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 760 IIISTOEY OF GOODHUE COUXTY His widow now resides in Red Wing with her daughter, Mrs. Henry Brown. Mr. Elder was a Democrat in politics, a Mason in fraternal associations and in religious faith is a Presbyterian. He was married in May, 1850, at Prairie du Chien. Wis., by the Rev. .Mired Bronson. to Hannah P. Loekwood, daughter of John S. and Margaret (Miller) Loekwood. natives of Plattsburg, New York state. They located at Prairie du Chien in 1839, and there the father became a leading merchant, receiving also .the appoint- ment as postmaster. Mr. and Mrs. Loekwood are both deceased. To Mr. and Mrs. Elder were born four children. Lizzie L., Mar- garet L., Mary S. and John H. Lizzie L. was born February 15, •1852. m1 McGregor. la., married Henry Brown, a hardware mer- chant at Red Wing. Mr. Brown died September 7. 1897, at Red Wing. To Mr. and Mi's. Brown were born four children, Fred L., Barry M., 1 Jessie II. and Leland P. The latter died in 1892 at the age of five years. Margaret L. Elder was born July 23, 1854, December b. 1876. Mr. DeKay is ;i traveling salesman. To Mr. and Mrs. DeKay have been born four children — Charles A., Eliza- beth A., II. Eugenia and Ferris W. .Mary S. Elder was born Au- gust 13, 1856. at Red Wing, married Earl 1>. Woodward, of Morris, Mini).. ;iik1 is now located at Bismarck, . I). .John H. Elder, Jr., was born at Rod Wing July 12, 1858. He married Delia Knox, of Livingston. Mont., and is now a leading attorney in Seattle, Wash. He has one son. Henry K., a pupil in a college at Grin- nell. la. John G. Kappel, city mail carrier, is a native born son of Red Wing, who lias chosen to make his home in this city the whole of bis life. He was born October II. 1869, when the country had begun to recover from the ravage of the Civil War. and Red Wing was beginning to show some indications of modern industrial growth. His father. John Kappel, married to Margaret George, a native of New York state, was born in Worfelden, Hessen Darmstadt, Germany, and came to America in the early fifties, locating for a time in Wisconsin. He came to Red Wing in 1864, and engaged in the wagon-making business until 1888, when fail- ing health necessitated his retirement from active business. John G. Kappel attended the public school and business college of this city, and started in life as a dry goods clerk. January, 1888, he entered the civil service as city mail carrier in Red Wing, and in this capacity he still remains. He is a member of the Inde- pendent Order of Foresters, Knights of Pythias and Yeomen. He is an independent voter. The family attends the German Lutheran Church. J. G. Kappel was married May 30, 1895, at Featherstone, this county, to Anna D. German, daughter of Henry and Rosena German, of that township, natives of Germany. They
 * it McGregor, la. She married Albert DeKay, at Red Wing,