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Author: L. A. Fritsche

A. H. PICKLE.

    A. H. Pickle, the well-known insurance agent at Sleepy Eye, this county, an
honored veteran of the Civil War, who also for years has been one of the
best-known general dealers in real estate in this county, is a native of the
British dominion across the border to the north, having been born in Canada,
July 2, 1843, son of Simon and Sarah (Taylor) Pickle, the former a native of
Massachusetts and the latter of England, who later became pioneers of Minnesota,
their last days being spent in this state.

    Simon Pickle was born in the city of Boston and when a boy moved with his
parents to Canada, east, where he grew to manhood on a farm. He married there
and became the owner of a farm, on which he lived until 1855, in which years he
came to the United States and settled in Illinois. A year later, however, he
came to Minnesota and Mr. Pickle homesteaded a quarter of a section of land in
Olmsted county, about midway between what is now known as Dover and Eota. His
family came in 1857. He and his wife spent their last days in Dover township,
Olmsted county. They were the parents of ten children, John E., Joseph, Simon
Taylor, George T., John, Myron A., Tryphena M., Catherine C., Alma, Sarah and A.
H. Eight of these children are deceased.

    A. H. Pickle was about thirteen years old when he came to this state with
his parents and he worked on the farm until he enlisted, August 14, 1862, for
service during the Civil War, in Company K, First Regiment, Minnesota Volunteer
Infantry, in which he served until the close of the war. On February 1, 1864, he
was promoted from private to corporal and was transferred to the First Minnesota
Battalion; on July 22 following he was promoted to sergeant and on May 30, 1865,
was promoted to first sergeant, which was his rank when he was mustered out at
Baileys Cross Roads, Virginia, June 8, 1865, his regiment having previously
participated in the Grand Review at Washington. Mr. Pickle witnessed much severe
service during the war, having taken part in the battles of Louden Valley,
Fredericksburg, Hay Market, Gettysburg, Bristow Station, Mine Run, Petersburg,
Jerusalem and Plank Road, Deep Bottom, Reams Station, Hatchers Run, Farmhill and
Highbridge and was present at Lee's surrender at Appomattox, April 9, 1865. At
the battle of Deep Bottom, at the imminent peril of his own life, he carried
from the field Major H. D. O'Brien, who had been seriously wounded. For this act
of conspicuous bravery Mr. Pickle was awarded a Medal of Honor by Congress in
1895. During his long and arduous service in the army Mr. Pickle was never
wounded. He celebrated his twentieth birthday anniversary while engaged in
action at the battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, and fifty years later attended
the famous "blue and gray" reunion on that field. For many years Mr. Pickle has
been an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic and since 1908 has been
commander of Wesley Green Post No. 71, of that patriotic organization at Sleepy
Eye, and whenever possible is present at the state and national encampments of
the organization. Senator Knut Nelson introduced a special bill in Congress
which awarded Mr. Pickle an increase in pension from seventeen to thirty dollars
a month.

     Upon the conclusion of his military service Mr. Pickle returned to his home
in Minnesota. At Rochester, in the fall of 1867, he married and later moved to
Winona, where he helped to haul the brick with which to erect the first normal
school in that city. For a year he was engaged in the transfer business there.
He then rented a farm of three hundred and sixty-five acres in Olmsted county
and made his home there for fifteen years, at the end of which time he was
engaged as the overseer of the big Nevis ranch at Tracy, where he remained for
two years and six months, at the end of which time he moved on his farm at
Golden Gate, Brown county, and located on a quarter of a section of land he had
bought in 1872 in Home township, where for four years he engaged in general
farming and stock raising. He then retired from the farm and moved in 1906 to
Sleepy Eye, where he presently engaged in the real-estate and insurance business
in partnership with Isaac Gallagher, which association continued until Mr.
Gallagher's death nine years later. Mr. Pickle then associated with him in
business Thomas Talbert, who died not long afterward, since which time Mr.
Pickle has been conducting his extensive insurance and real-estate business
alone. He is the local agent for a number of the leading insurance companies of
the country and has a very well-established business.

     On October 22, 1867, A. H. Pickle was united in marriage to Rhoda J. Smith,
of Burlington, Iowa, to which union six children were born, namely: Frank A.,
deceased; Burton O., who married Milla Burkhardt and has three children; Roy B.,
who married Josie Wisby and has four children; Arthur T., unmarried; Anna, who
married George Dreher and has five children, and Ella, who married Ernest
Tompkins and has one child. Mr. Pickle is a Royal Arch Mason and a member of the
Knights and Ladies of Honor, in the affairs of which organizations he takes a
warm interest. He is a Republican and has served as a member of the Sleepy Eye
city council, taking an active interest in civic affairs.


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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