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 lllsTol.'Y OF GOODHUE COUNTS 915 days, the father dying in l s 7 1 and the mother in 1893. Of the seven children in the family, five are si ill alive Marl in received his education in the common schools and has since carried on farming operations in this township. He owns 120 acres of land in section 15, 100 being plowed land and twenty woodland. Here he carries on mixed farming with much success. He is a con- scientious, hard-working man. highly regarded for his good qual- ities. Aside from his position on the town hoard, he has served nine years as a member of the school board. Mr. Chellson was married in 1888 to Christine Pearson, daughter of Peter Pearson, who settled in Vasa in 1869. The home of the Chellsons has been brightened by the presence of four children. Fred, Florence, Eva and Pearl, all of whom are still under the home roof. Henry A. Van Campen, of Cannon Falls, was horn at Ran- dolph, X. Y.. July 24. 1849. His parents were Benjamin and Adelia Z. Van Campen. The father was born in New York state December 31. 1820. and the mother was horn March 20, 1824. In 1857 they moved to Minnesota, locating at Cannon Falls on May 7 of that year. Here they lived until their death. The father died February 23, 1888, and the mother October 7. 1902. The subject of this sketch received his education in the Cannon Falls schools and the Shaft nek School, of Faribault. Minn. His first business engagement was clerking in a general store at Cannon Falls. He later became the owner of the store and engaged in that business until the spring of 1887. when he moved on his farm. The fall of the following year. 1888, he removed to Cannon Falls and engaged in the boot and shoe business, which lie con- tinued about four years, then he engaged in his present business, dealer in agricultural implements, buggies, harness, etc. Mr. Van Campen was married at Milton. Wis., October 4, 1877, to Anna S. Greenman, and they have five children, Benjamin H., Harry A., George B., Merl M. and Viola G. John H. Carlson, the well known hardware merchant, of Can- non Falls, was born in Sweden August 22, 1866, and came to America as a baby with his mother in 1869. From 1869 to 1872 they lived in Chicago,, and then located in Cannon Falls, where John H. received his common school education. His first situa- tion was with the Cannon Falls branch of the Charles Betcher Lumber Company, and after twenty years in that employ he did similar work two years for the Ballord-Trimble Lumber Company, purchasers and successors of the Betcher retail interests. In 1907 he engaged in the hardware business. The store is well equipped and appointed and aims to carry in stock everything in the hardware line that is needed in the households and on the farms of the people of this vicinity. Mr. Carlson is a stanch Republican and has served the village as recorder. November