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at an early age, were married in Dane county, and are now both dead, the father having died in 1881 and the mother in 1909. Mr. and Mrs. Hans H. Ristvedt have one daughter, Myrtle, born Ang. 6, 1903. Halvor T. Ristvedt was a Farmer and spent the span of his years in Norway. He was born Sept. 16, 1815, and died in 1888. His good wife was born Dee. 29, 1829, and died in 1887. The children in the family were: Anton, Thore II., Kris- tine, Marie II. and Hans IJ. Anton H. is a blacksmith and farmer at Hanley Falls, Min. He married Laura T. Mork and they have three sons and one daughter : Carl, Trygve, Alf and Agnes.
Frank R. Olson, an energetic young business man of Sacred Heart, is one of the newcomers in the county, but has already built up one of the largest land businesses in this part of the state. He has taken his part in the affairs of the village and is a sincere friend of the cause of agricultural development. Ilis methods have already won for him a wide cirele of friends, and he has a long list of satisfied clients. The subject of this mention was born in Sioux Rapids, lowa, Nov. 18, 1886, son of Rasmus and Antonette (Christopherson) Olson. Like the other boys of his time and neighborhood, he attended the district and graded schools of his native state, and later supplemented this with a full commercial course in the Estherville Business College, of Estherville, lowa. A few years later he graduated from the Missouri School of Anctioneering at Kansas City, Missouri. After completing his course in the business college, Mr. Olson continued to farm with his father at Sioux Rapids, lowa, until 1912. Then he opened a garage at Spencer, Iowa, which he conducted for some l'our months. Then he entered the real estate business at Spencer. It was on March 17, 1914, that he reached Sacred Heart, where he has since been engaged in the sale of farms and farm land. During that year he sold more farms in Renville county than any other man or firm in the county. He does not, however, confine his attentions to Renville county, but also handles land in other counties in this state and in other states as well. At various times he holds real estate sometimes alone and some- times in partnership. Mr. Olson has made his success in life entirely by his own efforts, his shrewd judgment, his striet up- rightness and his genial temperament being his strong assets. In addition to selling land, he does considerable auctioneering and his services in this capacity are constantly in demand. Being still a young man, his friends prediet for him a brilliant future.
In the fall of 1914, Mr. Olson conducted a eorn show, in which was exhibited some of the best eorn ever shown in this part of the state. There were exhibits from about 100 farms in Renville county. Prizes were awarded and all the expenses of the ex- hibition borne by Mr. Olson himself. Frank E. Bahmer, from the University of Minnesota, JJudge A. T. Daly, of the District court,
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and Dr. G. S. Weaver, of the United States Department of Agri- enlture delivered addresses. The corn show gave corn-growing in this region a new impetus.
Mr. Olson also took an active part in the West-Central Min- nesota Corn and Alfalfa Exposition, held at Benson, Minnesota, November 25, 26 and 27. Ile was prominent in the balloting for queen of the exposition, and was himself elected king. At this exposition he did considerable "boosting" for Renville county with excellent results.
A. D. Corey was born in New York state in 1845, moved to Wisconsin with his parents in 1847. On Sept. 12, 1864, when nineteen years of age, he enlisted in Company F. Fifth Wiseon- sin Volunteer Infantry, and served one year. He was in a mm- ber of important battles in the vicinity of Richmond, and also assisted in the capture of Petersburg. He was badly wounded in a battle on April 7, 1865. after fighting almost continually from four o'clock in the morning until two o'clock in the aft- ernoon, having been struck by a piece of shell in the shoulder. Ile was sent from the field to the hospital, where he was honor- ably discharged July 1, 1865. Returning to his home he imi- grated with his parents to Minnesota. In August, 1865, he lo- cated upon a homestead that his father had filed on for him while he was in service. Mr. Corey was married to Martha A. Barkey, December 19, 1867, and passed through all the hardships of pioneer settlers. This union resulted in four girls and two boys, of whom five are living. Mr. and Mrs. Corey attained the honor of being the oldest couple married in Renville county and still residing there. Mr. Corey held the offices of town super- visor, county commissioner, boiler inspector under Governor S. R. Van Sant and served as postmaster at Beaver Falls under President William McKinley.
B. C. McEwen was born in St. Lawrence, Rock county, New York, in 1848, and eame West in 1855, loeating in Rock county. Wisconsin. Ile came to Minnesota in 1857 with his father (fa- miliarly known as " Uncle Charlie MeEwen) and family, and ar- rived at Hutchinson September 14. The trip was made with an ox team and nine weeks were spent on the road. There were five children in the senior MeEwen family, four sons and one daughter.
B. (. MeEwen was married in 1877 to Josie Myhoffer, at Glencoe, Minnesota. They have two children, Dwight M. and Sarah K., the latter being married to M. Ramsland, formerly of Sacred Heart. Mr. MeEwen saw Minnesota before it was ad- mitted as a state or had one mile of railroad or a mile of tele- graph within its borders. When he first came to the state, every aere of grain raised in MeLeod county was sowed by hand, har- vested with a cradle and threshed with a flail, cleaned by throw-
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ing in the wind and then hauled fifty miles to be ground into flour.
With the exception of the time spent in the south during the Civil war, he has lived in MeLeod and Renville counties since 1857. He has served in township and county offices.
Michael Dworshak, a snecessful farmer of Beaver Falls town- ship, was born in Scott county, Minnesota, Feb. 24, 1865, son oľ Wencel and Rose (Victor) Dworshak. The father was born in Austria and came to Ameriea in 1862, loeating on a homestead in Scott county, where he remained for fourteen years. In 1876 he came to Renville county and purchased 80 aeres in section 5, in Beaver Falls township, where he lived until his death, in 1885, being sixty years of age. The mother, aged eighty-six years. died March 18, 1815. Michael Dworshak bought the home farm in 1889 and still lives there. He now owns 360 acres and has im- proved the farm, building an eight-room house in 1898, and in 1905 a modern barn, 34 by 60 feet, with a hip roof. Mr. Dwor- shak is a stockholder and director in the Farmers' Elevator Company at North Redwood, and is a member of the Catholic Workmen and also of the Catholic church in Henryville township. April 30, 1889, Mr. Dworshak was united in marriage to Anna Skoblik, born Feb. 3, 1868, in Seott county. Her father. Martin Skoblik, was a farmer of Henryville township, who came to Amer- ica from Austria in 1860, living for eighteen years in Seott county, coming to Renville county in 1878. He died July 9, 1900, at the age of seventy years. Her mother, Eva (Manaza) died Sept. 13, 1912, at the age of seventy-three years. Mr. and Mrs. Dworshak are the parents of six children: Jennie, born May 11. 1890, and married Sept. 30, 1913, to Tony Wertisch, a farmer of Troy township; Mary, born Jan. 20, 1892, and married John W. Swo- boda, a Farmer of Kingman township; Mathew W., born JJan. 9, 1894: Matilda, born March 30. 1896: Joseph, born July 3, 1899; and Miloyd, born June 6, 1907. The four youngest children are at home with their parents.
John Kuester, an early settler, was born in Germany, and in 1869 married Frederika Zammsow. In 1877 he came to America and located in Olmsted county, this state, where he farmed four years. Then he moved to the vicinity of Ft. Ridgely, where he managed a farm for four years. Subsequently he bought a farm of 80 aeres in section 4, Beaver Falls township, where he lived until his death, May 3, 1902. Ilis wife is still living at Redwood Falls at the age of seventy-eight years. Of their seven children, three died in infancy. Gustave died in 1906, at the age of thirty- three : Albert is village marshal at Wabasso, this state; John W. and Richard HI. are farmers in Beaver Falls township.
Richard H. Kuester, a thrifty farmer of Beaver Falls town- ship, was born in Germany, May 16, 1875, son of John and Fred-
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erika (Zammsow) Kuester. He began farming for himself at the age of twenty-seven years and bought 160 aeres in Redwood county, where he remained for six years. Then he rented the home farm and is still there. He raises Poland-China and York- shire hogs and Durham and Ilolstein cattle, and carries on gen- eral farming. Mr. Kuester is a stockholder in the Farmers' Ele- vator at North Redwood and also at Wabasso. He is a member of the German Lutheran ehmreh. Sept. 15, 1901, he was united in marriage to Matilda Boltz, daughter of Benjamin and Caro- line (Rose) Boltz. She was born March 11, 1884. Her father was a merchant at South Bend, Indiana, and died Jan. 1, 1897. at the age of fifty-six years, and her mother is now living at Minneapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Knester have two children : Leroy Richard, born May 19, 1905, and Muriel Matilda, born Ang. 10. 1908.
John W. Kuester, a well-known farmer of Beaver Falls town- ship, was born in Evota, Minnesota, July 4, 1877, son of John and Frederika (Zammsow) Kuester. In 1904 he bought 160 aeres in section 4, Beaver Falls township, and carries on general farm- ing, dairying and stock-raising, raising Chester White hogs and Belgian horses, and specializing in Velvet Chaff wheat. IIe is a stockholder of the Farmers' Elevator Company, at North Red- wood, and also of the Redwood Falls Telephone Company. He is a member of the German Lutheran church. Mr. Kuester was married Jume 15, 1904, to Hattie Breitkreutz, born Dec. 22, 1882, daughter of Emil Breitkreutz, a farmer of Flora township, who came to Renville county in 1875, and Minnie (Sommerfield) Breit- kreutz, who were married Jan. 17. 1881, and had eight children, four boys and four girls. Mr. and Mrs. Kuester have three children, Lulu, born April 17. 1905; Erwin, born June 16, 1906, and died Jan. 12, 1907 ; and Leo, born Dee. 14, 1908.
John Cheney, a popular and successful farmer of Beaver Falls township, was born in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, May 1, 1869. His father, William H. Cheney, was born Dec. 28, 1834, and came to Renville county in 1885 from Rice county, Minnesota, to engage in farming. He is at present living at Boise, Idaho. Ilis first wife, Isabel (Wood) Cheney. died June, 1914, at the age of seventy-six. John Cheney remained at home on his father's farm on section 15, Beaver Falls township, until his marriage. At present he owns 320 acres of land in sections 14 and 15, Beaver Falls township. This was his father's old home, which he bought in 1900. It has good buildings, which stand near the road on the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section 15. He is a progressive farmer, doing diversified farming and making a specialty of feeding and getting live stock ready for market, usually shipping two cars of cattle and one carload of hogs each year. He was clerk of the School District No. 5 a number
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of years. Mr. Cheney was united in marriage to Mrs. Catherine Leach, Dee. 6, 1893. Mrs. Leach was born Aug. 29, 1864, and was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman. Mrs. Hoffman aft- erward married Jerry Toomey and operated the hotel in Beaver Falls for several years. Mr. and Mrs. Cheney have one child, Gertrude, born Sept. 1. 1895. She is a graduate of the Olivia high school, having completed her course in 1914, and is now a student at the state university. Mrs. Cheney and her daughter are members of the Catholic church in Morton.
Franz W. Schmidt, who lived in Renville county before the Indian massacre, was born in Germany, July 4, 1833, and died March 17, 1914. He came from Germany to America in 1850, remaining one year in Illinois and then coming up the Missis- sippi river in the steamboat to the month of the Minnesota river; went up the Minnesota river to North Redwood, where he worked for the government, putting up buildings and breaking land for the Indians on the south side of Big Stone Lake. After two years of this kind of work he worked in New Uhn for two years and married in 1859 at West Newton, Minnesota, Mrs. Mary Rissor. Her maiden name was Mary Euchegel and she was born Ang. 24. 1827, and died April 14, 1907. Her first husband was killed by a falling tree. She had one son, Henry, by the first marriage, who is now a farmer of Beaver Falls township. Franz W. Selidt homesteaded 160 acres in sections 14 and 15 in Beaver Falls township, about Jan. 1, 1860. He left this place at the time of the Sioux uprising and brought his family to Ft. Ridgely and then to Hastings, Minnesota, where he left them for a year. Ile came back after a two hours' stop in Hastings and enlisted in Company L, First Minnesota Cavalry, and served one year, fight- ing the Indians. Then he moved his family to New Ulm, where he lived three years, then coming back to the homestead in Beaver Falls township in 1867, where he lived until his death.
Frederick Wilhelm Schmidt was born Sept. 11, 1864, son of Franz W. and Mary ( Rissor) Schmidt. He worked on the home farm until he was eighteen years of age and then worked out on the neighborhood farms for four years. Next he rented 80 acres from William Carr in Birch Cooley township, where he stayed for three years. The next two and a half years were spent on a farm in Henryville township. In 1891 he bought the home farm from his father. Mr. Schmidt was married Feb. 6. 1894, to Mary Ahrendt, born June 1. 1875, danghter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Lange) Ahrendt. Her father was a farmer of Flora township, coming from Rice county in 1887, and is now living at Brownson. His wife was reared by William Reike of Fairfax. Mr. and Mrs. Schmidt have six children: Lena, born Dec. 16, 1894, wife of William Ahrens, a farmer of Beaver Falls town- ship: Laura, born Oet. 24, 1896, wife of Max Ineth, a farmer
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of Montana; bila, born July 3, 1898; Mamie, born July 1, 1900; Esther, born June 17, 1911; and George William, born Jan. 25, 1915.
Charles Reineke, deceased, a well-known farmer of Beaver Falls township, was born in Germany, Sept. 22, 1832. He came to Renville county about 1882 and bought 160 acres of land in section 26, Beaver Falls township, where he remained until his death on Jan. 15, 1904. He was a member of the I. O. O. F. at Morton. After his death Mrs. Reineke conducted the farm, doing diversified farming, and with the help of her children has been very successful. Mr. Reineke was married Nov. 25. 1882, to Lizzie Bratsch, who was born July 29, 1864. Ten children were born to this couple: Otto, born Oet. 11, 1883, who is now a farmer near Franklin, Minnesota; Frank, born Jan. 21, 1885, a farmer in Redwood county; Amanda, wife of Walter Deitzman, a farmer in North Dakota ; Lillian, born JJuly 18, 1890, and An- tonia, born Sept. 17, 1891, who are at home ; Julia, born June 19, 1895, who is attending the Mankato Commercial College; and Fred, born Oct. 25, 1897; Bessie, born March 21, 1899; George, born Oct. 5, 1900: and Theresa, born Sept. 23, 1902. who are all at home, assisting their mother on the farm.
George J. Pregler, one of the prosperous young farmers of this county, was born on his father's farm in section 24, in Beaver Falls township. Oet. 14, 1893. His father. John Pregler, came to America from Germany with his father. Andrew Pregler, in 1865, and a homestead of 120 acres was secured in section 24, Beaver Falls township. In 1891 Andrew Pregler left the farm and moved to Morton, where he lived until his death. John Pregler then took charge of the farm and still works upon it. May 10, 1892, John Pregler married Katherine Goblirsch, who was born Dee. 25, 1874. Mr. and Mrs. John Pregler have six children : George J .: Annie, now Mrs. Kiern Tracy, of Acequia, Idaho: Bertha, Rosa and Frank. The family are all members of the Catholic church at Morton. The father and George J. operate the farm together and raise O. I. C. hogs and cattle and horses.
Harry M. Hoffman, a very successful farmer of Beaver Falls township, was born Feb. 5, 1870. in Pennsylvania. He came to Renville county in 1880. At the age of twenty years he rented 120 aeres in section 15, Beaver Falls township, where he remained five years. During the same time he also worked upon 120 acres in seetion 11. which he bought in 1891. In 1904 he sold this land and bought 200 acres in section 15 and 120 aeres more in 1908. Now he owns the western half of section 15 in Beaver Falls township, and has a very nice, well improved farm. Mr. Hoffman has served as treasurer of School District No. 5. Ile belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America, of North Redwood,
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and is a member of the Catholic church of Morton. Mr. Hoffman was married June 23, 1909, to Lydia M. Roper, born May 10, 1888, daughter of Ilenry and Anna (Barnholdt) Roper. Mr. Roper was born Jan. 15, 1852, in Cook county, Illinois and came to Minnesota in 1868, locating in Waseca county. Ile came to Renville county in 1886, and bought 160 aeres in section 16, north- east quarter, Beaver Falls township. In 1910 he moved to the eastern half of the southwest quarter of section 16, where he remained until 1913, when he moved to Redwood Falls, where he died April 29, 1913. His wife was born Nov. 17, 1862, and still lives in Redwood Falls. They were married in Le Sueur county, Jan. 15, 1880, and had six children. Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman have two children, Ilelen Catherine, born April 3, 1910; and Margaret Anna, born Nov. 10, 1912.
Julius Scheffler, a well-known farmer in Beaver Falls town- ship, was born in Germany, Jan. 17, 1857, and came to America with his parents, Michael and Annie (Stensel) Sheffier. The father first located in Illinois, near Chicago, and came to New Ulin, Minnesota, in 1867, and to Renville county in the spring of 1868. Ilere he secured a homestead of 80 acres, in section 12, Beaver Falls township, and lived there until his death in July, 1898, at the age of eighty-seven. The mother died Sept. 4, 1886, at the age of seventy-five years. Julius Scheffler remained on the home farm until his marriage, in 1879, when he bought 80 acres in section 12, Beaver Falls township, where he is still liv- ing. He now owns 440 aeres in Renville county. In 1901 he rebuilt the house, a niee two-story building, and also built a large barn and other outbuildings. He does diversified farming. Mr. Sheffer is a stockholder in the Farmers' Elevator at Morton and also in the New State Bank at Morton. He has been a member of the township board for seven years and of the school board for twenty years. lle is also a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Beaver Falls. Mr. Scheffler was united in marriage to Dorthea Wichmann, June 19, 1879. She was born Dec. 2, 1855, daughter of Deitrich Wichmann. Mr. and Mrs. Scheffler have eight children : Molly, born March 4, 1881 : now married to Harry Zumwinkle, a farmer of Beaver Falls township; Frederick and Emma. twins, born Sept. 20, 1882, who are at home : Julius, born Ang. 13. 1884, married Millie Lusenhop, and farming in Birch Cooley township: Lydia, born July 5, 1887, married to William Blume. a farmer of Beaver Falls township; William, born Nov. 5, 1890; Louise, born Feb. 25. 1893. and Ilenry, born Feb. 28, 1895, the three youngest being at home.
Sibon Peterson Dustrud, a pioneer, was born in Norway. He started for the United States when a young man, coming by sail- ing vessel, and had a long voyage. IIe first came to Chicago, then a place of only one building, and helped build pontoon
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bridges across the Chicago river. He next went to Wisconsin and settled in Cane connty, near Mt. Horeb, and was instru- mental in founding a Norwegian colony at that place. His first money there was ten cents per day for splitting rails and after a time he had earned enough to send for his parents. His mother died on the way over and was buried at sea, his father continu- ing the journey to Mt. Horeb, where he lived the rest of his life. Sibon Dustrud engaged in farming, living a few miles southwest from Mt. Horeb, and built a log cabin and farmed with an ox team. His wagon box was made of rails and the wheels were made from logs. Hle built another house, which burned, so the family were obliged to move back to the old hut. After a time this farm was sold and he went to Houston county. near Spring Grove, securing a piece of land there and lived there two years: Then, in company with his brother, Herman, and John Johnson, he made a trip to what is now St. Paul and Minneapolis, thence down the Mississippi river to Red Wing, where he purchased 160 acres of government land. Ile intended to bring his family there but, while on their way to this place, were induced to settle near Preston, Fillmore county, and he sold his land in Red Wing. He lived in Fillmore county twenty years and then moved to St. Paul, where he purchased a house on the corner of Earl and Maryland streets, and also bought a place in Wisconsin, near Hudson. Hle spent two years in St. Paul and then came to Ren- ville county, where he died at the age of eighty-three years. His wife, Helena Johnson, died in 1912 in Webster, South Dakota, at the age of ninety-three years. They had four children: Peter. Ellitia, Jobn and Sibb.
Peter P. Dustrud, retired farmer, Former county commissioner and prominent citizen, was born in Ilinois, April 4, 1843, son of Sibon Peterson Dustrud and Helena Johnson, both of Norway. He grew to manhood in Fillmore county, and took part in the Indian campaign, being one of the Filhore county men who went to New Uhn and, with 800 horses, went to the relief of Ft. Ridgely. In 1871 he came to Renville county and settled in section 28, Erieson township. The story of his early experiences and his history of the early days of the township are found elsewhere in this work. He drove into Renville county by horse and ox team. There were no buiklings on the claim and he made a dug- out with three tiers of logs on top. Basswood bark was used for the roof and the floor was of earth. The nearest market was at St. Peter. Often wheat was ground in the coffee mill for home use. When Mr. Dustrud started farming he had three cows and 160 acres of land, and now has increased the farm to 280 aeres. and has built a modern house.
Mr. Dustrud has been a prominent man in public affairs and has held the office of township supervisor for many years. He
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was also school clerk for several years and treasurer of the school board. While county commissioner, he was instrumental in hay- ing the school districts eut down to normal size and secured a bridge across Hawk Creek. He helped organize the township of Ericson and established School District No. 43. Mr. Dustrud is a member of the Synod Norwegian Lutheran church, many of the early services being held at his cabin. He was treasurer for several years and helped organize the church of Sacred Heart village.
In the spring of 1914 Mr. Dustrud retired from active work and moved to Sacred Heart.
Mr. Dustrud was united in marriage to Martha Jacobson. a native of Norway, born Feb. 11, 1859, who came to America at the age of 18 years with her mother, her father, a miller, having died in Norway. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Dust- rud : Julius, John, Helena, Clara and Mina.
Christ Kurtz was born in Germany, Dec. 19, 1841, son of Christ and Annie (Boetke) Kurtz. The father was born in Germany, Dee. 21, 1812, and came to America in 1869, spending one year in Indiana. Then he moved to Wabasha county, Minnesota, where he lived for seven years, going next to Renville county and mak- ing his home with his son, Christ, at Beaver Falls township. He died April 6, 1895. The mother was born Sept. 8, 1814; and died Nov. 11, 1912. Christ Kurtz, the son, eame to America in 1868 and lived in Indiana for one year. Then he spent six years in Wabasha county, Minnesota, farming. Sept. 16, 1879, he pur- chased 80 aeres in section 6, Beaver Falls township, where he still lives. He now owns 360 acres of land and has improved the farm in various ways. Ile has erected good farm buildings and a modern seven-room house. He raises a good grade of stock. making a specialty of Durham cattle, Poland-China hogs, Belgian horses and Shropshire sheep. Mr. Kurtz is a member of the Ger- man Lutheran church and is a stockholder in the Farmers' Ele- vator Company of North Redwood. He was married mily 4, 1875. to Amelia Dusterhofdt. Iler father, Martin Dusterhofdt, came to America from Germany in 1864 and farmed in Marquette county, Wisconsin, where he died. Mr. and Mrs. Kurtz have had eight children: Lonis, born April 26, 1876, now a farmer in Crooks township and married to Annie Weigel. They have two children. Wilhelmina, wife of William Wilschnack, a farmer of Alberta, Canada. They have one child. Fred is a farmer in Colorado. Amelia is the wife of Ferdinand Seibert. a farmer of Redwood county, and they have three children. Angusta is the wife of Frank Prodhel, a farmer, and has two children. Christ, August and Annie are at home. Mrs. Kurtz died June 16, 1892.
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