The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 216

BENJAMIN F. LINSE.

The younger agricultural fraternity of Yakima county is represented by Benjamin
F. Linse, the owner of twenty acres of land on the Tieton, part of which is in
apple orchard, the remainder being devoted to hay and grain. A native of South
Dakota, he was born in Marshall county, February 12, 1886, and is a son of Fred
and Anna (Berg) Linse, pioneers of Minnesota, who in 1881, five years before the
birth of our subject, removed to South Dakota, where the father continued to
follow farming, the family home being established in Day county. There they
continued until 1902, Benjamin F. Linse receiving his educational training in
the rural schools near his father's farm, and on the removal of the family to
Yakima county he accompanied them, at which time he was sixteen years of age.
He continued upon the home farm until 1906, when, at the age of twenty, he
bought twenty acres of land on the Tieton, which was then covered with
sagebrush. He has since improved this place and now has four acres in apples,
while the remainder is devoted to grain and hay.

On the 6th of October, 1910, Mr. Linse was united in marriage to Miss Ella
Speich, a native of Renwick, Iowa, and a daughter of Mathias and Barbara Speich,
who were born in Switzerland and in early life crossed the ocean to the United
States. They at first located in Wisconsin, later removing to Iowa and in 1906
coming to Yakima county. The father was an agriculturist, following that
occupation in the various states in which the family resided and continuing
ranching at Nob Hill his death. His widow survives. To Mr. and Mrs. Linse has
been born ason, Edmond Burton, whose birth occurred December 19, 1913.

Mr. and Mrs. Linse attend the Evangelical church. In his political views Mr.
Linse is independent, giving his support to measures and candidates as his
judgment dictates. From 1902 until 1915 he was a member of the National Guard of
the state of Washington and reached the rank of first lieutenant in the
organization. 

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
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