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<br />Charles E. Bowers (son of John C. Bowers) was born at Wiliamsburg, Blair Co.,
<br />Penn. July 4, 1844. At the age of nine his parents came to Minnesota, settling at
<br />Itaska, Anoka Co., June 8, 1853. For the first few years his playmates were
<br />Winnebago Indian boys, members of that tribe being encamped at Itaska and vicinity.
<br />After obtaining a common school education, he took up farming. In September,
<br />1862 he enlisted in Minnesota Mounted Rangers, Company C, serving for thirteen
<br />months. For fifteen years he served as town treasurer of Ramsey. April 29, 1896 he
<br />married Lucy E. Faherty. Children: C. Warren, Walter Donald, and Frederick J.
<br />Edgar S. Clinch (son of Edward S. Clinch) was born in Anoka, Aug. 4, 1865.
<br />Attended the common school — worked in the saw mills about four years. Since
<br />then he worked in the pineries.Was foreman for logging crews for several Minneapolis
<br />firms. Kept a hotel at Milaca, Minn., two years. Bought his present home in section
<br />14, town of Ramsey in 1897. Mr. Clinch was married Sept. 24, 1895 to Scleda B.
<br />Sproul.
<br />Isaac A. Harthorn (son of Isaac H. Harthorn) was born in the county of Penobscot,
<br />Maine,Sept. 27, 1854. He came to Ramsey, Anoka county in 1865 where he has
<br />been a successful farmer. He had one hundred and forty acres of land in sections 27
<br />and 34, about 80 of which are under cultivation. Mr. Harthorn has been town clerk
<br />about twelve years, and director of the school board about seven years. He was
<br />married Aug. 30, 1882 to Loretta Wilson. Children: Maud L. and LeRoy Mearl.
<br />James C. Keillor (son of William Keillor) was born in the province of Ontario,
<br />Canada, July 4, 1860. Obtained his education in New Brunswick and worked on his
<br />father's farm until 1881, when he moved to Anoka county where he assisted his
<br />brother-in-law, James Hunt, in the management of the latter's farm in Ramsey until
<br />the death of Mr. Hunt, since which time he has had its sole management. Mr. Keillor
<br />now owns 80 acres in section 10 where he still resides. He was never married.
<br />William E. Keillor was born in Chatham, New Brunswick, Oct. 31, 1836, where he
<br />lived until the age of nineteen. He spent twelve years in Nova Scotia and Ontario,
<br />and then lived again in New Brunswick. In 1891 he moved to Anoka County. He
<br />taught school in Canada for about seven years, and then his health failing, he went to
<br />farming, a congenial occupation which he has since followed. In 1901 he purchased
<br />forty acres in section 3, town of Ramsey, where he now resides. He was married
<br />Jan. 26, 1856 to Mary J. Crandall. Children: Mary E. (Mrs. James Hunt), Rebecca E.,
<br />James C., Thomas T. (Albert, New Brunswick), Elizabeth J. (Mrs. Herbert B.
<br />Crandall), Amilia J. (Mrs. Albin Loucks, Malmo, Aitkin Co., Minn.) and Alfred L.
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