The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-08-16

sons have journeyed from our midst
since we last met year ago.
"The first of these to depart was
Captain Clark Keysor, who died on
August II, 1917, at the age of ninety
one years. He had been born in
! Warren county. New York, May "a,
1926. Bereft OF his father when but
-four years old, he had to shift for
| himself mostly from childhood. In
his boyhood days he was often en-
ployed in lumber camps and learned
| the trades of q millwright and OF a
carpenter and joiner in his native
|state which then was largely from
tier forest country September Is,
1850 he was married to Amy L. John
son of East Day, N. Y. Her father
1 had been q soldier of the war of
1872 and her grandfather revolu
tionary soldier under Washington.
The humid atmosphere of the east
not agreeing with his health, Mr..
IKeysor migrated west about 1856
and was employed for time in the
lumber mills of Lacrosse Wis. On
/ May II, 1858 he arrived in Mankato
where he continued to reside for
lover fifty-ni years until his death.
For the first year he was employed
/ is millwright in the old govern
ment mill at the Winnebago agency
| (now ST. Cloud) and then at the mill
| of A. D. Seward and company in
Mankato. In August, 1862, he enlist
I'd in Company e, Ninth Minnesota
| Volunteers and was commissioned
first lieutenant. During the Sioux
war his company rendered efficient
| frontier service. They were the
| first soldiers to reach Mankato and
to enter New Ulm after it's evacu-
alton. October, 1863, his regiment
was ordered south and took part in
a number of the battles of the Civil
4 war. In January, 1865. lieutenant
Keysor was promoted captain and
was mustered out with his company
the following August. After the war
Captain KeySor was engaged for
many years at Mankato as carpenter
and contractor. He was frequently
chosen By his fellow citizens to posi- :
lions of trust and honor. He served
for two years as city alderman, two
years a3 assessor and member of the
board Of public works, two years a
member of the legislature, and for
some years lie was member Of the
| Mankato Board of education He
was also prominent member of
MankatO lodges, of the Masons and
Knights Templars and had been hon
ored with the highest offices in these
A CT oh ut
Captain Keysor, earnest in. his con
victions, honest in his dealings and
democratic in his ways. We greatly
miss his sturdy form ard CHEEKY
words from our midst
1.-THE next of our number to pass
away was Mrs. Johanna Kron, who
died February %, 1918. She was
bern in Germany on July 20, 1926
whence she immigrated to Milwaukee
in 1S48. There she was married tc
llClement Kron on June 20, 1851. On
June IL, 1853, the family came to
Mankato where Mrs. Kron resided
until her death, period of sixty
five years. She had seen the city
. grow from two or three log shanties
to be one of the big commercial cen
tiers Of our state. She experienced al
the~hardships of pioneer days and by
thrift and industry gathered fail
competency for her last years. She
!. was an honest, religious woman, much
esteemed by a large circle of friends
"Kron, Joseph, who died March 2S
1918, claimed the distinction of beins
the first male white child born in
Mankato. He was son of Clement
and Johanna Kron and would have
been sixty three years old had he
! lived until last May. He was of a
quiet and retiring disposition A
peaceable, religious man who shun
, ned all the turmoils of life.
Holman, Mrs Mary j., the las
on my list of deceased members, was
born March IS. 1857. at South Bend
this county. In those days the
! village of South Bend was a riva
of Mankato as business center. L
had four or five ,stores, two mills
, hotels, blacksmith shops, Wagon
shops and other business enterprise.
,, pertaining to live western town
, Mrs. Holman's father, the late Will
lam R. Price, and d. C. Evans wer,
then the leading citizens and mali
, p1oprietors of the TOWNSHIP. MI
Price had settled in South Bend will
, age in the summer OF 1866, and own
l ed and operated a general store ant
saw mill there for q number of years
Mrs Holman spent her childhood ant
: maicenhood in the village and anon,
, her earliest memories were the ex
: citing events of the great Siou.
a massacre of 1862. On April %, 1878
she was married to Henry S. Hol
E man and ever since this worth,
: couple have made Mankato thei
! ! home. She left surviving her, he
. husband and two daughters.
Among those who passed ava
i, since we last met little over yea
f ago are number of other old sett
lers of Mankato and vicinity some o
whom we will merely mention.
have made no attempt at a complet
list.
Mrs. Bertha Bierbauer, widow c
? the late Jacob Bierbauer, died Jul
80, 1917, at the age of seventy si1
4 She came to Mankato in 1856, an
ever since had lived here. She wa
a daughter of DR.. Dornberg, who 70
many years was a prominent physi
l,cian of our city. Both she and he
), Husband had prominent part in tn
early history of our community
q Amos Warner, one of the earlies
land best known citizens of Garde
: City. passed away August II, 191