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member the remainder of his life. Of the five children born on the New- comb Valley farm two died in infancy; Edward, born Oct. 19, 1873, has been a prosperous farmer and is now sheriff of Trempealeau County ; Gil- bert, born April 7, 1868, is living on the family homestead, and Anna, born Dec. 26, 1870, is the wife of Olaf Hurberg of Arcadia Township.
Edward Erickson, the popular and efficient sheriff of Trempealeau County, is one of its leading citizens. Coming into office at a time when the war clouds were brewing, and serving at the time of the opening of the actual hostilities, he has given his time, ability and energy in patriotic service to his country at a great personal sacrifice, and his name will live in history as the "war sheriff" of the county. In addition to the many added duties which the raising of the National Army and the conservation of food have placed upon his official work, he has done conscientious work as chairman of the exemption board, his wide and intimate knowledge of the people of the county being of great assistance to the board in its various decisions. Mr. Erickson was born in Newcomb Valley, this county, Oct. 19, 1873, son of John and Bertha Erickson. He was reared on the home farm, attended the district schools, and determined to devote his life to an agricultural career. Accordingly in 1901 he purchased 120 acres of partly improved land, adjoining his father's farm on the west, and in time made it into the well-developed place that it is today. In 1906 he erected a substantial, square, two-story brick house of eight rooms, a good modern farm house in every respect. He later put up a frame barn with a full basement, 28 by 58 by 16 feet above the foundation, a milk house, a milk and tank house, tool sheds, poultry house and cribs. He also put in a run- ning water system for house and barns. The place, which is temporarily rented during his term of office, supports a good grade of Holsteins, a number of horses and a herd of swine, all the work of the farm being con- ducted along the latest improved methods, with modern equipment, tools and machinery. Aside from his farming interests, Mr. Erickson has taken an interest in community growth and has become a stockholder and earnest supporter of the Bank of Arcadia, the Arcadia Co-operative Creamery, the Arcadia Shipping Association, and the Tamarack Valley Telephone Com- pany. Of fraternal and sociable disposition he has been a member of the Modern Woodmen for twenty years, and for a number of years a member of the Masonic order. Interested in the best education of his children, he had done efficient work for some years as school director of School Dis- trict 14. His present office dates from Jan. 1, 1917. Sheriff Erickson makes an ideal officer. Thorough and painstaking in his work, he deeply feels his responsibility as the preserver of the peace and dignity of the law, and in this direction he has been most untiring. Stern and unbend- ing as an officer, nevertheless as a man his broad outlook on life and his understanding of human frailties, makes him ever favorable toward giving minor offenders every opportunity possible to repair their mistakes and to make the most of their future careers. As a man the sheriff is genial and popular, a pleasant companion and a loyal friend. Mr. Erickson was married Oct. 25, 1905, to Julia Arnson, who was born May 16, 1875, daughter of John and Olena Arnson of Preston Township. She died March 3, 1911,
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leaving three bright boys: Orlen, born May 30, 1907; Erwin, born Nov. 3, 1908 ; and Basil, born April 20, 1910. Feb. 7, 1913, Mr. Erickson married Minnie Mustad, daughter of Hans and Ingeborg Mustad of Ettrick Town- ship. To this marriage has been born a daughter, Florence, April 30, 1915. Mr. Erickson was reared to the Lutheran faith, and with his family belongs to the Fagerness congregation, which his father helped to establish.
Albert F. Sauer of Arcadia Village was born in Buffalo County, Wis- consin, July 14, 1889, son of William and Frederica (Reglin) Sauer. He was educated in the Arcadia graded school, and in 1909 entered the Uni- versal Chiropractic College at Davenport, Iowa, as a student. Having com- pleted a two years' course in September, 1911, he opened an office in Mer- rill, Wis., where he practiced his profession until 1913. Then coming to Arcadia he practiced here for a year, returning in the fall of 1914 to Mer- rill. This time he remained there but five or six months, coming back to Arcadia in the spring of 1915 and opening an office, where he has since continued to practice chiropractic. He has a well equipped office and has built up a practice extending over a radius of 50 miles. Dr. Sauer is among the foremost members of his profession in this part of the state and undoubtedly has a bright future before him. His collegiate preparation was very thorough, the course of study embracing the subjects of sym- tomatology, chemistry, spinal palpation, clinic adjusting, histology, psy- chology, ethics, hygiene and public health. Many will undoubtedly ask, "What is chiropractic? It is a new word to me. What does it mean ?" Chiropractic (Ki-ro-prak-tic) is a coined word composed of two Greek words, Cheir, meaning "the hand" (in composition Chiro) and Praxis, "a doing." Hence literally Chiropractic means the doing of something by the hand. The chiropractic method applied affords an exact scientific method of determining the location of any vertebra, which on account of its mis- alignment, is responsible for nerve compression, and also to provide an original, unique and correct means of adjusting or removing this cause more promptly, radically and permanently than by any other known method. Dr. Sauer is energetic and enterprising, with an agreeable personality that inspires confidence in his patients. Like the other members of his father's family, he belongs to the German Lutheran church, and in politics he is a Republican.
William Sauer, now living retired in the village of Arcadia, was born near Kronigreich, Prussia, Germany, May 9, 1842, son of Christ Sauer. In the fall of 1869 he came to America and without lingering in the East pro- ceeded directly to Alma, Wis., where he remained about two years. From there he removed in 1871 to Big Waumandee, Buffalo County, where he found employment in the flour mill of John Ochsner as head miller, con- tinuing to work for Mr. Ochsner until 1875. In the latter year he returned to Alma and resided there until 1877, in which year he bought a custom flour mill at Glencoe, Wis. In this place he remained 29 years, engaged in the milling business, and then retired and took up his residence in Arcadia Village, selling the mill to his son William, who had learned the trade with him, and who now operates the mill. Mr. Sauer's success was the result of his own energy and ability. When he arrived in Alma he had
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nothing, but in four years had gained enough to enable him to purchase his mill, and this energy characterized him throughout his business career. He was married Oct. 25, 1873, to Frederica, daughter of Carl and Dorothy Reglin of Big Waumandee, Wis., and he and his bride began housekeeping in a house which his employer, John Ochsner, had built for them near tha mill. The children of this marriage were: Otto, William, Jr., Edward, Albert F., Emil, Bertha, Annie and a son who died in infancy. Otto, who was born June 28, 1874, is married and resides at Milwaukee. William, Jr., born Oct. 18, 1879, is also married and is operating his father's old mill. Edward, born March 14, 1887, is married and resides in Arcadia Township on the mail route. Albert F., born July 14, 1889, is unmarried and resides in Arcadia Village, following the profession of a chiropractor. Emil, born July 2, 1894, is unmarried and lives with his parents. Bertha, born Aug. 10, 1881, is now Mrs. John Servais of Buffalo County, Wisconsin. Annie, born July 12, 1883, is the wife of John Wolfe of Arcadia Township, Trempealeau County. Mr. Sauer and his family belong to the German Lutheran church of Arcadia Township. In politics he is a Republican. In the companion- ship of his wife, and surrounded by his sons and daughters, he is passing the evening of life in a comfortable retirement, the result of his former thrift and industry, and is highly respected in Arcadia and the vicinity.
John F. Gilbertson, who came to Trempealeau County in 1878 and lived on a farm in Arcadia Township from 1889 up to the time of his death, Aug. 27, 1917, was born near Christiania, Norway, Oct. 10, 1854. He was a son of Gulbrand and Ele Jacobson, who reared him to farm pursuits. In 1878, with his chum, Carl Larson, he came to America, landed at New York, and made the trip to Arcadia Village, this county, by rail. Upon reach- ing here he had but $1.50. This he at once loaned to a friend, who spent it for drink and never paid it back. Beginning in a strange country, with- out a penny in his pocket, and with no resources save his own strength and intelligence, he started in to carve his fortune, working as a farm hand in the summers and as a woodsman in the winter. In 1889 he located seven miles east of Arcadia Village, in Newcomb's Valley, where he purchased 80 acres of land in section 29, Arcadia Township, to which he subsequently added the adjoining 160 acres in section 26. When he acquired the original tract no buildings had been erected, and only about ten or fifteen acres had been grubbed and broken. Beginning on a small scale he gradually achieved prosperity, and from time to time erected necessary buildings. The improvements on the place consist of a two-story house, erected in 1891, a good barn, 28 by 58 by 16 feet, a granary, a machine shed, a poultry house and other structures, all in the best of condition. Mr. Gilbertson devoted his time to general farming, having 150 acres under the plow and doing considerable dairying and swine raising. The Republican party claimed his allegiance, and his fraternal affiliation was with the Modern Woodmen of America. With his family he attended the Fagerness Norwegian Lutheran church, three miles east of his home, in the cemetery of which his remains were laid to rest. Mr. Gilbertson was married Sept. 16, 1889, to Julia Braaten, daughter of John and Randi Braaten of Valders, Norway. She came to America at the age of eighteen, and at the time of her mar-
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riage was living with a sister near Arcadia. She and her husband were the parents of four children: Alvilda, Laura F., Anna E. and Allen R. Alvilda was born July 5, 1889, and is the wife of Albert Jager of Castle- wood, S. D. Laura F. was born Jan. 4, 1891, and is the wife of Melvin Wangan, who operates a farm in Newcomb Valley. Anna E. was born Sept. 19, 1892, graduated from the Arcadia high school, and is now a successful teacher. Allen R. was born July 4, 1894, and is now operating his father's farm, on which Mrs. Gilbertson still resides.
John Sprecher, president of the State Bank of Independence, is one of the leading citizens of Trempealeau County. Arriving in Arcadia in its infancy, he became a part of the early story of that village, and then, coming to Independence in the first year of its establishment, he was given the opportunity to impress his sterling personality upon its future destinies. Prominently identified with the grain, implement, lumber and banking interests of the village, his work has been woven into the warp and woof of its life, and there is probably no citizen in this region whose name is more widely known or more closely identified with it. By hard work, native shrewdness and keen ability he has achieved more than the usual measure of success, but through these years of culminating pros- perity he has remained the same genial, generous, democratic John Sprecher that he was when he first arrived here. Mr. Sprecher was born in Troy, Sauk County, Wisconsin, Nov. 29, 1850, oldest of the five children of John A. and Martha (Schiers) Sprecher. He was reared to farm pursuits, but at the age of twenty-four, having determined to seek his fortune in other endeavor, he turned his attention to the Trempealeau Valley, through which the railroad had just been opened. A favorable opportunity presented itself in Arcadia, and accordingly in 1875 he entered the employ of Krumdick & Muir, grain and implement dealers at that place. When Independence was started, the company opened a branch at the new village, and placed their trusted young employe in charge. In 1878 he purchased Mr. Krumdick's interests. in the Independence business, and the firm became Muir & Sprecher. In 1879 he acquired the Muir interests also, and established the firm of John Sprecher. In 1894, the business had grown to such pro- portions that Mr. Sprecher determined to dispose of the implement depart- ment. Accordingly, he sold a half interest in that department to William Steiner, Mr. Steiner becoming the sole owner in 1897. The grain business is still retained, and is conducted by Mr. Sprecher and his son, Walter E., under the name of John Sprecher & Son. In the meantime, in 1888, Mr. Sprecher, in company with Henry Schaefer, engaged in the lumber business under the firm name of Sprecher & Schaefer, a name which upon the incor- poration of the firm in 1910 was changed to the Sprecher Lumber Co., with Mr. Sprecher as president. One of his greatest ventures, however, has been the banking institution of which he is the head. In 1897, seeing the need of a banking house in Independence, he formed a partnership with Anton Senty, and on April 1, 1897, opened a private bank, the first bank in Independence, under the name of Sprecher & Senty. The bank was incorporated under its present name on June 1, 1902. He has likewise been interested in the development of the Independence Creamery Co., in
John Sprecher
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which he is a stockholder. Reared a farmer, and engaged in the lines of endeavor which most actively touch agricultural life, it is natural that Mr. Sprecher should have turned to farm life as a hobby. Three of the finest farms in the Elk Creek valley are his, and these he rents on a cash basis. In Golden Valley County, North Dakota, he owns 1,000 acres, which he rents on shares, 200 acres being in wheat and the rest in wild grass. In Oregon he is a stockholder in a company owning 9,000 acres of growing timber. His residence in Independence, erected about twenty years ago, is one of the sightliest in the village, and fully modern in equipment. Here also he has three other dwellings, and several vacant lots. Busy as he has been with his numerous interests, Mr. Sprecher has found time for considerable public service, having been chairman of the township of Burn- side and president of the village board. His religious faith is that of the Evangelical Association Church, of which he has been a trustee for several years. Mr. Sprecher was married, Feb. 5, 1876, to Carolina Schaefer, born Aug. 15, 1851, the daughter of Christian and Elizabeth (Amda) Schaefer, and this union has been blessed with five children, Lizzie, John H., George, Walter E. and Carrie. Lizzie died at the age of two years and George at the age of six. John H. is in the employ of the Aetna Life Insurance Co. at Milwaukee; Walter E. is cashier of the State Bank of Independence, and a partner in the grain and seed firm of John Sprecher & Son. Carrie resides at home. John A. Sprecher, father of John Sprecher, was born near Kure, in Switzerland, came to America in 1845, and located on a farm in Troy township, Sauk County, this state, where he died in 1890, his wife passing away in 1879.
Walter E. Sprecher, financier, cashier of the State Bank of Independ- ence, and prominent in banking circles throughout the state, is one of the active young men of Independence, and is earnestly taking his part in the development of the village which his father assisted in founding. He is vitally interested in every movement which has for its object the better- ment of the village and county, and his voice and influence are ever at the disposal of those causes which he believes to be just and right. As cashier of one of the leading banks in the county he has been an important factor in its success, as a co-partner in his father's grain business he is in close touch with farm life and conditions, as an official of several bankers' groups he has labored earnestly for the greatest stability in the finan- cial integrity of the country, as an accountant he has originated methods which have met with wide favor, and as a church and Sunday school worker he has been faithful and efficient. Mr. Sprecher was born in the village where he still resides, April 10, 1884, son of John and Caroline (Schaefer) Sprecher. He passed through the public schools of Independence, and then entered the Winona High School, from which he was graduated in 1902. In 1906 he was graduated from the University of Wisconsin, having taken his major credits in the department of economics. During his college career he was much interested in all lines of athletics, but especially in football and track work. Upon his return to Independence, he entered the State Bank of Independence as assistant cashier. In 1913 he was promoted to his present position. In this connection he has been interested in the work
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of the various bankers' associations. In 1913 and 1914 he was secretary and treasurer of Group 7, of the Wisconsin Bankers' Association, in 1915 he was president, and in 1916 he was made a member of the executive council of the state association, and the representative of his group on the educational committee of that association. In 1917 at the state conven- tion of the association he was elected first vice-president of the State Bank section of the American Bankers' Association, a section which was just organized in 1916 at the Kansas City convention, and whose policies he will have a hand in originating and shaping. In addition to his bank- ing interests, Mr. Sprecher is vice-president of the Sprecher Lumber Co. and a co-partner in the grain and seed firm of John Sprecher & Son. In the cause of the Evangelical Association Church, Mr. Sprecher is especially active as a loyal and enthusiastic supporter, and his work as superintendent of the Sunday School has been productive of much good. Confined as he is to his desk the greater part of the year, Mr. Sprecher has made a hobby of out-of-door life. He is fond of hunting and fishing in all forms, and one of his greatest delights is his annual trip to the northwoods after deer. Mr. Sprecher was married, Sept. 16, 1908, to Florence L. V. Malloy, of Winona, who was born in LaCrosse, Jan. 10, 1887, daughter of Martin and Mary (Nagler) Malloy, the former of whom is a retired merchant of Winona. Mrs. Sprecher, who was a gracious lady of many accomplish- ments and graces, was killed in an automobile accident on the road between Independence and Whitehall, Dec. 28, 1915, leaving one son, Drexel Andreas, born March 25, 1913.
Henry I. Everson, manager of the Pigeon Grain and Stock Company, of Whitehall, was born in Arcadia Township, Trempealeau County, May 7, 1886. His parents were Knudt and Matilda (Tande) Everson. The father, a native of Norway, came to the United States with his parents in 1856, the family settling in Dane County, Wisconsin, where they remained until 1861. They then came to Trempealeau County, where Knudt Everson engaged in farming, and where he died in 1893 at the age of 56 years. His wife, Matilda, who was born in 1842, is now residing with her daughter, Mary, the wife of A. E. Brandon, a farmer of Pigeon Township. They had a family of nine children: Ever K., who is engaged in the implement and automobile business at Neche, N. D .; Matthes, a resident of Whitehall; Maria, above mentioned ; Pauline, who married W. H. Clark, of Seattle, and died in 1912; Alfred T., who is cashier of the First State Bank of Bowes- mont, N. D .; Clara, wife of Albert Mattson, a monument dealer of Detroit, Minn .; Ida, wife of William Young, a merchant and postmaster of Lostwood, N. D .; Clarence, a barber, living in Winger, Minn., and Henry I., of Whitehall. About six years after his father's death, Henry I. Everson and his brother, Clarence, rented the home farm, which they operated together under the name of Everson Bros. until the spring of 1906. He also went to school during the winters in Whitehall, and for two years during the period mentioned he was interested with his brother, Alfred, in mercantile business at Stephen and Donaldson, Minn. From 1906 to 1914, Henry I. Everson operated the home farm for himself, buying it in 1911. He still maintains his interest in it, making a specialty of breeding pure Shrop-
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shire sheep, and now having a herd of over 200. Feb. 1, 1916, he became manager of Pigeon Grain and Stock Company, of Whitehall, in which posi- tion he is now serving. He is a stockholder in this company, also in the State Bank of Independence, the Peoples' State Bank of Whitehall, in the Farmers & Merchants Bank of Independence, and in the Independence Telephone Company, of which in 1914 he was treasurer, secretary and general manager; secretary and treasurer of the same in 1910, 1911 and 1912, and treasurer in 1916. His first connection with the telephone company was in 1909, when he became its secretary. His fraternal affilia- tions are with the Independent Order of Foresters, Masons, and Modern Woodmen of America.
Warner Brothers, Raymond K. and Rufus C., who are engaged in the implement business at Independence, Wis., are sons of Robert and grand- sons of William and Hester (Wolf) Warner. Robert was born at Bantry, County Cork, Ireland, Oct. 20, 1830, and died at his home in Hale, Wis., Feb. 10, 1908, aged 77 years, two months and 20 days. He came to the United States in the spring of 1850. On August 27 of that year he enlisted in the United States Army and went with his regiment to Cali- fornia to protect the frontier from Indians. After serving five years in the army, he returned to Massachusetts, where he was united in marriage to Margaret Sullivan, and together they came in 1857 to Adams County, Wisconsin. In 1864 he removed with his family to Trempeleau County, where his wife died in 1868. In 1870 he married Mary Ann Kershaw, who now, at the age of 75 years, lives with her daughter, Mrs. Albert Wingad, at Strum, Wis. The two brothers, Raymond K. and Rufus C. Warner, were both born in Hale, Wis., Raymond, Jan. 19, 1880, and Rufus, Aug. Aug. 31, 1882, being the youngest of their father's ten children. Together they bought the old home farm in 1905, having managed it for some seven years previously, and farmed there until the fall of 1913. They still own 80 acres of the original homestead of Grandmother Warner. In December, 1913, they bought the implement business of Tubbs Brothers in Independence and have since carried it on successfully. They are agents for the new spreader, called the "Independence Special," which has been designed by the Litchfield Manufacturing Company, of Waterloo, Iowa, to meet the conditions existing in this territory, and a number of which have already been sold in Trempeleau County. They are stockholders of the State Bank of Independence, and also dealers in live stock with Tubbs Brothers, under the style of Tubbs & Warner. As practical farmers them- selves they are well qualified to succeed in their present business.
Henry Ruseling, owner of the Eleva Roller Mills, with which he has been connected for 37 years, was born in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, June 4, 1856, son of Herman J. and Elizabeth (Jansen) Ruseling. Herman J. Ruseling was born in Holland in 1815, came to America in the fall of 1847, located on a tract of 120 acres in Lima Township, Sheboygan County, this state, and there lived until his death in 1896, his wife having died in 1865. Elizabeth Jansen was born in Holland in 1832. Henry Ruseling was reared on the home farm, and as a young man learned the millers' trade. In 1877 he was employed in a mill at Granite Falls, Minn. Coming to this
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county in the fall of 1877, he secured work from Jacob R. Bear, as manager of Bear's Mills, four miles from Whitehall, on Pigeon Creek. In 1880 he came to Eleva, and bought an interest in the Eleva Roller Mills, of which he is now the sole owner, and which, with the exception of three years when he and his brother, William B., operated a stock ranch at Velva, N. D., he has since continued to conduct. He is a useful and respected citizen, has had an important part in the upbuilding of the village and the surrounding regions. As president of the village, and as clerk and treasurer of the school board, he has given good service. His religious affiliation is with the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is chairman of the board of trustees. Mr. Ruseling was married in 1879 to Flora C. Follett, whose father, G. W. Fol- lett, was a hotel keeper and merchant at Coral City. Mrs. Ruseling died in 1898, leaving two children, Fred F. and Grace C. Fred F. is associated with his father in the milling business. Grace C. married G. A. Perry, a lumber and grain dealer of St. Vincent, Minn., and has two children, Flora and Brooks. July 11, 1905, Mr. Ruseling married Mabel Hibbard, of Mil- waukee. One daughter, Henrietta Hibbard, was born March 10, 1912, at La Crosse. The Eleva Roller Mills, of which Henry Ruseling is proprietor and Fred F. Ruseling is manager, were built in 1877 by E. J. Carpenter. The same year he sold the mill to Crocker & Redfield. In 1880, the Crocker interests were sold to Henry Ruseling, and the firm became Ruseling & Redfield. The Redfield interests were sold to G. H. Snoyenbos, in March, 1881, and the firm became Ruseling & Snoyenbos. In 1889 Henry Ruseling became the sole owner, and in 1915 Fred F. Ruseling was made manager. The present mill was erected in 1890. It is 30 by 60 feet, with a porch with projecting roof, 58 by 16 feet, and with an engine room 28 by 44 feet built in 1894. The coal sheds, dynamo room and waterwheel house have been built since then. The mill is operated by water and steam power with a capacity of fifty barrels of flour. The equipment includes three double stands of rolls, six round reels, one purifier, one scalper, one dust collector, one double stand feed roll, one 22-inch Attrition feed mill, a corn sheller and cleaner. Since 1914 Henry Ruseling has operated the village electric light plant and furnished the power therefor.
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