744 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY at Erie, Penn. By this union there were three children — J. S. was born August 3, 1858, married Anetta Anderson, January 20, 1885, and now serves in the United States commissary depart- ment at Oakland. Cal. Harriett M. was born October 16, 1860, and married Benjamin Boothroyd. who has charge of the United States express office at Aberdeen, S. D. Alfred C. was born April 28, 1863, married Emma Cranjdall and is now proprietor of the I lannon Dale stock farm at Burnside. Mrs. Margaret Gleason Bryan died March 28, 1869. Later Mr. Bryan wooed and won Sarah J. Campbell, to whom he was married at Faribault, Minn., June 21, 1877. She was born November 28, 1845, in Canada, daughter of John and Sarah (Brown) Campbell, Canadians of Scotch descent, who came to the United States in 1851, locating first at Lamoille. 111. The father soon afterward went south and died of cholera the same year. Mrs. Bryan graduated from the Faribault High School, and then took up teaching, which she followed with great success for fifteen years, many well-known men of the county having passed under her tuition. She was also clerk of district No. 4, of Burnside, twenty-five years. To Mr. Bryan and Mis. Sarah J. Campbell Bryan were born two children — Edward ('.. horn June ID. 1880. is a real estate dealer and auctioneer at Red Wing; Edith L.. born June 10, 1884, is. like her mother, a successful school teacher. Charles E. Beckmark, secretary and treasurer, and also genera] manager of the Beckmark Shoe Company, which con- ducts one of the large business establishments of Red Wing at the corner of Third and Bush si reels, has been actively interested in business since early youth. He was horn in this city, January 8, 1869, a son of Conrad and Charlotte Swanson) Beckmark, both natives of Sweden, in which country they were married. They came to American one year before Charles E. was born, and located at once in Red Wing, where the father Avas em- ployed at various occupations. For some time he was fireman at the old Bluff mill, and for three years served on the city police force. He is now deceased, and his wife makes her home in Red Wing. Charles E. received his educational training in the schools of Red Wing, and as a boy worked on a news stand in this city. Later he was employed by AVillard and Willard in a sta- tionary store, after which he became interested in footwear, to the sale of which he has since devoted his attention. He clerked eight years for Charles Beckman, and for two years in' the Boston Clothing House. Following this, he was success- fully engaged eight years as traveling salesman for the North Star Shoe Company, broadening his knowledge of the world and increasing his familiarity with the shoe trade in all its aspects. From March 1. 1904, to July 1, 1905, he was a member of the firm
