Compendium history and biography of North Dakota; a history of early settlement, political history, and biography; reminiscences of pioneer life, Part 51

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Publication date: 1900
Publisher: Chicago, G.A.Ogle
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Our subject was married, in 1884, to Miss Mar- garet M. Cole, a native of England, who came to America with her parents in 1874. Three children have been born to bless the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bond, named as follows: Thomas D., Marjorie and Dorothy. Mr. Bond is a Republican in politics.

CHARLES F. BAHNSEN, editor and pub- lisher of the "Statstidende" (State Journal), is a gentleman of wide experience in newspaper work and is meeting with success in that line in Hills- boro, Traill county. He is well educated, intelli- gent and possessed of excellent characteristics and occupies a prominent place as a true citizen.

Our subject was born in Copenhagen, Den- mark, October 8, 1859, and was the second of nine children, born to Nic. F. and Louiso ( Schroa- der) Bahnsen. He went to live with his maternal grandparents when he was two years of age and was given liberal educational advantages until his fourteenth year, when he was apprenticed to the printer's trade and served five years. He went to Chicago in the spring of 1882 and worked there

about three years in the office of the Scandinavian paper, although he was well educated in English. He later went to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and in a short time established a small job printing shop, which he conducted one year and then worked in Minneapolis four years. He went to Hatton, Traill county, in the fall of 1892 and worked on the sheet established by A. S. Froslid, known as the "Banneret," a Norwegian sheet. Mr. Bahnsen leased this plant in 1894 and edited the paper until 1895, when he disposed of his interests and entered the employ of the purchaser and the plant was re- moved to Mayville. He went to Hillsboro in Oc- tober, 1898, and in April, 1899, leased the plant which he now operates. He publishes a weekly paper, Tuesdays, containing four seven-column pages, and the paper has a liberal patronage. The "Statstidende" was established in May, 1897, by the Banner Publishing Company and operated by them until our subject assumed charge in April, 1899. Mr. Bahnsen was married, in 1889, to Miss Ida Carlson. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Bahnsen, named as follows : Frederick W. and Eda. Mr. Bahnsen is a Republican in political faith and is a strong adherent to party principles.

JAMES A. ATKINSON occupies a prominent place as a real estate dealer of Sykeston, Wells county. To his influence is due much of the pres- ent solid prosperity of Wells and Stutsman counties, wherein he has operated extensively. He is a man who commands respect wherever he is known and ably seconds all projects which tend to the protec- tion and upbuilding of the business interests of his locality.

Our subject was born in Belmont county, Ohio, August 1, 1839, and was a son of Charles and Susan (Bowman) Atkinson, the former of English and the latter of Swiss descent. His father was a farmer by occupation and was born in America. Mr. At- kinson was raised on his father's farm in Ohio and attended the country schools and at the age of twenty years went to Davenport, Iowa, in company with his father and settled in the country and later started in the coffee and spice business in Daven- port and was engaged in business and also in farm- ing in Iowa for about twenty years. He went to Jamestown, North Dakota, in the spring of 1880 and began farming and dealing in real estate and was among the early business men of Jamestown and had a large farm south of there. He hecame interested in Wells county lands in 1882, since which time J. A. Atkinson & Son have aided as much perhaps as any other firm in the development of the possibilities of the agricultural and stock rais- ing and dairying interests of North Dakota, and they now conduct an extensive real estate business in Sykeston, where the family located in 1895.

Our subject was married, at Davenport, Iowa, in 1867, to Miss Sophia Severn, who is of English descent, and a daughter of John Severn, of Toronto,

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Ontario. Mr. and Mrs. Atkinson are the parents of five children, as follows: Laura A., Edith S., Charles S., Annie L. and Ralph J. The four older children were born in Iowa and the last named in North Dakota. Mr. Atkinson is a member of the Masonic fraternity and has passed the thirty-second degree of the order. Politically, he is a Republi- can and has taken an active part in affairs pertain- ing to local government.

CORNELIUS D. EDICK, the well-known and popular county superintendent of schools of Bur- leigh county, North Dakota, and a representative citizen of Bismarck, is a native of Oswego county, New York, born June 26, 1844. His parents, Daniel and Minerva (Richards) Edick, were natives of New York and Massachusetts, respectively. The father, who is a harness and shoemaker by trade, is still a resident of the Empire state.

Our subject passed his boyhood and youth in New York and in the common and high schools of that state he acquired his literary education. On leaving home he went to Syracuse, New York, and later to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he en- gaged in the mercantile trade. In 1883 he came to Bismarck, North Dakota, and entered land in Bur- leigh county, proved up his claim and followed farming for five or six years. At the end of that period he took up his residence in Bismarck, where he has since made his home.

While still a resident of New York, Mr. Edick was married, in 1855, to Miss Matilda E. Soule, a native of that state. In his social relations he is a Mason, and in his political affiliations is a stalwart Republican, taking an active and prominent part in the campaigns of Burleigh county. In 1892 he was elected county auditor, which office he most creditably filled for one term and then after travel- ing for two years returned to Bismarck and in 1896 was elected county superintendent of schools. Being re-elected in 1898, he is the present incumbent in that office and has also served his fellow citizens in other minor positions. Genial and pleasant in manner, he makes a popular official and gains the confidence and high regard of all with whom he comes in contact.

FRANK J. CAMPBELL, M. D., one of the ablest and most popular physicians and surgeons of Fargo, North Dakota, was born in Winona coun- ty, Minnesota, on the IIth of August, 1862, and is a son of James S. and Loraine H. (Booker) Campbell, natives of Maine. The mother died when our subject was only two years old, but the father is still living and is now a prominent contractor and builder of Fargo.

Until six years of age Dr. Campbell was a resi- dent of Maine and his primary education was ob- tained in the schools of that state. He came to

Fargo in 1876 and continued his studies in the schools of that city for some time. In 1882 he entered the Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois, from which he was graduated in 1887 with the Ph. B. degree and three years later was granted. the degree of Ph. M. by his alma mater. He ma- triculated at the Chicago Medical College and was graduated from that institution in 1890 with the degree of M. D. and carried off the honors of his class, being awarded one hundred dollars in gold for the highest scholarship. He was also valedic- torian of his class. After his graduation he served as interne at Mercy Hospital of Chicago for six months, but owing to failing health was obliged to give up that position. Returning to Fargo he was engaged in practice for some years with Dr. I. N. Wear, the partnership existing until July, 1898, since which time he has been alone. He took a post-graduate course in the Polyclinic at New York, in 1898, and has ever been a close and thorough student and a man of deep research. His investi- gations into the science of medicine and surgery and his skillful application of the knowledge he has thereby obtained has won him a place in the foremost ranks of the medical fraternity.

Prior to entering upon the study of medicine Dr. Campbell was employed in a bank at Fargo for two years. In 1891 he married Miss Louise Welsh, a native of Ohio, and to them were born three children, but two are now deceased, the only one living being Margaret C. The Doctor is a promi- nent member of the county and state medical so- cieties and also the American Medical Association. He was health officer of Fargo from 1892 until 1897; has been superintendent of the county board of health since 1891, and is secretary of the board of United States pension examiners. Socially, he is a Mason, a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, a K. of P. and also belongs to sev- eral insurance orders.

JUDGE CHARLES J. FISK, of the first ju- dicial district of North Dakota, is one of the most prominent men of the state and although a young man, has gained the confidence of the people whom he serves. His career as a lawyer started in North Dakota and he has ever been among the earnest workers for the advancement of the state and his fellowmen.

Our subject was born in Whiteside county, Illi- nois, March II, 1862, and is a son of Clark A. and Delia E. (Reynolds) Fisk, natives, respectively, of Pennsylvania and Vermont. His father was a farmer and removed from Pennsylvania to Illinois in 1836, where he took up government land and resided there until his death. Our subject has one brother, Frank E. Fisk, of Bottineau, North Da- kota.

Charles F. Fisk was reared and educated in Illinois, and attended the Northern Illinois College of Fulton, after which he taught school and read

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law at Morrison, Illinois, in the office of Woodruff & Andrews. He came to North Dakota in 1886 and settled at Larimore, where he was admitted to the bar in 1886 and was associated with W. H. Fel- lows, deceased. He continued at Larimore until February 1, 1889, when he located in Grand Forks, and was associated with Judge Cochrane, Tracy R. Bangs and George A. Bangs, at different times. He was elected to the bench in 1896 and is now ably filling the office of judge of the first judicial district of North Dakota.

Judge Fisk was married, in 1886, to Miss Ida M. Myers, who is also a native of Illinois. Two daughters have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Fisk, as follows : Helen and Doris. Mr. Fisk is a mem- ber of the Masonic fraternity, the Elks, the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of America. He has filled minor offices in his profession as city attorney, etc., and is widely known as a man of much influence for good in the community .. He is a stanch Democrat and a firm believer in the idea of free silver. He stands high in his profession and is a young man who deserves success. On June 19, 1900, he was nominated for a second term by his own party and June 23d was placed in nomina- tion for the same office by the Republican judicial convention.

HON. JOHN A. SORLEY, attorney-at-law, in Grand Forks, North Dakota, is prominent in legal circles throughout the state. He has been in prac- tice in that city over ten years and has become well known, not only as a gentleman well versed in law, but of fine education, mentally gifted and courteous, and who has been a potent factor in the political and legal life and welfare of Grand Forks county.

Our subject was born in Allamakee county, Iowa, June 13, 1859, and was the son of Andrew Jacob- son and Julia (Oppen) Jacobson, both natives of Norway. His parents came to the United States about 1849 and settled in Dane county, Wisconsin, and from there moved to Iowa and the father en- gaged in farming. They were the parents of eight sons, three of whom now live in North Dakota.

Our subject was reared and educated in Iowa and graduated from the Decorah Institute in 1881. He then read law with Cooley Akers, of Decoral. Iowa, and was admitted to the bar in that state in 1883. He began his practice in Madison, Minne- sota, in 1884, and continued there until 1889. when he came to Grand Forks, since which time he has followed his profession in this city.

Our subject was married, in 1888, to Miss Kate Schouweiler, a native of Minnesota. Two daugh- ters have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Sorley, named as follows : Blanche A. and Monica. Mr. Sorley was elected to the state senate in 1893 and did very efficient work for the advancement of his people. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Politically, he associates with the Re-

publican party, and is an ardent worker for the principles of that organization. He is a forcible speaker and his arguments are convincing and on several occasions he has "stumped" the county and state in the interests of the Republican party.

EUGENE MOORE. Among the leading and influential farmers of Centre township, Richland county, North Dakota, who thoroughly understand their business and pursue the avocation of their chosen calling in a methodical and businesslike manner, is the subject of this biography, who re- sides on section 16. He was born in Montcalm county, Michigan, August 15, 1863, and was about nine years of age when brought by his parents to this state, since which time he has made his home almost continuously in Centre township, where his parents located. He was educated in the common schools near his boyhood home and assisted his father in the operation of the home farm until he attained his majority, when he pre-empted one hun- dred and sixty acres of land in Sargent county and lived there for nine years. At the end of that time he returned to Richland county and has since made his home upon his present farm, comprising two hundred and three and one-half acres of land. He has erected thereon good and substantial buildings and is successfully engaged in agricultural pur- suits.

At Wahpeton, Richland county, Mr. Moore was married, December 14, 1885. to Miss Polly Steven- son, a daughter of James Stevenson, of Montcalm county, Michigan, and to them have been born two children, namely: Clarence E. and Lloyd H. The family is one of prominence in the community where they reside. Mr. Moore is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen.

EDWARD HUNGER. This name will be readily recognized as that of one of the leading merchants of Hankinson and extensive land owners of Richland county. Mr. Hunger was engaged in agricultural pursuits many years in that region and in every business venture has met with unbounded success. He has acquired a good property and an enviable reputation. On another page is presented a portrait of Mr. Hunger in connection with this sketch.

Our subject was born in Rosenaw, Province Schlerien. Germany. March 13. 1849. He was reared in his native country and remained there un- til 1878, when he emigrated to America. After re- siding in St. Paul, Minnesota, for a few months, he went to Dakota territory in February, 1879, and entered claim to a homestead farm in Bedford town- ship, Richland county, where he engaged in farming nine years. He then removed to Hankinson and engaged in the mercantile business, at which occu- pation he has been engaged since. His store is

EDWARD HUNGER.

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equipped with a complete line of general merchan- dise and he enjoys an extensive patronage. He also possesses twenty-seven hundred and twenty acres of land in Richland county and has acquired a fortune since taking up his residence in Dakota.

Our subject was married, in his native land, to Anna Hochhausler. Mrs. Hunger died in Hankin- son, North Dakota, June 28, 1892, leaving one son, Fred O., who is now in business with his father. Mr. Hunger was married to Miss Anna Jansen, a native of Norway, in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. He has served as a member of the Hankinson school board for the past eight years and for five years has been a member of the village board of Hankin- son. He is an earnest worker, for the better inter- ests of his adopted land and is one of the wide- awake and highly esteemed men of that commun- ity. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity.

DANIEL S. NEIMAN is one of the represent- ative general farmers of Foster county, and has been a conspicuous figure in the development and extension of the great agricultural interests of that region. He has passed through pioneer experiences and has gained a comfortable competence and a well-improved estate by dint of faithful and persist- ent efforts and is highly esteemed as a public-spirited citizen.

Our subject was born in Lancaster county, Penn- sylvania, in 1850. His father, Martin Neiman, was of German, descent and was a hotelkeeper in Har- risburg, Pennsylvania, and Indianapolis, Indiana. He served in the United States army as a scout. The mother of our subject bore the maiden name of Laha Stair and was a native of Pennsylvania.

Our subject was the fourth in a family of five children and was raised in Indianapolis, where his parents located when he was but one year old. When he was ten years of age the father died, and the children were early put to work. Mr. Neiman received a common-school education and also at- tented a business college and at the age of twenty years began railroad work as a fireman and later was promoted to engineer on the Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad and followed railroad work seven years. He went to North Dakota October 9, 1882, and settled in Fargo, where he worked as engineer and in the fall of 1883 entered claim to the northeast quarter of section 26, township 146, range 65. and moved his family to the farm. He remained in Fargo two years afterward and was employed in the electric light plant and his brother-in-law had charge of the farm work. A 12X12-foot shanty had been erected on the farm and their nearest neighbor was four miles distant and there were but three houses between the farm and Carrington. Our subject assumed the management of the farm in 1885, since which time he has devoted his atten- tion to that alone. The first two years did not meet the expenses of the farm, but he has since engaged

successfully in grain raising. He now operates eleven hundred acres of land and cultivates about seven hundred acres annually and he contemplates breaking the balance of the land for crops. He purchased a threshing outfit in the fall of 1891 and has operated the machine every season since with remarkable success and now has a twenty-horse- power engine. He has all the necessary machinery and a thoroughly improved farm. He and his family were among the earliest settlers of Rose Hill town- ship and during the severe storms have burned twisted hay for fuel and ground wheat in a coffee- mill. The first church built in the neighborhood was the Congregational church, erected in 1895. Prior to that time services were held in different houses in the neighborhood and the first meeting was conducted by Rev. C. M. C. Burns, a Methodist divine, and was held in a sod shanty on section 26, township 146, range 65, the home of A. T. Rails- back. Many of the pioneer settlers of that region have moved from their farms and Mr. Neiman is one of the few to remain. He was one of the first school officers in the township and all of the other officers of the board at that time have gone away.

Our subject was married, at the age of twenty- one, to Miss Eliza J. Railsback, who was born and raised in Iowa. Mrs. Neiman's father, Enoc Rails- back, was of German descent and was a farmer in Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Neiman are the parents of one child, Clieve R., born in 1883, and also have an adopted daughter, Louisa, who was born July 4. 1891. Mr. Neiman is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Politically, he is a Republican and is firm in his convictions. He takes an active part in local affairs and has held numerous school offices in his township.

JENS PEDERSON, who is well known as a prosperous merchant of Milnor, Sargent county, North Dakota, is also vice-president of the Farmers' Mill & Grain Company. He is a gentleman of ex- cellent business capacities and has met with un- bounded success in every enterprise in which he has embarked. He has gained a goodly fortune and a host of friends in that region.

Our subject was born in Denmark, June 19, 1855. He was reared in his native land and re- ceived a common-school education and learned the trade of a blacksmith and carriagemaker. He re- mained in Denmark until 1873, when he came to America and went direct to Minneapolis, Minne- sota, where he followed his trade for five years and then went to Franklin, Renville county, Minnesota, and followed his trade and also engaged in farm- ing. He left Minnesota in 1882 and went to Rich- land county, North Dakota, where he remained until the spring of 1883, and then located in Sargent county, following his trade in Milnor until 1892. He then engaged in the farm machinery and im- plement business and in 1895 added general mer-

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chandise, which business he has since conducted in addition to his implement trade. He enjoys an ex- tensive patronage and is one of the leading mer- chants of the village.

Our subject was married, in Renville county, Minnesota, August 20, 1878, to Miss Mary Hoff, a native of Norway. Mr. Pederson was one of the first county commissioners of Sargent county and served two years. He was appointed by Governor Shortridge on the board of agriculture of the state and served as a member of the board two years. He takes an active part in all local affairs of a public nature, and has held the various township offices in Milnor township.

MARTIN L. SHANKS, M. D. The medical profession is ably represented by Dr. Shanks, of Casselton, Cass county, North Dakota. He is one of the pioneer physicians and surgeons of North Dakota and his life and labors there have been crowned with success. He is known throughout the Northwest as a skilled practitioner and one who progresses as time moves all things forward and he enjoys an ever increasing patronage and the con- fidence of the people among whom he labors.

Our subject was born in Port Washington, Tuscarawas county, Ohio, November 1, 1848, and was of a family of eleven children, five sons and six daughters, born to David and Catherine ( Barrick) Shanks, natives, respectively, of Ohio and Penn- sylvania. His father was a farmer by occupation and passed nis career in Ohio, most of the time in Huron county. He died in 1885 and the mother in 1888. The grandfather of our subject, James Shanks, was a native of Scotland and came to the United states about 1792, and died in Ohio. He was a tanner by trade and conducted a tannery at Mansfield, Ohio.

Our subject was reared and educated in his na- tive state, graduating from there in 1870. He en- listed, in July, 1863, in Company M, First Ohio Heavy Artillery, and served until August 3, 1865, and participated in the following engagements : Strawberry Plains, Tennessee; raid up the Ten- nessee river; London, Tennessee, with Hood, and following that with Morgan cavalry near there; Salsbury, North Carolina; French Broad river, and finally at Nashville, where he was held as reserve. After his return from the war he completed his studies and then, in 1870, began teaching school and also read medicine and clerked in a drug store at Clyde, Ohio. He attended lectures at Columbus, Ohio, Medical College, in 1875-1876 and graduated from that institution in 1882. He had practiced some since 1877 at New Castle, Pennsylvania, and in 1886 entered Rush Medical College and attended one course of lectures and in 1891 attended a course at the College of Physicians & Surgeons of New York. Ile made an extended tour through Eu- rope in 1892, in the interests of his profession and visited the leading hospitals of Eigland, Germany,

France, Italy and Switzerland. He went to Yank- ton, North Dakota, in 1878, and after a short stay located at Casselton, in January, 1878, where he has since resided and has continued in the practice of medicine and surgery. When he located there he was the only physician between Fargo and Bismarck and he experienced many hardships during the early days of that region. He has followed the modern methods of his profession by attending lectures every two years in various parts of the country, is progressive in his work and conscientious as a prac- titioner. He is devoted entirely to his work and in 1899 established a hospital containing fourteen beds at Casselton. He is the owner of one of the finest business blocks in the city of Casselton and enjoys prosperity.

Our subject was married, in November, 1879, to Miss Laura A. Lean, a native of England. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Shanks, as follows: Markwell, Clytie and Vallow. Mr. Shanks is prominent in secret society circles and holds membership in the Masonic fraternity, Knights Templar and Mystic Shrine; Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Knights of Pythias; Fraternal Union, and Ancient Order of Foresters. He has been county physician for the past two years for the district in which he resides and is one of the best known men of the state. He is a member of the Cass County Medical Society and the State Medical Society. Politically, he is a Republican, but does not take an active part in political affairs.

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Compendium history and biography of North Dakota; a history of early settlement, political history, and biography; reminiscences of pioneer life, Part 51

Author: Publication date: 1900 Publisher: Chicago, G.A.Ogle Number of Pages: 1432

Author:
Publication date: 1900
Publisher: Chicago, G.A.Ogle
Number of Pages: 1432