. The history of Faribault County, Minnesota : from its first settlement to the close of the year 1879 : the story of the pioneers. f the county. Mr. Kiester was born in Pennsylvania in 1832. He received hiseducation in the common schools and at Mount Pleasant and Dick-inson colleges, in that state. He served an apprenticeship of fouryears in learning the mercantile business and book-keeping. Hesubsequently studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1855. In 1856 he came west to Wisconsin, where he remained somemonths. In April, 1857, he located at Blue Earth City, where hehas ever since resi
. The history of Faribault County, Minnesota : from its first settlement to the close of the year 1879 : the story of the pioneers. f the county. Mr. Kiester was born in Pennsylvania in 1832. He received hiseducation in the common schools and at Mount Pleasant and Dick-inson colleges, in that state. He served an apprenticeship of fouryears in learning the mercantile business and book-keeping. Hesubsequently studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1855. In 1856 he came west to Wisconsin, where he remained somemonths. In April, 1857, he located at Blue Earth City, where hehas ever since resided. He was married in December, 1859, to MissCaroline Billings, of this county. They have had six children, oneof whom died in infancy. Since coming to this county, Mr. Kiesterhas been county surveyor, register of deeds, member of the lowerHouse of our state legislature in 1865, county attorney, judge of pro-bate court over twenty-one years,and state senator four years. He isa Mason, and a member of Blue Earth City lodge, of which he wastwice W. Master, and he was subsequently chosen twice GrandMaster of Masons in J. A. KIESTER. FARIBAULT COUNTY, MINNESOTA. 623 Mr. Kiester has always been a republican in politics, and heand his family are members of the Protestant Episcopal Church atBlue Earth City, of which he has been a lay reader for some was the writer of this history of the county. FIRST SETTLEMENT. Owing to the want of native timber in this town, and the furtherfact that much of the land was owned by speculators, this wasamong the last towns in the county to be settled. Eli E. Judd and A. W. Judd selected lands here, about the firstof November, 1865, and about the middle of December following, Wing, selected a tract of land for settlement. These jjersonsdid not remain during the winter, but on the seventeenth of May,1866, they returned with their families and located on the lands pre-viously selected by them, on sections 20 and 21. On the next d
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