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Born 1880, Wilkin county
From History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota : its people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families (1916)
ARTHUR M. CORLISS.
The Corliss family is a very old family in America, and Arthur M. Corliss, the present chief of police at Fergus Falls, this county, is a schon of this distinguished family.
Arthur M. Corliss was born in Wilkin county, Minnesota, on December 17, 1880, son of Charles M. and Emma O. (Plinkston) Corliss, the former of whom was born in Wisconsin and who emigrated to Minnesota at an early date. Charles M. Corliss was employed in the mill at Balmoral, in this county, where he worked for a time, after which he removed to Battle Lake, where he remained a year and then removed to Wilkin county, where he acquired land and carried mi farming until 1004. when he retired from the farm and removed to Fergus Falls, where he still resides.
('hut Arthur M. Corliss, the subject of this sketch, was reared on the home farm in Wilkin county, where he attended the district schools. He also attended school in Pelican Falls and at Battle Lake. When Mr. Corliss was twenty years old, lie married and afterward moved to Stulman county, North Dakota, where he engaged in farming for seven years. In 1908 he returned to Otter Tail county and located in Fergus Falls four years after his father had removed to that city. From 1908 until 19 14 Mr. Corliss was engaged in the land business. In 1914 he was appointed chief of police and is now filling that important office with credit to himself and to the community he serves.
To Arthur M. and Lillie (Erickson) Corliss five children were born, Clarence M., Ethel M., Gladys I.. Ruth M. (deceased) and Earl D. Mrs. Lillie (Erickson) Corliss died in 1913, and afterward Mr. Corliss married, secondly, Florence Candaux, to which union one child has been born, James Franklin.
Chief Corliss is one of the most efficient police officers in the history of Fergus Falls. Not only is he efficient in the position which he fills, but he is popular with all classes of people in this city, and is doing a good work. Fraternally. Chief Corliss is a member of Lodge No. 59, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a member of Hazel Lodge No. 31, Daughters of Rebekah, and of Aerie No. 888, Fraternal Order of Eagles.
As printed in History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota : its people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families (1916). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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