Meeker County

1916 Map of Meeker County MN

Meeker County, Minnesota County Officials 1856-1876

Meeker County /

The following is a list of men who served in administrative capacity in the county of Meeker, Minnesota from 1856-1876. County Commissioners 1856-1876, Meeker County, Minnesota 1856 – Thos H Skinner, F N Ripley and J Huy1857-J T Kinnison, John Wigle, J W Griswold1858-J Wigle, J T Kinnison and T G Gould1858-9–A P Whitney, John Wigle, Mark Warren, Peter Ritchie, Ziba Caswell and J V Branham, Sen1859–Peter Ritchie, Mark Warren, John Wigle, Chas Low, Robert Lang and J W Dame1860–E M Whitney, Mark Warren and Linus Howe1861-J C Whitney, Peter Ritchie and J V Branham Sen1862-Chas E Cutts, E B […]

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Shakopee Minnesota

Biography of Dr. Frederick Noah Ripley

Hennepin County, Meeker County, Scott County /

Dr. Ripley arrived at Shakopee, Scott county, Minnesota, in September 1853, and resided at that place, boarding at the “Warren House” during the years 1853-4. He came from New York city, where he was educated, and where he left a mother and an intended wife. In 1855, he first made his appearance in the small village of Minneapolis — a slightly built man, of refined and gentlemanly appearance; possessing copious stores of useful and instructive information; richly endowed with all the natural gifts of an enlarged mind and liberal understanding; full of high hopes and vigorous promise, who in his

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Elected Military Officers, Meeker County, Minnesota

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The following is a list of men who served as elected military officers for Meeker County in the Civil War. J. B. Atkinson 1st Lieutenant H.. Stevens 2nd Lieutenant Wm. Branham 1st. Sergeant H. S. Howe 2nd Sergeant Dan. McGraw 3d Sergeant F. G. Gould 4th Sergeant A. F. Heath 1st Corporal H. J. Hill 2nd Corporal T. C. Jewett 3rd Corporal Sam Hutchins 4th Corporal J. M. Harvey 5th Corporal R. B. Ralston 6th Corporal N. H. White 7th Corporal A. B. Hoyt 8th Corporal

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Mustered in August 24th 1862, Meeker County, Minnesota

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The following is a list of men who were mustered into service for the Civil War from the county of Meeker on 24 August 1862. J. B. Atkinson M. Gorton Jas. M Harvey O. B. Todd A. F. Heath G. W. Waggoner J. Heath Wm.. Caswell H. J. Hill J. V.. Branham jr. G. S. Sholes sen. Jerome Rogers S.W. White Chas. D. Maybee Herman Kruger Jas. Lang Sylvester Stevens Oliver Gibbins Samuel Hutchins Patrick Condon T C. Jewett Albert Sperry J. H. Bradshaw W. Johnson A. C. Smith Andrew Nelson Michael McGraw J. B. Garrison Dan. McGraw Geo. R.

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Meeker County Immigration-Norwegians-Trondheim Port

Meeker County

Meeker County Immigration-Norwegians-Trondheim Port, in order of departure. Departure Name Occupation Age Residence Ship 17.07.1879 Peder Pedersen Haave laborer 20 Selbo Tasso 11.05.1880 Eli Floren young woman 64 Ovre Stordalen Pacific 04.05.1881 Petrus Arntsen laborer 21 Tromso Tasso 04.05.1881 Ingeborg H. Saethernaes wife 29 Bod Tasso 05.05.1881 Lars Olsen laborer 21 Strinden Argo 05.05.1881 Esten Vigen laborer 27 Strinden Tasso 05.05.1881 Ole Vigen laborer 25 Strinden Tasso 18.05.1881 Ingeborg Tomassen young woman 33 Saelbo Tasso 23.06.1881 Hans K. Hanssen laborer 21 Tromso Domino 21.06.1881 Jakob M. Johansen fisherman 35 Tromso via Christiania & Bremen 21.06.1881 Marie Johansen wife 32 Tromso

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Volunteers from Meeker County in the Civil War

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Volunteers from Meeker County who served in the Civil War. Names Regiment &c. Angier, Albert Third Allen, L. D Fourth Atkinson, J. B. Capt. Artil Bradshaw, J. H . Third Butler, Daniel Fourth Brink, J. A. Scout Baldwin, S D L Fourth Borgusrode, R Fifth Bennett, Wm P Hatch Bat. Branham, E. F. Second Branham, Wm 2d Cavalry Campbell. Dan Second Campbell, Wm M. (re-enlisted as Vet’n) Cavalry Campbell, E A  (re-enlisted as Vet’n) Cavalry Clinton, H Second Chapin, Isaac Second Cates, W S Fourth Caswell, William Cavalry Deary, James 2d Cavalry Delong, Albert Scout DeCoster, F V 4th, Cap.

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Towns of Meeker County

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Cedar Mills Cedar Mills town took its name from Cedar Lake, situate in that locality, and the lake received its christening at the hands of Nicollet and Fremont, from the fact of an island in the lake covered with red cedar. It was hence designated on the old map as Ran-ti-tia-wita, the Indian for Red Cedar Island Lake. This town was first settled in 1856 by Daniel Cross, who was killed by the Indians in 1862. The widow and family of three children still reside on the old claim. In 1857 R. J. Brodwell, O. S. Merriam, Philander Ball, Geo.

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Supreme Court of Meeker County

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Something is due to our “Supreme Court,” presided over at times by Judges Butler, Ritchie, Geo. Frid, Robson, Griswold, Atkinson, Stevens, Walker, Campbell, Hutchins and a host of others. Jurisdiction depended somewhat on who got hold of the case first. In 1859 a case came before Judge Ritchie of Acton. Mark Piper and Nathan Butler acted as attorneys. Piper made a motion to “quash the summons” on the ground that the letters, s. s. were not attached to “The State of Minnesota Meeker County.” This was a poser for Butler and his argument therein was not the most lucid, but

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Indian Troubles in 1862

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On the morning of the second day of September another detail of twenty soldiers and twenty citizens was sent out for the purpose of rescuing the family mentioned before, and as all could not be mounted it was thought best to go in wagons. The detail had proceeded as far as where Hoken Peterson formerly resided when they halted for dinner. Some of the boys being near home obtained leave to visit the house about one mile from camp, on promise that they would bring back watermelons for the whole company — after being gone a short time one of

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