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 BISTORI OF GOODHUE COUNTS 753 archy) during the outbreak againsl the Lords in 1843, and twenty years later in the Polish war of 1863. Seeking wider op- portunities for advancement than were allowed in the old country, he came to America in 1876, and located at Lancaster, lVnn.. where lie engaged in the cooperage business. In 1881 he went to Buffalo, N. Y.. and engaged in the same business until his death. September 8, 1906. His wife died in .May, 1903. John attended the schools of his neighborhood and finished with a course in the Catholic Seminary at Vienna, in his native country, and made his home with his aunt. He came to America for visits in 1882-83-84-85, and traveled in nearly all parts of the United States. In 1885 he located at Pittstiehl. .Mass., and there learned the tailor's trade. Two years later he went to Wor- cester, .Mass.. but in 1888 again returned to Pittsfield. Shortly afterward he came westward to Chicago, followed his trade there until 1891, when he went to Janesville. AYis.. for a year. After five and an half years al Kdgerton. Wis., he went to New York, and for three months studied tailoring in the New York Cutting School. Thus equipped, he opened an establishment of his own at Spring Green, Wis., where he had a successful busi- ness until 1899, when he came to Red Wing, and opened the place where he is now located. He has the largest establishment of the kind in Red AVing, and numbers the best people of the city among his patrons. In addition to his Red Wing place of business. Ik 1 conducts a branch at Rochester, Minn. Air. Cebulski is a great believer in education, and has assisted in a financial way, a number of deserving young men desiring to go through college. He is unmarried. His sister, Annie, is married to Albert Niemiec, of East Chicago, 111. One of his brothers, Joe, was killed in the Turkish war. while tw r o others, Albert and Michael live in the east. John Compton, general manager of the Ballard Trumble Lumber Company, at Red AVing, has shown much. executive ability in the various positions in which he has been engaged. He was born. in Sweden, October 18, 1858, son of John Magnuson and Mary E. Larson, both natives of that country. The father, a general merchant and hotel proprietor, is still living. The mother died in December, 1897. AVhile a school boy in Sweden, John managed to pick up many of the details of his father's business, and this, together with one years' schooling in Red Wing, to which city he came in 1881, fitted him for a business career. His first employment was in the hardware store of Charles Betcher, where he worked two years. In 1884 he went to Minneapolis for Air. Betcher, working in his store there five years. His work in this capacity won the confidence of his em- ployer, and in 1889 he was given charge of Mr. Betcher 's lumber