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 1036 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY and stock raising. The farm is well under cultivation, and the crops raised are of the best. Mr. Greseth is a Republican in poli- tics ami has been assessor of the township for the past eight years. He was married, May 15, 1902, to Thonine Thompson, daughter of Thosten and Runda (Boraas) Thompson, who came from Norway and located in AVanamingo township, where the father is still living, the mother having died in February, 1907. To Mr. and Airs. Greseth has been born one child, Regnar Theo- dore, December 20. 1903. The family faith is that of the Nor- wegian Lutheran church. Rollof F. and Margaret (.Rolfseng) Greseth, parents <>r Seber R., were natives of Norway. The father, after coming to America, located in Roscoe township, and purchased eighty acres. This he afterward sold and purchased 280 acres in the same township, still later selling eighty acres, having a line farm of 200 acres, where the family still resides. He and his wife Mill live ou the home farm, being highly re- spected by their neighbors and friends Otto W. Kolshorn, a former school teacher, now a progressive farmer of Bay Creek township, was born in Featherstone, this county. December fi. 1>72. and in this county has spent his life up to the present lime. His parents, Benry ami .Mary Teitge) Kolshorn, came from Germany to the United Slates in 1852 and In .Minnesota in 1856, where they were married in 1869. For a lime they Earmed in Bay . AY. was early sent to Hie district and private schools of his neighborhood and proved an apt pupil. He was also an extensive reader, and a close observer, and started teach- ing-school at the age of eighteen years. He continued to teach for twelve years in the schools of this county, assisting with the farm work in the summer lime. For four years he was a lumber and implement salesman at Red Wing. All 1. Kolshorn now farms 320 acres of good land in sections 19 and 20, and carries on gen- eral farming and stock raising. Ik' served in the stale militia eight years, being artificer of Company C. First regiment, at Red Wing. In politics a Republican, he has served several terms as a school officer and nine years as justice of the peace. He is a director of the Hay Creek AEutual Fire Insurance Company. In 1904 Air. Kolshorn was married to Atarie Bang, also a well known teacher of this county for a considerable period. She was the daughter of Henry and Fredericka (Horstmeyer) Bang, early settlers of Featherstone township, both now deceased. To Air. and Airs. Kolshorn have been born two sons, Vernon Bang and