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If you have found this file through a source other than the MNArchives Table Of Contents you can find other Minnesota related Archives at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/mnfiles.htm Please note the county and type of file at the top of this page to find the submitter information or other files for this county. FileFormat by Terri--MNArchives Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by: Rebecca B Frank Submitted: August 2004 ========================================================================= Fair Haven and Lynden Township excerpts from: Mitchell, William Bell, History of Stearns County, Minnesota. Volume I. Chicago: H.C. Cooper, Jr. and Co. 1915. CHAPTER XXI Page 288-289 James Colgrove. In the middle years of the past century, New England and New York state were peopled with a hardy race form which came not only some of the great minds of the nation, but also the substantial self-sacrificing men who left the settle peace of the older communities and braved the hardships and rigors of pioneer endeavor. They were a well-informed people, for the district schools gave a liberal education which might well be envied by the young people of the present generation, while the academics taught the higher branches. Nearly every family had a teacher or two among its children,, and it was customary among the young men of the better families before settling down to farming, upon entering upon the study of the professions, to acquire self-discipline and firmly fix their own knowledge, by teaching for a few years. Among thee farmer-teachers who became pioneers of Minnesota may be mentioned the one whose name head these notes. James Colgrove was born May 8, 1841, in Hornellsville, now Hornell, Steuben county, New York, the son of Francis and Amanda (Pitts) Colgrove. He was reared to agricultural pursuits on his father's fam, passed through the district schools and finished at the Alfred Academy. Then he taught school for four years in his native state. In the fall of 1866, he came to Minnesota, and upon locating in Stearns county, taught school in Clearwater and Lynden for several terms. He located in section 34, Lynden, bought a farm which in time he increased to 400 acres, and there resided for some thirty-four years. A keen thinker, it was natural that he should become one of the leaders in his township. He was chairman of the board of supervisors, town clerk and justice of the peace, as well as chairman of the school board of his district. At one time he ran for a seat in the state legislature on the Populist ticket, and was defeated by a small majority. While on the farm he took a deep interest in the betterment of farm conditions. As the result of much cogitation, he perfected the machine which is now on the market as the Colgrove Potato Digger. In 1901 he came to St. Cloud, and is now the secretary of the Granite City Iron Works, where his patent is manufactured. The machine is said to be one of the most perfect of its kind now on the market. A description of its many technical perfections is beyond the scop of this work. Its structure is most admirable as to durability and simplicity. It handles and distributes the dirt in such a way as to make the machine of easy draft, it does not scatter nor cut the potatoes, it leaves them on the ground well cleaned, and it also improves the ground, doing away with the necessity of plowing. Weeds are brought to the surface, and thus are easily gathered and burned. Mr. Colgrove is well versed in Masonry. He was made a Mason in Clearwater Lodge, No 28, A. F. & A. M., Clearwater, Minn., and several times served as its Master. He is now a member of the North Star Lodge, No. 23, St. Cloud. Mr. Colgrove married Mary Louise Stearns, the daughter of Calvin Stearns , and they have three children, Mary L., Frances Amanda and Pitt Payson. Mary L. married W. W. Robertson and they have one daughter Carrie L. They live in Bath, Maine. Frances Amanda married Harry Biggerstaff, and after his death she married Anthony Murphy of St. Cloud. Pit Payson received his early education in Clearwater, attended the St. Cloud State Normal School and the University of Minnesota, and graduated from the University of New York. For twenty years he taught mathematics in the St. Cloud State Normal School, and is now superintendent of the city schools of Virginia, Minnesota. He married Alice Jacobs, and they have one daughter, Helen L. Mrs. Mary Louise (Stearns) Colgrove died October 9, 1911. Page 348 Carl D. Schwab. Minnesota is a young state. There are men still living who were residents of the Northwest before Minnesota became a territory, and have therefore watched the whole span of her existence. But young as the state is, the generation has come in which her own native-born sons are taking a leading part in her affairs, political, financial, commercial and educational. Some of these men of the newer order of things live in St. cloud, and among them may be mentioned the subject of this brief biography. Carl D. Schwab, president of the Farmers' State Bank of St. Cloud was born in Clearwater, Minn., October 24, 1872, son of Philip and Hattie (Heberling) Schwab, the former a native of Germany and the latter of Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania. Philip came to America about 1853, lived a while in Pennsylvania, from there went to New Orleans, then came to Rockford, in this state, lived at maple Lake for a while, and later engaged in the drug business at Clearwater, finally moving to Clear Lake, where he died in November 1889. The second of a family of five children, Carl D. Schwab as reared at Clearwater, matured early, and at the age of sixteen had charge of a general store in Clear Lake. He continued in this line for eight years, and then organized the First State Bank, of Clear Lake, assuming his present position as president. In February, 1911, Mr. Schwab organized the Farmers' State Bank, of St. Cloud, of which he is now the head. He is also president of the Farmers' Loan and Investment Company, of St. Cloud. He is a member of the Elks, and his institutions are connected with the State Bankers' Association. Mr. Schwab married Lavina White a native of Clear Lake, Minn. They have four sons, John D., Philip E. Carl L., and Daniel R. Page 529-530 James E. Jenks, of the firm of Jenks & Quigley, St. Cloud lawyers, was born in Clearwater, in Wright county, this state, August 9, 1871, son of James and Sarah E. (Noyes) Jenks, pioneers. James Jenks, the father, was born in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, and was there reared. In 1856, he and his wife came west and located at St. Anthony Falls, in this state. From there they moved to Fair haven where he was postmaster for a time and thence to Main Prairie in this county. There in the old log fort of which he superintended the building they underwent the terrors of the Indian uprising. After the Civil War, they moved to Clearwater, where they lived till 1889, when they came to St. Cloud. James Jenks died in St. Cloud in July, 1903. His wife died in 1895. James E. lived on the home farm until fifteen years of age when he came to St. Cloud to school. He received his common and academic education in the public schools of Clearwater, the St. Cloud State Normal School, and the Carleton College of Northfield, Minn. He taught for two years and then went to Washington, D. C., where he received his law degree form Columbian in 1897. In 1898 he began the practice of law in St. Cloud in the office of Myron D. Taylor with who he was associated under the firm name of Taylor and Jenks until Mr. Taylor became District judge in 1906. From 1906 until June, 1913, Mr. Jenks practiced alone. One June 16, 1913, he formed a partnership with James J. Quigley who came to the new firm from the legal department of the Great Northern Railroad at St. Paul. Mr. Jenks is a good lawyer and a public-spirited and useful citizen. He has served as a member of the school board and has been active in the work of the Commercial Club for a bigger and better St. Cloud. He is at this writing secretary of the Charter commission and city attorney of St. Cloud. Mr. Jenks was instrumental in organizing and is the president of the League of Minnesota Municipalities, an organization affiliated with the Extension Division of the University, and aiming toward greater economy and efficiency in municipal administration throughout the state. He is also a member of the governing board of the State Automobile Association and has been for twelve years a member of the State Board of Law Examiners. AS a member of this board he has successfully prosecuted a number of disbarment cases before the Supreme court, which have resulted in weeding out some of the unconscionable practitioners of the law. Fraternally he is a member and past master of North Star Lodge, No. 23, A. F. & A. M., and a member of St. Cloud Lodge, No. 516, B. P. O. E. Mr. Jenks married, June 13, 1900, to Marion S. Shaw, daughter of O. W. and Sarah (Rollins) Shaw of Austin, Minn. CHAPTER XXX TRAGIC EVENTS Page 546 During a quarrel between members of the Luther Laughton's family living near Clearwater, October 23, Orin Laughton, who had been at one time proprietor of the old West House in St. Cloud, was shot and killed by his brother, Nathan C. The latter was arrested and committed to await trial at the next term of the district court, held in March, 1876, at Buffalo, when he was found guilty of murder in the second degree and sentenced to imprisonment in the state penitentiary for life. CHAPTER XXIV STEARNS COUNTY SOLDIERS Page 694 -695 Fair Haven. Abell, Newton A., D, 4 Abell, John, C.,, 1 Bassler, Benjamin F., D, 4 Bodlear, Henry C., D, 4 Clark, George, Jr., D, 4 Eastman, Rufus, M., C, 2 Neal, Charles, D, 4 Perkins, Daniel A. (recruit), 1 Perkins, Daniel A. D, 4 Perkins Andrew, F. (recruit) 1 Peasely, Fred, M., 1, 2 Tufs, Willard C., D 4 Townsend, Perry C., C, 1 Townsend, George W., C 1 Tucker, 1. W., B 3 Whitney, Adoniram, J., D 4 Wheeler, Reuben, Arthur, D.,4 West, Caleb, I., 7 Robinson, Charles A., I, 2 (re-enlisted) Tufts, Willard C.,D,4 (re-enlisted) Whitney, Adoniram, J., D 4 (re-enlisted) January 1864 Townsend, Perry C., C (re-enlisted) Kemp, Albert, B. Hatch's Battalion Pratt, Jerome Lynden Bradley, H. C., E., 8 Bronghton, Henry C., D, 1 Clifford, Carrol H., E., 8 Campbell, George F., E, 8 Clifford, Franklin W., E, 8 Campbell, M.D., E,8 Dallas, William, e, 8 Geer, LewisB., D, 1 Parcher, Ellet P., E, 8 Parcher Frank M., E, 8 Robinson Thaddeus I., D, 4 Vorse, Charles H., E,8 Wilkins Carroll, C, 4 Bunt, Adam D, Mounted Rangers (one year man) September 1864 Valk, Joseph H. (recruit) Worley, John (recruit) 3 October 1864 Bohler, Joseph, D, First Artillery Truwe, Jacob D, First Artillery March, 1865 Bunt, Adam F, First Artillery Knswel, John, G, First Infantry September 1864 Gleason, Levi 2 ========================================================================= Copyright Rebecca B Frank 2004. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm =========================================================================