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Aretz. Having served faithfully as deputy county auditor of Carver county during. Chaska during the last eight, J. He has been tried in several fields of.
Mr. Aretz is a Carver county product, born on a farm in Dahlgren. Township. September 1. Antony. and Agnes (Schmitz) Aretz, natives of Holland. United. States and located in this county in 1.
He. is still living, but the mother died in 1. They had five sons besides J. M.'s brothers are Martin, Antony and William, of Carver county, and Joseph and John.
Minneapolis. Aretz began his education in the public schools of Carver. County. and completed it at St. Joseph's College at Teutopolis, Illinois. He taught school for thirteen years in Carver and.
Nicollet counties, and made an excellent record as an instructor. In 1. 90. 3 he. was appointed deputy auditor of Carver county, and he has hold this office ever. Chaska. He belongs to. Knights of Columbus, the Catholic Order of Foresters and the German. Catholic Benevolent Society of Minnesota.
In 1. 89. 5 he was married to Miss. Pauline Mason, of Chanhassen. They have seven children: Raymond A., Henry V.. Edward M., Pauline A., Eugene E., Guy F.
Anderson, for many years a prominent farmer of Laketown. Township. came to Carver. County in 1. 85. 9. He was born at. Jonkopingslan, in Smoland, Sweden, May 1, 1. As a young man. he came to the United States.
Burlington, Iowa, on the twenty- fourth of January 1. Paul where he lived. Paul, on July. 1.
Caroline Johnson, a native of Sweden, born March. Vastra Hair Socken, Lindkopingslan, who had come to this country. During his residence in St. Anderson was a member of the. First fire department of the early days in that city and at the time of the.
Soon after. his marriage he secured the quarter section of land in Carver county which. For a time he continued his work in St. Paul and meanwhile hired a man to hold. But in 1. 85. 9 he removed to his claim, created a log house and began the. He cleared a number of acres of timberland, hauling.
Chaska, nine miles distant and devoted untiring effort to the. He put thirty- five acres under cultivation and.
During the troublous time of the great civil conflict, Mr. He served in the Atlanta campaign and took part in the memorable battle of Altoona. Pass. and also was with Sherman on the march to the. Washington where at the close. July 1. 2, 1. 86. Louisville. In his early manhood he had become a member of the Swedish.
Baptist church in Burlington, Iowa, the first church of this sect to be. United States and with which lie was actively associated for.
Scandia, which in time of organization is the second Swedish Baptist church in. He took a keen interest in all temperance reform and rendered.
Sunday school work. His death occurred January 1. Scandia. His wife. February 1. 0, 1. They had a family of 1. Anna Louise, now Mrs. Paul and former pastor of.
First Baptist church in Chicago. Isabelle, who married John Swanson, a lumber dealer in St. Bonifacius and. resident of Waconia; Abbie May Susan, whose death occurred soon after her marriage.
Charles F. Peterson of Chicago; Charles Benjamin, who married Hilda 0. James Fritchof. Anderson was born December 1. Maynard in Chippewa county. He is the present owner of the old. He also engages. in dairy farming and is a stockholder in the Cooperative Creamery Company. He is. a member and interested promoter of the Fair Association of Waconia and is a.
Anderson has never married and his. Miss Charlotte Anderson, makes her home with him. Page 2. 65. Emile Amblard. When Monsieur Emile Amblard died at the Swedish hospital in Minneapolis in 1. The life story then closed was full of.
It embodied heroism of a high order, a love of adventure. Nature in all her moods and manifestations that was almost.
The story also embraced the loftiest ideals of friendship and. M. Amblard was born in Paris, France, and he remained a citizen of that. Minneapolis, and for ten years prior to that time he. Coney Island in Clearwater. Waconia. He was a. French firm of F.
Chauvenet & Company, wine importers, and. United States. Canada and Mexico. He was. the son of a large landowner in Burgundy, near. Perigueux. and his father was mayor of that city.
The son passed part of his youth on his. Paris. He was always intensely loyal to France and the Napoleon dynasty. With the rank. of captain he served on the staff of Marshal Bazaine, often seeing and coming. Emperor. At the battle of Forbach, while.
Prussian cavalry. When Marshal Bazaine was forced to surrender at Metz Captain Amblard became. He was taken to Wittenberg, in Saxony. Prussian soldier. He got. through the Prussian lines in safety, narrowly escaping capture several times. French army corps, and gave important information of the. Prussians. He remained in the army to the close.
Being a pioneer importer of wine in the North American continent, his. Europe. Canada, the United States, Mexico. South America. He loved nature and reveled.
His definition of Heaven was . The beauty of the. The next year he secured a foothold on the island.
He. converted his half into a large park, building three pavilions, one for himself. But he used only, a small part of his holding for himself and his. The greater part was kept as a park for the use of the residents of. Waconia and visitors to the lake. He planted trees where there were none. This enterprise was his chief diversion.
He had a fine artistic sense and. And he applied his own code. Every Fourth of July he gave a. Through his liberality and public. With a brother living in.
Rio Janeiro, who owned extensive gold mines, he made long hunting trips into. But he traveled. everywhere, was a citizen of the world, a captivating conversationalist and. He could never reconcile himself to. French republic, yet he always maintained his citizenship in that country. Burgundy. with his wife as his companion. In 1. 89. 4 Monsieur Amblard was married in Paris.
Miss Mary Wood, whom he first met in Quebec. Canada, and who. is the sole surviving member of his family. She is a daughter of Hon. Justice Wood was at one time at the head of the.
Dominion and wielded great power in Canadian. He was a man of fine physique, very unusual talents and great breadth. His widow, a lady of remarkable personality.
Mrs. Amblard, at 2. Blaisdell avenue, Minneapolis.
Monsieur Amblard was a member of the Waconia Commercial club, the New York. Athletie, club and the famous Jockey club of Mexico, He had a very wide circle of. The remains of this courtly. Waconia in a spot. Andrew Anderson remained on his father Is place. In 1. 90. 2 he bought the farm which is his present home. Andrew Bergquist, the first Swedish farmer in this.
Clearwater. Lake. Just two years after his purchase, Mr. Anderson. suffered great loss through the devastations of a cyclone which wrecked all his. But the. success of his increasingly prosperous farming enterprises enabled him to soon. He was one. of the promoters and organizers of the Cooperative Creamery Company in 1. This is one of the thriving industries of Waconia and. Anderson has always been active in matters which.
Prohibitionists. He has served for three years as township. He was married in 1. Beda Peterson, a native of Sweden who was living in Isanti.
County. at the time of her marriage to Mr. Five children have been born to. Donald, Virginia, Benjamin and Leonard and Lucille. Anderson and his family are members of the. Swedish Baptist church at Scandia, where the.
Sunday school. The Anderson home has been built in an unusually pleasant. Page 2. 67. Jonas P. Akins. A prosperous farmer, now retired after a long career of useful industry; and. Watertown in the last year of the Civil War; a public official who has. Jonas P. Akins has.
He was born in Sweden. December 2. 5, 1. America. with his parents in 1. They sailed from Gottenborg, on the North. Sea inlet of Cattegat, having consumed six days in reaching the.
They were on the Atlantic three days. New York. They journeyed by steamboat to Albany, continuing over the Erie Canal to Buffalo. They settled in Pennsylvania, Jonas remaining with them six. Having friends at Watertown. Daniel Justus, he wished to be with them in the. In 1. 85. 7 he found opportunity to gratify this longing.
Alone he made the. Prairie du Chien and by boat up the Mississippi to St. Justus had located on Swede. Lake. in July, 1. Watertown was laid out in the spring of 1.
Mr. Justus was the first Swede to come to this locality, and it was he who. Carver. He lived on Swede. Lake. three months before he knew he had neighbors. His cow wandered away, and in.
Watertown, three miles. Akins came to Carver. County alone, so far as. Millers, the. Browns and the Johnsons.
He worked on the courthouse at Chaska, carrying the. He also worked at Chanhassen three years, but. Watertown. his home. He bought land near Swede. Lake. It was his custom. Chanhassen township, one for an Episcopal. Episcopal Deacon.
In 1. 86. 0 he started for Illinois, having been. Paul, however, he obtained employment as. Being anxious to obtain a home he saved.
In February, 1. 86. Mr. Akins enlisted in the Minnesota Heavy Artillery, being one of thirteen men. Watertown. and he is one, of four of them who survive.
He was assigned to guard duty in. Chattanoga. Tennessee, and on August 5, 1. In the fall of 1.
Miss Johanna Oberg, a sister of J. Oberg, who is still living. Mrs. Akins died in 1. E. J.. who lives on his own farm in the township; Selma. Seattle; Lillie, who married J. Wilson of Prosser, Washington.
Luella, who has lived in the family of A. Brown since she was two years. Akins contracted a second marriage, which united him with Miss. Matilda J. Lundin, who became a resident of Watertown. Township. in 1. 87. Their seven children are: Nora, wife of Edward Newstrom, of the.
Arthur, assisting in the management of the farm; and Thelia. Ethel, Maud, and Willard and Willman (twins), Ethel being a student at the State.