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KYLE, ROBERT, of Red Rock, is a native of Scotland, and was born August 15, 1843. In 1861, he emigrated to the United States and engaged in farming in Waushara county, Wis., for ten years, then carried on a lumber business in Michigan for about two years. In 1870, he bought 80 acres of land in Red Rock, but he did not re- move there with his family until in 1874. He has been a very suc- cessful farmer, and is at this writing the owner of 720 acres of good farm-land in sections 16, 21, and 22, in Red Rock, and dur- ing 1898, raised 8,000 bushels of wheat, 4,000 bushels of barley, 2,500 bushels of oats, and 4,500 bushels of corn. He resides on the southeast quarter of section 21, and has a splendid farm, well stocked. He has also taken an active part in town affairs; was chairman of the town board of supervisors seven years, and has held several school offices. Mr. Kyle is an honest, upright citizen, and well liked by his neighbors and acquaintances.
LARSON, CHRISTIAN, was born in Norway in 1847. He emi- grated to Iowa and lived there until he removed to Dakota in 1874 and settled in Red Rock. He took up as homestead 40 acres of section 6 and 120 acres of section 7, where he still resides.
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LARSON, IVER, is a native of Norway, and was born in 1845. He emigrated to Iowa and lived there until 1871, when he removed to Dakota. In 1873 he came to this county and took up as a homestead the northwest quarter of section 31, in Red Rock, where he has since resided.
LIEM, CHARLES A., was born at Fredericksruhe, Germany, October 18, 1862. He received his early education in the city schools, attended college three years and a polytechnical insti- tute the same length of time, and learned the trade of mason and builder. In 1882 he came to Fon du Lac, Wisconsin, and resided there three years. In 1885 he removed to Dakota and located at Valley Springs, following his trade until the fall of 1888, when he en- gaged in farming in Red Rock. He has been assessor since 1892, and in 1898 was nominated for the legislature by the Republican party, but was defeated with the balance of the ticket. He is a good citizen and well liked by his acquaintances.
MANNING, JOHN R., was born at Andover, Windsor county, Ver- mont, in 1826. He was reared on a farm and educated in the public schools. After having resided in his native state and in Indiana, Wisconsin and Iowa, he removed to Dakota in 1874 and located in this county. He took up the northeast quarter of section 22, as a homestead, and as a tree claim the southeast quarter of section 10 in Red Rock. He was chairman of the first town board in 1881, and has held several town offices. He was elected a member of the legisla- ture when South Dakota was endeavoring to organize into a state in 1885, and was also elected to the first legislature of South Dakota in 1889. He is now residing at Booge, a station on the Sioux City and Great Northern railroad, which is located on the southeast quarter of section 10. A post office was established at this place on the 19th day of March, 1891, and Mr. Manning was appointed postmaster, which position he has since held. He is an honest, upright citizen, a good official, and highly esteemed by his neighbors.
MCCONNELL, MARSHALL, was born in LaGrange county, Indi- ana, September 28, 1847. He lived for awhile in Wisconsin: came to Dakota in 1875, and settled in this county, taking up as a homestead the northwest quarter of section 19, in Red Rock, where he still re- sides.
MCGINTY, THOMAS, was born in the state of Wisconsin in 1848, and came to Minnehaha county in April, 1874, where he has remained ever since. He took up as a homestead the south half of the south- east quarter of section 17, and the north half of the northeast quarter of section 20 in Red Rock, where he still resides, and has a good farm.
NORD, PETER, has been living on his homestead, the northeast quarter of section 29 in Red Rock since 1875, when he came here from New Brunswick, Canada. He was born in Sweden in 1844 and came to America in 1871. He is keeping "bachelor's hall" on his homestead and is a good citizen.
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OAKSTROM, E. W., is a native of Sweden, was born November 6, 1842. He emigrated to America, and came to Dakota in 1875. He settled in this county, taking up as a homestead the northwest quar- ter of section 30, in Red Rock, where he resided until recently, when he removed to South Carolina.
OLSON, AXEL, is a native of Sweden, and was born December 12, 1836. He emigrated to the United States in 1868, and located in Illinois. He removed from there to Iowa and came to this county in 1882, and took up as a homestead the northeast quarter of section 31 in Red Rock, and purchased the southeast quarter of section 30 in the same township, and has a good farm. He has been one of the supervisors of the town board several years, has held other local offices and has frequently been a delegate to political conventions. Mr. Olson is a kind neighbor and a good, reliable citizen.
PARISH, H. T., was born January 21, 1833, at Oyster Bay, Queens county, New York. He lived in Wisconsin and Missouri before he came to Dakota, November 9, 1872. He took up as a home- stead the southwest quarter of section 22, which he sold, and then bought the northwest quarter of section 34, where he resided until recently, when he removed to Colorado. He enlisted in Co. A, 15th Reg. of New York National Guard Volunteers, serving as sergeant thirty days from June 4, till July 7, 1864, when he was discharged.
ROLLOG, AUSTIN K., was born in Thelemarken, Norway, Octo- ber 1, 1854. He emigrated to Wisconsin in 1874, but left there for Dakota in March the following year, and located in this county. In April, 1876, he secured the northeast quarter of section 15, in Red Rock, as a homestead, to which he has added by purchase about 110 acres. He has a first-class farm, with fine improvements, and is one of the progressive and prosperous farmers of this section.
SCHEFFER, CHARLES E., of Red Rock, was born in Pennsylvania in 1859. From there he moved to New Jersey and came to Dakota in 1878. He first secured a homestead in the town of Palisade, but dis- posed of it and bought the east half of the southwest quarter of sec- tion 22 in Red Rock, where he now resides.
SWENSON, MAGNUS, was born in Sweden, July 27, 1836. He emigrated to the United States in 1868, and located in Iowa. On the 4th day of June, 1873, he arrived in this county, and two days later filed a pre-emption on the southwest quarter of section 9, in Brandon, and in January, 1874, filed a homestead on the northwest quarter of section 18, in Red Rock, where he has since resided. A few years ago he bought forty acres in school section 16, in the same township, and also owns 160 acres in Moody county. Mr. Swenson is a pros- perous, good farmer and has a good farm. He has been elected to town offices, and is a respected citizen.
WALKER, DAVID J., was born in the town of Adams, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, May 22, 1825. He lived in New York, Wis- consin, Iowa and Minnesota before he settled in Dakota in 1883. He took up a homestead in sections 21 and 22, and a tree claim in section 15, in Red Rock. He has been assessor, and chairman of the town
J. R. MANNING.
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board of supervisors, and resided on section 22, until July, 1895, when he sold out, and went to Hot Springs, South Dakota.
WOOD, ORAMEL M., a native of Vermont, was born June 4, 1846. He lived in New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois and Minnesota before coming to Dakota in July, 1873. At that time he secured a homestead of 160 acres in sections 21 and 22 in Red Rock, where he has since resided. He has held school district and township offices, and is a good farmer and a reliable citizen.
HARVEST SCENE.
BRANDON TOWNSHIP.
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The township of Brandon, owing to its proximity to Sioux Falls, was one of the earliest settled townships in the county. The soil is good, and streams of water at the time of the government sur- vey in 1864, were flowing over twenty-seven sections of land. The principal stream, the Big Sioux river, enters the township in the northwest portion of section 31, flowing thence northeasterly about three-fourths of a mile to the center of section 30, thence southeast- erly through section 29, to the center of the south line of section 28, thence in a southwesterly course through section 33, leaving the township a little west of the center line of the section. Three branches of Split Rock unite on the southwest quarter of section 10, and the stream from this point flows in a tortuous course through sections 15, 23, 26 and 35, leaving the township about three-fourths of a mile southeast from the village of Brandon, near the southeast corner of section 34. The town line on the west was surveyed by W. J. Neeley in July, 1859, and the south line by Cortez Fessenden in July, 1862, and the north and east lines by M. K. Armstrong in October, 1864, at which time the town was sub-divided by the same surveyor. It contains 23,007.60 acres of land. It has one small vil- lage named after the township, located on the southwest quarter of section 34, which was platted by the Worthington & Sioux Falls R. R. Co. The plat was filed on the 18th day of September, 1878, and comprised eight blocks divided into one hundred and thirty lots. Brandon village is located on the Omaha railroad line and is 8.6 miles from Sioux Falls. There is a post office at this place, which was es- tablished in 1878, and N. J. Ronlund was the first postmaster. Since his resignation W. J. Jones, D. A. Wright, John T. Lee and Martin Brusveen have held this office, Mr. Brusveen being the present in- cumbent. There is one elevator, two stores and a blacksmith shop in the village, also a Norwegian Lutheran church, which was built in 1883, and a school house built in 1885. The first school was taught in the fall of 1873 by Celia Fauske, now Mrs. John Holden, in a sod house built for school purposes, which was located on the northeast corner of the southeast quarter of section 27. There was only a dirt floor in this primitive school house during the first year it was occupied. The whole structure cost nine dollars, and was paid for by subscription.
On the southeast corner of section 22 there is a station on the Willmar & Sioux Falls railroad, now operated by the Great North-
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ern R. R. Co., called Corson, named for Henry Corson, one of the first directors of this road. It is eleven miles northeast of Sioux Falls. May 12, 1888, E. A. Sherman filed a plat of Corson compris- ing ten blocks divided into eighty-five lots. At the present time there is a post office, store and elevator at this place, and Ole F. Fauske is the postmaster and proprietor of the store.
Nels Nelson Graff built the first house in the township in the fall of 1873. It was built of logs with a shingle roof, and was located on the northwest quarter of section 35, where it is still standing, and is a part of the building shown in the illustration of N. N. Graff's residence. Mr. Graff settled in Brandon in May, 1870, and at that time only a few furrows of land had been plowed. George Christian- son constructed a dugout in 1869, and lived in it for awhile. It was on the southeast quarter of section 33. In the early seventies he moved into Split Rock and took a homestead, where he resided until his death a few years ago. Mr. Graff lived in a dugout about three years before building his log house.
SPLIT ROCK NORWEGIAN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH. This church was organized in the fall of 1871, with seven or eight families. At the same time grounds for a cemetery were se- cured by the organization in the southwest corner of section 33 in Brandon. The first person buried in this cemetery was Carl T. Lee, who died in the fall of 1871, aged 24 years, and the second one was a son of Nels Nelson Graff, 212 years of age, who died the following year. The church was organized by the Rev. E. Olson, of the Norwegian Synod. The first regular minister was the Rev. O. O. Sando, who preached his first sermon in the fall of 1873, and re- mained in charge until the spring of 1880. During the two years fol- lowing, the Rev. Naseth, now professor in the Lutheran college at Decorah, Iowa, had charge of the congregation, and he was suc- ceeded by the Rev. A. J. Lee, who remained until 1885, when the Rev. Olaf Stub became its pastor and remained until his death, which occurred in the fall of that year. The Rev. Aanestad then had temporary charge of the church, until the Rev. Hans B. Thor- grimson assumed the duties of pastor in the summer of 1886, and remained until the spring of 1891. The church then was without a pastor until the spring of 1892, when its present pastor, the Rev. N. N. Boe took charge. The first trustees of the church were N. N. Graff, C. T. Clauson and G. O. Lillihaven. Its first secretary was H. G. Hovdestad. From 1875 to 1877, N. N. Graff was sec- retary, and since that time the office by successive elections has been held by John T. Lee. In 1883 a church was built, and the money for its erection was raised by subscription among the mem- bers of the church. The church building has a seating capacity of 300 people, and is well finished. The tower of the church is seventy feet in height, and the whole work was done by members of the congregation under the direction of John T. Lee and N. N. Graff as a building committee. The membership comprises about thirty-five families.
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NORDRE SPLIT ROCK NORWEGIAN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH .- The members of this church organization reside princi- pally in the northern part of Brandon. In 1897 a neat and com- modious church building was erected by T. O. Hokenstad on the northeast corner of section 11, at a cost of about fifteen hundred dollars, which amount was raised among the members. The Rev. O. O. Sando was the first pastor of the congregation, and he was succeeded by A. J. Lee, and the Rev. H. Aanestad is the present pastor. It is connected with the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Synod of America. There is a Ladies' Aid society, and a Young People's society, and the member- ship of the church comprises about eleven families.
BRANDON CO-OPERATIVE CREAMERY COMPANY .- This com- pany was organized in May, 1878. C. Dillon was elected president, A. O. Risty vice president, M. Brusveen secretary, A. T. Ode treasurer, and John T. Lee director. The building was erected a little west of the village of Brandon during the summer and fall of 1897, and opened for business on the 15th day of November of that vear. At first it received only 800 pounds of milk a day, but it has been constantly increasing, and some days it has received as high as 5,500 pounds. This creamery is well conducted, and its products are shipped to New York, where the highest price is obtained for creamery butter. The manufacture of the butter is in charge of Peter Anderson, who has had several years of experience in the creamery business.
BRANDON TOWNSHIP BOARD.
The first general election was held November 16, 1880, when the following persons were elected for the year 1881: Supervisors, Nels N. Graff, Lewis Peterson, Jacob Keeler; clerk, Austin G. Risty; treasurer, T. I. Lathrop; assessor, J. E. Duganne; constables, Cash Crittenden, August Nelson; justices, N. Griffith, N. J. Ronlund; poundmaster, E. Erikson; overseers of highways, John Egge, Thomas Thorstenson, Albert Nelson. January 17, 1881, board met at the house of Lewis Peterson, chairman of the board. Bonds of officers were approved, and the township divided into four road dis- tricts. The first warrant was issued to Wm. J. Jones in the sum of $30.
1882. Supervisors, Nels N. Graff, chairman, Jacob Keeler, John Egge; clerk, Austin G. Risty; treasurer, T. I. Lathrop; asses- sor, J. E. Duganne; justice, H. H. Barron; constable, Charles Han- son; poundmaster, Wm. J. Jones.
1883. Supervisors, John Egge, chairman, N. Griffith, Edgar Foster; clerk, Austin G. Risty; treasurer, N. J. Ronlund; assessor, J. E. Duganne; justices, Andrew A. Grinde, John Callender; con- stables, Tom Christopherson, John Anderson; poundmaster, E. Erikson. Fifty-three votes were cast.
1884. March 4, the annual town meeting was held in the village of Brandon, and the following officers were elected: Supervisors, Edgar Foster, chairman, Nels Griffith, Tom Olson; clerk, A. G. Risty; assessor, J. E. Duganne; treasurer, N. J. Ronlund; justices,
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A. A. Grinde, John Callender; constables, Tom Christopherson, John Anderson. June 23, Mr. Risty presented his resignation as clerk, which was accepted, and July 3, L. M. Estabrook was ap- pointed clerk to fill the vacancy.
1885. Supervisors, J. W. Callender, chairman, N. N. Graff, Tom Olson; clerk, L. M. Estabrook; treasurer, N. J. Ronlund; as- sessor, J. E. Gorman. June 16, board met in joint session with the town board of Edison, and agreed upon the division of the work on the town line road. Brandon township was assigned the second, fourth and sixth miles, commencing at the east end.
1886. Supervisors, Lewis Peterson, chairman, Nels Swenson, N. N. Graff; clerk, L. M. Estabrook; treasurer, N. J. Ronlund; as- sessor, Nels Ellefson; justices, W. J. Jones, Thomas Olson; con- stables, N. J. Ronlund, C. P. Halsted.
1887. Supervisors, J. E. Duganne, chairman, L. M. Estabrook, Nels Swenson; clerk, J. A. Egge; treasurer, N. J. Ronlund; assessor, Nels Ellefson.
1888. Supervisors, I. N. Griffith, chairman, Ole J. Hegge, Tom Redwing; clerk, A. G. Risty; treasurer, J. A. Egge; assessor, J. E. Gorman; justices, L. M. Estabrook, J. E. Gorman; constables, Tom Christopherson, H. H. Barron. March 6, it was voted by acclama- tion to raise the supervisor's fee to $2 per day, and to have all town business moved to Corson as soon as a post office should be estab- lished at that place. March 16, road overseers were ordered to open all roads in their districts on the lines where located as shown by the public records of the county and township. July 12, a special town meeting was held for the purpose of voting on the question: "Shall Brandon township be resurveyed?" Fifty-six votes were cast, of which seventeen were in the affirmative, and thirty-nine in the neg- ative.
1889. Supervisors, Fred Messner, chairman, Tom Christoph- erson, I. N. Griffith; clerk, A. G. Risty; treasurer, John Egge; as- sessor, Nels Ellefson; constable, Nels Wahlstrom. October 26, Jonas Carlson acted as chairman of the board, to which office he had been appointed.
1890. Supervisors, Nels Swenson, chairman, Tom Christoph- erson, A. O. Risty; clerk, A. G. Risty; treasurer, John Egge; asses- sor, Nels Ellefson; justices, L. M. Estabrook, Ellick Griffith; con- stables, Ole Nelson, Charles Johnson.
1891. Supervisors, N. N. Graff, chairman, John Carlson, Tom Olson; clerk, L. M. Estabrook; treasurer, John Egge; assessor, Nels Ellefson. The reports of the auditors and treasurer showed that the township was entirely out of debt, and there was a balance in the treasury of S349.59.
1892. Supervisors, N. N. Graff, chairman, A. G. Risty, Nels Swenson; clerk, John T. Lee; treasurer, T. T. Redwing; assessor, Thomas Olson; justices, A. R. Griffith, L. M. Estabrook; constables, Chris. Christopherson, John Uhley. June 28, a special town meet- ing was held to consider the question of resurvey. A vote was taken which resulted in 57 for, and 14 against the resurvey. September 24, a special town meeting was held to determine by ballot whether a
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special tax should be levied to defray the expenses of resurveying the township, the sum required being $400. The vote was 32 for, and 6 against special tax. February 28, 1893, the business of the fiscal year was settled, and the treasurer's report showed that $1,054.77 had been received, and $438.27 expended, leaving a balance on hand of $616.50.
1893. Supervisors, John Egge, chairman, N. N. Graff, Nels Swenson; clerk, Ole Fauske; treasurer, Tom T. Redwing; assessor, A. G. Risty; justices, L. M. Estabrook, I. N. Griffith; constables, John Uhley, C. Christopherson. At the annual town meeting March 7, it was resolved that "uniform stones be put on section and quar- ter section corners, the size to be that of the larger paving blocks, when the resurvey is made." June 17, the board procured the ser- vices of John Langness for resurveying the township, and Nels Graff was awarded the contract for hauling stone to be used as cor- ner marks. September 8, Jonas Carlson was appointed supervisor to fill vacancy caused by the death of Nels Swenson. September 15, a motion was carried for changing the lines according to the new survey as far as practicable during the fall.
1894. Supervisors, John A. Egge, chairman, N. N. Graff, John Carlson; clerk, O. E. Fauske; treasurer, T. O. Christopherson; as- sessor, Thomas Olson.
1895. Supervisors, A. G. Risty, chairman, L. A. Harum, P. J. Swenson; clerk, O. E. Fauske; treasurer, T. O. Christopherson; as- sessor, T. O. Hokenstad.
1896. Supervisors, A. G. Risty, chairman, P. J. Swenson, A. P. Ode; clerk, O. E. Fauske; treasurer, J. E. Holden; assessor, T. O. Hokenstad.
1897. Supervisors, I. N. Griffith, chairman, A. O. Risty, Ole Nelson; clerk, O. E. Fauske; treasurer, J. E. Holden; assessor, T. O. Hokenstad.
1898. Supervisors, A. O. Risty, chairman, A. Anderson, H. J. Heggen; clerk, O. E. Fauske; treasurer, J. A. Egge; assessor, T. O. Hokenstad.
1899. Supervisors, A. O. Risty, chairman, A. Anderson, C. Dillon; clerk, O. E. Fauske; treasurer, J. A. Egge; assessor, T. O. Hokenstad.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
ANDERSON, JOHN L., is a native of Halland, Sweden, and was born March 26, 1840. He emigrated to the United States in 1871, and lived in Iowa two years; came from there to Dakota in 1873, and bought the northeast quarter of section 24 in Brandon, where he still resides, and has a good farm.
ANDERSON, PETER, was born on a farm in Denmark, on the 26th day of December, 1864, and spent his early years on the farm. In 1890, he emigrated to this country, and resided in Cleveland, Ohio, one year. He went from there to Minnesota, and engaged in the creamery business for two years, and then removed to South Dakota, where he has since been in charge of creameries at different places. He is now the manager of the creamery at Brandon, and gives ex- cellent satisfaction to his employers.
JOHN A. EGGE.
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BARRON, HIRAM H., was born in the town of Locke, Cayuga county, New York, October 21, 1849. When only five years of age removed with his parents to Wisconsin, where he remained until 1874, when he came to Dakota and settled in this county on his pres- ent place the southeast quarter of section 5 in Brandon which is now a good farm. He served in Company K, 46th Wisconsin during the war of the rebellion, and has filled various town offices. In 1892, he was nominated on the Democratic ticket for the legislature. He is an enterprising farmer and a good citizen.
BRUSVEEN, MARTIN, was born at Toten, Norway, on the 23d dav of September, 1867, and received a high school education. In 1886, he emigrated to the United States, and worked on the railroads in Iowa, Minnesota and Dakota, for several years. In 1894, he settled at Brandon village, and engaged in the mercantile business with John T. Lee, under the firm name of Lee & Brusveen, and they con- tinued doing business until 1896, since which time Mr. Brusveen has conducted the business alone. He was appointed postmaster in July, 1896, which position he still holds, and has been justice of the peace ever since he came to Brandon. He is a good citizen and is well liked.
CARLSON, JOHN, was born in Umea, Sweden, August 6, 1844. He came to the United States in 1868, and lived in Illinois until 1873, when he removed to Dakota, arriving in this county on the 18th dav of April, of that year. He took up a homestead in section 17 in Brandon, and purchased considerable land in the same township. He resided on his homestead until his decease, which occurred on the 2d day of March, 1895. He was a zealous Republican, and took great in- terest in the welfare of his town; was one of the supervisors of the town board for several years, and was a good farmer and a good citizen.
CHRISTOPHERSON, OLE, is a venerable old settler of Minnehaha county. He was born in Norway on the 19th day of June, 1828, and came to the United States in 1872. He arrived in Dakota on the 25th day of May of that year, and during the following fall took up a home- stead on the northeast quarter of section 26, and a tree claim in the the same section, in Brandon, where he still resides. He is a good farmer, and a good citizen.
CHRISTOPHERSON, TOM, was born near Christiania, Norway, on the 3d day of January, 1860. In 1872 he emigrated with his parents to Dakota, and remained a few months in Canton, but during the fall of that year his father Ole located on section 26, in Brandon. The subject of this sketch has now a good farm in the same section, and is a good farmer and a good citizen. He has held school district and town offices.
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