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 1016 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY tinned. This enterprise includes a repair shop for automobiles and gasoline engines and a store for sporting goods, paints and nils. Mr. Skillman was married June 23. 1897. to Hannah M., daughter of John and Rhoda Bardwell. The father was a miller and died some years ago. while the mother is still living. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Skillman has been blessed with one child, Leona. who was born September 4, 1898. Lambert Skillman is a Republican and attends the Baptist church. Fraternally he asso- ciates with the Modern Woodmen of America. He has succeeded well in all his undertakings and is well liked by his many friends. Henry Stehr, of Zumbrota township, was born in Goodhue county. Minnesota, February 21, 1881, son of J. D. and Mattie Stehr, natives of Germany. They came to America in 1864, locat- ing in Hay Creek, where they engaged in farming on a farm of eighty acres, remaining five years, after which they removed to Goodhue township and purchased 160 acres of improved land. This they continued to improve and carried on general farming until 1902. when he retired from active life and moved to Lake City. The mother died in 1897. but the father is still living. In 1908 he visited his old home in Germany, returning in the fall of that year. Henry received his education in Goodhue township, and nl the age of seventeen years his father gave him eighty acres of land in Goodhue township, on which he farmed for five years. In 1908 he sold this place and purchased the D. M. Hall farm of 160 acres, in Zumbrota township, and has since followed general and diversified farming and stock raising. Mr. Stehr was married in 1902 to Mattie Luman, daughter of John and Mattie Luman, fvho were farmers in Goodhue township. They have two children: Lawrence, born April 3, 1903, and Sylvester, born June 23, 1908. Mr. Stehr is a Democrat in his political views, but has never sought or held any public office. The family attend the German Lutheran church. Erick O. Swenson was born in Minneola township June 12, 1869, son of Ole and Gunor (Rude) Swenson, of Norway, who came to America and located in Minneola township and engaged in general farming until the death of the father. The mother is still living with her son, and is eighty years of age. After receiving his education in the common schools of Minneola, Erick worked with his father on the farm until 1897, when he purchased the homestead of 185 acres, located in the northwest corner of section 28, where he has since carried on general farm- ing. He has greatly improved the farm, has remodeled all the buildings and erected a 50-foot power windmill. In 1905 he was married to Alfreda Hanson, a native of Norway, and they have three children: Ole, born April 5, 1906; Hilda, born April 6, 1907, and Gladys, bom April 12, 1909. Mr. Swenson is a Repub-