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running ever since the start of the church and is held alternately at the Methodist and Presbyterian churches.
The first preaching in the northern part of the township was in the fall of 1865, by Rev. Birch, then a student at the Hamlin Uni- versity of Red Wing. He continued liis visits about two years and organized a class in the spring of 1866 at schoolhouse No. 8. He was followed by Henry Goodsell, and during his incumbency the County Line church was built at a cost of nine hundred dollars.
Rev. Richardson succeeded him, and during his stay this class and the one in West Florence, Goodhue county, united. This charge was visited successively by Messrs. McMiff, Phelps, Matte- son, Wright and Noah Lathrop, who saw the breaking up of the class through dissension and emigration.
In 1880 Thomas Hartley, a Wesleyan minister of Greenwood Prairie, preached regularly in the schoolhouse, and the next year was followed by Mr. R. Balbridge, of the same denomination. A revival blessed his efforts and services were transferred to the County Line church. February, 1882, a church of thirteen members was organized by him, and afterward they purchased the church building of the Methodist Episcopal organization. A flourishing sabbath school has been running for many years.
SOCIETIES.
In 1870, T. A. Thompson, of Plainview, then state lecturer in the interests of the grange, visited this neighborhood and stirred up an interest which resulted in the establishment of a grange. Mount Pleasant Grange, No. 53, was organized at the schoolhouse of dis- triet No. 10, June 21, 1870, by D. K. G. Clark. It began with thirty-one charter members and the following officers were chosen : W. J. Newton, M. ; J. C. Fowler, Sec .; N. F. Randolph, Chap., and T. W. Robinson, Lect. At first meetings were held at the schoolhouse and afterward for several years at the residence of J. C. Fowler. In 1874 the old schoolhouse of district No. 10 was purchased and fitted up for a hall, which was used until the dis- banding in 1878. Its greatest membership was forty-nine in 1872, and the interest was well kept up during its existence. The last meeting was held May 8, 1878.
This community has long manifested an interest in temperance and temperance work ; and the influence of their work and efforts has been considerable.
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Good Templar Lodge, No. 121, was organized July 27, 1875, by F. C. Stow, D.G. W.C.T., at the Presbyterian church, with fifty-six charter members. Soon after this meetings were begun in the grange hall, and there continued until the sale of the building, which deprived them of a place of meeting and was the main ele- ment in the death of the organization, no regular meetings being held thereafter. October, 1877, the membership reached sixty- seven.
CHAPTER LXXVIII.
ZUMBRO.
THE territory now covered by Zumbro, Mazeppa and Hyde Park is just equal to two full townships and was originally known as Mazeppa and Concord. Concord was the name of the election pre- cinct, in which it was situated at the time of the government sur- vey. Afterward, in May, 1858, at a town meeting, the name of Troy was adopted by a vote of the people, by which name it was known till 1861 ; there being another town of the same name in the state, the legislature declined to endorse the action of the town meeting, and consequently it became necessary to call another meet- ing ; this time to consider the propriety of dividing the town as well as adopting another name.
The river Zumbro entered the town of Troy from the northwest, in section 6, a quarter of a mile east of the town-line, and flowed in a southeasterly direction till it reached a point one mile south of the center of the town, where it turned and followed a northeasterly course, and finally leaving the town about on the line of sections 13 and 24, it being the center of the north and south line. This river rendered it so inconvenient for the people to meet, and especially so in the spring, that it was finally decided (the consent of the county commissioners having been obtained) at a town meeting held March 19, 1861, to divide the town, the Zumbro forming the boundary, and also to call the new town south of the river, Zumbro.
The first settlers in this town- at that time Concord - were the Baileys, Thomas, George and Andrew, who came in the early part of 1855, and followed some time in the summer of
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1856 by the Jenkins family, father and two sons, and a Mr. Baker. The first school was taught in the late Isaac Jenkins claim shanty in the summer of 1859, by Miss Nellie Walker,* who received twelve dollars for the term of three months, and boarded herself. This school, now known as district 49, was organized in 1861, and the first school after its organization was held in a shanty built expressly for that purpose by York and Jenkins, and which was used for that purpose till 1864, when the red school- house was built, being located on section 31. The first teacher in the red schoolhouse was Miss Hattie Ruber. In 1863, a postoffice, called South Troy, was established, but at the end of two years was discontinued. The present postoffice is located at Hammond, a station of the narrow-gauge railroad. Agriculture was the occu- pation of the people. but little if any other kind of business being carried on till 1866, when a Mr. John Ralton brought on a stock of goods and opened a store for the accommodation of the people in that section of the country.
The records show the first town meeting to have been held May 11, 1858, when the following officers were elected-then known as Troy : George Fanning (chairman), George Roberts, Edward York, supervisors ; John Ritter, clerk ; Isaac Jenkins, assessor ; Parish Dewitt, collector ; Francis W. Shaw, A. J. Jenkins, consta- bles ; George W. Fanning, Isaac Jenkins, justices.
The following is the record so far as chairman of supervisors and town clerks are concerned :
CHAIRMAN OF SUPERVISORS. CLERK. CHAIRMAN OF SUPERVISORS. CLERK.
1859. Isaac Jenkins. . .. Jno. Ritter.
1860. J. R. Mack . Jno. Ritter.
1861. Henry Everett .... A. J. Jenkins.
1875. A. J. Anderson . A. J. Jenkins. 1862. Hiram Hammond . A. J. Jenkins.
1863. Henry Dickman . . A. J. Jenkins.
1864. Henry Dickman . . A. J. Jenkins.
1865. Henry Dickman . . A. J. Jenkins.
1866. Henry Dickman . . A. J. Jenkins.
1867. Henry Dickman . . A. J. Jenkins.
1868. Henry Dickman . . A. J. Jenkins.
1869. Henry Dickman .. A. J. Jenkins.
1870. A. J. Anderson ... A. J. Jenkins.
1871. A. J. Anderson ... A. J. Jenkins.
1872. A. J. Anderson . A. J. Jenkins.
1873. A. J. Anderson A. J. Jenkins.
1874. A. J. Anderson ... A. J. Jenkins.
1876. A. J. Anderson A. J. Jenkins.
1877. A. J. Anderson .A. J. Jenkins.
1878. Jonas Rogers A. J. Jenkins.
1879. Jonas Rogers A. J. Jenkins. 1880. Jonas Rogers A. J. Jenkins.
1881. Jonas Rogers A. J. Jenkins.
1882. Jonas Rogers A. J. Jenkins.
1883. Jonas Rogers A. J. Jenkins.
At a town meeting held March 19, 1861, it was voted to divide the town, and all that portion lying south of the Zumbro to be known as the town of Zumbro, and all north of the river to be called Hyde Park, and the first election for the new town was held April 2, 1861.
* Some say Miss Hellen Everet, Miss Nannie Walker, but the majority say Miss Nellie Walker.
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The schools of Zumbro are known as district No. 47, located in section 35 ; No. 48, located in section 34; No. 49, located in section 31; No. 52, located in section 13; No. 53, located in section 24.
CHURCHES.
The Wesleyan Methodist church was organized in 1856, by Elder H. E. Walker, William Perkins, A. W. Martin, Mrs. Martin, Francis Fryer and Mrs. Fryer, and the first services were held in the South Troy schoolhouse, Elder Walker officiating and preaching the first sermon preached in the town.
In 1859 a branch of this society was organized by Elder Walker, and services were held in the Red School-house, district No. 49. On alternate Sundays, Elder Walker preached in the morning at the South Troy schoolhouse, and in the afternoon at the red school- house. At the expiration of eight or nine years he was succeeded by Elder Pegler, who officiated for two years. Elders Baldridge, Hart- ley and Norton were thie predecessors of Elder Cox, who is now the officiating preacher.
Since the organization of the branch in the red schoolhouse, some thirty or forty members have been added to the society, render- ing their present quarters too small for comfortable accommodation. Accordingly a move was set on foot to build an edifice expressly for church purposes. By the aid of the South Troy society and that extended by the Wesleyan denomination of the State of Minnesota, they were enable to accomplish their object, having now nearly completed a church edifice to cost about fifteen hundred dollars, and to be finished in time for fall services.
The only other church in the town of Zumbro is that of the Ger- man Lutherans, who have a church located in the extreme south- eastern part of the town in section 36.
The only village in the township is Hammond, which is thirty- three miles west of Wabasha, on the Midland road. The village consists of about one hundred inhabitants, two general stores and one hardware store. The general stores are owned and conducted by E. N. York and Brucher Bros. respectively. The hardware store is owned by M. J. Maldoon. These stores do a very large business.
The Minnesota Elevator Company has erected a very large grain elevator at this place, and it is said this is the largest wheat market on this branch of the road. The elevator is in the charge of M. J. Maldoon.
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A postoffice is kept in the store of E. N. York, who is also the postmaster.
In 1883 the German Lutherans erected a church for their use in Hammond, and this is the only church building in the village.
The town dates its existence to the completion of the narrow- gauge road, but the locality was known as Hammond's Ford prior to that time. The name has its origin in Joseph Hammond, an old settler, and the original owner of the site.
The Zumbro river divides the village into two nearly equal parts. they being connected with a bridge which spans the stream at this place.
Some time after the division into Hyde Park and Zumbro, and for the same reasons, all of that portion of Mazeppa east of the south branch of the Zumbro river was set off and added to the town of Zumbro. This gives to the township nearly sixteen miles of water- front, and the land bordering on the river and its branch is extremely rough and broken, hardly fit for farming, and equal in extent to nearly one quarter of the whole township.
The balance is very high rolling prairie, with an occasional growth of natural timber.
CHAPTER LXXIX.
GLASGOW TOWNSHIP.
THIS township was named in honor of the city of Glasgow, Scot- land, there being several Scotchmen in the township and the first settler was a Scotchman. Glasgow is bounded on the north by Pepin and a small portion of Wabasha, on the east by Wabasha and Greenfield, on the south by Highland, and on the west by West Albany. The physical features of this township are very striking. The Zum- bro river enters the township through section 31 and runs a very roundabout way in crossing the township, passing through or touch- ing each of the following sections : 30, 29, 20, 21, 25, 27, 22, 15, 14, 11, 12, and leaves the township through section 13. Many small streams both from the north and from the south flow into this river. All along the river the country is very broken, but is interspersed with beautiful valleys all along the little streams. For a greater
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part the Zumbro is skirted on either side with heavy forests of timber. In most of the hills is to be found plenty of limestone of an excellent quality, which is used to a very large extent for building foundations for houses and barns. The soil of the valleys is very fertile ; it con- sists of a blaekishi loam underlaid with a clay subsoil.
Although well supplied with plenty of natural water, the wells of the township are not so very numerous. No water of any conse- quence can be reached much less of one hundred feet ; many fine springs, however, are to be found seattered through the township.
EARLY SETTLEMENTS.
Wm. McCracken, in 1855, a native of Scotland, was the first to break the sod in the township of Glasgow. Very soon after Me- Cracken came to the township Charles Foreman, Hugh MeGowen, Hugh and Robert Cochrane, Fred Bernhart, Mm. Stowman, Henry Smith, and several others, laid personal claim to a portion of this township. The next year this number was increased by John and Wm. Cochrane, Hugh McGinnis, the Ring brothers, Henry Ash, J. B. Roone, and others. Soon after establishing themselves in their new home, in the fall of 1855, Mr. McGowen's wife gave birth to the first white child born in the township. But the life of this child born in the wilderness was of but short duration, it and its mother both dying in a short time after the child's birth. They both were laid to rest within the bosom of mother earth in the same grave. They were the first to depart from this world in this town- ship. In the fall of 1856, Mr. A. Seafer being of the opinion that " he who taketh a wife taketh a good thing," was accordingly bound by that mysterious band which makes man and wife as one. A Catholic priest from St. Paul was called upon to make the two hap- py hearts beat as one and sent them on their wedded life rejoicing. The first sermon ever preached within the boundaries was preached in the house of Robert Cochrane, in the spring of 1858, by the Rev. B. F. Wharton a Baptist minister. The Baptists still have a society in the township built by the German Methodist society ; Rev. Wharton has remained their pastor since the first sermon.
The first and only building built exclusively for religious services was built by the German Methodist society and stands in section 5 ; it was built in 1869. The first minister who preached in this house was the Rev. Lampbrecht. Rev. Schmitken is the minister who has charge of this society at present.
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For many years the people of Glasgow township were exclusively occupied in agricultural pursuits until 1861, when Robert Cochrane and A. T. Lansing put in operation a sawmill on Trout brook, and in 1864 Herman Wing concluded to try his fortune among the people by setting up a blacksmith-shop. The first and only postoffice in the township was at the house of Mr. Boyd Fetzer, and he was the first postmaster. After the narrow gauge railroad was built through the township the Wabasha Elevator Company put up an elevator in the township in 1878 ; Mr. William Foreman has had charge of the warehouse ever since it was started. The firm handles about thirty thousand bushels of grain from this place, and also deal somewhat in live stock.
A very large portion of the population of this township are Ger- inans, with a few Scotchmen and a slight sprinkling of Irish, and now and then an American.
Glasgow township contains an even thirty-six sections of land. Of this amount of land but seven thousand seven hundred and forty- three acres were in cultivation in 1882, with an increase of eight thousand and twenty-one acres for 1883.
The following was taken from the crop reports for 1882 :
Wheat 39,210 bushels, oats 36,325 bushels, corn 46,100, barley 10.600 bushels, potatoes 8,765, hay 689 tons, apples 341 bushels, wool 451 pounds, cows 349, butter 21,370 pounds.
It appears from the records that the first chairman of supervisors was Thomas Mateer, and the first town clerk was John B. Roome, and the following have held those offices respectively :
YEAR. CHAIRMAN OF SUPERVISORS. CLERK. YEAR. CHAIRMAN OF SUPERVISORS. CLERK
1858. Thomas Mateer. . J. B. Roome. 1859. Hugh McGowen. Jas. C. Burns. 1872. John Stewart .... H. McGowen. 1860 .* Hugh McGowen. Wm. Perry. 1873. John Stewart .... H. McGowen. 1874. John B. Roome. Wm. Foreman.
1861. J. F. Rose. Wm. Perry.
1862. John E. Tuck .... Wm. Perry.
1863. John E. Tuck .... Wm. Perry.
1864. Daniel Pickett ... A.P.O. Fetzer. 1865. Thomas Mateer. . John E. Tuck. 1866. Hugh McGowen. John E. Tuck.
1875. Hugh McGowen. Wm. Foreman.
1877. Hugh McGowen. Wm. Foreman. 1878. Hugh McGowen. Wm. Foreman. 1879. Hugh McGowen. Wm. Foreman. 1880. Hugh McGowen. Wm. Foreman.
1867. Hugh McGowen. John E. Tuck.
1881. Wm. Cochrane ... Jacob Howe.
1868. John Stewart .... John E. Tuck.
1869. John Stewart. ... John E. Tuck.
1870. John Stewart. . . H. McGowen.
1871. John Stewart .... H. McGowen.
1882. Wm. Cochrane ... Jacob Howe. 1883. Wm. Cochrane ... Jacob Howe.
* Resigned. Thomas Mateer appointed.
Near the center of the town, and lying along the banks of Trout brook, is a field of some fifteen acres, known as "Indian field." The aborigines used a portion of this field for burying their dead,
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and the balance was planted to corn by the squaws. It was rudely inclosed by a brush fence, portions of which are still to be seen. There are in various parts of the town relics of the former occupants of the soil, reminding the passer-by that, like these now extinct people, they, too, must pass away and yield their loved land and the labor of their hands to others. In the pleasant valleys where the bold warriors with tireless feet pursued the panting deer, and where the Indian lover wooed his dusky mate, and where the hills once resounded with the savage war whoop, is now to be found happy homes and pleasant farms ; and as the old settlers sit by the roaring fires of winter, how well do their children love to hear them tell of their trials and hardships of the early times spent in this town- ship.
SCHOOLS.
The township of Glasgow is divided into districts as follows : Nos. 25, 27, 68, 87, 101, a part of 26 and 64, and the most of 102. Educational pursuits were first inaugurated in this township in the summer of 1858 by a Miss Mary Cosgrove. She taught school in a small log house which stood on section 9, near where the brick house now stands in district No. 25. (See district No. 25.) In 1858 the people who lived in what is now district No. 25 met and resolved to build a schoolhouse, and in consequence of said meeting the people went to work with a will to build the house. The men turned ont en masse, and as a result of their labors a log house was built and covered with home-made shingles, known as clapboards. There being no money to buy lumber for flooring and finishing, each man took a few sacks of grain to Read's Landing and traded it for lumber. And in the house thus constructed was the first school in district No. 25 tauglit, by Miss Mary Cosgrove, which was also the first in the township. Misses Aurora B. Albertson, Theresa Schmaus, Sparks, Darrigan, Lampbrecht,'Carrie Landgraff and Robert Monroe are some of the teachers who have taught in the old house. The old house gave way to the present brick house, which was built in 1870, at a cost of eight hundred dollars, on land donated for the pur- pose by Hugh McGowen. Miss Darrigan taught the first school in the new house, and since then the following have taught there : G. A. Wanger, Miss Landgraff, Robert Wease, William Barry, Miss Olive Taylor, C. S. Mateer, J. E. Gray and W. J. Brown, who is the present teacher. First board of directors were William Coch-
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rane, clerk ; Charles Foreman and Hugh McGowen. The present board are as follows : William Foreman, clerk ; G. Walker and Thomas Mateer.
District No. 26. A part of it is in Glasgow and the rest of it is in West Albany township. The first schoolhouse built in the district was in Glasgow township. The house was built of logs, in 1861, and stood on section 19. The present house was built in the summer of 1879. at a cost of five hundred dollars, and is on section 13 of West Albany township. The first school in this district was taught by Eliza Stohman, now Mrs. George Albertson. The school was kept in the house of George Hall, who then lived on section 18. Hariet Albertson was the first person who taught in the schoolhouse. J. E. Tuck, Rev. Sturgeon, George Miller, Lesslie Gray, Susan Fetzer, Jennie Durand, Ellen Brown, Jennie O'Neal, James Smith and C. M. Hilliard each have taught in the old house. Ellen Brown taught the first school in the new house, and she was followed by C. M. Barry, J. E. Gray, C. S. Fox, Harry Thornton and Miss Ellen Patten.
District No. 27. The first school in district No. 27 was taught about forty rods west of the present schoolhouse, in an old log honse owned by John Bricker, who was also the first teacher. The seats which they used were boards with legs in them. The next year a log schoolhouse was erected on the farm of Adam Peters, near where the present house stands, but before it was finished another term of school was taught. This term was taught by Dora O'Neal in a barn owned by John Schouweiller. After the log house was finished the following were the persons who wielded the birch : John Bricker, Miss Albertson, Frank Hamlen, John B. Murray, G. C. Dawley. The present house was built in 1875, at a cost of eight hundred dollars. The first teacher in the new house was G. C. Dawley, and he was followed by John Bricker, Mary E. Calhoun, J. J. Barry, Katie Darrigan, J. T. Corry, Bridget Costello, Coleman Barry, Nettie Brown, Michael Conroy and Maggie Keating, the present teacher. Each of the above have taught one or more terms. The first board of directors were John Schoeweiller, clerk, Frank Graff and Antony Schuoweiller. The present board are Peter Peters, clerk, Antony Schouweiller and Adam Peters.
District No. 68. The first school taught in district No. 28 was taught by Miss Emma Goodrich in the schoolhouse now in the district. The house was built in 1868, and the first school was taught the same
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vear. The following have taught in this district since Miss Good- rich taught the first school : Charles Mateer, Miss Halahan, Miss Webster, Mr. Wharton, Giles Roome, Nancy Rose, Miss Fancher, Miss Hadley, Miss Lampbright, Miss Champine, Carrie Higgins, Miss Brown, Mary A. Roome, Mr. Barry, Mr. Scott, Emma Jolin- son, Patrick Ryan, Katie Enright, Mary Enright, Mary Durand, Ida Bunn, Miss Wilder, Miss Wheeler, Miss McKune, Miss Brown.
District No. 101 was organized in 1875, and schoolhouse was built same fall at a cost of two hundred and fifty dollars.
Miss Clara Rose was the first teacher who taught in this district. She now lives in Kellogg. The following have taught in houses : Levi Emery, Margaret Patten, Marion Sullivan. The first board of directors was M. K. Wolfe, J. S. Harncame and Geo. Licen. This board has been continuously in office since the district was organized.
Districts Nos. 64 and 102 have their schoolhouses in other town- ships. For their history see townships which contain them.
CHAPTER LXXX.
OAKWOOD TOWNSHIP.
"I cannot but remember such things were, And were most dear to me."
LYING in the south part of the county, surrounded by West Albany, Highland, Plainview, Elgin, Zumbro and Hyde Park town- ships, is a township which on account of the necessity for a name rather than to show some prominent feature, has been called Oak- wood. A rolling prairie, bordering on Greenwood's prairie, it is cut by the rocky Zumbro valley, separating the several north- western sections from the main part; by the Middle Creek ravine, separating the several northeastern sections ; and lastly, by the Long Creek ravine, which winds through the center from south to north, and opens into the Zumbro valley not far from the opening of Middle creek. Along their ronte smaller valleys and ravines open into these. The Zumbro valley, with its rocky cliff's varying from two hundred to three hundred and seventy feet in height, overhanging and winding its rocky and wooded sides about in a bewildering manner, affords some very picturesque and romantic
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scenery. The rocky headlands protrude as if the elements in their attempt to cover the once limestone surface of this region with clay, sand and loam, had failed to bring enough. While the northern part of the township is chiefly clay, the southern is more black loam and clay mixed, making a fine soil. The oak, hazel, etc., underbrush that once covered the prairie more or less, is now confined to the bluffs, valleys and ravines. In the northern part of the township, in the coolies, there is more timber-oak, elm. cottonwood and maple. Along the Zumbro River valley are river- terraces about half way up the bluffs, some of the larger of which are of sufficient size for a village. The valleys and ravines on quiet days are cooler than the prairies above, but in winter the valleys are much warmer than the uplands, making fine places to winter stock. The limestone cliffs furnish material for limekilns, a few ruins of which ornament the sides of the valley, but are seldom worked at present. The large fall of the Zumbro river, with its narrowness, makes many fine sites for water-power, which, so far, have not been occupied. With the excellent facilities for water in the township, Oakwood makes a fine place for stock. Some excel- lent springs burst out along the base of the cliff's, one of which. near Ole Fremo's, is said to be among the best.
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