M. B. Abbett was born in Bartholomew county, Indiana, in 1844, and lived there until seventeen years of age, then enlisted in Company G, 33d Indiana infantry, and served until mustered out in 1865. In the fall of that year he came to Minnesota, and until 1869 lived in Dakota county; he then came to Lamberton, among the first settlers. He was the first town treasurer, and was chairman of board four years; in 1881 he was elected sheriff of Redwood county, and assumed the duties of that office January 1, 1882. Married at Farmington in 1868 Hulda Hawkins. William Allen and Maggie Effie are their living children.

Hogen Anderson, native of Norway, was born in 1830. In 1843 he came to America and located at Racine, Wisconsin; learned the trade of wagon-maker. Came to Minnesota and settled in Dakota county in 1865; to Cottonwood in 1868, engaged in farming. Came to Lamberton in 1879, and carries on the wagon-making business. Married in 1853 Anna Christopherson, who was born in Norway in 1832. Of eleven children born, nine are living.

Franklin Archer was born in Livingston county, New York, in 1835, and at the age of three went with parents to Ohio. In 1852 moved to Wisconsin, and in 1867 to Iowa. Came to Minnesota and located a farm on section 2, town of Lamberton. Married in Columbia county, Wisconsin, in 1855, Eliza Preston, who was born in Livingston county, New York. They have six children living.

Charles Chester was born in Norway in 1858, and came with parents to America in 1861, settling in Illinois. In 1862 came to Jackson county, Minnesota, and six months later to Howard county, Iowa, where they lived four years, then returned to Jackson county. He worked on a farm until fifteen, then followed clerking until 1878, when he began business at Lamberton with his brother.

Lewis Chester was born in Norway in 1856. He came with his parents to this country and followed farming and clerking until he embarked in business with his brother under the firm name of Chester Brothers. In November, 1880, he married Mary Tagley, a native of Norway.

B. Clausen was born in Denmark in 1840. He came to America in 1866 and engaged in brick manufacturing in New Jersey. Came to Minnesota the next year and located at Winona; was railroading and kept hotel and saloon until 1872 then came to Redwood county and for five years was on a farm in Waterbury. In 1878 he bought the Lamberton hotel and ran it until 18S1, then engaged in saloon business next door. At Winona, in 1871, he married Mary Christiancy. They have had five children; only two are living.

Dr. L. S. Crandall was born in 1834.in Allegany county, New York, and in 1846 the family moved to Wisconsin. Attended college there and in his native state, also studied medicine, which he continued with Dr. Russel after removing in 1863 to Sibley county, Minnesota. From 1870 until 1874 he was at Alden, then one year in Mankato and also practiced a short time Omaha. He was at Winnebago Agency from 1875 to 1878 and afterwards kept a drug store and continued his practice at Lamberton. Dr. Crandall enlisted in March 1865, and served till the close of the war. Married in Wisconsin in 1857, Eunice Campbell. Four children are living, in 1881 the doctor was appointed postmaster of this place.

William E. Golding was born in 1838 in Indiana. After leaving school he learned blacksmithing, and remained in that state until 1860; came to Olmsted county, Minnesota and in 1861, enlisted in Company B, Second regiment of this state; remained in the army until the close of the war. Returned to Indiana, where he was employed at his trade. In 1871, removed to Charlestown, Redwood county, but eighteen months later he came to Lamberton. Since 1879 he has been farming on section 2. Henrietta Thrasher, born in Indiana in 1839, was married in 1864 to Mr. Golding.

A. M. Goodrich is a native of Minnesota; he was born at Silver Creek, Wright county in 1860. After attaining his education at the high school of Anoka he passed three years in teaching winters and learning the trade of printer in the summers. On the 1st of June, 1880, he purchased the Lamberton Commercial.

Antoine Goolen, native of Canada, was born in 1830; while young he removed to Vermont with his parents and there learned the trade of moulder. He went to Wisconsin in 1856 and engaged in farming; removed to Redwood county, Minnesota, in 1872 and afterwards to California where for fourteen months he was mining; located in 1875 on section 6 of Lamberton. In 1851 he married Mary L. Digneal, born in 1835 in Canada; eight of their ten children are living.

W. A. Hackley was born in 1826 in New York. In 1844 he went to Michigan and in 1846 to Wisconsin, where he learned the trade of mason. From 1849 until 1856 he was engaged in mining and in mercantile trade in California, then returned to New York. He was in Wisconsin and Iowa from 1860 until 1871, at which date he came to Minnesota and has lived in different parts of the state, but since the spring of 1879, his home has been at Lamberton; works at his trade, also deals in wood and lumber. Mr. Hackley is justice of the peace. Married in 1862, Elmira Littlejohn; one child, Archie.

C. M. Herreman, native of Ohio, was born in 1844, in Tioga county, but when young went to Columbia county, Wisconsin, to live, and completed his education at the Appleton University. Until 1863 he followed teaching and clerking, then enlisted in Company B, 22d Wisconsin infantry and was mustered out when the war closed. In 1870 he went to Mankato, but in 1874 removed to New Ulm and engaged in painting; came to Lamberton in 1877 and located on section 6. January 1, 1875, he married Rena Johnson. They have three living children.

J. N. Hymes, born in 1853, is a native of Paw Paw Grove, Lee county, Illinois. In 1857 he accompanied his parents to Rochester, Minnesota. He was employed, after leaving school, in farming and wheat buying; has continued in the grain trade since coming, in August, 1880, to Lamberton. Mr. Hymes was married in 1874; his wife was Miss Ella Dieter, born in 1854, in Wisconsin. Their children are Clara L. and Herbert J.

Fredrick Immel was born in 1833, and in 1852 emigrated from Germany, the land of his birth, to America. He acquired his education under a private tutor, and located in New York city, where he learned wood carving. Afterward worked at his trade in Baltimore, and from 1857 to 1861, in Cincinnati. Married in the latter city, in 1858, Augusta Parbs, who was born in 1833, in Germany. Lived in New Ulm from 1861 until 1877, when he opened his hotel in Lamberton. Mr. Immel has a step daughter.

W. W. Kelly was born in 1833, in Michigan. Migrated in 1855, to Winona county, Minnesota; worked at farming also insurance and machine business; about 1871 he came to Redwood county, and in 1873, to Lamberton, where he was in the hardware trade; also dealt in lumber and grain; sold in 1877 and afterward was in real estate business; for a time his family resided at Northfield, because of better educational advantages. Since 1880 their home has been on section 12, of Lamberton. Married in 1857, Laura L. Murry. Louisa C. is their only living child.

C. R. Kneeland was born in Medina county, Ohio, in 1846. When he was a babe the family settled in Wisconsin, where he was brought up and engaged in mercantile trade. In 1872 he removed to Charlestown, Minnesota; the year following he came to Lamberton, and it was he who erected the first building in what is now the village; until 1876 he kept a store and eating house, then went to Wisconsin but returned in 1878 and has been farming on section 14, since. Kedie Sayles, born in 1848, became his wife in 1866.

A. C. Lamport, native of Illinois, was born in 1852 at Aurora, and while young accompanied his parents to La Salle county. Removed in 1857 to Wisconsin; completed his education in Benton Harbor, Michigan, and afterward engaged in teaching. Came to Minnesota in 1880; is employed in the public schools here. Married in 1876 at Mount Pleasant, this state, Heppie M., daughter of Hon. John A. Jackson.

John B. Lauer was born in 1858 in Brown county, Minnesota, and completed his education at Mankato. Learned painting in that city; after working at it three years he followed butchering in Mankato, two years. Came to Lamberton in 1878, clerked one year and has since been in the butcher business. Mr. Lauer's wife was Hettie E. Fisher, she was born in Wisconsin in 1860, and married in 1879. They have one child, Sylvia.

J. S. Letford was born in England in 1826, and came to tbis country in 1840. In Cincinnati, Ohio, he learned the trade of making machine patterns and worked there until 1855, then came to Minnesota. After working at his trade eighteen months in St. Paul, he engaged in building, in Carver county. He was a member of the legislature from that county in 1859, '60 and '62, then engaged in real estate and money loaning business. In 1872 he went to Golden Gate and was engaged in merchandising four years, then came to Lamberton, opened a store and also engaged in banking business. He is agent of the American Express Company and was postmaster at Golden Gate and in this town, for several years. He married in Cincinnati in 1846, Jane Jones; of the seven children born, five are living. Mr. Letford's father was in the British Army and was wounded at the battle of Waterloo.

Joseph E. Libby, born in New Hampshire in 1827, removed with his parents to New York city, where he attended school and afterward engaged in hotel business. Since 1872 he has been farming in Lamberton; owns 160 acres of land. For eight years he has been justice of this town. In 1850 he married Eliza A. Van Schaack, who was born in 1829 in New York. Of their five children one is living: George W., a lawyer, practicing in Lamberton.

M. M. Madigan, native of Wisconsin, was born December 20. 1850. and at the age of fourteen moved to Rochester, Minnesota for one year after which, until 1868, he ran on the river. He attended college two years at Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, then engaged in teaching in Wabasha, Minnesota. Mr. Madigan was admitted to the bar January 4, 1879, and located in Lamberton: he was the first president of this village. His wife, Nettie Bang, was born in 1861 in Norway; their marriage occurred in 1878. They had one child who died in infancy.

N. P. Nelson was born in 1842, in Denmark, where he learned milling. Immigrated to Wisconsin in 1864; moved to Stillwater and until 1869 was in the lumber trade; then dealt in merchandise at Carver. He afterward did business at Golden Gate and Sleepy Eye; in 1877 came to Lamberton and bought the lumber business of W. W. Kelly which he still continues; also kept, for a time, a hotel and agricultural store; Elida E. Letford became his wife in 1870, and has borne him two children; one is living.

Rasmus Olson, native of Denmark, was born in 1852. He learned the trade of butcher in that country, and afterward spent two years fishing in Greenland; returned to Denmark for a few months, and in the fall of 1878 immigrated to Lamberton, Minnesota. He built the fine meat market where he is now doing business.

Mrs. Anna W. Osher nee Frederickson, was born in 1857, in Norway. In 1862 the family moved to Iowa, where she was married, October 5, 1876, to William Osher. who was born in 1856 in Wisconsin, moved to Iowa at the age of fifteen and completed his education at Decorah, after which he taught several terms, and then engaged in general mercantile trade. Removed to Redwood county, Minnesota, and since 1879 she has been in business at Lamberton. Mrs. Osher has one child, Mabel.

Josiah Pierce, native of New York, was born in 1822, in Livingston county. After leaving school he was employed in farming, which occupation he continued after moving, in 1857, to Wisconsin. Removed to Iowa, and in 1876 located on his farm on section 4, Lamberton; owns 480 acres of land. His marriage with Cordelia Brown occurred in 1841. The children are Josiah and Cordelia.

P. L. Pierce, native of New York, was born in 1839, in Livingston county, and when five years of age went with his parents to Columbia county, Wisconsin. Removed in 1861 to Bremer county, Iowa, where he kept a hotel and was also employed in farming. He came to Minnesota in 1872, and located at Lamberton; April, 1881, he became proprietor of the Lamberton House. Mr. Pierce was married in Wisconsin in 1869, to Rebecca Briggs, born in 1844, in Indiana. Four of their five children are living.

A. A. Praxel was born in Austria in 1838. He came to America in 1849 and located at Meadville, Pennsylvania; in 1854 came to Winona, Minnesota, and was on a farm and in the implement business until 1859. He then began traveling for a Cincinnati drug house and was in that business until 1862. In August of that year he enlisted in Company E, Sixth Minnesota, and was discharged at Fort Snelling in 1865. He traveled through the state until 1871, then opened a store at Cottonwood station, and in 1874 moved to Lamberton, and is a member of the firm of Praxel and Scharbera, general merchandise. Married in 1865, Mary King, of France; she died in 1866 and he married Mary Nallenger. They have four living children.

N. P. Reed, son of William and Sarah Reed, was born in 1857, at Newark, New Jersey, and lived in that state until 1871. After residing several years at Saginaw and Green Bay, he came in 1879 to Lamberton and opened a lumber yard. His father, who was born in Ireland, is living in New York, which was the native state of the mother, Sarah Palmer. There are two sisters, Mary J. and Anna M., and one brother, William.

John Roth, native of Germany, was born in 1843. He came to this country in 1859 and located in Columbus, Wisconsin. In that state he learned the blacksmith trade, and in the spring of 1861 enlisted in Company H, Second Wisconsin infantry; served until the close of the war. He came to Minnesota in the fall of 1866 and lived in New Ulm until 1868, then moved to a farm in Cottonwood county. Since 1876 he has had a blacksmith shop in Lamberton. In 1862 he married Louisa Halter. They have had ten children; five are living: Fred, Henry, Clara, Emma, Elizabeth.

Hiram Small was born in Somerset county, Maine, in 1835. He moved with his parents to Illinois in 1846, and to Minnesota in 1857. He lived in Wabasha until 1872, then came to Lamberton and located on a farm in section 22. He enlisted at Lake City in February, 1865, and served through the remainder of the war. Married in Grundy county, Illinois, in 1855, Sarah Roberts, who was born in 1837. Of the ten children born to them eight are living.

H. J. Smith was born in Dodge county. Wisconsin, in 1857, and was raised on a farm. After leaving home he was agent for the Wisconsin Central Railroad at Elk Lake. He came to Minnesota in 1878 as agent at Minneota: from there went to Lake Benton, then to Volga, Dakota; from there he came to Lamberton as agent of the Winona and St. Peter Railroad. He is also engaged in the wood and coal trade. His father, Daniel Smith, was a native of Rhode Island, and died at Macon, Nebraska, at the age of fifty-nine years; his mother still resides at that place.