Duren F. Kelley

As printed in 1882

Captain Duren F. Kelley was born in Newport, New Hampshire, on the 16th of November

1839, and came to Northficid in 1855. He was a student in Hamlin University in 1860 and '61, and in Angust, 1862, enlisted in the Seventh Minnesota Volunteer Infantry. Miirched to the relief of Fort Kidgely against the Indi;ins; participated in the battle of Wood Lake on the 23d of Septemy ber, the capture of "Bed Iron's" camp a few days later, and the release of his white captives; was with Gen. Sibley's expedition against the Sioux to the Missouri in 1863; went south with the regiment in September, and was appointed A. A. Q. M. and A. C. S., and served at Marganzie, Port Hudson, and Baton Eouge, Department of the Gulf. Capt. Kelley was musteredout in the winter. of 1867, after a continuous service of four years and a half. He married Emma I. Rounce, daughter of Eev. J. S. Bounce, the first resident Congregational minister in Northfield, the ceremony taking place on the 2d of February, 1863. Mr. Kelley took the tenth Government census for the city of Northfield in 1880. He is now proprietor of the South-side dairy, comijrising one hundred and sixty acres within the city limits, from which the town is supplied with milk. Mr. and Mrs. Kelley have one daughter, Eva I., born on the 26th of October, 1866, at Baton Eouge, Louisiana.

A. F. Kingman was born in Massachusetts in 1824, grew to manhood and received his education in that State. He taught school two years, then engaged in running a wholesale notion wagon> selling goods in different parts of the State twelve years. He was married in 1847, to Miss Marion Jenkins, who was born in 1824. She bore him four children, only one of whom is living, Bolden E. On account of his wife's failing health, he removed to Minnesota in 1857; was on a farm in Bice county until 1864, then removed to Northfield, where he started a meat market, and several years later engaged in buying wheat, which he continued four or five years and has since been in the hardware business, the firm name being Bacon, Kingman & Co.

Fkankmn Kelley was born in Newport, New Hampshire, on the 24th of September, 1810. He received his education in his native town and at New Hampton Seminary, and afterwards taught vocal music and the district schools for several terms. He was married on the 26th of November, 1835, to Miss Temperance Dwinell, of his native place. Mr. Kelley was engaged in farming and the lumber business for about twenty years, when, on account of his failing health, he came to Minnesota and settled in Northfield on the 22d of April, 1855, pre-tempting near what is now the city of Northfield. He was County Commissioner several terms before Minnesota was admitted as a State, was one of the building committee for the first church edifice in Northfield, and has taken an active part in the religious institutions of the place. Mr. and Mrs. Kelley have had seven children, six of whom are living; Marha E., Duren F., Mary A., Seth C, Lura E., and Helen M., all but one of whom are married. Mr. Kelley resides in the city and still owns his old farm adjacent.

'SViLLiAM A. King was born in Alexander, Genessee county. New York, on the 5th of April, 1820. He came to Illinois in 1840, where in 1855, he married Mrs. Marietta Brown, also a native of New York. In 1868, he came to Northfield where he has since resided, having fourteen acres of land and a fine residence in the city.

Henry E. Lawrence was born in Claremont, Sullivan county. New Hampshire, on the 26th of May, 1852. At the beginning ol the war his father enlisted, went South, and died at Port Royal, South Carolina. The family came to Minnesota in the spring of 1861, and settled at Northfield. After Henry completed his education, he entered the Enterprise newspaper office at the age of sixteen, and afterward published the "Monday Morning News" at Minneapolis for one year. On the ist of November, 1876, he established the "Dundas News," continued the publication in that village three years, when he removed to Northfield and changed the name of his paper to the "Northfield News." It has a large circulation in both towns.

Julian A. Lawrence was born in Claremont, Sullivan county. New Hampshire, on the 16th of April, 1852. In 1860, he came to Northfield and was engaged in agricultural pursuits several years. In 1875, he started a saloon and has a fine billiard hall on the corner of Fourth and Main streets. He is chief of the fire department, is a member of the Masonic fraternity and also an Odd Fellow.

Edgar Lockerby, a native of Bridgewater, Michigan, was born on the 9th of August, 1838, and came with his parents to Bice county in 1855. They located in Bridgewater, where they remained five years, then removed to Northfield. Our subnrSTOBT OF RICE COUNTY.

ject went to Idaho in 1864, and remained eight months, and for one year after his return was engaged in mercantile business. Then, in company with Mr. Dwight Bushnell, he established a livery stable. Their building is on West Third street. Miss Ada Bullock became his wife on the 9tb of September, 1866. They have two children; Ida F., and Charles E.

Dbew H. Lokd was born in Lathrop, Susqehanna county, Pennsylvania, on the 6th of June, 1844. He learned the carpenter trade and when eighteen years old enlisted in the Seventeenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, serving nearly three years as musician. On receiving his discharge he went to Scranton, where for eight years he engaged in contracting, building, and lumbering. He was married to Miss Olive M. Lord on the 20th of April, 1870. He made a trip to Kansas but remained only a few months, and in December, 1873, came to this place and entered the employ of the Ames' as millwright.

C. W. Mann was born in Canada on the 20th of May, 1830, and removed with his parents to Rock county, Wisconsin, in 1845, where he received his education and grew to manhood. He removed to Minnesota in the spring of 1851, and four years later located in Northfield, in section thirty-four, where he engaged in farming ten years. He was married on the 4th of December, 1856, to Miss Elizabeth A. Bush, also a native of Canada, born the loth of Blay, 1832, the marriage ceremony taking place in St. Paul. They have three children; Bion E., born the 11 th of October, 1857; Lydia D., born the 12th of September, 1859; and Cora L., born the 31st of October, 1869. He removed to the city of Northfield in the fall of 1869, and has since been engaged in the lumber business.

Alexander Mbrritt was born near Waterford, New Jersey, on the 15th of April, 1815, and when young moved with his parents to Cayuga county. New York, and grew to manhood on a farm. He was married in 1839, to Miss Betsey Davis, a native of New York, born in 1817, and removed to Michigan where he engaged in driving stage. In the spring of 1856, he came to Minnesota, located near Hadcr, Goodhue county, and came to this place in 1877. He had a family of nine children, five of whom are living; Roseltha, Ann, Frederic S., Charles E., Melissa J., and William H.

Prof. T. N. Mohn was born near Skien, Norway, on the 15th of July, 1844, and came with his parents to America at the age of eight years. They settled in Columbia county, Wisconsin. Our subject graduated from the Lutheran College at Decorah, Iowa, in the class of 1870, having taken the full classical course, and in 1873, from the Theological department of the Concordia College at St. Louis, Missouri. In 1874, he came to St. Paul; was engaged in the ministry a few months, then, when Eev. B. J. Muus founded St. Olaf's School at this place Prof. Mohn was sent to take charge of it. He is principal of the Institution and there are five or six teachers under his supervision. He was married in 1875, to Miss AnnaE. Ringstad, of Winneshiek county, Iowa. They have two children; Nils Ivar Edward and John Olaf Gerhard.

F. A. Noble was born in Vermont in 1825, and removed with his parents to New Hampshire when seven years old. He attended the common schools and finished his education at the Academy of New Hampshire. At the age of twenty years he engaged in the manufacture of lumber and followed the same for years, and subsequently went to Boston where he was engaged in the music business. He was married in Sanbornton, New Hampshire, in 1845, to Miss Lyda A. Smith who was born in the latter State in 1826. In 1860, they removed to Minnesota, located near Cannon Falls where Mr. Noble was on a farm one year and a half, then came to Northfield and engaged in the manufacture of leather and gloves. He has had a family of five children, four of whom are living; Lyda, wife of Charles Anderson; Clara Jane, Florence, and Flora.

A. W. Norton was born in Cattaraugus county. New York, on the ist of June, 1852. He remained in his native county, living with his parents and receiving a liberal education, until the western fever reached the East, when they came to New Richmond, Wisconsin. Here he remained until 1871, and then transferred himself to this place and engaged in the dry goods store of Lee & Hitchcock for the ensuing four years. He next engaged in the insurance and loan business in company with his brother who had preceded him to Northfield, remaining in that business until the bank with which he is now connected was started by his brother, W. H. Norton, as a private enterprise. The subject of our sketch took the position of cashier and when the Citizen's Bank was organized under the State law in September, 1878, be

As printed in History of Rice County, including explorers and pioneers of Minnesota and outline history of the state of Minnesota (1882). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.