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IIe is a member of the school board and helped organize dis- triet No. 120. Mr. Rich was married in Wisconsin in 1876 to Abby Waite, born in Wisconsin, daughter of Smith L. and Elmira (Eld- ridge) Waite. Samuel L. Waite was a native of New York. El- mira Eldridge was a native of Maine and of English parentage. Mr. and Mrs. James H. Rich are parents of five children : Arthur, born July 2, 1875, was married to Mary Buckley, and lives at Minneapolis. Charles, born Inne 22, 1878, was accidentally killed at Cass Lake, Minn., while loading logs at the landing. Mark, born July 27, 1882, conduets the home farm. He is a member of the M. W. A. and of the 1. O. O. F. He served as town clerk for one year and was school treasurer nine years. He was married to IIelna Meier and has two children, Dorris Beryl and Arthur Henry. Elgie, born July 17, 1885, resides at home. Beryl, born Dee. 9, 1888, married Arthur W. Ritchie and lives at Royalton, Wisconsin
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Phillip Bingenheimer, one of the prosperous and progressive farmers of Renville county, was born in Hanover, Wright county, this state, Feb. 27, 1856, son of Jacob and Margaret (Schneider) Bingenheimer, who were born in Germany, came to the United States in 1842 and 1851, respectively, were married in Fond du Lac, Wis., settled in the early fifties in Wright county, this state. engaged in farming a while, later moved to Minneapolis, where the father engaged in the milling business and there ended their days, the father in 1873 and the mother in 1910. In the family there were nine children: Phillip ; Mary, now Mrs. James Kistler, of Minneapolis. Ferdinand, of Mandan, North Dakota: Lonisa, now Mrs. Charles Sehnacke, of St. Paul ; George, of Mandan, North Dakota; Edward, of Timmers, North Dakota; Catherine, now of Minneapolis ; and Gustave A. and Ida, of Minneapolis.
Phillip Bingenheimer was afflicted with poor eyes during the first twelve years of his life and this was a great handieap to him in obtaining an edneation. He remained at home until he was twenty-two years of age, and then started to work out as a farm hand. In 1878 he took a homestead in Crooks township. this county, but disposed of it, and in 1882 purchased 40 acres in section 19, Troy township. He erected a shanty, worked his land summers and teamed winters in Minneapolis. In 1884 he was married and settled permanently on his farm. By hard work. intelligent effort, and frugal habits he has increased his holdings until he now owns 400 acres located in sections 17, 18 and 19, Troy township. Hle has made many improvements, erected a splendid dwelling. a fine set of barns and outbuildings, and the necessary sheds and the like. He has a well tilled, well fenced farm, and his machinery, tools, implements and equipment are of the best. Aside from carrying on general farming on an extensive scale. he makes a specialty of breeding Black Poll Angus cattle. Aside from his farming interests, Mr. Bingenheimer is a stockholder in the Farmers' Elevator at Dannbe and in the Danube State Bank. Mr. Bingenheimer was married June 7, 1884, to Paulina Hussoek, who was born in Germany June 1, 1865, and was brought to this country in 1871 by her parents, August and Christina (Fnssan) Hussock. Mr. and Mrs. Bingenheimer have had six children : Walter E., Florence, Eleanor, Harry, Richard and Margaret. Walter E. is a farmer of Flora township. He was married June 3, 1915, to Bertha Blaek, who was born June 1, 1896. Florence lives in Brookings, South Dakota. She was born May 4, 1890, and was married Sept. 5, 1912, to Edward Black. Eleanor, born July 29, 1895, and Harry, born April 23, 1897, are both at home. Richard and Margaret died in infancy. August Hussoek was born in Germany, married Christina Fussan, came to this eountry in June, 1871, lived two months in New Ulm, took a homestead in Emmet township, this county, in October, 1871, and there en-
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gaged in farming. Mrs. Hussock died in 1911, and Mr. Hussock now makes his home with his daughter, Mrs. Phillip Bingenheimer. They were the parents of three children : Paulina, now Mrs. Phil- lip Bingenheimer ; Paul, of Portland, Oregon. and Matilda, now Mrs. Ernest Hoffman, of Emmet township.
Anton M. Holtan, retired farmer and business man, of Renville. Min., was born March 23, 1857, at Laurdahl, Norway, the son of Mathew JJ. and Ceeil Marie (Oldberg) Holtan. He came to America in 1874 and spent two years in Minneapolis, leaving there for Riverside, where he condneted a general store, going from there to Dawson, where he pursued the same business for the same length of time. Selling ont he went to Sacred Heart, where he sold farm implements and acted as the agent of the Singer Sew- ing Machine Co. Hle disposed of this business in 1890 and eame to Renville, where he bought out Rolson & Kleimenhagen. the meat dealers. Ife formed a partnership with his brother Edward and for four years the new firm conducted the business, when it was sold to Ora Howe. Mr. Holtan then purchased 320 aeres of land in Crooks township, where he resided one year, leaving there for Renville where he now lives. In addition to this farm he owns 160 aeres in Sacred Heart township and 30 aeres in Ren- ville city in addition to his home there. For many years he has been a stoek buyer and is engaged in that business now. At one time he owned an elevator at Renville, which he operated for three years. In polities he is independent. He is a member of the Norwegian Lutheran church.
Mr. Holtan was married Feb. 2, 1906, to Laura Peterson. born Ang. 7, 1869, at Norland. Norway, daughter of Pierre and Aliee (Swenson) Peterson. Mrs. Holtan came to America Sept. 6. 1904. and lived for a short time at Hesper, Iowa, removing to Renville county, Minn., in 1905.
Mathew J. Holtan was born in 1815 at Laurdahl, Norway, and died April 11, 1885, at Norway, never having been in America. He married Cecil Marie Oldberg, born in 1825 at Oldberg, Nor- way, the date of the wedding being in 1844. Mrs. Holtan came to America in 1890 and died at Minneapolis in 1894. She was the mother of eight children: Jacob, who died in Minneapolis ; Regenia, dead ; Regenia. now Mrs. A. Hanson ; Edward, who died in Minneapolis in 1906: Anton M., of Renville ; Lars, who died in Minneapolis in 1892: Martin, who died in Minneapolis in 1885; Elsie Andrea, now Mrs. E. Myrhe, who is living in Norway.
Pierre Peterson, born lannary 6, 1825, at Henningvar, Norway, died Dee. 11, 1901, at Henningvar, Norway. He married Alice Swenson in 1857. She was born Sept. 24. 1836, at Overholen, Norway, and died Aug. 28, 1898, at Henningvar, Norway. Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Peterson ever came to America. They had ten ehil- dren; John. of Henningvar, Norway: Laura, now Mrs. A. M.
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Holtan, of Renville, and Simon, Edward, Karl, Anton, Julius, Anton, Conrad and Alfred, all of whom are dead.
Charles Gustaf Johnson, county surveyor of Renville county, was born July 30, 1845, in Sweden. His parents, John Peter Johnson and Betsy Johnson, came to America in 1853. After his father's death, he and his mother went to St. Peter, Minn., settling there in the fall of 1856. On August 18, 1862, Mr. Johnson en- listed in Company D of the Ninth Minnesota Volunteers, and served until the close of the war. His regiment was sent first to Ft. Snelling, where they were drilled and taught the commands. In September Company D was sent to St. Peter, Minn., to help put down an Indian uprising, which broke out August 18, 1862. Mr. Johnson was one of the guards at the hanging of thirty- eight Indians at Mankato, Minn., Dec. 26, 1862. In March, 1863, Company D was sent to JJudson Min., where it built a sod fort 165 feet square, and was engaged in subduing the Indians through- ont the summer of 1863. For a while Company D was stationed at Fairmount, Minn., where it erected a log fort. In August one- half of the company was sent twelve miles northwest From Fair- mount to ereet a sod fort, 132 feet square, called Chanyuska. This sod fort was near the shore of a small lake by the same name. The fort was nine feet in height on the outside, the walls were nine feet thiek at the bottom : the inside walls graduated upward by steps to two feet in thickness, the last two feet of the height containing many portholes. In the two diagonal corners were built two round projections, of the same height as the walls, for firing purposes along the walls. On October 8, 1863, the company was ordered to St. Louis, Mo., and arrived there Oet. 12, and left there Oct. 13, for Jefferson City, Mo. On March 7, 1864, the company was ordered to Kansas City, Mo. Here there was fight- ing with Quantrell's bushwhackers. May 21, 1864, a move was made to Memphis. Tenn., under General Stergus. Here the troops were opposed by General Johnson and General N. B. Forrest. On June 1, the troops started on a raid headed for Guntown, Miss. On June 10, ninety miles out from Memphis, the troops met defeat at the hands of the enemy. The retreat toward Memphis was a running fight, the enemy crowding close on the rear. On line 12, about eighteen miles west from the town of Ripley, Mr. JJohn- son, with a number of others, was captured and sent to Anderson- ville prison, Ga., arriving there June 19, 1864. He was confined there three months and eleven days, until Oet. 1, 1864. There were about 35,000 prisoners there at that time. Hle was then re- moved to Savannah. Ga., and Oet. 10 left for Millen. Nov. 21 he left for Blackshear, Ga., where he remained four days, and while there signed parole papers. Ile left Blackshear on those parole papers, by way of Charleston, S. C. While the prisoners were passing through Charleston the town was shelled by the United
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States guns, from some island about seven miles off to the east, a shell dropping about every minute. Arriving at Florence, S. C., on Nov. 28, 1864, the paroled prisoners were inelosed in another prison pen, and given the same inhuman treatment as at Ander- sonville, Ga. The food was scant and each person had to dig himself down into the earth into a hole big enough for two per- sons to be side by side to keep from freezing to death. About March 1, 1865, the prisoners were put aboard a freight train, en route for the Libby prison at Richmond, Va. It was said that Gen. Sheridan's army cut off the railroad connection into Rich- mond, so March 3, 1865, the prisoners were put off at some point in North Carolina and were carried down the Cape Fear river on a United States Transport to Wilmington, North Carolina, ar- riving there March 4. Here they were fed ; and weakened by their nine months of terrible hardships and privation, the unaceus- tomed diet made many very ill, Mr. Johnson included. March 8, 1865, they were again put on a transport at Wilmington, North Carolina, which conveyed them to Annapolis, Md., where they were well fed, and bathed, and fitted out with new clothing. From Annapolis Mr. Johnson was sent to Benton Barracks, Mo., and thence home on sick leave. August 13, 1865, he rejoined his regi- ment at Ft. Snelling and was mustered out August 19, 1865. His mother having married again, he went to his step-father's home (his mother having died Oct. 13, 1861), where he remained until 1870. After finishing the common school he entered the academy at Carver, Minn .. graduating in 1867. He studied eivil engineer- ing at home and assisted other surveyors as chain man. In 1870 he bought 120 acres of land in Renville county, Minn., and added to his holdings until at one time he had 433 aeres. He now has 160 acres of the original farm. In 1873 he was elected county surveyor, and has been in continuous service ever sinee. He has the honor of being the oldest county surveyor in point of service in the state. In 1897 our veteran made his home in Renville. Ile is a Republican and has served as notary public, postmaster ten years at Vicksburg, Minn., justice of the peace, township super- visor and assessor. The family worship at the Swedish Lutheran church of Sacred Heart which was organized in the year 1871 and of which Mr. Johnson is a charter member.
Mr. Johnson was married April 12, 1868, at St. Peter, Minn .. to Christina M. Holmberg, daughter of John Peter and Louisa Holmberg. She was born in Hvetlanda, Sweden, Sept. 7. 1850, and came to America with her brother Carl, arriving in June, 1866. Seven children were born of this marriage: Frank (de- ceased, Ang. 25, 1915, at Seattle, Wash.), electrical engineer, a graduate of the University of Minnesota, and for ten years pro- fessor of electrical engineering at the University of Washington; Hilda L., a nurse; Anna A. (deceased, March 1, 1912, at Minne-
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apolis, Minn.), a graduate of the Gustafus Adolphus college at St. Peter, Minn .; C. Augusta (deceased, March 29, 1898, at Vieks- burg, Minn.) ; Carl Walter, of St. Paul, Minn .; a civil engineer, state highway commissioner and bridge inspector, a graduate of Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind .; Emily C., a Chicago music teacher and pipe organist, and Florence A., a graduate of the University of Minnesota, teacher and supervisor of public school music at Ewa, Hawaiian Islands.
Jolin Peter Johnson was born Feb. 18, 1816, in Sweden, where he carried on farming. Coming to America in 1853 he went to Chicago and while there the whole family was taken sick with the cholera, the result being that all, with the exception of Mrs. Johnson and Charles, succumbed to the disease, the father dying August 11. 1854. There were four children in the family, Charles Gustaf and August, who died in Chicago in 1853, and Clara and John who died there in 1854.
Betsy S. Johnson was born Sept. 18, 1816, in Grenna. Sweden. Two years after the death of her husband in Chicago she went to St. Peter, Minn., where she earned her living in various ways, with the help of such assistance as Charles could give. In a few months she took up a claim in Nicollet county, built a log cabin and made improvements from time to time. July 7, 1857, she mar- ried John Magnus Johnson, by whom she had two children, Ma- tilda M. and Anna J., both of whom are now dead. Her second husband died in 1899.
John Peter Holmberg was born in Sweden and died at St. Peter, Minn. His wife, Louisa Holmberg, died in Sweden. She was the mother of seven children: Louisa, now Mrs. Joseph An- derson ; Christina M., the wife of Charles G. Johnson ; Lena, now Mrs. Jonas Linstrom; Jonas, who died in 1867; John M., de- ceased in 1913; Carl, who died in the same year : Eva. the wife of S. A. Peterson.
Edwin S. Johnson, the efficient postmaster of Franklin, was born in Columbia county, Wis., Aug. 9, 1855, son of Samuel and Aliee (Anderson) Johnson, natives of Norway, who located in Columbia county, Wis., in 1854, and in 1867 took a claim in Wan- namingo township, Goodhue county, this state where they died, he in 1889, at the age of eighty-four and she, in 1870. at the age of fifty-seven. Of the twelve children. only two, Edwin S. and Katie (now wife of E. O. Hangesag, a retired farmer of Kenyon, Minn.) are now living. Edwin S. Johnson started in life for himself at the age of fifteen years by working as a farm hand. At the age of eighteen he, with brother Halvar. came to Renville county and opened a grocery store near the schoolhouse of District 1, in see- tion 18, Camp township. They conducted this store from 1873 to 1874. During the season of 1875 he was in the harvest fields in Lae qui Parle, owing to the ravages of the grasshoppers who had
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eaten the Renville county crops. In 1876 Edwin S., together with his brother-in-law. Engebret Thompson, started farming on the place of their mother-in-law, Mrs. John Anderson, in the same sec- tion. In 1879 he sold his interest in the farm to Engebret Thomp- son and moved to section 12, township 112, range 34, Birch Cooley. In the spring of 1881 he was appointed postmaster of Franklin, the office then being located three-quarters of a mile southeast of the present site of the village. In the fall of 1882, Mr. Johnson moved to the new village of Franklin. He was the first settler of Franklin village. In the summer he had built the first building into which he moved the postoffice and in which the first store was also located. this being conducted by Hohle Brothers (Sever and Andrew . This was before the streets were laid out or before it was platted. consequently when it was platted his building stood in the middle of the Third street, so he had to move it on to the corner of the new road, block 1. lot 15. In 1885 he laid in a stoek of general merchandise. In 1889 he soll ont and managed an Elevator for the Great Western Elevator Co .. for nine years. Then he managed a store for P. P. Lee. A year and a half later he and Mathias Kelly bought the store, but after another year had passed, he sold the place to Mr. Kelly and with C. H. Hopkins and John M. Johnson engaged in the land business for two years. Then with Iver Mahlum as a partner he conducted a general store at Franklin. Feb. I. 1907. he sold out his interest in the store to become postmaster. having received his commission, and on April 5. 1907, entered the postoffice where he has continued ever since. Ile has been village recorder for four years and secretary of the school board thirty years. He has been secretary of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Trinity church since its organi- zation. Edwin S. Johnson was married. Jan. 7, 1875, to Gurina Anderson, born Nov. 22, 1855, daughter of John and Martha An- derson a sister of A. J. Anderson. of Camp township, and twin sister of Mrs. Engebret Thompson, of Camp township. Of their nine children. seven are living. Aliee and Samuel are dead. Jeanette is the wife of O. A. Olson, assistant cashier of the Frank- lin State Bank. George is a railroad employee at Butte, Mon- tana. Martha is the wife of J. L. Jacobs, editor and owner of the Franklin "Tribune." Leona. Arthur, Grace and Mary are at home.
Julius O. Anderson, a successful farmer and stock raiser of Melville township, was born in Bandon township, this county, Jan. 1. 1881, son of Ole and Sophia Johanna (Bogema) Anderson. Ile attended the district schools of Bandon and on March 22, 1903, graduated from the agricultural department of the University of Minnesota. He remained at home until twenty-three years of age, and then rented a farm in section 5. Melville township. In 1910 he purchased from his father 160 aeres in the northwest quarter
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of the same section. In 1912 he rebuilt the house and erected a 16 by 36 stave silo. In 1915 he rebuilt the barn, making it 32 by 76 feet with a 14-foot leanto. He carries on general farming, keeps some fifty head of cattle including six head of registered Jerseys, and ships some 100 Duroc-Jersey swine each year. Al- though busy with his own duties, Mr. Anderson has not neglected public affairs, and for twelve years he has done good service as clerk of the school board of his district. He is one of the directors of the Bird Island Farmers' Elevator Co.
He was married June 12, 1912, to Emma Poore, who was born in Osceola township, this county, Aug. 24, 1884, daughter of Ham- lin V. and Caroline (Hibbard.) Poore. llamlin V. Poore was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, was married Feb. 20, 1873. to Caroline Hibbard, a native of Desota, Missouri, came to Osceola township in 1876, took up a homestead of 160 acres in the southeast quarter of section 19, became one of the most extensive bee-raisers in the state and still makes his home there.
Ole Anderson was born Dec. 17. 1853. m Norway, came to America in 1860, lived in Iowa for about a year, located in Spring Grove, Houston county, this state, about three years, came to Renville county, and located in Camp township, bought a quarter section of railroad land in section 23, Bandon. added 160 more in section 35 in 1897 and there lived until June 9, 1899, when he traded his land and came into possession of the north half and the southwest quarter of section 5, Melville township. In 1907 he retired to Bird Island. His wife was born in Norway Dee. 9, 1854, came to America at the age of twelve years, and died in Bird Island Aug. 9, 1913.
William Harvey Jewell, a successful farmer of Bird Island, was born Jan. 3, 1831, in Saratoga connty, New York, son of Jo- seph and Hannah (Greenfield) Jewell. His father and grand- father were also born in New York State. his grandfather living to the age of 105. The family came to New York from Holland in Colonial days. Joseph Jewell, the father, a carpenter by trade, left New York in 1847, and located at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, where he lived for six or seven years. There William H. Jewell saw the first raft go over Bull Falls. It had eight men on it and went over without any trouble but the second raft became stuck and the men worked all day before they could get it over. Mr. Jewell assisted in the building of a sawmill thirty miles above on the river. In the spring of 1867 he located in Renville county, securing 160 acres on the east Birch Cooley ereek, where he erected a frame house and started farming with an ox team and a horse team. Later he moved to Bird Island where he bought a traet of 80 acres, a part of which was under water. He lived there three years and then he sold this property and bought the block in Bird Island, where he erected a substantial residence which
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he afterward sold. He also sold lots 1, 4, and 5, but afterward bought back a half of lot 5. Then he erected his present sightly residence. Mr. Jewell has held several offices, his first office being that of sheriff of Renville county in 1869. The county seat was then located at Beaver Falls. Ile was also postmaster at Birch Cooley ten years being one of the first postmasters of the county. He has been chairman of the board of supervisors and has also been street commissioner on the village board, many good roads being built in this section during that time. Mr. Jewell was mar- ried at the age of twenty-one to Caroline Bunce. To this union were born five children: Lucian, a farmer at Morgan ; Bell, now Mrs. Chas. Cane, of Brook Park, Min .: Sarah (deceased) ; Georgiana, now Mrs. Alex De Witt, of Dogden, North Dakota, and Leonard, a farmer of North Dakota. The present Mrs. Jewell was Ellen Day, widow of William Ryan, and daughter of Joseph and Martha M. (Diekey) Day. She was born in Lafayette county, Wisconsin, Feb. 18, 1855. By her marriage to Win. Ryan the fol- lowing children were born: John, of Appleton, Wis .; William, who is manager of the Farmers' Elevator of Sheldon, North Da- kota ; Mary (deceased), and James, who is on a claim in Montana.
Peter Lahti, pioneer hunter and trapper, was born in Finland in 1834. As a young man he went to Norway. From Hammer- fest, Norway, with his family, he set sail for the United States, landing at Montreal after a seven weeks' trip aboard a sailing vessel, going thenee to Quebec, and thence to Chicago, from which city they came to St. Peter, Minnesota. He there enlisted in the First Minnesota Heavy Artillery and served ten months. In the fall of 1865 he came to Renville county and, in 1866, took a home- stead of 160 aeres in section 12. in Birch Cooley, township 112, range 34. There he established his home. He had a camp on the north side of Bird Island lake, and there he went yearly to hunt and trap. One year he brought home 9,000 muskrat skins in one load, which he sold at from 10 to 15 cents each. After a long and useful life he died July 7. 1911. His wife, Johanna, now lives with her son, Charles Lahti.
Charles Lahti, who has been actively identified with Renville county life for many years past, was born in Norway, of Swedish ancestry, Nov. 22, 1859, son of Peter and Johanna Lahti. He was brought to America by his parents, and after locating with them in St. Peter for a while, came with them to Birch Cooley town- ship. As a youth, he helped about the farm, hunted and trapped with his father, and attended the district sehools at times. In 1877 he went to Minneapolis and did railroad work for three years. In 1880 he rented the home place, in section 12, for five years and then purchased it. Being an enterprising and sneeessful farmer he soon was able to increase his holdings, and added to this tract until he owned 416 acres in Renville county, 160 in Aitkin county
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and two small farms twenty-two miles from Tampa, Florida. In 1903 he retired and moved to the village of Franklin, where he now resides. He is a stockholder in the milling company and has various other interests. Mr. Lahti has a clock, bought in St. Peter in 1865, which still rims and keeps good time.
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