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Charles Lahti was married Dee. 22, 1890, to Bertha Ylilahta, and they have had four children : Mabel, who died at the age of twelve; Sadie, who died at the age of ten: Esther, who died at the age of eight. and Stella, at home.
Theo. Kaegbein, contractor of Fairfax, was born in Jefferson county, Wis., Feb. 19, 1871, son of Henry and Minnie (Drager) Kaegbein. His father was born in Germany. April 23. 1813, and his mother was born in the Province of Posen, Nov. 30, 1823. They came to America in 1850 and engaged in farming in Jeffer- son county. Wis. The father died May 31, 1903, and the mother died May 7, 1900. Theo. Kaegbein lived at home until eighteen years of age, when he went to Illinois and worked out on farms. Then he engaged in carpenter work at New Ulm in 1892 and continued in this work until 1899, when he came to Fairfax. Here he also engaged in carpenter work and continued until 1909, when he engaged in general contracting and building and has been very successful. Mr. Kaegbein was married June 7, 1905. to Pauline Schumacher, of Cairo township, daughter of Ernst Schumacher. Mrs. Kaegbein took first prize at Renville county fair at Bird Island in 1915 on the following : curtains with tatted inserting, home-made hard soap, rye bread, angel food cake, fruit cookies and piccallili. In 1914 she took first prizes on hand embroidered center-piece. camed corn, canned peaches and pickled pears.
Cornelius O. Knudson, restaurant keeper of Fairfax, was born in La Salle county, Ill., May 25, 1870, son of Henry Knudson, a retired farmer of Humboldt, Iowa, who was born March 4, 1842, and of Martha Knudson, who was born Aug. 13, 1849. At the age of twenty-one, Cornelius O. Knudson started out in life for him- self, and was variously employed for some twelve years, eight of which years he spent with L. J. Grove, of his native county. For five years he farmed in Emmet county, lowa. In 1909 he operated a bakery in Humboldt, lowa, for five months, and in the fall of that year came to Fairfax and purchased the old Detweiler restaurant from G. M. Emerson. He owns the build- ing and operates a first-class place. He also owns 160 acres of land in Clay county, Minn.
Mr. Knudson was married Jan. 3, 1910, to Mrs. Marie Boynm, born April 1, 1878, daughter of John and Bertha (Ness) Mun- dahl, and widow of Ole E. Boyum, a farmer of Bandon township, this county. John Mundahl and his sister live with his aged mother in Toronto, South Dakota. She was born Jan. 14, 1813.
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Bertha (Ness) Mundahl eame to America with her parents in 1852, the voyage aboard a sailing vessel taking eleven weeks. She died in 1893. By her marriage to Ole E. Boyum, Mrs. Marie (Mundahl) Knudson has two children: Joseph Benjamin. born July 21, 1904; and Ella Constance, born May 13, 1906. The fam- ily faith is that of the Norwegian Lutheran church.
Hans Gunderson, now deceased, was one of the earliest set- tlers of Wang township. and his name will be remembered as long as the early story of the county is related. He was born in Christiania. Norway, July 6, 1832, and was there reared to manhood. It was in 1866 that he came to America and located in Rochester. Ohnsted county, in this state. A year later he found his way to Renville county and secured a homestead of 160 aeres in section 28, Wang township. On this homestead he erected a log cabin and started to cultivate the land. He planted groves, developed the farm, went through the privations of the grasshopper time and experienced all the rigors of pioneer life. For five years he lived alone. but in 1873 he married and brought his wife to his primitive abode. Together they labored and, though there were many discouragements and many difficulties to be overcome. they faeed life with courage and. in time, were num- bered among the most prosperous people in the community. The old log cabin gave place to a sightly frame residenee and the straw shack which sheltered their first stock made room for a commodious barn and suitable ontbuildings. After a long, sue- cessful career as a hardworking farmer. Mr. Gunderson retired in 1907, and moved his family to Sacred Heart village. Inaction, however, did not please him and. in 1910, he returned to the farm and operated it for two years more. Then he moved to Granite Falls, erected a home, and there lived until his lamented death, Dec. 19, 1913. His wife still lives in that village. Her memory of the early days is very vivid and she has many inter- esting stories to tell of pioneer times when she lived in a log cabin and kept house and raised a family amid the most unfa- vorable conditions. Mrs. Gunderson was born in 1849 in Nor- way. her maiden name being Bergit Myrhougen.
Mr. and Mrs. Gunderson have had six children : Marie. Richard, Clara, Ililda. Emma and Carl. Marie married Edward Paulson. of Sacred Heart township. and their children are : Hilma. Elvin. Arthur, Esther, Viola, Leona, Florence and Helen. Richard now lives in Montevideo, this state. He married Laura Brad- shaw. Clara married M. I. Larson, of Granite Falls, and they have one child, Berdie. Hilda married S. O. Odegaard, of Hawk Creek township, and their children are: Otis and Berdie Idella. Emma conduets a restaurant in Montana. Carl died at the age of eighteen years.
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Leopold Wohlman, a pioneer, was born in Germany, April 22, 1830, there grew to manhood, and learned the trades of ma- chinist and weaver. It was in Germany that he married Hannalı Stummer. He left his native country in 1866, coming to the United States by sailing vessel, spending six weeks on the water, and landed at New York port, where he worked for about two years at his trade as machinist. Then he moved with his family to Minnesota for the purpose of establishing a home. They came by rail as far as St. Peter, Minnesota, and then hired a team of horses and drove to the Spurber home on section 3, in Flora township. This was in 1868; and they stayed with the Spurber family until spring. Mr. Wohlman had located a homestead in section 28, in Flora township, seenring a tract of 80 acres. Dur- ing the winter he busied himself by gathering together the logs and materials needed to build a home and in May, 1869, the fam- ily moved into the new home. He also built a shed on the side of the house for the cow and calf. He had no money and had borrowed enough to bring his family to Renville, county. He had traded a shotgun he had bought in New York city for the cow, and it was two years before he could afford a team of oxen. Ile earned money for this by working for the farmers in the har- vest season. He used this team to break the land, and here he lived until 1898, when he moved to an adjoining 80-acre traet. where he lived for ten years. He had increased this to 160 acres and built part of the present frame house and good barns and a frame granary. He raised a good grade of stock. Mr. Wohlman was an active member of the German Lutheran church and helped organize the Middle Creek German Lutheran church. For two years the services of this church were held in his log house. lle was one of the first trustees and was a member of the church board practically all the time that he lived in this section. He now lives in Renville at the age of eighty-five years. His wife, Ilannah Stummer, was born Oet. 3, 1830. in Germany, and died in 1907 at the age of seventy-seven years. Seven children were born to these parents: Anna, Mary, Lonisa. Leopold (deceased). Fred, Bertha and Clara.
August Beyer was born in Germany, Aug. 8, 1837, and came to Minnesota when he was eighteen yearse of age. He worked on the farms in the neighborhood of Minneapolis and Roches- ter and mowed hay near White Bear Lake with a seythe. St. . Paul was then but a very small town. lle located as a pioneer of Greenwood Prairie, Olmsted county, where he worked for the other farmers and finally located a place of his own in Blue Earth county, where he married. Later they moved to Renville eonnty and located a farm in seetion 19, Flora township. They are both living in Renville. There were eleven children in the family : Emma, Dorethea, Amanda (deceased). Lizzie. Ida, Ar-
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thur, Walter, Ella, Mary (deceased), Charles (deceased), and William (deceased).
Fred W. Wohlman, a well-known farmer of Flora township, was born March 3, 1871, on his present place, then the homestead of his father, Leopold and Hannah (Stummer) Wohlman. He was reared on the home farm and, after his marriage, took charge of the old homestead, a traet of 160 acres, where he has lived ever since. He has increased the home farm to 280 acres and also farms 240 aeres in Beaulieu township. Mahnoman county, in the northern part of the state. He carries on general farming and keeps a good grade of stock. He is a shareholder in the Farmers' Co-operative Elevator Company of Delhi. He has been the treasurer of Flora township for seven years and is a member of the German Lutheran church. Fred W. Wohlman was mar- ried Sept. 23, 1898, to Dorethea Beyer, who was born in Blue Earth county. this state, Aug. 30, 1877, daughter of August and Hannah (Rhodes) Beyer. This union has been blessed with eight children : Oscar, born in 1899 ; George, born June 24, 1902; Esther, born Aug. 8, 1904; Irene, born June 9, 1906; Alfred, born May 24, 1908; Otto, born Nov. 29, 1909; Clara, born Sept. 3, 1911, and Harold, born Aug. 15, 1915.
Gustave A. Schafer was born Feb. 2, 1872, in the okl log house on the farm of his father, Ilenry Schafer, in section 24, Flora township, which farm he now owns. He remained with his par- ents until he grew to manhood. He has taken great interest in public affairs and held several township offices, having been town- ship assessor for four years and director of the school district for the past ten years. He has served as road overseer for the past two years and has been appointed town clerk. He is a stock- holder in the Danube Farmers' Telephone Company. Mr. Schafer was united in marriage Oct. 13, 1899, to Mary Zimmer, born in Flora township, daughter of Peter and Gertrude Zimmer. Mr. and Mrs. Schafer have two children: Arthur and Ruth. The family worship at the Evangelist church.
A. D. Smith and wife, Margaret, came to Minnesota in March. 1886, and settled in the township of Erieson, Renville county, establishing a home there, where they still reside. By neighborly aets and square dealing they acquired the friendship and esteem of a large circle of neighbors and acquaintances, and were always ready to give a helping hand to the uplift of the neighborhood, having assisted very materially in the organiza- tion of School District 116. and to the present time (1915), A. D. Smith has been the only clerk and has issued each and every teachers' contract and school order ever issued in the district. He has held several town offices and refused to accept more such offices than he has held. He generally takes great interest in polities and has very materially aided in the defeat of certain
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aspiring eandidates, both to state and county offices. He is proud of the fact that he did as much, or more, than any other indi- vidual in the state, with the single exception of Robert Dunn, to elect the late and lamented John A. Johnson, governor of Minnesota, the first time he was elected. A. D. Smith has been a factor in the defeat of certain undesirable candidates to minor offices in whose interests more dollars' worth of "liquid influ- ence" were "set up" during the campaigns that the salary of the coveted offices amounted to. (Written by A. D. Smith, April 26, 1915, southwest quarter, section 12, range 37, township 116.) Charles Kenning, an early settler of Renville county, was born in Mecklenburg, Schwerin, Germany, March 28, 1850, son of Henry and Fredricka (Dammann) Kenning, natives of Meeklen- burg, who came to America in 1853, located in Buffalo, New York, removed to Toronto in 1854 and in April, 1858, settled in Chaska, Carver county, Minn., where the father engaged in contracting and building, until his death, May 24, 1881. The mother died March 10, 1900. There were four children in the family : Henry, who died Jan. 6, 1900; Charles; Theodore, of Minneapolis; and Fred, of Minneapolis. Charles Kenning was brought to America by his parents and attended the public school and Moravian Academy at Chaska. In the summers of 1860, 1861 and 1862, when still a small boy, he was engaged as an ox teamster by J. A. Dunkle, who operated a barge on the Minnesota river, ship- ping wood to St. Paul. At the time of the Indian outbreak, in 1862, his team was one of those drafted to haul provisions from Carver to the soldiers in the Indian country. Although a mere lad of twelve years, he remained by his team and was near IIutch- inson when the Indians attacked that village. The train was then ordered baek to Gleneoe, where all the ox teams were discharged. Young Henning then returned to Chaska, and again took up his duties of hauling wood to the river bank. Later he engaged in contracting and building and also eondneted a sash and door factory at Chaska for seven years. During this period he helped organize the Chaska Fire Department, and served as chief as long as he lived there. In 1878 he came to Renville eounty and settled on a farm two miles east of Bird Island, in Melville town- ship, purchasing 320 aeres of state land. After six years he sold this and eame in 1884 to Osceola township, where he took a homestead of 160 aeres in seetion IS. This was wild prairie land. Here he built a house and made many improvements. This land, by industry and intelligent effort, he has increased to 640 acres, all in seetions 7 and 18. In addition to carrying on general di- versified farming and making a specialty of raising Shorthorn cattle, Shropshire sheep, Yorkshire swine and Pereheron full- blooded and graded horses, he does general contraeting and build- ing, confining his efforts largely to erecting farm structures. He
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is also a dealer in general farm implements and machinery. His public duties have been many. He served in such offices as treas- urer of Melville township until he moved from there. Ile helped organize School District No. 110 and since that date has served as its clerk. He is an original member, stoekholder and present director of the Renville County Fair Association, of which he served as president for fifteen years. He was likewise an orig- inal member and president of the Clover Leaf Creamery Asso- ciation at Osceola township, of which he was president for eight years. As secretary and manager of the Farmers' Elevator at Bird Island, he has done efficient work, and his services as stock- holder in the Independent Harvester Company have been highly valued. He helped organize the State Breeders' Association, and was one of its officers until 1913
Possibly Mr. Kenning takes the greatest pride in the work he has done in connection with the Old Settlers' Association of Renville county. He helped to organize it and served as its see- retary for five years, during which time the records were most admirably preserved for future generations. Mr. Kenning was married at Chaska, Sept. 23, 1869, to Henrietta Sehraan, who was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 20, 1850. She died in April, 1885, leaving six children: Henry C., born Ang. 10, 1870, now of Catawba, Wis., engaged as a machinist ; Charles, born May 6, 1873, engaged in farming at Independence, North Dakota; Ida, born Angust 18, 1875, now Mrs. Gustaf Worsech, of Kennon, Wis .: Henrietta, born April 5, 1877, now the wife of Valentine Schoot, a farmer of Ilinekley: Anna, born Nov. 14, 1879, now Mrs. Godfred Schoot, of Hinckley; and Louisa, born Dec. 31, 1884, now the wife of Lee Mack, a farmer of Crookston, Minn. Mr. Kenning was married a second time Sept. 10, 1885, to Louisa Ehrenberg, born in Germany, Oct. 16. 1866. and came to America in 1884. The following children were born to this union : William, born Feb. 12, 1887, now a farmer at Crookston ; Louis, born Sept. 28, 1888. a farmer in Kandiyohi county : Fred- erick, born Feb. 3, 1891 ; Edwin, born June 27, 1893: Alice, born Sept. 7, 1896; Arthur, born July 26, 1898; Mabel born April 13, 1901 ; John, born Dec. 25, 1904; Alfred, born Oct. 3. 1908; Milton, born Ang. 24, 1910, and Merten, born Aug. 24, 1910.
James Gaffney, one of the earliest pioneers, was born in County Caven, Ireland, and eame to Illinois, from there going to Cali- fornia, by way of Cape Horn. After a year's stay in the mining district there, he returned to Illinois. Next, he moved to Waseca county, Minnesota, in 1858, and located on a farm, where the city of Waseca now stands. The family moved from Waseea county to Rice county and stayed about one year, then they drove with oxen into Renville county. They went up along the Saered Heart creek and lived there during 1865-66. In the spring of
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1866, Mr. Gaffney located a homestead of 160 aeres in section 3. Flora township, where his son, Edmund, now lives. It was all wild prairie land. Here he built a log building, made out of hol- low logs ealled scoop logs. Later he built another log house which had a shingled roof. The first township election of Flora township was held in the first of these log houses. At that time there were about fourteen voters in the township. Mr. Gaffney began to break up the land with his ox team and improve the farm. He was a member of the Catholic church. He died in 1884, at the age of eighty years. He was married in Illinois to Mary Powers, daughter of John Powers, a native of Ireland. Mrs. Gaffney died in 1870, at the age of thirty-seven. Ten children were born to these parents : Anna, George, Catherine, Ellen, John, James, Mary, Joseph, Frank and Edmund.
Edmund F. Gaffney, a prominent man of Flora township, was born in Waseca county, Minn., Feb. 16, 1859, son of James and Mary (Powers) Gaffney. He came to Flora township as a small boy, grew to manhood on the home place, and has since eon- tinued to live there. In 1892 he acquired the place, and since then he has added 40 acres to it. Ile has taken his share in the progress of the community and is an industrious and progressive citizen, widely esteemed by all who know him. Mr. Gaffney was married Jan. 11, 1899, to Mrs. Amelia (Sehaffer) Smith, born in Flora township. April 27, 1873, daughter of John and Caro- line (Krup) Schaffer. Mr. and Mrs. Gaffney have had three children, Mabel, Kenneth and Leland E. Mabel was born Sept. 24, 1892, was married Oct. 29, 1912, lives with her husband on a homestead near Saco, Montana, and has two children. Ken- neth was born Jan. 26, 1906. Leland E. was born Jan. 31, 1900. and died Feb. 23, 1910.
John Schaffer was born in Mecklenburg, Germany, March 17. 1831, and died in 1885. He was twelve years old when he was obliged to earn his own living, his parents having died. He came to the United States and served four years during the Civil war. After the war he located in Flora township. Renville county. where he had preemption elaim in section 1. He secured 160 acres and later added 40 acres more. He built a log house and used an ox team to break up the land. Shortly afterwards he married Anna Larson, a native of Norway. She died, leaving two children, Louisa and John. Then he married a second time. to Caroline Krup, born in Germany, Dec. 5, 1841, who is still living at North Redwood. Mr. Schaffer helped organize the town- ship and served on the board of supervisors. The children by this second marriage were: Amelia, Emma, Ida and Amanda.
John Zimmer, a farmer of Flora township, was born in Ger-' many, September 26, 1864, son of Peter and Gertrude Zim- mer. His parents were married in Germany and left for America
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when John was one and a half years old, coming by sailing vessel and spending four weeks on the water. His father first settled in Wisconsin and farmed there for a time and then left for Minnesota, coming to Renville county, to which place he drove with ox team. He located on a farm here and began farming, using oxen to break up the land. Ile suffered much from the grasshoppers which destroyed his crops. There were nine children in the family : William, Peter, John, Louie, Michael, Nicholas, Kate, Mary and Anna. He died in 1880 at the age of forty years. His wife married again, to August Olich, there being one child, Adolph, by this union. Adolph and his mother reside at Glencoe, MeLeod county.
John Zimmer grew to manhood in Renville county and began to work for himself at the age of twenty-seven years. He worked out among the farmers for about a year and then located 160 acres of land in Flora township. It was all wild prairie land with no buildings nor hedge. He has improved the farm and built modern buildings and a modern house with steam heat and electric lights. He raises a good grade of stock.
Mr. Zimmer was married April 29, 1892, to Anna Brandt, born in Germany, Oct. 3, 1874, and came to America when she was an infant. Her parents, Charles and Amelia (Manthei) Brandt eame in 1875. They settled in Nicollet county and later in Renville county, locating in Troy township, where he lived until his death in 1913, at the age of sixty-six years. His wife is still living at the age of sixty-two years. There were ten children in the family : Anna, William, Amelia, Herman, Charles, Frank, John, Mary, Esther and Clarence. Mr. and Mrs. Zimmer have three children: Elsie, born Jan. 15, 1894: Selma, born March 5, 1897; and Clifford, born Sept. 20, 1898; all at home.
John Larkin, Sr., now deceased, was one of these early pio- neers of which Renville county can well be proud. He was born in Cloan, County Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1825, and there received his education and grew to manhood. At the age of eighteen years in 1843 lie set sail for America and located in Massachu- setts, where he was married Sept. 6, 1852, to Mary D'Arey, who was born at Tullow, County Carlow, Ireland, Nov. 25, 1830. In the fall of 1867 Mr. Larkin and his wife came to Minnesota, liv- ing for about three weeks at St. Peter and then coming to Ren- ville county, where they arrived in December. He secured a homestead of eighty aeres in section 18, Flora township. It was all wild land without any improvements whatever. He at once set at work to improve his new home, built a log cabin to live in and a rude shed to shelter the stoek. The hard winters and heavy storms, together with the grasshopper plague, were severe drawbacks, but by undaunted courage and hard work, Mr. Lar- kin in time prospered and beeame one of the leading representa-
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tive farmers of the community. He built up a good home and a fine farm. He served as justiee of the peace and for a time the postoffice was kept in his residence. He died Sept. 6, 1892. Mrs. Larkin remained on the farm until 1912, when she removed to the city of Renville where, despite her advanced age of eighty- five years, she is still hale and hearty, and enjoys telling of the early days' happenings in Renville eounty. Mr. and Mrs. Larkin were the parents of eleven children: Joseph L., born July 4, 1852, died May 16, 1854; Henry, born Dee. 6, 1854, died April 17, 1857 : Edward. born Nov. 4, 1856, now of Graceville, Minn., married Nov. 24, 1887, to Marry Powell, and father of ten chil- dren : Edward, Edna, Nellie, Anna, John, Frank, William, Henry, Rose, and one who died in infancy; Mary, born Oet. 28, 1858, now widow of William Foster, and now residing at Foley. Ben- ton county, Minn., and mother of seven children: Jolm, Mary, Margaret, William (deceased). Charles, Robert and Helen W .; John, born August 25, 1860, a farmer of Flora township, married to Margaret W. Garvey, and has eight children: Wilfred (de- ceased), Franeis, William, Richard, Bernard, John, Helen and Joseph ; Margaret Clara, born Oet. 9, 1862, a sueeessful teacher of Redwood Falls; Lawrence II., born Nov. 9, 1864, now of Ren- ville ; Ellen H., born July 31, 1867, now a bookkeeper at Prince- ton, Minn .: William P., born Nov. 11, 1869, a farmer at Castor, Alberta, Canada; Joseph H., born April 14, 1872, who is men- tioned elsewhere in this work: and Kate, born June 27, 1875, and died June 30, 1875. The family church is the Roman Catholic.
Joseph H. Larkin was born on the old homestead of his father in section IS, Flora township. April 14, 1872. son of John Larkin. He grew to manhood there, receiving his education in the dis- triet school and the high school at Redwood Falls. At the age of seventeen years he began teaching at Redwood. where he taught for three months. The next six years were spent in teach- ing in his own distriet, No. 18, in Flora township. Then he be- gan farming on his father's farm and also across the road in the same seetion. There were 157 aeres in this traet, to which he added fifteen acres more. He farmed here for several years and then became a thresher, having two outfits and crews, and for thirteen years traveled all over Renville county during the harvest season. He is a member of the Farmers' Elevator Com- pany at Renville, having been a director for the past two years, and held the position of vice-president the two years previous.
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