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 s.;i HISTOEY OF GOODHUE COUNTY years. Then he moved to Wisconsin and worked on farms until 1864. when he brought his family to Belle (reck and purchased 183 acres of prairie land, on which he carried on general farm- ing. Later he bought eighty acres more which he also operated until his death, in 1892. His wife passed away in June. 1880. Conrad Meyer, formerly an active farmer of Goodhue town- ship, has now rented his large farm and is enjoying a life of comparative rest, after many years of hard work. He has served as town supervisor and road overseer and in many other ways has assisted in the general prosperity of the township. Mr. .Meyer was born in Germany April 3, 1850, and after receiving his schooling in his native country took up farming and car- penter work-. In 1866 he came to America, and followed his trade three years as a carpenter in Milwaukee, subsequently working on farms in Goodhue until 1873, when he purchased eighty acres of his own. To this he soon added ltil) acres more. and on the homestead of 240 acres carried on farming until 1901, when he retired. Since that date he has rented his farm to others. Politically he has always been a Republican, and religiously he is a member of the German Lutheran church, of which he has been trustee nine years. .Mr. Meyer was married in duly, 1875, to Maggie Tipke, of Goodhue, daughter of Peter and Catherine (Behrens) Tipke. natives of Germany, who, after migrating to America in 1868, Located in this township and pur- chased first eighty acres and then 160 acres, where they carried on farming many years. The mother died March 4. 1900. but the father is still living, having reached the advanced old age of jhiy years. Henry Meyer and Dorry (Dickman) Meyer, par- ents of Conrad Meyer, came to America in IS 60 and located in Iowa, later going to Illinois, in which state the father died in 1870, the mother having passed away in Germany in 1861. Aside from Conrad, they have three children living. William is a real estate dealer in Iowa, and the sisters are Lena and Annie. Thomas Maley, of Goodhue, is the inventor of Maley's Quack Grass machine, a device for ridding farmers of one of their greatest grass pests. A working model which was on exhibition at the Minnesota state fair lasl year met with high approbation and has proven of great practical value. It is patented in the United States and Canada and is sure to result in an important industry. The inventor of this machine was born in Great Bar- rington, .Mass.. September 1. 1856, and came west with his parents as an infant, receiving his educational training in the public and high schools of Zumbrota. In early life he sold imple- ments for L. D. Woodbury, and later dealt in pianos and organs. subsequently teaching school. As an educator he was particu- larly successful, and among those who passed under his tuition