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John Potter is said to have been the first settler in Osakis township, taking up a claim on section 25 in 1859. A number of other settlers came in soon afterwards but nearly all left this vicinity during the Indian outbreak in 1862. As nearly as can be ascertained the first settler on each section in the township is mentioned in the following list. John Derocher took land on section I in 1862, Thomas C. McClure on section 2 in 1862, Elias For- meshill on section 3 in 1864, Elling Semmen on section 4 in 1871, Adam Anderson on section 5 in 1866, Ole Solum on section 6 in 1863, Sven Ander- son on section 7 in 1869, Peter F. Peterson on section 8 in 1868, Benjamin W. Viles on section 9 in 1862, William A. Seamans on section 10 in 1861, Henry H. Anderson on section 11 in 1861, John S. Countryman on section 12 in 1867, Albert S. Alderman on section 13 in 1861, Elijah G. Gibbs on section 14 in 1863, Thomas A. Adams on section 15 in 1861, Ingrin Nelson on section 17 in 1867, Hans Hanson on section 18 in 1868, John E. Rineheart on section 19 in 1861, Charles Peterson on section 20 in 1869. Charles Giles
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on section 21, 1861, John B. Scherman on section 22 in 1867, Armstead M. Gideon on section 23 in 1868, Stephen D. Seamans on section 25 in 1862, Hiram M. Works on section 26 in 1864, Lemuel H. Webster on section 27 in 1869, James Chambers on section 28 in 1864, Edwin Fairfield on sec- tion 29 in 1863, Thor Peterson on section 30 in 1868, Matthew Bartlett on section 31 in 1862, William B. Glover on section 31 in 1864, Clay Moore on section 33 in 1866, Olinda Graves on section 34 in 1861, and Thomas L. Adams on section 35 in 1866.
The present officers of Osakis township are as follows: A. A. Rooney, clerk; Edward Hanson, treasurer; George W. LaMonte, assessor ; Joel Han- son, A. G. Sorenson and Thomas Masteller, supervisors."
ALEXANDRIA TOWNSHIP.
When the board of county commissioners held its first meeting on June 15, 1866, it was decided that all of Douglas county not included in Osakis township should be known as Alexandria or No. 2 township. The commis- sioners appointed the first officers, as follow: T. W. Sprague, assessor ; George Cowing and N. B. Johnson, justices ; John Johnson and Henry Black -. well, constables; J. Mont Smyth, clerk; H. S. Rutherford, treasurer.
William and Alexander Kinkaid located in Alexandria township in 1859 and other settlers came in soon afterward. The few who remained in the township during the Indian troubles sought safety in a stockade on the Alexandria townsite. The present area of Alexandria township includes only congressional township 128, range 37. Some of the first settlers on each section are as follows: John B. Gilfillan took land on section I in 1863, Thomas Watts on section 2 in 1863, William B. Mitchell on section 3 in 1863, Thomas Aadson on section 5 in 1868, Wooster P. Wyman on section 6 in 1869, James Bedman on section 1 in 1861, Laura A. Kinkaid on section 8 in 1863, Aaron Doty on section 9 in 1862, Andrew Holes on section 10 in 1864, Edward O'Brien on section 11 in 1868, Peter T. Peterson on section 12 in 1864, Nels Anderson on section 13 in 1865, George Caison on section 14 in 1865, Annie P. Smith on section 15 in 1863, Chester Wait on section 17 in 1864, Peter L. Gregory on section 18 in 1860, A. D. Camp- bell on section 19 in 1860, James S. Mitchell on section 20 in 1862, Charles Walker on section 21 in 1863, Martin Debord on section 22 in 1863, Thomas White on section 23 in 1862, Hans Anderson on section 24 in 1870, Mary Larson on section 25 in 1869, Michael Kennedy on section 26 in 1863, Rich- ard Dent on section 27 in 1863, Rufus Colby on section 28 in 1870, L. W.
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Kilbourn on section 29 in 1865, Roderick D. Hathaway on section 30 in 1862, Jesse Hosford on section 31 in 1863, Mary E. Latimer on section 32 in 1863, Wilhelm Dummert on section 34 in 1869, and Robert Walker on section 35 in 1867.
The present officers of Alexandria township are as follow: A. E. Anderson, clerk; J. H. Schlein, treasurer; Emil E. Gahlon, assessor; Louis Thorson, Louis Anderson and Soren Jensen, supervisors.
HOLMES CITY TOWNSHIP.
Holmes City township was established by the board of county commis- sioners on October 4, 1866, and at that time included all of congressional townships 127 and 128, ranges 39 and 40. The commissioners appointed the following election officers for the township: Henry Blackwell, N. B. John- son and Nels Nickelson, judges; T. W. Sprague and Noah Grant, clerks. At present Holmes City township is comprised of congressional township 127, range 39.
A Mr. Holmes, Noah Grant and W. S. Sandford located in Holmes City township in 1858. Noah Grant proved up on a claim on section 2, but the others did not secure title to any land. Among the other early settlers were: Lloyd L. Bly, who took land on section 1 in 1868, George Blackwell on section 3, in 1868, Simon Christenson on section 4 in 1870, Jonas Sjull- son on section 5 in 1868, Erick Johanson on section 6 in 1869, Olaf Paulson on section 7 in 1869, Nils B. Johnson on section 8 in 1865, Peter O. Kron on section 9 in 1865, Henry J. W. Brown on section 10 in 1868, Martin H. Strandvold on section II in 1870, Andrew Knudson on section 12 in 1869, John W. Gilbreath on section 13 in 1868, Francis Guiles on section 14 in 1869, Kittel Sampson on section 15 in 1865, John A. Anderson on section 16 in 1867, Carl A. J. Wahlstrom on section 17 in 1868, Olof Falin on sec- tion 18 in 1869, Thurston Severson on section 19 in 1865, Ingerinus E. Lobeck on section 21 in 1867, Lars Isakson on section 22 in 1869, Charles F. Canfield on section 23 in 1868, Miner Van Loon on section 24 in 1865, Thomas W. Price on section 25 in 1867, William H. Guiles on section 26 in 1870, H. B. Westmoreland on section 27 in 1863, Halvor D. Strand- vold on section 28 in 1866, Nels A. Nelson on section 29 in 1868, John Freeborn on section 30 in 1868, Lars J. Dalen on section 31 in 1868, John Mattson on section 32 in 1868, Swan N. Swanson on section 33 in 1868, Ole Evenson on section 34 in 1863, and Halvor Toraasen on section 35 in 1870.
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PIONEER LIFE IN HOLMES CITY.
In response to a request from the Park Region Echo, Hon. E. E. Lobeck, state senator from this district, recently prepared the following brief review of pioneer conditions in the neighborhood of his boyhood home in Holmes City township. "To enumerate the struggles and hardships the first settlers had to go through," wrote Senator Lobeck, "would take up too much space. but suffice me to say that this lot fell upon a rugged class of people, strong in body and mind, who converted the wilderness into a garden spot.
"My father came to Holmes City in the fall of 1867 and settled down in section 21. At that time it took longer to go across the country than now. Here is a little bit from father's note book: 'Came to New York May 5, then on board a train via Easton, Reading and Harrisburg to Cleveland. There we were stuffed into one of those renounced, dingy, dirty steamboats and taken across Lake Erie to Detroit-on board a train again to Grand Haven and then on steamboat across Lake Michigan to Mil- waukee, where a train stood puffing ready to take us westward, and after a few days of jolting and jerking we were dumped off at Prairie du Chiene on the Mississippi river and tugged up to St. Paul on a river boat.' There we rested for a few days and stretched our arms and legs to find out if every- thing was in order and when we found that we had every limb with us. we boarded a train and came to St. Cloud, which was then the terminal of the domain of the steam-horse.
"In St. Cloud father bought an ox-team for one hundred and seventy- five dollars, a second-hand wagon for one hundred and five dollars, stretched a cover over it and took part of the luggage, together with mamma and us children and stuck .us in the vehicle. 'Get up. Dick and Charley! and off we were and landed in Holmes City the 29th day of May. It took us twenty-four days from New York to Holmes City, a trip which is now made in four days.
"In the township of Holmes City we found a few Norwegians, Swedes and Americans-Yankees, we called the Americans at that time. Among the Norwegians we had Kjettel Koltvedt, who lived where Nils Thompson used to live later on; Nils Mikkelsen (Haatvedt's place), where we stayed a few days, and Gunder Knutson, where we stayed during the summer. A few other Norwegians were scattered here and there. Among the Swedes, I may name H. L. Lewis, who is still tilling the soil in Holmes City, and Messrs. Svenson, Ole Fahlin, Ole Erickson, Christopher Person and others,
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and among the Americans I will mention Messrs. Blackwell, Canfield, West- moreland and the Guiels brothers. These were among the first to tackle the big oaks and turn the sod in Holmes City. The Holmes City village was founded in the fall of 1858 and it is today one of the most beautifully located and cozy inland towns you can find. No one had any crop when we came, but three or four seeded a few acres that spring, but did not get much, as the blackbirds did most of the harvesting.
"Father thought conditions would be better farther to the northwest. so he yoked up his team and took the government trail in the direction of Ottertail county, but when we reached the old fort at Pomme de Terre and from a hilltop looked west across the country-no settlers between there and the Rockies, he got lonesome. 'Ho, back, haw, Dick and Charley!' and at once he was on his way back to Holmes City. In crossing Chippewa river he discovered that the water was packed with fat and beautiful hogs. He grabbed a handspike and went down to see what was up and found that the river was teeming with fish-buffalo fish, mind you-and as no game warden was around, father manipulated the spike in such a way that after awhile he had the wagon-box full of fish and came in triumph back to Gunder Knutson's. 'America is all right!'
"In the spring of 1867 father bought three cows and paid fifty dollars to fifty-five dollars for each. He also paid nineteen dollars for a barrel of flour and nine dollars for a barrel of salt. He broke up two and one-half acres that year, which was seeded the following spring and we children had to run from one end of the field to the other all day chasing blackbirds. In the fall after the cradle had been swung and threshing was done, father stored away forty-nine bushels of wheat and fifty bushels of potatoes.
"In the fall of 1867 we moved into our own home. Not very much furniture-a few chairs, minus backs; a rude table, and beds one above the other-and we children scrambled for the upper one, as it was a glorious thing to look down from the 'heights' and note what was going on in the room. Lamps? Oh, no! A home-made candle had to do at that time. The winter of 1867-68 was bitterly cold and severe. Geese, ducks and deer were plentiful in the fall and we lived high. During the summer we had fish daily, as the lakes were teeming with members of the finny tribe and we youngsters had no trouble catching whole strings of them.
"During the succeeding springs of 1868, 1869 and 1870 a stream of imnii- grants came and soon every available quarter section was taken. School districts were organized, congregations formed, ministers called, and the peo- ple went afoot four to five miles to get to prayer meetings and other gath-
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erings of that kind in the evenings-singing both going and coming. As the population increased, strife and quarrels came. It was a mighty hard thing to get the school houses and churches in the right places. Well do I remember a day when hard words were flying, fists were used and axes flourished at the foot of the hill between where Ole Mauseth and Ole John- son now reside. A school house had been erected at that place and the peo- ple farther to the south came and demanded that the institution of edu- cation and learning be moved. At the foot of the hill the battle was fought. A gentleman of some reputation led the forces for the faction that wanted the school house moved-and a genuine Viking, chunky, strong and fear- less, by the name of Lars Isakson, was the leader for the other side. This Lars Isakson was looked upon by us youngsters as a mighty man. He once caught a deer. The brush was thick and Lars dropped himself down beside the deer track and all of a sudden a buck came. Lars stuck out his hand and grabbed the hind foot of the deer and you may imagine what happened. The brush was uprooted-at times they were rolling on the ground, at times they were up in the air-but Lars brought some venison home to his family, all right. In that school house fight he stood like a wall, even if an ax was flourished over his head. I have a vivid picture of that typical Viking in my mind yet. Some small scrappings occurred about fishing places in the spring. An heroic battle was fought on a hill between two study pioneers, because both claimed the right to a creek where the fish went to spawn. A handspike was used by one of the men, breaking. the arms and legs of the other fellow and for many years that hill went ยท under the name of 'Slagter bakken,' the butcher hill.
"The potato bugs came to visit Holmes City for the first time in June, 1870, and they came to stay. These abominable, persistent creatures kept us children busy and we did not love them at all. Two years afterward the black potato bugs came for the first time and threatened to devour every potato plant in the township, and then both young and old had to be out and do some killing. In the fall the prairie fire kept the people on the lookout and many a night the men folks had to leave home to meet this foe, while the women and children sat at the windows starring at the glare in the sky, fearing that both house and barn would go up in smoke. Great damage was done every fall. Nils Abrahamson lost all his grain in the fall of 1872, during a terrific fire. The cold winters and the long drives to market made it a severe task for the people to dispose of their grain and many a man was found dead along the roadside on what we called the Morris prairie.
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We had two extremely severe storms in February, 1872, and when those storms were over the prairie were strewn with dead bodies. Some were caught going to Morris and some were caught coming from that place. A few saved their lives by tipping over the wagon-box and creeping under it, wrapping themselves in blankets and empty sacks; but we may imagine how it felt to be confined in such a place for three days and three nights.
"The years went on and the people went through hardships of all kinds. The last of the set-backs came in 1876-77, when the grasshoppers came and devoured everything. After that time conditions changed; market places sprang up closer at hand and today the farmers in Holmes City seem to be happy and contented. The first market place was St. Cloud, seventy- five miles away; Melrose next, fifty miles away; then Benson, forty-five miles ; then Morris, twenty-five to thirty miles away, and then, all of a sudden, the Manitoba road hit Alexandria and then the people were singing; and then, more than twenty years ago, the Soo came, still closer at hand."
FURTHER RECOLLECTIONS OF HOLMES CITY.
One of the very earliest settlers in the Holmes City neighborhood was the trader and trapper, Lewis, who located a station there for trading with the Indians, and he is recalled by settlers who came in as late as 1867. At a very early date a postoffice was established at Holmes City and some time later a postoffice was established at Moe, with Gunder Johnson as post- master. When the railroad reached Douglas county the postoffice at the home of Robert Angus, was moved to Garfield and Brandon postoffice . was moved over to the present location of that town on the railroad. It is related that Holmes and Grant, who had come up into this country before the days of the Indian uprising, bought out the Lewis trading post and that the trading point thus created later came to be known as Holmes City, which it still bears, and which name was given the township when it later came to be organized, the lake on which the village is situated being named Grant, in honor of the other partner in the concern.
The present officers of Holmes City township are as follow: S. O. Wagenius, clerk; John Backelin, treasurer; Olof Wallner, assessor; N. G. Nelson, Theodore Swenson and Emil Guldbranson, supervisors.
BRANDON TOWNSHIP.
On September 3, 1867, the board of county commissioners established Chippewa township, comprised of congressional townships 129 and 130,
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ranges 39 and 40. The first meeting was to be held at the house of George A. Freundereich, September 28, 1867. The name was later changed to Brandon, which township now comprises congressional township 129, range 39.
Henry Gager is thought to have been the first settler in Brandon town- ship. He located on section 5 about 1860 and others came in soon after- ward. Haagan Holing, who died in February, 1907, at his home in Brandon township, was one of the early settlers in this township, having come out here from Minneapolis, where he was working in the mills, in 1865, and filing on the homestead on which he spent the rest of his life. When he built his cabin after his arrival here, his nearest neighbor was four miles distant. Mr. Holing served as treasurer of Brandon township for more than thirty years.
In the list following is given the names of one of the first settlers on each section of the township, with the approximate date of their location. Charles A. Dollner took land on section 2 in 1863, John J. Nichols on section 3 in 1862, Solon Moore on section 4 in 1862, Joseph Hunt on section 6 in 1867, George Ward on section 7 in 1865, George A. Freundenreich on section 9 in 1861, A. A. Noble on section 10 in 1862, Andrew Holes on section II in 1862, John Sundblad on section 12 in 1865, Lars Nilson on section 13 in 1863, Elijah Sandford on section 15 in 1860, Job Smith on section 17 in 1866, Martin Stowe on section 18 in 1862, Hans J. Solem on section 19 in 1870, Matilda McIntosh on section 20 in 1862, L. Fletcher on section 21 in 1862, Fletcher Thom on section 22 in 1862, John D. Aldrich on sec- tion 23 in 1868, Ingebret Peterson on section 24 in 1863, John Salmon on section 25 in 1862, John Nelson on section 26 in 1865, Ole Peterson on sec- tion 27 in 1864. Ole Thompson on section 28 in 1861, Jonetta Halvorson on section 29 in 1868, Nels Nelson on section 28 in 1863, Thomas H. Klevan on section 31 in 1863, Halvor Rassmussen on section 32 in 1863, Hans A. Strom on section 33 in 1863, and Halvor G. Kyllo on section 3.4 in 1869.
The present officers of Brandon township are as follow : Emil E. Bergh, clerk; Henry O. Olson, treasurer; Anton Holing, assessor ; C. O. Augdahl, Knute Oberg and H. H. Evju, supervisors.
MOE TOWNSHIP.
On September 3, 1867, a petition signed by fourteen legal voters was pre- sented to the board of county commissioners, requesting that congressional township 128, range 39. be established as a separate civil township. This
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petition was granted with instructions that the first meeting be held at the house of Thomas Adkins, September 21, 1867. The township was first called Adkinsville, in honor of one of the first settlers, but later the name was changed to Moe, in memory of a district in Norway, from which a number of the pioneers came.
Torer Evenson and family, who had come from Norway to America in 1857, settling in Wisconsin, were among the early settlers in Moe town- ship, settling on the old Evenson homestead there in 1865, coming through by ox-team and prairie schooner from Wisconsin and living in their covered wagon until a cabin could be built. Moe township then was practically a wilderness, there being but few settlers there and those far between, among these having been Lars Amundson and Johanes Hanson, Indians being more commonly seen there than white people. Amundson had brought out with him a grind-stone and that useful article proved so popular with his pioneer neighbors and was borrowed so widely that finally, so the story goes, nothing was left of it but the hole, and that the neighbor who used it last neglected to return.
Some of the first settlers on each section in Moe township, together with the approximate date of their location, are mentioned in the following list. Arthur A. Flom took land on section 1 in 1864, Ole Thompson on section 2 in 1865. Ole Bergerson on section 3 in 1868, Thomas Olson on section 4 in 1868, Patrick Brown on section 5 in 1864, Monroe Nichols on section 6 in 1864, Gulick Johnson on section 7 in 1868, Mary E. Chute on section 8 in 1864, Thomas Larson on section 10 in 1870, Ole K. Lappinger on section 13 in 1866, John Arntson on section 14 in 1863, Charles Brown on section 17 in 1868, Amos Johnson on section 18 in 1863, Peter Johnson on section 19 in 1868, Thomas E. Lajord on section 20 in 1863, Knudt C. Brackle on section 21 in 1863, Lewis Lewiston on section 22 in 1864, Lathan J. Ellsworth on section 23 in 1863, George B. Wright on section 24 in 1865, Peter Peterson on section 26 in 1863, James S. Mitchell on section 27 in 1865, Henry C. Wait on section 28 in 1865, Hendric Johnson on section 29 in 1864, Ole Amund- son on section 30 in 1865, John Nord on section 31 in 1869. Ole Brandon on section 32 in 1863, John Blackwell on section 33 in 1863, Sylvester Yates on section 34 in 1866, and Maths Anderson on section 35 in 1868.
The present officers of Moe township are as follow: Alfred B. Ander- son, clerk; Peter Syverson, treasurer ; Peter Hanson, assessor; O. E. Sletto, Lauritz Severson and Carl J. Pipo, supervisors.
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LAKE MARY TOWNSHIP.
Lake Mary township was established on September 3, 1867, as requested in a petition presented to the board of county commissioners signed by fifteen legal voters in congressional township 127, range 38. The first meeting was to be held at the home of A. L. Robinson, September 21, 1867. The town- ship was named for the large lake of that name in the northwestern part of the township.
The records do not give the exact date of entry of the homesteads in many instances, but the following list has the approximate date of settlement of most of the sections in Lake Mary township. Matthew Britendahl took land on section 1 in 1864, Charles E. Jenkins on section 2 in 1863, William E. Hicks on section 3 in 1863, Hendrick Erickson on section 4 in 1868, George W. McComber on section 5 in 1864, Elon Holmes on section 6 in 1865, Ferdinand Keflo on section 7 in 1867, James C. Miller on section 9 in 1864, Porter Davis on section 12 in 1865, Charles T. McKillips on section 13 in 1870, Horace A. McComber on section 14 in 1863, William Hounsell on section 15 in 1868, Thomas Crooks on section 17 in 1868, Samuel M. Jones on section 18 in 1868, Gottlieb Greibe on section 19 in 1868, Stephen W. Miller on section 20 in 1868, Margaret J. Fox on section 21 in 1869, Har- rison Crandall on section 22 in 1870, Fred J. Colby on section 23 in 1870, John Tompkins on section 24 in 1868, Benton A. Livingston on section 25 in 1863, William Matthews on section 26 in 1865, David Townsend on section 27 in 1868, George Lansing on section 28 in 1869, Andrew Lansing on sec- tion 29 in 1869, Thomas C. McClure on section 30 in 1864, Isaiah Fairies on section 31 in 1864, James A. Beaver on section 32 in 1864, Fred C. Holmes on section 33 in 1864, George B. Wright on section 34 in 1864, and William H. Harris on section 35 in 1864.
The present officers of Lake Mary township are as follow: Charles Danneck, clerk; Wenzel Bruzek, treasurer; Thomas J. Barros, assessor; A. Koudela, Andrew Roth and Frank Radil, supervisors.
LEAF VALLEY TOWNSHIP.
Leaf Valley township was established by the board of county commis- sioners on November 23, 1867. The first meeting was to be held at the house of Willard B. Ellis, December 14, 1867. This township comprises congressional township 130, range 38.
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In the following list are given the names of some of the first settlers 011 each section in Leaf Valley township, together with the approximate date of their location. Enoch H. Alden took land on section 1 in 1868, George Mumm on section 2 in 1870, William Marquadt on section 3 in 1866, Hen- rick Thies on section 4 in 1866, Wilhelm Fentzke on -section 5 in 1689, John Jolinson on section 6 in 1869, Adam Peffer on section 7 in 1869, Emil Nuscke on section 8 in 1869, John S. Evans on section 9 in 1868, Herman Peterman on section 10 in 1870, Willard A. Alden on section II in 1869, Wesley Smith on section 12 in 1873, Wallace Kibbe on section 13 in 1870, Samuel Pollard on section 14 in 1871, John S. Evans on section 15 in 1870, Peter Smith on section 17 in 1872, Andreas Reger on section 18 in 1870, Peter Ley on sec- tion 19 in 1871, Wilson Davidson on section 20 in 1870, Mary A. Lane on section 21 in 1870, Lorenzo D. Peck on section 22 in 1868, Isaac Johnson on section 23 in 1871, John H. Hartew on section 24 in 1872, Simon L. West on section 26 in 1873, J. F. W. Grosenick on section 27 in 1875, August Lawrenz on section 28 in 1871, John Comoford on section 29 in 1871, El- bridge G. Paddock on section 30 in 1871, Patrick Kelly on section 31 in 1873, John Mullins on section 32 in 1872, Andrew Anderson on section 34 in 1871, and Jonas Hult on section 35 in 1871.
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