Bio of Messer, Hezekiah F. (b.1836) Wabasha Co., MN
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Messer, Hezekiah F., farmer, of Plainview, is the son of Frederick and
Martha (Whittier) Messer. He was born in Danbury, New Hampshire, on March
12, 1836; received a common-school education, and at the age of seventeen
entered the employment of the Northern New Hampshire Railroad Company as a
construction and track hand, and for the next eighteen years was engaged
chiefly in the service of this company, most of the time as section-boss
and conductor of a construction train, while that corporation had for its
head the Hon. Onlsow Stearns. He came to Minnesota with his brother David
in 1856, but not being pleased with the country, then just emerging from
the snows of a dreary winter, he returned without investing; but David
remained, and in 1871 induced his brother to purchase eighty acres of C.
O. Landon, just east of Plainview village. On this place he at once took
up his residence, and has since made it his home, having added by purchase
forty acres more to the farm. Mr. Messer spent three years in the gold
diggings of California, in Shasta county and Scorch mountains, and in the
Frazer River country. On December 13, 1864, he espoused Mrs. Nancy J.
Brown (nee Keniston), relict of E. G. Brown, Esq., of Andover, New
Hampshire. This lady was born in Wilmot, New Hampshire. She had three
children by her first husband, now living, viz: Ella J., Loren E., living
in Plainview, and Addie (Mrs. Edwin May, of Wilson, Wisconsin). Mr. Messer
is a democrat, and boasts of never having "scratched" a party ticket.