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Real
Personal
London
$165,682
$34,523
Shell Roek
191.281
75,904
Freeman
108,311
33.930
Nunda
134,846
44,391
Mansfield
141,443
39,866
Oakland
159,717
49,063
Hayward
142,646
39,388
Albert Lea.
169,960
50,472
Pickerel Lake
128,912
37,308
Alden
153,460
36,588
Moscow
163,137
36,733
Riceland .
153,176
49,772
Bancroft.
226.886
67,51€
Manchester
168,672
45,807
Carlston
154.125
38,640
Newry
114,871
43,766
Geneva
108,461
30,453
Batlı .
145,596
32,407
Hartland .
131,127
48,371
Freeborn. .
97,993
38,941
Albert Lea City
408,604
143,291
It will be seen that the town of Shell Roek leads in personal property, while Bancroft surpasses all otliers in real estate. Freeborn has the lowest val- nation on real property, and Geneva would go to the bottom of the column in the worth of its per- sonal property.
From the crop statistics we find the following, which will be of interest to our readers :
1881
1882
Apple trees, growing
28,540
31,989
Apple trees, bearing
6,902
7,771
Apples. bushels
3,293
Grape Vines, No
663
643
Grapes, pounds
1,565
. . . .
Tobacco, pounds
541
Sheep, No.
3,767
4,267
Wool, pounds
17,866
18,594
Cows, No.
7.042
6,623
Butter, pounds
518,329
Cheese, pounds
23,780
Bees, hives
82
. . ..
Honey. pounds.
556
....
Those places in the 1882 column in which a dash is placed could not be returned by the assessor, as in most cases the crop is yet growing. RETURNS FOR 1881-82.
1882.
Wheat, acres.
1881. 72,537
62,727
Wheat, bushel ‹
835,937
Oats, acres
16.025
17,427
Oats, bushels
514,591
...
Corn, acres.
14,449
22,132
Corn, bushels.
522,072
Potatoes, acres
1.048
1,438
Potatoes bushels
109,124
Barley, acres.
2,398
3,992
Barley, bushels
54,765
779
Tame hay, acres
1,528
2,502
Total acreage
109,348
110,776
Timothy, bushels
927
Clover, bushels
42
Apple trees.
20,660
31,839
Apples, bushels
3,273
Sheep
3,767
4,269
Wool, pounds
17,866
18,594
Cows.
7,042
6,023
Butter, pounds
58.339
6,623
Cheese.
23,780
It will be scen from the above that there is a marked increase in the acreage of all products except wheat, which shows a great falling off.
TAXES.
The following is the amount of county and state taxes, and penalty and interest, collected from March 1st to June 1st. 1882:
County taxes.
$13,471 68
Penalty and interest.
95 56
State taxes.
4,731 71
Total
$18,298 94
. .
Flax, acres
738
·
Buxhels.
331
STATISTICS.
AMOUNT DUE EACH TOWN.
London .
348 17
Shell Rock
1,125 69
Freeman
423 63
Nunda
361 21
Mansfield
236 50
Oakland
133 60
Hayward
262 34
Albert Lea .
1,584 35
Pickerel Lake
677 21
Alden
1,337 75
Moscow
198 42
Riceland .
324 31
Bancroft 323 03
Manchester
244 80
Carlston
461 21
Newry
18 89
Geneva
297 53
Bath
215 67
Hartland.
658 20
Freeborn 281 92
City of Albert Lea
4,272 36
Total
$13,786 80
Less R. R. interest 4,373 31
Leaves to credit of towns $9,413 49
POPULATION IN 1880.
Albert Lea City . 1,966
Albert Lea Township 878
Alden Township
474
Alden village. 235
Bancroft
959
Bath .
919
Carlston
500
Freeborn
414
Freeborn village
72
Freeman
772
Geneva .
454
Hartland.
699
Hayward
659
London
614
Manchester . 784
Mansfield .
552
Moscow.
650
Newry
737
Nunda.
776 Oakland .
629
Pickerel Lake.
530
Riceland.
783
Shell Rock
1,013
Total. 16,069
The population is thus divided :
Male. 8,528
Female 7,542
Natives. .10,193
Foreign
5,876
White.
16,058
Colored
11
A comparison with other census years makes this showing :
1860. 3,369
1865.
5,688
1870.
10,578
1875
13,189
1880. 16,069
The greatest increase in any semi-decade was between the close of the war and 1870. As to the growth of the capital of the county, this is the record:
1860, the whole town had. 262
1870. 1,167
1875
1,897
1880, including the town . 2.844
Albert Lea is the twenty-first city in the State, in point of population. But it may be a conso- lation to know that there are twenty cities yet smaller, that have a population of not less than 1,000.
Taxes in Freeborn county in 1880:
State tax. 9,433.18
School tax 26,142.32
County tax 17,252.96
Town tax.
3,481.50
All other taxes 19,837.10
Valuation of the county in 1880 ... 5,229,134.00
Valuation of the county in 1881. 5,238,555.00 Valuation of county seat in 1880. . 494,955.00
Valuation of county seat in 1881. . 495,021.00
THE INTERNAL REVENUE, collected in the first district, in which Freeborn county is situated. The office is at Albert Lea, and Dr. A. C. Wedge is the collector. The report is for the year 1881: Collection on lists $ 7,829.71
Spirit stamps. 110.70
Tobacco and cigars 24,183.92
Beer stamps ..
42,162.64
Special tax stamps.
40,342.87
Making a grand total of. $114,729.84 For the year ending June 30, 1882: Amount collected from the sale of beer stamps. $ 43,854.95
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HISTORY OF FREEBORN COUNTY.
Amount collected from the sale of eigars and tobaceo. 27.669 62 Amount collected from the sale of special tax $1.660.18 Amount collected from banks and bankers. 11,419.47
Amount collected from sale of cheek and adhesive stamps. 765.19
Amount collected from penalties, costs. etc. 458.18
Total collections for the year. . . .$125,836.59
This is an increase over the collections for the year ended June 30, 1881, of about $9,000. Of the tax-payers of the district there are: Brewers 29; eigar manufacturers 23, tobacco manufactur- ers 21, rectifiers 1, wholesale liquor dealers 3. wholesale dealers in malt liquor 3, retail liquor dealers 86. dealers in manufactured tobacco 2,088.
METEOROLOGICAL .- It is difficult to convey an idea of the character of the average weather of any locality without burdening pages with baro- metrieal and theometrical statistics, But a few general points which may serve to give an imper- fect impression of what one has to encounter in this section will be presented. The highest range of the thermometer and the lowest in each month for the year 1881 was as follows;
HIGHEST LOWEST.
January
35.
.25
February
38.
.09
March
51.
9.
April
78.
10.
May
85.
36.
June
92.
50.
July
91.
55.
August.
96.
52.
September
91. 40.
October
71.
30.
November
57.
02.
December
52.
00.
This gives an annual mean temperature of 48.08, which, if correct, for a series of years, gives an idea of the temperature of water from the earth a a depth of forty feet, where it is not affected by atmospherical influences. The amount of rainfall for the year was 39.16 inches. 'The number of days on which rain or snow fell was 167, which was above the average.
The autumn months in Minnesota are described as the most charming months of all the year,
" when the golden grain is gathered by the far- mer, when his hay in the slack has been heaped high in the sweet scented fields, and the horny- handed granger has nothing to do but sit on the fence in the shade and shake hands with the polit- ical candidates as they pass along in a soothingly sweet scented smiling procession."
FREEBORN COUNTY BIBLE SOCIETY.
The annual meeting of the Society was held Recording to appointment, at the M. E. Church, on the 28th day of May. 1882, at which time the foliowing officers were elected: President, Isaac Botsford; Vice-President, Rev. N. F. Hoyt; See- retary, W. C. McAdams: Treasurer, D. R. P. Hibbs: Executive Committee, R. F. Sulzer, Rev. R. B. Abbott, and Rev. N. F. Hoyt.
A collection of 822.75 was taken during the day for the benefit of the society, of which $15,- 60 was given in the Presbyterian church in the forenoon, 'and $7.15 at the meeting in the evening.
The following is an abstraet of the Secretary's report of the affairs of the Society for the year ending May 28th, viz:
The Bibles on hand at date of annual meeting, May 30th, 1881. $103,07
Bibles and Testaments since received . . 34.70
Total. $137.71
Bibles sold during the year $ 35.24
Discount on Testaments "marked down" 2.35
Bibles turned over to Sulzer "damaged" for distribution 3.30
Shortage on invoiee and lost in money . . 8,33
Bibles delivered on life membership eer- tificates. 1.60
Bibles on hand. 87.15
Total. $137.77
Cash on har dat date of last annual meet- ing $ 20.13
Amount collected at anniversary 20,87
Amount received on sale of Bibles 35.2.1
Total $ 85.2₺
By donation to American Bible Society per vote of annual meeting 20.87
By amount paid American Bible Society June 1. 29.13
By amount allowed in exchange of Bibles and for freight on Bibles. 1.12
By amount paid for moving books 85
By commission on sales. 3.52
333
WAR RECORD.
By expenses. 1.25
29.00
Cash on hand
Total $85.24
Account with American Bible Society
June 30, 1881. Bibles and Testameuls received
June 21, 1881. Cash 29.13
$ 34.70
Due American Bible Society. $ 5.57
PRESENT CONDITION.
Books on hand $ 87.15
Casn from last year .. 29.00
Cash collection
22.75
Total amount cash $51.75
Less indebtedness 5.57
Balance
$16.18
CHAPTER L.
FREEBORN COUNTY IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION -THE INDIAN OUTBREAK .- NAMES OF SOLDIERS WHO PARTICIPATED.
When the war had been actually proclaimed, and the people began to realize that most of the southern States, were actually in rebellion against the government, there was no hesitation in actu- ally starting the work to meet the demand for men with which to create an army. The State at this time was only three years old, and this county had been settled but about five or six years, and few of the people had got out of their primitive slianties, and it will ever be a matter of profound astonishment how so many men were found to thus take their lives in their hands and go to the front to assist in forming the walls of steel to repel the enemies of the American Union.
Many of the people of the county were born in the old world, but they had been educated with faith in the New, and only those who have been through a like ordeal can understand the bitter experience of most of them in procuring means to tear themselves away from old companions to come to this land of the free, and the home of the brave; but having come, and began to taste the fruits of their own labor, with no grasping land- Jord to secure the usufruct of the land and reap the reward of toil, they were alarmed when these new found rights and privileges were thus jeo- pardized. And with the true instincts of freedom and manhood, in response to an intelligent inter-
pretation of the laws of self preservation, and in a spirit meriting the highest commendation, they enlisted to protect their adopted country. Their heroism, valor, and devotion, on many a well fought field, attest their title to the proud appel- ation of American citizens, and as time goes on their names will be more and more tenderly re- garded, and their deeds will be recounted with greater and greater reverence, and will be poin- ted at with pride by coming generations, as worthy of emulation.
That such a young county should be able to fill its quota as against older communities, before the land itself was subjugated, or the people had provided the comforts of home for themselves, will ever excite the liveliest satisfaction in the hearts the people of the nation.
The usual scenes transpiring all over the coun- try were occurring here, in a form of course modified by the circumstances. Knots of men in earnest conversation, men reading aloud the latest news to interested groups, public meetings, and anon, the shrill, ear-piercing fife, and the roll of the martial drum, were heard in these western wilds, and finally, the tramp of the citizen sol- diery with the sharp command, giving a realiza- tion of war's wrinkled front, was actually abroad in the land.
One of the first meetings called was in Shell Rock on the Ist of May, 1861. Manly C. Isham was chosen chairman, and H. L. Dow was ap- pointed secretary. Rousing speeches were made and war committees appointed, as follows:
Daniel Giffard, Orlando McFall, Manly C. Isham, Luther Phelps, George Gardner, J. A. Knapp and others.
On the 11th of May, the people of Albert Lea met and raised a liberty pole, and then repaired to the Webber House and held a mass meeting. E. K. Pickett was chairman, and William Morin was secretary. It was resolved to form a ritle company, and a committee on resolutions was ap- pointed as follows: E. C. Stacy, E. P. Skinner, and A. W. White. E. K. Pickett, Samuel Eaton, H. D. Brown, Benjamin Frost, D. G. Parker and others, made patriotic addresses, and forty-six per- sons were enrolled.
"Be but the foe arrayed, And war's wild trumpet blown, Cold is the heart that has not made His country's cause his own,"
was the sentiment aroused at this meeting.
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HISTORY OF FREEBORN COUNTY.
Arrangements were made to hold meetings all over the county, in each prominent place: Shell Rock, Nunda, Freeborn, Moscow, and other points. At these four places two men were to go to each, and for the four men each had two meet- ings. These speakers were two Democrats and two Republicans, but some of them weakened when the supreme moment came, and as a matter of fact E. C. Stacy went through the campaign without faltering, and did good service in firing up the northern heart. The story is told that at one of these meetings, at a large sehoolhouse, he got warmed up and was pacing the floor and ges- tulating with frenzied eloquence, when he be- came conseions of a boisterous uproar in the au- dience, and on turning he saw a man who had been carried away by the enthusiasm of the moment, following him as he walked, and in fran- tie imitation of the speaker, reasserting his postu - lates! And the story may as well be told here, that only a few years ago the judge, who was counsel in a ease in town, made an eloquent plea for his client, and a German who was on the jury was visibly affected by it, who, on being ques- tioned about it afterwards, said "Oh yes, he made that same speech when raising troops for the war."
At these war meetings the girls would sing pa- triotic songs and the recruiting books would be opened. The second meeting in Albert Lea was in the Webber House and was well attended.
Judge Stacy went in person with two com- panies of the Fourth regiment to Fort Snelling.
Our sketches of war incidents must necessarily be desultory and disconnected, owing to the incompleteness of the record.
Capt. Lewis McKune was killed at Bull Run, and the people began to realize that putting down the rebellion was no holiday affair ; and that no three months. as at first supposed, would elose, the war.
In the summer of 1861, Sergeant J. E. Hall of Co. K, which was stationed ot Fort Snelling, was here on recruiting service. .
The quota of the State in September was 3,950.
In December, the ladies of Freeborn County had manufactured in an eastern city, a regulation tlag of fine material and best workmanship. A delegation carried it to Fort Snelling, and in their behalf Frank Hall, of Albert Lea, with pertinent and patriotic words, presented it to Co. F, of the Fifth Regiment Minnesota Volunteers, which was
composed of Freeborn county men. It was gal- Iantly received in behalf of the company by Cap- tain White, who acknowledged its protecting folds the harbinger of victory, and assured the fair donors that it should ever be borne aloft "until the last armed foe expires," and "that when sad and dispirited. the sight of this banner, and the remembrance of the fair donors, would rally their latent energies, and again their drooping spirits should revive and new courage inspire their hearts." As a matter of history the folds of this flag were never sullied by those who fought under its protecting care.
Lieutenant William F. Wheeler, of Company F, Fourth Regiment was presented with a service, sword, and belt by his fellow citizens.
In addition to those who enlisted in Minnesota Regiments in 1861, there were 46 Norwegians who went to Wiseonsin to go into a regiment of their own nationality there. In order to get, if possible, these names, a letter was directed to Chandler P. Chapman, the assistant Adjutant Gen- eral of Wisconsin, who, in reply submitted the names found in the list of soldiers eredited from Freeborn county as far as they were recorded. lIe mentions that it is not unlikely that others may have gone into other regiments.
Company C was organized by Captain Frank Hall, at Fort Snelling, in March, 1862, and was reorganized as a veteran regiment in March, 1864, at Vicksburg, Mississippi, and mustered ont at Demopolis, Alabama, on the 6th of September, 1865, having participated in most, if not all, the battles of the Southwest. Captain Hall was promoted to Major of the Fifth Regiment on the 3Ist of August, 1862.
The first Company raised in the county of Free- born was by Captain A. W. White.
Here is a recruiting notice that will be read with interest :
= A TTENTION!
FIVE HUNDRED RECRUITS WANTED
-- FOR THE ---
FIFTH REGIMENT, MINNESOTA VOLUN- TEERS.
To all Recruits enlisted by recruiting Oflieers, to serve for three years, or the war, in old regi- ments noworganized, whose term of service expired
.
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WAR RECORD.
in 1864 or 1865, there will be paid one month's pay in advance, and in addition a bounty and premium amounting to $302 as follows:
On being minstered into the United States service, under this authority and be- fore leaving the recruiting station or depot to join his company or regiment,
shall receive one month's advance pay $13 00 First installment of bounty 60 00
Premium 2 00
1
Total pay before joining the Regiment. .. $70 00 At the first regular pay day, or two months
after mustering, an additional install- ment will be paid. 40 00
At the first regular pay day, after six months' service, an additional install- ment of bounty will be paid .. ...... 40 00
At the first regular pay day, after the end of the first year's service, an additional
installment of bounty will be paid .. 40 00 At the first regular pay day after eighteen month's service, an additional install- ment of bounty will be paid .... 40 00
At the first regular pay day after two year's services, an additional install- ment of bounty will be paid .. ...... 40 00
At the expiration of three years' service, or to any soldier enlisting under this authority, who may be honorably dis- charged after two years' service, the
remainder of the bounty will be paid. 40 00
II. If the government shall not require these troops for the full period of three years, and they be mustered honorably ont of the service before the expiration of their term of enlistment, they shall receive, on being mustered ont, the whole amount of bounty remaining unpaid, the same as if the full term had been served.
III. The legal heirs of soldiers who die in the service shall be entitled to receive the whole bounty remaining unpaid at time of the soldier's death.
To persons desirous of entering the United States' service, this fine Regiment now offers an opportunity. The advantages of entering an old and well drilled regiment, are too welt known to be enumerated. The wishes of persons enlisting, who have friends or relatives in the regiment, will be regarded as to the companies to which they wish to be assigned.
The present presents a most favorable oppor- tunity to any man who contemplates joining the service, especially those liable to draft shoutd at once join this brave regiment that has already earned lasting honor by its courage and valor.
CAPT. T. J. SHEEHAN, Recruiting othicer, 5th Minn.
Volunteers wilt report to me at A. Armstrong's office at Albert Lea, Freeborn Co."
As far as the county was concerned, the gov- ernment left recruiting affairs to individual exer- tion and town action. In the county records no mention is made relating to the rebellion untit September, when George S. Ruble was authorized to appropriate the sum of fifty -five dollars for the benefit of the family of George Conrad of the Sec- ond Minnesota Cavalry, and forty dollars for the benefit of the widow of George W. Gile, late of company F, Fourth Cavalry. Wannemaker's widow, late of company E, Tenth regiment, was also furnished a smalt sum, and other sums for like purposes were also appropriated at this time.
At the annual meeting in January, 1865, a peti- tion was presented from E. P. Hathaway and oth- ers, asking the Board to vote a bonnty of $300 to pay volunteers to help till the quota, but it was rejected. A petition of citizens of Moscow to the same effect inet a like fate.
In this war sketch it must be recorded as to how some of the soldiers' families lived during their absence at the front. While Major Hall was in the army Mr. C. M. Hewitt managed his store and did an enormous business. Alt the soldiers' wives bought their goods there, and those who were in Hall's command would remunerate him at the pay table when the paymaster came around.
On ths 1st of February, 1864, the quota of Free- born county stood as follows: Whole number demanded, 273; number actually furnished, 292; making nineteen more than the regular quota.
In November the impending draft was sus- pended until the 5th of January, 1864.
The following trom a paper at that date wilt show what occupied the attention of the journals of the day, and how things were accomplished.
"THE DRAFT POSTPONED.
The result of Gov. Swift's visit to Washington was made manifest in the following tetegrams received at St. Paul on the 6th, which will be received with general satisfaction throughout the State:
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HISTORY OF FREEBORN COUNTY.
"WASHINGTON, Nov. 7. 11 P. M1.
Capt. T. M. Saunders, A. A. P. M.
The quota for Minnesota has been so much redneed by former excess of volunteers since the draft was ordered, that no draft will be made in that State before the fifth day of January, 1864, and only then in case she fails to raise her quota of 300,000 volunteers called for by the President.
( Signed ) JAMES B. FRY.
Provost Marshal General."
The following also to Captain Saunders:
"WASHINGTON, Nov. 7, 11:40 A. M.
Capt. T. M. Saunders .--- If a State furnishes her full quota of volunteers under the President's call of October 17th, 1863, for three hundred thousand, the draft ordered for the first of January, 1864 will not take place in that State.
JAMES B. FRY."
A few other specimens of the prevailing litera- ture of the day will be appended for the sake of the information they contain.
The detail for men was from the congressional districts and Freeborn was in the first.
THE QUOTAS.
"The Provost Marshal of this District bas com- pleted the enumeration of the township sub-dis- trict in this Congressional District, carried out the number of men enrolled in the first and second classes respectively, and forwarded the same to the War Department.
In this district there are 243 sub-districts dis- tributed among the counties as follows, and num- bered from No. 1, in Houston Co., to No. 243 in Watonwan Co., in the following order:
Houston Co., 17 sub-districts; Fillmore, 24; Mower, 14; Freeborn, 18; Martin, 3; Faribault, 10; Winona, 22; Olmsted, 19; Dodge, 10; Steele, 12; Waseca, 10; Blue Earth, 16; Rice, 15; Le- Sueur, 15; Nicollet, 9; Brown, 6; Scott, 12; Sib- ley, 9; Renville, 1; Watonwan, 1.
As we understand the matter, the Provost Mar- shal General requires 1,425 men from this dis- triet, giving the Adjutant General the appoint- ment of these men among these 243 township sub- districts, each of which must raise its quota inde- pendent of any other sub-district. The Adjutant General has furnished a table given by us last week, showing the aggregate quotas of the coun- ties in this district. Each township in these counties must furnish the proportionate number
of men that the enrolled militia of that town bears to the whole number of enrolled militia of the county.
Congress has adjourned until the 5th of Jan- uary without coming to any definite conclusion on the proposed amendments to the enrollment Act. The Senate Military Committee proposes to strike out the word 300 and insert no amount in its stead, but let each drafted man make the best terms to procure a substitute or appear in person ; also, any man enrolled may furnish an acceptable substitute, which will relieve him from military duty during the time his substitute has accepted to serve, The committee are unanimous in rec- ommending that there be but one elass of militia -the 2d will, without doubt (and very justly, too. ) take rank with their juniors, alike improve the present condition of both by arousing the one from apathy, and encourage the other by re- lieving it of the whole burthen so generously be- stowed on it by a Congress composed almost wholly of elass No. 2."
It need not be disguised that there were some who were more anxious to fill the quota than to re- cruit our armies in the field.
"Governor Swift, sometime sinee, applied for permission to apportion our quota by town- ships and wards, and on Wednesday receiving the following dtspatch, granting his request:
.WASHINGTON, Dee. 22. To His Excellency H. A. Swift, Governor of Min- nesota :
You are authorized to apportion your quota of the three hundred thousand volunteers among the several towns or subdivisions of your State as you may tind proper. The whole quota of the State, must, however, be distributed.
JAMES B. FRY, P. M. G.'
"The War Department has notified the Gover- nor that the names of volunteers must be certified to by the mustering officer before they are for- warded to Washington, and in order to assure the credit due wards and townships, this officer must certify the towns, wards, and counties from which the reernits were enlisted. It is therefore not only necessary that our wards should ascertain the number of men they have sent, but they should also see that they are credited to the proper wards on the mustering officer's books."
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