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 BIOGRAPHIES 'V'

ISAAC C. VARNEY was born Feb. 4, 1827, at Lowell, Maine. He taught school for a time and came to Minnesota in 1854, settling on a farm in the town of Ramsey. During the Civil War he served in Hatch’s Battalion. After the war he returned to his farm, and served as assessor for many years and in other positions of trust. His wedding was one of the first in the county, he having been married to Helen A. Sinclair July 3, 1856. Children: Alice (Mrs. J. T. Perkins), Ida (Mrs. W. C. Brown), Helen (Mrs. J. D. Medlock), Medora (Mrs. Miles Milton), Nellie (Mrs. M. C. Lewis), Luilda, Lera (Mrs. E. A. Rither), Willis, John and Ernest.

~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

OSCAR F. VARNEY was born in the town of Ramsey, Anoka Co., April 5, 1859. At the age of nine his parents removed to Elk River, where they remained about five years. In 1873 he removed with his parents to a farm in section 15, town of Burns, where he lived until 1881, when he married and moved upon 80 acres in section 26, where he now lives. He spent two and a half years in Humboldt Co., California, where he went in the spring of 1888, with which exception he has lived ever since on his farm in Burns. He was married April 17, 1881, to Abbie M. Hill. Children: Ada E. and Morris 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

HENRY VEIDT spent seventeen years in the schools of Germany and several years in military service, the latter falling upon the time of the Franco-Prussian war, before coming to America in 1876. He was in the siege of Paris, being a member of the engineer corps. His native town is Essen, where he was born October 1, 1851. He first came to Baltimore, then to Chicago, in each city spending a few months. In 1878 he came to Minneapolis, where he laid brick for six years, and in 1884 came to Anoka and engaged in business, establishing a soda water bottling works on south Second Ave., in which business he has ever since been engaged. He is a member of the Odd Fellows, Independent Order of Foresters, and Royal Arcanum. Mr. Veidt was married in 1875 to Johanna Marie Vestor. Children: Johanna H. A., Marie Helen, William George, Henry Eugene, and Wilhelmena Theodora.

~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