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 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY 231 Swen Christopherson, Clinton L. Babcock, Ole Christopher, Lyman S. Kidder, Lot Heustis, William McFall, James C. Rhodes, Thomas II. Dailey, Clark Schellenberger, Hiram C. Smith, H. Zimmerman, Calvin Daniels, Samuel Eldredge, C. R. Eldredge, Levi King, George McKinley, Silas Mills, Ole Nelson, Francis J. Ridgeway, Benjamin II. Ridgeway, James II. Wright, Joseph E. Charles, Herman Scherf, Swan Hailing, John N. Morrell, Andrew Swanberg. Morris Tracy, Ole Torgeson, John Johnson, Ole Hendriekson, Andrew Sanborg, Benjamin 0. Bong, Osten Anderson, Lewis Kock, Ernest Zahn, Daniel F. Dibble, Patrick Gribbin, Edwin R. Nafry, Alfred Alphinson, Augustus Houghton, William Mills, Henry Martin, Ole Larson, Walter L. Winton. There are three small settlements in the township, Dennison in the west, Wangs in the center and Sogan in the eastern part. Beautiful, well furnished and well appointed homes, commo- dious barns, sleek livestock, rich acres, an educated and cultured people, tells the story of Warsaw of the present day. Dennison is a village of 170 souls situated on the. western boundary line of Warsaw township, being about one-third in Rice county. The name is derived from an early settler who originally owned considerable land where the village is now located. The population of the village is about three-fourths Scandinavian. The first men to start in business in the village were Karl A. and Gunder Bonhus, who conducted a general store. After eight years they were succeeded by A. K. Lockrem. The Methodist Episcopal church was built in 1883, blown down in 1885 and rebuilt the same year. The railroad came through in 1884, and was operated by the Minnesota & Northwestern. The line was then sold to the Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas City, and subsequently passed into the hands of the Chicago Great Western. The first blacksmith was J. W. Downing. The first hardware and implement store was that of Bunday & Ferguson, established March 10, 1887. The school bouse is a comfortable building. 42x45 with four rooms, built of brick. It provides for the chil- dren living in the incorporate limits, the districts having origi- nally been 34 and 155, respectively, in Rice and Goodhue counties. The village now has a bank (branch), one hardware store, one lumber yard, three general stores, a harness shop, a postoffice with two rural routes, a barber shop, two blacksmiths, one meat market, one farmers' elevator, a pastuerizing milk plant, a Methodist church and a public school. The Dennison State bank is a thriving institution with a capital stock of $15,000. The officers are: President, J. C. Schmidt ; vice-president, W. T. Schmidt ; cashier, W. W. Wescott ; assistant cashier, O. R. Bolen.