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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  WILLIAM TENTLER, real estate dealer and mayor of Lismore, is an old settler of

northwestern Nobles county, where he has lived since the spring of 1885. He is a

native of Cleveland, Ohio, where he was born Dec. 27, 1860, the youngest of a

family of three children. The other members of the family are Mary and Bertha,

of whom the former lives in Solon, Iowa, the latter in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.



  William lived in his native city until past fifteen years of age, and then

moved to Johnson county, Iowa. He completed his education in the schools of

Solon, in Johnson county, and for eight years worked on the farm in that county.

He then moved to Grundy, county, Iowa, where he lived one year. He arrived in

Nobles county in April, 1885, and located in Leota township, where for seventeen

years he lived and engaged in farming, having purchased the west half of section

16 (school land)—real estate which he still owns.



  In 1902 Mr. Tentler and Mark Graves bought from the railroad company the

Lismore townsite, and the following year he moved to the village. Since then he

has lived in the village and has been engaged in the real estate business,

handling Canada land and city property in Winnipeg.



  Mr. Tentler has always taken an active part in the public affairs of the

community in which he has lived. While living in Leota township he served on the

township board several years, was assessor two years, and a member of the school

board several terms. In Lismore village he served as councilman during the years

1904-05-06, and since then has been the city's mayor. He is also clerk of the

Lismore school board.



  In Adrian on March 19, 1890, Mr. Tentler was married to Miss Louise Ladehoff,

who was born in Wisconsin Feb. 15, 1870. Her parents were Hans and Margaret

Ladehoff, natives of Germany. Both parents came to the United States when young

and Mr. Ladehoff located first in Davenport, Iowa. Later he moved to Wisconsin,

where he was married. The family came to Westside township, in Nobles county, in

the early seventies and took a hometsad, and there made their home many years.

Mr. Ladehoff died in Brown's Valley, Minn., in December, 1907; Mrs. Ladehoff

died in Westside township in February, 1896. Of this family Mrs. Tentler was the

next to the youngest. The other children are: Edward, who died in 1898; Henry,

who lives in Alaska; John, of Brown's Valley, Minn.; Jennie, who lives in the

Black Hills; Emma, of Brown's Valley; Tressie, of Edgerton; Minnie, of California.



  Mr. and Mrs. Tentler are the parents of the following named children: Elfie,

born May 12, 1891; William, born March 12, 1894; Edward, born Nov. 9, 1896;

Minnie, born Dec. 28, 1897.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 

WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908



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