Charles Malchow was born in Prussia in 1846 and came to the United States with his parents when quite young, Frederick and Henrietta (Kuhn) Malchow, who settled in Waushara County, Wisconsin. After serving in the 50th Wisconsin Infantry from 1865 to 1866, mostly against the Indians in Dakota Territory, he filed a soldier's homestead in Heron Lake township in May 1869 as one of its first three settlers, and he was sheriff of Jackson County from 1879 to 1887. He married Christina Kilen, a native of Norway, in 1872, and they had nine children. Two of their sons became businessmen in Wilder: William G. Malchow, cashier of the Farmers State Bank from 1902, and F. E. Malchow, who managed the Malchow Brothers implement house with his brother J. C. Malchow. Every fact below is cited to a public-domain Jackson County history.
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Pioneer of Heron Lake township; sheriff of Jackson County
CHARLES MALCHOW (1869), ex-sheriff of Jackson county and secretary of the Delafield Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance company, resides on his farm in Delafield township, just east of the village of Wilder. He is a pioneer, having spent over forty years of his life in Jackson county, and was one of the very first to locate in Heron Lake township.
Mr. Malchow is a native of Prussia and was born June 25, 1846, the son of Frederick and Henrietta (Kuhn) Malchow. He came to the United States with his parents when quite young and located with them in Waushara county, Wisconsin. He resided at home until February, 1865, when he enlisted in company F, of the Fiftieth Wisconsin volunteer infantry. He served in the army until June, 1866, the longest part of his service being spent in Dakota territory under Colonel John G. Clark in frontier warfare against the Indians.
After his discharge from the army Mr. Malchow spent a few years working on farms in Wisconsin and Minnesota. In the spring of 1869 he moved to Jackson county and in- May of that year filed a soldier's homestead claim to the southwest quarter of section 8, Heron Lake township, being one of the three first settlers of that precinct. The others were Fred Ebert and Albert Hohenstein and all settled on the banks of Lake Flaherty. On this farm he lived twenty-nine years, passing through the grasshopper days and other trying ordeal of pioneer life and witnessing the development of Jackson county from a wilderness to the prosperous condition of the present time. In 1898 Mr. Malchow moved to his present location just outside the village of Wilder and has since made his home there.
During his long residence in the county Mr. Malchow has held many offices of trust. He was sheriff of the county from 1879 to 1887 and has many times been called upon to serve as township officer. He is secretary of the Delafield Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance company, which was organized May 10, 1888, and began business September 1, 1888. In January, 1909, the company had in force $1,619,- 894 of insurance. The assets of the company on that date were $2,546.70 and the disbursements for the past year were $2,135.56. For the past ten years the company has maintained a record of levying an assessment of only one and one-half mills on the dollar. The officers of the company are Herman Rossow, president; C. F. Morley, vice-president; Charles Malchow, secretary; August Pohlman, treasurer; August Wolf, John Nestrud, T. J. Egge, August Milbrath and John P. Koster, directors. Mr. Malcliow is the owner of 480 acres of Jackson county land, a quarter section in Colorado, and town property in Armstrong, Iowa.
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Cashier of the Farmers State Bank of Wilder
WILLIAM G. MALCHOW (1873), cashier of the Farmers State Bank of Wilder, has spent his entire life in Jackson county, having been born in Heron Lake township May 1, 1873. He is the son of Charles and Christine (Kilen) JIalchow, pioneer settlers of the county-
William secured his education in this county, completing it in the academic department of the school at Wilder. After his school days, at the age of nineteen years, he began teaching school, which occupation he followed seven years. He then took a position as grain buyer for the firm of Thorn & Christensen at Wilder and was so engaged three years. In 1902 he and his brother and father bought the controlling interest in the Farmers State Bank and since that date he has held the position of cashier.
Mr. Malchow is a man of family, having been married in Heron Lake township January 2, 1805. to Miss Christine Sether, a native of Blue Earth. Minnesota, and a daughter of Hans E. Sether, a Norwegian Lutheran minister and an early settler of the county. To this union have been born four children: Evangeline C, born December 23, 1898; Vivian G., born July 16. 1000; Thelma. born December 1. 1904; [name withheld], born June 2, 1908.
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Manager of Malchow Brothers implement house, Wilder
F. E. MALCHOW (1877) is the manager of the implement business of Malchow Brothers (if AVihler. He is the son of Charles and Christine (Kilen) Malchow. During the hard times of the seventies Charles Malchow and family, who had settled in Heron Lake township in an early day, were obliged to temporarily abandon the farm and seek employment at-Mankato. It was during a leniporary residence in that town, on the lUlli day of February, 1ST7, that F. E. Maleliow of this skeleli was born. The family returned to the farm in Heron Lake township the year of his birth.
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In 1907 Mr. ilalehow went to Lincoln county, Colorado, where he took a homestead and resided one year. He and his brother, J. C. JIalchow, are now the owners of a stock and dairy farm in that county. Keturning to Wilder in 1908, Mr. Malcbow took the management of the implement house of Malchow Brothers and has been engaged in that business since. The firm of which he is now the manager was organized May 1, 190" his partner being J. C..Malchow.
Mr. Malchow was married at Wahpeton, North Dakota, January 16, 1001, to Stella Wellington, a native of Wisconsin and a daughter of S. A. Wellington. The hitter, who now lives in Windom, is a veteran of the civil war and an ex-prisoner of Andersonville and Libby poisons. To Mr. and Mrs. Malchow have been born two children: Althca W., born September 4, 1905, and [name withheld], born March 10, 1909. >Mr. Malchow served as president of the Wilder village council several years and was a member of the board of education three years. He is a member of the M. W. A. lodge.
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