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Howard C. Odell was born at Monticello, Indi- ana. October 17th. 1853. and came with his par- ents to Minnesota in the fall of 1856 and located in the townof Richfield. Ile is the son of George Odell who has a farm on section 27. Itoward is employed during the winter in Minneapolis and in the summer season turus his attention to farming. Was married October 14th. 1880. to Miss Fannie Stanchifield, of Tama City. Iowa.
Thomas Peters was born in England. October 7th, 1848. Ilis father being a shoemaker. Thomas engaged in the same business while in England. In 1873 he emigrated to this country. coming di- rectly to St. Pant. Engaged in farming in Ram- sey and Dakota counties until 1876, when he came to Minnehaha, and was employed at the hotel two years ; thence to Hudson, Wisconsin, where he was engaged in a hotel for one year : then returned to Minnehaha. and has since been employed at the hotel. In Oct., 1871, was married to Kate Weaver, Their residence is near the junc- tion of Minnehaha Creek with the Mississippi.
D. N. Place was born in New York city, Jan- uary 18th, 1844. At the age of fourteen he ship- ped as seaman, and followed that vocation for eighteen years ; came to Minnesota in 1869, and for three years was engaged in the real estate business ; then returned to the pursuit of sailing. and served as mate on a voyage to Japan: then served four years as Purser and one year as Cap- tain of the schooner Leader. trading on the Pacific coast ; was married April 15. 1874. to Frances M. Benjamin. They have had two children. one now living, Charles E. L.
Patrick A. Ryan, a native of Ireland. was born in 1831. and came to this country in 1847. Re- sided in Pennsylvania and Ohio until 1854 when he came to Minnesota, first settling on a home- stead in the town of Ilassan, Hennepin county, In 1868 he sold his farm and removed to Saint Anthony where he resided until 1874 when he purchased the farm he has since occupied in the
town of Richfield. Married Julia Quinn in 1867.
Edward A. Scales was born in Townsend. Massachusetts, April 13th. 1853. and remained in his native town engaged in coopering until 1874 when he came to Minnesota and engaged in farm- ing at Minnehaha. In 1876 he purchased five acres of land and has since given his attention to market gardening.
Gilbert Sly was born in the State of New York November 4th. 1798, and remained in his native state engaged in farming until 1866 when he came west and purchased of James Davis the farm he now occupies in the town of Richfield. Was married in 1822. to Sarah Crane a native of Massachusetts. They have had twelve children, five of whom are now living. Mary E .. Fidelia. Elisha, Paulina and W. IF.
J. L. Smiht was born in Holstein. Denmark. July 28th, 1850. In 1873 he emigrated to this country and came directly to Minnesota. locating on section 14, Richfield, where he has since been engaged in farming.
Freeman B. Smith was born in Vermont. July 15th. 1822. Ile removed to Champlain. N. Y .. where he resided until 1852. For four years he held the office of postmaster. In 1852 he went to California and was engaged in gold mining for one year. From 1860 till 1867. he was in the revenue service at Virginia City. Nevada. In April. 1878. he came to Minnesota and has since been engaged in conducting the farm of his brother-in-law, Orrin Hubbard. in the town of Richfield. In 1846 married to Sarah E. Beau- mont. She was born in New York, Sept. 24. 1824.
James Stansfield was born in the State of New York. September 3d, 1828. At the age of fifteen he went to sea and followed that ocenpation until 1849, when he passed one year as steward on the Hudson River steamboats. In 1850 went to Cal- ifornia, and remained five years. Came to St. Anthony in 1855 and engaged in furnishing supplies to steamboats until 1862, when he en- gaged in the restaurant business, which he con- tinued in Minneapolis until 1859, when he engaged in real estate business, and has followed the same extensively. In 1872 he purchased the farm in Richfield which he has since occupied. In 1856 he married Susan Wagner. They have three children living: Frank II., Charles L .. and Ella B.
HISTORY OF HENNEPIN COUNTY.
BLOOMINGTON.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION FIRST SETTLEMENT- CIVIL HISTORY -- CHURCHES -SCHOOLS -MHILLS. SHOPS. ETC .- THE FIRST SETTLERS -BIO- GRAPICAL.
The town of Bloomington occupies the south- eastern part of the county. lying on the Minne- sota River, which forms its entire eastern and southern boundary. A strip of meadow. varying from twenty rods to a mile in width. skirts the river the whole length of the town. The bluffs are. therefore, back from the river. but here and there stretch out bare. sandy points to the meadow below. Beautiful rolling prairies extend back from the bluffs over the whole township. The bluffs are not usually bare. but are covered with turf and timber. while the bottom lands. at the foot. have in some parts large areas of water. The sand belt passes through the middle of the town. exhibiting its usnal characteristics. viz .. less productive soil, and timber of smaller or lighter growth. Heavier timber is found in the northwest. Nine Mile Creek bas high. sandy bluff's covered with brush or timber. The small lakes on the prairie east of Nine Mile Creek are now very shallow, without outlet, and appear to diminish year by year. They will doubtless wholly disappear. Lakes Ryland and Bush bet- ter deserve to In classed among the beautiful lakes of the town. The only stream of any size within the limits of the town is Nine Mile Creek. which enters the town near the northwest corner. takes a southeasterly direction, and flows into the Minnesota River.
FIRST SETTLEMENT.
Peter Quinn was the first white man to settle and cultivate the soil of this town. He was ap- pointed Indian farmer. in accordance with a treaty with the Indians, and began his work, in 1
1843. on land now owned and occupied by James Davis. on section 11. He remained here until 1854. Rev. Gideon 11. Pond, the missionary among the Dakotas, moved here in 1843. and he and his Indian bands pitched their tents on the banks of the Minnesota River, where Mrs. Pond now lives. He lived here until his death. which occurred in 1878. Martin McLeod settled here in 1519, where his son, Walter S. McLeod, now re- sides. at the month of Nine Mile Creek. Joseph Dean came next. He arrived in the winter of 1551-2. lle bad obtained a charter for a ferry which he proceeded to establish in company with William Chambers. He built the log house which still stands near the ferry.
William Chambers also came in 1851-2 : made a claim, now the farm of William Chadwick. and joined Mr. Dean in the ferry enterprise. He died here in 1868.
In 1852, the following party came from Minois and made claims near the river. on the western prairie. S. A. Goodrich, A. L. Goodrich. Orville Ames. Henry and Martin S. Whalon. and Edwin Ames Sr. Not one of those men is now living in Bloomington.
We are indebted to Mrs. Rebecca Goodrich for the following information in regard to these worthy pioneers : S. A. Goodrich died in Bloom- ington, in 1865. A. L. Goodrich sold his farm in 1579. and now resides in Minneapolis. Orville Ames and M. Whalon died in the service of their country, the former in hospital and the latter. it is supposed. in rebel prison. Henry Whalon moved to Princeton, Minnesota, soon after his settlement. but returned a few years later and died at Fort Snelling. Edwin Ames died on his claim soon after his arrival, and his widow per- fected the title. Quite a number settled on the prairie east of the creek in 1853. From this time on the town was rapidly settled.
The following statistics will show the popula-
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tion of the town and the rapidity with which it has advanced in wealth.
The population, by census of 1880, was 820. The town has 23,205 acres of land ; the assessed valuation of the same for the year 1869, was $103,- 693; for the year 1875. $298,163; and for the year 1880, 8460.538. The assessed valuation of personal property for the year 1869 was $41,068; 1875, $47,775; 1880, $52,320. The total amount of taxes raised in 1869 was $8,574; in 1875, 84,- 245; in 1880, $3.718. Number of horses over two years old, in 1869, 287 ; in 1875. 353 ; in 1880, 403. Cattle over two years old. in 1869, 581 ; in 1875, 752 ; in 1880, 592. Sheep in 1869, 309; in 1875, 300; in 1880, 363. Hogs in 1869. 150; in 1875, 159; in 1880, 401. Bushels of wheat in 1869, 47,884; in 1875, 48.055; in 1880, acreage 5,109.
CIVIL HISTORY.
The first town meeting was held at the house of R. B. Gibson. on section 19, May 11th. 1858, at which E. B. Stanley was Secretary and Elijah Rich, Clerk. Whole number of votes cast was twenty-tive, and the following officers were eleet- ed: Supervisors. Martin MeLeod. A. P. Thomp- son, R. B. Gibson. The latter refused to qualify, and Allen G. Goodrich was appointed. Town ('lerk, Elijah Rich: Assessor, Elisha Smith: Co]- lector and Constable, Orville Ames: Overseer of the Poor, Joseph Kunison; Justices of the Peace, George Cook, E. B. Stanley; Road Overseers, Martin S. Whalon. Thomas T. Bazley. Wm. Chadwick. Voted $100 for town expenses for the current year. Resolutions were passed regu- lating, the licensing of dogs, hogs running at large, height and strength of fences, &c. The first Supervisors' meeting was held at the honse of Elijalı Rich, May 230, 1858. Chairman absent, and adjourned to the 28th when the full board met and transacted its first regular business.
April, 1859. Town meeting at the house of R. B. Gibson, 34 votes cast. Voted $150 for town expenses. Supervisors: Martin McLeod. A. P. Thompson, D. MeCullum.
April 3d. 1860. Town meeting at R. B. Gib- son's. Mrs. Gibson objecting to the racket, adjourned to the school house. Thirty-nine votes cast. Levied $50 for town expenses and $75 to build a bridge across the slough near Bradbury's, and the Supervisors authorized to purchase a
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road-scraper. Supervisors: Samuel Goodrich, A. P. Thompson, W. M. Chadwick. At the gen- eral election, November 6th, 94 votes registered, only 68 cast.
April 2d, 1861. Annual meeting at school house No. 13. Thirty-two votes cast. $100 voted for town expenses. Voted to build a pound and to let horses, eattle, etc., run at large during the summer months. Supervisors: Sam- uel Goodrich. W. M. Chadwick, John Miller.
April 1, 1862, annual meeting at school house No. 13, levied $100 for town expenses. Super- visors, John Miller. W. M. Chadwiek. D. McCul- lum.
April 7. 1863, voted $50 for a Pound, and $50 for town expenses. Voted to change the height of fences from four feet six inches to four feet three inches. Supervisors John Miller. W. M. Chadwick, James Dean.
April 5, 1864, voted $100 for town expenses. Voted to pay a reasonable sum for the use of the school house in District 13, for election purposes. Voted to change the day for annual meetings, from the first Tuesday in April to the second Tuesday in March ; which could not be done till the passage of a legislative act in later years.
Special meeting, June 5, 1864, voted to obtain a plat. and record a piece of ground for a ceme- tery, to be the property of the town ; also to raise money to pay the wife of each soldier who had not received a local bounty. $2.00, and each child of the same $1.50 per month, from July 1st, and continuing during term of service.
Special meeting. August 1. 1864. A resolution was lost by 23 to 9, providing for the raising of money by town bonds to pay soldiers' bounties to fill the Bloomington quota under the President's call for 500,000 men. Owing to the action of the electors, the town officers were powerless to act. and a number of citizens, among whom were Win. Chadwick, John Layman and T. Peteler. gave their individual notes to the First National Bank of Minneapolis, as security for money ad- vaneed to pay the bounties of soldiers to fill the quota.
Special meeting, January 3. 1865. at the house of A. G. Gillet, voted to issue town bonds to pay bounties to soldiers to fill the quota under the President's eall for 300,000 men, the tax for the payment not to be levied on the property of those
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who were or had been in the service without re- veiving local bounty.
Annual meeting. April 4. at the school house. voted $150 for town expenses. Voted to procure a bier and pall for the use of the town, and raise the per diem of some of the town officers. Su- pervisors Saml. Goodrich. Wm. Kell, James E. Smith.
April 3. '66, levied one mill per dollar for town expenses, and voted that the cemetery be legal- ized by filing the plat. recording. &c. Supervisors: Wm. Chadwick. Joseph Harrison. Abram Palmer.
April 2. 1867. levied one mill per dollar for town expenses, seventeen mills for the payment of interest on the bounty bonds. one-half mill to improve the town cemetery and providing that it be free for the inhabitants of the town and $5 per lot for non-residents. Supervisors: Samuel Goodrich, John Layman. Wm. Kell.
April 7, 1865, levied one mill per dollar for town expenses. Supervisors: Win. Kell, E. Parker. Wm. Chadwick.
March 30. 1869. Supervisors' meeting. The Treasurers' report showed that the amount of money realized from the sale of bounty bonds amounted to $1.361.96, and that bonds had been canceled which, including interest, amounted to $1,394.17. And, as the seventeen-mills tax amounted to considerable, there was still some bounty money in the treasury. An attempt was made in 1570 to use this surplus money to build a town house ; this was found to be illegal, and the money was distributed among the soldiers of the town who had not received a full bounty. The date of the annual meeting for 1869 does not ap- pear, but it was held at " Cate's School House." Levied one mill per dollar for town expenses. The building of a town hall was agitated. Su- pervisors: Wm. Kell. E. A. Parker, Win. Chad- wick.
A special meeting was held during the summer for the purpose of purchasing a lot for the town hall and to entertain N. G. Northrup's proposi- tion. to donate land for a town house.
April 5, 1870. Meeting held at Cate's School House. Voted to use the surplus bounty money for the purpose of building a town hall, but as the bounty money could not be used legally ex- cept for the payment of bounties, the matter was dropped. Voted a tax of one mill per dollar for
town expenses. Supervisors elected were Henry Harmon. John M. Cummings. A. P. Thompson.
An election was held May 31st of this year to decide for or against the payment of state R. R. bonds by the sale of internal improvement lands. and 75 votes were cast. all in favor of such method of payment.
March 11. 1871, meeting held at distriet school- house No. 13. Voted $75 to build a pound, and one mill per dollar for town expenses. Super- visors, Henry Harmon. A. P. Thompson, J. D. Scofiell.
March 12, 1522. meeting held at school-house No. 13. Levied one mill per dollar for town ex- penses. Supervisors-Henry Harmon. J. D. Sco- field. Abram Palmer.
March 11. 1873, town meeting hell at Cates' school-house. Forty-eight votes cast. Supervis- ors-Henry Harmon. Abram Palmer, Phillip Hynes. Voted a tax of one-half mill per dollar for town expenses.
March 10. 1874, meeting at school-house district No. 13. Levied two mills per dollar for town ex- penses. Supervisors-Henry Harmon, Abram Palmer. J. D. Scofield.
March 9, 1875, town meeting held at Oak Grove Hall. $150 voted for town expenses. Supervis- ors-Henry Harmon, J. D. Scofield, Abram Palmer.
March 14. 1876. meeting at Oak Grove Ilall. $150 was voted for town expenses. Supervisors Henry Harmon. Abram Palmer. IL. D. Cunning- ham.
March 13. 1877. levied $200 for town expenses. Supervisors-Henry Harmon. Abram Palmer, I. D. Cunningham.
March 12. 1878, meeting held at Oak Grove Hall. Voted $200 for town expenses. 107 votes rast. Supervisors-Henry Harmon. Walter S. MeLeod. I. D. Cunningham.
March 11, 1879, meeting at Oak Grove Hall. $200 voted for town expenses. 105 votes cast. Supervisors-Henry Harmon. W. S. Mcleod, .1.
March 9, 1880, meeting held at Oak Grove Hall. Ninety-nine votes cast. Changed the cemetery name from " Presbyterian " to " Bloomington." Voted $25 for a pound. and $200 for town ex- penses: also special tax to improve the cemetery. Supervisors- Walter S. Me Leod, Samuel Med'lay.
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Wm. Chadwick. The subject of building a town house and pound has from time to time been agitated, but neither of them has been built.
CHURCHES.
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The Bloomington Presbyterian Church is at present the only organization in existence in the town. Rev. Mr. Pond took measures for its es- tablishment immediately after the removal of the Indians and the consequent termination of his missionary work. In 1855, the organization was completed with thirteen members, and services were held in the new church. The church was first located at the Bloomington Cemetery, on section 21, but in the spring of 1864, it was removed to its present location near the post office, and en- larged. Three members of the original thirteen still survive, Mrs. G. IT. Pond, Mary F. Pond and Mrs. Chadwick. Mr. Pond continued the charge until 1873, when he resigned on account of ill health. and was succeeded in turn by Rev. M. lowell, Rev. Van Emmon, and the present in- cumbent, Rev. J. de Bruyn Kops. The latter took charge in 1877.
The First Baptist Church was organized Jann- ary 22d, 1861, with nine members. The church flourished for a time, but, in 1872, only half a dozen remained, and those voted to disband. The pastors during its continuance were Revs. S. S. Utter, A. J. Davis, and Cressy.
SCHOOLS.
The first school held in the township was at the Dakota mission, by Rev. Mr. Pond and his assist- ants. Though organized for the Indians, some white children of early settlers attended. The first public school was taught in a private house by Miss Harrison, in 1855. since which time pub- lic schools have been regularly kept. The town is divided in four school districts, and has two joint districts with Richfield: the school house of the latter located in Richfield. That of Dis- triet No. 13, known as the Gibson school house, on Section 20, finished in 1859, was the first school house built. That of district No. 10, long known as the Cates school house, was first located on section 15. but in 1874 the location was changed to section 16, and the present house built. That of district No. 11 is in section 10, and was built in 1869. That of district No. 14 is on section 32. and was built in 1866.
GRANGE NO. 482.
This Grange was organized March, 1874, by Deputy W. S. Chowen, of Minnetonka, in the school-house, district No. 10, with twenty charter members. The first master was J. D. Layman, and the first secretary V. Bailey. The first meetings were held at the house of James Davis and at Pease's Hall. During the first winter a stock company, under the title of the " Oak Grove Hall Association," was organ- ized, composed only of memers of the Grange, for the purpose of building a hall. Shares were issned at $10 each, the money was raised, and the hall completed during the summer. It stands near the postoffice. A Library Association was formed March 19th, 1874, called the " Blooming- ton Grange Library Association," to consist only of members of the Grange in good standing. Thirty dollars was invested in books at the ont- set, and new books have since been added. The membership of the Grange is now forty-eight.
HOTELS, ETC.
The first hotel in the town was built in 1854, at the crossing of Nine Mile Creek, by a Mr. Baillif, who kept it a number of years. Next, Albee Smith built the hotel and store at the ferry. In 1858 Mr. Whitney built a hotel near the creek, which was the stopping place for the stage and passengers for a long time. It was subsequently purchased by N. G. Northrup. who opened a store in connection with the hotel. After two years he sold to Mr. Moir, the present owner. Owen R. Dunbar opened a store in 1876. where the Bloom- ington postoffice now is. He was also postmas- ter. In 1878 he sold to Mr. Cumming, who keeps a small general store and is postmaster.
BLOOMINGTON FERRY.
The ferry was established in 1852 by Joseph Dean and William Chambers. They continued it in company until 1855, when Mr. Dean sold his interest to A. C. and S. A. Goodrich. In 1868 Mr. Chambers sold his interest to James Brown, who, in 1872, sold to John Cameron. Mr. Cam- eron was accidentally killed at the ferry a few years later. His widow and Mrs. Rebecca Good- rich are now the owners. In 1855 Mr. Dean sold to Albee Smith and others, from St. Paul, his in- terest in lands at the ferry, but not including the ferry itself. for a town site. The purchasers sur-
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veyed, platted it and built a hotel. but the town refused to grow.
MILL. SHOPS. ETC.
" The Bloomington Flouring Mill" is located on Nine Mile Creek, section 21. M. J. MeAfee. the present owner, built the dam and mill in 1876-7. It is a wooden building 30x40 feet, three stories high. It has three runs of stone and one set of rollers, and is operated by a twenty-inch turbine wheel of the Leffel pattern, with thirty or forty horse power. It has a capacity of twenty barrels per day. The water power is good. Nu- merous springs feed the pond. and keep up the supply of water, enabling the mill to run steadily during the summer months.
Three blacksmith shops are located and owned as follows : one near Bloomington Ferry, by Hee- tor Chadwick ; one on section twenty. by Joseph Pepin, and one at Bloomington post office, by A. ('amming.
Mrs. Cameron keeps a hotel and store near the ferry, in a building built by parties from St. Paul.
THE FIRST SETTLERS.
Mrs. Mary Lonisa Quinn is the oldest living set- tler in Bloomington, and also probably the old- est settler in the State. She now lives with her daughter, Mrs. Margaret Brossean. Mrs. Quinn was born in the Rocky Mountains, in the fall of 1800, and is the daughter of a Scotchman. named Findley and a Rocky Mountain Indian woman. who died giving her birth. On the death of the mother, Mr. Findley was left with a family of four children. Ile, therefore, left the Mountains and came to Fort Garry, where he left the infant in the charge of a family until his return from Lachine. Canada. He took the other children with him, but never returned. At Fort Garry the baby grew to womanhood. Peter Quinn. who subsequently became her husband, was one of the earliest settlers in this county, with a career even more eventful than that of his wife. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, about 1789. was carried off by a party of English sailors when a school boy, and taken to York Factory. an Esqui- maux trading post. on the coast of Labrador. Making his escape, he lived three years with the Esquimaux, without seeing a white man during the time, Ile was ransomed by a party of Ind- son Bay trappers in charge of Mr. Graham.
Graham was the father of Mrs. Alexander Fari- bault of this State. He brought young Quinn to Fort Garry where he married as stated above. He remained in the employ of the Hudson Bay Company a number of years but was in constant dread of being caught and returned to his origi- ual captors. In 1824. he was sent to the trading post of the American Fur Company, at Lac qui Parle to resene a white woman. that had been cap- tured by the Sioux, and there made arrangements to join the American company. He left his wife and family for the time at Fort Garry and accept- ed the appointment as their agent at Fort Snell- ing. lle arrived at his new post in 1824: Du- ring his absence his wife suffered many hard- ships. While her protectors were on a hunting excursion, her eldest child died, and, though obliged to carry an infant two months old, she determined to set out alone to find them. . 1 heavy snow storm overtook her on the way, and the baby perished. while she with difficulty made her way to her friends, who kindly received her. She now persuaded her friends to go with her to join her husband in Minnesota, and settle there. Several set out with her for Fort Snel- ling. in the winter of 1825. They traveled on snow shoes all the way. Mr. Quinn hearing of their coming, met the party at Crow Wing, and conducted his wife safely to Fort Snelling. Ile was soon appointed to a trading post at Leech Lake, Minnesota, whither he went with his fami- ly and remained till the spring of 1827. Mrs. Quinn at that time returned with her husband to Fort Snelling, near where she has since lived, and is now over eighty. From 1827. Mr. Quinn was constantly in the employ of the government, until his death. He carried the mail. for a time. from Fort Snelling to Prairie du Chien. He was often employed as interpreter and in making treaties on account of his familiarity with the Sioux and Chippewa languages. In 1837 he went lo Washington in charge of a delegation of Indian chiefs. In 1813. he was appointed Indian farmer, and opened the farm for instructing the Indians near where his widow. daughter and grand-daughter now live. In 1854 he was sent to Fort Ridgely as interpreter for the soldiers. At the opening of the Sioux war. in 1862, he was sent by Capt. Marsh to Redwood Ferry to recon- noitre, and pacify the Indians. He was there
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