Fifty Years In The Northwest by William H. C. Folsom
1766. Capt. Jonathan Carver visited St. Anthony falls and Minnesota
river. He pretended to have made a treaty with the Indians the
following spring, in a cave near St. Paul, known for several years as
Carver's Cave. He also reports a town of three hundred inhabitants at
Prairie du Chien.
Chapters
- Chapter 1 Ch.1
- INTRODUCTION. Ch.2
- INTRODUCTION. Ch.3
- CHAPTER I. Ch.4
- CHAPTER II. Ch.5
- CHAPTER III. Ch.6
- CHAPTER IV Ch.7
- CHAPTER V. Ch.8
- CHAPTER VI. Ch.9
- CHAPTER VII Ch.10
- CHAPTER VIII. Ch.11
- CHAPTER IX. Ch.12
- CHAPTER X. Ch.13
- CHAPTER XI. Ch.14
- CHAPTER XII. Ch.15
- CHAPTER XIII. Ch.16
- CHAPTER XIV. Ch.17
- CHAPTER XV. Ch.18
- CHAPTER XVI. Ch.19
- CHAPTER XVII. Ch.20
- CHAPTER XVIII. Ch.21
- CHAPTER XIX. Ch.22
- CHAPTER XX. Ch.23
- CHAPTER XXI. Ch.24
- CHAPTER XXII. Ch.25
- CHAPTER XXIII. Ch.26
- Chapter II, page 32, read Stillwater and St. Croix County, instead of Ch.27
- CHAPTER I. Ch.28
- 1781. Mr. Brisbois lived a stirring and eventful life. He died in Ch.29
- CHAPTER II. Ch.30
- 1845. Capt. Wm. Holcombe acted during this period as clerk of the Ch.31
- CHAPTER III. Ch.32
- 1857. From 1857 to 1869 he was also a heavy logger alone. Mr. Anderson Ch.33
- 1777. He was married to Hannah Greely, a second cousin, at Hopkinton, Ch.34
- 1882. His wife survived him but a few months. The bodies of both were Ch.35
- 1885. She was the last of her family, husband and daughter having Ch.36
- 1846. As a business man he is capable and shrewd, giving close Ch.37
- 1838. In 1839 he drove the first herd of cattle through a wilderness Ch.38
- 1847. He was appointed clerk of the first Minnesota territorial term Ch.39
- 1848. He engaged in lumbering and scaling continuously. He was born in Ch.40
- 1820. He spent his youth on his father's farm, and received a common Ch.41
- 1843. He settled in Stillwater in 1844, and removed to his farm in Ch.42
- 1844. He came to America in June, 1847, and to Stillwater in 1848. Mr. Ch.43
- 1815. He was reared during his minority by an uncle, at Cambridge, New Ch.44
- 1853. In 1852 Gov. Ramsey appointed him territorial auditor. He was a Ch.45
- 1838. He became a great sufferer in the later years of his life. He Ch.46
- 1826. He received a good common school education. At the age of Ch.47
- 1857. Mrs. McPhail died in Stillwater in 1885. They left no children. Ch.48
- 1845. He was married in 1860 to Miss Jackins. He made his home in Ch.49
- CHAPTER IV. Ch.50
- 1838. Polk county, originally a part of Crawford, in 1840 became a Ch.51
- CHAPTER V. Ch.52
- 1857. The name of Gov. Holcombe will long be remembered in the valley Ch.53
- 1850. Through untiring industry and honorable dealing he has secured a Ch.54
- 1884. Mr. Stratton wrote for the Minneapolis papers many interesting Ch.55
- 1826. He settled on a farm near St. Croix Falls in 1856, where he Ch.56
- 24. The first sermon in the town of Clayton was preached by Rev. W. W. Ch.57
- 19. The west part is somewhat broken by the St. Croix bluffs; the Ch.58
- 1866. Few men have been more active in the opening up of a new Ch.59
- 1861. A. A. Heald, M. C. Lane and John Hurness were the first Ch.60
- 1864. Their new house of worship was built in 1870. The first settlers Ch.61
- 1867. It is situated on the same stream, a few rods above the first. Ch.62
- 1856. These have been succeeded by Rice, Webb, Clark Brothers, Ch.63
- 1853. The first white child born was John Francis, in 1847. The first Ch.64
- 1858. In 1874 he removed to Ashland, Wisconsin, where he died in 1878, Ch.65
- CHAPTER VI. Ch.66
- 1849. James Hughes was appointed in 1850. The first district court was Ch.67
- 1852. A day was fixed in 1852 to vote on the change of name, Willow Ch.68
- 20. Wm. H. Phipps. Ch.69
- 1838. Mr. Bouchea had been educated for the Catholic priesthood. He Ch.70
- 24. He took a deep interest in the affairs of the pioneer settlement, Ch.71
- 1847. Mr. Andrews was a carpenter and took some important building Ch.72
- 1847. He was appointed receiver of the United States land office at Ch.73
- 1812. His parents were George and Mary Hoyt. Both grandfathers were Ch.74
- 1814. He removed to Harford, Pennsylvania, with his parents when six Ch.75
- 1851. He was married to Clarissa A. Day in 1841, who with one son and Ch.76
- 1850. Mr. Jones died in 1874. Mrs. Jones, five sons and two daughters Ch.77
- 1827. At eighteen years of age, he went to Weston, New York, where he Ch.78
- 1881. In 1887 he served again as a member of the assembly. Ch.79
- 1833. He received a common school and academic education and attended Ch.80
- 1884. He was a man of eccentric manners, but upright life. Ch.81
- 14. By industry and perseverance they have become independent, and own Ch.82
- 1848. In 1830 he was a member of the Maine legislature; in 1849 and Ch.83
- 1867. He was married in 1867 to Mary J. Stewart, of Pennsylvania. He Ch.84
- 1858. The North Wisconsin railroad passes through the southeast corner Ch.85
- 1870. He left a widow and four sons, three of them farmers in Troy. Ch.86
- CHAPTER VII. Ch.87
- 1886. His home business is farming and real estate. He was married in Ch.88
- 1854. A building for a graded school was erected in 1859. A high Ch.89
- 19. Trimbelle river drains the eastern portion and the Kinnikinic the Ch.90
- 1854. Charles Hutchinson was the first postmaster, and the office was Ch.91
- 1814. He was liberally educated. He came to Edwardsville, Illinois, in Ch.92
- 1830. He graduated at the Chicago Medical College in 1860, and in 1861 Ch.93
- 1810. He graduated at Yale College. He came to River Falls in 1858 and Ch.94
- 1866. The first town meeting was held at the house of J. Prickett. The Ch.95
- 1871. The first settlers in the order of their coming were James Ch.96
- 6. It was organized Aug. 15, 1863. Among its first settlers were Ch.97
- CHAPTER VIII. Ch.98
- 19. He built a flour and saw mill, the first in the county, a good Ch.99
- 1865. He subsequently became the first settler in the town of Ch.100
- 1877. Millions of feet of pine timber have been gathered and marketed Ch.101
- CHAPTER IX. Ch.102
- 9. It has seventy-five miles of lake shore, with some fine harbors, Ch.103
- 1855. It was the first newspaper published at the head of Lake Ch.104
- CHAPTER X. Ch.105
- 20. It contains about forty dwellings, three large boarding houses, Ch.106
- 1874. His seat was contested by John Hallburg, of Centre City. The Ch.107
- CHAPTER XI. Ch.108
- 1883. The first supervisors were Eric Hokansen, John Rines and Haquin Ch.109
- 1855. He lived there eight years and filled various responsible Ch.110
- CHAPTER XII. Ch.111
- 1703. This fort was in all probability erected on the plateau below Ch.112
- 1884. There is also a good school house. The village was incorporated Ch.113
- 1852. Henry married Margaret Smith, daughter of David Smith. During Ch.114
- 1856. He died in 1874, leaving a widow, two sons and two daughters. Ch.115
- 1873. They have three children. Elof, John, Elias and Hans are Ch.116
- 1865. In 1868 he came to Taylor's Falls and engaged in teaching, which Ch.117
- 1859. The first marriage was that of Peter Abear to Kittie Wickland. Ch.118
- 26. Mr. and Mrs. Walmarson reared a fine family of children. Nelson Ch.119
- CHAPTER XIII. Ch.120
- 1863. At the close of the war, in 1865, he settled in St. Paul and Ch.121
- 1865. He died in 1872. Edward H., his second son, for some years has Ch.122
- 1823. He came to Marine Mills in 1844. For two years he was in the Ch.123
- 1804. He graduated at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in Ch.124
- 1822. In the spring of 1849 he came westward, and engaged in Ch.125
- CHAPTER XIV. Ch.126
- 1847. A military road was surveyed from Point Douglas to Superior Ch.127
- 1840. In 1843 he opened a grindstone quarry in the soft, coarse Ch.128
- 1854. The first child born was Nathan, son of John Atkinson, in 1846; Ch.129
- 1867. In 1885 they removed to California. Ch.130
- 1874. Four children survive him. Ch.131
- 1858. In 1874 a large church 50 × 80 feet, ground plan, and with Ch.132
- 1875. Rev. L. O. Lindh was the first pastor. Oakland Cemetery Ch.133
- 1858. The Marine flour mill was built in 1856 by Gaskell & Co. The Ch.134
- 1859. Henry F., a son by his first wife, enlisted in 1862, in the Ch.135
- 1869. A plat of ten acres, beautifully situated in a natural grove Ch.136
- 1855. They were followed by Dunn, Barnum, Hatch and Beecroft. Ch.137
- 1819. He was married to Sarah Blanchard in 1848. Mr. Jackman, with his Ch.138
- 1849. Their children are Daniel, Thomas, James, Elisabeth, Mary, Ch.139
- 1826. In 1844 he came with his parents to St. Louis, Missouri, where Ch.140
- 22. This fragment contains the famous painted rock, now included in Ch.141
- 1841. He was married in 1846 to Jane Middleton. Ch.142
- 1815. Mr. Gilbert settled in Woodbury in 1851. In company with Mr. Ch.143
- CHAPTER XV. Ch.144
- 1850. It was organized regularly in 1853 by Rev. T. M. Fullerton. The Ch.145
- 1878. Two great fires occurred in the penitentiary in 1884. The Ch.146
- 1850. He was educated at the high school in Bangor. With his brother Ch.147
- 1829. Part of his early life he spent on a farm, but later he learned Ch.148
- 1851. In 1858 he came to Stillwater, and in 1861 was awarded the Ch.149
- 1824. Her parents emigrated to America in 1847 and settled in Ch.150
- 1886. Mr. Butts was married to Augusta Miller in 1856. Mrs. Butts Ch.151
- 1828. His parents were natives of Massachusetts, tracing their lineage Ch.152
- 1836. He came to Osceola, Polk county, Wisconsin, in 1850. In 1859 he Ch.153
- 1858. He was intrusted with the expenditure of public moneys from Ch.154
- CHAPTER XVI. Ch.155
- 1859. This bank, a private institution, was the beginning of the Ch.156
- 1820. He came to Minnesota in 1851, locating at St. Anthony, but in Ch.157
- 1877. The first supervisors were Moses Ripley, George Tisdale and Ch.158
- CHAPTER XVII. Ch.159
- 1854. The proprietors were J. Russell, G. M. Sweet and S. Van Nest. Ch.160
- 1855. Asa White, D. Gilman, C. W. Borup, N. Myrick, Gen. Lowry, and Ch.161
- 1827. He served an apprenticeship to a printer in Canada for five Ch.162
- 1809. He received a common school and academic education, and learned Ch.163
- 32. It derives its name from a rapid in the Mississippi river, formed Ch.164
- 1853. One daughter lives in Alabama and his youngest son is a Ch.165
- 1871. The name, Brainerd, was given to the new town in honor of Mrs. Ch.166
- CHAPTER XVIII. Ch.167
- 1884. The proprietors are the Minnesota Iron Company, of which Ch.168
- CHAPTER XIX. Ch.169
- 1849. A post office was established and Ard Godfrey was appointed Ch.170
- 1871. Edwin S. Brown. Ch.171
- 1871. Eli B. Ames. Ch.172
- 1888. A. A. Ames. Ch.173
- 1811. He received an academic education, and remained with his parents Ch.174
- 1814. He was the oldest son of Billy and Phebe (Baker) Ames, whose Ch.175
- 1818. In 1829 he removed with his parents to Lower Canada, where he Ch.176
- 1860. In 1862 he enlisted in Company D, Sixth Minnesota Volunteers, Ch.177
- 1809. He was educated at Princeton College and West Point, graduating Ch.178
- 1844. He served as a soldier during the Mexican War. He was the first Ch.179
- CHAPTER XX. Ch.180
- 1865. Of Benoit little or nothing is known. The Freeman brothers were Ch.181
- 1847. Its effects, however, were not greatly felt until toward the Ch.182
- 1888. Robert A. Smith. Ch.183
- 1857. The early settlers were much disturbed by roving bands of Ch.184
- 1886. 1887. Ch.185
- CHAPTER XXI. Ch.186
- 1861. In 1863, before the expiration of his second term, he was Ch.187
- 1806. He received a thorough classical and medical education. In 1828 Ch.188
- 1822. He came to La Crosse, Wisconsin, in 1840. The writer first met Ch.189
- 1820. His father, Otis Bigelow, was a Revolutionary patriot and Ch.190
- 1842. In 1845 he came to St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, remained at this Ch.191
- 1820. He studied law with his father, Judge Samuel J. Wilkin, and Ch.192
- 1858. He was married to Helen M. Olds, in New York, in 1840. Their two Ch.193
- CHAPTER XXII. Ch.194
- 1830. He received a common and high school education and spent one Ch.195
- 1868. He served as state senator in 1866-67. He has been an Ch.196
- CHAPTER XXIII. Ch.197
- 1817. His early life was passed amongst the Ojibways in the employ of Ch.198
- 1842. When he came to Gray Cloud island he was accompanied by a Mr. Ch.199
- 1827. Mr. Berry received an excellent education at the Pittsfield Ch.200
- 1879. He has been twice married. His first wife was Ellen Brady, of Ch.201
- 1878. He married a second wife in 1880. His family consists of eight Ch.202
- 1634. Jean Nicollet ventured into Wisconsin, and explored the country Ch.203
- 1658. Two fur traders penetrated to Lake Superior and wintered there, Ch.204
- 1660. Rev. M. Menard with eight companions came to La Pointe, Lake Ch.205
- 1665. Claude Allouez, an eminent pioneer missionary, succeeded Menard, Ch.206
- 1669. Father Allouez established a mission on the shores of Green bay, Ch.207
- 1670. Father Allouez made a voyage of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers to Ch.208
- 1671. In this year the French took formal possession of the whole Ch.209
- 1673. Louis Joliet, accompanied by Father James Marquette, discovered Ch.210
- 1674. Father Marquette coasted Lake Michigan, from Green Bay, by Ch.211
- 1679. The Griffin, a schooner built by La Salle, and the first to make Ch.212
- 1680. About the first of May Father Louis Hennepin arrived at Mille Ch.213
- 1683. Le Sueur made a voyage of the Fog and Wisconsin rivers to the Ch.214
- 1688. Nicholas Perrot first planted the cross and arms of France on Ch.215
- 1695. Le Sueur built a fort on Isle Pelee, in the Mississippi, below Ch.216
- 1700. Le Sueur established Fort L'Huillier, on the Blue Earth river Ch.217
- 1719. Francis Renalt explored the Upper Mississippi with two hundred Ch.218
- 1721. Previous to this date a French fort had been established at Ch.219
- 1727. The French established a fort on Lake Pepin, with Sieur de Ch.220
- 1728. There was a great flood in the Mississippi, and Fort Beauharnois Ch.221
- 1751. Sieur Marin, in command at Green Bay, made a peace with the Ch.222
- 1761. Capt. Balfour and Lieut. Gorrell, with English troops, took Ch.223
- 1763. The English, under Lieut. Gorrell, abandoned Green Bay in Ch.224
- 1766. Capt. Jonathan Carver visited St. Anthony falls and Minnesota Ch.225
- 1774. A civil government was established over Canada and the Ch.226
- 1786. Julian Dubuque explored the lead region of the Upper Ch.227
- 1788. There was an Indian council at Green Bay. Permission to work the Ch.228
- 1793. Lawrence Barth built a cabin at the portage of the Fog and Ch.229
- 1796. The western posts were surrendered by the English to the United Ch.230
- 1803. Antoine Barth settled at the portage of the Fog and Wisconsin Ch.231
- 1809. Thomas Nuttall, the botanist, explored Wisconsin. Ch.232
- 1814. Gov. Clark took possession of Prairie du Chien. Prairie du Chien Ch.233
- 1816. Indian treaty confirming that of 1804. Ch.234
- 1818. State of Illinois was organized; Wisconsin attached to Michigan. Ch.235
- 1822. The New York Indians purchase lands east of Lake Winnebago. Ch.236
- 1823. January. Counties of Brown, Crawford and Michillimackinac made a Ch.237
- 1824. First term of United States court held at Green Bay, Judge Duane Ch.238
- 1825. Great flood on the Red River of the North; a part of the colony Ch.239
- 1827. Rush of speculators to lead mines. Ch.240
- 1828. Fort Winnebago built. Indian treaty at Green Bay. Lead ore Ch.241
- 1832. Black Hawk War. Ch.242
- 1834. The portion of Minnesota west of the Mississippi attached to Ch.243
- 1837. Gov. Dodge, of Wisconsin, made a treaty at Fort Snelling, with Ch.244
- 1838. The treaty ratified by Congress. Frank Steele makes a claim at Ch.245
- 1840. St. Croix county established. Ch.246
- 1847. The Wisconsin constitutional convention meets. The town of St. Ch.247
- 1848. May 29th, Wisconsin admitted. August 26th, the "Stillwater Ch.248
- 1850. Great flood on the Mississippi. Minnesota river navigated by Ch.249
- 1851. Permanent location of the capital of Minnesota at St Paul. Ch.250
- 1852. President Pierce appoints Willis A. Gorman governor of Ch.251
- 1854. Real estate mania commenced. Treaty with the Chippewas at La Ch.252
- 1855. Treaty at Washington, District of Columbia, with the Chippewas, Ch.253
- 1857. Enabling act to admit Minnesota passed Congress. President Ch.254
- 1858. Minnesota admitted as a state. State loan of $250,000 Ch.255
- 1859. Hard times. Work on the land grant road ceases. Collapse of the Ch.256
- 1861. April 13th. President's proclamation for troops received. The Ch.257
- 1862. Call for 600,000 men. August 17th, massacre at Acton; 18th, Ch.258
- 1863. Gen. Sibley's expedition to the Missouri river. July 3d, Little Ch.259
- 1864. Large levies for troops. Expedition to Missouri river under Ch.260
- 1865. Peace returns. Minnesota regiments return and are disbanded; in Ch.261
- 1873. January 7th, 8th and 9th, polar wave sweeps over the State; Ch.262
- 1876. September 7th, armed outlaws from Missouri attack a Northfield Ch.263
- 1878. May 2d, three flouring mills at Minneapolis explode; eighteen Ch.264
- 1880. November 15th, hospital for the insane at St. Peter partly Ch.265
- 1886. Cyclone destroys Sauk Rapids. Wisconsin legislature adopts Ch.266
- 1854. Several reservations were set aside in each purchase for the Ch.267
- 1887. Alvah H. Heald, receiver; Wm. M. Blanding, register. Ch.268
- 4. Albert Henry Judd, Orange Walker, Samuel Burkelo, Hiram Berkey, Ch.269
- 5. Martin Mower, David B. Loomis; Lots 7 and 8, Sec. 29, T. 31, R. 19, Ch.270
- 6. John Allen; Lots 4 and 5, Sec. 2, T. 29, R. 20, west of river; gold Ch.271
- 7. Eleazer R. Steves; Lots 1 and 2, Sec. 14, T. 29, R. 20, east of Ch.272
- 10. Himan W. Greely; E. 1/2 of N. E. 1/4, Sec. 22, T. 29, R. 20, gold. Ch.273
- 21. Himan W. Greely; W. 1/2 of N. E. 1/4, Sec. 22, T. 29, R. 20, gold. Ch.274
- 1832. This lake is really the source of the Mississippi, though from Ch.275
- 1888. David Day. Ch.276
- 1887. Morton S. Wilkinson. Ch.277
- 1875. The _True Republican_ was established by M. A. Fulton in 1875, Ch.278
- 1850. He is now a resident of Fleming, Cayuga county, New York. Ch.279