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 1026 HISTOEY OF GOODHUE COUNTY Deeorah, Iowa, November 26, 1866. At the age of six years he began to attend parochial school in St. Louis. While living at Madison, Wis., he entered the Northwestern E T niversity at the age of thirteen years. When sixteen years old he entered the Uni- versity of Wisconsin anl graduated with special honors in Greek in 1887. In the fall of that year he started the study of theology under Doctors Bockman and Schmidt. On New Year's day, 1888, he started teaching at St. Olaf 's College and in 1888-89 again at- tended the University of Wisconsin at Madison, receiving the degree of Master of Arts. From 1889 to 1901, with the exception of one year when he taught mathematics and physics at St. Olaf College, he taught at the Eed Wing Seminary. From 1901 to 1908 he occupied the chair of biology at St. Olaf's and then ac- cepted the chair of English theology at the Red Wing Seminary, teaching chiefly church history and exegesis. He has repeatedly spent his summers at the Universities of Wisconsin and Chicago, and has thus added greatly to his depth as a scholar and his value as a teacher. As a matter of recreation he became interested several years ago in geology and archaeology, and in studying the latter subject has discovered and noted some 1,700 Indian mounds hitherto not observed by scientists. He has also made valuable contributions of Indian relics to the state museum and his contributions of articles to the subject of the pre-historic occupants of this county have been most valuable. His article of "What the Mounds Tell," which appears in this volume, is a valuable addition to the knowledge possessed of the archaeology of this region. Prof. Schmidt's religious affiliations are with the Hauge Synod of the Norwegian Lutheran church. He was mar- ried on Thanksgiving day, 1892, to Inga Elizabeth Eisteinsen, daughter of Rev. I. Eisteinsen. To this union have been born five children: Frederick Ingvald, born October 14, 1893; Robert Eugene, born January 27, 1896 ; Inga Edwina, born January 22, 1899; Roy Orpando, born December 13, 1901, and Herbert Will- iam, born February 23, 1903. Rev. I. Eisteinsen. the father of Mrs. Schmidt, was a well known clergyman in Hauge 's Synod and was the first principal of the Red Wing Seminary. Mrs. Eistensen resides with her daughter. Edgar Fitch Davis, the genial editor of the Zumbrota '"News," was born in Augusta, Maine, and received his education in the public schools of Eau Claire and North St. Paul, completing his education at the State Normal school at Winona, Minn. He learned the printer's trade in North St. Paul and afterward worked for a short time in Superior, Wis. Subsequently he came to Zumbrota, where he took up the work on the Zumbrota "News" in 1895. In 1900 he became part owner. He has since been editor and publisher. Mr. Davis was a member of Company