J austin regan, one of the pioneer business men of Fessenden, Wells County, is engaged in handling implements and machinery, and is snidely known as a man of ability, and true citizenship

Our subject was born in Norway, March 16, 1848. He was reared on a farm in his native land and remained there until 1870, when Ile decided to ,try_ his fortunes in the New World, and accordingly, in the summer of that tear, started to America. He located at Menomonie, Wisconsin, where he was employed eight years at farm labor and in a saw-null. He then went to Richland County, North Dakota, and settled in Eagle Township on his present farm. He has erected good buildings and added valuable improvements and is now the fortunate possessor of about four hundred acres of well-improved land. He has made a success of his voca, tion and is one of the substantial men of his community.

Our subject was married, in Menomonie, Wisconsin, July 26, 1873, to Miss Curie Olson. Airs. Flaa was born in Norway October u, 1848, came to America in 1871, locating in Menomonie, Wisconsin. Mr. Flaa has been township assessor of Eagie Township for several years and justice of the peace and a member of the board of supervisors. He and Mrs. Flaa are members and active workers in the Norwegian Lutheran church. They are well known and highly respected.
HANS E. GRINAGER, clerk of courts of Ransom County, is a man of capability and true citizenship. He has heels associated with the public interests of Ransom County for the past fifteen years and in every in stance has proven Isis loyalty and is held its the highest esteem by his fellows. He is one of the well-known residents of Lisbon, North Dakota.

Our subject was born in Gran, Hadeland, about fifty miles north of Christiania, Norway, June 30, 1844, and was the eldest its a family of thirteen children. He completed his education at an agricultural school in his native land and subsequently attended the high school in the city of Hamar, Norway, and assisted his father for some years in the pursuit of farming and the lumber business and lived two years at Gjovik, clerking in a saw-mill. In 1880, at the age of thirty-six years, Ise came to the United States, as slid also his parents and several brothers and one sister. An uncle and two of the brothers of our subject were living in Alinnesota at the time. After one year spent in Minnesota near where his brother resisted, our subject went to Iowa and in 1883 went to Lisbon, subsequently pre-empted one hundred and sixty acres of land in Sargent County, North Dakota, later going to Lisbon, Ransom County, where he worked in the Lisbon lumber yards. He became clerk in the county treasurer's office about 1884, and was there about four years, and in 1888 he was elected treasurer of Ransom County. After the expiration of his terns he purchased wheat for two seasons and then served two years as deputy auditor. He was elected clerk of courts on the fusion ticket in 1896 and is now serving his second terns in that capacity.

Our subject was married in 1876 to Miss Ingeborg A. Haug. Mr. and Airs. Grinager are the parents of nine children, as follows: Peter, Martha, Lars. Adolph. Lizzie. hsga, Henry, Alma. and Edwin, who died at the age of one year. Air. Grinager is a member of the Lutheran church, and a member of the I. C). O. F.. He is one of the men in whose coming to America all who honor honest and faithful service can rejoice.

T. j. COOPER, now retired from active labors, is the possessor of extensive -farm lands in the vicinity of Cooperstown, and makes his home in that city amid pleasant surroundings that are the result of a well-spent career. He was one of the pioneers of that region. and was associated with his brother many years in business enterprises. but for the past ten or twelve rears has conducted his business alone. and is enjoying his declining years in retirement, although he personally oversees his land interests.

Our subject was born in Vermont, September 3, 1830, and was a son of Thomas and Caroline (Balser) Cooper. His father was a native of Vermont, and was a farmer by occupation, and was one of tin. pioneer settlers of Michigan, where he removed with his fatuity when our subject was but two rears of age. They resided there for a number of years, and then located in Minnesota.

T. J. Cooper was the third in a family of eleven children, and was reared in Michigan, and later engaged in farming in Minnesota. He went from there to Colorado and followed mining a number of years in company with his brother, R. C. Cooper, and they continued in business together till 1889, when the partnership was dissolved. Our subject owns two thousand acres of land in the vicinity of Coopers-^, town, on which he has valuable improvements.

Our subject was married in Red Wing, Minnesota, in 1858, to Aliss Mary Washburn, a native of Illinois. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Cooper, as follows: Charles L., now a mining engineer of Victor, Colorado; and Julia L., now Mrs. Merriell, of Fruita, Colorado. Her husband is engaged in fruit growing and lumbering. Mr. Cooper is a'mentber of the Masonic fraternity. He is a Republican in political sentiment, and is a man who keeps pace with the times, but does not seek public preferment.

JOHN DeWITT McCONNELL, M. D., is engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in Fargo, North Dakota, and has that love for and devotion to his profession which has brought to him success and won hint a place among the ablest representatives of the medical fraternity in this locality.

He was born Leipsic, Putnam County, Ohio, No-
vember 23, 1848, and is one of the four sons of John R. and Mary (Hofsteater) McConnell, also natives of Ohio. The father, who was a farmer and hotel man, served for a year and a half in the Civil war as a member of Company K, Sixty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, being discharged at the end of that time on account of disability. He died in Ohio in 1891.

The Doctor passed his boyhood and youth in Williams County, Ohio, and completed his literary education in the Bryan Academy. Subsequently he engaged in teaching school, being an instructor in the higher branches of learning. At the age of twenty-five he commenced reading medicine under Dr. J. G. Cameron, of 'Edon, Ohio, and devoted three years to preparation for the medical profession, in the meantime attending lectures at the Medical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati, front which he was graduated in 1877. He first engaged in practice at his old home in Ohio, but on account of failing health came west and settled at Clearwater, Minnesota, where he made his home for two years. In 1881 he came to Fargo, North Dakota, where he has since successfully engaged in general practice. In 1891 he took a post-graduate course in New York City, remaining there nine months, and constant study and close application have made him one of the best physicians of his adopted city. He is a member of the State Medical Society, has been connected with the American Medical Association since 1888, and is a Knight Templar Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine. He has met with success financially as well as professionally during, his residence in North Dakota, and is now a stockholder and director of the

erchants State Bank of Fargo. Politically his support is always given the men and measures of the

Republican party. In 1892 Dr. McConnell was united in marriage with Miss Sarah A. Brockett, a native of Iowa. They occupy an enviable position in social circles and have a large circle of friends in the community where they make their home.

FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF GRAND FORKS. The First National Bank of Grand Forks was founded in 1879 by J. W. Smith and S. S. Titus, first as a private bank, known as the Bank of Grand Forks, which continued until November, 1881, when and it was merged into the Citizens' National Bank, with Jacob I. Eshelman as president and S. S. Titus, cashier. The bank continued under that title until July, 1890, tritest the name was changed to the First National Bank, and has continued as such since. Mr. Eshelman was president until January I, 1887, when \Valiant Budge was elected to succeed hint and continued president until January, 1889, when the present president of the institution, J. W. Smith, was elected to that position. The original capital stock was fifty thousand dollars, which was increased in 1884 to one hundred thousand dollars, and remains at that figure. The bank does a general banking business in foreign and domestic exchange, and is one of the substantial institutions of the city.
J. W. SMITH was born at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 15, 1858, and was the son of David and Agnes (Thorn) Smith, both of whom were natives of Scotland, and came to America in an early day. They settled in Appleton, Wisconsin, where the father was engaged in banking business until his death in 1876.

Our subject was one of sevens children, four sons and three daughters, and was reared and educated in Wisconsin. At an early age he began earning his livelihood, and in 1879 went to Grand Forks, North Dakota, where he has been engaged in the banking business continuously since.

Mr. Smith was married in Grand Forks, in 1884, to Clara E. McIntosh, who is a native of Canada. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Smith, as follows: Agnes M., and Dorothy E. Mr. Smith has exhibited much executive ability in the management of the intricate affairs of the banking institution of which he is the head, and to him is dine largely the success which has attended the First National Bank. Politically he is a Republican.
WILLIAM S. MOORHOLISE, an honored veteran of the Civil war, and the present efficient and popular auditor of Burlei.gli County, North Dakota, whose home is in Bismarck, was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. January 26, 1840. His parents, Edward and Margaret i Larson) Moorhouse, were both natives of Yorkshire, England. and came to the United States in 1829, locating in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where the father died in ¹⁸54. By occupation he was a coal merchant. The mother is still living at the advanced age of ninety-one years

r and makes her home in Brownsville, Pennsylvania. In their family were seven sons and four daughters, all living in Pennsylvania with the exception of our subject.

In his native state William S. Moorhouse grew to manhood and acquired a good practical education. On leaving home in 1857 he went to Atchison County, Kansas, where Ile clerked in a hardware store for a time. He took an active part in the border warfare, and on the breaking out of the Rebellion he enlisted, in 1864 in Company B, Seventh Kansas Cavalry. He remained in the service for three years and six months and participated in the siege of Corinth, the Vicksburg campaign, the second battle of Corinth, the battles of luka and Tupelo, Mississippi, and a large number of smaller engagements. Fortunately he was never wounded nor taken prisoner, and at the close of the war, in 1865, was mustered out as captain of his company, to which rank he attained by meritorious service on field of battle.

Returning to Atchison Mr. Moorhouse resided there until appointed adjutant-general of Kansas in 1869, and while serving in that office during that and the following year he made his home in Topeka. Going back to Atchison, he continued to reside there until coming to Bismarck, North Dakota^.., in 1883. Here he engaged in the hardware trade for twelve years. In 1894 he was elected auditor of Burleigh County and is now serving his third term in that office. He was also on the board of county commissioners one term, and has been a member of the city council. His official ditties have always been discharged with the utmost promptness and fidelity, winning the commendation of all concerned.

While a resident of Kansas, Mr. Moorhouse was married, in 1863, to Miss Annie HoIthorn, a native of England, by whom he has one son, Frank E., now serving as deputy auditor. Socially I■dr. Moorliouse is an honored member of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Knights of Pythias, and politically has always been identified with the Republican party. He served as chairman of the county committee for four years. He has always been found faithful to every trust reposed in him, so that his loyalty is above question, being manifest in days of peace as well as when he followed the old flag to victory on southern battle fields.
ALBERT SCHMIDT. A prominent position as a citizen and member of the farming community of Abercrombie Township, Richland County, is held by the gentleman above named. He is the owner of a fine estate and makes his home on section to.

Mr. Schmidt was born in Prussia, Germany, April 17, 184o. He was reared in his native land and was employed front the time he was fourteen years of age until he reached' the age of twenty years as clerk in a mercantile establishment. He served in the Prussian army four years, and in the summer of 1864 set sail for America. He landed in New York in September, and after three months in that city went to Watertown, Wisconsin. He remained there a short time and then went to Columbus, Wisconsin, and after six months to La Crosse, and three months later to St. Cloud, Minnesota, where he remained three years employed in a saloon and billiard hall. He went to McCauleyville, Minnesota, in 1869, and engaged in the mercantile business there some tell years, when Inc went to Richland County, North Dakota, and settled on section to in Abercrombie Township, since which time he has given his attention to farming. Ile now owns two hundred and forty-eight acres of land, and has met with success in his chosen calling.

Mr. Schmidt was married, in St. Cloud, Minnesota, September 30, 1869, to Miss Marie Tebing, who was horn in Missouri, of German parentage. Mrs. Schmidt died in McCauleyville, Minnesota, in April, 1875, leaving four children, as follows: Mary, Anna, Herman and Louisa. Mr. Schmidt married Miss Magdalene Bauer, in McCauleyville, Minnesota. May 9, 1876. Mrs. Schmidt was born in Syracuse, New York, and when about four years of age came with her parents to Dane County, Wisconsin, where she grew to womanhood. Ten children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Schmidt, as follows: August, Otto, Bertha, Carl, Lottie, Leo, Lena, Paul, Olga and Albert. Mr. Schmidt takes an active part in local affairs, and was the first president of the school board in Abercrombie Township, and has served as a member of the board of supervisors. He is highly esteemed in Richland County, where he has made his home for so many years.
JACOB A. SORUNI, comity sheriff of Traill County, is extensively interested in farming in that county, and is one of the substantial and public-spirited citizens of the state. He has acquired his property and high reputation by his earnest efforts, and is a man of much energy and a capacity for well-directed labor. He has resided in flillsboro but a short time, but has become well known and is highly respected by all. His farm consists of four hundred and sixty acres of choice land. upon which he has placed modern buildings. and it is a home of luxury and the farm yields abundantly and furnishes a comfortable competence.

Our subject was born in Allamakee County, Iowa, April 13. 1858, and was the eldest in a family. of twelve children, born to Andrew and Bertha (Torgerson) Sornm, both of whom are living and make their home in Eldorado Township, Trail County, North Dakota.

Our subject, tvith his father and sister, went to Dakota from the home farm in Iowa in the fall of 1879, and both father and son entered claim to land in Traill County, each in section 30. A log house was erected on each farm. and the following spring the remaining members of the family joined them in the new home. They broke the land and engaged in wheat raising during the first season, and hauled their grain to Fargo, forty miles distant, the nearest railroad point. Mr. Sorum had but forty dollars on his arrival in Dakota, and the strictest economy and hard work were necessary to get a start on the pioneer farm. He put a small addition to the small log house and this was his home until 1896, when it was supplanted by a fine frame residence, and a 4ox6o-foot barn was erected in 189o, giving the place an appearance of thrift and care in its development. Our subject has added to his real estate as circumstances permitted. and now owns four hundred and sixty acres of land, which forms one of the best farms in the conuty. An artesian well furnishes an abundance of water, and also gives a supply of naturals gas, which as vet can not be utilized.

Our subject was married, in 1881, to Miss Rindena Ekdahl, a native of Norway. Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Sorum, as follows: Bertha, now Mrs. A. Dahl; John, now attending Agricultural College at Fargo; Turine ; Julius ; Carl and Albert. The family reside in the county jail building, which Is one of the most substantial and imposing structures of the county, built of stone to a height of about twelve feet and the upper part of pressed brick. Mr. Sorum was elected county sheriff in 1898, and during the summer of 1899 removed to Hillsboro. He served on the township board in his township three years, and during two of the time was chairman of that body. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and also the United Lutheran church. Politically he is a Republican, and is a fins, supporter of party principles, but does not seek public preferment.

MILLARD F. WASHBURN, one of the earliest pioneer settlers of Griggs County, has resided in the township which bears his name for the past twenty years, and has been intimately connected with the history and development of that region. He has a fine farm in section 20, in which section he first settled, and is now enjoying the fruits of his labors in North Dakota.

Our subject was born on a farm in Lake County, Illinois. April 25, 1848, and was the youngest in a family of nine children, born to Sells and Ora (Warren) Washburn. His father was a native of Vermont, and settled in Illinois in the early '405.

Millard F. Washburn. at the age of seven years, went with his parents to Red Wing, Minnesota, where he finished his education and grew to manhood. He was engaged wills the American Express Company five years, and with the Red Wing , Milling Company three years, and in the spring of 188t went to Griggs County, North Dakota. He filed claim to land with the government surveyors, who lucre then working^, in the county, and he has lived on the original claim continuously since. He has met with success as a farmer and now enjoys a good income.

Our subject was married, near Cooperstown, in 1883, to Miss Maria Russel, a native of St. Clair County, Michigan. Mrs. Washburn was born November to, 1855, and was a daughter of Andrew and Maria (Kling,ler) Hassel, who followed farming in Michigan. Her father was a soldier in a Michigan regiment during the Civil war, and served two years. Mrs. Washburn was one of the seven chil- siren born to this worthy couple. Her father was a successful farmer, and is now living in retirement in St. Clair County, Michigan. Mr. Washburn is chairman of the board of supervisors of Washburn Township, and has always taken all active part in local affairs, and the township of Washburn was named in honor of his services. He is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen.

ELLING K. SPOONHEIM, county superintendent of schools of Grand Forks County, is one of the leading educators of the state of North Dakota. He is a gentleman of excellent education, intelligent and possessed of excellent characteristics, and well merits his success and high standing as a public officer and"citizen.

Our subject was born in Norway, May 19, 1874, and is a son of Knudt and Margaret (Hakestead) Spoonheim. His parents were natives of Norway and came to America its 1881 and settled in Grand Forks County, North Dakota, and the father still lives in that county. The mother died in July, 1899. Two sons and one daughter were born to this worthy couple, all of whom reside its North Dakota.

Mr. Spoonheim was reared in North Dakota and received his early education here. He spent one year at Bruflat Academy at Portland, North Dakota, and three years at Arvilla Academy, and then followed teaching several years and completed his education with a three years' course at Valparaiso, Indiana, taking the degree from that institution of Bachelor of Science and Arts. Immediately following his graduation he returned to North Dakota and accepted the principalship of the city schools of Haton, Train County, and later engaged with the schools of Grand Forks. He was elected county superintendent of schools in 1898 and is now discharging the duties of that office faithfully and well. He is also interested in farming to some extent in the vicinity of Grand Forks, and has a pleasant farm, well improved and cultivated.

Mr. Spoonheim is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Malta and Modern Woodmen of America. He is well known throughout the state in educational circles and is an efficient and highly esteemed officer. Politically he is a Populist, and is a gentleman of broad mind and keeps abreast of the times and favors returns principles. His many friends will be pleased to find a portrait of Mr. Spoonheim in connection wins this article.