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 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY 181 were: L. C. Burke, S. S. Gibson, Isaac Gallagher, Lewis John- son and John McHugh. Goodhue's contribution to the Civil War consisted of Captain Hezekiah Bruce, W. Harrison Bruce, Samuel Budd, Walter E. Barnes,- King H. Bennett, Lieutenant James H. Carney, Henry Danielson, Harmon Easterly, David Hickock, Lucius H. Hickock, Lewis Johnson. William King, Otis Ludden, Harry Lowater, Marsell B. Millien, Charles W. Mills, Cecil Miller, Sofe Rasmus- sen, Charles E. Bolander, Ernest Base, John Erieson, Theodore Kempter, Herman J. Newhouse, Christopher Oleson, Adelbert Reinhardt, Andrew Doudes, George E. Bivers, Asa Gould, Henry Brandes, AVilliam Gun, George Land. An extensive area of this town is underlaid, a short distance below the surface, by a large bed of clay of a superior quality, which has been extensively used by the stoneware works at Red Wing. Clay Bank is a stopping place on the Great Western railroad. Goodhue village is a bustling settlement which has enjoyed a steady growth, and is believed to have a splendid future ahead of it. GOODHUE VILLAGE. Situated almost in the very center of the county of the same name we find the village of Goodhue, a place of 500 souls, who in a sense regard themselves as farmers, in view of the fact that as you look out upon the country in any direction the eye beholds farms, beautiful farms, consisting of 160 up to 400 acres, studded with tine houses and large barns, a source of great comfort and convenience to the landlords who have selected agriculture as their occupation. When the Dulutb. Red Wing & Southern railroad from Red Wing to Zumbrota was in course of construction during the year 1888 it was then that the village of Goodhue came into existence, at first consisting of the railroad camps which were here located during the building of several miles of the road up and down the line, the road being completed in the spring and early summer of 1889. When there was no longer any use for the railroad camps at this place and the tents and so forth had all been removed, there was still a mission for the little burg to perform, and from that time the place has always been regarded as an important trading point, keeping pace with the demands <>f a large and wealthy agricultural community, which borders on every side, until now there are fifteen stores of various kinds. to say nothing of the numerous business houses, including tin 1 newspaper office of the "Goodbue Enterprise." The country tributarv to Goodbue on the north, south, east