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 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY 943 is a Republican in polities and the family are members of Vang's Norwegian Lutheran church. Ingwel Enderson, of Warsaw township, was born in Norway, February 24, 1839, son of Andrew Amunson and Bertha Ing- clson, natives of Norway, the father being a tailor by trade, in which he engaged until his death in 1846. The mother came to America in 1864 and located in Blooming Prairie, where she re- married and lived until her death in 1899. Ingwel received his education in the public schools of Norway, and after leaving school took up farming until in 1861, when he came to Goodhue county and located in Warsaw township, where he worked for five years. In 1866 he purchased eighty acres of improved land, built a home of logs, and carried on general farming. In 1882 he bought eighty acres adjoining and built a new home, barn and other buildings and now continues to carry on general farming and dairying, having all but fifteen acres. under cultivation. July, 1867, he was married to Carrie Olson, daughter of Ole and Ing- borg Aastad, natives of Norway, where both parents died. Mr. and Mrs. Enderson have been blessed with two children : Bertha, born September 19, 1868, and died September 30, 1893, and An- drew, born October 7, 1870, who lives at home. Mr. Enderson is a Republican in his political views, and the family attend the Lutheran church. Elija L. Clark, now deceased, was the pioneer school teacher of Cannon Falls. He taught this school in .1856-57, in a building which he erected for the purpose, principally of basswood, giving it the name of Basswood College. In this building the early church services were also held. Mr. Clark was born in Franklin county, Maine, February 28, 1830, received an academy educa- tion, worked in a cutlery factory in Lowell, Mass., four years, and engaged in surveying in Ohio five years, coming to Cannon Falls in 1855. From then until 1862 he did carpenter work, leav- ing this occupation to respond to Lincoln's call for volunteers, serving in Company F, Eighth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry until promoted to .first lieutenant in the 123d U. S. C. Infantry. He was mustered out at Camp Nelson, Kentucky, in October, 1865. After being in business for many years in Cannon Falls, he went to South Dakota, homesteaded a claim, and remained until 1902, when he retired and returned to Cannon Falls. His interests have always been toward the encouragement of patriot- ism, and to him is due in some measure the agitation which re- sulted in locating the Colonel William Colvill monument in this place. Mr. Clark died Feb. 17, 1909, while visiting his daughter, Mrs. W. P. Hitchings, in California. He was married October 30, 1858, to Mary E. Wright, daughter of James H. and Rebecca (Evans) Wright, natives of Indiana, who came to Cannon Falls