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 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNT! mi; States in L852. Frank was educated in the common schools and worked with his father on the farm. June 27. 1894, he was married to Emma Tillman, daughter of Erick and Nellie I Person Tillman, natives of Sweden. Mr. Tillman came to this country in 1865 and settled in Afton, .Minn., where he remained six years, after which he came to Welch township, bought a farm, and engaged in farming. The mother died March 2">. 1906, and the father August 2!). 1908. Mr. and Mrs. Boothroyd have one child. Myrtle, who attends the high school at Red Wing. Mr. Boothroyd has a fine farm of 270 acres, all under cultivation, and carries on general and diversified farming, and dairying, also stock raising. He has been justice of the peace eighl years and is at present town clerk', which office he has held for eleven years. He belongs to the M. V. A. of Welch, of which he has been clerk for nine years. He is also director and secretary of the Welch Co-Operative Creamery Company, and director and treasurer of Goodhue County Co-Operative Mercantile Company. In politics he is Republican. John Berg, of Welch township, was born in Sweden. July 16, 1846, son of Nels and Marie Berg, also natives of Sweden. John Berg received his education in the schools of Sweden, and in 1868 came to this country, and located in Bed Wing, remaining for two years. Then he went to Minneapolis, where he worked at brick making for a while, and later went into the business of brick making for himself. In March, 1885, he came to Welch township, and bought a farm of 120 acres of improved land. This he continued to improve and has remodeled the house and outbuildings. He now has a fine farm, with a large grove of soft maple, birch and butternut trees. He has made a success of general farming and has taken a great interest in bees, owning thirty-two hives. Mr. Berg was married January 21, 1875, to Clara Anderson, who is now deceased. They had a family of eight children : Emil C, Aleda E., Oscar T., Edward J., William E., Edgar E., Albin N. and Fred L. Mr. Berg is at present town treasurer, which office he has held for the past twenty years, and is also treasurer of the school district No. 5. In his politics he is a Republican. Peter Jefferson, a business man of Welch, was born in Sweden October 9, 1849, son of Jefferson and Annie (Anderson) Larson, natives of Sweden where the father died. Peter received his education in Sweden, and came to America in 1873 locating in Red Wing where he worked at various labor until 1877, when he purchased a team and wagon, went to Yellow Medicine county, and bought 160 acres of land two miles south of Granite Falls, the county seat. This land he improved, carrying on general farming for fourteen years. His wife, however, was in poor