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 9 1 i HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY served on the board of health and has been interested in a number of public movements. He was married July 25, 1877, to Ellen Johnson, a native of Norway, who came to America in 1872. Mrs. Bye died in the Rochester Hospital, August 20, 1900, leaving live children, one being dead. The children are : Carl, acci- dentally killed in St. Paul in 1906 ; Oscar, now of North Dakota ; Clara, who keeps house for her father; Arthur, who works in the tannery: Gurina, who died in 1885, and Lena, who assists in her father's office. The family worships at the Swedish Lu- theran church. Ole and Gunne Bye, parents of C. 0. Bye, spent all their life in Norway. The father, who for thirty-one years was a sergeant in the Norwegian army, died in 1895, and the mother passed away in 1890. Louis F. Blinco, superintendent and pari owner of the elec- tric planl of the village of Cannon Falls, has shown his faith in the future growth of industrial activity here by investing his money in a planl which lias a capacity far beyond the present demands, and his faith bids fair to be justified. He was born in Canada June 11, 1876, and as a small boy was taken to Nebraska, where he received his early education. After leav- ing school he took up the work of steel bridge construction in Sioux City, Cowa, with the Phoenix Bridge Company, being later promoted to engineer. From 1901 to 1906 he thoroughly mas- tered electrical and constructing engineering, and September 23 of the latter year located in Zumbrota and managed the city electric lighl planl there. In 1908 he came to Cannon Falls, in- stalled a new electric plant and fixtures and has since enjoyed a prosperous business, which in coming years will be still larger. Mr. Blinco is a genial companion and is well liked in the Masonic and Modern "Woodmen orders, with which he has associated him- self. He was married December 16. 1902, to Hattie E. Twiss, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Twiss, prominent residents of Meadow Grove. Xeb. Three children have Messed this union: Eva, born October 16, 1903; Hattie, born October 2, 1906, and Lois, born June 14, 1907. The family faith is that of the Meth- odist Episcopal church. The electric plant is owned by a com- pany officially known as the Cannon Falls Electric Service Com- pany, of which the proprietors are E. L. Twiss and V. E. Twiss, of Meadow Grove, Neb., and L. F. Blinco, of Cannon Falls, Minn. The officers are : President, E. L. Twiss ; superintendent, L. F. Blinco; cashier, Hattie E. Blinco. Martin Chellson, present supervisor of Cannon Falls township, was born in Sweden October 20, 1864, son of Nels and Anna Chell- son, who came to the United States June 29, 1865, stopping first in Red Wing and then coming to Cannon Falls, where they pur- chased land in section 14, and there spent the remainder of their