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Red River Valley title page vol 2

Biography of Iver Holman of Ulen Minnesota

…of the most picturesque in the county. The Holman family, including Mr. and Mrs. Holman and their children, are all members of the United Lutheran Church, where Mr. Holman serves as a trustee. He served one year on the board of supervisors and is highly regarded as one of the most esteemed citizens in his community. Source C.F. Cooper & Company, History of the Red River Valley, Past And Present: Including an Account of the Counties, Cities, Towns And Villages of the Valley From the Time of Their First Settlement And Formation, volumes 1-2; Grand Forks: Herald printing company, 1909….

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Biography of S. M. T. Nykreim of Ulen Minnesota

S. M. T. Nykreim, born on March 11, 1842, in Norway, was a significant figure in Clay County, Minnesota. Immigrating to the United States in 1868, he initially settled in Illinois and later in Goodhue County, Minnesota. Nykreim married Martha Kopperdal in 1871 and moved to Clay County in 1879, where he established a homestead in Goose Prairie Township. They had seven children. Nykreim was active in his community, serving on the village council, as a trustee of the United Lutheran Church, and engaging in real estate. He passed away on October 11, 1905, in Ulen, Minnesota. S. M. T….

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A random historical sketch of Meeker County, Minnesota title page

Meeker County Minnesota History

Our history will be but a shadow, and the names of Ripley, Hall, Whitney, DeCoster, Campbell, Fitzgerald, Weymer, Salisbury, Dougherty, Atkinson, VanNess, Mitchell, Dorman, Taylor, Evans, Skinner, Jewett, Kennedy, Stevens, Harvey, Piper, Caswell, Angier, Willis, Dart, Whitcomb, King, Greenleaf, Branham. Fitch, Ball, Hoyt, Griswold, Grayson, Stanton, Robson, Richards, Gorton, Wakefield, Heath, Warren, Willie, Kruger, Ralston, Schultz and a score of others will soon be enveloped in doubt and fiction, like those of “Romulus and Remus of Charlemagne.” Prior to 1855 the country now embraced within the boundaries of Meeker and Kandiyohi counties, in the State of Minnesota, was occupied by…

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Hinckley, Pine County, Minnesota,  Forest Fire Deaths, 1894

The exact origin of the fire is somewhat indefinite; the one that visited Hinckley must have started in the region south of Mission Creek. Around this little village much of the pine had been cut. There was in the hamlet twenty-six houses, a schoolhouse, a small sawmill a general store, hotel and blacksmith shop. At the time of the fire there were seventy-three people living in, and adjacent to, this village; a great number of the population were away from home, having gone to Dakota for the harvest. The people had been fighting local fires for a month. At noon,…

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Firsts of Meeker County

…August, 1857, by the Rev. John Robson. They still live.” The first sermon preached was by Rev. John Robson, (Methodist) Nov. 1856. He was from Boston, and in 1859 he returned to that city, and died at Melrose, March 5th, 1867. He erected, and operated the first saw mill at Forest City it was run by steam. On the 22nd of March, 1858, A. C. Smith, Register of the U. S. Land Office, and John D. Evans, Receiver, arrived, with the archives of said office, at Forest City, and with others to the number of a baker’s dozen, were feasted…

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Harvey, Swede Grove, and Forest Prairie, Minnesota

…named Forest Prairie for the same reason that the boy named his pony ” Snow Ball” because he was black as jet. It was called Forest Prairie because there was not a bit of prairie in the town. First settled in the spring of 1866, by Merrit B. Case, C. T. Groot, J. S. Reynolds, George Scrivner, George Smith, Mr. Polk and by Stevens and Roach, mostly with families. Next year the town was pretty well settled by the arrival of new-comers. This town was duly organized June 10th, 1867. Mr, Stoors was the first Post-master, in 1867. Meeker County…

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First District Court, Meeker County, Minnesota

…attendance on the Court, with the judge’s thanks. When the court convened at 9 A. M. the verdict was opened, and read as follows: “Jury find for plaintiff, three cents damages. (“Signed) GEO. S. SHOLES, Foreman.” Atkinson affirms that those supplies have not yet been paid for. The following is a list of the jurors in this case. Geo. S. Sholes Sen, A, B. Hoyt, John C. Scribner Alexander Lee. T. R. Webb, Thos. Dough erty A. C. Maddox, Sam’l L. Getchell, Geo. W Baird Edward Brown John Blackwell Charles Duffy. At this term of court Wm. Richards Esq. county…

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Origin of the Indian Massacre

…there were but thirteen men and three women on the townsite of Forest City, and nobody west of us. Their names are worth recording, for it was the decision of the little band at this point on the morning, of August 23d that saved all there was worth saving west of the Mississippi River. Their names are A. C. Smith, J. B. Atkinson, T. C. Jewett, Milton Gorton, Geo. S. Sholes, sen, Thos. H. Skinner, James M. Harvey, Wm. Towler, Henry L. Smith, Thomas Grayson, Judson A Stanton, Hamlet Stevens, Sylvester Stevens, Mrs. Jewett, Mrs. Whitcomb and Mrs. Brown. During…

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Irregulars

…to serve as Quarter Master for “Meeker County Volunteers,” and he is hereby authorized and empowered to exercise the duties of the office. On Wednesday the 27th of August, the following named persons, residents of Manannah, left Forest City to obtain stoves bedding, provisions, stock, etc., to-wit: Linus Howe, David Hoar, Chauncy Wilson, Moody Caswell, Thomas Ryckman, James Nelson, Phillip H. Deck, Wil mot Maybee, N. C. Caswell, Joseph Page and R. D.. C. Cressy. Arriving at the house of Maybee the party took dinner, thence went to Manannah to the house of Carlos Caswell-saw no Indians-left; a yoke of…

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Litchfield, Meeker County, Minnesota

…school house, costing three or four thousand dollars, and a Town and Masonic Hall,26×72 feet, costing, when finished, about four thousand dollars. Present population, twelve hundred. Lawyers A. C. Smith, F. Belfoy, Chas. H. Strobeck, S. A. Plumley, E. A. Campbell, N. C. Martin and L., C. Spooner. Physicians Drs. V. P. Kennedy, F. E. Bissell, and L. P. Foster. Clergy Rev. Messrs. T. G. Crump, Episcopal; J. S. Sherill, Presbyterian; I. H. Riddick, Methodist and F. A. Grant, Christian. Litchfield boasts a steam flour mill of 7 run of buhrs, owned by R. S. Hershey & Co. Meeker County…

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