YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY MINNESOTA
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Submitted to the Minnesota Biographies Project by:
Name: LaNaye Hennen
Email: henfarms@clarkfield.ruralink.com
Date: 29 June 2000
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"A History of Yellow Medicine County" by Arthur P. Rose,published in 1914

MONS J. Rache (1872)

Has made the home farm--the northeast quarter of section 28, Stony Run
township--his continuous home since he was a small boy.  Mr. Rache was born
in Norway December 6, 1868.  His parents, Lasse C. and Dorothy Rache, came
to the United States in 1871, first locating in Fairbault county.  They
remained there about a year and then came to Yellow Medicine County, taking
for their homestead the piece of land now owned by Mons J.  The elder Mr.
Rache died on the homeplace in 1897, the mother in 1902.  The trip of some
200 miles was made with oxen--a long and tedious journey.  Oxen were the
motive power when they had to go to Willmar--forty miles away--to trade;
oxen did the work on the farm; in fact, if it had not been for those willing
workers of the early day--the animal that did much of the farm work and
later was converted into meat for the table--Yellow Medicine county would
have been much longer reaching a self supporting stage.

Mons J. Rache was educated in the country schools, and after growing to
manhood, he operated the farm for his father many years.  He purchased the
place in 1896 and has been successful in its management.  He belongs to the
United Lutheran church and has served his township as school director and
road overseer a number of years.

Mr. Rache has two brothers.  One, Rev. Christian Rache, was educated in
Redwing Seminary and in Chicago and is now pastor of a church at Robinson,
Kansas, the other Ellis R. Rache, is a lawyer at Willmar, Minnesota; the
latter was educated at the University of Minnesota, where he took a six
years' course.

Mr. Rache was married in 1895 to Sophie Simmonson, a daughter of R. S.
Simmonson, who came from Norway in an early day and located in Swift county.
The following are their children: Levi, born March 20, 1896; Dina, April 14,
1898; Roy, March 18, 1900; Henry, June 28, 1903; Charles E., December 12,
1906; Monroe H., February 3, 1910; and  Evelyn E., March 30, 1912.