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 llls'lOKY OF GOODHUE COUNT? 795 was born in Roscoe township, August 24, 1869, son of Giles and Priscilla Hayward, natives of England. F. E. Hayward received his education in the common schools of the township, and Later attended the high school of Pine Island. After leaving school he worked in W. Y. Jewell's drug store for five years, after which he returned to the farm, which he has since .- lucted, carrying on genera] farming and stock raising. He lias a fine farm of 160 acres, all under cultivation, with a good house, barn and other buildings. Henry Tome, an old pioneer settler of Pine Island village, was horn at Corydon, Pa.. Kehruary 25, 1835. His father, Benja- min Tome, w^as by occupation a lumberman. Both his father and mother. Cyntha <(Jil>bs) Tome, were native Pennsylvanians. A common school education and a fair share of work for his parents fell to his lot as a youth. When barely twenty years of age we find him making ;i journey from in front of his father's house at Corydon to Red Wing, Minn., by raft as far as Louisville. Ky.. and thence by boat, traversing the Allegheny, Ohio and Missis- sippi rivers. He reached Pine Island, which consisted of a solitary pre-emption shanty, at the time the government surveyors were making the original survey. He selected a 160-acre tract of land, upon which he built a shanty, and after occupying it the required time, walked to the government land office at Winona and pre- empted his claim. Later he sold this and bought eighty acres near the village, which he operated as a farm, building in the .vil- lage a home that he has continuously improved and occupied. In 1858 he married Eliza, daughter of Moses and Martha (Culver) Jewell. To them five children were born: Clara, wife of J. B. Fowler, now with tin 1 St. Paul postoffice department; Sadie E., wife of H. T. Banks, freight agent of the Chicago & Northwestern railway at Rochester; Myrta and Cyntha (deceased) ; and George H., the present postmaster at Pine Island. Besides his farming interests, Mr. Tome' conducted a meat market in the village for a number of years and also engaged as a stock buyer. Has served as deputy sheriff and as constable the greater part of the time that the village has had a name. He was appointed postmaster July 1, 1880, and excepting the periods of Cleveland's administra- tions served until 1906. Mr. Tome is a member of the Territorial Pioneer Association and has been a member of the Masonic order since 1868. He is considered a force to be reckoned with in local politics and is well versed in state and national issues, and has some fame as a political forecaster. Mr. Tome in personality is unassuming, accommodating, conciliatory and is not grasping or greedy. Although never a dollar hunter, Mr. Tome is in com- fortable circumstances, owning, in addition to his interests in the village, 120 acres of timber near the village and a good quarter