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father took up the northwest quarter of section 5, and the subject of this sketch still lives on the old homestead, to which he has added by purchase the southwest quarter of section 32 in Humboldt, and has a good farm of 320 acres. He has been a member of the town board one year, and is a good citizen.
CARLS, HENRY, came to the United States from Germany in 1870, and located in Iowa for three years; then removed to Nevada and lived there about seven years, and came to this county in 1882, where he has since remained. He located a tree claim on the northwest quarter of section 12, which he afterwards changed into a homestead, and purchased the southwest quarter of the same section, in Well- ington, and now has a good farm. He was born November 20, 1850.
CASE, FRANCIS H., was born at Canton Center, Hartford county, Connecticut, June 29, 1862, and lived there until he removed to Da- kota, except one summer which he spent in Minnesota. He came to this county in March, 1878, and his mother, Mrs. Polly Case, took up as a homestead the west half of the southwest quarter of section 20, and the west half of the northwest quarter of section 29, in Welling- ton, where he still resides. His sister, now Mrs. Stanley P. Searl, also took up as a homestead the east half of section 29, which he afterwards bought from her, and now resides there. He has been constable of Wellington several years, and has held school district offices.
CHAPIN, FRANK H., is a native of New York, and was born in 1856. His parents removed to Minnesota when he was twelve years old. He was educated in the public schools, and graduated from the high school at Owatonna, Minnesota. On the 26th day of February, 1878, he came to this county and settled in Wellington township, and resided there until 1894, when he removed to Escondido, California. He was a good farmer, and owned three-fourths of a section of land. He was highly respected as a neighbor and citizen, and a wide circle of acquaintances regretted his departure to his present home.
DUBBE, CHRIST, is a native of Germany, and was born May 9, 1853. He emigrated to this country and settled in Wellington in 1879. He secured the title to the southeast quarter of section 14, under the homestead law, and now has a good farm.
EVEN, JOHN B., was born in Iowa, May 13, 1864; was educated in the public schools, and has always been engaged in farming. In March, 1893, he settled in Wellington, where he purchased the north- east quarter of section 29. He has been a member of the town board three years, and is its present chairman. In July, 1894, he was ap- pointed postmaster and still retains the office. He is an enterpris- ing, respected citizen.
ENGLE, JURGEN, came to this country from Germany in 1869. He located in Wisconsin and remained there twelve years; then removed to this county and took up by pre-emption the northeast quarter of section 26, in Wellington, where he resides with his fam- ily. He was born March 16, 1833,
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FAKLER, WILLIAM, has been a resident of Wellington township since April 7, 1878. He is a native of Germany, and was born De- cember 12, 1830. He emigrated to Minnesota and resided there until he removed to this county. Under the homestead and tree culture laws he secured a farm of 320 acres in sections 24 and 25. He has a good farm, and is an active and respected citizen; was one of the first supervisors of the town board of Wellington, and has been town treasurer since 1889.
GRAMKOW, J. H., was born in Mecklenburg, Germany, August 2, 1862. He emigrated and lived in Wisconsin until he located in this county January 29, 1879. He took up as a homestead the south- west quarter of section 34, in Wellington, where he still resides and has a good farm. He has held the office of clerk of the school board several years, and is a good citizen.
GRAMKOW, JOSEPH, is a native of Mecklenburg, Germany, and was born in 1834. He emigrated and came to Dakota in 1880, when he took up as a homestead the southeast quarter of section 27, in Wellington, where he still resides.
HARPER, L. T., one of the first settlers of Wellington township, was born in the town of Darien, Genesee county, New York, March 28, 1830. He removed to Pennsylvania and lived there and in Illinois and Minnesota before he came to Dakota. In January, 1878, he took np a homestead and tree claim in section 21, in Wellington, where he resided until November, 1889, when he sold his farm to Mr. Barnes of Sioux Falls, and removed to Parker, Turner county, S. D. In 1893, he removed to California, where he has since resided. He held several town offices while a resident of Wellington, and was highly esteemed as a citizen.
HOMAN, THEODORE, was born in Jackson county, Iowa, Septem- ber 13, 1855. He lived there for twenty-eight years, and came to Wellington, March 25, 1883, where he has since resided. He owns the northwest quarter of section 9, and the southeast quarter of sec- tion 5, and is a successful farmer. He has been a member of the town board of supervisors several years, two years as chairman, and is a highly esteemed citizen.
JONES, ARTHUR B., was born in New York on the 4th day of February, 1854; was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. He resided for some time in Michigan and Minnesota, and arrived in this county in February, 1878, and settled in Wellington. He took up the southeast quarter of section 29 and the northeast quarter of section 32 under the homestead and tree culture laws. He built the first frame house in Wellington on his homestead, and planted the first tree in the township. He greatly improved his farm with fruit trees, groves and comfortable buildings. He was town clerk from 1882 to 1893, justice of the peace for several years, and served as county commissioner five years. He was well liked as a neighbor, was an upright official, and a public-spirited citizen. He sold his farm and moved to the Pacific coast in 1893. It will take him some years in his new home to secure as long a list of warm friends as he left in Minnehaha county.
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KASTEN, WILLIAM, was born in Pommern, Germany, in 1855; emigrated to the United States in 1872, and resided in Wisconsin six years; removed to Dakota in 1878, and settled in Minnehaha county in 1879; took up as a homestead the southeast quarter of section 31, and a few years ago purchased the Arthur Jones farm in sections 29 and 32, where he now resides, and is farming his old homestead in connection with his purchase. He is an enterprising and suc- cessful farmer; has held town offices several years, and is a respected citizen.
KLUCKER, SAMUEL, was born in Switzerland, November 8, 1839, and emigrated to the United States and located in Ohio in 1852. On the 18th day of April, 1861, he enlisted for three months in Company D, 4th Ohio Infantry, and on the 4th day of June, 1861, enlisted in the same company and regiment for three years. In the fall of 1862, he was transferred at Harpers Ferry into the 4th U. S. Artillery under Gen. Call. When the order was issued that those who had less than ninety days to serve and would re-enlist, could have a furlough for thirty days, he availed himself of the order, got his furlough and re-enlisted for three years. Nineteen days after the issuance of the furlough he was back in camp at Brandy Station. He served out his time of enlistment, which expired the 13th day of February, 1867, having been in the field in active service five years and nine months. This is his war record, and comments are unnecessary. He was for a short time a resident of Larchwood, Iowa, and then came to Wel- lington, where at that time not an acre of prairie had been broken. He made a timber claim filing on the southwest quarter of section 13, where he still resides. Mr. Klucker is a good, substantial farmer, and highly esteemed as a neighbor and citizen.
KOESTER, HENRY, is a native of Germany, and was born April 20, 1828. He emigrated to the United States and lived in Wisconsin until 1880, when he removed to this county. He secured a home- stead upon the northwest quarter of section 35, in Wellington, where he resides and has a good farm. He has added to his farm by pur- chase, and now owns about 480 acres of land. He is an enterprising farmer and a good citizen.
LECHNER, JACOB, came to this country from Germany, where he was born July 24, 1848. He was in the German army, and served during the war between Germany and France for three years. Soon after the close of the war he emigrated to this country, and after re- siding in Wisconsin, Illinois and Missouri a few years, came to Wel- lington October 10, 1878, and located on the southwest quarter of section 32, where he has since resided, and has a good farm.
LOWTH, MICHAEL F., came to Sioux Falls in April, 1878. He soon after located a homestead in Wellington, where hedied October 18, 1883. Before coming to this county he had been engaged ex- tensively in the foundry and machine business at Owatonna, Minne- sota. From January 1, 1880, until January 1, 1883, he was county superintendent of schools, and filled the office to the great satisfac- tion of the public. He was a charter member of Cyrene Command- ery of Knights Templar of Sioux Falls, and was an industrious,
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energetic, enterprising citizen, and his death was universally re- gretted by all who knew him.
LUETH, CARL M., was born in 1849, in Mecklenburg, Germany. He emigrated to the United States and resided in Iowa for several years. He removed to Wellington, this county, in 1882, and bought the southeast quarter of section 1, where he has since resided, en- gaged in farming, and has a valuable, well improved farm,"compris- ing at this writing about 480 acres. He is an industrious, enter- prising farmer and a good neighbor and esteemed citizen.
ODELL, OSWALD, was born in St. Lawrence county, N. Y., July 9, 1852; moved with his parents to Salem, LaCrosse county, Wiscon- sin, in 1856, and on the 21st day of March, 1877, came to this county and settled in Wellington, taking up a homestead and tree claim in sections 19 and 20, where he has since resided. He has held school and town offices, is active in politics, and is an esteemed citizen.
RANG, JOSEPH, was born in Germany January 9, 1853. He emi- grated to the United States and lived in Michigan until he removed to this county in 1887. He bought 280 acres of land in sections 35 and 36 in Wellington, and is engaged in farming. He has a good farm, and is an enterprising, respected citizen.
SCHIEVELBEIN, FRED, is a native of Germany, and was born May 7, 1857. He emigrated and located in Iowa until 1879, when he re- moved to Dakota and settled in this county on his present homestead, the northwest quarter and the west half of the southwest quarter of section 3 in Wellington, which is a good farm. He also owns the southwest quarter of section 34 in Humboldt. He has been director of the school board in district No. 112, for several years, is an indus- trious farmer and a good citizen.
SEARL, CHARLES N., was born at Ellicottville, New York, in 1856; lived in Minnesota for some time, and came to Dakota February 26, 1878; took up as a homestead and tree claim the north half of sec- tion 33 in Wellington, where he resided until 1898, when he rented his farm and removed with his family to the city of Sioux Falls to educate his children. He has held several town offices, was assessor of Wellington and Wall Lake in 1890, and is an enterprising and re- spected citizen.
SEARL, STANLEY P., was born in 1855 in the state of New York. He lived there and in Minnesota and Missouri prior to his coming to Dakota in 1878, from which time he has been a resident of this county. He entered as a homestead the southeast quarter of section 32 in Wellington, where he still resides. He has held the office of town treasurer, is a good farmer and a respected citizen.
RED ROCK TOWNSHIP.
(102-47)
This township is bounded on the east by the Minnesota state line, and was surveyed in July, 1862. The north, south and west lines were surveyed by M. K. Armstrong in October, 1864, and the subdivisions made by Carl C. P. Meyer during the same month, and according to the government survey contains 15,123.40 acres of land. It has but little waste land. Beaver creek enters near the center of the north line of section three, and pursues a southerly course through the township, and a tributary to the Split Rock river runs through the northwestern portion. The first settlers were E. S. Buzzell and C. M. Johnson. They took up land in 1872. The Sioux City & Northern railroad runs through the northeastern part, and has a station called Booge, on the southeast quarter of section 10. Nine blocks were platted at this point by J. R. Manning and wife in January, 1891.
The first school meeting was held on the 4th day of June, 1877, and the first school was taught by Alta H. Buzzell in the dwelling house of F. W. Buzzell on the southwest quarter of section 27. A post office was established at Booge on the 19th day of March, 1891. The residents of this township are highly favored with shipping fa- cilities as the stations at Valley Springs, Brandon, Corson and Garretson are but a few miles away.
The resurvey of this township resulted in some highly contested law suits, in fact, in more litigation than any other township in the county, except Burk. There are several fine farms in the township, and the farmers are industrious and thrifty.
RED ROCK TOWNSHIP BOARD.
The first meeting of this board was held on the 13th day of Jan- uary, 1881. The supervisors were J. R. Manning chairman, J. C. Shephard, Magnus Swenson; clerk, F. W. Buzzell; constable, Ed. Stone. October 17, G. D. Bannister was appointed supervisor in place of J. C. Shephard, who had resigned.
1882. Supervisors, D. J. Walker, Thomas Whealey, C. M. Johnson; assessor, G. D. Bannister; justice, F. G. Chaphe. April 17, the board met and adopted measures to prevent the spreading of smallpox, which had broken out in the township.
1883. Supervisors, G. D. Bannister chairman, E. R. Bannister, C. M. Johnson; clerk, H. M. Connell: assessor, G. D. Bannister.
1884. Supervisors, E. R. Bannister chairman, G. D. Bannister, Axel Olson; clerk, F. W. Buzzell; treasurer, O. M. Wood; assessor, G. D. Bannister.
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1885. Supervisors, E. R. Bannister chairman, F. G. Chaphe, G. D. Bannister; clerk, F. W. Buzzell; treasurer, J. D. Burghart; assessor, G. D. Bannister; justices, J. P. Hogan, G. A. Shilstad; constable, R. P. Buzzell.
1886. Supervisors, E. R. Bannister, J. R. Manning, Robert Kyle; clerk, F. W. Buzzell; treasurer, J. D. Burghart; assessor, G. D. Bannister; justices, J. R. Manning, J. D. Burkhart; constable, Thomas Whealey:
1887. Supervisors, J. R. Manning, Robert Kyle, M. Swenson; treasurer, H. D. Kinyon; assessor, G. D. Bannister; justices, J. R. Manning, F. G. Chaphe; constables, C. D. Harris, R. P. Buzzell.
1888. Supervisors, E. R. Bannister chairman, H. D. Kinyon, G. W. Fay: assessor, G. D. Bannister; treasurer, R. P. Buzzell; jus- tice, H. P. Brandt; constables, C. D. Harris, R. P. Buzzell. October 30, E. R. Bannister having moved from the township, Robert Kyle was appointed chairman of the board. February 26, 1889, H. D. Kinyon having moved from the township, Jasper Bannister was ap- pointed supervisor.
1889. Supervisors, G. W. Fay, Thomas Whealey, Homer Mc- Connell; clerk, H. M. McConnell; treasurer, R. P. Buzzell; assessor, G. D. Bannister; justices, J. R. Manning, Homer Caldwell; constable, Lars Aker. On the 5th day of March, a petition signed by twenty resident taxpayers was filed with the town board, praying that a special township meeting be called to determine whether the town- ship would order a resurvey of the township. The special meeting was called for March 21, at which time the vote stood 42 for and 19 against the resurvey. A tax of two mills was levied to defray the expense.
1890. Supervisors, G. W. Fay, Robert Kyle, C. M. Johnson; clerk, F. W. Buzzell; treasurer, R. P. Buzzell; assessor, G. D. Ban- nister; justice, C. D. Harris; constable, D. J. Walker.
1891. Supervisors, Robert Kyle, G. W. Fay, C. M. Johnson; clerk, F. W. Buzzell; treasurer, R. P. Buzzell; assessor, J. R. Man- ning; justices, J. R. Manning, Magnus Swenson; constables, R. P. Buzzell, Fred Grandberg. March 9, 1891, the board employed J. E. Carland to assist H. H. Keith in survey cases.
1892. Supervisors, Robert Kyle, G. W. Fay, C. M. Johnson; clerk, F. W. Buzzell; treasurer, O. M. Wood; assessor, C. A. Liem: justice, R. P. Buzzell; constable, Robert Delap.
1893. Supervisors, Robert Kyle, G. W. Fay, C. M. Johnson; clerk, F. W. Buzzell; treasurer, O. M. Wood; assessor, C. A. Liem; justices, J. R. Manning, H. McConnell; constable, W. J. Kyle. At the annual town meeting it was voted to refund to the persons who had advanced money in the survey suits the amount they had so ad- vanced.
1894. Supervisors, Robert Kyle, G. W. Fay, C. M. Johnson; clerk, F. W. Buzzell; treasurer, Frank A. Johnson; assessor, C. A. Liem; justice, D. J. Walker; constable, Fred. Grandberg.
1895. Supervisors, Robert Kyle, G. W. Fay, C. M. Johnson; clerk, F. W. Buzzell; treasurer, F. A. Johnson; assessor, C. A. Liem; justice, C. D. Harris; constable, W. J. Kyle. At the annual town
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meeting it was voted that the township would defend the persons who should be prosecuted for any acts done by them in carrying into effect the new survey.
1896. Supervisors, Robert Kyle, G. W. Fay, C. M. Johnson; clerk, F. W. Buzzell; treasurer, F. A. Johnson; assessor, C. A. Liem; justices, J. R. Manning, C. A. Liem; constable, Amund Amundson.
1897. Supervisors, Robert Kyle, G. W. Fay, C. M. Johnson; clerk, F. W. Buzzell; treasurer, F. A. Johnson; assessor, C. A. Liem; justices, W. J. Kyle, Ed. Lewis; constables, H. H. Bly, Frank Straw.
1898. Supervisors, Robert Kyle, G. W. Fay, C. M. Johnson; clerk, F. W. Buzzell; treasurer, F. A. Johnson; assessor, C. A. Liem; justice, Fred. Grandberg; constable, Charles Forsberg.
1899. Supervisors, Peter Williamson, G. W. Fay, Charles Forsberg; clerk, F. W. Buzzell; treasurer, C. M. Johnson; assessor, F. A. Johnson; justices, Ed. Lewis, W. J. Kyle; constables, Monroe Danney, Russell Kyle.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
BANNISTER, GASTON D., was born in Leroy, New York, Decem- ber 1, 1828. He was reared on a farm and educated in the public schools. Before coming to this county he resided in Wisconsin and Iowa. He secured a tree claim and homestead in sections 21 and 22 in Red Rock, and resided in that township until he removed to the Pacific coast in 1892. He was one of the county commissioners of Minnehaha county from 1885 to 1891, and was elected a member of the lower house of the legislature in 1891. Mr. Bannister was a quiet, unassuming man, and, as his record shows, had a large circle of friends.
BENGTSON, NELS, is a native of Sweden, and was born February 22, 1840. He emigrated to the United States and lived in Iowa till 1884, when he removed from there and arrived in this county Febru- ary 19. He bought the southwest quarter of section 29 in Red Rock, but sold it in the spring of 1893 for $3,000, with the intention of spending his remaining days in his native country, but, after a short stay there, he returned to this country and bought a farm in Minne- sota, where he now resides.
BUZZELL, ELIJAH S., is a native of Maine, and was born June 28, 1828. He was educated in the common schools, and remained on a farm until eighteen years of age, at which time he commenced work as a house and carriage painter. During the war he enlisted in the 27th Maine infantry, and served ten months. In 1872 he came to this county, and was so much pleased with the country that he took up the northeast quarter of section 34 in Red Rock, as a homestead, and removed his family there in April, 1873, and has since resided there. He is one of the reliable, popular citizens of Red Rock.
BUZZELL, CHARLES P., was born in Maine, December 29, 1869; is a son of E. S. Buzzell, and came to Red Rock in 1873, and re- sides upon the home farm.
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BUZZELL, FRANK W., was born in Maine in December, 1853. He lived in New York before he came West with his brother, R. P. Buzzel. He settled in this county and took up a homestead on the northwest quarter of section 28 in Red Rock, where he has since re- sided, and has a good farm. He has held the office of town clerk. and several school offices, and is an esteemed citizen.
BUZZEL, ROYAL P., was born in Maine, May 2, 1855. He lived in New York until the spring of 1873, when he came West. He ar- rived in Dakota April 14, 1873, and located in this county, on the northeast quarter of section 28 in Red Rock, which he took up as a homestead, and resided there until 1893, when he removed to Cali- fornia. While a resident of Red Rock, he was town treasurer and constable several years.
CADWELL, H. A., was born in Indiana December 15, 1852. He removed to Minnesota in 1855, and lived there until February, 1876, when he settled in this county and took up as a homestead the south- west quarter of section 4, in Red Rock, where he resided until in 1893, when he moved into the village of Valley Springs.
FAY, G. W., came to Red Rock in the fall of 1873, and took up two quarter sections of land comprising the southwest quarter of section 22, and the east tier of forties in section 27. He resides on the southeast corner of section 27, and when he feels disposed to visit Minnesota he has only to cross the highway and he is there. He has been elected to township offices, and is at the present writing chairman of the board of supervisors. He is a good farmer and a good citizen.
FORSETH, E. O., was born in Norway in 1856. He arrived in Da- kota in 1883, and settled in this county, securing as a homestead the east half of the northwest quarter of section 9 in Red Rock, where he still resides. He has also bought some school land in section 16 in the same town, and has a good farm.
FUCHS, NICK, a native of Germany, was born January 20, 1834. He came to Dakota in October, 1892, and located on the southwest quarter of section 5, in Red Rock, where he resided with his family until his death, which occurred a few years ago.
HANSEN, SEVERT, was born in Norway in 1849. He emigrated to the United States, and in 1885 located on his present farm, com- prising 120 acres in section 6 in Red Rock, where he has since re- sided. He has held several town offices, was school director three years, and is a good citizen.
HARRIS, C. D., was born at Sherburne, Chenango county, New York, in 1858; lived there and in Minnesota until 1884, when he re- moved to Dakota. He arrived in this county on the 31st day of Jan- uary of that year, and soon after bought the northwest quarter of section 29 in Red Rock, where he has since resided engaged in farm- ing. He has a good farm with substantial buildings, and is a good citizen.
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JOHNSON, MORRIS, is a native of Norway, and was born March 9, 1844. He emigrated to the United States in 1859, and located in Illinois. In August, 1861, he enlisted in Company C, 34th Illinois In- fantry, and in 1863, re-enlisted and remained in the service until July 22, 1865, when he received his discharge. He was wounded slightly several times during the war, and once quite severely, a minie bullet striking him over the right eye, leaving a large scar to remind him of the service he engaged in so early in the cause of his adopted country. Near the close of the war he was taken prisoner at Bentonville, N. C., and was incarcerated in Libbey Prison, where he remained until Lee's surrender. He went from Illinois to Grand Forks county, North Dakota, in 1882, and resided there until 1889, when he removed to this county. He purchased the northwest quarter of section 5 in Red Rock, where he now resides with his fam- ily, engaged in farming. He is a good reliable citizen.
JORGENSON, MIKKEL, was born in Norway, August 15, 1848. He emigrated to America and lived in Iowa until 1876, when he came to Dakota and settled in this county, taking up as a homestead the southwest quarter of section 10, in Red Rock, where he has since re- sided.
JULSON, HALVOR, was born in Norway in 1849. He emigrated to this country and lived in Wisconsin and Minnesota until in 1874, when he came to Dakota and located in this county, taking up as a homestead the northeast quarter of section 10, in Red Rock, where he still resides.
KYLE, JOHN F., AND M. C., two sons of Robert Kyle, were both born on their father's farm in Wisconsin, the former on the 5th day of October, 1870, and the latter on the 21st day of January, 1872. John Kyle owns 120 acres of land in section 16, in Red Rock, but re- sides in Minnesota, engaged in the grain business. M. C. Kyle owns 80 acres of land in the same section and resides with his father.
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