. Julia, born December 27, 1882, is a milliner, and lives at St. Louis, Mo. George, born November 18, 1884, does farm work in Red Lake Falls, Minn. Edward, born June 6, 1886, died June 11, 1907, at Virginia, Minn. Mamie, born May 8, 1888, is the assistant secretary for the Metropolitan Milk Company, at Min- neapolis. Alfred, born July 26, 1889, lives with his parents on the home farm in Melville township. Frank. born November 30, 1891, makes his home in Superior, Wis., and was married June 24, 1913, to Marie Aretz, of Cologne, Carver county, Minn., and they have one child, named Clifford. Leo, born March 31, 1894, died April 5, 1894, at Hector.
Benjamin Jason Butler, a prosperous farmer of Brookfield township, son of Lorenzo Dow and Eliza Darrow Butler, was born on North Hero, an island in Lake Champlain. April 5, 1850. Lorenzo was a native of North Hero, Vermont. lle was born September 6, 1807, and died October 20. 1883, at the home of his son. Benjamin Jason. Lorenzo's father, James Butler, was a native of the northern part of Ireland. Ile, with four brothers, came to America in Colonial days. He located on North Hero, where he lived the remainder of his life. Butler's Island, in Lake Champlain, bears his name, as he owned this in addition to his farm on North IFero. He had eight children: Benjamin, Jason, Steven, Samuel, Eunice, Polly, Sally and Lorenzo. He was a member.of the Methodist church. Lorenzo married in Vermont and moved to St. Lawrence county, New York, where he engaged in farming near Potsdam, where he lived for sixteen years. He then moved to Wisconsin and located in Columbia county, where he again engaged in farming. In 1878 he and his wife eame to the home of their son, Benjamin Jason, where they spent the re-
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mainder of their days. Eliza Darrow Butler was born in New Hampshire, October 22, 1814, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. JJames Darrow. She died April 20, 1883. James Darrow was a native of New Hampshire and lived there as a farmer all his life. He was of English descent. On her father's side Eliza Darrow was a descendant of a soldier of the Revolutionary War. James and Eliza Darrow had three children: Eliza, William and Edgar. Ten children were born to Lorenzo and Eliza Butler. They were : John, Naney, William, Alonzo, James Byron, Lucretia, Lorin, Elmeron, Samuel, Benjamin JJason, and Enoch Briggs. Benjamin Jason was two years of age, when he came with his father to New York. He received his early education in St. Lawrence county. lle also attended the academy at Marshall, Wis .. for two years. He came to Renville county, Minnesota, in 1876, and took a tree- claim of eighty acres in Brookfield township, section 22. At an earlier date he homesteaded in Nebraska, but abandoned his claim on account of the grasshoppers. He came to Minnesota the year of the grasshopper raid here, losing the first five acres of cotton- wood trees, planted on his tree elaim. These trees were replaced the next spring and later ash, maple, boxelder and willows were put out. But when the custom was established, a few years ago, of naming farms, the family chose the name, "Cottonwood Grove Farm." So many of the cottonwood trees became so large and tall that 10,000 feet of dimension lumber was sawed, and forms a part of the large barn on the place. Before this, a ma- chine shed had been built of Inmber from the cottonwood trees. This was done without apparent loss of trees on the place. Ben- jamin and his wife, as a young married couple, located on the place where they now reside. He hauled the Iumber for his house from Gleneoe, a distance of thirty miles, that being the nearest railroad station. He did his first breaking with oxen, but changed to horses, as distanees were so long for hanling. Hle hanled wood from the woods north of Hutchinson. a distance of twenty-five miles. The nearest markets were Glencoe and Liteh- field. Mr. Butler has been successful and has prospered. He now has 207 acres of well cultivated land. He keeps a good grade of stock. believing in diversified farming. He served as town clerk for several years and also as a member of the school board. He belongs to the Methodist church and is one of its stewards. He is a stanch temperance man, receiving a good training in that line in the Good Templars Lodge at South York, Wis. He was one of the pioneers in the canse of county option. He was a candidate for the legislature on that issue on the Democratie ticket, being defeated by a small majority. He is a member of the Modern Brotherhood of America. On September 8. 1875, Mr. Butler was married at High Forest, Minn., to Martha Amelia Porter, born in Medina township. Dane county, Wisconsin. No-
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vember 26, 1852. She was the daughter of Philander and Aurilla (Prentice) Porter. Philander Porter was a native of Cattarau- gus county, New York, son of Isaac and Betsy Porter. Isaac with two brothers, came from England to Massachusetts and later located in New York. They all engaged in farming. Aurilla Prentice was born in New York of English and Seotch parentage, and married Philander Porter, May 24, 1839. They came to MeHenry County, Illinois, lived there two years. They then came to Dane county, Wis., and settled in Medina township, where they lived for thirty-five years. The father died there September 28, 1874, at the age of sixty-one years. His wife died in 1885 at Hutchinson at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. S. Pierce. Both Mr. and Mrs. Porter were members of the Metho- dist church. There were eight children in the family: Maria, born February 1, 1840, and died July 8, 1884; Edna, born Novem- ber 7, 1841, and died at the age of two years; Charles, born May 25, 1844, and died in 1887; Uretta, born April 28, 1846, and died January 8, 1902: Mary, born May 7, 1848, and died in in- fancy; Martha Amelia, wife of Benjamin Jason Butler, born No- vember 26. 1852: Dellona, born June 9, 1854, and Isaac Prentice, born September 1. 1857. When Mr. Butler went to be married, he found the bridge over the Root river. which he had to cross. torn out by the flood. and in order that the wedding should not be delayed he plunged into the swollen stream and swam aeross reaching there in time. Mr. and Mrs. Butler have had six chil- dren : (1) Elva and Iva-twins-born December 12, 1878. Elva married William Reed. She died July 10, 1901, leaving her hus- band and two children, Gilbert and Elva. Iva, a successful teacher, is now teaching in the graded school at Buffalo Lake. (3) Eben Elmeron, born October 29. 1882, and died November 22. 1906. (4) Charles Lorin, born May 8, 1884. is a prominent farmer of Brookfield. He was married November 16, 1904. to Alvira Potter. They have two children, Kenneth and Harold. (5) A son died in infancy. (6) Pearl Ineretia, born October 8, 1889, resides at home. Fonr of Mr. Butler's brothers served in the Civil War. The youngest of the four, Lorin, died of typhoid fever in a Southern hospital. A cousin. William Butler Hiekkok. bet- ter known as Wild Bill, served as a spy through the war and after the close of the war was employed as government marshal in the West.
John H. Rice, a substantial citizen of Melville township. was born in Chaska, Minn .. December 29, 1871. son of John and Cora (Neinsinger) Riee. The father was born in Germany. came to America in 1867, lived in Chaska for several years, employed as a teamster, then engaged in farming in McLeod county, this state. for a few years, and in 1887 came to Renville county and bought the southwest quarter of section 27. Melville township,
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where he remained until his death in 1902, at the age of seventy- three. The mother was eighty-one years of age in June, 1915, and now makes her home with her son. John H. remained with his parents until twenty-five years of age. For a few years he rented a farm in Melville township, and then bought the home farm, which, by that time, had been increased to a half seetion. He does general farming and makes a specialty of raising faney stock. The farm is nearly all tilled and is in a high stage of development. For the past twenty years Mr. Riee has operated a threshing outfit. He is a stoekholder in the Melville ereamery. For seven years he has been road overseer. Mr. Riee was mar- ried April 20, 1897, to Emma Neibauer, who was born May 26, 1873, daughter of Julius Neibauer, a Glencoe blacksmith, who died in 1912, at the age of seventy-one. Mr. and Mrs. Riee have nine children: Elsie, Ernest (deeeased), Herbert, Eda, Cora. Leonard, Mabel, John and Bertha. Elsie married John Laffin, an engineer. They reside with Mr. Riee. Their one child died in infaney.
James Wood was born December 23, 1864, in Cook county, Illinois, son of John and Sarah (Watson) Wood. John Wood was born in Cook county, Illinois, and was the son of Henry Wood, a native of Pennsylvania, of English descent, who became a farmer of Illinois, dying when James Wood was about fifteen years of age, at the age of eighty years. Henry Wood had ten children: John, Nathan, David, Josephine, Clara, Barbara, IIen- rietta. Katie. Tillie and Bell. John Wood was a carpenter by trade and spent his life in Cook county. His wife. Sarah, was born in Cook county, daughter of Henry Watson. Her parents also came from Pennsylvania. Her father was a blacksmith and followed that trade in Cook county until his death. He died at the age of seventy-six years and his wife died at the age of sov- enty years. They had six children: Joseph, George, Addie. Annie, Libbie and Sarah. Joseph and George were both veterans of the Civil War, and did valiant service, Joseph attaining the rank of major. John and Sarah Wood had five children : Nathan. William, James, Hattie and Jennie. John Wood died in Illinois at the age of thirty-seven, and his wife, Sarah, is still living in Mapleton, Iowa, at the age of seventy-five. James Wood received his early training in Illinois. He worked on the Rock Island railroad for five years. During this time he was married. In 1890 Mr. Wood and his wife eame to Renville county and loeated on the farm where he is living at present, in section 25, Troy township. Here he bought eighty aeres of wild prairie land and put up a granary, where the family lived the first six years. Then he built a frame house and replaced the straw barn with a substantial one. He now owns 120 aeres of land all under enl- tivation and raises a good grade of stoek. Mr. Wood helped
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organize the Catholie ehureh of Olivia. He is a stockholder in the Farmers' Elevator and Creamery at Olivia. Mr. Wood was married to Anna Hopman, a native of Holland, born Deeember 17, 1866. Mr. and Mrs. Wood have three children, all living at home: Josephine, Elizabeth and John. Mrs. Wood is the daugh- ter of John and Johanna (Browenberg) Hopman, natives of Hol- land, who came to America in 1870, and located in Pullman, Illinois, where they lived until three years ago, when they came to Renville county, Minnesota, and located in Troy township. The mother died June 6, 1914. The father is still living at Olivia. There were twelve children in the family: Henry Peter (de- ceased ), Anna, llenry, Mary, Elizabeth, Johanna, Bertha, John, James, Catherine, George and Delia.
Carl O. Brecke, clerk of the district court of Renville county, was born in Norway, September 28, 1868, son of Ole G. and Boel Begine (Hoff) Brecke, who lived and died in Norway. Of the seven children born, six came to the United States. Carl O. Brecke came to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, in 1883, and be- gan working for his board. After six months in the new country he entered the employ of Gunder Lee, general merchant, beeom- ing his assistant bookkeeper. A year later he was given the place of head bookkeeper and remained there five years. Then he was offered a position as manager in a elothing store of that place. In 1889 he came to Renville, where he became the assist- ant eashier for O'Connor Brothers Bank. After a time he estab- lished himself in the grocery business at Renville, and continued in this for six years. In 1902 he was appointed to fill the vaeancy in the office of clerk of court of Renville county. With the ex- ception of one term he has held this office up to the present time, having been re-elected the fall of 1914. He has served as presi- dent of the council of Renville for three years and was on its school board two or three years. He was one of the six men who built the first telephone line in Renville county from Ren- ville to Beaver Falls. Ile is a member of the Norwegian Lutheran church and a member of the Modern Woodmen. Mr. Brecke was married at Renville to Emma Johnson, daughter of L. W. Johnson.
John E. Menz, a progressive farmer of Birl Island township, was born December 20, 1854. in Germany, son of Henry and Anna (Wagner) Menz. The family eame to the United States in 1867 and settled in Reynolds, Lee county, Illinois. There were six children: Gus, John, Henry, Charles, Dora and Christina, and one boy, Martin, was born in Illinois. The voyage across the oeran took eight weeks and two more weeks were spent in reach- ing Ashton, Illinois. They located on a farm and improved the place. Here the parents spent the remainder of their lives, the father dying at the age of eighty-eight, in 1913. and the mother
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dying nineteen years ago, at the age of sixty-five years. They were members of the Evangelieal church. John E. Menz was a young boy, when the parents came to America, and grew to manhood in Illinois. He located on a farm in Reynolds township, Lee county, seeuring 80 acres of land, later buying more land and improving the place. In 1900 he came to Renville county and seenred 160 aeres in section 32, Bird Island township. There was an old tumble-down house and old granary with a lean-to for a barn. In 1905 he built a modern barn, 40 by 64 feet and also remodeled the house. He has planted fruit trees and has all kinds of fruit, even cranberries, and the farm is well feneed. He raises a good grade of stock. Mr. Menz is the present super- visor of the township and has held the position of treasurer for two years. Ile has also served on the school board for a number of years. Mr. Menz was united in marriage to Anna Catherine Stein, September 15, 1881. She was born in Germany, November 23, 1862, daughter of John and Magdalene (Melhouse) Stein. Iler parents came to the United States in the spring of 1868, the trip taking about four or five weeks on the ocean and traveled on to Ashton, Illinois, where they located on a farm in Reynolds, Ler county. Three children were born to them in Germany, Anna, Catherine and Elizabeth, the remaining children all being born in Illinois, August (died in infancy) and Paul (twins), Charles, Martha, Marie, Conrad, Minnie and Lillian (deecased). The family were members of the Evangelical church. The father died in 1912, at the age of seventy-one years. His wife died in 1907. at the age of sixty-six years. Mr. and Mrs. Menz are the parents of six children : Catherine, now Mrs. Henry Fehr ; Gus, a farmer of Bird Island township, married to Elva Carr: Carl. of Troy township. married to Matilda Bratch; Martin, of North Dakota, a farmer; Conrad and Nora. The two last named are at home.
Justus Mehlhouse, a retired farmer of Olivia, was born June 24, 1838, in Germany, son of Adam and Martha E. (Weingarten) Mehilhouse. The father was a farmer and died in Germany, Feb- ruary 25, 1885; the mother came to America in 1866, and died in Lee county, Illinois, March 4. 1892. In the family were the following children : Justus; Elizabeth, Mrs. Geo. Scheiver, who died in Pennsylvania. 1866: Lena, Mrs. John Stein, who died Angust 1. 1908; Martha E., Mrs. Charles Rice, who died Novem- ber 25, 1913, and Kate, Mrs. William Kilinghele, living at Ash- ton. Illinois. Justus came to America with his mother in 1866 and settled in Lee county, Illinois, where they bought eighty acres of land, which cost them $25.00 per acre. Later this was sold and a farm rented for five years. In 1875 he bought 130 acres of well improved land that is now valued at $250.00 per acre and here his two oldest children were born. In 1882 he
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sold this place and after renting for one year moved to Benton county, Indiana, where he rented a farm for two years. Then he moved to lowa, where he rented a farm for four years and in the spring of 1888, moved to Renville county, Minnesota, having bought 200 acres in Norfolk township in 1887. He made many improvements on this place and when he sold it in 1914 it was one of the best farms in the township. He decided to retire from farming and moved to Olivia in 1914, where he bought a home and is now taking a well earned rest. Besides this farm he at different times owned 160 acres of other land in Norfolk town- ship. While a farmer he specialized in grain raising. For several years he was a member of the school board in Lee county, Illinois. and after coming to Renville county was road overseer for a number of years. In politics he is a Republican. In early life he was a member of the German Lutheran church and while in Illinois became a member of the Evangelical church. Instus Mehlhouse was married November 11. 1866, to Mary Kuemmel. laughter of Peter Kuemmel, who was born in Germany. February 22, 1845. She came to America in 1866 and died May 22, 1902. She was one of a family of four girls and two boys. Mr. and Mrs. Justus Melhouse had the following children: George, born January 29, 1868; John, born in 1869; Elizabeth, born October 2, 1871 : William, born October 13, 1873, at Bird Island ; Catherine, born December 24, 1875, and died July 13, 1909, having been a teacher in the Renville county schools for fifteen years ; Anna, born April 7, 1878, now Mrs. Henry Kromer, of Norfolk : Jacob, born January 12, 1882, living in Norfolk township : Martha (dead ) : Minnie and Nettie, twins, born June 30. 1884, Minnie dying Oc- tober 3. 1900, and Nettie becoming the wife of Harry Juliar, Man- kato, Minn. ; and Rose, who is at home.
John M. Olson, one of Bird Island's leading citizens, first saw the light of day in Denmark, June 28, 1872. He graduated from the Silkeborg Seminary in Jutland, in 1889, coming to this conn- try in 1892. After a year spent in Chicago, he went to Wanke- gan, Illinois, where he remained five months. Next he went to Marshall, Minnesota, where he remained nine months, going from there to Balaton, Minnesota, where he worked for a year in a blacksmith shop. In January, 1896, he bought the blacksmith business of John Kromer, in Bird Island, devoting his time to that business until May, 1907. when he bought out the Erickson Hardware Company and has been actively engaged in that bnsi- ness ever since. Ile is a stockholder in the State Bank of Bird Island, and is president of the Renville County Fair Association. and president of of the Renville County Hardware and Implement Dealers' Association. He was one of the organizers and first president of the Bird Island Commercial Club, of which he is now a director. For three years he has been mayor of Bird Island.
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Mr. Olson was married December 12, 1896, to Carrie Paulina Wolf, born October 8, 1877, daughter of Ferdinand and Paulina (Sehwalbe) Wolf, and they have three children: Howard, born December 11, 1897; Mabel, born May 7, 1900; Morris, born De- eember 10, 1903. Ole Olson, born in Denmark, in 1852, married Dusine Bergitta Peterson, who died in January, 1912, at the age of fifty-eight. Mr. Olson was a blacksmith in his native land, where he died when he was fifty-two years old. Ferdinand Wolf married Paulina Schwalbe and died in 1906, at the age of sixty- one. Ile was one of the pioneer farmers of Melville township. Mrs. Wolf is living at Bird Island and is now sixty years old.
John Nester, a retired farmer of Olivia, was born in Germany, November 18, 1846, son of Valentine and Margaretta (Banm) Nester, who were married in Germany, came to the United States in 1856, lived in New York city for a year, and then located in Evansville, Indiana, where the mother died in 1878. and the father in 1882. In the family there were eight children : George, born March 27, 1839; Phillip, born April 6, 1841; Peter, born No- vember 7, 1842: Barbara, born December 6, 1844; John, born November 18, 1846: Valentine, born Fine 4, 1848; Christ, born January 30. 1851; Maria, born April 16, 1852. John Nester came to this country in 1856 and joined his parents at Evans- ville. Indiana. After attending school for a while he secured employment as cook in a hotel. April 30, 1864. he enlisted in Company F, 136th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served until discharged September 2, 1864. He was mustered out at Indian- apolis, Indiana. During the greater part of his serviee he had done picket and guard duty at Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Upon his return to Evansville, he again secured employment as a cook. In 1872 he located in Red Wing, Minnesota, was there married. and shortly afterward came to Renville county and took a claim of 143 aeres in section 18, Bird Island township. A year later he took a timber claim of 160 aeres in section 18, Bird Island town- ship. There he erected a one-room frame house and started life in the wilderness. For the first years he had to haul all farm produets to Willmar by ox teams, and experienced all the priva- tions of pioneer life. He was one of the very first settlers in Bird Island, and for a time had no neighbors, the nearest cabin being that of Libby White, who was five miles away. He had many in- teresting experiences. May 12, 1873, he was out in a terrific snowstorm. his oxen ran away, he lost the track, and suffered severe privation. In the spring of 1886 he went to St. Paul, and there remained until the spring of 1894. Then he returned to his timber elaim. and erected a two-story frame house. Later other suitable farm buildings were erected. On this place, Mr. Nester carried on general farming until 1913, when he moved to a farm just south of the village of Olivia, where he now resides. Mr.
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Nester is a Republican in polities, and a member of the G. A. R. John Nester was married August 28, 1872, to Mary Heydman, who was born in Evansville, Indiana, December 17, 1853, and this union was blessed with fifteen children. Of these there are living twelve: Mary, born May 17, 1873; Peter, born March 13, 1875: John, February 20, 1876: Valentine, born August 28, 1877; Christina, born March 13, 1879; Katie, born November 2, 1880; Margaret, born January 4, 1882; George, born JJuly 10, 1883 ; Lena. born June 10, 1885: Elizabeth, born March 31, 1887; Anna, born June 17, 1890; William, born February 21, 1886.
Thomas A. Armstrong, a respected citizen of Buffalo Lake, was born in Clinton county, New York, May 29, 1875, son of John W. Armstrong, born at Mooers, New York, May 2, 1836, and Ellen M. Armstrong, born at Shoreham, Vermont, February 14, 1840. The parents were married September 9. 1858, and had the following children: William Carlton, born July 13, 1860; Anna Elizabeth, born August 11, 1862; Ida A .. born January 12, 1865; Nettie Maria, born May 3, 1867 ; Mabel Inella, born April 1, 1871 ; and Thomas Ashton, born May 29, 1875. John W. Arm- strong died March 6, 1876, and his wife died November, 1913.
Thomas A. was one year old when his father died and was adopted by his uncle, Joseph Armstrong. He received a common school education and grew to manhood engaging in farming. He worked on his unele's farm in Martinsburg township, Ren- ville county, for two years. Then he moved to Henry county, North Dakota, homesteaded 160 acres of wild land and built a sod shack. Ilere he remained from 1900 until 1910, and improved the place and built good buildings. Then he sold this farm and returned to Renville county, going back to the old farm in Mar- tinsburg township. After a time he sold this and moved to Buf- falo Lake. Mr. Armstrong was united in marriage January 26, 1898, to Emma Marquardt, born in Martinsburg township, April 9, 1876, daughter of Ferdinand Marquardt. Ferdinand Mar- quardt (deceased) was born in Germany, February 19. 1837, son of Charles Marquardt. His wife died in Germany and Charles Marquardt left with the family for the United States, in 1852. There were twelve children. They came by sailing vessel, being nine weeks on water, and located in Wisconsin. Ferdinand Mar- quardt engaged in farming in Wisconsin on the farm of his father in Dane connty, and May 15, 1862, was married to Augusta Moreck, born in Germany, May 1, 1844, daughter of William and Wilhelmina (Hauster) Moreck. They were farmers and set out for the United States in 1847, coming by sailing vessel, being nine weeks on the water. They had two children, Amelia and Augusta. They came to Dane county and secured a farm. Mr. Moreck died at the age of forty-nine years, and his wife is still living at the age of seventy-three years. The following children
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