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 992 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY originally purchased he later added one and a half section. He developed and improved this land, and carried on general farm- ing until the time of his death, August 7, 1907. The mother is still living on the old homestead. The subject of this sketch attended the schools of Minneola township, and then took up farming with his father until twenty-five years of age, when his parents presented him with 160 acres in Section 2. This prop- erty he has greatly improved, erected a number of buildings and brought the place to a high degree of cultivation and produc- tiveness. Recently he has become interested in scientific for- estry, and has set out 1,080 Norway poplar trees, from which a heavy financial benefit will be received many years hence. In spite of his busy life, Mr. Kalass has found time to serve the town of Minneola as supervisor, a position he occupies at the present time as he has several times in the past. He has been clerk of,his school district for the past fifteen years. Aside from his farm holdings, he owns stock in the Zumbrota Clay Manu- facturing Company, and is also interested in the Zumbrota Farmers' Elevator Company. Mr. Kalass was married November 21, 1894, to Lena Aldag, a native of Germany, by whom he has had issue as £ ollbws : Verona, Arnold. Hulda and Christian. The family worships at the Lutheran church. A. Henry Kellett, painter and paper hanger, came to Zum- brota as a hoy with the earliest settlers, having been born in Lowell, .Mass.. March 4. 1854. His father, Thomas P. Kellett, was a member of the Stafford Western Emigration Company and of the Strafford Western I numeration Company, kept the first store in Zumbrota, was the first postmaster, one of the early chairmen of supervisors, and in many ways was prominently identified with the early growth and prosperity of the town and village. A. Henry Kellett attended the early schools of Zum- brota township and village, and clerked for several years in his father's store. Later he engaged in his present occupation. He has built up a profitable business and has a large list of cus- tomers, his work being of the kind that commends itself to all. He is a justice of the peace, and a number of important cases have been brought before him. Mr. Kellett was married at Zumbrota to Ida Leonard, daughter of Samuel Leonard, a native of Wisconsin, who settled in Zumbrota, where he took up farm- ing. Both Mr. Leonard and his wife are now deceased. One son, Everett A., born March 27, 1873, has blessed the Kellett home. He is married and lives in Minneapolis, where he con- ducts a real estate office. Mr. and Mrs. Kellett are well regarded in Zumbrota. and their home on Third street has been the scene of many a pleasant gathering of friends. The family faith is that of the Congregational church.