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If whisky was sold, it must have been as villainous "forty- rod" stuff as is now vended. An old Indian, named RATTLER, who had a camp across the river, managed to get a drink in town, one night, and was found dead in his teepee next morn- ing. Whisky that could kill a Sioux Indian that quick, must have been a mighty mean article.
SCRAPS.
About this time, a contest for the cathedral of this bishop- ric is noted. PIERRE BOTTINEAU and others made profuse offers of lots at Saint Anthony, but some eligible lots were finally secured here, the same on which it now stands, as is narrated elsewhere.
Reference is made to Sergeant E. K. THOMAS, of Fort Snelling, an artist of some skill, who used to paint portraits of Indian celebrities quite skillfully.
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FIRST TERM OF COURT-FIRST GRAND JURY.
The first term of court in Ramsey county, was held on Monday, April 8, 1850, with 49 cases on the calendar. Chief Justice GOODRICH presided. Thirteen indictments were found, mostly against gambling-house keepers. McLEOD, for homi- cide, was acquitted.
There was no jail then. Prisoners were generally sent to Fort Snelling for safe-keeping. The Pioneer, of April 16. says :
"JACOB R. SHIPLER, indicted for assaulting his wife with intent to kill, and convicted and sentenced to imprisonment in penitentiary for one year, slipped away from the sheriff and escaped."
The Saint Paul people must have been a very litigious com- munity then, as it is now. The Pioneer says : "We have now 25 lawyers in Saint Paul !" What sins could this young and feeble population have committed, that such a punishment was sent on them?
From the records of this term, I find the names of the first grand jury ever drawn for Ramsey county, as follows :
WILLIAM H. NOBLES, WYMAN BAKER, C. D. BEVANS, AND. GODFREY, R. CUMMINGS, FRED. OLIVIER, A. TITLOW. H. R. GIBBS, D. L. FULLER, JNO. FORD, J. M. MARSHALL, JAMES HINTON, JOHN CARLTON, ED. PATCH, LOREN JONES, EBEN WELD, HENRY H. ANGEL, LOUIS PARKER, REUBEN BEAN, S. K. LANE, FRANCIS CHENEVERT, JOHN B. COTY, A. L. LARPENTEUR.
The record adds : "Some of the above reported for duty." A part of these lived at Saint Anthony, then in Ramsey county.
THE FLOOD OF 1850.
In the spring and early summer of this year, a great freshet occurred, mainly caused by extreme heavy snows on the Upper Mississippi, and long-continued warm rains early in the spring. The water commenced rising about April 1, and continued most of the month. The floor of the Constans warehouse, still standing, was submerged several inches- higher water. if we mistake not, than has been known since.
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and, the Pioneer of that date said, " unprecedented for many years." The water subsided somewhat when the regular "June fresh" came on, which again carried it up, and it remained high for several weeks. The "Anthony Wayne," a steamer well known in those days, went up to the Falls of Saint An- thony on the flood, and likewise made a trip up the Minnesota River, as did also the " Yankee" a little later.
When the river first rose at Saint Paul, the ice was still firm, and swept down in huge cakes. The Pioneer, of April IO, says : "Last evening in Saint Paul, we could hear the noise of masses of ice tumbling over the Falls of Saint An- thony, eight miles distant." The roaring of the Falls used to be heard here several years afterwards, but the improvements there. changing their character, gradually stopped this.
OPENING OF NAVIGATION, 1850.
The Pioneer, of April 25, says :
"On Friday morning, the 19th, (arrival of 'Highland Mary,') at 6 o'clock, the smoke of a steamboat was visible at Saint Paul, and the very heart of the town leaped for joy. * * * As she came up in front of RANDALL's warehouse, the multitude on shore raised a deafen- ing shout of welcome," &c.
She brought 500 passengers, not an uncommon load for those days.
"Such has been the anxiety here," continued the Pioneer. " for the arrival of steamboats, that nothing else was talked of. Saint Paul seemed likely to go to seed."
An editorial of the same date says: "At length the flood of immigration has burst through the barriers of Lake Pepin. The boats that have already arrived have brought hundreds of strangers amongst us. Let us do everything in our power to welcome, encourage, and build up those who have come to unite their fortunes with ours"-and further recom- mends that, as the hotels are overcrowded, citizens entertain the strangers at their houses until they can build tenements.
Some idea can be formed, from the above paragraph, of the joy with which the arrival of the first boat was hailed, in early days-opening communication with the rest of the world, af-
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ter months of isolation. It was generally a signal for a jollifi- cation, at which all rules of restraint were thrown aside. At one of our Old Settler reunions, a graphic description was given of the president of a temperance society leaning up against CONSTANS' warehouse, two or three hours after the first boat arrived, entirely overcome by his feelings, and retching in an agony of surfeit. Perhaps, like RIP VAN WINKLE, he thought " that time didn't count." Of late years, the opening of nav- igation has ceased to be of any importance or interest. Our railroads have changed all that.
A VISION OF OUR NORTHERN PACIFIC.
In an editorial which now, that over twenty-five years have elapsed, reads with prophetic interest, the editor calls attention to "a short route to Oregon and California." He thinks, " there is some probability that a railroad will be made from Saint Louis westward, to San Francisco, at no very remote period." * "We wish now," (he adds,) "to turn your attention to another overland route, in the north, which we believe is far easier and safer," and proceeds to argue that Saint Paul is much nearer the Pacific in a direct line, than Saint Louis ; also. " that there is a route or trail from the Red River to the Columbia River, over which mails are regu- larly transported, by the Hudson's Bay Company, with safety and ease." It must be remembered that the northern route for a railroad was then hardly thought of. Even the central route was looked on as an impossible scheme, and but few · then, even young men, ever expected to see it in their lifetime.
FIRST TOWN ELECTION.
On May 6, pursuant to the terms of the town charter, the first municipal election took place. There was no contest worth mentioning, and the following officers were chosen : President .- Dr. THOMAS R. POTTS .*.
* Dr. THOMAS R. POTTS was born in the city of Philadelphia, February 10, 1810. He graduated at the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, in 1831, and settled at Natchez, Mississippi, where he lived 10 years. In 1841, he removed to Ga- lena, Illinois, and, in 1849, to Saint Paul, where he practiced medicine for 26 years,
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Recorder .- EDMUND RICE.
Trustees .- W. H. FORBES, B. F. HOYT, WM. H. RAN- DALL, HENRY JACKSON, and A. L. LARPENTEUR.
The records of the Board are lost, and the only note of their proceedings are what appear from time to time in the papers.
A DARING MURDER BY HOLE-IN-THE-DAY.
The Pioneer, of May 16, graphically describes a daring act
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of HOLE-IN-THE-DAY, the Chippewa chieftain, who used to be so well known in Saint Paul :
"On Wednesday, the 15th, at about I p. m., there was a great excite- ment in Saint Paul-Indians yelling at each other across the river, and running up and down the shores, canoes crossing the river, and every- thing betokening the utmost exasperation. It seems news has reached
being, at the time of his death, the senior practicing physician of our city. He was, for several years of this time, contract surgeon at Fort Snelling, and also physician to the Sioux, and Medical Purveyor of this district, Pension Surgeon, &c. He was elected first President of the Town Board, in 1850, an office equivalent to Mayor. He was, also, elected City Physician in 1866, and health officer of Saint Paul in 1873. He died suddenly, while holding that office, on October 6, 1874. He was married at Fort Snel ling, in 1847, to Miss ABBY STEELE.
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them that a party of Sioux were overtaken, a short distance out of Saint Paul, and two murdered and three taken prisoners. At this mo- ment, a company of the Sioux have started northward through town, stripped of their blankets, in pursuit of the dastardly murderers. This is the first blow (if the story is true) struck by the Chippewas in revenge of the 14 of their tribe, murdered the other day in a sugar camp, by the Sioux.
"P. S. About sunset, on Wednesday, the Sioux returned, with the corpse of one man, (who seems to be the only one murdered,) whom they had in a canoe, nailed up in a box, covered with a red pall. Just at dark, they left the lower landing in sadness, with their canoes, for their village, four miles down the river."
The murder, which was a most daring feat, was committed by HOLE-IN-THE-DAY. He secreted his canoe in the mouth of the.creek that runs from "Fountain Cave," and, with one or two other warriors, crossed the river, attacked several Sioux, and killed and scalped one, and got off with the scalp before quite a body of the Sioux, who were near by, could get the alarm. It was a most audacious act. The Pioneer, of May 23, says :
"A gentleman, just down from Fort Gaines, says that, on his way down, he met the Chippewa chief, HOLE-IN-THE-DAY, with the scalp of the young Sioux Indian, which that brave took last week in this neighborhood, divided into quarters. He was in fine feather. At night he and his followers had a scalp-dance. In his descent on the Sioux, in the short space of 24 hours, he marched 80 miles, committed the murder, and started for home again."
In order to put a stop, if possible, to these butcheries by the Indians, Governor RAMSEY summoned the chiefs of both tribes, their agents and interpreters, to a council at Fort Snel- ling, which was held on June 11 or 12. After tedious palav- er, a sort of treaty of peace was patched up between the red- skins, for about the fiftieth time.
THE CHOLERA
was quite bad this season, and several very sudden deaths oc- curred. It was quite bad at towns down the river also, and passengers arriving per steamer constituted quite a proportion of the cases. The Pioneer declared that not a case had orig-
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inated here-but that all had been brought from below. Some occurred subsequent to that, at all events.
BRIEF ITEMS.
On May 3, a Lodge of Odd Fellows was instituted, under the title of " Saint Paul Lodge, No. 2," by JOHN G. POTTS,* of Galena. The charter members were, BENJ. W. BRUN- SON, JUSTUS C. RAMSEY, COMFORT BARNES, B. W. LOTT, JOHN DUNSHEE, C. K. SMITH, JOHN CONDON, J. B. COTY, and WM. C. HUGGINS.
The Pioncer, of May 16, says: "This morning about 10 o'clock, Rev. Mr. NEILL's commodious chapel, in Saint Paul, took fire, by some shavings, and was burned to ashes." This was the first fire which ever occurred in Saint Paul. Mr. NEILL at once started east to collect funds for a new church, in which he succeeded. In the meantime, he used to preach in an unfinished warehouse, which then stood where War- ner's Block now does. At the same time, Dr. WILLIAMSON would occasionally preach in a log building then occupied by JOSEPH R. BROWN, on the site of the present Ingersoll Block. He, several times, preached there to the Sioux, in their lan- guage.
A little of the speculative fever, which raged so intensely four or five years later, must have shown itself then. On June 27, 1850, the Pioncer remarks: "The cash price of town lots in Saint Paul is too high. It is industry, it is labor, it is actual production, not gambling and speculation, which pro- duces wealth. We want to see more industry and production, and less gambling and speculation." But what would GOOD- HUE and his compeers have said if they could have foreseen prices 20 years later? They would have kept mum on " gam- bling and speculation," and bought themselves poor.
On June 19, a young mechanic, named JOHN LUMLEY, died very suddenly of cholera, one of the few fatal cases that oc- curred this season. He was an Odd Fellow, and had been
* JOHN G. POTTS died at Galena, February 13, 1874. At his death he was one of the oldest Odd Fellows in the United States.
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initiated only four days previous. The Fraternity turned out at his funeral, the first they had been called on to conduct. Referring to their new white regalia, GOODHUE, who could not resist a joke, even at a funeral, writes that " he had not seen such a display of clean linen since the Territory was formed."
If the mourners went about the streets, there was occasion- ally festivities and rejoicings likewise, and the bells did not always toll. The census-taker reported 25 marriages in Ram- sey county for the year ending June 1, 1850.
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CHAPTER XIX.
EVENTS OF THE YEAR 1850 .- CONTINUED.
NAVIGATION OF THE MINNESOTA RIVER-THE CENSUS OF IS50-LIST OF RESIDENTS- ETHNOLOGICAL NOTES-ABORIGINAL ITEMS-THE INDIANS AND THEIR HABITS- POLITICAL-FREDRIKA BREMER VISITS SAINT PAUL-THE COURT-HOUSE AND JAIL-BIOGRAPHIES OF OLD SETTLERS, &C.
O NE of the most noticeable events of the year. 1850, was the navigation of the Minnesota River. Three boats, the "Anthony Wayne," "Nominee" and "Yankee," made excur- sions with large pleasure parties of Saint Paulites, each trying to ascend further than the other. The water was very favorable for such experiments, and the "Yankee" ascended 300 miles, thus demonstrating that the Minnesota was navigable.
On July 18, the Pioneer says : "The water is now higher than in the spring freshet-higher than it has been for 28 years." The Red River valley was also inundated, and the settlers compelled to flee to the hills.
ITEMS.
"The heavy rains have made the roads from Saint Paul to Saint Anthony in some places impassable. The necessity for a railroad to the Falls is becoming every day more and more obvious .- [Pioneer, July 18.]
The conveniences of a city are gradually increasing in Saint Paul. The confectioner, the ice-cart, the milk-man, are among the new conveniences here, and last, but not least, a regular market for fresh beef .- [Ib.]
The "Order of 1001's" flourished in those days. Frequent notices are made of the meetings, and most of the prominent citizens were "roped in" just as they were a few years later into the Sons of Malta. JAMES M. GOODHUE was one of the high officers of the order. A lecture which he once wrote on the "emblems" of the order, illustrated with toys bought
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in a store, is said to have been a masterpiece of wit, excelling even ALF. BURNETT's great lecture on the menagerie.
CENSUS OF 1850.
Meantime the Federal census of 1850 had been taken, and the result in the county was as follows :
Males, 1,337 ; females, 860; total, 2,197. No. of dwellings, 384; No. of acres improved, 458. Population of Saint Paul, 1,294; No. of families, 257.
Ramsey county at that time, it should be remembered, in- cluded Saint Anthony, and, in fact, all of Minnesota on the east side of the Mississippi, except the Saint Croix valley. The census of Ramsey county was taken by CHARLES F. TRACY, who was a resident here from 1849 to 1855.
RESIDENTS OF 1850.
I have, with considerable labor, compiled from the census rolls, the following important and valuable list of residents of 1850. It may be justly termed the "Battle Abbey Roll" of Saint Paul. Where it was defective or erroneous, I have added to it a number of names gathered from the roll books of societies, poll lists, advertisements, and other sources, so that it is probably quite correct. (It includes only adult male residents : )
Quartus B. Abbott, B. Allen, Geo. W. Alvord,
Elliot Adams,
Peter Allard, Michael E. Ames,
J. W. Babcock,
George Bemis,
J. R. Brewster,
J. W. Brinsmade,
Abram® Baker,
Daniel A. J. Baker,
Henry L. Bevans,
John Banfil,
Stanislaus Bilanski,
Dr. Nehemi'h Barbour, P. P. Bishop, V. B. Barnum, W. J. Blake, Comfort Barnes,
James M. Boal,
Thomas Barton.
Cyril Boisvert,
F. J. Bartlett,
Elijah Booth,
Louis Bartlett,
Joseph Boudrette,
Jacob W. Bass,
Charles W. Borup,
Wm.Armstrong, (col'd,)
Louis Augee.
Lorenzo A. Babcock,
Lyman L. Benson, Corydon D. Bevans,
O. B. Bromley, Joseph R. Brown.
Oris Brown, S. F. Brown, William Brown, Luther B. Bruin, Louis Brunel. B. W. Brunson. Alden Bryant, William Bryan,
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Joseph Bastin, William Battleford, Charles Bazille, Reuben Bean, J. B. Beauchernier, Geo. L. Becker, W. H. Belknap,
Anthony Caifil, John B. Callis, Scott Campbell. Peter Cardinal. John J. Carlton, William G. Carter, John M. Castner, John B. Coty, Charles S. Cave, A. H. Cavender, Charles Cavileer. Hiram Cawood, Firman Cazeau, William Chambers,
Maxime Damas, Severe Desmarais, Xavier Desmarais, George Daniels, Joseph Daniels, Dr. David Day, James Day, Lyman Dayton, J. W. DeCamp,
Alonzo Eaton, Benjamin Eaton, David Ebert, George Egbert,
J. H. Farnham, Geo. W. Farrington, John Farrington, George Farquhar, Martin Fetcot, Stark Fielder, Thos. M. Finch,
Joseph Boudreau, Joseph Bourcier, William Bowen, David Bradley, Patrick Brady, D. F. Brawley, Rev. J. Lloyd Breck,
Peter Chapdelin, Warren H. Chapman, Gabriel Chesefield, Bruno Chenevert, Anthony Chosee, James R. Clewett, Solomon T. Close, Francis Cloutier, Charles Colter, William Colter, John Condon, Alex. Connolly,
Chas. R. Conway, Philip Constans,
Louis Denoyer, Narcisse Denoyer, Sam'l H. Dent, Wm. DeRocher, Isaiah De Webber, Dr. Jno. J. Dewey, Rev. L. Dickens, Dyer Divine, Henry Doolittle,
Abram S. Elfelt, Chas. D. Elfelt. . Edwin Elfelt,
Louis W. Bryson. William Buchanan, Willard Bunnell, Patrick Burke, Geo. W. Burkholder, Alex. Burnett, Henry C. Butler.
Wm. Constans, David Cooper, Wm. F. Corbet,
John B. Cornoyer, George Cornoyer,
Joseph Cornoyer, Oliver Courtemanche,
Marcil Coutourier,
F. Couture, Peter Crevier, Charles Creek, J. W. Crosby, George Culver, John Cyphers.
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Hiram Doty, Geo. Douglas, Carter H. Drew,
Taylor Dudley, D. W. C. Dunwell. Edward G. Dunford, Michael Dunning, Oliver Duprey, Wm. M. Dwinnels.
Samuel Ells, Evan Evans, William Evans.
S. P. Folsom, James E. Forbes, Obed Foote, Wm. H. Forbes,
B. B. Ford, Aaron Foster, Dr. Thomas Foster,
Aug. J. Freeman. Cyrus Freeman, Alpheus R. French. J. Frick, A. V. Fryer, Jonathan Frost, A. G. Fuller,
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A. Findley, Charles Fisher, Edwin Folsom,
G. A. Fournier, Richard Freeborn, William Freeborn,
David L. Fuller, J. E. Fullerton, Luther Furnell.
James M. Goodhue,
Aaron Goodrich,
Aaron Gould,
Baptiste Gravelin,
Joseph B. Gravelin, (?)
Emanuel Goode, Edward Greenwood,
George Goodhue,
Vetal Guerin, .
Isaac N. Goodhue,
Matthew Groff.
John T. Halsted, Eberle Handley, John J. Haney, Frederic Hardy, George Harris, E. A. C. Hatch, Jacob Haus,
Nathan Hawley. John Haycock, Edward Hays,
B. F. Irvine,
Henry Jackson, Louis Jacques, Noel Jaillard,
Dr. Wm. H. Jarvis, William Jebb, John W. Johnson.
Parsons K. Johnson. D. H. Jones. P. Jones.
S. F. Kauffman, C. Keller,
Egidus Keller,
Isaac La Bonissier, Joseph Labisinier, John B. LaChappel, Jacques Lafaire, Joseph Lafond, Henry A. Lambert, Henry F. Lander, Charles Landres, Henry Lansing, Hyele Lapierre, Peter Lapointe,
Timothy Lareau, A. L. Larpenteur, E. N. Larpenteur,
Leonard H. LaRoche, James Lock, Louis Larrivier, William Lauver, Daniel Lavalle, Xavier Lavalle, Andrew Lavier, W. G. LeDuc, Michael Lemay,
Philip Kessler, James Kirkpatrick, R. C. Knox.
John Leslie, Sylvester Leveridge, John Lewis,
B. W. Lott, S. B. Lowell, Jesse Lowe, S. B. Lowry, C. P. V. Lull, John Lumley.
Louis Gabott, W. B. Gardner,
Leander Garniot, Napoleon Gautier, J. Gehon, R. B. Gibson, Nathan Gilpatrick, Francis Gingras,
Joseph Gingras, Harlow Glass, Hugh Glenn,
John Glenn,
Joseph Gabin,
John H. Henderson, John Henley, Charles J. Henniss, J. S. Hinckley, W. W. Hickox,
B. F. Hoyt, Lorenzo Hoyt, William Huggins, James Hughes, Richard M. Hughes,
Rev. Chauncy Hobart, George Humphrey, Samuel C. Hoffman, John Holland,
James M. Humphrey. C. S. Hurtick, B. E. Hutchinson.
David Hopkins,
Peter Hopkins,
Jno. R. Irvine.
Isaac M. Kelley, M. N. Kellogg, Robert Kennedy,
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Asa Mallory, James Marley, J. Cole Martin, Henry F. Masterson, Ira Mathews, Lewis Mathews,
Thornton Mathews, Hugh McCann, Charles McCarron, V. B. McCulloch, Nathaniel McLean, John McCloud, Jr., R. West McCloud,
Rev. E. D. Neill, R. R. Nelson, P. S. Newell,
Charles H. Oakes, David Oakes, Thomas Odell,
Fred. Olivier, Louis M. Olivier,
Louis M. Olivier,
E. M. Patridge, Louis Paul,
Charles Peltier,
Olivier Peltier, James Phillips, Wm. D. Phillips, Allen Pierce,
William Quinn,
Edmund Rice, Henry M. Rice, Orrin W. Rice,
David Richardson,
Wm. Roach, Louis Robert, Nelson Robert, A. B. Robinson, Flavien Roberge,
Marshall Sherman, Hile Sikwalen, (?) George Simon, Orlando Simons,
Joseph Monteur, Ferdinand Monti,
George W. Moore,
Amable Morin, Wilson C. Morrison,
Joseph Mosher, Peter Mullin, Alfred Murphy, Luke Murphy,
D. C. Murray, Elijah Murray,
Wm. P. Murray,
Nathan Myrick.
William Noot, Anson Northrup.
David Olmsted, John P. Owens.
Jesse H. Pomeroy, Columbus J. Post, Calvin Potter,
Dr. T. R. Potts, Simon Powers,
A. C. Prentiss, Bart. Presley.
Patrick Quinn,
Alex. Ramsey, Justus C. Ramsey, John Randall, Wm. Randall, Wm. H. Randall, S. R. Randolph, George Rath (?) J. W. Reed, Thomas P. Reed,
Henry Sage, Edward J. Sanford, M. St. Cyr, Hyacinthe St. Cyr,
John P. McGregor, George McGuire, John McKee, Edward McLagan,
R. McLagan, Alex. R. McLeod, Patrick Meagher,
Rev. J. A. Merrick,
Abraham Michier,
John P. Miller, Amadis Mini, A. M. Mitchell, Lot Moffet,
Geo. C. Nichols, Jacob J. Noah,
Wm. H. Nobles,
Stephen Palmer, Antoine Papin, J. P. Parsons, Rodney Parker, Edward Patch, David Patnande, Peter Patoille,
Wm. L. Quinn.
Barnard Rogers, John Rogers, Daniel Rohrer, Joseph Rondo, O. H. Root, Isaac Rose, Charles Rouleau, Peter Rougard, Wm. Russell.
Charles Sperry, Nathan Spicer, Daniel Steele, W. M. Stees,
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Oliver St. Martin,
J. W. Simpson, Edward Sloan,
Arthur Stephens,
Nicholas Schidalin,
James Steward,
Ellis Scofield,
Levi Sloan,
Wm. H. Stiles,
C. P. Scott,
J. N. Slosson,
Daniel Stinchfield,
J. W. Selby,
Chas. K. Smith,
Kennedy Stuart,
B. L. Sellers,
J. W. C. Smith,
David Stockbarger.
W. H. Semmes, George H. Snider,
Edway Stoughton,
Samuel H. Sergeant,
John Snow,
Daniel Strickland,
Damas Semper,
J. C. Somerville,
Sandford Strickland,
C. E. Shaffer, .
J. R. Spangler,
Peter Sturgeon,
Nelson Shattuck,
Jackson Spears,
Andrew Swartz,
George Shaver,
George Spence,
Edward Sweeny,
Geo. W. Shaw,
John B. Spencer,
Dr. W. W. Sweney,
A. L. Shearer,
R. M. Spencer,
Charles Symonds.
Erwin Y. Shelley, Spier Spencer,
William Talkin, Jas. Thompson, (col'd,) Geo. Townsend,
John Tanner,
Joseph Thompson,
C. F. Tracy,
D. C. Taylor,
Rinaldo Thompson,
H. W. Tracy,
Wm. Taylor, (col'd,)
Socrates Thompson,
Fred. W. Travers,
John F. Tehan,
James H. Thoms,
John Trower,
Benj. S. Terry,
Jeremiah Tibbets, Albert Titlow,
Balthasar Tschudi,
Robert Terry,
Henry L. Tilden,
John Tschudi,
Francis Thibeault,
Wm. H. Tinker,
E. Inman Turner,
Benj. Thompson,
C. S. Todd,
Amable Turpin,
G. W. Thompson,
W. M. Torbet,
Hugh Tyler.
Pierre Vadnais, Hugh I. Vance,
Mamime Vanace, Robert Van Holmes,
Joseph Villaume.
L. B. Wait,
J. A. Wheelock, - Wallace B. White,
Morton S. Wilkinson,
W. S. Wait,
Samuel Williams,
John A. Wakefield,
Joël E. Whitney,
George Wisgarver,
George Welles,
Rev. T. Wilcoxson,
Simeon Woodbury,
Henry Wellington,
Alex. Wilkin,
Warren Woodbury,
Martin Wells,
Amherst Willoughby, I. P. Wright.
E. G. Wentall,
Anthon Yeorg,
Peter Yoss.
Benjamin Zanger.
SOME ETHNOLOGICAL NOTES. To one curious enough to study the nationalities which form
Matthew Troy,
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our diverse population, the above list is suggestive. For in- stance, the absence of German names is singular. There are scarcely half a dozen German names on the list. It would appear that the Germans are not a pioneering people, as the' Yankees are, or the French. But very shortly after this date the German population increased very rapidly. Look at the census of 1857, given under its proper date. A very large proportion of the names there are German, and are recog- nized as among our most "solid" and well-to-do citizens, own- ers of fine business blocks, and comfortable residences, and gratifying bank accounts. Many of them came here, too, poor emigrant boys. . By the census of 1860, fully one-third of the foreign-born population were Germans, and the proportion must have increased since then.
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