IIISTOKY OF GOODHUE COUNTS 873 acres more, and carried on general farming and stock raising until 1907, when on account of failing health tie found it advis- able to turn the management of the place over to his sons, John J. and Herman II., who have continued with success the work which their father so faithfully performed for so many years. Mr. Hadler is a Republican in polities, as are also his sons. He was married May 21, 1868, to Catherina Krimson, by whom he has seven children : Margaret, born in 1870; Peter, born in 1871; Catherina, born in 1872; Jacob, born in 1874, and another Peter, born in 187H, are all dead, while John J. and Herman H., who conduct the home farm, were born in 1878 and 1880, re- spectively. The family faith of the Hadlers is that of the German Lutheran church. Mr. and Mrs. Jurgen Krimson, parents of Mrs. Hadler, both died in Germany, in which country they spent their entire lives. Gustaf R. Ericson, of Goodhue village, was born in Sweden. April 29, 1855, son of Eric and Dorothea (Rehberg) Ericson, the former of whom was a shoemaker and farmer until his death in 1872. The mother died in 1901. The family consisted of two sons and three daughters, the latter of whom are: Hildur, who is married and lives in Chicago; Ella, wife of Gustaf Wall, a car- penter at Hayfield, Minn. ; and Anna, married to C. Carlson, a farmer living in Sweden. Gustaf acquired his education in the public schools of Sweden and the Red Wing Seminary, after which he worked for three years farming. He then rented eighty acres of lanci in Goodhue township, where he carries on general farming and dairying, owning twenty-six head of cattle and shipping his cream to Zumbrota and St. Paul. Mr. Ericson was married April 20, 1889, to Ellen Maria daughter of Andrew and Sophia (Johnson) Newman, who came from Sweden to America in 1869, locating at Goodhue, where they purchased eighty acres, on which they followed common agriculture until they retired, in 1890. Mr. Newman died in 1891 and his w T ife February 17, 1873. Mrs. Ericson has one sister, Justine, married to Ludwig Schultz, a truck farmer, living at Excelsior; also one brother, Arad, who died May 3, 1885. Mr. and Mrs. Ericson are parents of six children: Dwight S. E., born July 5, 1890; Myrtle, born May 2, 1892; Palmer E. N., born September 24, 1893; Mamie F. A., born March 5,' 1898 ; Vincent R. T., born June 2, 1903, and Joyce V. R., born July 11, 1905. Dwight attended the agricul- tural department of St. Anthony's school, at Minneapolis, and is now taking a course in bookkeeping at the Red Wing Sem- inary. Myrtle is attending the Red Wing high school and will graduate in 1910. The others are all at home. Mr. Ericson is an independent voter and has served as clerk of the school board.
