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 1030 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY stage of cultivation. The place has been improved, and the buildings remodeled, the whole now presenting the appearance of a model farm. Aside from the usual crops, he raises live stock and does some dairying, making a specialty of settling butter. Mr. Liclgerding is a Republican in politics, and while in Goodhue township served en the board of supervisors. He was married March 6, 1873, to Mary Meyer, daughter of Frederic Meyer, an old settler of this county. To this union were born five children. Fred. Benjamin, Alma, Martha and Edna. The family pays its religious worship at the Methodist (Germain church. P. J. Lundquist, sheriff of Goodhue county since 189-4, was born at Huseby, Skalof Smaland, Sweden. April IT. 1849, son of Swan and Anna Lundquist, both natives of thai country. He received his education in the schools ol Sweden and worked as a mail driver. In 1869 he came to America and located ;ii once in Vasa, this county, where tie worked on a farm and on the rail- road until 1872, when he purchased a farm, upon which he carried on general farming until 1883. He then Located in Red Wing and was appointed deputy sheriff serving lour years. In L887 he was elected constable and served until 1891. when he was appointed chief of police of the city of Red Wing. His ser- vices in tins capacity were rewarded in 1894, when he was elected sheriff of the county, in which office he has since served with ability. In politics a Republican. Be is a member of the Elks, the A. 0. U. W. and the Com rcial club. Sheriff Lundquist was married July 6, 1873, to Eva Turner, daughter of Samuel and Stiena Turner, of the township of Vasa, Goodhue county. The mother died in L903 and the father still survives at the good old age of eighty-nine. To Mr. and Mrs. Lundquist have been born five children, four of whom are now living. Sidney S., born • Inly 21, 1874, is engaged in the grocery business in i^( Wing. Aaron V. was born duly 23. 1877. and served several years as deputy sheriff until his death December 2.~>. 1906. lie is sur- vived by a widow, whose maiden name was Wudalia Landberg, and one daughter, born April 7. 1906. Gena ('.. born January 15, L881, lives at home and teaches in the public schools at Red Wing. Reuben A., born December 30. 1883. is married and lives at La Crosse. Wis., where he is an electrical engineer. Anna C., horn October 28, 1885, is a teacher in the district schools at Vir- ginia. .Minn. The family worships at the Swedish Lutheran church. Watts Sherman was born at Morristown, N. Y.. January 13, 1827, and received his education largely in Michigan. While still in his teens, he started on the road for a manufacturing concern and on June 10, 1856, located at Red "Wing. The following year he entered into the mercantile business, the firm name of the com-