Fifty Years In The Northwest / With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes

by William H. C. Folsom

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CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.
Biographical.
Genealogy of the American Folsoms [VII]
Autobiographical.
Parentage [IX]
Time and Place of Birth [IX]
Earliest Recollections [IX]
Removal to Bloomfield, Maine [X]
First Essay at Logging [X]
Commencing Life [XI]
Lost in the Snow [XIII]
Adventure on Moosehead Lake [XII]
On the Penobscot [XII]
Reminiscences of Maine [XIII]
Moosehead Lake [XIII]
Ascent of Kinneo Mountain [XIV]
Moose Hunting [XIV]
Mount Bigelow [XV]
Lumbering in Maine [XVI]
CHAPTER I.
Going West. [1]
Lakes Huron and Michigan [3]
Chicago and Milwaukee [5]
On Foot to Galena [6]
The Northwestern Territory [7]
Arrival at Dubuque [7]
Reminiscences of Dubuque [8]
Arrival at Prairie du Chien [9]
Early History of Prairie du Chien [9]
Ancient Document [10]
Forts Shelby—McKay—Crawford [11]
First Commissioners at Prairie du Chien [11]
Organization of Crawford County [12]
Indian Troubles [12]
Running the Gauntlet [13]
Fort Crawford Robbed [13]
Early Justice [14]
A Southward Journey [15]
New Orleans, Vicksburg [15]
Return to Prairie du Chien [16]
Privations [16]
A Perilous Journey [17]
Return to Maine—Mountains of New Hampshire [17]
Marriage [18]
Prairie du Chien in 1837 [18]
American Residents [19]
Biographies.
James Duane Doty [19]
James H. Lockwood [20]
Indian Troubles [21]
John S. Lockwood [22]
Samuel Gilbert [23]
Michael Brisbois [23]
Pierre La Point [24]
Joseph Rolette [24]
Hercules Dousman [24]
Rev. David Lowry [25]
Chief Justice Charles Dunn [25]
Rev. Alfred Brunson [26]
Ira Brunson [27]
John H. Folsom [28]
Ezekiel Tainter [28]
Judge Wyram Knowlton [29]
Robert Lester [29]
Thomas Pendleton Burnett [30]
General Henry Dodge [30]
General George W. Jones [31]
S. G. and S. L. Tainter, John Thomas [31]
CHAPTER II.
STILLWATER AND ST. CROIX COUNTY.
From Prairie du Chien to Stillwater [32]
Stillwater in 1845 [33]
St. Croix County [33]
First Settlement in 1838 [34]
Dismemberment of St. Croix Valley from Crawford County [34]
Judge Irwin's Court in 1840 [35]
Events in 1840, First Commissioners' Meeting [35]
Election Precincts in 1841 [36]
Early History of Stillwater [37]
The First Saw Mill [37]
Copy of Agreement of Mill Company [38]
Agreement of Land Claims [40]
Bateau Voyage up the St. Croix [41]
Indian Drunks [42]
Skiff Voyage to Prairie du Chien [42]
Mail Carrying [43]
Claim and Mill at Arcola [43]
Stillwater in 1846, Events [44]
Overland Trip to Prairie du Chien [44]
Return, Adventure [45]
A Pioneer Cat [45]
Stillwater in 1847 [46]
Territorial Election [46]
Arrest of Nodin and Ne-she-ke-o-ge-ma [46]
Visit to Sunrise, Connor's Camp [47]
Murder of Henry Rust [47]
Funeral, Indignation Meeting [48]
First District Court in Stillwater [48]
Nodin and Ne-she-ke-o-ge-ma Acquitted [49]
Steamer War Eagle and Raft [49]
Society Ball in Stillwater [49]
Stillwater in 1848 [50]
CHAPTER III.
BIOGRAPHIES.
Joseph Renshaw Brown [52]
Paul Carli [53]
Dr. Christopher Carli [53]
Lydia Ann Carli [54]
Phineas Lawrence [54]
Jacob Fisher [55]
James S. Anderson [55]
Emanuel D. Farmer [56]
Col. John Greely [56]
Mrs. Hannah Greely [57]
Elam Greely [57]
Himan Greely [57]
Aquilla Greely [58]
Elias McKean [58]
Calvin F. Leach [58]
Socrates Nelson [58]
Mrs. Socrates Nelson [59]
Edward Blake [59]
Walter R Vail [59]
John E Mower [60]
Martin Mower [61]
William Willim [61]
Albert Harris [61]
Cornelius Lyman [62]
David B Loomis [62]
William E Cove [63]
John Smith [63]
John Morgan [63]
Anson Northrup [63]
Robert Kennedy [64]
Harvey Wilson [65]
Andrew Jackson Short [65]
James D McComb [65]
William Rutherford [66]
Albion Masterman [66]
Joseph N Masterman [66]
Mahlon Black [66]
Morton S Wilkinson [67]
William Stanchfield [67]
Thomas Ramsdell [68]
Charles Macey [68]
Jonathan E McKusick [68]
John McKusick [68]
William McKusick [69]
Noah McKusick [69]
Royal McKusick [69]
Ivory E McKusick [69]
Charles E Leonard [69]
Daniel McLean [70]
Robert Simpson [70]
William H Hooper [70]
James H Spencer [71]
John T Blackburn [71]
Joseph T Blackburn [71]
Horace McKinstry [71]
Seth M Sawyer [71]
Henry Sawyer [72]
Alvah D Heaton [72]
John McKenzie [72]
George McKenzie [72]
Henry Kattenberg [72]
Julius F Brunswick [73]
Henry McLean [73]
Hugh Burns [73]
Sylvanus Trask [73]
Ariel Eldridge [73]
Edward White Durant [74]
Oliver Parsons [75]
Albert Stimson [75]
Abraham Van Voorhees [75]
Michael E Owens [76]
Joseph Bonin [77]
Marcel Gagnon [77]
Sebastian Marty [77]
John Marty [77]
Adam Marty [77]
Michael McHale [77]
George Watson [78]
Rev Eleazer A Greenleaf [78]
J B Covey [78]
John Shaesby [78]
John S Proctor [78]
Barron Proctor [79]
Henry Westing [79]
Thomas Dunn [79]
Charles J Gardiner [79]
Samuel Staples [79]
Josiah Staples [80]
Joel M Darling [80]
Early River Pilots [80]
Joe Perro [80]
James McPhail [80]
John Cormack [81]
John Hanford [81]
John Leach [81]
Stephen B Hanks [81]
Samuel S Hanks [81]
CHAPTER IV
POLK COUNTY
Description and History [82]
Franklin Steele, the First Pioneer [82]
His Account of the Settlement [83]
The St Croix Falls Lumbering Company [83]
Organization and History [83]
St Croix River, Origin of Name [84]
Treaty and Purchase of 1838 [85]
History of Polk County [85]
County Seat located at St. Croix Falls [86]
First Election County Officers [86]
First Happenings [87]
The Liquor Traffic [87]
Melancholy Results [88]
Death of Hall and Livingston [88]
Indian "Jamboree." [88]
Frontier Justice [89]
Balsam Lake Murders [89]
Execution of an Indian [89]
Population of St. Croix Falls in 1848 [90]
Natural Language [90]
Drowning of H. H. Perkins [90]
A Quailtown Murder [90]
Mineral Permits [91]
Marriage under Difficulties [91]
An Indian Scare [92]
The First Fire Canoe [92]
Mill Building [92]
More Indian Murders [93]
Indian Battle of Stillwater [96]
The First Loggers [96]
The First Rafting [97]
An Indian Payment [98]
Indian Dancing and Theft [99]
Other Thefts [99]
Hard Times [100]
Puzzled Indians, "Ugh! Ugh!" [101]
Mrs. Worth and Muckatice [101]
CHAPTER V.
POLK COUNTY—CONTINUED.
Biographies.
Gov. William Holcombe [103]
William S. Hungerford [104]
Caleb Cushing [104]
Judge Henry D. Barron [105]
George W. Brownell [107]
Col. Robert C. Murphy [108]
Edward Worth [109]
Mrs. Mary C. Worth [109]
Maurice M. Samuels [109]
Joseph B. Churchill [110]
John McLean [110]
Gilman Jewell [110]
Elisha Creech [110]
James W. McGlothlin [110]
Andrew L. Tuttle [110]
John Weymouth [111]
B. W. Reynolds [111]
Augustus Gaylord [111]
James D. Reymert [111]
William J. Vincent [112]
Thompson Brothers [112]
William Amery [112]
Lewis Barlow [113]
Levi W. Stratton [113]
Elma M. Blanding [113]
Blanding Family [113]
Frederick G. Bartlett [114]
Michael Field [115]
Alden [115]
Rev. A. B. Peabody [115]
V. M. Babcock [117]
Apple River [117]
Balsam Lake [117]
Beaver [118]
Black Brook [118]
Clam Falls [119]
Daniel F. Smith [119]
Clayton [120]
Reuben F. Little [120]
Clear Lake [122]
Pineville [123]
Frank M. Nye [123]
Eureka [123]
Charles Nevers [123]
Farmington [124]
Harmon Crandall [125]
Samuel Wall [125]
William Ramsey [125]
Hiram R. Nason [126]
Joel F. Nason [126]
John McAdams [126]
Charles Tea [126]
Garfield [126]
Georgetown [127]
A Double Murder [127]
George P. Anderson [128]
Laketown [128]
Lincoln [128]
William Wilson [129]
Loraine [129]
William W. Gallespie [130]
Luck [130]
William H. Foster [130]
Milltown [130]
Patrick Lillis [131]
Osceola [131]
Scenery [132]
First Happenings [132]
Change of Name [133]
Osceola Village [134]
Daniel Mears [134]
Nelson McCarty [134]
William O. Mahony [135]
Richard Arnold [135]
William Kent, Sr. [135]
Robert Kent [135]
Andrew Kent [135]
William, James, Thomas, and John Kent [136]
Samuel Close [136]
Ebenezer Ayres [136]
Dr. Carmi P. Garlick [137]
John S. Godfrey [137]
William A. Talboys [137]
Charles H. Staples [138]
J. W. Peake [138]
George Wilson [138]
Samuel B. Dresser [138]
Frederic A. Dresser [139]
Oscar A. Clark [139]
Oscar F. Knapp [139]
Mrs. Elisabeth B. Hayes [140]
Cyrus G. Bradley [140]
W. Hale [141]
Edgar C. Treadwell [141]
St. Croix Falls [141]
St. Croix Falls Village [141]
West Sweden [142]
Sterling [142]
Dr. Samuel Deneen [143]
William W. Trimmer [143]
Arnold Densmore [143]
CHAPTER VI.
ST. CROIX COUNTY.
Organization, 1840 [144]
Division, 1848

[144]
County Seat Located at Buena Vista [145]
First Election [145]
Division of the County, 1853 [146]
Present Limits [146]
General Description [146]
Monument Rock [147]
Towns and Date of Organization [148]
St. Croix County Agricultural Society [148]
Pomona Grange [148]
Agricultural Statistics [148]
Manufactures [149]
St. Croix Poor Farm [149]
First Tax Roll of County, 1848 [149]
Hudson City [152]
Original Claimants [153]
First Survey, etc. [153]
First Deed Recorded [154]
City Government [155]
Mayors of the City [155]
City Schools [155]
Military Institute [156]
Mills and Manufactories [156]
Banks [156]
Oliver Wendell Holmes Hospital [157]
Water Works [158]
Hotels, the Great Fire, 1866 [158]
Social and Benevolent Organizations [159]
Biographies.
Louis Massey [159]
Peter Bouchea [160]
William Steets [160]
Capt. John B. Page [160]
Dr. Philip Aldrich [160]
The Nobles Family [161]
James Purinton [161]
Ammah Andrews [162]
James Walstow [162]
James Sanders [162]
J. W. Stone [162]
Joseph Bowron [163]
Moses Perin [163]
John O. Henning [163]
Moses S. Gibson [164]
Col. James Hughes [164]
Daniel Anderson [165]
Alfred Day [165]
Dr. Otis Hoyt [165]
S. S. N. Fuller [166]
Miles H. Van Meter [166]
Philip B. Jewell [166]
John Tobin [166]
Horace A. Taylor [167]
Jeremiah Whaley [167]
Simon Hunt [167]
John S. Moffatt [167]
James H. Childs [168]
William Dwelley [168]
James M. Fulton [168]
Marcus A. Fulton [168]
David C. Fulton [168]
N. S. Holden [168]
William H. Semmes [169]
Sterling Jones [169]
D. R. Bailey [169]
Henry C. Baker [169]
Mert Herrick [169]
D. A. Baldwin [170]
John Comstock [170]
Lucius P. Wetherby [170]
John C. Spooner [170]
Thomas Porter [171]
Herman L. Humphrey [171]
Theodore Cogswell [172]
Frank P. Catlin [172]
Charles Y. Denniston [173]
A. E. Jefferson [173]
Samuel C. Symonds [173]
John E. Glover [173]
Lemuel North [173]
Edgar Nye [173]
William T. Price [173]
E. B. Bundy [174]
Towns and Biographies.
Baldwin [174]
Baldwin Village [174]
Woodville Village [175]
Cady [175]
Cylon [175]
Eau Galle [176]
Emerald [176]
Erin Prairie [176]
Forest [177]
Glenwood [177]
Hammond [177]
Hammond Village [178]
John Thayer [178]
Rev. William Egbert [178]
Hudson [178]
James Kelly [178]
Daniel Coit [179]
James Virtue [179]
Theodore M. Bradley [179]
William Dailey [179]
Robert and Wm. McDiarmid [179]
William Martin [179]
Paschal Aldrich [180]
Kinnikinic [180]
Duncan McGregor [180]
W. B. and James A. Mapes [181]
Pleasant Valley [182]
Richmond [182]
Boardman Village [183]
Gridley Village [183]
New Richmond Village [183]
New Richmond City [183]
Bank, High School [184]
Benjamin B.C. Foster [184]
Robert Philbrick [185]
Linden Coombs [185]
Eben Quinby [185]
Lewis Oaks [185]
Henry Russell [185]
Joseph D. Johnson [185]
Joel Bartlett [185]
Francis W. Bartlett [186]
George C. Hough [186]
Silas Staples [186]
Dr. Henry Murdock [187]
Steven N. Hawkins [187]
Rush River [188]
Somerset [188]
Somerset Village [189]
Gen. Samuel Harriman [189]
St. Joseph [190]
Houlton Village [191]
Burkhardt Village [191]
Springfield [191]
Hersey Village [191]
Wilson Village [192]
Stanton [192]
Star Prairie [192]
Huntington Village [192]
Star Prairie Village [192]
Hon. R. K. Fay [192]
Troy [193]
James Chinnock [193]
William L. Perrin [193]
Warren [194]
James Hill [194]
Village Plats [195]
CHAPTER VII
PIERCE COUNTY.
Descriptive [196]
History, First Events [197]
County Seat Changed to Ellsworth [198]
Railroads [199]
Miscellaneous Statistics [199]
Village Plats [199]
Organization of Towns [200]
Clifton [200]
George W. McMurphy [201]
Osborne Strahl [201]
Charles B. Cox [201]
Ephraim Harnsberger [201]
Diamond Bluff [202]
Capt. John Paine [202]
John Day [202]
Sarah A. Vance [203]
Allen R. Wilson [203]
E. S. Coulter [203]
James Bamber [203]
Jacob Mead [203]
Charles Walbridge [203]
Charles F. Hoyt [203]
Enoch Quinby [203]
The First Settler [203]
El Paso [204]
Ellsworth [205]
Ellsworth Village [205]
Anthony Huddleston [206]
Perry D. Pierce [206]
Hans B. Warner [207]
Gilman [207]
Hartland [208]
Isabelle [208]
Maiden Rock [209]
Christopher L. Taylor [209]
Martell [209]
Oak Grove [210]
Lewis M. Harnsberger [210]
Prescott City [210]
History [211]
Platted in 1857 [212]
First Official Board [212]
Statistics, First Events [212]
Churches [212]
Fair Grounds [213]
Cemetery [213]
Destructive Fires [213]
Philander Prescott [214]
George Schaser [214]
William S. Lockwood [215]
James Monroe Bailey [215]
Adolph Werkman [215]
Joseph Manese [215]
Hilton Doe [215]
Lute A. Taylor [215]
John Huitt [216]
John M. Rice [216]
An Indian Battle [216]
River Falls [217]
First Happenings [217]
Water Powers [217]
Schools at River Falls [218]
River Falls Academy [218]
Churches [219]
Associations [219]
Bank, Railroad [220]
Fires [220]
River Falls City, Organization [220]
Falls of Kinnikinic [220]
The Cave Cabin [221]
The Fourth State Normal School [221]
Joel Foster [224]
Jesse B. Thayer [224]
A. D. Andrews [224]
Joseph A. Short [225]
Prof. Allen H. Weld [225]
Allen P. Weld [225]
George W. Nichols [225]
W. D. Parker [226]
William Powell [226]
Lyman Powell [226]
Nathaniel N. Powell [226]
Oliver S. Powell [226]
Nils P. Haugen [227]
H. L. Wadsworth [227]
Rock Elm [227]
Salem [227]
Spring Lake [228]
Trenton [228]
Trimbelle [229]
M. B. Williams [229]
Union [229]
CHAPTER VIII.
BURNETT, WASHBURN, SAWYER AND BARRON COUNTIES.
Burnett County.
Location and Description [230]
Organization [231]
Pine Barrens [231]
Murders [232]
Old Geezhic [233]
The First Mission [234]
The Chippewas of Wood Lake [236]
Grantsburg [237]
Canute Anderson [237]
The Hickerson Family [238]
The Anderson Family [238]
Robert A. Doty [238]
The Cranberry Marshes [239]
Washburn County.
Description, Town Organization [240]
First Events [240]
Shell Lake, Summit Lake [241]
First Board of County Officers [241]
Shell Lake Lumber Company [241]
Sawyer Creek [242]
Spooner Station [242]
Veazie Village [242]
Sawyer County.
Organization, Description [242]
County Indebtedness [243]
Town of Hayward [243]
Village of Hayward [243]
First Events, Schools, Churches, etc. [244]
Bank, Lumber Company [244]
Malcomb Dobie [245]
Milton V. Stratton [245]
Barron County.
Description, Organization [245]
Turtle Lake, Town and Village [245]
Barron, Perley Village [246]
Cumberland Village [246]
Sprague [246]
Comstock and Barronett Villages [247]
Charles Simeon Taylor [247]
CHAPTER IX.
ASHLAND, BAYFIELD AND DOUGLAS COUNTIES.
Ashland County.
History, Location, Description [248]
Isles of the Apostles [248]
Claude Allouez at Madeline Island [249]
Early History of La Pointe [249]
Remarkable Epitaph [249]
La Pointe County Election [249]
John W. Bell [250]
Ashland [250]
History, First Events [250]
Asaph Whittlesey [251]
J. P. T. Haskell [251]
G. S. Vaughn [251]
Dr. Edwin Ellis [252]
Martin Beaser [252]
Hon. Sam S. Fifield [252]
Bayfield County.
Location and History [253]
Bayfield Village [253]
Washburn, Drummond, etc. [254]
Douglas County.
Description and History [254]
First Election [254]
Superior City [255]
History [255]
Early Speculation [256]
Period of Depression [257]
West Superior [258]
The Bardon Brothers [258]
William H. Newton [258]
Judge Solon H. Clough [258]
Vincent Roy [259]
D. George Morrison [259]
August Zachau [259]
CHAPTER X.
PINE COUNTY.
History [260]
Description [260]
First Events [261]
Finances, Railroads [261]
Losses by Fire [262]
Pokegama Lake and Mission [262]
Thomas Conner's Trading Post [262]
Presbyterian Mission [263]
Mushk-de-winini [263]
Battle of Pokegama [264]
Cannibalism [265]
A Noble Chief [267]
Frank Confessions [267]
A Cowardly Deed [268]
An Unjust Accusation [268]
Indian Magnanimity [269]
Rev. Frederic Ayer [269]
Rev. William T. Boutwell [272]
Discovery of Itasca [274]
Mrs. Hester C. Boutwell [276]
Chengwatana [276]
First Settlers [276]
Chengwatana Village Platted [277]
Chengwatana Town Organized [277]

Louis Ayd [277]
Duane Porter [277]
S. A. Hutchinson [277]
Hinckley, Town of [278]
Hinckley, Village of [278]
James Morrison [278]
Sandstone Village and Quarries [279]
Wm. H. Grant, Sr. [279]
Kettle River, Town of [279]
John C. Hanley [280]
Mission Creek [280]
Pine City, Town of [280]
Pine City, Village of [281]
Richard G. Robinson [281]
Hiram Brackett [281]
Randall K. Burrows [281]
John S. Ferson [282]
Samuel Millet [282]
Rock Creek [282]
Enoch Horton [282]
Royalton [282]
Windermere [283]
Neshodana, Fortuna, St. John's [283]
A Rock Creek Murder [283]
Burning of a Jail [283]
A Disfigured Family [284]
Indian Faith Cure [284]
Indian Graves [284]
Indian Stoicism [285]
Old Batice [285]
An Indian Dance [285]
CHAPTER XI.
KANABEC, ISANTI, AND MILLE LACS COUNTIES.
Kanabec County.
History, Boundaries, etc. [286]
Description [286]
First Settlers, First Election [287]
First Events [287]
Arthur [288]
Mora, Village of [288]
Stephen L. Danforth [288]
N. H. Danforth [288]
Alvah J. Conger [288]
Ira Conger [288]
Bronson, Village of [288]
Brunswick, Town of [289]
Brunswick, Village of [289]
Ground House City [289]
James Pennington [289]
George L. Staples [289]
Daniel Gordon [290]
Grass Lake, Town of [290]
Isanti County.
Organization [290]
Cambridge [291]
North Branch, Town of [291]
Oxford, Town of [291]
Stephen Hewson [291]
George W. Nesbit [292]
Rensselaer Grant [292]
Mille Lacs County.
Description [292]
Mille Lacs Reservation [293]
County Organization in 1860 [293]
First Election and Officers [293]
Milacca, Village of [294]
Bridgman, Village of [294]
Princeton, Village of [294]
Samuel Ross [296]
Joseph L. Cater [296]
M. V. B. Cater [296]
Edwin Allen [296]
John H. Allen [296]
A. B. Damon [296]
C. H. Chadbourne [296]
CHAPTER XII.
CHISAGO COUNTY.
Location, Surface, Scenery [298]
Chisago Lake [298]
Dalles of the St. Croix [299]
Origin of the Formation [300]
The Devil's Chair [300]
The Wells [301]
Settlement and Organization [302]
Joe R. Brown to the Front [303]
Prehistoric Remains [303]
Robinet in Possession [303]
Robinet Bought Off, First Improvements [304]
Death of B. F. Baker [304]
The First Log House Built [305]
First Crops Raised [305]
First Election [305]
Chisago County Named [306]
First Commissioners [307]
County Seat Located at Taylor's Falls [307]
Removed to Centre City [307]
Amador [307]
First Supervisors [308]
Thornton Bishop [308]
William Holmes [308]
James M. Martin [309]
Branch [309]
North Branch Station [309]
Henry L. Ingalls [310]
Mrs. Lavina L. Ingalls [310]
Chisago Lake, First Settlers [310]
First Crops [311]
Swedish Lutheran Church [311]
Centre City [312]
Andrew Swenson [312]
John S. Van Rensselaer [312]
Axel Dahliam [313]
Nels Nord [313]
Join A. Hallberg [314]
Charles A. Bush [313]
Lars Johan Stark [313]
Frank Mobeck [313]
Robert Currie [314]
Andrew N. Holm [313]
Cemetery and other Associations [314]
Incorporation [314]
Indian Dance [314]
Lindstrom Village [314]
Daniel Lindstrom [315]
Magnus S. Shaleen [315]
Chisago City [315]
Otto Wallmark [316]
Andrew Wallmark [316]
Fish Lake [316]
Peter Berg [317]
Benjamin Franklin [317]
Franconia [317]
Franconia Village [318]
Ansel Smith [318]
Henry F. and Leonard P. Day [318]
Henry Wills [318]
The Clark Brothers [319]
David Smith [319]
Jonas Lindall [319]
William Peaslee [319]
Charles Vitalis [319]
August J. Anderson [320]
Frank N. Peterson [320]
Harris [321]
Harris Village [321]
Lent [322]
Nessell [322]
Robert Nessell [323]
Stephen B. Clark [323]
Rush Seba [323]
Rush City [323]
Thomas Flynn [324]
Patrick Flynn [324]
Rufus Crocker [324]
Frank H. Pratt [324]
Voloro D. Eddy [325]
F. S. Christianson [326]
Shafer [326]
Jacob Shafer [326]
Peter Wickland [327]
Tuver Walmarson [327]
Andros Anderson [327]
Eric Byland [327]
Jacob Peterson [327]
Ambrose C. Seavey [327]
Sunrise [328]
Sunrise Village [328]
Kost Village [329]
Chippewa [329]
Dronthiem [329]
Nashua [330]
Washington [330]
John A. Brown [330]
Patten W. Davis [330]
James F. Harvey [330]
Floyd S. Bates [330]
Isaac H. Warner [331]
Charles F. Lowe [331]
Wells Farr [331]
John G. Mold [331]
George L. Blood [331]
Joel G. Ryder [332]
John Dean [332]
Taylor's Falls [332]
First Post Office and Mail Service [332]
Mills, First Events [333]
Religious Organizations [333]
Bridge Company [334]
Banks, Mining Companies [334]
CHAPTER XIII.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
Jesse Taylor [336]
Joshua L. Taylor [336]
Nathan C. D. Taylor [337]
Thomas F. Morton [337]
Henry N. Setzer [337]
Patrick Fox [338]
William F. Colby [339]
Oscar Roos [339]
Samuel Thomson [339]
Susan Thomson Mears [339]
George De Attly [340]
Jacob Markley [340]
John Dobney [340]
William Dobney [340]
Henry H. Newbury [340]
Emil Munch [340]
A. M. Wilmarth [341]
Lucius K. Stannard [341]
James W. Mullen [342]
David Caneday [342]
George B. Folsom [343]
Aaron M. Chase [343]
Peter Abear [343]
Levi W. Folsom [344]
Eddington Knowles [344]
Dr. Lucius B. Smith [344]
William Comer [344]
E. Whiting and Brothers [345]
Frederic Tang, Sr. [346]
Ward W. Folsom [346]
George W. Seymour [346]
James A. Woolley [346]
Patrick Carroll [347]
Joseph Carroll [347]
E. E. Edwards [347]
Stephen J. Merrill [348]
Noah Marcus Humphrey [348]
Royal C. Gray [349]
John P. Owens [349]
Andrew Clendenning [350]
Smith Ellison [350]
Wyoming—Settlement and Organization [350]
Wyoming Village [352]
Deer Garden [352]
L. O. Tombler [352]
Dr. John Woolman Comfort [353]
Isaac Markley [353]
Joel Wright [353]
Randall Wright [353]
Frederic Tepel [353]
Charles Henry Sauer [354]
CHAPTER XIV.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Organization in 1849 [355]
First Board of Officers [355]
Afton [356]
Afton Village [357]
South Afton [357]
Valley Creek [357]
St. Mary Village [357]
Joseph Haskell [358]
Lemuel Bolles [358]
Taylor F. Randolph [358]
Elijah Bissell [358]
Andrew Mackey [358]
Baytown Settlement [359]
Baytown Village [359]
Bangor [360]
Middletown [360]
South Stillwater [360]
Mills, etc. [360]
Docks, Factories, Cemeteries [360]
Cottage Grove [361]
Cottage Grove Village [361]
Langdon [362]
Joseph W. Furber [362]
Samuel W. Furber [362]
Theodore Furber [363]
James S. Norris [363]
Lewis Hill [363]
Jacob Moshier [363]
William Ferguson [363]
John Atkinson [363]
Denmark [364]
Point Douglas [364]
Levi Hertzell [365]
Oscar Burris [365]
David Hone [365]
William B. Dibble [366]
George Harris [366]
Harley D. White [367]
Thomas Hetherington [367]
James Shearer [367]
Simon Shingledecker [367]
Caleb Truax [367]
Abraham Truax [368]
George W. Campbell [368]
Forest Lake, History of [368]
Captain Michael Marsh [369]
Forest Lake Village [369]
Grant, History of [369]
Dellwood [370]
Eagle City [370]
Mahtomedi [370]
Wildwood [370]
William Elliott [371]
Frederick Lamb [371]
James Rutherford [371]
Jesse H. Soule [371]
Lakeland, Description and History of [372]
Lakeland Village [372]
Henry W. Crosby [373]
Reuben H. Sanderson [373]
Newton McKusick [373]
Captain John Oliver [373]
Captain Asa Barlow Green [374]
L. A. Huntoon [374]
Marine, Origin of Settlement [374]
First Settlers [375]
The Mill Completed [375]
Marine Mills Village [376]
First Lawsuit [376]
Churches, Improvements [377]
Losses by Fire [378]
Vasa Village [378]
Orange Walker [378]
Lewis Walker [379]
Samuel Burkelo [379]
Asa S. Parker [379]
Hiram Berkey [380]
George B. Judd [380]
James Hale [380]
John Holt [380]
George Holt [381]
William Town [381]
Matthias Welshance [381]
Benj. T. Otis [382]
William Clark [382]
James R. Meredith [382]
John D. and Thomas E. Ward [382]
Samuel Judd [382]
Frederic W. Lammers [382]
James R. M. Gaskill [382]
Newport, Town of [383]
Isle Pelee [383]
Red Rock [383]
Mission at Red Rock [384]
Gray Cloud City [385]
Newport Village [385]
John Holton [385]
John A. Ford [385]
Daniel Hopkins, Sr. [385]
William R. Brown [386]
William Fowler [386]
Oakdale, Town of [386]

Lake Elmo Village [387]
E. C. Gray [387]
Arthur Stephens [388]
Oneka, Town of [388]
Oneka Station [389]
Shady Side Village [389]
Daniel Hopkins, Jr. [389]
Stillwater, Town of [389]
Oak Park [390]
David P. Lyman [390]
Henry A. Jackman [390]
Frederic J. Curtis [391]
David Cover [391]
John Parker [391]
Woodbury, Town of [391]
Jacob Folstrom [392]
Alexander McHattie [393]
John McHattie [393]
The Middleton Family [393]
Newington Gilbert [394]
Ebenezer Ayers [394]
CHAPTER XV.
WASHINGTON COUNTY—CONTINUED.
City of Stillwater.
Stillwater in 1850 [396]
The Freshet of 1850 [397]
A Real Estate Movement [397]
Incorporation of Stillwater [398]
List of Marshals [398]
Post Office, Mail Routes [398]
Statistics [399]
Hotels [399]
City Banks [400]
Board of Trade, Water Company [402]
Fire Department [402]
Gas Light, Telegraph, Telephone [403]
Elevator, Express Companies, Bridge [403]
Lumbering Interests, Flour Mills [404]
Manufactories [404]
Building Association [405]
Churches, etc. [406]
Public Buildings [408]
Societies, etc. [409]
Cemeteries [410]
Agricultural Society [410]
State Prison [410]
Fires, Bonds, Indebtedness [412]
Biographies.
Isaac Staples [413]
Samuel F. Hersey & Sons [415]
Jacob Bean [416]
Charles Bean [416]
Rudolph Lehmicke [417]
Hollis R. Murdock [417]
George M. Seymour [417]
Frank A. Seymour [418]
Louis Hospes [418]
David Tozer [419]
David Bronson [420]
John Maloy [420]
Mrs. Susannah Tepass [420]
William E. Thorne [420]
Edmund J. Butts [420]
A. B. Easton [421]
Edwin A. Folsom [421]
John B. H. Mitchell [421]
Joseph Schupp [422]
Clifford A. Bennett [422]
Samuel Mathews [422]
John and James Mathews [423]
Peter Jourdain [423]
James Rooney [423]
James N. Castle [423]
Abraham L. Gallespie [423]
John C. Gardiner [423]
V. C. Seward [424]
Ralph Wheeler [424]
Edward S. Brown [424]
William Lowell [424]
Albert Lowell [425]
Nelson H. Van Voorhes [425]
Andrew J. Van Voorhes [425]
Henry C. Van Voorhes [425]
C. A. Bromley [426]
Charles J. Butler [426]
Levi E. Thompson [427]
George Davis [427]
William M. McCluer [427]
John N. Ahl [427]
Samuel M. Register [428]
J. A. Johnson [428]
Gold T. Curtis [429]
Harley D. Curtis [429]
Francis R. Delano [429]
Henry W. Cannon [430]
Dwight M. Sabin [430]
CHAPTER XVI.
STEARNS, ANOKA AND SHERBURNE COUNTIES.
Stearns County.
Organization and History of [432]
St. Cloud [434]
Newspapers and Post Office [435]
Village and City Organization [435]
Land Office, Expenditures [435]
The St. Cloud Dam, Improvements [436]
Banks, Public Buildings [436]
St. John's University [437]
La Sauk, Town of [438]
Peter Schaeler [438]
John L. Wilson [438]
Charles T. Stearns [438]
Henry G. Fillmore [438]
Nathaniel Getchell [438]
James Keough [438]
Loren W. Collins [438]
Henry C. Waite [439]
Gen. S. B. Lowry [439]
A. and Joseph Edelbrock [439]
John Rengel [440]
Louis A. Evans [440]
Ambrose Freeman [440]
Nathan F. Barnes [440]
Nehemiah P. Clark [441]
Oscar E. Garrison [441]
Charles A. Gilman [441]
Other Citizens [442]
Anoka County.
Organization [442]
First Settlers, Commissioners [443]
Anoka, Town of [443]
Anoka, City of [443]
Incorporation [444]
Fires, Public Buildings [445]
Manufactures, Banks [445]
Bethel, Town of [446]
Blaine, Town of [446]
Burns, Town of [446]
Centreville, Town of [446]
Centreville Village [446]
Columbus, Town of [447]
Fridley, Town of [447]
John Banfil [448]
Grow, Town of [448]
Ham Lake, Town of [448]
Linwood, Town of [448]
L. S. Arnold [449]
S. Ridge [449]
J. G. Green [449]
S. W. Haskell [449]
M. M. Ryan [449]
Hurley Family [449]
Oak Grove, Town of [449]
Ramsey, Town of [449]
St. Francis, Town of [450]
An Indian Riot [450]
Jared Benson [451]
James C. Frost [451]
A. J. McKenney [451]
John Henry Batzle [452]
John R. Bean [452]
A. McC. Fridley [452]
William Staples [452]
Capt. James Starkey [453]
Sherburne County.
Description [453]
Organization [453]
Towns of Sherburne County [454]
Villages of Sherburne County [455]
Orono, Elk River [455]
East St. Cloud [456]
Clear Lake [456]
Becker [456]
Big Lake [456]
J. Q. A. Nickerson [456]
Henry Bittner [456]
Francis DeLille [457]
Mrs. F. DeLille [457]
Howard M. Atkins [457]
B. F. Hildreth [458]
Samuel Hayden [458]
Joseph Jerome [458]
Joshua O. Cater [458]
J. F. Bean [458]
J. H. Felch [458]
James Brady [458]
Joshua Briggs [458]
Robert Orrock [458]
John G. Jamieson [458]
A. B. Heath [458]
Dr. B. R. Palmer [459]
Judge Moses Sherburne [459]
Charles F. George [459]
Royal George [459]
W. L. Babcock [459]
CHAPTER XVII.
BENTON, MORRISON AND CROW WING COUNTIES.
Benton County.
Description [460]
First Settlers, Organization [461]
Towns of Benton County [461]
Villages [461]
Sauk Rapids, Incorporation [461]
Dam and Public Buildings [462]
The Cyclone of 1886 [462]
Watab Village [462]
Philip Beaupre [462]
David Gilman [463]
James Beatty [463]
Ellis Kling [463]
George W. Benedict [464]
J. Q. A. Wood [464]
William H. Wood [464]
Mrs. Wm. H. Wood [465]
A. DeLacy Wood [465]
P. H. Wood [465]
Rev. Sherman Hall [465]
Jeremiah Russell [466]
Edgar O. Hamlin [467]
Morrison County.
Description [468]
History [468]
Indian Feuds [469]
Organization [469]
Winnebago Indiana [470]
Towns of Morrison County [471]
Little Falls Village [471]
Little Falls Water Power [472]
Incorporation [473]
Schools and Churches [473]
Royalton Village [473]
Incorporation, First Officers [473]
Peter Roy [473]
William Sturgis [474]
James Fergus [474]
Nathan Richardson [475]
Moses La Fond [475]
O. A. Churchill [475]
John M. Kidder [476]
Warren Kobe [476]
Ola K. Black [476]
Ira W. Bouch [476]
Robert Russell [476]
Peter A. Green [476]
Rodolphus D. Kinney [476]
John D. Logan [476]
Crow Wing County.
Description [477]
First Settlers [477]
Organization [478]
Reorganization [478]
Murderers Lynched [478]
Brainerd [478]
First Settlers [479]
Northern Pacific Sanitarium [480]
The Kindred Dam [480]
L. P. White [480]
Allen Morrison [480]
Charles F. Kindred [481]
CHAPTER XVIII.
AITKIN, CARLTON, ST. LOUIS, LAKE AND COOK COUNTIES.
Aitkin County.
Description [482]
Organization, Officers [482]
Aitkin Village [483]
William A. Aitkin [483]
Alfred Aitkin [483]
Nathaniel Tibbett [484]
Carlton County.
History and Organization [484]
Towns of Carlton County [485]
Thomson Village [485]
Cloquet Village [485]
Moose Lake Station [485]
Barnum Station [486]
Mahtowa Station [486]
North Pacific Junction [486]
Francis A. Watkins [486]
St. Louis County.
Description [486]
Picturesque Scenery [487]
Commissioners' Meetings [487]
List of Commissioners [488]
Duluth, Early History [488]
Growth, Population [489]
Mills, Warehouses, Shipments [489]
Duluth Harbor [490]
Fish Commission [490]
Fond du Lac Village [491]
Oneota Village [492]
Clifton Village [492]
Portland Village [492]
Endion Village [492]
Middleton Village [492]
Montezuma Village [492]
Buchanan Village [492]
St. Louis Falls Village [492]
Fremont Island [493]
Tower [493]
George R. Stuntz [494]
George E. Stone [494]
Charles H. Graves [494]
Ozro P. Stearns [494]
Lake County.
Description [495]
Two Harbors [496]
Cook County.
History and Organization [496]
CHAPTER XIX.
HENNEPIN COUNTY.
Organization and History, Towns [497]
Fort Snelling [497]
Treaty of 1837 [499]
First Land Claims, 1838 [499]
Cheever's Tower [500]
St. Anthony Village Platted [500]
First Marriage in the Territory [500]
First Courts, School, Post Office [501]
Church Organizations [501]
The Suspension Bridge Built [502]
St. Anthony Incorporated 1855 [502]
Annexation to Minneapolis, 1872 [502]
St. Anthony Falls [502]
La Salle's Description [502]
Minneapolis, Early Settlers [502]
Early Land Claims [504]
Business Enterprises [505]
Mills Erected [505]
St. Anthony Water Power Company [506]
Minneapolis Named, Land Office [506]
Incorporation as a City, 1867 [506]
Annexation of St. Anthony [506]
List of Mayors [507]
Water vs. Steam [507]
Terrific Explosion at the Flour Mills [508]
Suburban Resorts [508]
List of Public Buildings [509]
Post Office Statistics [510]
Lumber Manufactured [511]
Bonded Debt, Taxes, Expenses [511]
West Minneapolis [511]
Biographies.
Calvin A. Tuttle [512]
Cyrus Aldrich [512]
Dr. Alfred E. Ames [514]
Dr. Albert A. Ames [514]
Jesse Ames [515]
Cadwallader C. Washburn [515]
William D. Washburn [517]
Joseph C. Whitney [517]
Charles Hoag [518]
Franklin Steele [518]
Roswell P. Russell [519]

Horatio P. Van Cleve [520]
Charlotte O. Van Cleve [520]
Ard Godfrey [520]
Richard Chute [521]
Lucius N. Parker [521]
Captain John Rollins [521]
John G. Lennon [521]
John H. Stevens [522]
Caleb D. Dorr [522]
Rev. Edward D. Neill [522]
John Wensignor [523]
Robert H. Hasty [524]
Stephen Pratt [524]
Capt. John Tapper [524]
R. W. Cummings [524]
Elias H. Conner [524]
C. F. Stimson [524]
William Dugas [524]
David Gorham [525]
Edwin Hedderly [525]
Louis Neudeck [525]
Andrew J. Foster [525]
A. D. Foster [525]
Charles E. Vanderburgh [525]
Dorillius Morrison [526]
H. G. O. Morrison [526]
F. R. E. Cornell [526]
Gen. A. B. Nettleton [527]
Isaac Atwater [527]
Rev. David Brooks [527]
Prof. Jabez Brooks [527]
John S. Pillsbury [528]
Henry T. Welles [528]
David Blakely [528]
William Lochren [528]
Eugene M. Wilson [528]
R. B. Langdon [529]
William M. Bracket [529]
Thos. B. and Platt B. Walker [529]
Austin H. Young [530]
Henry G. Hicks [530]
John P. Rea [530]
John Martin [520]
John Dudley [531]
CHAPTER XX.
RAMSEY COUNTY.
Organization, First Officers [532]
St. Paul in 1840, Known as Pig's Eye [532]
First Settlers [532]
Father Ravoux, 1841 [533]
Henry Jackson Established a Trading Post [533]
Accessions of 1843 [533]
Accessions of 1844 [534]
First Deed [534]
Accessions of 1845 [534]
First School [535]
Second Deed, Phalen's Tract [535]
Accessions of 1846 [535]
Reminiscences [536]
Accessions in 1847 [536]
St. Paul Platted [537]
Miss Bishop's School [537]
First Steamboat Line [537]
Accessions of 1848 [538]
Progress in 1849 [539]
St. Paul Made the Capital of the State [539]
The First Newspapers [539]
Early Items and Advertisements [540]
Pioneers of 1849 [540]
Some Comparisons [541]
Statistics of Population, Schools, Buildings [542]
List of Mayors [543]
West St. Paul [544]
Towns of Ramsey County [544]
White Bear [545]
First Settlers [545]
Indian Battle Ground [546]
Town Organization [547]
White Bear Lake Village [548]
Hotels and Cottages [548]
Daniel Getty [549]
South St. Paul [549]
North St. Paul [550]
Population of St Paul [550]
Post Office History [551]
CHAPTER XXI.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
Henry Hastings Sibley [553]
Alexander Ramsey [556]
William H. Forbes [557]
Henry M. Rice [558]
Edmund Rice [560]
Louis Robert [561]
Auguste L. Larpenteur [562]
William H. Nobles [562]
Simeon P. Folsom [563]
Jacob W. Bass [563]
Benjamin W. Brunson [564]
Abram S. and Chas. D. Elfelt [564]
D. A. J. Baker [565]
Benjamin F. Hoyt [565]
John Fletcher Williams [566]
Dr. John H. Murphy [566]
William H. Tinker [567]
George P. Jacobs [567]
Lyman Dayton [567]
Henry L. Moss [567]
William Rainey Marshall [568]
David Cooper [569]
Bushrod W. Lott [570]
W. F. Davidson [570]
Wm. H. Fisher [571]
Charles H. Oakes [572]
C. W. W. Borup [572]
Capt. Russell Blakely [573]
Rensselaer R. Nelson [573]
George L. Becker [574]
Aaron Goodrich [575]
Nathan Myrick [575]
John Melvin Gilman [576]
Charles E. Flandrau [576]
John B. Sanborn [577]
John R. Irvine [579]
Horace R. Bigelow [580]
Cushman K. Davis [580]
S. J. R. McMillan [581]
Willis A. Gorman [581]
John D. Ludden [582]
Elias F. Drake [582]
Norman W. Kittson [583]
Hascal R. Brill [583]
Ward W. Folsom [584]
Gordon E. Cole [584]
James Smith, Jr. [584]
William P. Murray [585]
Henry Hale [585]
James Gilfillan [585]
Charles Duncan Gilfillan [586]
Alexander Wilkin [586]
Westcott Wilkin [587]
S. C. Whitcher [587]
T. M. Newson [587]
Alvaren Allen [588]
Harlan P. Hall [589]
Stephen Miller [589]
CHAPTER XXII.
DAKOTA, GOODHUE, WABASHA AND WINONA COUNTIES.
Dakota County.
Description [591]
Hastings [591]
Farmington [591]
Ignatius Donnelly [591]
Francis M. Crosby [592]
G. W. Le Duc [593]
Goodhue County.
Red Wing, Barn Bluff [595]
Cannon Falls [595]
Indian Burying Ground [596]
Hans Mattson [596]
Lucius F. Hubbard [597]
William Colville [599]
Martin S. Chandler [599]
Charles McClure [600]
Horace B. Wilson [600]
Wabasha County.
Wabasha Village [601]
Bailey and Sons [602]
Nathaniel S. Tefft [602]
James Wells [602]
Winona County.
Scenery [602]
Winona City [603]
Daniel S. Norton [603]
William Windom [603]
Charles H. Berry [604]
Thomas Wilson [604]
Thomas Simpson [605]
Wm. H. Yale [605]
CHAPTER XXIII.
MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES.
Pierre Bottineau [606]
Andrew G. Chatfield [606]
Hazen Mooers [607]
John McDonough Berry [607]
Mark H. Dunnell [608]
James H. Baker [608]
Horace B. Strait [609]
Judson Wade Bishop [610]
John L. McDonald [610]
Thomas H. Armstrong [611]
Augustus Armstrong [611]
Moses K. Armstrong [611]
James B. Wakefield [611]
William Wallace Braden [611]
Reuben Butters [612]
Michael Doran [612]
Andrew McCrea [613]
John W. Blake [613]
Knute Nelson [613]
William R. Denny [613]
APPENDIX.
MISCELLANEOUS INCIDENTS, INDIAN TREATIES, ETC.
Brief History of the Northwest Territory [616]
Spanish Claims [616]
French Claims [617]
Louisiana in 1711 [618]
Settlement of Marietta, Ohio [618]
Ohio Territory [619]
Statistics [619]
Boundary Question [625]
Wisconsin Constitutional Convention, 1846 [625]
Wisconsin Constitutional Convention, 1847 [626]
Some Resolutions [627]
Under What Government? [628]
H. H. Sibley Elected Congressional Delegate [628]
Queries [629]
Minnesota Territory Created [629]
Land Office at Stillwater [629]
Indian Treaties [629]
Treaty with the Sioux (Mendota) 1805 [629]
Treaty with the Chippewas (Mendota) 1837 [630]
Treaty with the Sioux (Washington) 1837 [630]
Treaty with the Winnebagoes (Washington) 1837 [631]
Treaty with the Chippewas (Fond du Lac) 1847 [631]
Treaty with the Pillager Band (Leech Lake) 1847 [632]
Treaty with the Sioux (Traverse des Sioux) 1851 [632]
Treaty with the Sioux (Mendota) 1851 [632]
Treaty with the Chippewas (La Pointe) 1854 [634]
Treaty with the Pillagers (Washington) 1855 [634]
Treaty with the Chippewas (Red Lake River) 1863 [634]
Gen. Pike and the Indians [635]
Treaty of 1805 [636]
Pike's Address to the Council [636]
Details of Treaty [636]
Pike Hospitably Entertained [637]
United States Surveys in the Northwest [637]
Establishment of Land Offices [638]
Establishment of the Present System of Surveys [638]
The First Surveyor General's Office at Marietta, O [638]
United States Land Offices in the Northwest [639]
List of Registers and Receivers, Wisconsin [639]
First Entries [640]
First Auction Sale of Land [641]
List of Registers and Receivers, Minnesota [641]
List of Wisconsin Territorial and State Officers, Governors, Senators, and Representatives from St. Croix Valley [641]
Legislative Representation [642]
First and Second Constitutional Conventions [643]
Governors of Wisconsin [643]
United States Senators [643]
United States Representatives [644]
District Judges [644]
State Legislature [644]
List of Minnesota Territorial and State Officers [647]
Census of the Territory in 1849 [647]
First Territorial Legislature [648]
First Prohibition Law [649]
Constitutional Convention [649]
List of State Officers and Judicial [649]
Senators and Representatives [650]
Minnesota State Legislatures [651]
Constitutional Convention of 1857 [654]
Division of Convention [654]
Union of Conventions on a Constitution [656]
Have We a Constitution [656]
First, Minnesota State Legislature [657]
Protests Against Legislation [657]
Five Million Bill Passed and Adopted [657]
State Seal Adopted [658]
State Seal Design [659]
Adjourned Session of Legislature [660]
Protests Against Recognizing Gov. Medary [660]
Reports on Protests [661]
Land Grants—Railroad Surveys and Construction [665]
Northern Pacific Railroad [665]
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad [667]
St. Paul & Duluth Railroad [668]
Minnesota & Manitoba Railroad [669]
Stillwater, White Bear & St. Paul Railroad [670]
St. Paul, Stillwater & Taylor's Falls Railroad [671]
Wisconsin Central Railroad [671]
Taylor's Falls & Lake Superior Railroad [672]
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad [672]
A Memorial for "Soo" Railroad [673]
Organization of Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie & Atlantic Railroad [674]
Mileage of Railroads Centring in St. Paul and Minneapolis [675]
Chicago, Burlington & Northern Railroad [675]
Congressional Appropriations [675]
Inland Navigation [676]
George R. Stuntz on Lake Superior and St. Croix Canal [680]
Waterways Convention, 1885 [682]
E. W. Durant's Valuable Statistics [683]
Resolution for St. Croix and Superior Canal [685]
Early Steamboat Navigation [686]
Steamboat Accommodations [687]
First Mississippi Steamboat Officers [689]
First Mississippi Steamboat Organizations [689]
List of Steamboats [690]
Later Navigation on Northwest Rivers [691]
Steamboating on the St. Croix [692]
Ice Boats [693]
James W. Mullen's Reminiscences, 1846 [694]
St. Croix Boom Company [696]
Surveyors General of Logs [696]
Organization [696]
Conflict over State Boundary [697]
Language of Logs [698]
Logs Cut from 1837 to 1888 [700]
Chartered Dams [701]
Lumbering and Lumbermen in 1845 [702]
Lumbering and Lumbermen in 1887 [705]
St. Croix Dalles Log Jams [706]
Population of Northwest Territory in 1790 [709]
Population of Wisconsin Territory in 1836 [709]
Subsequent Census [709]
Population of Minnesota in 1849 [709]
Minnesota State Capitol [710]
Burning of State House [711]
Selkirk Visitors [712]
Cyclones [713]
Isanti and Chisago Cyclone [713]
Cottage Grove and Lake Elmo Cyclone [715]
Washington County and Wisconsin Cyclone [717]
St. Cloud and Sauk Rapids Cyclone [718]
Curious Lightning Freaks [721]
Asiatic Cholera on the Royal Arch [721]
First Decree of Minnesota Citizenship [722]
International Hotel, St. Paul, Burned [723]
Grasshoppers [723]
Ancient Mounds [724]
Lake Itasca, Schoolcraft and Boutwell Form the Name Itasca.
Description of Itasca [726]
Elk and Boutwell Lakes [727]
Capt. Glazier's False Claim [727]
Copper Mining on St. Croix [728]
Rev. Julius S. Webber; Reminiscences [729]
Judge Hamlin—Amusing Incident [730]
Minnesota Old Settlers Association [731]
St. Croix Valley Old Settlers Association [740]
Newspaper History [741]
Gen. Scott, Maj. Anderson, and Jeff. Davis [752]
Jeff. Davis' Marriage at Fort Crawford [753]
Dred Scott at Fort Snelling [754]
Incidents in Dred Scott's History [755]

Old Betz and Descendants [757]
Addenda.
Military History of the Rebellion, 1861 to 1865 [759]
Gov. Alex. Ramsey's Address to Loyal Legion [759]
Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Legislative Sessions of Wisconsin [762]

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