From His Excellency, A. R. McGill, Governor of Minnesota:
"Captain Glazier's claim to be the discoverer of the true source of the Mississippi seems reasonable, to say the least. I have been a resident of Minnesota twenty-six years, and never until Captain Glazier's expedition, heard the claim of Itasca being the source of the Great River seriously questioned."
From Hon. Horace Austin, Ex-Governor:
"I think that it would be a very proper thing to do under the circumstances that Captain Glazier's services should be recognized by the passage of a bill by the Legislature giving his name to the lake which is the real source of the Mississippi."
From Hon. W. H. Gale, Ex-Lieutenant-Governor, Winona
"I have been a resident of Minnesota for more than twenty-eight years, and I believe it was the generally accepted opinion of the people of this State that Lake Itasca was the source of the Mississippi River, until after the expedition of Captain Willard Glazier, and his publication to the world that another lake south of Lake Itasca was the true source, to which lake has been given the name of Lake Glazier. This is now generally recognized as the true source and head of the Mississippi, and Captain Glazier as the man who first made known that fact to the world."