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COUNTY GOVERNMENT.
TRANSFER OF LAND .- The earliest transfer of land recorded is stated as being on the 5th of Oc- tober, 1854. As it will be of interest, it is below given in full:
"Whereas, J. G. and H. Y. Scott have this day purchased of Alexander Faribault the following property, cornering at a point 28 rods east and 14 rods north from the southeast corner of the town of Faribault, and embracing two acres, with the northwest corner at the above named point, being 18x36 rods, for the following consideration, viz: The said J. G. and H. Y. Scott to build in a proper manner a good steam saw-mill on said land, and put the same in successful operation within one year from this date. Now, know ye! that if the said J. G. and H. Y. Scott shall build or cause to be built the said steam saw-mill, in time and place aforesaid, then we, Alexander Fari- bault, Luke Hulett, and Walter Morris bind our- selves in the penal sum of $6,000, which sum is considered double the value of said mill, to make the said J. G. and H. Y. Scott a good and suffi- cient general warranty deed for and to the aforesaid piece of land.
Given under our hands and seals this 5th day of October, 1854.
(Signed) ALEX. FARIBAULT, [Seal ] LUKE HULETT, [Seal ]
(Witnesses ) WALTER MORRIS. [Seal ]
G. H. FARIBAULT.
E. J. CRUMP.
Following the above is recorded a quit claim deed conveying a piece of land from William Mor- ris to John W. North for the consideration of $1,000. The document is dated the 29th of De- cember, 1854, and is witnessed by J. J. Noah and H. H. Sibley.
The first mortgage placed on record was made on the 20th of October, 1855, in which Isaac H. Presho, for the sum of $400, mortgages the south- east quarter of section five, township 111, range 20, containing 160 acres, to F. Fuller. This doc- ument was signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of O. F. Smith and Thomas F. Towne.
Immediately following the above document on record is a mortgage dated the 11th of October, 1855, from Norbert Paquin to Alexander Fari- bault in the sum of $350.
The register's office, in 1882, contains thirty- four large volumes of mortgage records, fifty eight volumes of deed records, and three volumes
of miscellaneous records. Under these heads the records of Wills, Estrays, Bonds for Deeds, Offi- cial Bonds, Power of Attorney, etc., are not classed but are kept in separate books.
The present officers in this department are I. N. Donalson and M. H. Cole, Register and Deputy, and the affairs of the office receive attention which gives satisfaction to all concerned.
CLERK OF COURT .- This office was established in Rice county in the early part of 1856, and the records extend back to that date. J. J. Noah was the first Clerk of Court, with the office first in Mendota. The earliest record is a marriage, dated the 15th of January, 1856, in which E. J. Crump, a Justice of the Peace, testified that with their mutual consent he had joined in holy wed- lock Nathan A. Lease and Rachel Lightner, both of Rice county. The witnesses to this interesting event were John and Martha Morgan.
Henry C. Masters and Miss Anna Randle are recorded as having been joined in the bonds of matrimony on the 24th of February, 1856, by Walter Morris, Esq., in the presence of Mr. Beach and Mrs. M. M. Willis, at the residence of Russell Randle.
The first minister whose ordination was recorded inRice county, was Morgan A. Noble, who was or- dained in 1845, at Peoria, Illinois, and it appears as at first, transferred to Rice county books. The first record of this kind that has a date attached was made on the 11th of March, 1858, and li- censed Rev. Henry C. Hazen. It is signed by H. Ball. The present efficient officer in this depart- ment is C. L. Palmer.
FINANCIAL .- Below is given the substance of the financial reports of the Treasurers of Rice county for the last few years, and a statement showing the present condition of the finances of the county. From the report of Treasurer Straub for the year ending the 1st of March, 1878, the following is gleaned:
Cash balance on hand March 1, 1877 $ 24,375.29 Total receipts from all sources during
year .. 134,010.61
Total. $158,385.90
Total disbursements during year end- ing March 1st, 1878 $125,378.13
Balance cash on hand and placed to the credit of various funds. . ... $ 33,007.77 For the year ending March 1st, 1879, the total
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assets of the county, as shown by the Auditor's statement, are as follows:
Court House and grounds
$ 55,500.00
Jail, grounds, and improvements.
10,000.00
Poor farm and improvements.
7,675.00
Personal property on poor farm.
2,952.86
Cash credit to revenue, poor, and
bond funds.
5,130:74
Unpaid county taxes.
23,472.63
Total assets.
$104,731.23
The liabilities were shown as follows:
Court House bonds outstanding .
$ 50,000.00
Poor farm bonds outstanding
4,700.00
Accrued interest on above bonds
3,254.59
County orders outstanding
1,625.67
Total liabilities. $ 59,580.26
Assets in excess of liabilities.
$45,150.97
Total receipts for this year were.
$187,352.98
Total disbursements
154,530.71
Balance on hand March 1st, 1879 $ 32,822.27 For the year ending March 1st, 1880:
Total assets. $107,026.14
Total liabilities 59,428.24
. Assets in excess of liabilities. $ 47,597.90
Total receipts during the year $174,911.09
Total disbursements for the year.
147,032.76
Balance on hand. $ 27,878.33 The salaries paid this year amounted $9,048.61. The expense of the county poor was $7,360.18.
For the year ending March 1st, 1881 :
Total receipts during the year. $138,878.79 Balance on hand at commencement of year. 27,878.33
Total. $166,757.12 Total disbursements during the year $130,603.18 Balance on hand 36,153.94
Total $166,757.12
For the year ending March 1st, 1882:
ASSETS.
Court House grounds and improve-
$ 50,000.00 ments. .
Jail grounds and improvements. 10,000.00 Poor farm and improvements. . 8,500.00 Personal property on poor farm per inventory 2,141.25
Cash credit to county revenue and
bond funds.
14,828,54
Unpaid county taxes
22,663.09
Total
$108,132.88
LIABILITIES.
Court house bonds
$50,000.00
Accrued interest on above bonds
3,000.00
County orders outstanding.
1,530.20
Total
$54,530.20
Assets over liabilities
53,602.68
RECEIPTS.
Balance on hand as per last year's
report .
$ 36,153.94
Total receipts during year ending
March, 1882
148,665.69
Total
$184,819.63
DISBURSEMENTS.
Total disbursements for the year .. $ 139,989.90
Balance on hand March 1st, 1882. .
44,829.73
Total
$184,819.63
RICE COUNTY IN THE STATE GOVERNMENT.
From the time of the organization of Dakota county, in 1851, until 1855, this district, the sixth, was represented in the Council by Martin McLeod and Joseph R. Brown. In 1855, the district be- came Dakota, Scott, and Rice counties, and in the Council were H. G. Bailey and Samuel Dooley, who served until the State was organized. In the House from this district during the corresponding time were, James McBoal, Benjamin H. Randall, A. E. Ames, Hezekiah Fletcher, William H. No- bles, H. H. Sibley, D. M. Hanson, M. T. Murphy, O. C. Gibbs, John C. Ide, J. T. Galbraith, John M. Holland, C. P. Adams, J. J. McVey, L. M. Brown, F. J. Whitlock, Morgan L. Noble, and Charles Jewett.
In the constitutional convention the representa- tives, or delegates, from this district on the repub- lican side were: John W. North, Thomas Bolles, Oscar F. Perkins, Thomas Foster, Thomas J. Gal- braith, and D. D. Dickinson; and on the demo- cratic side: H. H. Sibley, Robert Kennedy, Dan- iel J. Burns, Frank Warner, William A. Davis, Joseph Burwell, Henry G. Bailey, and Andrew Keegan.
The senators from Rice county since the organ- ization of the State have been as follows: Michael
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Cook, George E. Skinner, D. H. Frost, John M. Berry, Levi Nutting, Gordon E. Cole, O. F. Per- kins, George F. Bachelder, John H. Case, Thomas S. Buckham, J. M. Archibald, and T. B. Clement.
The representatives in the House have been: John L. Schofield, John H. Parker, Warren Ven- tress, E. N. Leavens, Luke Hulett, Ferris Webster, J. D. Hoskins, Charles Wood, George H. Wood- ruff, Caleb Clossen, Charles Taylor, A. N. Nourse, A. H. Bullis, J. S. Archibald, Isaac Pope, Charles A. Wheaton, Christian Erd, Jesse Amnes, W. J. Sibbison, E. Hollister, Henry Draught, William Close, Ara Barton, Henry Platt, O. Osmundson, John Hutchinson, H. M. Matteson, Elias Hobbs, S. C. Dunham, J. B. Hopkins, Andrew Thompson, B. M. James, H. E. Barron, J. H. Passon, H. B. Martin, L. M. Healy, T. B. Clement, J. S. Allen, Joseph Covert, F. A. Noble, C. H. Grant, G. W. Walrath, P. Plaisance, J. H. Pettys, Hiram Scriver, A. W, Mckinstry, C. B. Coe, E. C. Knowles, J. W. Thompson, John Thompson, Stiles M. West, L. W. Denison, J. S. Haselton, Seth H. Kenney, A. Thompson, W. R. Baldwin, P. Plais- ance, S. P. Stewart, R. A. Mott, and John Thomp- son.
Rice county has not been remarkably well rep- resented in the State offices, but those who have occupied the most prominent position will be men- tioned: General James Shields was a resident of Faribault, and was a United States Senator; John M. Berry has been for seventeen years Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the State; Ed- ward W. Deike was State Treasurer; Charles Mc- Ilrath was State Auditor; Gordon E. Cole was At- torney General for six years; Charles R. Lucas, O. D. Brown, and W. P. Jewett were chief clerks in the Auditor's office, and there may have been others that have been overlooked.
CENSUS AND OTHER STATISTICS.
The census of the State for the six census years that have occurred since the first Territorial or- ganization shows the following numbers:
1850.
6,077
1860
172,023
1865.
250,099
1870.
439,706
1875
597,407
1880
780,773
This is certainly a healthy growth. As to the population of the cities in the State, Faribault is
the seventh and Northfield is the eighteenth, ac- cording to the United States census of 1880.
The census of Rice county by sex, nativity, and color reads thus:
Males 11,673
Females 10,807
Natives 15,691
Foreign 6,789
White. 22,383
Colored 97
This includes one Chinaman, one Japanese, and fifty-three Indians and half-breeds.
The several subdivisions of the county are thus peopled:
Bridgewater, including Dundas village .. . 1,683
Dundas Village. 589
Cannon City 1,188
Erin 846
Faribault. 5,415
Forest 853
Morristown.
1,422
Northfield and city 3,150
Northfield City 2,296
Richland
957
Shieldsville
781
Warsaw
1,018
Webster
872
Wells
1,100
Wheatland
1,464
Wheeling 917
Walcott 825
Marriages in the county in 1881 208
Divorces during the year 14
Naturalization in 1881. 122
Of these latter there were sixty-two Scandina- vians, and twenty-seven Germans, Prussians, Bohe- mians, and Poles, no Irish, twenty-six English and Scotch, and seven other nationalities.
Birthis in Rice county in 1880. 772
Deaths 340
Natural increase. 432
In point of population the county of Rice is the seventh in the state of Minnesota. The num- ber of inhabitants in the county for the several census years since its organization were as follows:
1860 7,543
1865 10,977
1870
16,083
1875 20,622
1880
22,480
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HISTORY OF RICE COUNTY.
The western emigration within a few years has actually decreased the number of people within some of the counties of the State, but Rice has more than held its own.
Births iu the county in 1881. 703
Deaths. 308
Of the latter the principal causes were:
Consumption 40
Diphtheria. 29
Pneumonia. .30
Brain diseases .17
Most of the last were children. The large per- centage of pulmonary diseases, which is not ma- terially unlike other parts of the country, is due, it is claimed, to the fact of the large number seek- ing this, in common with other parts of the State, as a relief from these diseases when in an ad- vanced stage and beyond the reach of local sani- tary conditions.
In 1873, there were 168 weddings in the county, 528 births and 256 deaths.
Items like these are interpolated that a general idea of the progress of the county may be gathered without having to wade through so many statistics as a yearly statement would involve.
AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS .- While it seems de- sirable in this work to avoid dry statistics, there are certain facts involving figures which are most valuable, particularly by way of comparison. For instance: it is known in a general way, that the wheat helt has been traveling westward ever since it was first started at Plymouth, Massachu- setts, when the pilgrim fathers landed there two hundred and sixty years ago. At first it moved on its westward march, not in a very rapid way, until fifty years ago the valley of the Genesee in New York was the great wheat raising region. But when Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota were opened up for cultivation, the wheat growing center be- gan its kangaroo jumps toward the setting sun, and Minnesota is now its resting place, but how soon a flying leap will land it in Dakota, time alone can determine. Some of the figures here presented may help to a prognosis in this regard. The account begins with the cereals.
Acreage and crops in Rice county of the four principal cereals, according to the United States census of 1880:
Acreage.
Bushels.
Wheat.
74,873
907,514
Oats.
12,726
507,522
Corn
11,524
405,990
Barley
890
22,789
The acreage of wheat in the State in 1881, has simply held its own, although twenty-three counties have had a decrease, but Rice county is not in the list. The acreage in sugar cane in 1880 was 312, the number of gallons of syrup pro- duced was 39,698, or 131.45 per acre.
The rye crop in 1880 was not large in Rice county, only forty-eight acres, with a yield of 935 bushels, an average of 19.68.
Buckwheat had thirty-nine acres and 768 bush- els-19.69 as an average.
Potatoes, 947 acres, yielding 91,651 bushels- 96.79 as an average.
Bean crop, sixteen acres, yelding 342 bushels, an average of 21.37 per acre.
Cultivated hay, 4,732 acres, 7,046 tons.
Flax seed, 1,399 acres, 11,622 bushels.
Apple trees in bearing 6,937. Trees growing, 23,070. Bushels of apples raised, 2,406. Tobacco crop, 945 pounds.
Bees and honey. Hives, 583; honey, 3,502 pounds.
Maple sugar, 4,650 pounds. Syrup, 1,749 gallons.
Cows, 5.505, butter, 350,855 pounds. Cheese, 16,290 pounds.
Sheep, 7,278; wool, 30,605 pounds.
Horses in the county, 7,570.
The whole number of farms in the county in 1881, was 1,867.
The above crop statistics are taken from the census reports of 1880.
FROST.
As to the time when frost may be expected in Rice county, the following table gives the history of this uncertain event, as to its earliest appear- ance for seventeen years:
1865-October 15.
1866-August 15.
1867-September 1.
1868-
15.
1869- 26.
1870-October 13.
1871-September 19.
1872- 27.
1873-
7.
1874
66 14.
1875-August 22.
1876-September 26.
1877- 17.
1878- 10.
1879-
19.
1880- 16
7.
1881-
66
28.
The average time being about the middle of September.
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WAR RECORD.
CHAPTER XLVIII.
RICE COUNTY IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION -- NAMES OF SOLDIERS WHO PARTICIPATED.
Looking at Rice county to-day we can hardly realize that when the war broke upon the country, in April, 1861, it had not been settled ten years, and that Minnesota as a State of the American Union was hardly three years old, but, notwith- standing its own soil had not been fully subjuga- ted to man's use, very material aid was promptly furnished to assist in subjugating the rebellious States. The feeling here prevailed among the majority of the people that the Union must be preserved.
The sights and the sounds that were visible and audible in every city, village, and hamlet north of Mason's and Dixon's line, were duplicated here. The celerity with which men abandoned the pur- suits of peace to take up those of war, was most marvelous, and in this sketch, in addition to the names of the soldiers who were credited to this county, various incidents will be alluded to, that the methods, and the character of the patriotism which was so well nigh universal, may be remem- bered by coming generations whose gratitude was thus merited.
LADIES' SOLDIERS AID SOCIETY.
On the 17th of October, when the idea of the magnitude of the struggle began to dawn upon the average northern mind, and the notion that the rebellion could be put down in three months was thoroughly dissipated, the patriotic ladies of Faribault met at Metropolitan Hall, and organ- ized a society to assist in supplying the sick and wounded soldiers with necessary articles for their comfort. The membership was quite large, and embraced the leading women of the place, whose services in the double cause of humanity and patriotism were a new thing in warfare, and re- vealed the true position to be occupied by the gen- tler sex, while their husbands, sons, and fathers were at the front forming walls of steel as a pro- tection to the present and future firesides of this great Republic.
The contrast between the wars of ages past, be- fore there was any military surgery even, and this war, with its medical corps, supplemented by the collossal Sanitary and Christian commissions that were kept supplied with material by just such societies as this, was indeed most striking and re-
markable, revealing, in a clear light, the progress- ive age of the world in which we live, where the actual brotherhood of man is practically exempli- fied by such benefactions.
The first officers of this association were: Presi- dent, Mrs. Bemis; Vice-President, Mrs. S. B. Rockaway; Secretary, Mrs. E. J. Crump; Treas- urer, Mrs. May Fisk; Committee, Mrs. J. H. Win- ter, Mrs. A. J. Tanner, Mrs. W. H. Stevens, Mrs. S. F. Van Brunt, and Mrs. A. P. Tula.
To show the character of the contributions sent to the sick and wounded soldiers, as well as to those in camp, a list of articles furnished from North- field as their second installment, and which was forwarded on the 2d of June, 1862, is subjoined. The invoice consisted of: Eight quilts, seventeen pillows, two dozen wooler socks, six coarse combs, ten fine combs, nine dressing gowns, one pair slippers, nine new shirts, seven old shirts, eight pair of drawers, one dozen brown towels, nine cot- ton sheets, one linen sheet, twenty-one pillow- cases, twenty-seven linen towels, forty cotton nap- kins, five dozen compresses-one of lint, four linen handkerchiefs, fifty-four rolls of bandages, one package of linen and cotton rags, eighteen palm- leaf fans, one pair of shoes, three hair brushes, five quires of paper, twelve packages of envelopes, twelve drinking cups, nine cakes of toilet soap, one package of tea, one package of cloves, one package of corn starch, one package of linen thread, five papers of needles, three and one-half dozen buttons, three and one-half dozen shirt but- tons, one cake of beeswax, one package of hooks and eyes, steel pens, sponges, one pair scissors, two pounds of castile soap, five books, and two Bibles.
Collections of a like character were made all over the county, especially during the last three years of the war, and it can readily be seen what an enormous amount of sanitary stores were sent.
In July, 1862, G. F. Batchelder offered a private bounty of $10 to any man who would enlist. At this time the government was paying $25 in ad- vance, $3 extra, and one month in advance to all who enlisted.
On the 4th of July, 1862, the patriotism of the town of Faribault was stimulated by a celebration, with Dr. Charles Jewett as the orator.
On the 12th of August, 1862, there was a war meeting at Metropolitan Hall in Faribault, at which speeches were made in the interest of re-
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cruiting. Later in the history of the war more substantial inducements were offered in the shape of large bounties, if money is really more sub- stantial than patriotism.
In the summer of 1862, Hon. Mr. Magoon was in Faribault recruiting for the Sixth Regiment. Captain Parker was home in the summer on sick and recruiting leave.
Up to August, 1862, under the calls the State had to raise, 5,360 men, and the proportion for Rice county was 336. Some of the residents went to Canada to avoid the draft, as did men from every State in the north. Levi Nutting was ap- pointed Provost Marshal for the State. He is still an honored resident of Faribault. The Can- non River Guards, Capt. Pettit, recruited here, marched on the 20th of August, 1862, with ninety- four officers and men. Lieut. Cannough was com- missioned to recruit for the Eighth Minnesota Regiment.
The board of County Commissioners, on the 8th of August, 1862, took up war matters, and ap- propriated money from the county fund, and provided that the sum of $20 he paid to every vol- unteer, the number not to exceed 200, who should on or before the 15th of August, enlist in the Rice County Guards, the Emmet Guards, or any other company organizing in Rice county. On the 2d of September another bounty of $20 was appropriated to all who would volunteer to fill the quota. After voting these bounties it was de- clared as follows, by the board:
"To be the intent and meaning of this resolu- tion, together with the appropriation, passed August 8th, 1862, to provide for the payment herein-above specified, to each and every person who shall have voluntarily enlisted in the service of the United States, as above mentioned. Pro- viding, the number does not exceed filling Rice county's quota."
On the 8th of January, 1863, the county board Resolved-"That each town in the county con- stitute a military district." This was done in accordance with a law which had been passed by the Legislature of the State to organize all the available men, as to age and physical qualifica- tions, into militia companies. In accordance with the above law, which was passed on the 29th of September, 1862, the election in the various dis- tricts for commissioned officers was held on the 7th of April, 1863. Some of the districts bav-
ing failed to elect, the officers were subsebuently appointed by the board. . The names of the officers of these companies are not here given because many of them never went to the front, and the names of those who actually served will appear in the subjoined list.
In January, 1864, a resolution was adopted to equalize the bounty by the payment of $20 to certain soldiers who had enlisted previous to August 21st, 1862.
In 1864, the question of voting relief by the county to the families of soldiers widows and families was discussed, and resolutions were offered in the board, but opponents of the meas- ure succeeded in defeating it, which may not, per- haps, be an evidence of want of patriotism, but the entertainment of a doubt as to whether this was the proper method to extend relief to this most deserving class, so many natural protectors of whom had sacrificed their lives for the safety of our common home.
The Rice County Guards, Capt. Cutter, was an- other local company; also the Mcclellan Guards.
Up to August, 1862, Morristown, with less than 100 legal voters, sent sixty men into the ranks. At the time of the Sioux Massacre, in August, 1862, Rice county promptly sent a force of cavalry to the front. Mr. Faribault had ninety men in the saddle very promptly. The Rice County Rangers was the first company to report at St. Peter's. Maj. Dike was also authorized to raise a company to operate on the frontier. Lieut. West was likewise engaged in recruiting a cavalry com- pany from the county. In October, 1862, the re- cruiting was twenty-two ahead of the quota in Rice county.
The Mounted Rangers, raised to operate against the Sioux, and commanded by Col. Samuel Mc- Phail, was partly recruited here by Lieut. O. D. Brown. During that terrible time quite large numbers from Rice county had their first expe- rience in camp life in that campaign. While the troops were engaged with the Sioux the draft was impending with its alarming uncertainty, and its distressingly few blanks, which, unlike usual raffles, all were anxious to draw, and so the Gover- nor sent a telegram to the President asking that the draft be postponed and the time for paying bounties for enlistments extended, and here is a copy of his characteristic reply :
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"WASHINGTON, Aug. 27th, 1862.
To Governor Ramsey-Yours received. Attend to the Indians! If the draft cannot proceed of course it will not proceed. Necessity knows no law. The government cannot extend the time. A. LINCOLN."
Several clergymen from Rice county were in the ranks, among them Rev. D. B. Anderson, a Baptist; Rev. L. Pease, a Methodist; Rev. Lauren Armsby, pastor of the Congregational church in Faribault, was the chaplain of the Eighth Minnesota; Rev. E. R. Lathrop, of the Tenth; Rev. C. G. Bowdish also enlisted. Rev. L. Webb was in an Illinois regiment.
Charles E. Davidson was the interesting army correspondent of the Republican at Faribault. He was a member of Company G, First Regiment Minnesota Volunteers. He died in November, 1862, at Bledsoes Island, New York harbor, where he was carried after the "seven days fight." He left a wife and many friends in Faribault.
The Ladies' Aid Society in Faribault gave a grand entertainment in the winter of 1863, Mrs. H. Wilson was President of the society at that time.
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