Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Duckering, Charles H. 1849 - 
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   CHARLES H. DUCKERING, one of the most prosperous farmers and stock raisers of
Cosmos township, resides upon section 30, where he cultivates about 150 acres of his
magnificent 400-acre tract. He is a native of Beaver Dam, Wis., born on the 25th of
September, 1849, and is the son of John and Maria (Bean) Duckering, who were natives
of England and New York, respectively. In 1863, when our subject was about sixteen
years of age, he came with his parents to Meeker county and settled with them in
Ellsworth township. He remained beneath the parental roof until 1871, when he came
to Cosmos and took up a homestead on section 30, and breaking some twenty-five acres
and putting up a house, made a permanent settlement. In 1877 he leased his farm and
made a trip to Washington Territory,  and prolonged his stay there until the
beginning of 1880, at which time he returned to this county and has lived on his
farm ever since. He is largely engaged in stock-raising, but still has some 1,500
bushels of grain as the result of his labors each year. In 1876 and 1877, he lost
about all his crop through the incursions of the grasshoppers, and the outlook being
poor he went to the West, as before mentioned.

  Mr. Duckering has been called upon several times to fill the responsible office of
town supervisor, and has been chairman of that board for four consecutive years. He
has filled several of the minor offices, as well as been director of district Ho.
53. He still holds the last-named position.

  July 18, 1880, Mr. Duckering was united in marriage with Miss Sarah I. Dean, a
native of Bartholomew county, Ind., and daughter of John and Eliza (Roberts) Dean.
residents of Hutchinson, McLeod county. By this union there have been three
children— John S., born May 27, 1881; Daisy, born May 9, 1883; and Edna, born May
15, 1885.


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Extracted from:
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888


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