Ambrose A. Regnier

As printed in 1912

AMBROSE A. REGNIER (1883), of Lake Marshall township, was born in Kankakee, Illinois, November 15, 1867, a son of Isaac and Mary (Touschette) Regnier. The parents are natives of Canada and moved to Illinois in 1847, where they resided until 1883, when they moved to Lyon county.

Ambrose accompanied his parents to Lyon county when sixteen years of age and lived with his parents until twenty-nine years old, when he married and started farming for himself. He farmer the northwest quarter of section 21 and forty acres on section 15, Grandview township, until 1895, when he moved to Ghent and worked for the Western Grain Company ten years. He also worked for the same firm and the Youmans Lumber Company in Marshall two years.

In 1907 Ambrose purchased forty acres on section 3, Lake Marshall township, where he now resides. He also owns four hundred acres in Sodus township, which he rents out. Mr. Regnier is assessor of Lake Marshall township, and he served as clerk and treasurer of the Grandview Township Board of Supervisors fifteen years. He also served on the Ghent School Board twelve years. He is a member of the Catholic church.

Our subject was married at Ghent October 20, 1896, to Judith Prairie, a native of Kankakee, Illinois. She is a daughter of Clovis and Mary (Lord) Prairie, natives of Canada, and was born July 30, 1872. Mr. and Mrs. Regnier are the parents of the following children: Maude, born November 28, 1898; Isabel, born July 19, 1900; [name withheld], born May 15, 1907.

As printed in An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.