BISTORT OF (ioohlll K COUNT! L029 moved to California, when' he died. In his honor, Freeborn county, this slate, is named. William C. Santelman, proprietor of the genera] store a1 (lay- hank, was born in Hay Creek, September 12, 1877. His parents, Angusl and Mary (Minki) Santelman, natives of Germany, came to America in L845, and farmed two years at Dayton, Ohio. They then bought 200 acres of land in Hay Creek, where they carried on general farming until 1904, when they retired, and purchased a home in Red Wing, where the lather still resides at the age of seventy-two years. The mot her died April 10, 1909. In the family are five brothers and four sisters aside from the subjed of this sketch: Mary, married, Lives in Pargoj X.D.; Edward, married, conducts the old homestead; Sophia, married, lives in this state: Henry, married, is proprietor of a general store at Red Wing; Emma, married, lives at Stanton. Minn.: August, married, is proprietor of a store at Frontenac; Minnie, married. lives in Red Wing; George and Benjamin work on the home farm. William received his education in the district schools of Hay Creek and farmed for a time with his father. January 1. 1903, he entered the employ of II. L. Hjermstad in the grocery busi- ness and one year later started a general store at Claybank with Mr. Hjermstad as partner. This store has been very successful and has a good trade, which is gradually growing. Mr. Santel- man was married January 17, 1004. to Annie Sass, daughter of Henry and Mary (Burkhart) Sass, who came to America and located in Wabasha county, where they farmed 160 acres of land. Mrs. Sass died in 1896. Mr. and Mrs. Santelman have one child, Syviwla M., born September 17, 1905. Mr. Santelman is a Re- publican in politics, but has been too busy to actively engage in political affairs. He is a thorough business man, genial and accommodating, and has a bright future ahead of him. Henry Lidgerding, Hay Creek township, born in Hanover, Germany, January 9, 1848, has spent practically all his life in this county, his occupation being that of farming. His mother died in the old country while he still a young boy, and his father, leaving young Henry in the care of relatives, came to this coun- try to seek his fortune and to make a home for his motherless son. The father, William, is a resident of Red Wing, having reached the honored and venerable age of ninety years. Henry came to America in 1862 at the age of fourteen years, being met at Red Wing by his father. He went to Hay Creek township. and there grew to young manhood, working on the farm. Later he moved to Goodhue township, but subsequently returned to Hay Creek, where he has lived for the past dozen or so years. He has 240 acres of good land, 160 being under the plow and in a high
