Henry O. Tinnes

Henry 0. Tinnes, the popular manager of the Stearns Lumber Company, of Hector, was born in Palmyra county, Wisconsin, October 13, 1868, the son of Lafe and Maggie (Hogxtl) Tinnes. He attended school in the country and remained at home helping his father on the farm until he was twenty-three years old, when he went to Bird Island, where he spent a year buying wheat for a local elevator company. He then entered the employ of a local hardware company, where he spent seventeen years, leaving to go to Hector in 1908 as manager of the Stearns Lumber Company. He is a Republican, belongs to the Modern Brotherhood and is a charter member of Bird Island lodge, which was organized in 1900. He is a member of the Norwegian Lutheran church. Between the age of seventeen and twenty-three years he owned and operated two threshing machines. He now has a third interest in the Knudtson & Tinnes Grain Company, of Bird Island, and the Rush Lake Grain Company, of Saskatchewan, Canada. June 20, 1891, Henry O. Tinnes was married to Carrie Knudtson, born July 24, 1869, at Lyndon, Brown county, Minnesota, the daughter of Amond and Carrie (Eckley) Knudtson. They have six children: Mable, born in 1892; Howard, born in 1896; Amy, born in 1899; Earl, born in 1900; Clinton, born in 1904; Leland, born in 1910. Mrs. Carrie Knudtson died in June. 1915. Lafe Tinnes, born in 1847 in Palmyra county, Wisconsin, died in Renville county in 1871. He married Maggie Hogxtl, born in 1850 in the same coimty as her husband, the wedding taking place in the same county. Mr. and Mrs. Lafe Tinnes had six children: Henry O.: Lillian, who married H. E. Summeyer. of Minneapolis; Albert, who resides at Willow City, North Dakota; Hattie, who died in 1913; Emma, now Mrs. C. Eck. of Painville: George A., of