The Stender Family

Charles Stender in History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota (1916

The full biographical sketch as printed in 1916, transcribed from the public-domain book. Spelling and wording are the original author’s; a few scanning errors may remain.

CHARLES STENDER.

Charles Slender, one of the successful farmers and stock raisers, and a man who has taken an important part in the official life of Dora town- ship. Otter Tail county, Minnesota, was born in Germany, November 13, 1857, a s<m of lohn and Henrietta ( 1'riebe) Stender, natives of Germany.

John Stender lived in his native land until [866 when he came to America, with his family, and located in Carver count}', Minnesota, where he made his home as a pioneer farmer for the remainder of his active life. The elder Slender and his wife were the parents of four children.

Charles Stender received his education in the common schools of Ger- many and then, with his parents, came to America and with them settled in Carver county, Minnesota, where Charles Stender engaged in farming and in the work of clearing the land of the community.

During the year [889, when thirty-one years of age, Charles Stender moved to Otter Tail county, Minnesota, and located in Dora township,

where he purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land which he unproved and supplied with the necessary equipment and where he has since lived as a general farmer and stuck raiser, he now owning two hundred and fifty acre.- of land, his success m these lines being well known throughout the locality.

During the year J 877, Charles Stender was married to Maria Mielke and to this marriage have been horn the following children: Louisa, Anna. Bertha, Ida, Otto, Emma, Martha, Bennie, Olga, Alma (deceased), Paul, Charles, .Marie Krwm 1 deceased), Lottie and Henry (deceased). Mr. Stender and his family are active members of the German Lutheran church. Mr. and Mrs. Stender being affiliated with the South Dora church, in which congregation they are well known and highly respected workers.

( harles Stender has been active in the official life of Dora township for many years, during which time he has served as clerk of the township since first coming to the locality and for many years served as clerk of the Dura township school board. Politically, Mr. Stender is a Republican. As a citizen and as a friend Charles Stender holds the respect and esteem of all in his community and is one without whom Dora township would be less one of its progressive influences for the upbuilding of community life.

DANIEL \Y. HIXSON.

The Union soldier in the great war between the states builded wiser than he knew. Through four years of suffering and wasting hardships, through the horrors of prison pens and amid the shadows of death, he laid the foundation of the greatest temple ever erected and dedicated to human freedom. Today we call those soldiers sublime and in art and sculpture we have preserved their unselfish deeds. It remains, however, for the children of generations yet unborn to accord the full measure of appreciation for their immortal characters. Among the valiant veterans of the great Civil War now living 111 Otter Tail county. Minnesota, is Hon. Daniel W. llix- son, who enlisted as a soldier in the Union army before he was eighteen vears old. Mr. Hixson has been repeatedly honored by the people of this state and has served nobly and efficiently in the Minnesota state Senate. Ib- is the scion of a distinguished family, his grandfather having fought valiantly by the side of Washington in the Revolutionary War.

Daniel W. Hixson, a retired citi/en of Fergus Falls, Minnesota, is a native of Burlington, Iowa, where he was born on December _>.:;. 1843. ''c 1- the son of John and Man I Burnett) Hixson and the grandson of David Hixson, a soldier in the Revolutionary War. John Hixson spent his early years in the mercantile business, but finally took up farming and in [821

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Source: History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota (1916. See the original pages at the Internet Archive.