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 440 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY church is now under construction on the* old site, which will be dedicated in the winter of 1909-10. Rev. Sias Bolles was born in Williamstown, Vt., September 5, 1810. In 1836 he was called to preach, and became a member of the Genessee, N. Y., conference. From there he was transferred to the Rock River. 111., conference, to which he became attached in 1840. In 1860 he came to Minnesota. He was stationed one year at Red Wing and then a year at Winona. After that he entered the war as chaplain of a Missouri regiment and continued in the service 1ill peace was declared. He was agent of Hamline University for a time and afterwards engaged in Bible work for three years. He then bad charge of the Red "Wing and Cannon Falls circuits. After that he was a1 Money Creek. For about • twenty vears. <m account of advancing age, he has been engaged in active work, leading a quiel and retired life, making his home in Red Wing, where he had a residence on South Park street. Rev. Bolles was twice married. He first married in 1840, his wife dying in L856. He married again the same year. His second wife survived him seven years. He had three daughters, .Mrs. E. li. Wood, of Wes1 St. Paul; .Mrs. II. A. Campbell, of MacaL ter. and Mrs. C. A. Robson, of this city. Charlotte Huckins Bolles was limn in Ohio. September 4, 3830. Her parents went from New England to Ohio, which at that time was considered the Par West. She was married .-it the early age of sixteen years to a Mr. Darby, and lost her husband and an in- fant son before attaining her majority. !n 1856 she was married in Chicago to Rev. Sias Holies. Prom the organization of the W. < '. T. []., Mrs. Bolles was a constanl member. She attended the tirsi meeting of the State Woman's Suffrage Association and for several years was a member of the executive committee. She taughl the Preedmen in the South when her husband was a chap- lain in the army, and for several years was a member of the W. R. ('. She died in October, 1908, a1 the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. A. Robson. The Methodist Episcopal Church of Cannon Falls was organ- ized in 1856, and erected a church in 1878. It is now in a flour- ishing condition with a large congregation. The present pastor is Rev. R. J. L. McKelvey. The Methodist Episcopal Church in Pine Island is closely connected with the early history of this section of the state. Early in 1857 Rev. J. M. Rogers formed a .Methodist class in Pine Island, with William Rock as class-leader. In the same year at the annual conference, which convened at Winona. July 30, Pine Island circuit is first named. Its territory is said to contain "indefinitely, more or less, the south two-thirds of the counties