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THE SECOND TRACTOR AROUND WOLSEY, SOUTH DAKOTABy Charles G. PetersonP.O. Box 11, Stuart, Nebraska 68780 My father, C. G. Peterson, was born on a farm near St. Charles, Illinois in 1875. He grew to manhood in the St. Charles area. While a boy, he cut bands for a horse-power thresher. He mentioned Fila Plummer as one of the threshers. My grandfather was considered to be a good hand feeder and also able to stack the type of grain stacks of the era. You had to walk on your knees for one thing. My father spent a winter in northern Wisconsin working in the logging camps. Then he spent a year in Oklahoma and finally came back to Illinois and took over his father's farming operation. In the spring of 1901 he moved to a 120 acre dairy farm near Wayne, in Dupage county, Illinois. This farm was known as the Durfee farm and was near the famous Dunham Horse Importing Company. The local th... 798 of 23936 characters shown.
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