Fifty Years In The Northwest. William H. C. Folsom

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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


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