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 1052 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY served the county as a commissioner and, aside from this, has been chairman oi Hay Creek township several terms, town clerk seventeen years and a justice of the peace for a long period. At the present time he is secretary of the Hay Creek Mutual Fire Insurance Company. In fraternal circles he is a member of the Odd Fellows, the United "Workmen, the Foresters, the Sons of Herman and the Red Men. Mr. Grosse was married September 27, 1868, to Minnie Aiders, daughter of Charles Aiders, an early settler of this county. To this union have been born thirteen children of whom the eight living are Edward, Emma, AVilliam, George, Arthur, Fred, Clara and Laura. Mrs. Grosse died April 3, 1893. George W. Fulcrut, progressive, prosperous and well-informed farmer of Belle Creek township, «s a native of Pennsylvania, born April 21. 1829. Upon leaving school lie learned the carpenter trade, which he followed after moving to Red AVing in 1856, en- gaging also in contracting and building and making sash and doors. In 1860 he purchased 130 acres of land in Belle Creek and at once moved on the place, taking up general farming. From that time he made various purchases until his retirement in 1901, when he owned a farm of 320 acres of highly cultivated land. Ee uoav rents the place and is enjoying a well-earned rest after years of toil, sacrifice and frugality. A tine old gentleman in every respect, he enjoys the confidence and admiration of the younger generation, being often sought for advice and counsel. He still votes the Republican ticket, and in his more active days served the township as supervisor and school district No. 39 as di- rector. By his good wife, Mary E. Bush, whom he married Octo- ber 20, 1853, he has had seven children: Rose L., born August 12, 1854, lives at home with her parents; Charles, born July 1, 1858, met with a sad death by drowning in Dakota; Frank C, born January 9, 1861, is a merchant in Norton, Kan.; Clara Ellen, born May 16, 1864, is the wife of J. T. Warwick of Belle Creek; Bessie Marie, born December 14, 1866, married Patrick Rowles, a farmer living in Belle Creek ; Samuel Guy, born July 19, 1869, is a travel- ing salesman out of Minneapolis; George Daniel, born February 2, 1872, is a farmer living in Belle Creek township. The family faith is that of the Episcopal Church. Mrs. Fulcrut is the daughter of Joseph and Lucretia (Put- nam) Bush, and granddaughter of John Bush, who fought under Braddock in the Revolution. The father was a native of Con- necticut and the mother of Great Barrington, Mass., the former dying in August, 1841, and the latter June 7, 1840. Michael and Sarah (Coleman) Fulcrut, parents of George W., spent their entire life in Pennsylvania, the father being a lum-