Morton County, North Dakota Biographies

J. E. CAMPBELL, Mandan, of the thirtieth legislative district, was born at Elgin, Ill., October, 1856, and received his education at Litchfield, Minn. Came to North Dakota in 1882 and is engaged in the practice of law. Has held positions as city attorney for the city of Mandan, and states attorney for Morton county for two terms. He is unmarried, and was elected representative as a democrat.
[Source: North Dakota Blue Book, 1913 Legislative Manual, Published under the direction of Thomas Hall, Secretary of State, 1913. Submitted by Linda R.]

HON. WILLIAM ENGELTER. In the list of pioneers of Morton county, who are identified with her progress and upbuilding, may be noted the name of William Engelter. He resides on his fine estate in township 139, range 85, and has a thoroughly improved farm and is surrounded by all that goes to make country life pleasant.
Our subject was born on a farm near Darmstadt, Germany, May 22, 1836. His father, William Engelter, was a stone mason and farmer, and our subject was raised in Germany and in 1852 came to America with an older brother. He landed at New York and went to Buffalo and there worked in a shoe store to learn the trade and remained four years, and then went to Chicago in 1856 and entered the employ of a commission firm, remaining in their employ until the breaking out of the war. In 1862 he enlisted in the Seventy-second Illinois Infantry, and was a member of Company A, and was sent south and joined Grant’s army. He was engaged at Champion Hill, Vicksburg, Spanish Fort, Nashville and Franklin, Tennessee, was a member of the Seventeenth Corps. He was mustered out at Vicksburg, Mississippi, August 11, 1865, after over three years of active service, and received but one wound, and that was through an accident at the hands of a comrade. After the war he returned to Chicago and entered upon his former duties with the commission firm and was general manager and purchaser for them and in their employ many years. He went to New Salem in the spring of 1884, and entered claim to government land near the town, and thereon began farming and placing improvements. The family soon joined him, and he built a small house, and engaged in agriculture and made a success of the same. He started on raw prairie and now has a farm of eight hundred and eighty acres, a set of good buildings, grove, plenty of small fruits, all machinery necessary, and keeps from fifty to eighty head of cattle, and has met with success in stock raising and general farming, and is one of the substantial men of his township.
Our subject was married, in Chicago, May 3, 1868, to Miss Christena Prebeck, who was born in Germany, and came to America with her brother in 1861. Mr. and Mrs. Engelter are the parents of five children, as follows: George, manager of Mandan Mercantile Company’s business at New Salem, was born February, 1869; William, born in October, 1871, manager for the same company at Richardson; Charles, born in September, 1873, now residing at home; Annie, born in February, 1875, and Henry, born in March, 1877, is the present postmaster of New Salem, North Dakota. Our subject was elected school officer and township officer in the early days, and was county commissioner eight years. He has served one term as representative in North Dakota, and is an efficient and popular officer. He is a Republican politically and has attended county and state conventions as a delegate and is active in party affairs. He holds membership in the Ancient Order of United Workmen.
History Biography of North Dakota. Transcribed by Kim Mohler

JOHN FORAN, deputy county treasurer of Morton county, is one of the best known men of that locality, and has been identified with the advancement and growth of his locality. He was actively engaged in mercantile pursuits in Mandan for many years and is a man of good business ability and honest dealings.
Our subject was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1852, and was a son of John Foran. His parents died when our subject was a child and he was raised by a cousin of his father, Patrick Foran, who was an American by birth. Mr. Foran was reared on a farm in Ontario, Canada, and received a limited education. When he was twenty years of age his foster parents died and he went to Pembrook, Ontario, and was employed as clerk in a store there two years, and then secured a position as chief clerk on a steam boat and held the position two years, after which he worked for different firms two years on the Ottawa river, and in 1878 went to Minnesota, and finally settled at Granite Falls, that state. During the winter of 1878 and 1879 he was in the employ of B. F. Pillsbury, and in the spring following went to the Red River Valley and took government land in Richland county, and also worked in the office of register of deeds in Wilkin county, Minnesota, and in January, 1879, went to Bismarck, North Dakota, and accepted a position as carpenter for the Northern Pacific Railroad at Mandan, and was in the employ of the company two years, the last year having charge of the carpenter crew. He then followed his trade in Mandan one year and in 1882 assumed charge of the lumber yard in Mandan for Hagar Brothers, and was thus engaged four years. He was employed in a dry goods store in the winter of 1883-84, and then conducted the Inter Ocean Hotel one year, and in 1885 established a grocery store in Mandan and continued the business until January, 1888, when he disposed of the store and spent some time in the employ of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. He was elected county auditor of Morton county in the fall of 1888, and was twice re-elected to the office, serving three terms in succession, holding the same on the Democratic ticket. He now has charge of the county treasurer’s office as deputy, and ably and faithfully discharges his duties in that capacity. While acting as county auditor, Governor Briggs, now deceased, was treasurer, and our subject and Mr. Briggs became strong personal friends.
Our subject was married, in the spring of 1885, to Miss Mary McGowen, who was born in Wabasha, Minnesota, and was a daughter of Hugh McGowen. Her father was a pioneer of Minnesota and was actively interested in the settlement of Wabasha county, Minnesota. He was of Scotch birth. Mrs. Foran was engaged in teaching in Wabasha county for some time and is a lady of refinement and culture. Mr. and Mrs. Foran are the parents of three children, as follows: Agnes, who was born in Madison, Wisconsin; Robert, born in North Dakota and Margarette, born in North Dakota. Mr. Foran is a wide-awake citizen of active public spirit and well merits his popularity.
[History Biography of North Dakota. Transcribed by Mary Saggio]

JOHN FRANZEN. For many years this gentleman was identified with the farming and stock raising interests of Norton county, and he now owns a well improved estate near New Salem, and makes his home in the town and deals in grain. He was born on a farm in Holstein, Germany, in 1854.
Our subject's father, F. K. Franzen, was a farmer and also a brick manufacturer during his career, and the grandfather of our subject, F. K. Franzen, was a school teacher. Our subject's mother bore the maiden name of A. V. Aronsdorph. Her people were farmers by occupation.
Mr. Franzen was the youngest in a family of eight children, and was raised on a farm and at the age of twenty years joined the German army and served three years, the last year of which time he was an underofficer. The father died before our subject entered the army, and after he returned from the service Mr. Franzen operated the home farm for four years and after the mother's death came to America. He landed at New York and went direct to St. Paul, Minnesota, and worked on a farm in Ramsey county one year and then went to North Dakota in 1883. He took government land near New Salem, and worked on a farm in the eastern part of the state during the summer, and in 1884 began the improvement of his farm. He built a shanty and his sister kept house for him, and the first crop raised on the land was in 1884 and yielded well. He had many experiences with prairie fire in the early days and often fought fire night and day. He has a farm of two hundred and eighty acres, with one hundred and thirty acres under cultivation and has one hundred acres in pasture. On his home farm he has a complete set of farm buildings of substantial construction and good design, and he engaged in diversified farming there until 1899, when he rented the land and sold the chattel property and all machinery, and has since engaged in grain buying. He contemplates entering into the real estate business, and will also make a journey to Germany in the fall of 1900.
Mr. Franzen served as assessor two years, and has been school treasurer for the past ten years, and has taken an active interest in public affairs of local importance. He is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Politically he is a Democrat. He is progressive and energetic and well merits his success and good reputation.
[Source: Compendium of History and Biography of North Dakota, Publ. 1900. Transcribed by Syndi Phillips]

W. C. GILBREATH, commissioner of agriculture and labor, was born in McMinn county, Tennessee, September 9, 1851. His parents afterward located in Illinois, where he was educated in the public schools and in Wesleyan university. He is married and has three children. He came to North Dakota and engaged in the newspaper business at Mandan. He has been a member of the state central committee, deputy commissioner of insurance, and is serving his fifth term as commissioner of agriculture and labor, to which he was elected as a republican.
[Source: North Dakota Blue Book, 1913 Legislative Manual, Published under the direction of Thomas Hall, Secretary of State, 1913. Submitted by Linda R.]

HON. J. S. GREEN, ranchman and business man of Mandan, enjoys to an unusual extent the respect and esteem of the people of his community for the great aid he has given in the material development of Mandan and Morton county. Few men in the state are so well known as Mr. Green.
J. S. Green was born near Kansas City, Missouri, in 1860, and received his education in Quincy, Illinois. He came to North Dakota in 1888 as representative of the Riverside Ranch Company, and took charge of their business at Mandan. However, the greater part of his life had been spent in the west, and he was thoroughly acquainted with the cattle business. He operated the company’s ranch at Mandan for four years, then resigned and went into the business on his own account. Since that time he has continuously raised, bought and sold cattle, horses and sheep. He owns several different ranches in various parts of Morton county. During the summer of 1896 he and his partner, W. C. Badger, handled over forty thousand head of cattle and a proportionately large number of sheep. Since November 1, 1899, Mr. Green has handled over twelve thousand head of cattle, and since January, 1900, has handled three thousand horses.
Mr. Green organized the North Dakota Stock Growers’ Association, and was seven years its secretary and treasurer. He resigned because of the great extent of his own business. He built the largest creamery west of the Missouri river in 1899, and is now the largest stockholder in the company. Their famous brand of butter, ”The Little Hearts,” has become known in every first-class market. The business has been very prosperous, and is now being enlarged to a one-thousand-cow creamery. Mr. Green has had the management of this business since its organization, and its success is due to his energy and business management. He says “The possibilities of North Dakota as a dairy state are beyond the imagination. The wild grass that is a natural growth all over the state, produces milk in greater quantity and of better quality than any of the tame grasses of the eastern and southern states, the milk containing a higher per cent of butter fat.”
Mrs. Green, whose maiden name was Miss Margaret Bernhard, is a native of Michigan, born in Saginaw, of that state. She is the daughter of one of the pioneer merchants of Saginaw. She is a lady of culture and refinement, having finished her education in Europe, and she is a most interesting conversationalist, and speaks German, French and English. She is president of the Library Association of Mandan, and is a most popular social leader. Mr. and Mrs. Green have two children. Their home is elegant and refined, and a cordial welcome is extended to all who find themselves within its doors.
Mr. Green is a Republican in political faith, and has taken an active and influential part in the politics of the state. He has attended practically every state convention, and was elected to the state senate in 1896 and served one term. It was through his influence that the state fair was located at Mandan and an appropriation secured for its establishment. He is a Mason, and has taken the higher degrees of that order. He is also a member of the I. O. O. F. He is a great traveler, having crossed the Pacific ocean several times.
He does not like in-door life, and his home and office are principally in the saddle or on the trains. He is liberal, kind-hearted and always ready to help a friend in need. His popularity among the people is well deserved, not only for these qualities, but for the energy and public spirit he has always displayed in behalf of his community and county.
[History Biography of North Dakota. Transcribed by Mary Saggio]

JAMES M. HANLEY, (Mandan), of the thirtieth legislative district, was born at Winona, Minn., January 8, 1877, was educated at the Kasson, Minn., high schools and Carleton college and was admitted to the bar at the age of twenty-one years, and has been in practice at Mandan since coming to North Dakota in 1902. He is married and has three children. Served in the Spanish-American war, 1898; elected to the house, 1908; state's attorney Morton county, 1909-1910; elected to the house, 1911, and chosen speaker; elected to his present position, 1912, as a republican.
[Source: North Dakota Blue Book, 1913 Legislative Manual, Published under the direction of Thomas Hall, Secretary of State, 1913. Submitted by Linda R.]

ADOLPH F. ITRICH As one of the early settlers of New Salem, North Dakota, who went to that thriving town as one of the German colonists, the gentleman above named takes a foremost place. He has prospered in his business affairs, and is now proprietor of an extensive harness store there, and also conducts a saloon, and has a good farm near the town.
Our subject was born in Prussia, in 1854. His father owned a store and saloon in Germany, and came to America about 1874. Our subject was reared near Danzig, and attended the city schools, and in 1868 began to learn the harness and upholstering business and spent three years as an apprentice. He went into the army at the age of twenty years, and served three years and was an officer in the service. He came to America in 1878, and landed at New York, and from there went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and there followed trade five years. He joined a colony for settlement at new Salem in 1883 and upon his arrival did any work which fell to his lot to earn an honest dollar, and in 1884, entered a homestead claim to land, whereon he built a shanty and continued farming until 1889. In that year he started his farm and a small harness shop in New Salem, and he has increased the business, and now occupies a good sized building, 16x48 feet, with an addition 9X24 feet which is used for a barber shop. He started a saloon in 1895, and the same year bought a square of land, 300x400 feet, in partnership with his father and erected a residence thereon, and the store building, residence and farm are all now cleared of indebtedness, and Mr. Itrich has funds at interest. He has a complete stock of harness amounting to one thousand two hundred dollars, and does a good business in that line.
Our subject was married in 1880, to Miss Carrie Kranish. Mrs. Itrich was born in Milwaukee, and her father, Fred Kranish, was a shoe maker and shoe dealer in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and was of German birth. Mrs. Itrich died from the effects of a burn February 8, 1899. Mr. Itrich and daughter Elsie were badly burned in attempting to save the mother’s life Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Itrich, was are named as follows: Ida, Elsie, Max, Edwin, Waldemar, Selma and Adolph A. Mr. Itrich is treasurer of the village, and treasurer of the town hail association, and president of the school board, and has taken an active part in local affairs. He holds membership in the German Mutual Benefit Association, and politically is a Republican and prominent in part matters.
Source: COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. Transcribed by Carol Eppright.

CHAS. F. KELLOGG, New Salem, of the forty-seventh legislative district, was born in Kansas, Oct. 9, 1873. Received his education in the common schools and at the Iowa City Academy, and graduated from the law department of the State University of Iowa with the degree of L. L. B. Came to North Dakota in 1901 and became cashier of a bank at New Salem, which position he has held since. He is married. He was elected representative as a progressive republican.
[Source: North Dakota Blue Book, 1913 Legislative Manual, Published under the direction of Thomas Hall, Secretary of State, 1913. Submitted by Linda R.]

HON. HERMAN KROEGER. As an ex-soldier and pioneer settler of New Salem, this gentleman is well known in Morton county. He has a fine farm in township 140, range 85, and has gathered around him the comforts of rural life. He is a native of Germany, and was born in Westphalen January 4, 1841.
The father of our subject, Herman Kroeger, was a farmer, and the mother of our subject bore the maiden name of Margaret Vicker. In a family of six children our subject was the eldest and he was raised on a farm and attended the public school, and in 1857 came to America. He landed at New Orleans and went direct to Iowa, and learned the cooper’s trade at Burlington, that state, and in 1859 went to St. Louis. He worked there six months at his trade, and in the fall of 1859 went to Randolph county, Illinois, and worked on a farm there until 1861. He enlisted in Company M, Seventh Illinois Cavalry, September 3, 1861, and served under General Pope in Missouri, and General Halleck in Mississippi, and later under Grant in northern Mississippi and western Tennessee. He was engaged at the siege of New Madrid, Island No. 10, Farmington, Mississippi, Boonville, Iuka, Coffeyville, Palo Alto, Birmingham, and the celebrated Grierson raid. He re-enlisted in 1864 and resisted Hood’s advance to Nashville, at the battles of Franklin and Nashville. He participated in over sixty engagements and missed but one engagement in which his company participated. He was discharged from the service in November, 1865, after something over four long years of active service.
After the war Mr. Kroeger returned to Illinois and in 1866 went to Burlington, Iowa, where he followed farming, and continued there until 1883, when he joined the New Salem colony and went to North Dakota. He took government land in township 140, range 85, and settled on the southeast quarter of section 28. He had good crops the first year and engages in diversified farming with much success. He has a tract of four hundred and eighty acres, with all good buildings, machinery, and improvements, and keeps from seventy to eighty head of cattle and has a well stocked and well equipped farm.
Our subject was married, in 1868, to Miss Louisa Ellerhoff, a native of the same town as our subject. Her father, Charles Ellerhoff, was a farmer, and her three brothers served in the German army. Mrs. Kroeger came to America in 1868. Nine children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Kroeger, and are as follows: Louisa, Herman, Anna, Carrie, William, Fred, Charlie, deceased, and Martha. Mr. Kroeger was elected state representative in 1894 and re-elected in 1896 and served two terms and did very efficient work for the welfare of his community. He has held numerous township, civil and school offices, and is the present chairman of the school board. He is a Republican in political faith and attends county conventions of his party. He is a member of the Evangelical church and the G. A. R.
[History Biography of North Dakota. Transcribed by Mary Saggio]

FERDINAND LEUTZ, of the forty-seventh legislative district. Hebron, Morton county, was born at Eberbach, Germany, on June 24, 1854; is married and has four children. He came to North Dakota from Germany in 1883, and is a merchant. Was educated in the common schools and college at Eberbach and Stuttgart. He was state insurance commissioner from 1901 to 1905, and was elected to the senate in 1906 and again in 1912, as a republican.
[Source: North Dakota Blue Book, 1913 Legislative Manual, Published under the direction of Thomas Hall, Secretary of State, 1913. Submitted by Linda R.]

BERNHARD LUEDER, a prosperous merchant of New Salem, Morton county, went to Dakota without means and is enjoying the result of a well-spent career and judicious management of business affairs. He was born in Gredfswald, Germany, March 11, 1863. The father of our subject, John Lueder, was a tailor by trade and he served in the German army five years. The mother of our subject, whose maiden name was Wilhelmina Seeggert, now makes her home with our subject and she has aided him in all his endeavors and cheered him when failure seemed the only outcome of his work. Her father was a dairyman and the paternal grandfather of our subject was a brewer. Mr. Lueder was raised and educated in the city and he and his brother, Ludwig Lueder, graduated from good schools in Germany. Our subject was engaged in various business enterprises in Germany and then spent two and a half half years at the shoemaker's trade and when he was eighteen years of age he and his brother came to America, landing at Baltimore. He spent two years in Michigan City, Indiana, where he was fireman in a chair factory in connection with the State's prison. This position he gave up on account of failing health, and in 1883 joined the colony of Germans and went to New Salem, North Dakota, and he and his brother took government land and built a shanty thereon. They followed farming a good share of the time the first four years and in 1887 started a small store in New Salem, with a stock costing nineteen dollars, which money they obtained by selling milk to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company for use in the dining cars. They then worked at any jobs to be found and kept the business running and in the fall of 1890 built a shanty at their present location, corner Main and C streets. A fine store building was erected in 1892 and an addition built in 1896, making one of the largest store buildings of the town. They have engaged in stock raising to some extent and have prospered in their business venture. The brother is a member of the syndicate owning the town lots of New Salem. Mr. Lueder is a member of the Woodmen of the World and he is actively interested in public matters and is a Republican politically.
[Source: History Biography of North Dakota. Transcribed by Susan Ripley]

WILLIAM H. MANN is one of the leading merchants of New Salem, North Dakota, where he conducts a general store and furniture business, and is actively interested in various other financial enterprises in the township and vicinity. He is well known as a pioneer business man of that locality and has aided more than any other one man in producing the present prosperity enjoyed by the town.
Our subject was born on a farm near Liegnitz, Germany, November 5, 1857. His father, George F. Mann, was a farmer and died in Germany in 1870, and the maternal grandfather of our subject, F. Lange, was also a farmer. The parents were married in Germany, and of their seven children our subject was the youngest. He was raised on the home farm and at the age of thirteen and a half years began to learn the cabinetmaker’s trade, and owing to his father’s death the same year he was dependent upon himself for a living, and at the age of seventeen years he started as a journeyman and traveled over Germany, working in the principal cities, and at the age of twenty years he was drafted into the German navy. He spent three years in the service and was with the admiral’s squadron part of the time and served as orderly for Admiral Stosh and also Admiral Kinderling. He then spent three or more months ill with malarial fever, and emigrated to America to regain his health, and landed at New York City. He went direct to Chicago, and there was employed in building billiard tables and followed his trade, and in the spring of 1883 went to New Salem, North Dakota. He began work at carpentering and also took land on which he began farming, and built a claim shanty and moved to the farm in the spring of 1884. The wife resided on the homestead while our subject followed his trade in the town and in 1888 they proved the claim and the following year Mr. Mann established a general store on Main street, New Salem, and in 1891 removed to his present location, corner North and Main streets, the best location in the town. He carries a complete stock of general merchandise and has good and commodious store buildings, and also conducts the furniture business and has prospered in that line. He established a store in Manhaven in 1896, in Mercer county, and with several others conducted the store there three years, when our subject sold his interests to the Manhaven Mercantile & Transportation Company. Mr. Mann is assisted in his work in his store by his sons and daughter, and he has telephone connection between his residence and store. He also conducts the real estate business, and is agent for the Northern Pacific Railroad land, and during the spring of 1900 sold over thirty-three thousand dollars’ worth of land. He is interested in three creameries in the county, and was one of the originators of that industry, and he is also interested in stock raising and in the town site of New Salem. Our subject was married in Germany, in 1879, to Miss Anna Lange, who was born in Leipsig, Germany, and was a daughter of a baker. She came to America about three months after our subject emigrated to this country. The following children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Mann: Henry, born in Germany; Otto, born in Chicago; Annie, born in Dakota; Paul, Lena, Amanda, deceased; Fritz and Ella. Henry is a graduate from Curtiss Business College at Minneapolis, and is a bookkeeper for his father and takes a good share of the responsibility upon himself. Otto is also a graduate of the Curtiss Business College, completing the course in 1898, and he has charge of the grocery department, while the eldest daughter, Anne, has charge of the dry goods department.
[History Biography of North Dakota. Transcribed by Sally Masteller]

WILLIAM HENRY MANN, commissioner of railroads, was born in the village of Kolskau, Germany, November 5, 1857, he received a common school education in a village near his native home. April 6, 1883, found him one of the German Evangelical colony, founding what is now the prosperous village of New Salem, Morton county, N. D., his present home. In the fall of 1880 he was united in marriage with Miss Anna Lang, of Leipzig, Germany. Eight children have blessed this union, seven of whom are living. He was elected in 1908 as a member of the railroad commission, and re-elected in 1910 and in 1912, as a republican.
[Source: North Dakota Blue Book, 1913 Legislative Manual, Published under the direction of Thomas Hall, Secretary of State, 1913. Submitted by Linda R.]

W. E. MARTIN, of the thirtieth district, was born in Illinois in March. 1850. He came to Dakota in 1881 and engaged in cattle and stock raising in Morton county. He is married and has eight children. He was elected to the house as a republican in 1906, 1908, 1910, and in 1912.
[Source: North Dakota Blue Book, 1913 Legislative Manual, Published under the direction of Thomas Hall, Secretary of State, 1913. Submitted by Linda R.]

HON. WILLIAM McKENDRY, one of the men who have made Dakota famous, is now a resident of Mandan, where he conducts a blacksmithing business, and lives the life of a model citizen and member of his community.
Mr. McKendry was born in Scotland in April, 1852. His father, James McKendry, was a contractor by trade, and came to America in 1874. The mother of our subject died when he was but five years of age. He grew to manhood in his native land, and learned the trade of blacksmith. At the age of twenty years he came to America, landing in New York in July, 1872. He first located at Rochester, New York, where he followed his trade until 1882. In that year he went to Fargo, North Dakota, and entered the employ of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company as blacksmith. He left its employ in 1888 and took up land and farmed to some extent. During the first year he and present Governor Fancher bached together in a shanty on our subject’s farm near Jamestown. In 1888 he went to Mandan to take charge of the Northern Pacific blacksmith shops at that point. He remained there in that capacity for four years, during which time he spent two months in Helena, Montana, in the interest of the railway company. In the fall of 1892 he returned to Mandan and formed a partnership with George Kemper in the blacksmithing business. The partnership was soon dissolved, since which time Mr. McKendry has carried on the business alone. It has grown steadily, and is now the most extensive in Mandan. His great experience has made Mr. McKendry thoroughly familiar with every detail of the trade, and few workmen have had the opportunities for observation and practice that he has, and the workmanlike products of his shop proves with what thoroughness he improved his opportunities.
Mr. McKendry was married, in 1876, to Miss Emma E. Podger. Mrs. McKendry was born in England, and was the daughter of James Podger, who was formerly a farmer, but is now hotel proprietor in Buffalo, New York. The family came to America when Mrs. McKendry was an infant. Mr. and Mrs. McKendry are the parents of three children, named in the order of their birth, as follows: Fred W., J. T., and Esther, deceased. Mr. McKendry is a Republican in political faith, and has been an active worker for his party. He has served one term of two years as representative on the state legislature, having been elected in 1890. He was police magistrate in Manden for several years, and in 1898 was elected county judge of Morton county, and is now serving in that capacity. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Woodmen of the World. Mrs. McKendry as ever been an able second to his undertakings, and has aided greatly in his progress. She now oversees all his office work, and is a lady of good executive ability. Mr. McKendry is well known throughout the county and is highly respected and esteemed for his sterling worth and genuine integrity.
[History Biography of North Dakota. Transcribed by Mary Saggio]

CHARLES F. PETERSON, cashier of the State Bank of New Salem, North Dakota, is one of the rising young business men of Morton county. He is a gentleman of good business principles, and thoroughly understands the work to which he is devoting his attention, and under his care the affairs of the institution are sure of meeting with the most pleasing results.
Our subject was born near Oxford, in Henry county, Illinois, October 15, 1867. His father, J.W. Peterson, was a carpenter and contractor throughout his career, and the family are Americans for many generations back, having settled in Delaware in Colonial days. The mother of our subject bore the maiden name of Almira Lynn. She was of American birth and the parents were married in Ohio, and our subject was the sixth in a family of seven children. He was reared in his native place, and attended the country school, and at the age of sixteen years started railroad work, learning telegraphy. His first position was with the C.B. & Q.R.R. in Illinois, at which work he began at seventeen years of age, and he operated a station, and was engaged in railroad work in Illinois four years. In 1889 he went to Grand Forks, North Dakota, and accepted a position on the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railroad, now the Great Northern, and then held a position at Morehead, Minnesota, acting as cashier and operator, and the last year was in charge of the station, and spent six years at Moorehead. He took charge of the New Salem station for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in 1894, and remained thus engaged until the spring of 1899, when he was sent to Forsyth, Montana, and September 1, 1899, entered upon his present duties as cashier of the State Bank of New Salem. He is one of the stockholders of the bank, and the other stockholders and officers are as follows: C.L. Tinnerman, president; H.R. Lyon, vice-president. The bank was opened for business in September, 1899, and is fast becoming one of the sound financial institutions of the state.
Mr. Peterson is a gentleman of broad mind, and keeps pace with the times, and in political sentiment is a Republican.
History Biography of North Dakota. Transcribed by Kim Mohler

W. H. STUTSMAN, commissioner of railroads, was born March 2, 1866, at Keokuk, Iowa. In 1876 he removed with his parents to Burlington. Here he received his grammar and high school education, afterward completing a course at the state university at Iowa City in 1887, and at the law school of the same institution in 1889. In 1902 he located in North Dakota, resuming the practice of his profession at Mandan, where he has since resided. Mr. Stutsman is married and has three children. He is a republican. He is serving his third term as commissioner of railroads.
[Source: North Dakota Blue Book, 1913 Legislative Manual, Published under the direction of Thomas Hall, Secretary of State, 1913. Submitted by Linda R.]

ROBERT M. TUTTLE, one of the prominent newspaper men of Morton county, North Dakota, with Mr. W. C. Gilbreath, publishes the “Mandan Pioneer.” He was the organizer of the Pioneer Publishing Company, and is now acting as court stenographer in the district court in the sixth judicial district, to which office he was appointed in 1889.
Our subject was born in Norfolk county, England, in 1857, and was the third in a family of three, and was raised and educated in England on a small farm, and grew to manhood in the vicinity of Norfolk county. He left home at the age of twenty years, and began newspaper work near London, on the “Farnham News,” and there worked about one year, and then went to Nottingham and worked on the daily paper, and in the spring of 1880 went to New York city and spent one year there at newspaper work for English and American newspapers, and in 1882 went to Pennsylvania. He worked on the “Titusville Herald” four months, and then on the “Providence Journal,” and in 1882 went to Minneapolis and was employed on the “Minneapolis Tribune” one year. In 1883 he went to Mandan, North Dakota, and purchased the “Mandan Pioneer.” The paper was established in 1881 by F. H. Ertel, and the first issue was in November, 1881. In 1897 W. C. Gilbreath purchased a half-interest, and the paper has since been conducted by our subject and Mr. Gilbreath. The paper was run as a daily until 1891, when our subject changed it to a weekly paper. It is Republican in politics, and enjoys a wide circulation.
Our subject was married, in 1884, to Miss Helen Jones, a native of Ohio. Mrs. Tuttle was engaged in teaching in her native state, and is a lady of rare attainments. One daughter has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Tuttle, whose birth is dated 1886. Mr. Tuttle is a Republican in political sentiment, and takes an active part in public matters. He was among the early business men of Mandan, and has done his full share in upbuilding the town financially and socially, and is entitled to the prominent place which he occupies among the energetic and enterprising citizens of the town where he makes his home.
[History Biography of North Dakota. Transcribed by Mary Saggio]

DAVID M. YOUNG is one of the prominent business men of Youngstown, Morton County, and conducts a creamery, general store and post office in Garfield Township. He was born on a farm in Richland County, Wisconsin, March 3, 1868.
The father of our subject, D. B. Young, was a farmer and for several years was general western agent for the McCormick Reaper & Mower Company. He was an American by birth. Our subject's mother bore the name of Henrietta Bennett prior to her marriage, and she was born in Dumfreeshire, Scotland, and came to America when she was a girl. Our subject was the second in a family of three children and was raised on a farm and attended the district school and one term at college, and at the age of twenty years began for himself and engaged in cheese and butter-making in Wisconsin, where he followed the business three years. He began railroad work on the Colorado division of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1891 and worked in the shops at Golden, Colorado, and later was fireman on the road. He followed railroad work four years and then again went to Wisconsin and followed the creamery business there one year. In January, 1896, he went to New Salem, North Dakota, and assumed charge of a small creamery there and inside of twelve months had refurnished the place with new machinery and was handling eighteen thousand pounds of milk per day. He remained in charge three and a half years, during which time the business paid the owners well, and in the spring of 1899 he formed a stock company and built a creamery in Garfield Township, seven miles north of New Salem. He is one of the principal stockholders and is secretary and manager, and after having run a little over two years has proven a success. He has enlarged the building and it is now double its original size and has a capacity of six thousand pounds of milk per hour. Butter from there brings top prices and is sold and shipped to distant parts of the west. The Youngstown post office was established at the location of the creamery and our subject is postmaster, and he also has a general store and carries a good stock.
Our subject was married, in 1891, to Miss Emma Maughan, who was born in Tennessee. Her father, Joseph Maughan, is foreman of a smelter at Golden, Colorado. Mr. and Mrs. Young are the parents of one child, who was born in March, 1893, and bears the name of Robert. Mr. Young is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and Masonic fraternity. He takes an active part in social affairs of his community and is popular and well merits his success and high standing.
History Biography of North Dakota. Transcribed by Laurel Durham

L. D. WILEY, St. Anthony, of the thirtieth legislative district, was born at Luke City, Minn., July 11, 1878. Received his education in the common schools of Minneapolis. He came to North Dakota in 1902 and engaged in farming and stock raising in Morton county. He is married. He was elected representative as a republican.
[Source: North Dakota Blue Book, 1913 Legislative Manual, Published under the direction of Thomas Hall, Secretary of State, 1913. Submitted by Linda R.]