Bio of August HAFFTEN (b.1855), Wright Co., MN
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1086          HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY 

Slocum Woolley, an early settler, was born in New York state in 1813.  
He attended the public schools, took up the study of law, and was 
admitted to practice.  As a youth he moved to Illinois, and there 
was married to Maranda Lyon, who was born near Lexington, Kentucky, 
in 1823.  Mr. Woolley, by reason of poor health, never practiced his 
profession except to try a few cases when insistently urged to do so. 
Instead, he devoted his life to farming. His splendid law library was 
destroyed when his Illinois farm home burned, and he made no effort 
to gather a new one. In the spring of 1864 he came to Minnesota, with 
his family, and settled on a homestead in McLeod county. The 160 acres 
were wild and covered with timber. He and his family cleared and 
grubbed sixty acres, and there he followed farming for many years. 
Mr. Woolley at once became a leading man in the community. For several 
years he was county commissioner, and in many other positions of public 
honor and private trust he demonstrated his fitness and ability. 
In 1886 he sold his farm and purchased one in Brown county. His health, 
however, began to fail, and in the fall of 1898 the family brought him 
to Howard Lake, this county, where he died in June, 1899. Seven years 
previous to his death his wife suffered a stroke of paralysis, thus 
making her an invalid. She died at Sleepy Eye in July, 1901. Mr. and 
Mrs. Woolley had twelve children: Deborah is the wife of Martin Comer, 
a farmer of Cottage Grove, Oregon, and they have seven children. 
Esther A. is on a claim at Antelope, Montana; she is the widow of 
George W. Troxel, and has two children. Jane is the wife of Ai Larrabee, 
a farmer of Portland, Oregon, and they have five children. Millard is 
deceased. J. J. is an attorney at Buffalo, Minn. He married Emma A. 
Hiatt, and they have two children. Lucy is dead. Mark lives in Howard 
Lake, this county. He married Katie Means, and has two children. 
Marsden is an undertaker of Park Rapids, Minn.; he married Georgia 
Parker, and they have four children. Dora is now the wife of William 
Senkie, county commissioner of Brown county, this state. Lydia M. has 
charge of the millinery department in a large department store at Sioux 
Falls, South Dakota. North lives in Sleepy Eye, this state; he married 
Louella Larkelson and they have four children. West is an attorney at 
Waterloo, Iowa. He married Lydia Plumer and they have one child. 

August Hafften was born in Ontario in 1855, came with his parents to 
Minnesota in 1867, and settled in Hennepin county. It was in 1881 that 
he came to Wright county. In 1894 he was elected county commissioner,   
and in 1898, 1900 and 1906 was elected register of deeds. He served 
in the 1911, 1913 and 1915 lower house of the Minnesota legislature. 
He owns one of the best farms in Wright county. 

James David Young was born in Lawrence county, Penn., April 14, 1834. 
In 1855 he came to Minnesota and settled at St. Anthony, now a part 
of Minneapolis. September l7, 1857, he married Ruth Ann Powers. In 
the early history of Wright county they settled in Greenwood township, 
He served in the Eighth Minn. Vol. Inf., both in the South and against 
the Indians. At