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24 feet and he has since built a large modern house. lle always raised good stock. Mr. Christianson has served as township supervisor and treasurer of the school board. He is a member of the Norwegian Lutheran church and services were often held in the various sod houses in the section before there was any church building. Ile helped organize the church and was one of its trustees. By the first marriage there were three children: Con- rad, a professor at the Lutheran Normal school at Sioux Falls; Hannah, Mrs. Martin Loftnes, of Palmyra township, and Jetta, deceased. He married again in Iowa to Tonetta Thorson, born in Norway. She came to America in 1868 and was sixteen weeks on the ocean. She was a widow and had one child, Thor, eight years old, her husband having died in Norway. By this second marriage there was one son, Carl. His wife died March 13, 1912, at the age of seventy-five years. Carl now has charge of the farm. Tle was born September 29, 1876, and after attending the Normal school and teaching school in Renville county for six months he engaged in farming on the old homestead. He has held offices of the township, having been supervisor, chairman of the board of supervisors and township clerk. Mr. Christianson makes a specialty of feeding cattle for the market. Mr. Carl Christianson was married June 18. 1896, to Louise Peterson, of Rock county, Minnesota, daughter of Martin and Sarah (Olson) Peterson. Sarah Olson was born in Jefferson county, Wisconsin, near Prim- rose, March 4, 1856, daughter of Levor and Sigrid Olson, both natives of Norway and early pioneers of Wisconsin, coming in 1863 to Winnebago county, lowa, being also early pioneers of that county, enduring all the hardships of the early settler and becom- ing respected citizens of that county, where they both died. Martin Peterson was born in Norway October 10, 1845. He came to America in 1867 by sailing vessel, coming to Spring Grove. Minnesota. He was married at Forest City, Iowa, in 1872. He worked for four years in Houston county and after his marriage lived in Rock county, Minnesota, in 1873, where he engaged in farming until 1910, when he moved to ITills. Minnesota, retiring from active farm work. They had ten children : Marie, Louise, Elena, Edwin, Mollie, Evelyn. George H. (deceased), Josephine (deceased ), Oscar W. (deceased) and Mary, who died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Christianson have six children: Thealine Sophia, Anton Melvin, Sylvia, Marie Elenora, Clarence and Leroy, alt at home.
Diedrich Wichmann, one of the most honored of the early pioneers, one of the heroes of the days of the Indian uprising. and for many years an estimable citizen, was born in Germany, in 1852. IJe was reared on a farm and in 1853 came to America. locating in Cook county on a farm. In 1858 he came to Brown county. Minnesota, and in 1860 took a homestead in section 14,
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Beaver Falls township. this county, where he was achieving pros- perity when the Indian uprising took place. August 18, 1862, he was on his way to work at the Indian Agency, just across the Minnesota river, in Redwood county. Just as he reached the ferry he heard the firing of guns and knew that the Indians were attacking the ageney. Mr. Wichmann hurried home and finding his wife and son unloading a load of hay, told his family to climb on the hay rack, and with yoke of oxen hitched to this wagon, started for Fort Ridgely, in Nicollet county, south of Fairfax. When he reached Fort Ridgely he stopped a few min- utes, but kept on with his team and family until he reached the old home in Illinois. Further details of Mr. Wichmann's experi- ences at this time are related in another part of this work. The family remained in Hlinois until the fall of 1864, when they came back to New Ulm. In the spring of 1865 they returned to their home in Beaver township. Diedrich Wichmann was mar- ried in Germany to Margaret Boorman, and to this union were born seven children: Cosmus Frederick, Diedrich H., Henry J., Dora, Frederica, William and John C. John C., born in 1861, is believed to be the first white child born in Renville county. Mr. Wiekmann died in 1890. Ilis wife died in 1891, at the age of sixty-eight years.
Engebret Thompson, a well-to-do farmer, of Camp township. was born in Norway, August 14, 1856. son of Thorsen and Marit (Lien) Thompson. He came to America in 1868, and after two months spent in Milwaukee, located in Brown county, this state. where he engaged in railroad construction work for a member of years. In 1874 he came to Renville county, where he seenred employment in the old Rieke mill, two and a half miles south- east of Franklin. In the spring of 1878 he bought 160 acres in section 18, Camp township, where he still resides. He has in- ereased his holdings until he now owns 280 acres of well im- proved land, on which he carries on general farming, making a specialty of stock raising, and shipping a carload of cattle and a half a carload of swine each year. It is worthy of note that in 1890 he purchased and dismantled the old Rieke mill, in which as a young man, he had been employed. He is a prominent man in the community and holds stock in the State Bank of Franklin, as well as in the elevator, mill and creamery at that place. In addition to farming. Mr. Thompson has devoted much of his time to hunting and trapping, and has found his fur trade very profitable. Mr. Thompson was married July 23, 1876, to Annie Anderson, born in Towa. November 22. 1854. daughter of John and Martha Anderson. This happy union has been blessed with .six children: Julius, Mary. Mathilda, Albert, Ehner and Bella. Julius was born February 15, 1878, and farms with his father. Mary was born Jannary 1. 1880. and Mathilda was born Sep-
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tember 11, 1882. Both are at home. Albert was born June 5, 1884, married Caroline Liske, and is now farming on the Flat- head Indian Reservation at St. Ignatius, Montana. Elmer, born Angust 22, 1892, and Bella, born April 17, 1894, are both at home.
John Barnard, an early settler, arrived in St. Croix county, Wisconsin, about 1858, and there abandoned his previous work as a railroad contractor, married and located on a farm. In 1879, filled with the courage of his sturdy ancestors, he decided to establish himself in a still newer country, so with his family and household goods, he started out with a team of horses and a covered wagon. to find a home in Minnesota. Ile seenred 160 acres of land in Renville county, a part of which is now the Barnard addition to the city of Renville. At that time an old elaim shanty stood on the place. As the years passed substan- tial buildings were erected and the place became one of the best in the neighborhood. Mr. Barnard was a faneier of fine stock and was the first to introdnee high grade cattle in this neighborhood. Ile did not care to mingle prominently in polit- ical affairs, but devoted his attention to his family and to his farm. He was a loyal friend, popular with all classes, a man on whom everyone depended and in whom they had the greatest confidence. The churches of all denominations found him a lib- eral supporter, and he took a part in every good move that made an appeal to his sympathy and generosity. In all his under- takings he was aided by the encouragement and understanding of his good wife. Frances (Vandercook) Barnard. They passed away the same year. 1907. he at the age of eighty-one and she at the age of seventy-one. In the family there were six children: Lynas. Clarence, Frank. Lney, John and Carl.
August T. Daun was born in Calumet county, Wisconsin, Sep- tember 8, 1864. ITis father. John Dann, was born in Germany. and came to America in 1845, coming to Milwaukee, Wis., and to Minnesota in 1874. where he lived in Lesueur county for eleven years and in Nicollet county for three years. Then he bought 280 acres in Norfolk township in 1888, where he remained until 1898, when he moved to Bird Island, where he died March 19. 1911. His mother, Mary K. (Pitzon), aged seventy-four years, lives in Bird Island. August Dann, at the age of fourteen, be- gan working out on the farms of the neighbors, and later in the pineries and still later on the railroad until 1897. Then he rented the home farm until 1901, when he rented the farm of Mrs. John Gloden, in Norfolk township, where he stayed for two years. Then he rented farms in Birch Cooley township, remaining on that of Leonard Farrenbach, for four years and that of John Blume, Beaver Falls township, for one year. Then he purchased 160 acres in section 17. Birch Cooley township, seenring the old
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George Chishohn farm, and now owns 320 acres. In 1909 he built a silo, 14 by 39 feet, with a capacity of 128 tons. He has been a dairyman for twenty years and makes a specialty of feed- ing cattle and hogs for the market, raising Holstein cattle. Mr. Dann is the president of the Farmers' Co-operative Grain Com- pany at Morton, and was one of the organizers. He has served on the town board for ten years and has been a school director in distriet No. 19 for eight years. He is also the chief ranger in the C. O. F. at Morton, and a member of the Catholic church, at Morton. Mr. Daun was united in marriage October 2, 1888, to Magdeline Schwartz, born January 3, 1870, daughter of Andrew and Katherine (Steinert) Dann. Mr. Steinert was a farmer, born in Germany, and came to Renville county in 1875, where he died in 1899, at the age of seventy-one years. His wife died in 1898, at the age of sixty-eight years. Eleven boys have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Dann : Frank, born March 20, 1889 : George, born February 14, 1890, manager of a lumber yard at St. Cloud ; Edward. born July 30, 1891. farmer, in Crow Wing county ; Earl, born November 15, 1892, a student from the Globe Business Col- lege. St. Paul, Min., now a stenographer at St. Paul; Frederick, born November 23, 1896; William, born November 15, 1897; Peter. born September 8, 1898: Leonard, born September 15, 1901: August, born April 18, 1903: Arthur, born July 18, 1907, and Robert. born April 30, 1912.
William F. Rieke, a resident of Franklin, was born on seetion 26. Cairo township, Renville county. December 6, 1879, son of Vietor and Minnie (Wolfers) Rieke. His father was born in Germany and came to Cairo township in 1858, with his brother. George, they being the first two settlers in the township. With his brothers. George, Adam and August, he took part in the de- fense of Ft. Ridgely during the Indian outbreak of 1862. One sister. now Mrs. Charles Fenske, of Fairfax, was also present at the time of the battle. Mr. Rieke lived on bis homestead until 1872, when he built a mill two and a half miles southeast of Franklin, and operated this until 1880. Then he came to seetion 7, Camp township, where he remained until 1912, when he moved to Franklin and lived there until his death. October 20, 1913. His wife, Minnie (Wolfers) Rieke, is still living, at the age of seventy-five years. William Rieke farmed until 1896, when he came to Franklin and entered the blacksmith and implement business with Olof Nelson. In 1903 he became the manager for the llanser Lumber Company, of Franklin, handling humber, hardware and furniture. Mr. Ricke is a stockholder in the Citi- zens Milling Company, at Franklin, and has served on the vil- lage conneil for one year. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal ehureb. April 14, 1893, he was married to Imogene Coffey, aged forty-six years. Her father. Christopher Columbus
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Coffey, was the proprietor of a hotel at Franklin and was a sol- dier of the Civil War, being first lieutenant. Ile was one of the pioneers of Franklin and now lives at Excelsior, Min. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Rieke: Amy, aged twenty ; Myrna, aged sixteen; Milo, aged fourteen ; Clella, aged eight. and Grace, aged two.
Frank Stasson, deceased, was born in Scott county, Minne- sota, in 1858, and died May 11. 1913, son of Captain Henry Stas- son and Margaret (Cain). Ilis father was killed in a battle at Nashville. Tenn., December 16, 1864. Ile enlisted in Company E., Fifth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry. April 2, 1862. For three years he served as first sergeant, on September 3, 1862, becoming second lieutenant : May 1. 1863. first lieutenant, and August 7. 1863, captain. His wife died in 1893, at the age of seventy years. Frank Stasson came to Renville county in 1879 and bought 320 arres in section 13, Birch Cooley township, where he lived until his death. He increased his farm to 510 aeres and built a fine house of six rooms in 1879 and a substantial basement barn in 1912. He served on the township board for five years and also as township clerk and member of the school board. He was a member of the M. W. A., Sons of Veterans, and a member of St. Patrick's Catholic church, in Birch Cooley township. Mr. Stas- son was married November 21, 1882, to Bridget O'Shea, born April 30. 1862. Her Father. Demis O'Shea, was born in Ireland. September 5. 1838, and died February 22, 1913. Ile came to America in 1842, living in Canada and New York for a time and in 1870 came to Renville county, where he settled on a farm in section 36, Birch Cooley township, and lived there until his death. His wife, Mary Holland, was born March 25, 1838, and married August 17, 1857. There were eight boys and three girls. Mrs. Stasson being the third child. Mr. and Mrs. Stasson have had three children: Rosa, born August 9, 1883, who married Mr. William Carline of Minneapolis, and she died August 18, 1913, leaving two children, Agnes and Joseph, who make their home with their grandmother, Mrs. Stasson; Joseph II., born December 15, 1884, and Dennis F., born October 10. 1886, who assist their mother in condueting the home farm.
Olof Nelson, a well known business man of Franklin. was born in Sweden, May 27, 1865, of the parents of Olof and Carrie Nel- son, farmers, who both died in Sweden. Mr. Nelson came to America in 1885, spending three years in London, Ontario, com- ing to St. Paul in 1888, where he also spent three years. In 1891 he located in Franklin, opening a blacksmith shop there. In 1899 it was improved and a stock of implements and vehicles was put in. In 1906 Mr. Nelson accepted the agency for automobiles and handles the Buick, Jackson, Moline and Rambler cars. Dur- ing the time Mr. Nelson has been in Franklin he has taken great
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interest in civie affairs and has served as village mayor for two years, also being a member of the village council for fifteen years. Hle is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Nelson was married July 9, 1892, to Mathildla Johnson, of St. Paul. Her father, Frederick Nelson, was a farmer in Sweden, both her par- ents dying in Sweden. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson have had two chil- dren, Phillip, born lune 1, 1893, who died February 17, 1907, and Ebba, boru June 12, 1894, who is, at present, a student at the Mankato State Normal school.
Leonard Farrenbach was born in Baden, Germany, November 4, 1848, son of Michael and Annie (Stumpf) Farrenbach, natives of Germany. The father came to America in 1852 and settled in Pennsylvania, then he came to the village of Beaver Falls, this county, where he lived until 1897, when he moved back to Pennsylvania, where he died in 1899, at the age of eighty-six years. His wife died in Germany. Leonard Farrenbach worked out on the farms until he was about twenty-five years old ; then he bought righty aeres in section 9. Birch Cooley township, in 1871, where he still lives. He now owns 400 acres and has im- proved his farm. From 1900 to 1910 he lived in Morton and then returned to the farm. Mr. Farrenbach has served on the town- ship board for three years and has been a member of the school board for two years, and is a member of the St. Patrick's Catholic church. at Birch Cooley township. Mr. Farrenbach was married Angust 4, 1873, to Mary Poss, who died December 6, 1879. She was the daughter of Charles and Regina Poss, farmers in Pen- sylvania. Four children were born: Michael, who died at the age of seventeen years: Leonard. a farmer of Norfolk township; Annie, who is the wife of Timothy Ryan, a farmer of Norfolk township : and Ellen, widow of Edward Voorge, of Seattle, Wash. Mr. Farrenbach was married a second time on January 7, 1890, to Mary Ryan, born Jannary 6, 1863, daughter of Philip, a farmer, aged eighty-seven, who lives in Norfolk township and came to Renville county in 1873, and Bridget (Gleason), who died in 1884, at the age of forty-four. The following children were born to this second marriage : Bernard, born May 24, 1891. and died June 27, 1906: Margaret, born February 2, 1892 : Mary, born June 18, 1895; Gertrude, born December 1, 1897 ; Michael, born October 31, 1899, and died December 25, 1899: Philip, born October 28, 1900: Catherine, born November 18, 1902: Emma, born November 28, 1903; and Bertha, the twin, who died Sep- tember 9, 1906.
Andrew S. Erickson, a prominent business man of this county, was born in Finland, January 8, 1866. He came to America in 1872. At the age of seventeen he began working in Minneapolis, spending four years on the railroad and in the city parks. Then for the next ten years he acted as clerk in a clothing store. In
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1898 he bought the store of Aase and Myster, in Franklin, in company with Randall Niemi and Charles Johnson. He remained in this partnership for nine years. In 1907 the firm was incor- porated as the Franklin Mercantile Company and William and John Curran were added to the company, Mr. Niemi retiring. The capital of the firm at this time amounted to $15,000. The officers were: President, Andrew S. Erickson; vice president, William J. Curran ; secretary and treasurer, John Curran. On January 1, 1914, John Curran retired and the following officers were elected : President. Andrew S. Erickson: vice president, William J. Curran; secretary and treasurer, Charles Johnson. The firm occupy a large substantial building, 25 by 96 feet, with a large basement. They do an average business of $40,000 per year, dealing in merchandise. Mr. Erickson has been prominent in public affairs of the village and has held many positions of trust. He was the village treasurer for one year. has served on the village council for three years and has been president of the council for three years. Ile is also vice president of the State Bank, president of the Citizens Milling Company, and treasurer of the Franklin Local and Rural Telephone Company. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and also of the Finnish Lutheran church. He is unmarried.
Ole J. Boyum, a well-known farmer of Camp township, was born in Norway, March 9, 1858, son of John A. Boyum, who died in 1910. at the age of seventy-five. and of Synva Boyum, who died in 1912, at the age of seventy-three. Ole J. Boyum came to America in 1879 and was employed as a farm hand until 1885. Then he bought the east half of the northwest quarter of section 15, where he now lives. He owns 160 acres, has a good nine-room house, with modern barn, silo and outbuildings. Two acres are set in fruit trees. Mr. Boyum carries on general farming and makes a specialty of raising Holstein cattle and Duroe hogs. He is a stockholder in the Co-operative Creamery, Elevator and Store at Fairfax. Mr. Boyum was married July 27. 1885, to Ragnel Nesburg, born January 1, 1864, daughter of Ole O. and Julia (Maland) Nesburg. Mr. and Mrs. Boyum have three chil- dren: Selma Julia. born September 10, 1895; Obed Joseph, born December 12, 1896, and Bertha Sarena, born Mareh 5. 1903.
Arthur Larson, a well known business man of Franklin, was born in Camp township, Renville county, October 6, 1893. His father, Andrew Larson, aged forty-five, is a farmer in Camp township, having been born there. His mother, Lonisa (Nes- burg), is still living. at the age of forty years. There were ten children in the family, eight boys and two girls. When he was nineteen years of age Mr. Larson opened a motorcycle garage at Franklin, in which he is still engaged. He sells the Yale, Indian and Excelsior motoreyeles and also Grant motor cars, and
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does all kinds of repairing. During the first two years he sold fifty-seven motoreyeles and four Grant motor ears. He also han- dles a large and complete line of supplies. Mr. Larson is a mem- ber of the Norwegian Lutheran church. . Mr. Larson was mar- ried June 30, 1915, to Olga Lund, daughter of Claus and Mary Inmd, of Palmyre township, this county, settlers of 1885.
Luke H. Kirwin, an enterprising druggist of Franklin, was born in Fillmore county, Minnesota, January 17, 1876. His father, James Kirwin, an early farmer and pioneer of Fillmore county, died in 1912, at the age of eighty-seven years. ITis mother, Anne Moran, died at the age of seventy-four, in 1910. Mr. Kirwin graduated from the Spring Valley High school, in 1894. At the age of twenty he began working for B. W. Hunt- ley. a druggist of Spring Valley, Minn., where he remained for one year. He then attended the pharmaey department at the University of Minnesota, graduating in 1897. During the next year he clerked in a drug store at Wells, and at Minneapolis. Next he moved to Morton, and became the manager of a drug store at that place. After a year's stay there he bought the drug store of C. G. V. Cormonton, at Franklin, in January, 1899, and has lived there ever since. Mr. Kirwin is a stockholder in the Minnesota Pharmaceutical Association, a stockholder and di- rector in the Citizens Milling Company, at Franklin, and a stoek- holder in the Franklin Local and Rural Telephone Company. He is also a member of the Knights of Columbus at Fairfax, and a member of the Modern Woodmen of America. He has been a member of the village conneil for six years. August 7. 1900, Mr. Kirwin was married to Neva Blackmar, of Buffalo, New York, daughter of Anson and Helen Blackmar. Her father was a harness dealer, of Buffalo. Six children have been born to this marriage : Lillian, born August 9, 1901 ; Geneva, born April 12, 1904: Valeria, born April 15, 1907 ; John, born May 3, 1908; Vin- cent. born May 18, 1909, and Winnifred, born February 17, 1913.
Jacob C. Wagner, a merchant of Franklin, was born in Ger- many, October 18, 1866, son of Jacob Wagner, a contractor in Germany, aged eighty-nine years, and Katherine (Lutz), aged eighty-nine years. Jacob Wagner came to America in 1878, at the age of twelve, coming with a neighbor, to whom his father had given money for the child's transportation, expenses and care after reaching America. After reaching Castle Garden the neighbor deserted the boy, taking his money, and Jacob was taken in charge by a priest, who secured a position for him with a man in the meat business in Brooklyn, where he remained for four years. Then he worked two years in the stockyards in Chicago and next worked one year in Dubuque, Iowa. Then he became the manager of the meat market in Fairfax, where he remained for one year. In 1893 he purchased a market in
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Franklin and conducted same until 1912, when he sold the busi- ness and property and opened a confectionery and groeery store and has continued in this line since. He handles groceries, candies, eigars and also operates a soda fountain. On September 20, 1915, he again purchased the meat business and conveyed same to his son Clarence, who is now sole owner and proprietor. Mr. Wagner served on the village commeil for one year and is a member of the German Lutheran church. He is also a member of the Modern Brotherhood of America. lle was married July 15, 1873, to Theresa Melbauer, who died in 1908 at the age of forty-two years. She was a native of New Ulm. By this marriage four children were born: Clarence, aged twenty-one years, in the meat busi- ness at Franklin; Katherine, aged nineteen, a milliner at Wood Lake: Freida, aged sixteen, a nurse at St. Mary's Hospital, St. Panl: Mamie, aged fourteen, at home. Mr. Wagner was mar- ried a second time, December 1, 1908, to Emma Lindgren, of Franklin. The following children were born to this marriage: Katherine, aged six; Jacob, aged five, and Emma, aged four.
Henry Halverson, a prosperous business man of Franklin, was born in Camp township, Renville county, Minnesota, November 30, 1872. This father, John Halverson, came to America in 1856 and to Renville county in 1858, where he engaged in farming. Ile died in 1895 at the age of sixty-eight years. Ilis mother, Julia (Land) Halverson, died in 1906 at the age of seventy-six. Henry Halverson began farming, renting the home farm, remain- ing there for fifteen years. In 1897 he bought the home farm, which is located in section 17, Camp township. He also operated a threshing machine until 1910, when he gave up farming and built a garage in Franklin. This building is 40 by 80, with a 40 by 60 foot basement, constructed of cement blocks with cement floors. It has a well equipped machine shop and an 800-gallon distance Bowser gasoline outfit, and a steam vulcanizing plant. The building will accommodate twenty-five cars. Cars are not sold, as only repair work and storage is done. Mr. Halverson was a member of the school board in Camp township for two years and is a director of the Citizens' State Bank of Franklin. He is a member of the Norwegian Intheran church and is unmar- ried.
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