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 798 HISTOEY OF GOODHUE COUNTY married to Emma Pulls, by whom he has one child, Dora. Of these four children, Louise is Mrs. Stellar, of Roscoe, while Ar- thur, Evan and Dora are at home. Mr. Starz is Republican and was a member of the village council while at Zumbrota. He is now serving on the town board as clerk, which office he has held for the past four years. John Svee, of Pine Island township, who was born in Norway, October 9, 1855, came to Goodhue county in 1875 and settled in Pine Island township, doing general work such as chopping, grub- bing and farming until 1885, when he purchased his present farm of seventy-four acres. Of this fifty acres is tillable, and here Air. Svee carries on general farming and stock raising, making a specialty of selling cream. Being the father of a large family of children, he has naturally been interested in school matters and has served many terms on the school board. In 1885, the year that he purchased his present farm, he was married to Bertha Rocky, by whom he has had eleven children, ten of whom are living. They are: Emma. Henry. Julius, Julia, Lena, Arthur, Bernicc. Marshall, Tena and Celia, all of whom are at home. The family attends the Norwegian Lutheran church in Zumbrota. Mr. Svee is a hard working man. and has reason to be proud of the fact that he has secured all that he owns by his hard work, hon- esty and frugality. Lewis Scofield. a Pine Island dairyman, was born in Pine Island township, November 2, 1872, son of Henry and Jane C. (Murray) Scofield. lie received his education in Zumbrota and worked at farming for some years before purchasing his present place of forty acres of improved land, on which he conducts stock raising and dairying, for which purpose he keeps from twenty- five to thirty cows. He was married in 1902 to Nora E. Judd, daughter of Lewis and Cornelia I. Russell I Judd, In polities Mr. Scofield is a Republican. J. C. Dickey, of Pine Island township, was born in Madison county, New York. August 27, 1838. His parents, Sylvester and Harriett (Alexander) Dickey, were born in New York, the former January 18, 1807, and the latter, who came of the old Davidson family. December 11, 1814. Upon their arrival in Goodhue county in 1858 they bought land in Pine Island township and followed farming up to the time they died, the former June 15, 1892, and the latter May 16, 1898. J. C. Dickey spent his boyhood with his father on the farm. In the fall of 1861, at the beginning of the Civil war, he enlisted in Company A, Second Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, and spent the winter in Washington, being later at- tached to McDowell's corps of the Army of the Potomac. He took part in the battle of Antietam, where he was wounded. After being discharged at David's Island, New York, he returned