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The first quarterly returns of the Faribault Post-office footed np $246 on letters alone.
At the election for delegates to the Constitu- tional Convention, the whole number of votes cast was 1,089.
Mr. Tillotson was appointed Receiver of the land office in place of L. D. Smith, who had re- signed.
Business at the land office for a single month, ending on the 19th of June, 1857, was as follows: Acres located, 118,178; with land warrants, 106,- 380; with cash, 11,798.
The taxable property In Faribault, returned on the 1st of January, 1856, was $613,364, and the tax assessed was $613.36, or one per cent.
Mail matter received and sent at the Faribault Post-office in 1857 averaged from 1,800 to 2,000 pieces a week, which was quite a jump from two pieces, in 1853.
Judge H. C. Lowell was appointed register of the land office in this year.
A surveying party on a projected line of rail- road reached Faribault in June.
During the summer a plank road was built be- tween Faribault and Cannon City.
In July McCarn & Co. put on a new stage
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line to Hastings. The first line was run by White, and afterward by Walker, the great fron- tier stage driver.
Clark and Weld got their saw mill running in Faribault in July.
The first Saturday in August the bell of the Congregational church was hung in Faribault. It weighed 1,000 pounds, and was claimed to be the first bell, of which there is a large family, west of the Mississippi.
In 1857, the grasshoppers came in the vicinity of the county, and excited considerable curiosity, not unmingled with alarm.
On the 15th of September a meeting was held in the city to organize a cemetery association. A. J. Tanner was the Chairman; E. P. Mills, William Thoter, Charles Wood, R. A. Mott, E. D. Gifford, G. W. Balch, Elder L. S. Pease, H. Riedell, Arch. Gibson, Charles Williams, Thomas S. Buckham, and others, were interested in the movement.
The first movement to establish an institution of learning in Faribault was in September, by a committee consisting of Rev. Solon W. Manney, Rev. E. Steele Peake, Messrs. Lloyd and Breck. At this meeting Messrs. Dike, Mott, Faribault, Paquin, and Boardman were designated to receive subscriptions of land or money.
There was a robbery of the land office in Sep- tember of warrants to the amount of $40,000. They were, however, recovered, except four from the abstractor, Mason B. Clark, a Postmaster, who lived at Sacramento, a place sixty miles west of Red Wing.
In the fall of 1857, at the time of that financial depression, Faribault had arrived at a condition of prosperity which was most remarkable, and it is certain that all who were here at that time should be designated as old settlers, and so a sketch of the city, written by Mr. Mott for his paper, is re- produced.
"But one church now stands in this place, viz., the Congregational. A fine church, built by the Catholics, was burned last fall. In addition, Bap- tist, Methodist, Episcopal, and Lutheran organiza- tions exist, stated preaching having been secured to each.
One schoolhouse has been erected at a cost of $2,000. It is now occupied by two teachers. An- other school is sustained in a commodious hall. These teachers have now under their tuition, about 125 pupils,
A brass band; a string band; a vocal club; a singing school; a Mason's and Odd Fellow's lodge, are all in successful existence.
Our mail service has been decreased since the close of summer, but we still have fifteen arrivals aud eighteen departures weekly.
We have been unable to obtain the last census report, but the enumeration made by the assessor last June gave this town a population of 1683. It is now reported at over 2,000. By actual count there were, some time since, over 250 buildings in the place. Faribault has become the center of trade for a large section of country, of the exten- sion of which some idea can be formed from a list of business establishments which we now proceed to give:
There are eight establishments in the general variety line, comprising dry goods, groceries, hardware, farming tools, &c .- The amount of busi- ness transacted by these houses now during these hard times would give them an annual trade of over $200,000.
There are four large houses dealing exclusively in hardware.
Three heavy grocery stores. (These have no connections with the Devil's recruiting stations. of which there are six or eight. )
Three clothing and furnishing stores.
Three meat and provision markets.
Two drug stores.
Two first-class restaurants.
Two furniture stores and cabinet shops.
Three livery stables.
Three blacksmith shops, which employ eight hands.
One harness shop. ·
Two boot and shoe stores.
One wagon and sleigh shop. .
One broom factory.
One grist-mill, with three more within three miles.
Two saw-mills, with seven more within three miles.
One planing-mill.
One billiard saloon.
Two bowling alleys.
One race course.
So far as our memory serves, the following list comprises the business men of the place:
TOWN PROPRIETORS-Shields & Mccutchen, A. Faribault, J. Cooper, H. McClelland, N. Paquin, A. Faribault, Turner & Batchelder.
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CLERGYMEN-L. Armsby, T. R. Cressey, J. H. White.
PHYSICIANS-Bemis, Leighton, Burhans, Deni- son, Stevens, and Turner.
DENTISTRY-Dr. Stevens and Dr. Biggs.
TEACHERS-L. A. Fish, Miss Parish, Miss Sarah Fisk.
LANDLORDS - Barron House, H E. Barron; National, E. D. Gifford; Faribault House, T. Nutting.
BANKERS AND LAND AGENTS-Shields & Mc- Cutchen, G. W. Boardman & Co., H. Wilson & Co., MeIlrath, Cole & Co., L. S. Pease & Co.
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW -- Batch- elder & Buckham, Cole & Raymond, Davis & Tan- ner, Berry & Perkins, H. W. Lamberton, O. A. Dalrymple, C. Williams, G. E. Skinner.
SURVEYORS-A. H. Bullis, R. H. L. Jewett, G. F. Batchelder.
MERCHANTS -- GENERAL VARIETY - Tower & Brother, J. A. Moore, J. H. Mills & Son, Mr. McGreavy, Van Brunt & Misener, Fuller & Smith, J. H. Winter, D. Munch.
HARDWARE-C. T. Hinde & Co., Cottrell & Brother, T. H. Loyhed, Cooper & Renwick.
GROCERIES-Chaffee & Berry, F. B. Nason & Co., Mr. Braley.
CLOTHING-W. S. Eastman, Raunecker & Hart- man, P. B. Crosby & Co.
PROVISION MARKETS-M. Cole, C. T. Winans, Nutting & Dickinson.
RESTAURANTS-C. M. Milspaugh, J. & A. Man- heim.
DRUG STORES-Wheeler & Thayer, Stevens & Thayer.
FURNITURE STORES-Hill & Brockway, Wandell & Worlin.
MILLINERY-Mrs. L. Clement, Mrs. O. M. Crau- dall.
LIVERIES-D. Smith & Co,, T. Smith.
JEWELRY-J. L. Wilcox & Co.
HARNESS SHOP-E. C. Hinde.
WAGON SHOP-J. D. Denison.
ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS-Hink & Newcomb, Davison & Clemons, R. W. Russ, A. & J. Nutting. BROOM FACTORY-Misener & Brother.
SHINGLE-MILL-J. M. White.
SAW-MILLS- Gibson & Co., H. Riedell.
GRIST-MILL-Gibson & Co.
PLANING-MILL-Clark & Weld.
SHOE SHOP- D. O'Brien.
Our merchants are all well stocked, and they are generally as fine dealers as ever stood behind the counter. Our landlords are all gentlemen, and spare no pains to make travelers at home. Our mechanics have increased, greatly, their facilities for doing good work. Our places of amusement would lose their objectionable features if intoxi- cating drinks could be banished from their pre- cincts.
We would urge eastern mechanics and capital- ists, who feel like breaking out into the free North- west, to grow up with it, to pay us a visit next spring. We want men with bronzed faces and horney hands; men and women who can cheerfully lock arms with toil. We promise you that toil will here be richly remunerated. We are, now especially, in need of plough, reaper, and mower factories, and a pair of jolly coopers."
Those who are acquainted here now, will not fail to notice the names of many business men who are still here, some of them in the same business, and some of them engaged in other occupations, although in any case twenty-five years makes sad havoc with mercantile firms and street signs.
The Catholic church at Faribault was burned on the 8th of October. The structure had cost about $1,000.
Early in the winter a literary association was organized, Charles Williams was the president, and the other officers were, H. E. Barron, G. W. Jacobs, G. E. Cole, H. Chaffer, T. S. Buckham. The meetings served to make the residents acquainted with each other, and, to a certain ex- tent, to reveal the mental calibre of those who par- ticipated in the exercises.
The estimated improvements of the city of Fari- bault in 1857, amounted to $100,000. The fol- lowing from the "Herald" will give an idea of the improvements of this year:
It is truly gratifying to take a view of the im- provements which have been effected in our place during the past year. In nothing is this advance more apparent than in the erection of new buildings.
The building of the past year has been alto- gether of a different and superior character from that which preceded it. In place of pre-emption shanties which constituted many of those before numbered, we have now the stately edifice from two to fonr stories in height. The buildings erected within the last year would probably reach
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in number one hundred and fifty, the most notice- able of these are as follows: Residence of A. Fari- bault on a sightly bluff over the river, costing about $4,000; the beautiful residence of James Tower at a cost of $2,500; the residences of Gen. Shields, J. Cooper, N. Paquin, H. McClelland, F. Faribault, Rev. L. Armsby, S. Barnard, Mr. Humphrey, H. Riedell, J. Gibson, Messrs. Decker, Alby, Lines, Whipple, &c., at an average of about $2,000 each. The followingare among the most important business erections: Store by M. Cook, 24x40; Cottrell & Co., 24x50; A. Blodgett, hall and billiard saloon at an average of $2,500; store and hall by Faribault & Co .; restaurant by Mills- paugh; bank by J. A. Moore; store by J. H. Mills; drug store by Stevens & Thayer; Receiver's office by J. B. Cooper; store by Mr. Merrill; all of these new buildings are two stories and cost about $2,000 each. A number of creditable one-story buildings for offices, banks, stores &c., have been erected. A number of fine buildings show them- selves on Paquin's addition, among which we notice one by I. H. Craig, 22x45, three stories high, for store or hotel; F. Craig has built two, one 16x36, the other 19x36, both two stories; two stores, one by Fredette and one by Langeuin, both 20x40, two stories.
We cannot report in full, suffice is to say that the amount expended in private building the past year cannot fall short of $100,000.
In addition our commissioners have erected an office and jail at an expense of about $5,000. The school trustees have built a schoolhouse costing about $2,000. The Congregational church has been enlarged and a bell procured. Three bridges have been built across Straight River, and one across the Cannon. A pleasant and commodious cemetery has been laid out, and many other im- provements which give great satisfaction to the citizens of Faribault who love their homes."
THE YEAR 1858.
The leading men early saw the necessity of en- couraging the cultivation of the best in all de . partments of agriculture, and as early as the 22d of January, 1858, met for the purpose of organiz- ing; and about the same time the young men organized a students' literary association, which served its purpose in an admirable way.
Faribault Mills, Warner & Buckhout, were burned on the 5th of February, and in March Mr.
Sentill's mill was also burned. Soon after an- other mill burst a boiler.
Graham's mill was burned on the 22d of Feb- ruary, and also another on East Prairie, which was a serious loss to the whole community, as well as to the owners.
Dr. Charles Jewett, of Faribault really, al- though his farm was in Warsaw, in the winter of 1858 went east and gave lyceum lectures on the west, and Minnesota in particular, and also wrote numerous articles showing the especial advan- tages of this location, which, without doubt, was the direct means of keeping the stream of emigra- tion flowing in this direction, with a good class of citizens.
A Ladies' Literary Association was organized on the 7th of February. The officers were: Presi- dent, Mrs. H. A. Pratt; vice-president, Mrs. T. S. Buckham; Recording Secretary, Miss Ada E. Hil- ler ; Corresponding Secretary, Miss Nellie Mott; Treasurer, Mrs. Hudson Wilson; Executive Com- mittee, Miss E. Whitney, Mrs. George B. Whip- ple, Mrs. A. E. Haven, and Mrs. J. H. Wiuter.
On the 15th of May, a meeting was held to see about organizing an Episcopal University.
A Lodge of Gcod Templars was instituted on the 13th of May, by Rev. Mr. Quigley, with twenty-seven charter members.
Messrs. Judd & Dike put up a barrel factory.
THE YEAR 1862.
Leander Gagne, while at work on the roof of a church at Faribault, on the 18th of June, fell a distance of thirty feet, and was instantly killed.
The Baptist church was built in this year.
The 4th of July was celebrated in Faribault in the time-honored way, with Hon. James W. Taylor as the orator of the day.
On the 7th of July there was a violent storm in Faribault and vicinity, doing great damage in its track.
A daily mail was put on between Owatonna and St. Paul, vic Faribault, in the summer of this year.
The saw and grist mill of Morris & Melhorn, on the Cannon River, was destroyed by fire on Wednesday morning, November 26th. This was the second mill burned there.
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THE YEAR 1863.
Faribault had a tannery started by Mr. O'Brien. A brewery also went up that year.
The 4th of July was duly celebrated.
THE YEAR 1864.
The Congregational Church was commenced in the summer of this year.
An Episcopal church was completed during the year.
Early in the sixties, ginseng, an aromatic tonic root, exported to China, and used by the Orientals as a remedial or luxury preparation, began to be extensively gathered, as it is found indigenous in certain localities here. Ten dollars a day, or more, was often made by a single individual.
On the 23d of February a terrible and fatal accident happened to Charles Babcock, who was caught in the mill of Dike & Co., and mangled in such a fearful manner that he died a few days afterwards.
The first national bank was started in Fari- bault in May of 1864.
When the cars began running, in 1864, a new stage route to connect with the trains was started by Burbank & Co., which reduced the staging considerably.
THE YEAR 1865.
The census of Faribault was 2,339. Of these 1,216 were males, and 1,123 females. There were sixty-nine soldiers in the service at that time. In 1860 the population was 1,520.
The Sisters of St. Clara Benton, five in num- ber, arrived in Faribault in August to establish a school.
The Central Minnesota railroad got in operation as far ar Northfield iu September.
During the year 1865, sixty buildings went up in Faribault.
THE YEAR 1866.
In the winter of this year the demand for more and better buildings was quite urgent.
The Good Templars re-organized on the 22d of January, with a good list of charter members and capable officers.
There was a Legislative excursion to Faribault in the fall. Governor Marshall and other State officers were present. It was in the interest of the educational institutions established here.
In April a meeting was held which was very important in negative results. The subject was to see about the establishment of a Congrega- tional college, which was subsequently located in Northfield.
In the summer of 1866, the Faribault papers stated that there was not a single soda fountain in town.
The corner stone of the Shattuck grammar school was laid with appropriate ceremonies on the 26th of July.
The total number of farms under cultivation in Rice county was 1,200. Number of sheep, 16,947.
St. Mary's Hall was opened on the 31st of Oc- tober.
THE YEAR 1867.
There were thirty-eight Sioux remaining in Fari- bault in July, when they were removed to their reservation in Nebraska by Rev. S. D. Henderson, the agent for the purpose.
The amount of building in Faribault this year was $178,000.
THE YEAR 1868.
The Shattuck grammar school building, which was erected in 1866, was burned on the 24th of January.
The citizens had a meeting on the 24th of Jan- uary to see about having a city charter. The Chairman of the meeting was L. Dearborn; the Secretary, R. H. L. Jewett. A committee consis- ting of T. S. Buckham, Luke Nutting, George W. Batchelder, Charles Wood, and T. B. Clement, was appointed to report at a subsequent meeting.
On Thursday, the 3d of January, the Minne- sota Fruit Grower's Association met at Faribault. A Board of Trade was organized in August, with the following officers: President, T. B. Clement; Vice-President, W. W. Knapp; Treasurer, Hudson Wilson; Secretary, Thomas Mee; Corre- sponding Secretary, G. F. Batchelder; Directors, D. O'Brien, W. H. Dike, Moses Cole, and others.
The Shattuck school was formerly reopened in October.
The old schoolhouse in Faribault was sold this year for $356, as there was no further public use for the building. The new schoolhouse was com- pleted in September, at a cost of $23,190.
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The population of Faribault was stated to be 3,424.
THE YEAR 1869.
Rev. Dr. S. W. Manny, who was connected with the Seabury mission, on the 19th of January was carried to
"That other side," "That heavenly shore."
Lieut. John C. Whipple received his final "marching orders" on the 5th of February, 1869. He was at Fort Ridgely at the time of the Indian massacre. Lieut. Whipple was born on the 12th of September, 1823, near the corners of New York, Massachusetts, and Vermont. When quite young he went on a whaling voyage, and was treated with such cruelty by his brutal captain that he ran away, and among savages had many thrilling ad- ventures. He was a First Lietenant in the Thir- tieth Minnesota Regiment, was a brave officer, and was buried with Masonic honors.
About this time, Taope, a noted red man, started for the happy hunting grounds. He was always friendly to the whites.
A plow and agricultural implement factory was started in Faribault this year.
On the 14th of June Fleckenstein's brewery was burned.
The cathedral of Our Merciful Savior was dedi- cated on St. John's day, the 24th of June.
W. A. Heinrich, at his ashery, in 1869, made 19,000 pounds of potash.
The value of agricultural implements sold in Faribault in this year was $27,715. They con- sisted of 95 reapers, 47 horse rakes, 7 threshing machines, and 12 mowers.
The Congregational church was dedicated on the 12th of October.
In October of this year a Horticultural Society was formed.
THE YEAR 1870.
The German Catholic church was opened in January.
The freight business done in Faribault during the year 1869, was as follows: wheat shipped, 69,492 bushels; flour, 52,743 barrels; hogs, 398,660 pounds; total freight, 19,985,250 pounds.
Early in February there was a destructive fire in Faribault, destroying several buildings. D. Stevens, carpenter; and Smith, Mr. Sheeran, N. O.
Winans, J. Berghlems, Rogers & Stevens, and others were sufferers.
Rev. Dr. Riddell, who was well and favorably known here, died in Kansas in February.
On the 28th of June the Shattuck boys had a regatta on Cannon Lake. There were four boats in the race and they made the distace of two miles as follows:
Undine.
20 min. 14 sec.
Red Bird
20
4 24
Rover
20 36 "
Ariel 20
56 4
A flag was presented to the winning crew by Miss Emily Du Bois. In the evening there was a supper with the usual accessories. A Minneapolis boat club afterwards sent a challenge, but as no suitable boat could be procured no contest was had with that club.
The census for Faribault in 1870 was 4,371.
THE YEAR 1871.
The second regatta was on Thursday, the 8th of June, 1871, at Cannon Lake. The contest was be- tween the Shattuck school, the St. Paul, and the Tritonio Club, of the University, During the progress of the race the University boat filled and went under. The other boats stopped to rescue the floundering oarsmen, and then the St. Paul crew pulled in and were declared the winners. Since that time boating has not been a specialty with the Shattuck Cadets.
In May the old Van Brunt store was removed from the corner of Main and Third streets to the south side of Third, in the rear of the First Na- tional Bank. This building was put up by Van Brant & Misener in 1855, the lumber having been brought from Red Wing.
A Turner's Society was organized on the 10th of August, with the following corps of officers: President, C. E. Brandt; Vice-President, A. Mnel- ler; Treasurer, F. A. Theopold: Secretary, W. Hendrick; Instructors, Newsal and Herbst; Su- perintendent, Mr. Kraft.
Building improvements in 1871, in the city of Faribault, amounted to $176,576.
THE YEAR 1872.
Hon. George W. Tower, the first mayor, was inaugurated on the 9th of April.
In June the Shattuck and Seabury schools had
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a boat race, and the gray came in ahead of the black.
A GOLDEN WEDDING .- Dr. and Mrs. Hollis Howe celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding. The assembly met at the residence of a son of the aged couple, Mr. George Howe. The rooms were appropriately decorated for the rare occasion. The parlor had an arch emblazoned with "Golden Wedding, June 4th, 1872." The groomsmen and bridesmaids for this auspicious occasion were Mr. and Mrs. James Gibson, Mr. Andrew Gibson, and Mrs. Densmore, a sister of the bride of half a century. Rev. Mr. Hinton, in a few well-chosen words, exacted anew the promise to "love, honor, and protect," and thus the well- preserved couple started on the last half of the century, the completion of which will certainly find them on-
"The other side of Jordan, Where the sweet fields of Eden, Where the tree of life is blooming."
A golden wedding is such a rare event that it should certainly be recorded in this permanent form, for very few can realize what fifty years of wedlock means, with its journeyings, it may be in the wilderness, with the long deferred peace and plenty, which is always hoped for in the not dis- tant future, still deferred ; or it may be a journey margined by fruits and flowers; but although the paths have been those of pleasantness and pros- perity as a predominating feature, there must have been rough and rugged places, and if they have been happily passed without asperities from either side, the journey has been indeed fortunate, and these two lives have not been failures.
Dr. Howe was born in Marlboro', Massachu- setts, in 1799, and was married in June, 1922, to Miss Julia Bird, of Litchfield, Connecticut.
The Memorial Chapel of the Good Shepherd was dedicated, and assigned to the use of the Shattuck school on the 24th of September.
Hill's furniture factory was burned on the 22d of November, involving a loss of $25,000.
Seabury Hall was destroyed by fire on the 28th of November, entailing a loss of $20,000.
THE YEAR 1873.
The city fire department was thoroughly re- organized on the first of January, 1873. The steam fire engine arrived on the 7th of February, after being sixty days on the road.
E. W. Leavens was appointed Postmaster in the spring of this year, and his " flag is still there."
Quite a serious fire took place on the 10th of April. The losses sustained were by, Tuttle and Barnard, a meat market ; Spo & Dappings, J MeCutchen, George M. Gilmore, J. Stocklein, and a few others. The expense of this conflagration was about $6,000. The new steam fire engine was out, but it met with several comical mishaps. and before the various snarls it encountered could be untangled the fire was extinguished.
In November H. E. Barron had a re-uuion of his old friends at his hotel. He came to Fari- bault in 1855, and built and started the Barron house, with E. N. Leavens as clerk.
S. H. Jaques died on the 22d of December, in Philadelphia, of typhoid fever. He was a promi- nent citizen of Faribault, and was in the real es- tate and insurance business with H. W. Barry, and was succeeded by J. D. Green. He was Secre- tary of the Board of Trade, and interested in other public enterprises.
The Faribault Driving Park was opened on the 24th of July, under the patronage of the Canuon Valley Agricultural and Mechanical Association.
THE YEAR 1874.
SCANDINAVIAN LITERARY SOCIETY .- An institu- tion with this name was organized on the 13th of February in Faribault. A constitution and by- laws were adopted, and officers elected as fol- lows: President, H. A. Larson; Vice-President, O. L. Hamery; Treasurer, A. T. Brondvold; Secre- tary, J. J. Schey; Assistant Secretary, M. J. Hol- men.
In February a catamount weighing thirty-six pounds was shot within a few miles of Faribault. Presumably he was one of the last of his race in this section.
Maj. Dike's house was burned on the 11th of May.
On the 25th of May the Shattuck Guards had alı excursion to Minneapolis and St. Paul. Ninety-eight cadets turned out, with Captain J. M. Lancaster in command of the battalion, and Captains Pierce, Casville, Talbot, and Lieutenant Wiley in command of the several companies. Arriving at Fort Snelling the band joined them, and in Minneapolis the University Cadets fell in. They were received in an address by O. C. Merri- man, President of the Council. Col. W. W. Fol-
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