Page:History of Goodhue County, Minnesota.djvu/805

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BISTORT OF GOODHUE COUNTY 699 Bed Wing Sewer Pipe works Factory A. when he was taken with a stroke of paralysis, and was incapacitated from work until his death December 1, 1903. Mrs. Llewellyn now makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Carl Reckner, at 1038 South Park street, this city. INI r. Llewellyn, who served ten years as a fireman, was much interested in the passage of the firemen's relief bill by the state, and was a life member of the Firemen's State Relief Asso- ciation. He was street commissioner for nearly eight years, and was a member of the Odd Fellows, the United. Workmen, and the G. A. R. "William T. Llewellyn was married May 4, 1865, in Jefferson comity. Pennsylvania, to Judith Yeoman, daughter of ( 'harles and Martha (Beers) Yeoman, the former of whom died May 30, 1896. The mother now lives in Trenton township, Wis- consin, at the noble old age of eighty-six, and still in the full possession of all her faculties. The oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Llewellyn is Mattie E., married to Carl Reckner, foreman of factory A at the Red Wing sewer pipe factory, where he has been employed some sixteen years. Mr. Reckner was a member of Company G, 13th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, and saw active service in the Philippines., being promoted from corporal to sergeant. To Mr. and Mrs. Reckner has been born one daughter, Gladys Catherine, born July 3, 1894, a pupil in the Red AVing public schools. Carl N. Lien, Red Wing, who has a long and honorable record of public office holding in this and Ramsey counties, is the son of Nils G. and Martha (Holm) Lien, natives of Norw T ay. The mother came to America in 1852 and located in AVinneshiek county. Iowa. The father came a year later and settled in Manitowoc, Wis. They were married at Decorah, Iowa, in 1856, and in the spring of the following year came to Warsaw, this county, where the father carried on general farming until his death, in 1901. His widow followed him to the grave two years later. Carl N. attended the public schools and took a course in the Li#heran College at Decorah, Iowa. After a course at Northfield. Minn., at St. Olaf's College, he completed his schooling with a business training in the Curtiss Business Col- lege at St. Paul. Thus, well equipped with a classical and busi- ness education, he started out in life for himself. Between 1879 and 1889 he was justice of the peaee, assessor and township chairman, and town clerk in W T arsaw, and in 1883-85 was enroll- ing clerk in the house of representatives. From October, 1885, to June, 1886, he was transcribing clerk in the office of the United States surveyor-general, at St. Paul. He was then elected county auditor of Goodhue county, and from January, 1890, to January 4, 1909, served honorably and continuously in that position. Mr. Lien was married April 24. 1878, to Mary E.