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 1002 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUXTY 1853, at Sweden, is now a farmer in Belle Creek township, this county. Hilma (adopted) married John Webster, of Red Wing. Dr. H. L. Brynildsen, the late physician of Yasa, was born in Nedre Telemarken, Norway, where he for a short period at- tended the public schools. In the early sixties he emigrated to America, settling first in Minneapolis, where he began to study medicine, and later on engaged in the practice of the medical profession in Goodhue county, where he resided about thirty years, until his death, June 29, 1908. During all these years Dr. Brynildsen also engaged in the general merchandise business and enjoyed the confidence of the entire community. Dr. Brynildsen was for many years "the Good Samaritan" in A T axa. and hun- dreds arc those to whom he extended a helping hand, medical assistance, when in sickness and distress. His true worth has perhaps nor never will be appreciated as it should in Vasa and the surrounding towns, but be that as it may, he was an un- selfish man, possessed of a tender heart and had the welfare of the community at heart. Mrs. H. L. Brynildsen, who is also a native of Norway. Mas married to Mr. Brynildsen in Minneapolis about thirty years ago ami has. together with her husband, spent her life in Yasa. where she still resides with two sons and one daughter. To Dr. and Airs. Brynildsen were born the following children, who are all alive: Allan Ludvig. hardware merchant, Stampede, N. D. ; Robert Justus, farmer at Fern, N. D. ; Lillie, nee Mrs Bertie Nelson, whose husband is the leading banker and attorney at Flaxton, N. D. ; Delmar, merchant at Yasa, Minn.-, and Herbert, who is engaged as a clerk in his brother's store at Vasa. Delmar was born in Vasa, March 12, 1885. He attended the public schools in Vasa and from early boyhood his mind has turned to business, so that it was not a surprise to his many friends that he engaged in the mercantile business, in which he is making a splendid success. In December, 1908, he married Alice Larson, the youngest daughter of Gustaf Larson, a well- to-do farmer of Featherstone. Young Brynildsen is a member of the Swedish Lutheran church at Vasa and of the Modern "Woodmen of America, takes a great deal of. interest in road im- provements and is a rising man in the community. Osee Matson Hall, of Red Wing, was born in Conneaut, Ohio, graduated at Williams College in the class of 1868 ; has since resided and practiced law in Red Wing; was elected to the fifty- second congress and re-elected to the fifty-third congress, repre- senting the third Minnesota district. At present he is a member of Minnesota State Tax Commission. In the early days of his practice he was in partnership with AY. C. AViliston, later district judge, and later with N. 0. Werner, now president of the Swedish- American Bank of Alinneapolis.