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 IMSToliY OF G00DH1 E COUNTS 783 11. 1870, is connected with the Security Bank of Zumbrota; Prof. W. J., born January 29, 1876, graduated IV the Slate University, and is a teacher in Red Wood Kails. .Mian; Glen , born .March 1.4. 1881, lives at Huron, S. 1).. engaged in real estate business, the firm name being Wilson & Mosher. Mr. and Mrs. Mosher attend the Methodist Episcopal church. They are good citizens, and are highly esteemed by all who know them. Toger J. Hovland, of Zumbrota village, was one of those men Avho.se deaths leave a real vacancy in the community. He was kind hearted and sincere, frugal and thrifty in his habits, yet generous to others, a faithful friends, a considerate husband and a loving father, a good citizen and a consistent Christian in every respeet. Horn January 6, 1843, at Sovde, Stavenger, he was brought up in a Christian home and attended the public schools. At twenty-four years of age, determined to seek the wider opportunities of the new world, he came in America and took up his residence at Keokuk. Iowa, in -July. 1857. In August of the same year, he came up the river to Red "Wing, and after residing there for a short time came to Wanamingo township and followed general farming until 1875, when he purchased a larger farm in Boscoe township. In 1905 he retired, and after purchasing a beautiful residence came to Zumbrota village, ■where he resided until called to his Heavenly rest and reward. .Mr. Hovland was married, October 10, 1858, to Aasa Waese, who came from Norway to America in 1857, about a year before her marriage. She is now living in her home in Zumbrota village, being made happy by the esteem and friendliness of her neigh- bors and the love of her children. She is still well and in the best of health, although more than seventy-five years of age, having been born in Judy 11. 1834. To Mr. and Mrs. Hovland were born eight children — Andrew' lives in Zumbrota; Cornelius lives in Roscoe, as does also Martin ; Henry lives in Duluth ; Oscar farms on the old homestead in Roscoe township; Joseph lives in Duluth and Sarah and Bertha are at home. Henry W. Cooledge, a Civil War veteran, is a familiar fig- ure in Zumbrota. where he has been known as an old settler for many years. At Plymouth, Vt., where he was born April 14. 1841, he spent his early boyhood, and at the age of seven came west with his parents, Oliver and Polly (Wheelock) Cooledge, who ended their days as farmers in Columbia county, Wis. In that county he received his education, and in .1865 came to Goodhue county, where he developed eighty acres of land. How- ever, in 1880, he was attracted to Appleton, Minn., but his farm- ing operations came to an abrupt end there during the trrass- hopper plague. Subsquently h<> engaged in the photograph busi-