Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....Humphrey, L. E. 1861 - 
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Author: L. A. Fritsche

L. E. HUMPHREY.

    L. E. Humphrey, former chairman of the board of supervisors of Brown county
and a well-known building contractor, of Sleepy Eye, is a native son of
Minnesota, having been born on a pioneer farm in Houston county on August 5,
1861, son of Dr. T. R. and M. J. Humphrey, the former of whom was a native of
Vermont and the latter of New Hampshire, who later became pioneers of Brown
county, where they spent the rest of their lives, they having been the first
white persons who settled in this county west of New Ulm after the Indian
massacre, Doctor Humphrey having been the first physician to settle in the
county west of the county seat.

    Dr. T. R. Humphrey for many years was one of the best-known and most
influential residents of the western part of Brown county and the part he and
his wife took in the development of proper social and economic conditions in
that part of the county in pioneer days long will cause their names to be held
in respectful memory hereabout. Doctor Humphrey received his medical education
in Boston and for some time thereafter practiced his profession in New
Hampshire, in which state he married. In 1858 he and his wife came to Minnesota
and homesteaded a farm in Houston county. In 1864 they disposed of their
interests there and came to Brown county. That was just after the turmoil
attendant on the Indian uprising had begun to subside and they had no fear when
they settled in what then was regarded as the western frontier of the county,
three miles southeast of where Sleepy Eye in now located. There Doctor Humphrey
entered a claim to two hundred and forty acres of land and established his home,
he and his wife remaining there about forty years before their retirement from
the farm and their removal to Sleepy Eye, where their last days were spent, both
dying in 1911. For about twenty-five years of the time he lived on the farm,
Doctor Humphrey also engaged in the general practice of his profession and no
man in that part of the county was better known than he. He and his wife were
the parents of four children of whom the subject of this sketch is now the only
survivor.

     L. E. Humphrey was about three years old when his parents came to Brown
county and all his life since then has been spent in this county. One of his
early teachers was the first woman school teacher ever employed in Brown county.
He remained on the home farm until his father's retirement from the same, after
which he moved to Sleepy Eye, where he became engaged as a carpenter, having
become an excellent practical builder during his stay on the farm. In 1903 he
entered business for himself as a building contractor and has been very
successfully engaged in that business since then. Mr. Humphrey is a Democrat and
for years has given his thoughtful and intelligent attention to the political
affairs of the county. For some years he served as a member of the county board
of supervisors and for some time during that term of service was chairman of the
board. He also served for some time as a member of the city council at Sleepy Eye.

     In 1888 L. E. Humphrey was united in marriage to Emily Hernnimann, daughter
of John and Jane (Cann) Hernnimann and to this union three children have been
born, Lloyd, Glynn and Lorraine. Mr. Humphrey is past noble grand of the local
lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and has also held all the offices
in the local lodge of the Modern Woodmen of America.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
HISTORY OF BROWN COUNTY MINNESOTA
ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS

L. A. FRITSCHE. M. D.
Editor

With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records
of Many of the Old Families

VOLUME II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana


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