Page:History of Goodhue County, Minnesota.djvu/1183

 EISTOEY OF GOODHUE COUNTY 1025 faithfully and with great zeal in the W. C. T. U., being president of the Minnesota union from 1881 to 1894. In recognition of her faithful service in the W. C. T. U. they have placed a panel memorial window to her in the new First Methodist church at Red Wing; the other panel in the same window was given in memory of her husband by James and Mathew Norton, of Winona, Minn. Active in missionary work, Mrs. Hobart served in the state offices as secretary and treasurer at different times and spoke in the interest of the union, all the time traveling ex- tensively and almost up to the end of her life. She died Feb- ruary 17, 1898. August E. Engstrom, former county superintendent of schools, now deceased, was born in the western part of Sweden, near the city of Skofdc. March 22, 1851, and came to this country in his seventeenth year, direct to Red Wing, where he secured employ- ment, but as he was of small stature and not endowed with great strength, he found the work too hard. Being ambitious to make something of himself in the new country, he entered Carleton Col- lege in 1871, where he took the entire seven years' course, work- ing his way through and graduating with honors in 1878. He was elected principal of the schools of Cannon Falls in the fall of the same year, which position he held for three years, when he was chosen to a larger field, that of county superintendent of schools, being elected in the fall of 1881. This position he held con- tinuously up to the time of his death, October 12, 1899. Prof. Engstrom was modest and unassuming in his manner, and his death was sincerely mourned by all throughout the county. He was married to Mary A. Conley December 27, 1880, and to them was born seven children: Carl Conley, born October 1, 1881, was a photographer at Cannon Falls and died June 24, 1904, leaving his wife, Clara Bissell Engstrom, and one daughter, Caryl; Fred- erick A., born June 15, 1883, is a physician and surgeon, practic- ing at Clitherall, Minn.; Mildred L., born April 3, 1885, is a teacher in the schools of Fergus Falls ; Paul A., born November 16, 1886, manager the photograph gallery at Cannon Falls; George W., born June 8, 1889, is foreman in the printing office of the LeSueur "Sentinel," at LeSueur, Minn.; Lawrence E., born February 19, 1893, is a junior in the high school at Cannon Falls, and Glenn M., born April 29, 1896, attends school. Prof. Engstrom was an honored member of the Masonic and A. 0. U. W. fraternities and in politics was a Republican. He was also a con- stant attendant of the Congregational Church. Edward William Schmidt, whose researches in archaeology, originally undertaken as a matter of recreation, have proven a valuable addition to the knowledge possessed by scientists in regard to the pre-historic occupation of Minnesota, was born at