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 1060 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY severe wound in the shoulder, from which he never fully recov- ered. After the Indian campaign had closed, in the spring of 1864, he was sent with his regiment to Helena. Ark., and after- ward transferred to the Sixth Minnesota, and attached to the Sixteenth Army Corps, and participated in the siege of Spanish and Blakely forts and the capture of Mobile. After the Avar he returned to Red Wing, where he made his home until his death. He was elected superintendent of schools for Goodhue county in 1866 and continued to serve until in 1870 when he became State Superintendent of Public Instruction. He was a member of the city council and served one term in the state legislature in 1877. He was an ardent Republican, allying himself with that party at its inception and voting for Freemont and every subsequent can- didate of the party. He was a member of the Masonic order, and the G. A. R. Professor Wilson was married in 1844 to Mary Jane Chandler, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., who died February 2. 1888, in Red Wing. The children by tins marriage are: Hon. Frank M. Wilson, and Alice, wife of Hiram Howe, of Red Wing; Oliver and Mattie, of Minneapolis. In 1892 he married Flora M. Sar- gent, of Denver, Cole, who is still living. Professor Wilson also had one brother, Ovid T., to whom he was much attached and who resides in Cincinnati. Professor Wilson died .January 31, 1008. Carl F. Hjermstad, Red Wing banker, was born in Norway. May 4, 1865, son of Lars II. and Beathe X. (Elstad) Hjermstad. He was educated in the private and high schools of his native place and at the age of fifteen years became clerk and afterward manager of a general store, remaining from 1880 to 1884. during which latter year he came to the United States and settled in Red Wing, being employed as bookkeeper for T. K. Simmons & Son from 1884 to 1888. In 1888 he entered the Bank of Pierce, Simmons & Co., and remained until 1897, when he became man- ager of what was then the Red Wing Gas and Electric Co. In 1899 he became cashier of the Goodhue ( ounty National Bank and on June 1, 1906, was promoted to his present position of vice president and manager. Among the offices which Mr. Hjermstad holds, aside from his position in the Goodhue County National Bank, are the following: Director, vice president and manager of the Goodhue County Savings Bank ; director, president and treasurer of the Goodhue County Abstract Co. ; director and treas- urer of the Red Wing Linseed Co.; director and treasurer of the Red Wing Brick Co. ; director, secretary and treasurer of the Red Wing Boat Manufacturing Co.; trustee, treasurer and -hair- man of the building committee of the Red Wing Lutheran Ladies' Seminary; trustee, secretary, treasurer and manager of the Red Wing Old People's Home: director, treasurer and member of the board of managers of the Minnesota Scandinavian Relief Asso-