About 1860, a brick yard was started on Section 12 (Pleasant Mound, Blue Earth County), by O. R. Mather and Wm. McQueen, some claim this brick yard was located mostly in Section 7, of Shelby (Township, Blue Earth County) and was not started until 1864 or 5. (History of Blue Earth County and Biographies of its Leading Citizens, Thomas Hughes, Middle West Publishing Company, Chicago, 1909, Page 280)

Mather, O R…Pleasant Mound (Merwin’s Business Directory of Minnesota For 1869-70, Heman Merwin, Saint Paul, 1869, Page 88)