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AMOS B. BALLARD was born at Smyrna, New York, Oct. 26, 1829. His early life was passed on a farm. He came to Anoka in 1856, and in 1862 enlisted in Co. A, Eighth Minnesota Regiment, being transferred to the Third Minnesota Battery May 1, 1863. After the war he returned to Anoka, where he was engaged chiefly in house painting. He was married Nov. 19, 1855, to Jane B. Schaffer.
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

B. K. BALLOU was born in Bristol, New Hampshire, Mar. 14, 1832. He removed to Anoka from Princeton in 1865. He was married Mar. 14, 1858, to Lavinia Elder. Children: Mrs. Wm. Watson and Mrs. W. I. Case.
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

J. H. BATZLE was born in Metz, Germany, April 23, 1830. He lived on his father’s farm until 1847, when the family came to America and located at Buffalo, N. Y. In 1855. Mr. Batzle came to Minnesota, and was the first to settle in the town of Columbus, arriving there May 17, 1855. He has held various offices in his town and school district.
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

DANIEL R. BEAN was born Dec. 26, 1862, in the town of Ramsey, Anoka Co. Attended the common and high schools at Anoka. He worked as a clerk in various stores and about 1884, engaged with H. A. Harrington in the lime and coal business, which continued. for several years. He was then engaged in the breaking and sale of western horses at New Brighton for a few years. About 1895 he purchased his present farm in section 25, town of Burns. He has 85 acres of land, about 35 of which are under cultivation. He was married in March, 1883, to Edith Sanger. They have three children: Florence E., Earl and Donald.

~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

JOHN R. BEAN was born April 25, 1830, in Enfield, Maine. Attended common schools in Oldtown and Bangor. When still a boy he went on a whaling voyage to the Pacific ocean, which took him around Cape Horn and back to New Bedford, Mass., consuming three years and three months in the cruise. He made two shorter sea voyages and then found employment in a cotton factory at Salmon Falls, New Hampshire. He came to St. Anthony, Minn., in September, 1848, and worked about the saw mills there until the fall of 1849, when in company with John Simpson he made a camp on the island in the Mississippi now called Cloutier’s island about opposite the farm of C. G. Richardson in the town of Ramsey. At this camp a lively trade was carried on with the Winnebago Indians, who had not kept very closely upon their reservation at Long Prairie and were scattered all along the Mississippi above Itaska, and even as far south as the present site of Champlin. In the spring Mr. Bean built a log house on the main land on the present Richardson farm. About 1853 Bean and Simpson made a trading trip to Pembina, where they remained one year. On one occasion Mr. Bean got across the British boundary and was captured by agents of the Hudson Bay Company, but luckily escaped without having his furs confiscated, being put back across the boundary with a warning to trade only south of the forty-ninth parallel. Mr. Bean then lived several years in St. Anthony, working in the saw mills. In 1855 he built a permanent dwelling on the present Richardson farm, where he lived continuously with the exception of eighteen months, until 1870, when he purchased his present home in Anoka, where he has since lived.

Mr. Bean was married Jan 7, 1855, to Julia A. Mathison. Children: Mary E. (Mrs. William Bolstridge, St. Francis, Minn.), Ida E. (Mrs. George L. Rathbun) and Daniel R. (See group picture, page 74.)
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

MARTIN V. BEAN was born in Dexter, Maine, Jan. 14, 1831. He engaged in farming until 1855, when he came to Anoka and worked at lumbering until 1862. In that year he enlisted in Co. A, Eighth Minnesota Regiment, serving as first sergeant and afterward as second lieutenant of that company until the close of the war. In 1872 he formed a partnership with C. S. Guderian and engaged in the hardware business. Some years later he purchased Mr. Guderian’s interest, and has now associated with him his son, W. M. Bean. M. V. Bean was married in 1862 to Louisa McFarlan. Their daughter, Miss Edna Bean, is engaged in newspaper work, principally for Chicago papers.
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

HON. JARED BENSON (deceased), was born in Worcester Co., Mass., Nov. 8, 1821. He came to Minnesota in 1855, and purchased a farm in the town of Ramsey. Four years later he moved to a farm in the town of Anoka, where he continued to live up to the time of his death. He was a member of the state legislature during the early sixties and served through four sessions as speaker of the House of Representatives. He was again a member of the House in 1878. He was married Feb. 5, 1843, to Martha Taft, of Mendon. Mass., and seven children were born to them.
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

JOHN T. BENSON was born at Sarpsborg, in the southern part of Norway, Jan. 24, 1849. At the age of eleven he went on a sea voyage, and followed a sailor’s life for some ten years, visiting England, Germany, Russia, France, Italy, Argentine Republic, Japan, China and Egypt, in which last named country he enjoyed a bath in the Nile river. He came to America in 1870, and at Buffalo, shipped for a lake voyage to Chicago. He served as first mate on lake vessels for five years. About 1871 he purchased 80 acres in section 11, town of Burns, Anoka Co., but did not take up a permanent residence here until 1882. He was married in Chicago Dec. 18, 1879, to Clara M. Mattson. Children: Jennie T., Theodore C., Frederick J., Walter, Lydia, Leonard and Hazel P.
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

ALBERT J. BISBEE came to Minnesota in 1857 and lived in Anoka until 1875, after which he removed to Minneapolis, where he died Dec. 14, 1890. During his residence at Anoka he taught classes in bookkeeping and penmanship. His elder daughter, Cora, was a teacher for years in the Minneapolis schools. The younger daughter was married to Charles H. Wingate, a leading merchant of North Minneapolis.
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

FREDERICK A. BLANCHARD was born at Charlotte, Washington Co., Maine, Dec. 8, 1840. June 14, 1861, he enlisted in the Sixth Maine Regiment, which was attached to the Army of the Potomac. He was with McClellan in his seven days’ fight beginning with the battle of Mechanicsville and closing with the battle of Malvern Hill. Mr. Blanchard was soon after transfered to the Veteran’s Reserve Corps, and was quartermaster sergeant and did clerical work in the War Department. He came to Minnesota in 1870, and settled in Ham Lake. About 1873 he took a homestead in section 34, town of Ham Lake, where he has since lived. At the age of sixteen he made his first political speech, which was for Fremont in 1856 at Charlotte, Me. He served three years as chairman of the board of supervisors of Ham Lake; was also town clerk three years and clerk of the school district about thirty years. For nine years he has been secretary of the Anoka County Sunday School Association. Mr. Blanchard was married March 19, I870, to Bessie R. Hill. Children: Hill (died in infancy), Maud L. (Mrs. C. R. Skillings, Bay Lake, Crow Wing Co.), Henry A. (Minneapolis), Charles E. (died about 1899), Frederick W. (with Wyman, Part ridge & Co., Minneapolis), Alan L., Edith B., Lawrence E., and David.
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

SCIPIO BOND, D. D. S., was born April 28, 1859, in Dayton, Hennepin county, Minn. His ancestors on both sides were Quakers. He attended the common schools of Hennepin county, and graduated from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery at Philadelphia, Pa., in 1889. In 1892 he took a post graduate course in the dental department of Northwestern University at Chicago. He has been engaged in the practice of dentistry at Anoka some twenty years. He is a member of the State Dental Society, and is at the present time (October, 1904) the presiding officer of the Anoka lodge of Knights of Pythias. Dr. Bond was married in December, 1886, to Laura A. Burrill, of Minneapolis. They have one daughter, Dorothy.
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

CHARLES E. BOWERS (son of John C. Bowers) was born at Williamsburg, Blair Co., Penn., July 4, 1844. At the age of nine his parents came to Minnesota, settling at Itaska, Anoka Co., June 8, 1853. For the first few years his playmates were Winnebago Indian boys, members of that tribe being encamped at Itaska and vicinity. After obtaining a common school education, he took up farming. In September, 1862, he enlisted in Minnesota Mounted Rangers, Company C, serving for thirteen months. For fifteen years he served as town treasurer of Ramsey. April 29, 1896, he was married to Lucy E. Faherty. Children: C. Warren, Walter Donald, and Frederick J.
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

JOHN C. BOWERS was a native of Blair Co., Penn., obtaining his education at the Academy of Harrisburg, Penn. In 1850 he came to Minnesota and in 1851 to Itaska, Anoka Co., where he kept a hotel from 1853 to 1855. He held various town offices and was postmaster for twenty-five years, having served previously as postoffice clerk at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. During the years 1851-2 he was messenger in the Territorial Legislature. He also served for twelve years following the fall of 1864 as station agent at Itaska. His wife’s maiden name was Isabel Trapierre. Children: Cecelia (Mrs. W. D. Brimmer), and Charles E.
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

HOWARD H. BRADEEN was born at Biddeford, Maine, June 19, 1867. The family removed to Minnesota and to Anoka in May, 1877. After leaving school Mr. Bradeen took up the work of an accountant, and is now employed in that capacity at the Lincoln mill. In April, 1902, he was elected city treasurer, re-elected in 1903 and again in 1904, and is still serving in that position. Mr. Bradeen was married Feb. 20, 1889, to Belle C Stone. They have one son, Leon E.
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

GEORGE W. BRANCH (son of Samuel Branch) was born at St. George, New Brunswick, Feb. 11, 1827. He came to Rum river in 1849, and the next year came here to live. He purchased land on the west side of Rum river now included in the city limits of Anoka, and joined with the Shaws and Woodburys in platting the town of Anoka in 1852. He was married to Mary Elizabeth Shumway. Mr. Branch died in Shasto Co., California, Jan. 4, 1892.
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

SAMUEL BRANCH was a veteran of the war of 1812. He came to Minnesota in 1851 and took a claim on the east side of Rum river on land now included in the Insane Asylum grounds. He died at Anoka and was buried in the Anoka cemetery,
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

WILLIAM BRANDER was born on Prince Edward's Island Jan. 1, 1837. He came to Champlin in February, 1863, where he engaged in blacksmithing. In 1866 he was married to Almira Parker. They have one daughter, Ella F. (Mrs. James Leach).
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

JOHN C. BROADBENT was born in Southbridge, Mass., and was reared on a farm in Jefferson county, New York. In 1869 he came to Anoka, where he was employed in the lumber mills, a considerable portion of the time as engineer. Later he purchased a farm in the town of Grow, where he lived up to the time of his death. Mr. Broadbent was married Jan. 20, 1858, to Caroline C. Leonard.
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

SANFORD BROADBENT (son of Thomas Broadbent) was born in South Walpole, Mass., April 18, 1835. He first worked in a sash and door factory in Southbridge, Mass. He enlisted July 11, 1862, in the Thirty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment. He was severely wounded at the battle of Newmarket, Va. He was taken prisoner and was confined in Andersonville for a number of months. After the war he lived in Jefferson county, New York, until 1869, when he came to Anoka Co., and purchased his farm in the town of Linwood a year later.
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

THOMAS BROADBENT (deceased) was born at Saddleworth, Lincolnshire, England, Oct. 2, 1810. After coming to America he worked in the woollen mills in Massachusetts. In 1872 he came to Minnesota and to Anoka county, and purchased a farm in the town of Grow. He was married to Esther P. Carroll. Children: Julius (deceased), Sanford (Linwood), John (deceased), Julius (killed at battle of Antietam), Emily T., and Sarah A.
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

MOSES BROWN was born at Milford, Maine, Feb. 13. 1823, and came from there to Anoka in 1852, purchasing a farm in the town of Ramsey, where he lived until 1866, removing thence to Minneapolis, where he lived until his death in 1904. Mr. Brown was married in 1855 to Sarah C. Bowen, one of the first school teachers in the county. Children: Jennie (Mrs. R. H. Steeves, Chelan, Wash.) and Adelaide E. (Mrs. J. J. McHale, Minneapolis).
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

LOUIS H. BRUNS was born in Chicago Nov. 28, 1852. He learned the trade of a watchmaker and jeweler, and in 1872, came to Anoka. Here he worked at his trade for a short time and then engaged in the jewelry business on his own account. in which business he is still engaged. He is also a skilled optician. Mr. Bruns was married April 15, 1875, to Lizzie A. Leeman.
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

MARCUS Q. BUTTERFIELD was born in Farmington, Maine. Apr. 7, 1815. He graduated from the Farmington Academy and in 1845 went to Ohio, finally settling at Dayton, where he lived until 1860. He worked first as a shoemaker, but afterward studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1853. He came to Anoka in 1860, and in 1862, enlisted in Co. A, Eighth Minnesota Regiment. Upon the death of Captain Cady he became captain of the company, in which capacity he served until the close of the war. He was county attorney of Anoka county several terms, and mayor of the City of Anoka in 1880 and 1881. He was married three times. His first wife was Elizabeth McKechnie, to whom he was married in 1845, and who died in 1852. In 1856 he was married to Lucy Beal, who died in 1868. In 1876 he was married to Mrs. Amanda Johnson. Mr. Butterfield died Dec. 15, 1886.

~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905