History of Morrison and Todd Counties, Minnesota: Their People, Industries and Institutions, Τόμος 1B. F. Bowen, Incorporated, 1915 |
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August Belle Prairie Belle Prairie township Bertha brick Browerville Buckman Buckman township building built cashier Catholic Charles Chippewas church civil township Company congregation county commissioners court house creamery Crow Wing Crow Wing county Dakotah Darling township district Eagle Bend east elected erected farm feet fifty Frank George German Green Prairie Grey Eagle Guzdek Indians John Joseph July Lake land Little Elk Little Falls Little Sauk located Long Prairie river Lutheran March Methodist miles mill Minnesota Mississippi river Moran township Morrison county Motley named National Bank Northern Pacific officers organized parish pastor Paul Peter Pierz Pierz township pioneer Polish population in 1910 Prairie township present president railroad range 30 Rivers township Round Prairie Royalton school house September settled settlement settlers Sioux Staples Swan River Swanville territory thousand dollars Todd county town township 129 township 41 Vasaly vice-president village West Union William
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Σελίδα 219 - Every biographical sketch in the work has been submitted to the party interested, for correction, and therefore any error of fact, if there be any, is solely due to the person for whom the sketch was prepared.
Σελίδα 146 - St. Paul and St. Anthony, to a point between the foot of Big Stone Lake and the mouth of Sioux Wood River, with a branch, via St. Cloud and Crow Wing, to the navigable waters of the Red River of the North, at such point as the Legislature of said territory may determine ; from St.
Σελίδα 36 - ... More than a month after the adjournment of Congress, just at eve, on the ninth of April, amid terrific peals of thunder and torrents of rain, the weekly steam packet, the first to force its way through the icy barrier of Lake Pepin, rounded the rocky point whistling loud and long, as if the bearer of glad tidings. Before she was safely moored to the landing, the shouts of the excited villagers were heard announcing that there was a territory of Minnesota, and that Saint Paul was the seat of government.
Σελίδα 219 - The deeds and motives of the men that have gone before have been instrumental in shaping the destinies of later communities and states. The development of a new country was at once a task and a privilege. It required great courage, sacrifice and privation. Compare the present conditions of the people of Clinton county,.
Σελίδα 35 - March, 1849, a bill was passed organizing the Territory of Minnesota, whose boundary on the west extended to the Missouri River. At the time of the passage of the bill, organizing the Territory of Minnesota, the region was little more than a wilderness. The west bank of the Mississippi, from the Iowa line to Lake Itasca, was unceded by the Indians. At Wapashaw was a trading post in charge of Alexis Bailly, and here also resided the ancient voyageur, of fourscore years, A. Rocque. At the foot of Lake...
Σελίδα 34 - Father of his country," and proposed Washington. All of the names proposed were rejected, and the name in the original bill inserted. On the last day of the session, March third, the bill was called up in the Senate and laid on the table. When Wisconsin became a state the query arose whether the old territorial government did not continue in force west of the St. Croix river. The first meeting on the subject of claiming territorial privileges was held in the building at Saint Paul, known as Jackson's...
Σελίδα 38 - The message was ably written, and its perusal afforded satisfaction at home and abroad. The first session of the Legislature adjourned on the first of November. Among other proceedings of interest was the creation of the following counties: Itasca, Wapashaw, Dahkotah, Wahnahtah, Mahkahto, Pembina, Washington, Ramsey and Benton. The three latter counties comprised the country that up to that time had been ceded by the Indians on the east side of the Mississippi. Stillwater was declared the county...
Σελίδα 218 - DEDICATION. This work is respectfully dedicated to THE PIONEERS long since departed. May the memory of those who laid down their burdens by the wayside ever be fragrant as the breath of summer flowers, for their toils and sacrifices have made O'Brien and Osceola Counties a garden of sunshine and delights.
Σελίδα 34 - August fourth, and Messrs. Steele and Sibley were the only persons present from the west side of the Mississippi. This meeting issued a call for a general convention to take steps to secure an early territorial organization, to assemble on the twenty-sixth of the month at the same place. Sixty-two delegates answered the call, and among those present, were WD Phillips, JW Bass, A.
Σελίδα 40 - The day after the treaty these lower bands received thirty thousand dollars, which, by the treaty of 1837, was set apart for education ; but, by the misrepresentations of interested halfbreeds, the Indians were made to believe that it ought to be given to them to be employed as they pleased. The next week, with their sacks filled with money, they thronged the streets of St Paul, purchasing whatever pleased their fancy. On the seventeenth of September, a new paper was commenced in St. Paul, under...