In the book's own words, not ours, with obvious scanning errors fixed. Families often supplied these stories to the publisher, so check key dates.
From An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910)
CARL W. POHLMAN (1884) is one of the big landowners and extensive farmers of Heron Lake township. He owns the southwest quarter and the north half of the southeast quarter of section 16, the northeast quarter of section 21, and a half interest in the southeast quarter of 6 and the west half of the southwest quarter of section 5, all in Heron Lake township. He farms 400 acres of this land.
[This passage is too damaged in the scanned book to reproduce. See the original book.]
As printed in An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
The printed record stops around 1910. We trace your line from there down to you, with every source cited.