Fifty Years in the Northwest: 1999 Minnesota Territorial Sesquicentennial Facsimile Edition

by Folsom, W. H. C.

• ISBN13: 9780967041407
• ISBN10: 0967041406
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Taylor Falls Historical Society

Table of 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	xi
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	(18)
Lakes Huron and Michigan	3	(2)
Chicago and Milwaukee	5	(1)
On Foot to Galena	6	(1)
The Northwestern Territory	7	(1)
Arrival at Dubuque	7	(1)
Reminiscences of Dubuque	8	(1)
Arrival at Prairie du Chien	9	(1)
Early History of Prairie du Chien	9	(1)
Ancient Document	10	(1)
Forts Shelby---McKay---Craw-ford	11	(1)
First Commissioners at Prairie du Chien	11	(1)
Organization of Crawford Country	12	(1)
Indian Troubles	12	(1)
Running the Gauntlet	13	(1)
Fort Crawford Robbed	13	(1)
Early Justice	14	(1)
A Southward Journey	15	(1)
New Orleans, Vicksburg	15	(1)
Return to Prairie du Chien	16	(1)
Privations	16	(1)
A Perilous Journey	17	(1)
Return to Maine---Mountains of New Hampshire	17	(1)
Marriage	18	(1)
Prairie du Chien in 1837	18	(1)
American Residents	19	(1)
Biographies
James Duane Doty	19	(1)
James H. Lockwood	20	(1)
Indian Troubles	21	(1)
John S. Lockwood	22	(1)
Samuel Gilbert	23	(1)
Michael Brisbois	23	(1)
Pierre La Point	24	(1)
Joseph Rolette	24	(1)
Hercules Dousman	24	(1)
Rev. David Lowry	25	(1)
Chief Justice Charles Dunn	25	(1)
Rev. Alfred Brunson	26	(1)
Ira Brunson	27	(1)
John H. Folsom	28	(1)
Ezekiel Tainter	28	(1)
Judge Wyram Knowlton	29	(1)
Robert Lester	29	(1)
Thomas Pendleton Burnett	30	(1)
General Henry Dodge	30	(1)
General George W. Jones	31	(1)
S. G. and S. L. Tainter, John Thomas	31	(1)
Stillwater And St. Croix County
From Prairie du Chien to Still-water	32	(1)
Stillwater in 1845	33	(1)
St. Croix Country	33	(4)
First Settlement in 1838	34	(1)
Dismemberment of St. Croix Valley from CrawfordCounty	34	(1)
Judge Irwin's Court in 1840	35	(1)
Events in 1840, First Commissioners' Meeting	35	(1)
Election Precincts in 1841	36	(1)
Early History of Stillwater	37	(7)
The First Saw Mill	37	(1)
Copy of Agreement of Mill Company	38	(2)
Agreement of Land Claims	40	(1)
Bateau Voyage up the St. Croix	41	(1)
Indian Drunks	42	(1)
Skiff Voyage to Prairie du Chien	42	(1)
Mail Carrying	43	(1)
Claim and Mill at Arcola	43	(1)
Stillwater in 1846, Events	44	(2)
Overland Trip to Prairie du Chien	44	(1)
Return, Adventure	45	(1)
A Pioneer Cat	45	(1)
Stillwater in 1847	46	(34)
Territorial Election	46	(1)
Arrest of Nodin and Ne-she-ke-o-ge-ma	46	(1)
Visit to Sunrise, Connor's Camp	47	(1)
Murder of Henry Rust	47	(1)
Funeral, Indignation Meeting	48	(1)
First District Court in Stillwater	48	(1)
Nodin and Ne-she-ke-o-ge-ma Acquitted	49	(1)
Steamer War Eagle and Raft	49	(1)
Society Ball in Stillwater	49	(1)
Stillwater in 1848	50	(2)
Biographies
Joseph Renshaw Brown	52	(1)
Paul Carli	53	(1)
Dr. Christopher Carli	53	(1)
Lydia Ann Carli	54	(1)
Phineas Lawrence	54	(1)
Jacob Fisher	55	(1)
James S. Anderson	55	(1)
Emanuel D. Farmer	56	(1)
Col. John Greely	56	(1)
Mrs. Hannah Greely	57	(1)
Elam Greely	57	(1)
Himan Greely	57	(1)
Aquilla Greely	58	(1)
Elias McKean	58	(1)
Calvin F. Leach	58	(1)
Socrates Nelson	58	(1)
Mrs. Socrates Nelson	59	(1)
Edward Blake	59	(1)
Walter R. Vail	59	(1)
John E. Mower	60	(1)
Martin Mower	61	(1)
William Willim	61	(1)
Albert Harris	61	(1)
Cornelius Lyman	62	(1)
David B. Loomis	62	(1)
William E. Cove	63	(1)
John Smith	63	(1)
John Morgan	63	(1)
Anson Northrup	63	(1)
Robert Kennedy	64	(1)
Harvey Wilson	65	(1)
Andrew Jackson Short	65	(1)
James D. McComb	65	(1)
William Rutherford	66	(1)
Albion Masterman	66	(1)
Joseph N. Masterman	66	(1)
Mahlon Black	66	(1)
Morton S. Wilkinson	67	(1)
William Stanchfield	67	(1)
Thomas Ramsdell	68	(1)
Charles Macey	68	(1)
Jonathan E. McKusick	68	(1)
John McKusick	68	(1)
William McKusick	69	(1)
Noah McKusick	69	(1)
Royal McKusick	69	(1)
Ivory E. McKusick	69	(1)
Charles E. Leonard	69	(1)
Daniel McLean	70	(1)
Robert Simpson	70	(1)
William H. Hooper	70	(1)
James H. Spencer	71	(1)
John T. Blackburn	71	(1)
Joseph T. Blackburn	71	(1)
Horace McKinstry	71	(1)
Seth M. Sawyer	71	(1)
Henry Sawyer	72	(1)
Alvah D. Heaton	72	(1)
John McKenzie	72	(1)
George McKenzie	72	(1)
Henry Kattenberg	72	(1)
Julius F. Brunswick	73	(1)
Henry McLean	73	(1)
Hugh Burns	73	(1)
Sylvanus Trask	73	(1)
Ariel Eldridge	73	(1)
Edward White Durant	74	(1)
Oliver Parsons	75	(1)
Albert Stimson	75	(1)
Abraham Van Voorhees	75	(1)
Michael E. Owens	76	(1)
Joseph Bonin	77	(1)
Marcel Gagnon	77	(1)
Sebastian Marty	77	(1)
John Marty	77	(1)
Adam Marty	77	(1)
Michael McHale	77	(1)
George Watson	78	(1)
Rev. Eleazer A. Greenleaf	78	(1)
J. B. Covey	78	(1)
John Shaesby	78	(1)
John S. Proctor	78	(1)
Barron Proctor	79	(1)
Henry Westing	79	(1)
Thomas Dunn	79	(1)
Charles J. Gardiner	79	(1)
Samuel Staples	79	(1)
Josiah Staples	80	(1)
Joel M. Darling	80	(1)
Early River Pilots	80	(2)
Joe Perro	80	(1)
James McPhail	80	(1)
John Cormack	81	(1)
John Hanford	81	(1)
John Leach	81	(1)
Stephen B. Hanks	81	(1)
Samuel S. Hanks	81	(1)
Polk County
Description and History	82	(1)
Franklin Steele, the First Pioneer	82	(1)
His Account of the Settlement	83	(1)
The St. Croix Falls Lumbering Company	83	(1)
Organization and History	83	(1)
St. Croix River, Origin of Name	84	(1)
Treaty and Purchase of 1838	85	(1)
History of Polk County	85	(18)
County Seat located at St. Croix Falls	86	(1)
First Election County Officers	86	(1)
First Happenings	87	(1)
The Liquor Traffic	87	(1)
Melancholy Results	88	(1)
Death of Hall and Livingston	88	(1)
Indian ``Jamboree.''	88	(1)
Frontier Justice	89	(1)
Balsam Lake Murders	89	(1)
Execution of an Indian	89	(1)
Population of St. Croix Falls in 1848	90	(1)
Natural Language	90	(1)
Drowning of H. H. Perkins	90	(1)
A Quailtown Murder	90	(1)
Mineral Permits	91	(1)
Marriage under Difficulties	91	(1)
An Indian Scare	92	(1)
The First Fire Canoe	92	(1)
Mill Building	92	(1)
More Indian Murders	93	(3)
Indian Battle of Stillwater	96	(1)
The First Loggers	96	(1)
The First Rafting	97	(1)
An Indian Payment	98	(1)
Indian Dancing and Theft	99	(1)
Other Thefts	99	(1)
Hard Times	100	(1)
Puzzled Indians, ``Ugh! Ugh!''	101	(1)
Mrs. Worth and Muckatice	101	(2)
Polk County---Continued
Biographies
Gov. William Holcombe	103	(1)
William S. Hungerford	104	(1)
Caleb Cushing	104	(1)
Judge Henry D. Barron	105	(2)
George W. Brownell	107	(1)
Col. Robert C. Murphy	108	(1)
Edward Worth	109	(1)
Mrs. Mary C. Murphy	109	(1)
Maurice M. Samuels	109	(1)
Joseph B. Churchill	110	(1)
John McLean	110	(1)
Gilman Jewell	110	(1)
Elisha Creech	110	(1)
James W. McGlothlin	110	(1)
Andrew L. Tuttle	110	(1)
John Weymouth	111	(1)
B. W. Reynolds	111	(1)
Augustus Gaylord	111	(1)
James D. Reymert	111	(1)
William J. Vincent	112	(1)
Thompson Brothers	112	(1)
William Amery	112	(1)
Lewis Barlow	113	(1)
Levi W. Stratton	113	(1)
Elma M. Blanding	113	(1)
Blanding Family	113	(1)
Frederick K. Bartlett	114	(1)
Michael Field	115	(1)
Alden	115	(2)
Rev. A. B. Peabody	115	(2)
V. M. Babcock	117	(1)
Apple River	117	(1)
Balsam Lake	117	(1)
Beaver	118	(1)
Black Brook	118	(1)
Clam Falls	119	(1)
Daniel F. Smith	119	(1)
Clayton	120	(2)
Reuben F. Little	120	(2)
Clear Lake	122	(1)
Pineville	123	(1)
Frank M. Nye	123	(1)
Eureka	123	(1)
Charles Nevers	123	(1)
Farmington	124	(2)
Harmon Crandall	125	(1)
Samuel Wall	125	(1)
William Ramsey	125	(1)
Hiram R. Nason	126	(1)
Joel F. Nason	126	(1)
John McAdams	126	(1)
Charles Tea	126	(1)
Garfield	126	(1)
Georgetown	127	(1)
A Double Murder	127	(1)
George P. Anderson	128	(1)
Laketown	128	(1)
Lincoln	128	(1)
William Wilson	129	(1)
Loraine	129	(1)
William W. Gallespie	130	(1)
Luck	130	(1)
William H. Foster	130	(1)
Milltown	130	(1)
Patrick Lillis	131	(1)
Osceola	131	(3)
Scenery	132	(1)
First Happenings	132	(1)
Change of Name	133	(1)
Osceola Village	134	(7)
Daniel Mears	134	(1)
Nelson McCarty	134	(1)
William O. Mahony	135	(1)
Richard Arnold	135	(1)
William Kent, Sr	135	(1)
Robert Kent	135	(1)
Andrew Kent	135	(1)
William, James, Thomas, and John Kent	136	(1)
Samuel Close	136	(1)
Ebenezer Ayres	136	(1)
Dr. Carmi P. Garlick	137	(1)
John S. Godfrey	137	(1)
William A. Talboys	137	(1)
Charles H. Staples	138	(1)
J. W. Peake	138	(1)
George Wilson	138	(1)
Samuel B. Dresser	138	(1)
Frederic A. Dresser	139	(1)
Oscar A. Clark	139	(1)
Oscar F. Knapp	139	(1)
Mrs. Elisabeth B. Hayes	140	(1)
Cyrus G. Bradley	140	(1)
W. Hale	141	(1)
Edgar C. Treadwell	141	(1)
St. Croix Falls	141	(1)
St. Croix Falls Village	141	(1)
West Sweden	142	(1)
Sterling	142	(2)
Dr. Samuel Deneen	143	(1)
William W. Trimmer	143	(1)
Arnold Densmore	143	(1)
St. Croix County
Organization, 1840	144	(1)
Division, 1848	144	(1)
County Seat Located at Buena Vista	145	(1)
First Election	145	(1)
Division of the County, 1853	146	(1)
Present Limits	146	(1)
General Description	146	(1)
Monument Rock	147	(1)
Towns and Date of Organization	148	(1)
St. Croix County Agricultural Society	148	(1)
Pomona Grange	148	(1)
Agricultural Statistics	148	(1)
Manufactures	149	(1)
St. Croix Poor Farm	149	(1)
First Tax Roll of County, 1848	149	(3)
Hudson City	152	(7)
Original Claimants	153	(1)
First Survey, etc	153	(1)
First Deed Recorded	154	(1)
City Government	155	(1)
Mayors of the City	155	(1)
City Schools	155	(1)
Military Institute	156	(1)
Mills and Manufactories	156	(1)
Banks	156	(1)
Oliver Wendell Holmes Hospital	157	(1)
Water Works	158	(1)
Hotels, the Great Fire, 1866	158	(1)
Social and Benevolent Organizations	159	(1)
Biographies
Louis Massey	159	(1)
Peter Bouchea	160	(1)
William Steets	160	(1)
Capt. John B. Page	160	(1)
Dr. Philip Aldrich	160	(1)
The Nobles Family	161	(1)
James Purinton	161	(1)
Ammah Andrews	162	(1)
James Walstow	162	(1)
James Sanders	162	(1)
J. W. Stone	162	(1)
Joseph Bowron	163	(1)
Moses Perin	163	(1)
John O. Henning	163	(1)
Moses S. Gibson	164	(1)
Col. James Hughes	164	(1)
Daniel Anderson	165	(1)
Alfred Day	165	(1)
Dr. Otis Hoyt	165	(1)
S. S. N. Fuller	166	(1)
Miles H. Van Meter	166	(1)
Philip B. Jewell	166	(1)
John Tobin	166	(1)
Horace A. Taylor	167	(1)
Jeremiah Whaley	167	(1)
Simon Hunt	167	(1)
John S. Moffatt	167	(1)
James H. Childs	168	(1)
William Dwelley	168	(1)
James M. Fulton	168	(1)
Marcus A. Fulton	168	(1)
David C. Fulton	168	(1)
N. S. Holden	168	(1)
William H. Semmes	169	(1)
Sterling Jones	169	(1)
D. R. Bailey	169	(1)
Henry C. Baker	169	(1)
Mert Herrick	169	(1)
D. A. Baldwin	170	(1)
John Comstock	170	(1)
Lucius P. Wetherby	170	(1)
John C. Spooner	170	(1)
Thomas Porter	171	(1)
Herman L. Humphrey	171	(1)
Theodore Cogswell	172	(1)
Frank P. Catlin	172	(1)
Charles Y. Denniston	173	(1)
A. E. Jefferson	173	(1)
Samuel C. Symonds	173	(1)
John E. Glover	173	(1)
Lemuel North	173	(1)
Edgar Nye	173
William T. Price	113	(61)
E. B. Bundy	174	(1)
Towns and Biographies
Baldwin	174	(1)
Baldwin Village	174	(1)
Woodville Village	175	(1)
Cady	175	(1)
Cylon	175	(1)
Eau Galle	176	(1)
Emerald	176	(1)
Erin Prairie	176	(1)
Forest	177	(1)
Glenwood	177	(1)
Hammond	177	(1)
Hammond Village	178	(1)
John Thayer	178	(1)
Rev. William Egbert	178	(1)
Hudson	178	(1)
James Kelly	178	(1)
Daniel Coit	179	(1)
James Virtue	179	(1)
Theodore M. Bradley	179	(1)
William Dailey	179	(1)
Robert and Wm. McDiarmid	179	(1)
William Martin	179	(1)
Paschal Aldrich	180	(1)
Kinnikinic	180	(1)
Duncan McGregor	180	(1)
W. B. and James A. Mapes	181	(1)
Pleasant Valley	182	(1)
Richmond	182	(1)
Boardman Village	183	(1)
Gridley Village	183	(1)
New Richmond Village	183	(1)
New Richmond City	183	(1)
Bank, High School	184	(1)
Benjamin B. C. Foster	184	(1)
Robert Philbrick	185	(1)
Linden Coombs	185	(1)
Eben Quinby	185	(1)
Lewis Oaks	185	(1)
Henry Russell	185	(1)
Joseph D. Johnson	185	(1)
Joel Bartlett	185	(1)
Francis W. Bartlett	186	(1)
George C. Hough	186	(1)
Silas Staples	186	(1)
Dr. Henry Murdock	187	(1)
Steven N. Hawkins	187	(1)
Rush River	188	(1)
Somerset	188	(1)
Somerset Village	189	(1)
Gen. Samuel Harriman	189	(1)
St. Joseph	190	(1)
Houlton Village	191	(1)
Burkhardt Village	191	(1)
Springfield	191	(1)
Hersey Village	191	(1)
Wilson Village	192	(1)
Stanton	192	(1)
Star Prairie	192	(1)
Huntington Village	192	(1)
Star Prairie Village	192	(1)
Hon. R. K. Fay	192	(1)
Troy	193	(1)
James Chinnock	193	(1)
William L. Perrin	193	(1)
Warren	194	(1)
James Hill	194	(1)
Village Plats	195	(1)
Pierce County
Descriptive	196	(4)
History, First Events	197	(1)
County Seat Changed to Ellsworth	198	(1)
Railroads	199	(1)
Miscellaneous Statistics	199	(1)
Village Plats	199	(1)
Organization of Towns	200	(1)
Clifton	200	(2)
George W. McMurphy	201	(1)
Osborne Strahl	201	(1)
Charles B. Cox	201	(1)
Ephraim Harnsberger	201	(1)
Diamond Bluff	202	(2)
Capt. John Paine	202	(1)
John Day	202	(1)
Sarah A. Vance	203	(1)
Allen R. Wilson	203	(1)
E. S. Coulter	203	(1)
James Bamber	203	(1)
Jacob Mead	203	(1)
Charles Walbridge	203	(1)
Charles F. Hoyt	203	(1)
Enoch Quinby	203	(1)
The First Settler	203	(1)
El Paso	204	(1)
Ellsworth	205	(1)
Ellsworth Village	205	(2)
Anthony Huddleston	206	(1)
Perry D. Pierce	206	(1)
Hans B. Warner	207	(1)
Gilman	207	(1)
Hartland	208	(1)
Isabelle	208	(1)
Maiden Rock	209	(1)
Christopher L. Taylor	209	(1)
Martell	209	(1)
Oak Grove	210	(1)
Lewis M. Harnsberger	210	(1)
Prescott City	210	(6)
History	211	(1)
Platted in 1857	212	(1)
First Official Board	212	(1)
Statistics, First Events	212	(1)
Churches	212	(1)
Fair Grounds	213	(1)
Cemetery	213	(1)
Destructive Fires	213	(1)
Philander Prescott	214	(1)
George Schaser	214	(1)
William S. Lockwood	215	(1)
James Monroe Bailey	215	(1)
Adolph Werkman	215	(1)
Joseph Manese	215	(1)
Hilton Doe	215	(1)
Lute A. Taylor	215	(1)
John Huitt	216	(1)
John M. Rice	216	(1)
An Indian Battle	216	(1)
River Falls	217	(3)
First Happenings	217	(1)
Water Powers	217	(1)
Schools at River Falls	218	(1)
River Falls Academy	218	(1)
Churches	219	(1)
Associations	219	(1)
Bank, Railroad	220	(1)
Fires	220	(1)
River Falls City, Organization	220	(7)
Falls of Kinnikinic	220	(1)
The Cave Cabin	221	(1)
The Fourth State Normal School	221	(3)
Joel Foster	224	(1)
Jesse B. Thayer	224	(1)
A. D. Andrews	224	(1)
Joseph A. Short	225	(1)
Prof. Allen H. Weld	225	(1)
Allen P. Weld	225	(1)
George W. Nichols	225	(1)
W. D. Parker	226	(1)
William Powell	226	(30)
Lyman Powell	256
Nathaniel N. Powell	226	(1)
Oliver S. Powell	226	(1)
Nils P. Haugen	227	(1)
H. L. Wadsworth	227	(1)
Rock Elm	227	(1)
Salem	227	(1)
Spring Lake	228	(1)
Trenton	228	(1)
Trimbelle	229	(63)
M. B. Williams	229	(63)
Union	292
Burnett, Washburn, Sawyer And Barron Counties
Burnett County
Location and Description	230	(1)
Organization	231	(1)
Pine Barrens	231	(1)
Murders	232	(1)
Old Geezhic	233	(1)
The First Mission	234	(2)
The Chippewas of Wood Lake	236	(1)
Grantsburg	237	(1)
Canute Anderson	237	(1)
The Hickerson Family	238	(1)
The Anderson Family	238	(1)
Robert A. Doty	238	(1)
The Cranberry Marshes	239	(1)
Washburn County
Description, Town Organization	240	(1)
First Events	240	(1)
Shell Lake, Summit Lake	241	(1)
First Board of County Officers	241	(1)
Shell Lake Lumber Company	241	(1)
Sawyer Creek	242	(1)
Spooner Station	242	(1)
Veazie Village	242	(1)
Sawyer County
Organization, Description	242	(1)
County Indebtedness	243	(1)
Town of Hayward	243	(1)
Village of Hayward	243	(1)
First Events, Schools, Churches, etc	244	(1)
Bank, Lumber Company	244	(1)
Malcomb Dobie	245	(1)
Milton V. Stratton	245	(1)
Barron County
Description, Organization	245	(1)
Turtle Lake, Town and Village	245	(1)
Barron, Perley Village	246	(1)
Cumberland Village	246	(1)
Sprague	246	(1)
Comstock and Barronett Villages	247	(1)
Charles Simeon Taylor	247	(1)
Ashland, Bayfield And Doublas Counties
Ashland County
History, Location, Description	248	(1)
Isles of the Apostles	248	(1)
Claude Allouez at Madeline Island	249	(1)
Early History of La Pointe	249	(1)
Remarkable Epitaph	249	(1)
La Pointe County Election	249	(1)
John W. Bell	250	(1)
Ashland	250	(1)
History, First Events	250	(1)
Asaph Whittlesey	251	(1)
J. P. T. Haskell	251	(1)
G. S. Vaughn	251	(1)
Dr. Edwin Ellis	252	(1)
Martin Beaser	252	(1)
Hon. Sam S. Fifield	252	(1)
Bayfield County
Location and History	253	(1)
Bayfield Village	253	(1)
Washburn, Drummond, etc	254	(1)
Douglas County
Description and History	254	(1)
First Election	254	(1)
Superior City	255	(1)
History	255	(1)
Early Speculation	256	(1)
Period of Depression	257	(1)
West Superior	258	(1)
The Bardon Brothers	258	(1)
William H. Newton	258	(1)
Judge Solon H. Clough	258	(1)
Vincent Roy	259	(1)
D. George Morrison	259	(1)
August Zachau	259	(1)
Pine County
History	260	(1)
Description	260	(1)
First Events	261	(1)
Finances, Railroads	261	(1)
Losses by Fire	262	(1)
Pokegama Lake and Mission	262	(14)
Thomas Conner's Trading Post	262	(1)
Presbyterian Mission	263	(1)
Mushk-de-winini	263	(1)
Battle of Pokegama	264	(1)
Cannibalism	265	(2)
A Noble Chief	267	(1)
Frank Confessions	267	(1)
A Cowardly Deed	268	(1)
An Unjust Accusation	268	(1)
Indian Magnanimity	269	(1)
Rev. Frederic Ayer	269	(3)
Rev. William T. Boutwell	272	(2)
Discovery of Itasca	274	(2)
Mrs. Hester C. Boutwell	276	(1)
Chengwatana	276	(6)
First Settlers	276	(1)
Chengwatana Village Platted	277	(1)
Chengwatana Town Organized	277	(1)
Louis Ayd	277	(1)
Duane Porter	277	(1)
S. A. Hutchinson	277	(1)
Hinckley, Town of	278	(1)
Hinckley, Village of	278	(1)
James Morrison	278	(1)
Sandstone Village and Quarries	279	(1)
Wm. H. Grant, Sr	279
Kettle River, Town of	275	(5)
John C. Hanley	280	(1)
Mission Creek	280	(1)
Pine City, Town of	280	(1)
Pine City, Village of	281	(1)
Richard G. Robinson	281	(1)
Hiram Brackett	281	(1)
Randall K. Burrows	281	(1)
John S. Ferson	282	(1)
Samuel Millet	282	(1)
Rock Creek	282	(1)
Enoch Horton	282	(1)
Royalton	282	(1)
Windermere	283	(3)
Neshodana, Fortuna, St. John's	283	(1)
A Rock Creek Murder	283	(1)
Burning of a Jail	283	(1)
A Disfigured Family	284	(1)
Indian Faith Cure	284	(1)
Indian Graves	284	(1)
Indian Stoicism	285	(1)
Old Batice	285	(1)
An Indian Dance	285	(1)
Kanabec, Isanti, And Mille Lacs Counties
Kanabec County
History, Boundaries, etc	286	(1)
Description	286	(1)
First Settlers, First Election	287	(1)
First Events	287	(1)
Arthur	288	(1)
Mora, Village of	288	(1)
Stephen L. Danforth	288	(1)
N. H. Danforth	288	(1)
Alvah J. Conger	288	(1)
Ira Conger	288	(1)
Bronson, Village of	288	(1)
Brunswick, Town of	289	(1)
Brunswick, Village of	289	(1)
Ground House City	289	(1)
James Pennington	289	(1)
George L. Staples	289	(1)
Daniel Gordon	290	(1)
Grass Lake, Town of	290	(1)
Isanti County
Organization	290	(1)
Cambridge	291	(1)
North Branch, Town of	291	(1)
Oxford, Town of	291	(1)
Stephen Hewson	291	(1)
George W. Nesbit	292	(1)
Rensselaer Grant	292	(1)
Mille Lacs County
Description	292	(1)
Mille Lacs Reservation	293	(1)
County Organization in 1860	293	(1)
First Election and Officers	293	(1)
Milacca, Village of	294	(1)
Bridgman, Village of	294	(1)
Princeton, Village of	294	(2)
Samuel Ross	296	(1)
Joseph L. Cater	296	(1)
M. V. B. Cater	296	(1)
Edwin Allen	296	(1)
John H. Allen	296	(1)
A. B. Damon	296	(1)
C. H. Chadbourne	296	(2)
Chisago County
Location, Surface, Scenery	298	(1)
Chisago Lake	298	(1)
Dalles of the St. Croix	299	(1)
Origin of the Formation	300	(1)
The Devil's Chair	300	(1)
The Wells	301	(1)
Settlement and Organization	302	(1)
Joe R. Brown to the Front	303	(1)
Prehistoric Remains	303	(1)
Robinet in Possession	303	(1)
Robinet Bought Off, First Improvements	304	(1)
Death of B. F. Baker	304	(1)
The First Log House Built	305	(1)
First Crops Raised	305	(1)
First Election	305	(1)
Chisago County Named	306	(1)
First Commissioners	307	(1)
County Seat Located at Taylor's Falls	307	(1)
Removed to Centre City	307	(1)
Amado	307	(1)
First Supervisors	308	(1)
Thornton Bishop	308	(1)
William Holmes	308	(1)
James M. Martin	309	(1)
Branch	309	(1)
North Branch Station	309	(1)
Henry L. Ingalls	310	(1)
Mrs. Lavina L. Ingalls	310	(1)
Chisago Lake, First Settlers	310	(2)
First Crops	311	(1)
Swedish Lutheran Church	311	(1)
Centre City	312	(22)
Andrew Swenson	312	(1)
John S. Van Rensselaer	312	(1)
Axel Dahliam	313	(1)
Nels Nord	313	(1)
Join A. Hallberg	314
Charles A. Bush	313	(1)
Lars Johan Stark	313	(1)
Frank Mobeck	313	(1)
Robert Currie	314
Andrew N. Holm	313	(21)
Cemetery and other Associations	334	(1)
Incorporation	334	(1)
Indian Dance	335
Lindstrom Village	314	(1)
Daniel Lindstrom	315	(1)
Magnus S. Shaleen	315	(1)
Chisago City	315	(1)
Otto Wallmark	316	(1)
Andrew Wallmark	316	(1)
Fish Lake	316	(1)
Peter Berg	317	(1)
Benjamin Franklin	317	(1)
Franconia	317	(4)
Franconia Village	318	(1)
Ansel Smith	318	(1)
Henry F. and Leonard P. Day	318	(1)
Henry Wills	318	(1)
The Clark Brothers	319	(1)
David Smith	319	(1)
Jonas Lindall	319	(1)
William Peaslee	319	(1)
Charles Vitalis	319	(1)
August J. Anderson	320	(1)
Frank N. Peterson	320	(1)
Harris	321	(1)
Harris Village	321	(1)
Lent	322	(1)
Nessell	322	(1)
Robert Nessell	323	(1)
Stephen B. Clark	323	(1)
Rush Seba	323	(1)
Rush City	323	(3)
Thomas Flynn	324	(1)
Patrick Flynn	324	(1)
Rufus Crocker	324	(1)
Frank H. Pratt	324	(1)
Voloro D. Eddy	325	(1)
F.S. Christianson	326	(1)
Shafer	326	(2)
Jacob Shafer	326	(1)
Peter Wickland	327	(1)
Tuver Walmarson	327	(1)
Andros Anderson	327	(1)
Eric Byland	327	(1)
Jacob Peterson	327	(1)
Ambrose C. Seavey	327	(1)
Sunrise	328	(1)
Sunrise Village	328	(1)
Kost Village	329	(1)
Chippewa	329	(1)
Dronthiem	329	(1)
Nashua	330	(1)
Washington	330	(2)
John A. Brown	330	(1)
Patten W. Davis	330	(1)
James F. Harvey	330	(1)
Floyd S. Bates	330	(1)
Isaac H. Warner	331	(1)
Charles F. Lowe	331	(1)
Wells Farr	331	(1)
John G. Mold	331	(1)
George L. Blood	331	(1)
Joel G. Ryder	332
John Dean	232	(100)
Taylor's Falls	332	(1)
First Post Office and Mail Service	332	(1)
Mills, First Events	333	(1)
Religious Organizations	333	(1)
Bridge Company	334	(1)
Banks, Mining Companies	334	(16)
Biographical
Jesse Taylor	336	(1)
Joshua L. Taylor	336	(1)
Nathan C. D. Taylor	337	(1)
Thomas F. Morton	337	(1)
Henry N. Setzer	337	(1)
Patrick Fox	338	(1)
William F. Colby	339	(1)
Oscar Roos	339	(1)
Samuel Thomson	339	(1)
Susan Thomson Mears	339	(1)
George De Attly	340	(1)
Jacob Markley	340	(1)
John Dobney	340	(1)
William Dobney	340	(1)
Henry H. Newbury	340	(1)
Emil Munch	340	(1)
A. M. Wilmarth	341	(1)
Lucius K. Stannard	341	(1)
James W. Mullen	342	(1)
David Caneday	342	(1)
George B. Folsom	343	(1)
Aaron M. Chase	343	(1)
Peter Abear	343	(1)
Levi W. Folsom	344	(1)
Eddington Knowles	344	(1)
Dr. Lucius B. Smith	344	(10)
William Comer	354
E. Whiting and Brothers	345	(1)
Frederic Tang, Sr	346	(1)
Ward W. Folsom	346	(1)
George W. Seymour	346	(1)
James A. Woolley	346	(1)
Patrick Carroll	347	(1)
Joseph Carroll	347	(1)
E. E. Edwards	347	(1)
Stephen J. Merrill	348	(1)
Noah Marcus Humphrey	348	(1)
Royal C. Gray	349	(1)
John P. Owens	349	(1)
Andrew Clendenning	350	(1)
Smith Ellison	350	(1)
Wyoming---Settlement and Organization	350	(2)
Wyoming Village	352	(1)
Deer Garden	352	(3)
L. O. Tombler	352	(1)
Dr. John Woolman Comfort	353	(1)
Isaac Markley	353	(1)
Joel Wright	353	(1)
Randall Wright	353	(1)
Frederic Tepel	353	(1)
Charles Henry Sauer	354	(1)
Washington County
Organization in 1849	355	(1)
First Board of Officers	355	(1)
Afton	356	(3)
Afton Village	357	(1)
South Afton	357	(1)
Valley Creek	357	(1)
St. Mary Village	357	(1)
Joseph Haskell	358	(1)
Lemuel Bolles	358	(1)
Taylor F. Randolph	358	(1)
Elijah Bissell	358	(1)
Andrew Mackey	358	(1)
Baytown Settlement	359	(1)
Baytown Village	359	(1)
Bangor	360	(1)
Middletown	360	(1)
South Stillwater	360	(1)
Mills, etc	360	(1)
Docks, Factories, Cemeteries	360	(1)
Cottage Grove	361	(3)
Cottage Grove Village	361	(1)
Langdon	362	(1)
Joseph W. Furber	362	(1)
Samuel W. Furber	362	(1)
Theodore Furber	363	(1)
James S. Norris	363	(1)
Lewis Hill	363	(1)
Jacob Moshier	363	(1)
William Ferguson	363	(1)
John Atkinson	363	(1)
Denmark	364	(1)
Point Douglas	364	(4)
Levi Hertzell	365	(1)
Oscar Burris	365	(1)
David Hone	365	(1)
William B. Dibble	366	(1)
George Harris	366	(1)
Harley D. White	367	(1)
Thomas Hetherington	367	(1)
James Shearer	367	(1)
Simon Shingledecker	367	(1)
Caleb Truax	367	(1)
Abraham Truax	368	(1)
George W. Campbell	368	(1)
Forest Lake, History of	368	(1)
Captain Michael Marsh	369
Forest Lake Village	366	(3)
Grant, History of	369	(3)
Dellwood	370	(1)
Eagle City	370	(1)
Mahtomedi	370	(1)
Wildwood	370	(1)
William Elliott	371	(1)
Frederick Lamb	371	(1)
James Rutherford	371	(1)
Jesse H. Soule	371	(1)
Lakeland, Description and History of	372	(2)
Lakeland Village	372	(1)
Henry W. Crosby	373	(1)
Reuben H. Sanderson	373	(1)
Newton McKusick	373	(1)
Captain John Oliver	373	(1)
Captain Asa Barlow Green	374	(1)
L. A. Huntoon	374	(1)
Marine, Origin of Settlement	374	(9)
First Settlers	375	(1)
The Mill Completed	375	(1)
Marine Mills Village	376	(1)
First Lawsuit	376	(1)
Churches, Improvements	377	(1)
Losses by Fire	378	(1)
Vasa Village	378	(1)
Orange Walker	378	(1)
Lewis Walker	379	(1)
Samuel Burkelo	379	(1)
Asa S. Parker	379	(1)
Hiram Berkey	380	(1)
George B. Judd	380	(1)
James Hale	380	(1)
John Holt	380	(1)
George Holt	381	(1)
William Town	381	(1)
Matthias Welshance	381	(1)
Benj. T. Otis	382	(1)
William Clark	382	(1)
James R. Meredith	382	(1)
John D. and Thomas E. Ward	382	(1)
Samuel Judd	382	(1)
Frederic W. Lammers	382	(1)
James R. M. Gaskill	382	(1)
Newport, Town of	383	(3)
Isle Pelee	383	(1)
Red Rock	383	(1)
Mission at Red Rock	384	(1)
Gray Cloud City	385	(1)
Newport Village	385	(1)
John Holton	385	(1)
John A. Ford	385	(1)
Daniel Hopkins, Sr.	385	(1)
William R. Brown	386	(1)
William Fowler	386	(1)
Oakdale, Town of	386	(2)
Lake Elmo Village	387	(1)
E. C. Gray	387	(1)
Arthur Stephens	388	(1)
Oneka, Town of	388	(1)
Oneka Station	389	(1)
Shady Side Village	389	(1)
Daniel Hopkins, Jr	389	(1)
Stillwater, Town of	389	(2)
Oak Park	390	(1)
David P. Lyman	390	(1)
Henry A. Jackman	390	(1)
Frederic J. Curtis	391	(1)
David Cover	391	(1)
John Parker	391	(1)
Woodbury, Town of	391	(5)
Jacob Folstrom	392	(1)
Alexander McHattie	393	(1)
John McHattie	393	(1)
The Middleton Family	393	(1)
Newington Gilbert	394	(1)
Ebenezer Ayers	394	(2)
Washington Count---Continued.
City of Stillwater
Stillwater in 1850	396	(1)
The Freshet of 1850	397	(1)
A Real Estate Movement	397	(1)
Incorporation of Stillwater	398	(1)
List of Marshals	398	(1)
Post Office, Mail Routes	398	(1)
Statistics	399	(1)
Hotels	399	(1)
City Banks	400	(2)
Board of Trade, Water Company	402	(1)
Fire Department	402	(1)
Gas Light, Telegraph, Telephone	403	(1)
Elevator, Express Companies, Bridge	403	(1)
Lumbering Interests, Flour Mills	404	(1)
Manufactories	404	(1)
Building Association	405	(1)
Churches, etc	406	(2)
Public Buildings	408	(1)
Societies, etc	409	(1)
Cemeteries	410	(1)
Agricultural Society	410	(1)
State Prison	410	(2)
Fires, Bonds, Indebtedness	412	(1)
Biographies
Isaac Staples	413	(2)
Samuel F. Hersey & Sons	415	(1)
Jacob Bean	416	(1)
Charles Bean	416	(1)
Rudolph Lehmicke	417	(1)
Hollis R. Murdock	417	(1)
George M. Seymour	417
Frank A. Seymour	410	(8)
Louis Hospes	418	(1)
David Tozer	419	(1)
David Bronson	420	(1)
John Maloy	420	(1)
Mrs. Susannah Tepass	420	(1)
William E. Thorne	420	(1)
Edmund J. Butts	420	(1)
A. B. Easton	421	(1)
Edwin A. Folsom	421	(1)
John B. H. Mitchell	421	(1)
Joseph Schupp	422	(1)
Clifford A. Bennett	422	(1)
Samuel Mathews	422	(1)
John and James Mathews	423	(1)
Peter Jourdain	423	(1)
James Rooney	423	(1)
James N. Castle	423	(1)
Abraham L. Gallespie	423	(1)
John C. Gardiner	423	(1)
V. C. Seward	424	(1)
Ralph Wheeler	424	(1)
Edward S. Brown	424	(1)
William Lowell	424	(1)
Albert Lowell	425	(1)
Nelson H. Van Voorhes	425	(1)
Andrew J. Van Voorhes	425	(27)
Henry C. Van Voorhes	452
C. A. Bromley	426	(1)
Charles J. Butler	426	(1)
Levi E. Thompson	427	(1)
George Davis	427	(1)
William M. McCluer	427	(1)
John N. Ahl	427	(1)
Samuel M. Register	428	(1)
J. A. Johnson	428	(1)
Gold T. Curtis	429	(1)
Harley D. Curtis	429	(1)
Francis R. Delano	429	(1)
Henry W. Cannon	430	(1)
Dwight M. Sabin	430	(2)
Stearns, Anoka And Sherburne Counties
Stearns County
Organization and History of	432	(2)
St. Cloud	434	(1)
Newspapers and Post Office	435	(1)
Village and City Organization	435	(1)
Land Office, Expenditures	435	(1)
The St. Cloud Dam, Improvements	436	(1)
Banks, Public Buildings	436	(1)
St. John's University	437	(1)
La Sauk, Town of	438	(1)
Peter Schaeler	438	(1)
John L. Wilson	438	(1)
Charles T. Stearns	438	(1)
Henry G. Fillmore	438	(1)
Nathaniel Getchell	438	(1)
James Keough	438	(1)
Loren W. Collins	438	(1)
Henry C. Waite	439	(1)
Gen. S. B. Lowry	439	(1)
A. and Joseph Edelbrock	439	(1)
John Rengel	440	(1)
Louis A. Evans	440	(1)
Ambrose Freeman	440	(1)
Nathan F. Barnes	440	(1)
Nehemiah P. Clark	441	(1)
Oscar E. Garrison	441	(1)
Charles A. Gilman	441	(1)
Other Citizens	442	(1)
Anoka County
Organization	442	(1)
First Settlers, Commissioners	443	(1)
Anoka, Town of	443	(1)
Anoka, City of	443	(1)
Incorporation	444	(1)
Fires, Public Buildings	445	(1)
Manufactures, Banks	445	(1)
Bethel, Town of	446	(1)
Blaine, Town of	446	(1)
Burns, Town of	446	(1)
Centreville, Town of	446	(1)
Centreville Village	446	(1)
Columbus, Town of	447	(1)
Fridley, Town of	447	(1)
John Banfil	448	(1)
Grow, Town of	448	(1)
Ham Lake, Town of	448	(1)
Linwood, Town of	448	(1)
L. S. Arnold	449	(1)
S. Ridge	449	(1)
J. G. Green	449	(1)
S. W. Haskell	449	(1)
M. M. Ryan	449	(1)
Hurley Family	449	(1)
Oak Grove, Town of	449	(1)
Ramsey, Town of	449	(1)
St. Francis, Town of	450	(1)
An Indian Riot	450	(1)
Jared Benson	451	(1)
James C. Frost	451	(1)
A. J. McKenney	451	(1)
John Henry Batzle	452	(1)
John R. Bean	452	(1)
A. McC. Fridley	452	(1)
William Staples	452	(1)
Capt. James Starkey	453	(1)
Sherburne County
Description	453	(1)
Organization	453	(1)
Towns of Sherburne County	454	(1)
Villages of Sherburne County	455	(1)
Orono, Elk River	455	(1)
East St. Cloud	456	(1)
Clear Lake	456	(1)
Becker	456	(1)
Big Lake	456	(1)
J. Q. A. Nickerson	456	(1)
Henry Bittner	456	(1)
Francis De Lille	457	(1)
Mrs. F. De Lille	457	(1)
Howard M. Atkins	457	(1)
B. F. Hildreth	458	(1)
Samuel Hayden	458	(1)
Joseph Jerome	458	(1)
Joshua O. Cater	458	(1)
J. F. Bean	458	(1)
J. H. Felch	458	(1)
James Brady	458	(1)
Joshua Briggs	458	(1)
Robert Orrock	458	(1)
John G. Jamieson	458	(1)
A. B. Heath	458	(1)
Dr. B. R. Palmer	459	(1)
Judge Moses Sherburne	459	(1)
Charles F. George	459	(1)
Royal George	459	(1)
W. L. Babcock	459	(1)
Benton, Morrison And Crow Wing Counties
Benton County
Description	460	(1)
First Settlers, Organization	461	(1)
Towns of Benton County	461	(1)
Villages	461	(1)
Sauk Rapids, Incorporation	461	(1)
Dam and Public Buildings	462	(1)
The Cyclone of 1886	462	(1)
Watab Village	462	(1)
Philip Beaupre	462	(1)
David Gilman	463	(1)
James Beatty	463	(1)
Ellis Kling	463	(1)
George W. Benedict	464	(1)
J. Q. A. Wood	464	(1)
William H. Wood	464	(1)
Mrs. Wm. H. Wood	465	(1)
A. De Lacy Wood	465	(1)
P. H. Wood	465	(1)
Rev. Sherman Hall	465	(1)
Jeremiah Russell	466	(1)
Edgar O. Hamlin	467	(1)
Morrison County
Description	468	(1)
History	468	(1)
Indian Feuds	469	(1)
Organization	469	(1)
Winnebago Indians	470	(1)
Towns of Morrison County	471	(1)
Little Falls Village	471	(1)
Little Falls Water Power	472	(1)
Incorporation	473	(1)
Schools and Churches	473	(1)
Royalton Village	473	(1)
Incorporation, First Officers	473	(1)
Peter Roy	473	(1)
William Sturgis	474	(1)
James Fergus	474	(1)
Nathan Richardson	475	(1)
Moses La Fond	475	(1)
O. A. Churchill	475	(1)
John M. Kidder	476	(1)
Warren Kobe	476	(1)
Ola K. Black	476	(1)
Ira W. Bouch	476	(1)
Robert Russell	476	(1)
Peter A. Green	476	(1)
Rodolphus D. Kinney	476	(1)
John D. Logan	476	(1)
Crow Wing County. Description	477	(5)
First Settlers	477	(1)
Organization	478	(1)
Recorganization	478	(1)
Murderers Lynched	478	(1)
Brainerd	478	(1)
First Settlers	479	(1)
Northern Pacific Sanitarium	480	(1)
The Kindred Dam	480	(1)
L. P. White	480	(1)
Allen Morrison	480	(1)
Charles F. Kindred	481	(1)
Aitkin, Carlton, St. Louis, Lake And Cook Counties
Aitkin County
Description	482	(1)
Organization, Officers	482	(1)
Aitkin Village	483	(1)
William A. Aitkin	483	(1)
Alfred Aitkin	483	(1)
Nathaniel Tibbett	484	(1)
Carlton County
History and Organization	484	(1)
Towns of Carlton County	485	(1)
Thomson Village	485	(1)
Cloquet Village	485	(1)
Moose Lake Station	485	(1)
Barnum Station	486	(1)
Mahtowa Station	486	(1)
North Pacific Junction	486	(1)
Francis A. Watkins	486	(1)
St. Louis County
Description	486	(1)
Picturesque Scenery	487	(1)
Commissioners' Meetings	487	(1)
List of Commissioners	488	(1)
Duluth, Early History	488	(1)
Growth, Population	489	(1)
Mills, Warehouses, Shipments	489	(1)
Duluth Harbor	490	(1)
Fish Commission	490	(1)
Fond du Lac Village	491	(1)
Oneota Village	492	(1)
Clifton Village	492	(1)
Portland Village	492	(1)
Endion Village	492	(1)
Middleton Village	492	(1)
Montezuma Village	492	(1)
Buchanan Village	492	(1)
St. Louis Falls Village	492	(1)
Fremont Island	493	(1)
Tower	493	(1)
George R. Stuntz	494	(1)
George E. Stone	494	(1)
Charles H. Graves	494	(1)
Ozro P. Stearns	494	(1)
Lake County
Description	495	(1)
Two Harbors	496	(1)
Cook County
History and Organization	496	(1)
Hennepin County
Organization and History, Towns	497	(1)
Fort Snelling	497	(2)
Treaty of 1837	499	(1)
First Land Claims, 1838	499	(1)
Cheever's Tower	500	(1)
St. Anthony Village Platted	500	(1)
First Marriage in the Territory	500	(1)
First Courts, School, Post Office	501	(1)
Church Organizations	501	(1)
The Suspension Bridge Built	502	(1)
St. Anthony Incorporated 1855	502	(1)
Annexation to Minneapolis, 1872	502	(1)
St. Anthony Falls	502	(1)
La Salle's Description	502	(1)
Minneapolis, Early Settlers	503	(1)
Early Land Claims	504	(1)
Business Enterprises	505	(1)
Mills Erected	505	(1)
St. Anthony Water Power Company	506	(1)
Minneapolis Named, Land Office	506	(1)
Incorporation as a City, 1867	506	(1)
Annexation of St. Anthony	506	(1)
List of Mayors	507	(1)
Water vs. Steam	507	(1)
Terrific Explosion at the Flour Mills	508	(1)
Suburban Resorts	508	(1)
List of Public Buildings	509	(1)
Post Office Statistics	510	(1)
Lumber Manufactured	511	(1)
Bonded Debt, Taxes, Expenses	511	(1)
West Minneapolis	511	(1)
Biographies
Calvin A. Tuttle	512	(1)
Cyrus Aldrich	512	(2)
Dr. Alfred E. Ames	514	(1)
Dr. Albert A. Ames	514	(1)
Jesse Ames	515	(1)
Cadwallader C. Washburn	515	(2)
William D. Washburn	517	(1)
Joseph C. Whitney	517	(1)
Charles Hoag	518	(1)
Franklin Steele	518	(1)
Roswell P. Russell	519	(1)
Horatio P. Van Cleve	520	(1)
Charlotte O. Van Cleve	520	(1)
Ard Godfrey	520	(1)
Richard Chute	521	(1)
Lucius N. Parker	521	(1)
Captain John Rollins	521	(1)
John G. Lennon	521	(1)
John H. Stevens	522	(1)
Caleb D. Dorr	522	(1)
Rev. Edward D. Neill	522	(1)
John Wensignor	523	(1)
Robert H. Hasty	524	(1)
Stephen Pratt	524	(1)
Capt. John Tapper	524	(1)
R. W. Cummings	524	(1)
Elias H. Conner	524	(1)
C. F. Stimson	524	(1)
William Dugas	524	(1)
David Gorham	525	(1)
Edwin Hedderly	525	(1)
Louis Neudeck	525	(1)
Andrew J. Foster	525	(1)
A. D. Foster	525	(1)
Charies E. Vanderburgh	525	(1)
Dorillius Morrison	526	(1)
H. G. O. Morrison	526	(1)
F. R. E. Cornell	526	(1)
Gen. A. B. Nettleton	527	(1)
Isaac Atwater	527	(1)
Rev. David Brooks	527	(1)
Prof. Jabez Brooks	527	(1)
John S. Pillsbury	528	(1)
Henry T. Welles	528	(1)
David Blakely	528	(1)
William Lochren	528	(1)
Eugene M. Wilson	528	(1)
R. B. Langdon	529	(1)
William M. Bracket	529	(1)
Thos. B. and Platt B. Walker	529	(1)
Austin H. Young	530	(1)
Henry G. Hicks	530	(1)
John P. Rea	530	(1)
John Martin	530	(1)
John Dudley	531	(1)
Ramsey County
Organization, First Officers	532	(1)
St. Paul in 1840, Known as Pig's Eye	532	(1)
First Settlers	532	(1)
Father Ravoux, 1841	533	(1)
Henry Jackson Established a Trading Post	533	(1)
Accessions of 1843	533	(1)
Accessions of 1844	534	(1)
First Deed	534	(1)
Accessions of 1845	534	(1)
First School	535	(1)
Second Deed, Phalen's Tract	535	(1)
Accessions of 1846	535	(1)
Reminiscences	536	(1)
Accessions in 1847	536	(1)
St. Paul Platted	537	(1)
Miss Bishop's School	537	(1)
First Steamboat Line	537	(1)
Accessions of 1848	538	(1)
Progress in 1849	539	(1)
St. Paul Made the Capital of the State	539	(1)
The First Newspapers	539	(1)
Early Items and Advertisements	540	(1)
Pioneers of 1849	540	(1)
Some Comparisons	541	(1)
Statistics of Population, Schools, Buildings	542	(1)
List of Mayors	543	(1)
West St. Paul	544	(1)
Towns of Ramsey County	544	(47)
White Bear	545	(1)
First Settlers	545	(1)
Indian Battle Ground	546	(1)
Town Organization	547	(1)
White Bear Lake Village	548	(1)
Hotels and Cottages	548	(1)
Daniel Getty	549
South St. Paul	519	(31)
North St. Paul	550	(1)
Population of St Paul	550	(1)
Post Office History	551	(2)
Biographical
Henry Hastings Sibley	553	(2)
Alexander Ramsey	555	(2)
William H. Forbes	557	(3)
Edmund Rice	560	(1)
Louis Robert	561	(1)
Auguste L. Larpenteur	562	(1)
William H. Nobles	562	(1)
Simeon P. Folsom	563	(1)
Jacob W. Bass	563	(1)
Benjamin W. Brunson	564	(1)
Abram S. and Chas. D. Elfelt	564	(1)
D. A. J. Baker	565	(1)
Benjamin F. Hoyt	565	(1)
John Fletcher Williams	566	(1)
Dr. John H. Murphy	566	(1)
William H. Tinker	567	(1)
George P. Jacobs	567	(1)
Lyman Dayton	567	(1)
Henry L. Moss	567	(1)
William Rainey Marshall	568	(1)
David Cooper	569	(1)
Bushrod W. Lott	570	(1)
W. F. Davidson	570	(1)
Wm. H. Fisher	571	(1)
Charles H. Oakes	572	(1)
C. W. W. Borup	572	(1)
Capt. Russell Blakely	573	(1)
Rensselaer R. Nelson	573	(1)
George L. Becker	574	(1)
Aaron Goodrich	575	(1)
Nathan Myrick	575	(1)
John Melvin Gilman	576	(1)
Charles E. Flandrau	576	(1)
John B. Sanborn	577	(2)
John R. Irvine	579	(1)
Horace R. Bigelow	580	(1)
Cushman K. Davis	580	(1)
S. J. R. McMillan	581	(1)
Willis A. Gorman	581	(1)
John D. Ludden	582	(1)
Elias F. Drake	582	(1)
Norman W. Kittson	583	(1)
Hascal R. Brill	583	(1)
Ward W. Folsom	584	(1)
Gordon E. Cole	584	(1)
James Smith, Jr	584	(1)
William P. Murray	585	(1)
Henry Hale	585	(1)
James Gilfillan	585	(1)
Charles Duncan Gilfillan	586	(1)
Alexander Wilkin	586	(1)
Westcott Wilkin	587	(1)
S. C. Whitcher	587	(1)
T. M. Newson	587	(1)
Alvaren Allen	588	(1)
Harlan P. Hall	589	(1)
Stephen Miller	589	(2)
Dakota, Goodhue, Wabasha and Winona Counties
Dakota County
Description	591	(1)
Hastings	591	(1)
Farmington	591	(1)
Ignatius Donnelly	591	(1)
Francis M. Crosby	592	(1)
G. W. Le Duc	593	(2)
Goodhue County
Red Wing, Barn Bluff	595	(1)
Cannon Falls	595	(1)
Indian Burying Ground	596	(1)
Hans Mattson	596	(1)
Lucius F. Hubbard	597	(2)
William colville	599	(1)
Martin S. Chandler	599	(1)
Charles McClure	600	(1)
Horace B. Wilson	600	(1)
Wabasha County
Wabasha Village	601	(1)
Bailey and Sons	602	(1)
Nathaniel S. Tefft	602	(1)
James Wells	602	(1)
Winona County
Scenery	602	(1)
Winona City	603	(1)
Daniel S. Norton	603	(1)
William Windom	603	(1)
Charles H. Berry	604	(1)
Thomas Wilson	604	(1)
Thomas Simpson	605	(1)
Wm. H. Yale	605	(1)
Miscellaneous Biographies
Pierre Bottineau	606	(1)
Andrew G. Chatfield	606	(1)
Hazen Mooers	607	(1)
John McDonough Berry	607	(1)
Mark H. Dunnell	608	(1)
James H. Baker	608	(1)
Horace B. Strait	609	(1)
Judson Wade Bishop	610	(1)
John L. McDonald	610	(1)
Thomas H. Armstrong	611	(1)
Augustus Armstrong	611	(1)
Moses K. Armstrong	611	(1)
James B. Wakefield	611	(1)
William Wallace Braden	611	(1)
Reuben Butters	612	(1)
Michael Doran	612	(1)
Andrew McCrea	613	(1)
John W. Blake	613	(1)
Knute Nelson	613	(1)
William R. Denny	613