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Peter J. Yunker was born in Germany, April 18. 1842, and married Katie Veght, who was born April 2, 1842, and died March 3, 1881, Peter J. Yunker came to America in 1885, settled at West Point, Neb., moved a year later to what was then Da- kota Territory, took a claim of 160 acres, lived there until 1890, came to Renville county, and took up his home with his dangh- ter, Mrs. Anthony Mahawald, of Eden Valley, Minnesota. He is the father of four children: Elizabeth, now Mrs. Arthur Low. whose husband is a grain buyer living at Orient, South Dakota : Mary, widow of Anthony Mahawald, and now living at Eden Valley, Minnesota ; Tracy, now Mrs. B. Herbert, living in Ger- many ; and Herman, the subject of this sketch.
Christ Boehme was born in Germany and married Mary Engle, of Chicago, IHl. They came to Renville county and took a claim
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in 1875. The wife died in 1898 and he is now living in retire- ment in Bird Island. In the family there were ten children.
Nels Dahlgren, for many years an enterprising farmer of Brookfield township, was born in Sweden, Oct. 13, 1852, the son of Swan Peter and Elna (Rhiland) Dahlgren, who spent the span of their years in the old country. At the age of two years Nels Dahlgren lost his father, but he was reared to sturdy man- hood by his mother and instructed in useful pursuits. As a young man he married. In 1881 he came to America and seeured work as a farm hand in Meeker county, this state, thus earning enough money to send for his wife and children. Later ho rented a farm for a while. In 1891 he purchased 160 acres in section 28, Brookfield township this county. Some of the land had been broken, but no other improvements had been made. He erected a shed for himself and family, a lean-to for his cow. As the years passed by, however, he attained prosperity. Good build- ings were erected, the land brought under enltivation and fences. and implements and equipment purchased. For many years Mr. Dahlgren successfully carried on general farming, making a spe- . cialty of stock raising. He has now turned the management of the place over to his son Christian and has built himself a com- fortable home in which he is planning to spend the afternoon years of life in retirement. For a time, Mr. Dahlgren was treas- urer of the old creamery. He helped to organize school district 99, and served as a member of its board for nearly twenty years. He also helped to establish the Swedish Lutheran church at flector, of which he is a faithful member. Mr. Dahlgren was married in 1873 to Pernilla Larson, who was born in Sweden, July 19, 1848, daughter of Lars and Anna Tuveson, who lived and died in that country. Mr. and Mrs. Dahlgren have had nine children, four born in Sweden and five in Minnesota. Swen Peter died in infancy. August lives in Brookfiehl township. Emily is the wife of M. B. Amdahl. Carl is dead. Christian died in in- laney. Christian (second) operates the home farm. Rika is the wife of Mihlo Lende. Arthur is in the bank at Hector. Pearl is dead.
Pere N. Chelin, a well-known farmer of Wang township, was born in Sweden, January 22, 1859, son of Nels and Corine ( Peter- son) Chelin, who spent the span of their years in the old country. The children in their family were Pere N., Mary, Nels and Gustof. Pere N. Chelin was reared in his native land, and there spent his young manhood. In 1880 he came to the United States and lo- vated in Wang township, where he secured employment with Ole Olseberg. In 1890, the two brothers came to this country and joined Pere N. Nels is now in Michigan, but Gustof is a resi- dent of Wang township. Pere N. Chelin worked about for a while, and then rented for a few years a farm some two miles west of his present location. Later he purchased a farm of 160
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aeres in section 26, to which he at once moved. To this he has since added eighty aeres more in the same section. On this splen- did farm of 220 acres he now carries on general agricultural oper- ations and stock raising. Year by year he has improved the place, and in every acre it bespeaks the hard work and intelli- gence of its owner. Mr. Chelin was married July 1s. 1891, to Anna Paulson, the adopted daughter of Ole Frykholm. This union has been blessed with eight children: Pearl, Nels, Olga, Agnes, Edwin, Peter, Edith and Ruth. Mrs. Anna Paulson Chelin, wife of Pere N. Chelin, was born in Sweden, Oet. 19, 1874, daugh- ter of Peter and Ingeborg Paulson, who came to America in 1882. and located in Minneapolis, where the mother died in 1883, and where the father is still living. In the Paulson family there were six children, Ingeborg (deceased). Anna, Emma. Adolph. Angust and Emil (deceased).
Jacob J. Kromer, for several years a resident of Renville county, was born in. Wurttemberg, Germany, came to America as a young man, and located in Massachusetts. There in a linen mill he met Barbara Mutehler, whom he married. After their marriage they came to Pern, Illinois, where Mr. Kromer opened a meat market. Five years later they came to St. Paul, and from there found their way to Credit River township, Scott county, where he took a homestead of eighty aeres in section 28. At the same time, her brother, George Mutehler, took the eighty adjoining. Three years later they seenred this eighty acres, and on the 160 aere farm thus obtained, farmed for many years. In the spring of 1887 they came to this county, and took up their home with their sons, Henry and Richard, on a farm in Troy township. Two years later they moved to Olivia and erected a large residence. This they afterward sold and built a smaller place, where they lived until Mrs. Kromer's death, when Mr. Kromer took up his home with his son, Henry, in Norfolk township, where he lived until his death. Mr. and Mrs. Kromer were the parents of ten chil- dren : Fred, George, Dora, John, Christine, Emma, Carrie, Celia. Henry and Richard. Fred is dead. George is a hardware mer- chant in Bird Island. Dora is the wife of Herman Fischer of Bird Island. Christine is the wife of William Schmidt, of Bemidji. Minn. Emma is the wife of John Mehlhouse, of Olivia. Carrie is now Mrs. Felske, of Troy township. Celia is the wife of August Felske, of Hutchinson, Minn. Henry is a farmer of Norfolk township. Richard lives in Thief River Falls.
John Kromer, a retired farmer living in Bird Island, was born in Credit River township, Scott county, this state. Aug. 23, 1857, son of Jacob F. and Barbara (Mutchler) Kromer. He received his education in a log schoolhouse in his native township, and was reared to agricultural pursuits on the farm. In 1879 he and his brother George came to Renville county and settled on rail-
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road land in section 35, Troy township, securing the south half of the section, and the east half of the northwest quarter. Their father purchased for their brother Fred the eighty aeres adjoin- ing. The three brothers lived together and came back and forth from their old home in Scott county. The first season they broke eighty-five acres. The second season they got in a erop and erected a house. In the spring of 1880 Jacob drove up from Seott county with an ox team, a horse team and a cow. In the spring of 1881 he located here permanently. In 1882 each of the brothers worked his own land. In the spring of 1883, Fred moved onto a rented farm of 160 aeres in section 26. John, how- ever, continued to live in the house they first built until 1886, and then moved into a house which he erected on his own eighty. In 1890 he moved to Bird Island, purchased a blacksmith shop and a home in 1891, and conducted the shop for several years, his brother George conducting a machine and hardware business. In 1895 JJacob moved onto a farm in Bird Island township, erected a home, barns and ontbuildings, and highly developed the place in every way. Then. in the fall of 1899, he moved to Bird Island village once more. At the same time he bought 160 acres in Kingman township, which he operated from his home in the vil- lage. In 1903 he moved onto a quarter section adjoining his own quarter in Kingman township, and started to operate both places. In 1904 he bought the rented farm, thus making him a splendid larm of a whole half section. In the spring of 1911 he moved to his present home in Bird Island. He still owns the farm in Kingman township, and in addition to this he owns a large tract of timber in Wisconsin. Mr. Kromer is a prominent man, has taken a deep interest in the affairs of the community, and has been actively identified with political life in various aspects. Mr. Kromer was married Jan. 6, 1885, to Lomsa Werder, and they have eight children : Mabel. Edwin. John, Lillian, Ehna, Ruth, Warren, Florence. Edwin is marshal of Bird Island. John is manager of a hardware store in Erickson, North Dakota. He married Minnie Sanden. Lillian is a teacher. Elma, a former teacher. is a nurse in the Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis. Ruth is a senior in the Bird Island High School. The family faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Carl Koshnick and his wife were early settlers in Renville county, following farming for many years. Mrs. Koshniek died in 1901 and is buried in Olivia. Iler Imsband continned to live on the home place until 1911, when he took a trip to Germany. where he died. Their danghter. Hannah Koshnick, was deaf and dumb. She married D. O. Johnson, who was likewise a deaf mute. For many years Mr. Johnson was a tailor and shoemaker in Olivia. In spite of his handicap he was of a genial disposi- tion and a general favorite, and is well remembered by Olivia
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people. He died in 1898. After his death, his widow and young son, Charles, were provided with a home by Mr. and Mrs. Mathias Weichselbaum. After living with them for twelve years, Mrs. Johnson married William Jeske, and they now live in Granite Falls. The son, however, continued to live with the Weichsel- baums. Ile developed into a bright boy of imsual ability and won the affection of his foster parents until today they cherish him as they would their own flesh and blood. He passed through the graded schools, attended the West high school of Minneapolis, and is now with an engineering erew engaged in construction work on the line of the Great Northern.
Joseph Weichselbaum was born in Bavaria, Germany, came to America as a young man. For a time he engaged in black- smith work at Lakeville, in Dakota county, this state, and there married Elizabeth Schneider, a native of Luxembourg. From Lakeville, where they were numbered among the pioneers, they went to Mineapolis, and lived for a few years. Then they went back to Dakota county and took up their home in Farmington until 1878, when the family moved to Kranzburg, South Dakota, and took a homestead a mile and a half out of the village, while Mr. Weichselbaum operated a blacksmith shop within the village limits. He died on the farm in 1898. After his death the mother and son George moved to Olivia, Renville county, where they lived for several years. Now at the age of eighty-five, Mrs. Weichselbaum makes her home at Hamilton, Montana, in the Bitter Root valley. Mr. and Mrs. Weichselbaum have six chil- dren. Mathias, Mary, John, Joseph, Michael and George. Mathias lives in Minneapolis. Mary is the widow of W. Kligle and lives in Ilamilton, Montana. John has a small Iruit ranch at Hamil- ton, Montana. Joseph lives in Gennell, Minn. Michael is dead. George conduets a fruit farm at Ilamilton, Montana.
Mathias Weichselbaum, for many years a leading limber and grain dealer in Renville county, and now engaged extensively in the real estate business in Minneapolis, was born in Lakeville, Dakota county, Minnesota. Sept. 18, 1858, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Schneider) Weichselbanm. He was reared in his native town and there secured his first employment as a clerk in the mercantile establishment of Jerry C. MeCarthy. In 1880 he went to South Dakota and took a homestead in Coddington county. There he proved up and remained until 1883. Then he came back to Minnesota and with headquarters at Northfield, traveled for a grain company two years. It was in 1885 that he came to Renville village and bought grain for four months, after which the company sent him to Bigstone City, South Da- kota, where he bought grain until Angust, 1886. They came back to this county and located in Olivia, where he continued in the grain business. Later he and S. E. Fay. with W. H. Gold &
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Co., engaged in the lumber business, still remaining however in the grain business as well. Two years later the W. H. Gold Co. sold out. That year the yard of the H. Il. Nenenberg Lumber Co. was started, with Mr. Weichselbaum as manager and stock- holder. They bought what is now the Farmers' Elevator at Olivia, and later acquired the lumber yard and elevator at Dan- ube. In the meantime, however, in 1907, Mr. Weichselbaum had become much interested in the land business. He particularized in Canadian lands in southern Alberta, and in addition to still holding large areas of this land, has already sold some 25,000 acres. Mr. Weichselbaum became a prominent man in Olivia, took an active interest in various public movements, and served as village councilman and as a member of the school board. In 1909 he moved to Minneapolis, where he now resides, and where he still continued in the land business. Mr. Weichselbaum was married Nov. 15, 1884, to Anna E. Thomas, who was born in Brandon, Vermont, May 30, 1862, a daughter of Harry and Esther ("'arr) Thomas, natives of Brandon, Vermont, who came west in 1865, located on a farm just out of Northfield, in Rice county, this state, and there died, he in 1891 and she in 1873. leaving nine children, Olivia, Nathan. Attie, Emma, Frank, Harry, Anna, Alice and Minnie, as well as a daughter, Olive, who had, and also an unnamed infant, been born to Mrs. Thomas by a previous mar- riage. Mr. and Mrs. Weichselbaum have a daughter, Ora Blanche. She graduated from the Olivia High School, took courses at the Minnesota School of Business at Minneapolis, and then started her career. At Olivia she was bookkeeper for the Heins & Beyer hardware store. Then she was in the tax commission office at the state capitol for three years as assistant to Miller Davis. Now she is bookkeeper in Atehinson's department store in Min- neapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Weichselbaum adopted two daughters, Eva Irena and Mande Aleen, who died at the ages of six and seven months respectively and are buried at Olivia.
Paul Albrecht, the popular deputy auditor of Renville county, was born in Nicollet county. this state, Nov. 15. 1867. a son of Charles and Fredericka (Christ ) Albrecht, the pioneers. the former of whom died in 1891 and the latter of whom is now living in New Uhn. Before Panl Albrecht had attained his ma- jority, he and his brother, John, rented 240 acres in seetion 17. Cairo township, which they operated until 1890, when Paul gave up farming and purchased a livery and dray business in Fairfax. Later he engaged in the implement business until 1905. Then resmning farming, he tilled the soil in section 5, Cairo township. until 1909. when he went into the automobile business at Fairfax. Jan. 1. 1914. he became deputy county auditor. While in Fair- Tax. Mr. Albrecht held such offices as president and member of the conneil, member of the school board and deputy sheriff. Hle
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was also elected to such offices as vice president of the State Bank of Fairfax, secretary of the Fairfax Co-operative Creamery Co. and secretary of the Fairfax Co-operative Elevator Co. Mr. Al- breeht was married Nov. 23, 1898, to Matilda Grams, daughter of Gustav and Amelia (Schirmer) Grams, the former of whom lives in Fairfax and the latter of whom died in 1899. Mrs. Albrecht died June 2, 1908, leaving four children: Dewey. Pearl. Emily and Olive.
Raymond E. Noble was born in Iowa, in Howard county, Feb. 28, 1879, son of Fred W. and Viola T. (Clark) Noble, Fred W. Noble was born in Winnebago county, Wisconsin, in 1855. He was married Nov. 23, 1877, in Cresco, Howard county, Iowa, to Viola T. Clark, born in Winnesheik county, Iowa. in 1859. There were four children in the family, Raymond E., Alva C. and Alta (., born Nov. 29, 1884, in Monroe county, Wisconsin. and Lyle Il., born April 10. 1898, in Redwood county. Raymond E. was educated in Wisconsin and was about sixteen years of age when the family moved back to lowa and remained with his parents when they moved to Minnesota, coming to Redwood Falls, Red- wood county. The family came to Boon Lake township, Ren- ville county, 1902, and located on a farm. They purchased Rev. George Potter's farm and took a tree claim. Mr. Noble was married Sept. 25. 1907, to Luella Iladdson. The first year they lived at the home of Mr. Iladdson, then they moved to Brook- field township, where they lived for three years, coming to their present place in Boon bake township, which they rent. The family are members of the Methodist church. Mr. and Mrs. Noble have three children : Floyd Raymond, born JJune 11, 1910: Dorothy Blanche, born Nov. 18, 1911; and Marion Viola, born April 30, 1914.
James R. Landy. James Richard Landy was born in Mar- mette county, Michigan, Angust 13, 1867, the son of JJohn Landy and Mary Reagan Landy, both natives of Ireland. When one year of age he came with his parents to Renville county. Minne- sota, the family settling on a homestead claim in section 24. Birch Cooley, in 1868. Here the subject of this sketch grew to manhood, attending the district school and working on his father's farm. He attended high school at Mankato and later in 1894 completed the normal school course at that place, teaching con- try school between times to raise money with which to pay his way through school. In 1896 he was elected to the principalship of the graded schools at Buffalo Lake, which position he held for four years. On Jan. 2. 1899, he was married to Estella McKinley. daughter of Robert MeKinley and Agnes Warner MeKinley, then residents of Emmett township. Two children were born to them, one of whom, a daughter. Agnes Ruth, age 10 years, is living. In 1900 Mr. Eandy purchased the Buffalo Lake News of G. W.
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Small and was editor and publisher of that paper for seven years. In the fall of 1907 he sold the News to E. C. Clausen and moved to Olivia, the county seat, to take charge of the Olivia Times, which he purchased from II. W. Wilson and which he still pub- lishes. In polities Mr. Landy is an ardent democrat and for six years, from 1904 to 1910, he served as oil inspector for Renville. Chippewa and Lace Qui Parle counties as appointee of Governor Johnson. lle has held the office of Justice of the Peace for 12 years and for eight years past has been a member of the Board of Education of the Olivia public schools. Ile is a member of the Catholic church, the Knights of Columbus and Catholic Order of Foresters.
Herbert C. Sherwood, editor of the Bird Island Union, was born in Bird Island, June 26, 1879, son of Charles II. and ITukla A. (Stone ) Sherwood. Charles HI. Sherwood was born in Illinois, Sept. 21. 1847, and came with his parents to Olmsted county, Minnesota. in 1856, coming to Renville county in 1867. lle home- steaded 80 acres in the southwest quarter of the eastern half of section 34 in Norfolk township and plowed the first furrow that was plowed in that township, living there until the spring of 1879, when he moved to Bird Island, where he resided until 1914, when he removed to Minneapolis. Feb. 6. 1865, he enlisted in Company M. First Minnesota Heavy Artillery, and was sent to Chattanooga to help turn back General Hood. lle was discharged Sept. 27. 1865. Charles II. Sherwood was married Oct. 12, 1871, to Ilulda A. Stone, born Aug. 29, 1852, and died Dec. 26, 1883. Nov. 12. 1885. he married Albra S. Salter, born March 2, 1864, daughter of S. T. Salter, a farmer in Kingman township. Herbert (. Sherwood grew to manhood in Bird Island and at the age of nineteen learned the printer's trade in the office of the Renville County Enion at Bird Island, where he remained for one year. Then he became manager and editor of the People's Watchman at Sacred Heart, Minn., which he continued for nine months. The next year was spent with the Renville County Union, which he then purchased in company with M. B. Childs and operated under the name of Childs & Sherwood. After a year, Mr. Sherwood sold his interest to Mr. Childs and became a partner in a printing office at Taroma, Wash., where he remained for two years. Nov. 15, 1903, he bought the Renville County Union and changed the name to Bird Island Union, operating it under the name of the Sherwood Publishing Co. Jan. 1, 1911, he became sole owner, proprietor and editor. The present building was erected in 1911 and has all the latest machinery and equipment, the latest addi- tion being a fine linotype machine. Mr. Sherwood served as justice of peace for one and a half years, and was chairman for four years and secretary for two years of the Republican county committee, and for four years was deputy state oil inspector.
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He was also the first president of the Commercial Club of his city. Herbert (. Sherwood was married June 7, 1904, to Edith A. Allen, born July 16, 1879, daughter of George W. Allen, who was born in 1844, now a retired Farmer in Stockton, Cal., and his wife, Adelaide ( Waite) Allen, who died in 1898 at the age of forty-five years. Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood have two chil- dren : Louine E., born February 25, 1908, and Francis 1., born December 2, 1913.
William A. Reid, editor of the Renville Star-Farmer, was born at Andover, Mass., Feb. 26, 1850, and came with his parents to (lyman, Wis., when three years of age. He attended the public schools there in winter and worked on the farm in summer. At the age of twenty he entered the office of the Waupim, Wis., Leader as an apprentice, where he remained one year, and then secured a position to complete his apprenticeship in the state printing office at Madison, Wis. In 1877 he came to Granite Falls, Minn., and accepted a position with the Journal, remaining a year and a half. Then he returned to Wisconsin and on Dec. 4, 1879, was nited in marriage to Nina Vanderbilt, of Brodhead, Wis. In the spring of 1880 he returned to Granite Falls and set- tled on a farm in that neighborhood, where he remained for thir- teen years and where two sons were born, James Melvin and Lionel Floyd. They are also in the printing and publishing business.
Hurby L. Quist, editor of the Sacred Heart Journal, was born Dec. 12, 1873, in Chisago county, Minnesota, son of Charles and Sophia JJ. (Glader) Quist. The parents were both natives of Sweden and came to America when children, in 1863-4, and were married in Chisago county, Minnesota. At the age of twenty Charles Quist enlisted in the 3d Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Company C, and served throughout the war and was taken pris- oner at Murfreesboro, Tenn. Before reaching prison he was paroled to return to Minnesota to help quell the Indian uprising and was one of the expedition which passed through Renville county by Fort Ridgely and thenee on to Wood Lake, where he was in the hottest of that decisive battle. Later he was one of the chain guards at the execution of the thirty-nine Indians hanged Dee. 26, 1862, at Mankato. Later he was exchanged with other prisoners taken at the same time. The parole cancelled, he served until the end of the Civil war. Nine children were born to these parents, of whom five are living: The subject of this sketch, Earnest L., of Pasadena, Cal .; Walter H. and Irving E., of Thiel River Falls, Minn., and Mrs. Adolph Johr ( May E.), of Hit- terdahl, Minn. In 1878 the family moved to a farm south of At- water, in Kandijohi County, where they lived until 1905, when they moved to Thief River Falls, Minn. In 1915 the parents re- turned to live in the village of Atwater, the father having retired
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from farming, in which occupation he was engaged for many years.
Hurby L. Quist attended public school in his locality and in the village of Atwater, and later attended the Gustavus Adolphus College at St. Peter, Minn., paying his way through by teaching. principally, after which he taught school for a number of years at various places. Then he entered the newspaper work, first on the staff of the Isanti County Press, Cambridge, Minn., and later with the Black Duck American at Black Duck, Minn., which he founded. Soon after he was called baek to take charge of the Isanti County Press, with which he remained three years. Then he went to Brandock, N. D., and took a homestead, farming for five years. Here he taught school and did newspaper work in vari- ous places in winter and farmed his homestead during the sum- mer months until 1909, when he went to Thief River Falls, Minn., and took charge of the mechanical department of the Press. Two years later he became managing editor, which position he held for one year. Jan. 1, 1913, he moved to Sacred Heart and bought the Journal, a weekly paper which appears every Friday. In polities Mr. Quist is Independent. He became a member of the school board at Sacred Heart during 1914. He is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran church. Mr. Quist was married June 29, 1905, to Judith M. Swanson, born Aug. 24, 1885, at Boston, Mass., daughter of Nels and Bengta Swanson. Her father died in 1910 and her mother died while she was very young. There were four children in this family, Mrs. Quist being the only one living. Mr. and Mrs. Quist have two children : Carl Gustav Mel- ville, born Inne 11, 1907, and Eugene Lawrence, born March 7. 1914.
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