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Honner
Township Biographies |
Ener Birum was born in Norway, November 14, 1839. He came to
Baraboo, Wisconsin, with his parents in 1843. In 1861 he enlisted
for three months but was rejected; he afterwards enlisted in the 6th
Wisconsin, Company A, and served three years; he re-inlisted in
Company G, 30th Indiana, and served one year; he was in eleven
battles. Remained in Wisconsin, farming for three years after the
war, then came to Redwood Falls and built a saw-mill, which has
since been fitted up as a flour-mill. Mr. Birum has been chairman of
the town of Redwood Falls and also the town of Honner. In October,
1872, he married Annie Ortt, in St. Peter. Nellie M., Herbert L.,
and Arthur A., are their children.
J. S. G. Honner, native of New York, was born in 1831. His
parents took him to Canada, where he lived until fifteen years old,
then went to Michigan. He ran an engine in that state and Canada,
and in 1856 came to Minnesota. For two years he was in charge of a
saw-mill in Waseca county, then engaged in fanning. He was elected
county commissioner in Waseca county, two terms. In 1864 he came to
Redwood Falls, where he lived five years, then began farming again.
He is now located in the town of Honner, which was named for him.
and owns 340 acres of land. He was elected to the legislature in
1865, again in 1870. and in 1872 to the state senate. He was one of
the first commissioners of Redwood county, and her first register of
deeds; has held the office of assessor since this town was
organized. He was married in Waseca county in 1858, to Antoinette
Green. They have had six children, four of whom are living: Edward,
Howard N., Frederick G. and Minnie E.
D. O. King was born at King's Mills, near Syracuse, New York.
At the age of seventeen he went to sea and followed the vocation of
sailor for seven years. When the war broke out he was appointed
revenue inspector, by the collector at Puget Sound, W. T., and
served in that capacity, in office and on board of revenue cutter,
until 1865, when he resigned and went to San Francisco, and shortly
after to Chicago, where he remained one year. He came to Minnesota
and settled in the town of Honner, Redwood county, on section 32. He
has been chairman of the county commissioners, and was supervisor of
Redwood Falls one term. Was married July 10, 1867, to Nettie King.
Bernhard Kinsley, native of Switzerland, was born in 1825. He
came to America in 1847, and one month after he landed at New
Orleans, enlisted in the Third Louisiana regiment for the Mexican
war, and served until its close. After a time in New Orleans he
returned to Switzerland, and remained until 1863, then came to
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and for two years farmed near there. In 1865
he came to Redwood county, and is now the owner of 600 acres of
land. April 4, 1851, he married in Switzerland, Mary Luscher. Of the
eleven children born, eight are living: Gottleib, Charles, Emil,
Mary, Lena, Margaret, Bertha and Anna.
T. J. Treadwell was born in the state of New York in 1851,
and when two years of age his parents brought him to Wisconsin. At
the age of eighteen he learned the miller's trade, which business he
still follows. He came to Minnesota in 1878 and located near Redwood
Falls, and works in Birums' mill. He is town clerk of Honner. Miss
Helen B. Owen became his wife at Waupun, Wisconsin, in 1873. They
have had five children only two of whom are living.
John Weiss, native of Germany, was born in 1825. He learned
the trade of brewer and worked at it some ten years; was also a
soldier for six years. In 1855 he came to Wisconsin and following
brewing until 1872, when he came to Redwood county and located on
section 29, town of Honner. He was married in Wisconsin, to Louisa
Fleishhauer, who has borne three children: Anton Louisa and William. |
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