Bio of Frederick J. PONSFORD (b.1856), Wright Co., MN

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Bios from:  Mitchell, William Bell, 
History of Stearns County, Minnesota.  Volume II.  
Chicago: H.C. Cooper, Jr. and Co.  1915.

Page 965

Frederick J. Ponsford, a well known resident of Lynden township, was 
born in Herkimer county, New York, December 22, 1856, and there spent 
the first four years of his life.  It was in 1860 that he came to 
Clearwater, in Wright county, with his parents, Joseph and Sarah (Vaur) 
Ponsford.  Joseph Ponsford, the father took a claim of 160 acres, 
lying partly in Clearwater township, Wright county, and partly in 
Lynden township, Stearns county.  There he successfully farmed for 
many years, and there his wife died.  He died at the home of his 
daughter, Mrs. Orin Dorsey, in Lynden.  Frederick J. Ponsford was 
reared on the home farm.  In 1885 he purchased 160 acres of railroad 
land in section 29, Lynden township, and on this tract he still lives. 
He has developed an excellent place, erected a comfortable home and
suitable outbuildings, and successfully carries on general farming.  
Mr. Ponsford married Minnie Beilstein, a native of New York State, 
and they have four children: Walter, Leroy, Mabel and Archie.  
Walter married Maude Smith and they have had three children: Ruth 
and Vernon living and Glenn, who died at two years of age.  Leroy 
married Blanche Phillips, and they have had four children: Vivian 
and Wendell living, and Arnold and Stanley who died at the age of 
about one year.  The family faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church.