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 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY 681 cember 1. 1852, and located at St. Louis, Mo., remaining two and a half years. There the father worked at his trade as cabinet maker. In May, 1855, the family came to Red Wing, and until fall the father assisted in driving wells, after which he took up a homestead of 160 acres. After working at his trade in this city for a time he went to St. Paul, and was there employed for one year, the family in the meantime remaining in Red Wing, to which the father returned the following year, working at the carpenter trade until 1861. He then opened a wagon shop on East avenue, which he conducted two years. In the meantime, having disposed of his first farm, he purchased 160 acres in Featherstone, carry- ing on general farming until 1879. In that year he retired, divid- ed his farm among his four sons, and came to Red Wing, where he ended his days, in the spring of 1897. The mother died in St. Louis, in 1855. Peter H. received his education in the schools of Germany and at St. Louis, learning the trade of cabinet making in Red Wing. After five years at this work, he learned the car- penter trade, and later went to work in his father's wagon shop. In 1862 he enlisted in Company F, Sixth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, entering the service August 18 of that year. He was mustered out in 1865, and upon his return to Red Wing worked as a carpenter until 1872, when he started work for Charles Bet- cher, with whom he has since remained, having charge of the work shop for the long period of thirty-eight years. When Mr. Tubbes- ing started this work, less than twenty men were employed in the department which now numbers over fifty hands on its payroll. The subject of this sketch was married in December, 1867, to Maggie Voght, of Hay Creek township, this county, daughter of Philip and Margaret Voght. natives of Germany. To Mr. and Mrs. (Maggie Voght) Tubbessing were born eight children — Laura, Emma, Addie, Albert, Benjamin, Jessie, Raymond and W r alter. Raymond died in 1887 and Addie two years later. Laura married James Kent and lives at Blooming Prairie, Minn. Emma married William Weiss, who lives on Third street, Red Wing. Albert, also married, lives on Fourth street, this city. Benjamin resides in Fargo, N. D. The mother of these children died at Red Wing in 1891, and in 1894 Mr. Tubbesing married Louise Keller, of Wheeling, W. Va. To this union have been born three children, Herbert, 1895 ; Milton, 1897, and Rolland, 1902. The family re- ligion is that of the German Methodist Episcopal Church. Merritt Tripp, a retired farmer, living at 721 Fifth street, Red Wing, comes of eastern parentage, born in Tompkins county. New York, February 27, 1837. His parents, George and Hannah (Smith) Tripp, were natives of eastern New York state, where they both spent the span of their year's, the former dying in 1841 and the mother i:i 1880. Left fatherless at an early age, Merritt