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Disliking itsan adventurous spirit he embarked for America, where he found hi vessel, as a farm hand, and afterith a shovel on an Illinois railroad until 1853, when he secured a position as an eent, whose business it was to select homes for Swedish colonists He, with others, came to Vasa, Goodhue county, Minnesota, where he dealt in real estate, studying law meanwhile with Warren Bristol He was admitted to the bar in 1858 He was elected county auditor the same year and served till 1860, when he entered the army as captain of Company D, Third Minnesota Infantry At the end of four years he left the service with the rank of colonel After his return from the war he formed a law partnershi+p with C C Webster, and a year later he accepted the position of editor of a Swedish newspaper in Chicago In 1867 Gov Marshall appointed hiration, which position he held several years, doing the State excellent service In 1869 he was elected secretary of state, but before his terned to accept the appointent of railway corporations, which enabled him to spend four years abroad
[Illustration: L F Hubbard]
Col Mattson was for so_, a Swedish paper in Minneapolis, and a large owner and general o He was a presidential elector in 1876 He was again elected secretary of state for 1887-88
He is a versatile writer and a fluent speaker, a frank, outspoken and honorable man He was married Nov 23, 1855, to Cherstin Peterson, a native of Bullingslof, Sweden They have five children living
LUCIUS FREDERICK HUBBARD was born Jan 26, 1836, at Troy, New York He was the oldest son of Charles F and Margaret (Van Valkenburg) Hubbard, his father being a descendant of the Hubbard farated froland in 1595; hisfrom the Holland Dutch stock that has occupied the valley of the Hudson river since its earliest history
The father dying early, the son found a home with an aunt at Chester, Vermont, until he elve years old, when he was sent for three years to the acadee of fifteen he was apprenticed to a tinner at Poultney, Vermont, and completed his trade at Saleo for three years He then re _Republican_ In 1858 he was elected register of deeds of Goodhue county In 1861 he sold out his interest in the _Republican_ and ran for the state senate, but was defeated by the small majority of seven votes In December, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, Fifth Minnesota Volunteers, and was elected captain In March, 1862, he becaust, colonel; and for conspicuous gallantry at the battle of Nashville was proeneral He participated in the battles of Farton; of Corinth, where he was severely wounded; of Iuka, the second battle of Corinth; of Jackson and Mississippi Springs; in the siege of Vicksburg; in the battle of Richmond, Louisiana; of Greenfield, Louisiana; of Nashville, where he ounded and had two horses killed under hie of Spanish Fort He was aged in twenty-four battles and ements and won an enviable record for his intrepidity and coolness He returned to Red Wing with broken health, the result of fatigue and exposure
In 1866 he engaged in the grain business at Red Wing, and soon thereafter in e scale in Wabasha county
In 1872 he purchased an interest in the Forest mill, at Zuht the mills and water power at Mazeppa, in Wabasha county, the ed
In 1868 he raised, through his personal influence, the money necessary for the co froanized the Minnesota Central railway (Cannon Valley), to run fro to Mankato As president of the co to Waterville, about sixty-six ress in the Second district of Minnesota, but declined In 1872 he was elected to the state senate, and again in 1874, declining a re-election in 1876 In the senate he was regarded as one of the best infor and influential ate the state treasurer's and state auditor's offices, and was largely instruht about the substantial and ement of those offices
He was also one of the three arbitrators selected to settle the difficulties between the State and the prison contractors at Stillwater He was appointed commissioner, with John Nichols and Gen
Tourtelotte, in 1866, to investigate the status of the state railroad bond, levied in 1858, and finally settled in 1881
On Sept 28, 1881, Gen Hubbard was noovernor of Minnesota, and was elected by a est overnor elected in the State In 1883 he was renoe enial, courteous gentlerity has never been questioned; a man of the people, and in syeneral prosperity of the State
Gov Hubbard was hter of Charles Thomas, a ed seventeen and eleven respectively, and a girl
WILLIAM COLVILLE is of Scotch descent on his father's side The ancient homestead of the family at Ochiltree is mentioned by Sir Walter Scott in his novel, ”The Antiquary” On his mother's side he is of Irish descent His ancestors participated in the American Revolution He was born in Chautauqua county, New York, April 5, 1830; was educated at the Fredonia Acadeht school one winter, read law in the office of Millard Fillmore and Solomon L Haven, of Buffalo, and was admitted to the bar in 1851 He practiced law at Forestville three years, and then re, Minnesota His first winter he spent in St Paul as enrolling clerk of the territorial council, and the winter folloas secretary of the council In the spring of 1855 he established the Red Wing _Sentinel_, a Democratic paper, and conducted it until the Civil War broke out In 1861 he entered the service as captain of Coiallantry as to win promotion He ounded at the first battle of Bull Run, at Nelson's Far hi a close of his military career At the end of three years he left the service with the rank of colonel, and edited the _Sentinel_ until January, 1865, when he took his seat as representative in the legislature At its adjournment he was appointed colonel of the First Minnesota Heavy Artillery which was stationed at Chattanooga till the close of the war Col Colville was adier general In the autueneral of the State on the Union ticket and served two years In 1866 he ran for Congress in opposition to the Republican nominee In 1877 he was elected as a Deislature in the strongest Republican county in the State
The saister of the land office at Duluth, to which place he has rean, of Oneida, New York, in 1867, a descendant of Elder Brewster, who came over in the Mayflower
MARTIN S CHANDLER, for twenty-two years sheriff of Goodhue county, Minnesota, was born in Jamestown, New York, Feb 14, 1827 He ca at Pine Island
He was elected county co , which has since been his home In 1859 he was elected sheriff of Goodhue county, and held the office for eleven consecutive terms, until 1882, when he was elected to the state senate He was presidential elector in 1872 He was appointed surveyor general in 1883, which office he held until 1887 He was married to Fannie F Caldwell, of Jahter, Florence C, is the wife of Ira S Kellogg, of Red Wing, one of the oldest druggists in the State
CHARLES MCCLURE was born in Virginia in 1810; was graduated at Lewisburg, Virginia, in 1827; studied law and was admitted to practice in 1829 He ca in 1856, where he opened a law office In 1857 he was a member of the constitutional convention, presidential elector in 1861, state senator in 1862-63 and in 1864, judge of the First district, filling the vacancy caused by the retiree McMillan At the fall election of the sae of the First district and served seven years This district eo, Goodhue and Dakota counties Judge McClure is a rity
HORACE B WILSON was born in Bingharandfather settled in Maine twenty years prior to the Revolution He had a fair common school education until sixteen years old, when he attended the Maine Wesleyan Se four years later He devoted hi, and studied law ht in Cincinnati, Ohio, Lawrenceburg and New Albany, Indiana, until 1850, when he was elected city civil engineer, which position he filled six years In 1858 he reht, as professor ofin Hamline University four years In 1862 he enlisted in Company F, Sixth Minnesota Infantry, was elected captain, and mustered out at the close of the war His ainst the Sioux until 1864, when the regiment was ordered South and attached to the Sixteenth Army Corps
In 1866 he was appointed superintendent of schools for Goodhue county
In 1870 he was appointed state superintendent of schools, which position he held five years He was elected representative in the state legislature in 1877, and subsequently he served four terms as senator, and was president _pro te the trial of E St Julien cox, and in the absence of the lieutenant governor presided during the trial For the past few years he has devoted hie of the public i In 1844 he wasthe proraphical notices were William Freeborn, for whom Freeborn county was named, and as a senator in the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth legislatures Judges Welch and Wilder, W C Williston and Warren Bristol, lawyers, both state senators froe in Arizona Rev Chauncey Hobart, DD, a Methodist pioneer preacher, and author of a history of Methodisraphy; Rev Peter Akers, DD, an eminent educator; Rev M Sorin, DD, an eloquent preacher, and Rev Samuel Spates and J W Hancock, prominent as missionaries, the latter the first pastor located in the village Andrew S Durant, first hotel keeper; Calvin F Potter, first merchant W W Phelps and Christopher Graham were appointed to the land office in 1855
WABASHA COUNTY
This county, named in honor of a Sioux chief, lies on the west shore of the Mississippi river and Lake Pepin, between Goodhue and Winona counties It has a e of bold bluffs on the lake and river Fro prairie lands, with occasional depressions, or valleys, caused by the streae is the county seat The county is traversed by the St