Page:History of Goodhue County, Minnesota.djvu/1003

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BISTOKY OF (iooDHlK ( ()l STY were such men as Edgar Biglow, representative from Goodhue county, and Charles Taylor, mayor of Rlankato. After teach- ing school for several years, .Mr. Rlaley entered the employ of the La Grange mills. ;ii Red Wing. He then returned to the farm, remaining two years, and Later worked for the St. Anthony ami Dakota elevator, buying grain. In August, 1888, he moved his family to South Dakota, ami lived there until the following year, in the meantime spending a short time in Zumbrota, attend- ing to the sad duties of burying his wife. He came to Goodhue in ISM), engaged with the T. B. Sheldon Company, of Bed Wing, erected an elevator and purchased grain for that company until 1902. when he built a Large elevator, since which date he has been local manager for the Red Wing .Malting Company. In polities Mr. Ma ley is a Republican, and has served as supervisor, road master and school clerk. While in North Dakota he was chief of the tire department. In times past he has been an officer of the Modern Woodmen and the United Workmen, in both of which he still maintins his membership. Mr. Maley was married in 1878 to Kate Woodbury, of Zumbrota. daughter of Lorenzo and Katherine (Glidden) Woodbury, natives of Ver- mont, who came to this state in 1865 and located in Wabasha county, where they carried on general farming near Mazeppa. To Mr. and Mrs. Maley five children have been born. Levi William, a graduate of the State University, is in the electrical and telephone business in Fargo. X. D. Elsie died in South Dakota. Bertha and Harold, twins, graduated from the Zum- brota high school and are both located in that village. Eva Elizabeth, also a graduate of that school, is a clerk for F. E. Mervin, of Zumbrota. The mother of these children died in April, 1889, and Mr. Maley was married in 1901 to Rose J. Eastman, by whom he has two children, Lysle and Oryall, both attending school in Zumbrota. Mrs. Maley 's father, Christopher Eastman, was a member of the 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, and participated in the charge at Gettysburg. William and Elizabeth (Leonard) Maley, parents of Thomas H. Maley, were natives of Ireland. The father was a farmer and tanner by trade, and at the age of sixteen years located in Massachusetts, where he remained on a farm a short time and then took up the trade of tanner until 1857, when he moved to Minnesota. He was one of the first persons to take the trip from Chicago to Galena by rail, making the journey in the first regular train that was run over that line. Locating near Mazeppa, he took up 160 acres, which he cleared and broke, erecting a house of native lumber. He later added to his possessions until he owned a place of 243 acres, continuing until his death in 1876, after which his wife went to Aberdeen, Wash., where she lived until