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ABNER WILSON CAMP was born in Chautauqua county, New York, on the 3 of October, 1835. lle received his education, and romined there untit nineteen years old. Then, coming to Min-
nesota, he located on Boom Island, near Fort Snelling, and during the winter was employed by his brother, George A. Camp. In 1855, he came to Little Falls, where he was engaged in survey- ing. In May, 1861, he enlisted in Company E, of the First Minnesota Vohinteers, was for a short time on the frontier, and then sent sontla. He participated in the first battle of Bull Run, in July, 1861, where he was disabled, and the follow- ing December, discharged. After his discharge, he returned to his native place in New York, but remained only a short time and came to Minne- apolis, and soon after to his father's farm in Swan River. Mr. Camp now has a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, in section thirty-four, which ad- joins his father's old claim. He now lives on the old homestead, his parents both being dead.
WILLIAM L. Dow was born in 1829, in Milltown, Maine, where he learned the millwright trade, at which occupation he was engaged until 1856. He then came to Minneapolis, and the following year, to Little Falls, where he worked at his trade until 1860; then, for one year, devoted his time to ex- ploring the pine lands in the vicinity. On the 11th of October, 1861, Mr. Dow enlisted in Com- pany A, of the First Minnesota Cavalry. Serving only about nine months, he joined Company G, of the Fifth Iowa Cavalry, and in February follow- ing, joined Braekett's Battalion, of Minneapolis, from which he was mistered ont May 16th, 1866. Returning to Little Falls, Mr. Dow engaged in the Iminber business until 1869, since when, with the exception of one term, he has acted as County Surveyor.
TRUE DOTEN, a native of Maine, was born on the 21st of January, 1850. In the fall of 1869, he camo to Minnesota, located in this town on the west side of the river, on a homestead, which he afterward sold, and in 1880, bonght his present farm. On the 1st of January, 1877, he was mar- ried to Miss Mary Hallinnen, who was born on the 2d of January, 1857, at Sank Rapids. They have two children.
JAMES EGGLESTON was born in Franklin county, New York, on the 26th of November, 1806. Ile resided in his native place nutil coming to Minne- sota in January, 1855. He first located in Kandi- yohi county, thence to Kansas, and after a resi- denee of four years, came here in the spring of 1881, and took a homestead on Little Elk river, about one mile from its month. Mr. Eggleston is a carpenter and joiner, at which trade ho has
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worked abont forty years. He was married on the 26th of January, 1831, to Miss Mary Burns, of Vermont, who bore him six children, and died in April, 1868.
STEPHEN P. FULLER, n pioneer of this town, is a native of Newburg, now a ward of Cleveland, Ohio, his nativity dating on the 8th of November, 1822. When young, he learned the carpenter trade, and has followed it most of his life. In April, 1838, he came to Green Bay, Wisconsin, and from there to Illinois, remaining two or three years. In 1853, he came to Minnesota, and atter spending a few months in this place returned to Illinois. The following year he returned to Min- nesota, lived in Minneapolis and Anoka for two years, and in May, 1856, came to this place and brought his family the year following. He first lived on the west side, but in the spring of 1859, moved to the east side. With the exception of about six months, Mr. Fuller has been Justice of the Peace since 1861; has held the offices of Court Commissioner, Judge of Probate, and Clerk of Court, each one term; also held the office of Town Clerk several terms, and at present, aets in that capacity. Miss Mary Babbitt, of Ontario county, New York, became his wife on the 11th of Decem- ber, 1856. They have two children, both residing at home.
G. M. A. FORTIER, M. D., was born at Saint David, Canada, on the 15th of April, 1857. He received his edneation at Victoria College, Mon- treul, graduating ou the 24th of March, 1881, und came directly to Little Fulls, where ho follows his profession.
PHILLIP H. Gross, a native of Germany, was born in 1840, and came to America in 1863. For three years he was engaged in cigar-making in Indium. He then came to St. Cloud and carried on the same business for two years. After living on a farm until 1880, he came to Little Falls und built the Little Falls House, of which ho is still the proprietor.
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WIRAAM GEORGE GREEN was born in Somer- setshire, England, on the 6th of April, 1850. He. remained there, receiving an education, until four- teen years of age, when he went to sea, and was cabin boy on a schooner. In 1866, he came to America, locating in New York, where he was em- ployed on a farm until coming to Minnesota, in 1867. Soon after his removal to this State, he came to Little Falls and purchased his farm, which contains about three hundred and sixty acres. In
1874, Mr. Green was married to Mrs. Sarah H. Hammond, who had three children, one daughter and two sons, by her first marriage, and has three danghters and one son by the present mion.
WHRAAM E. HARTING was born in Laneuster, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1832. There he learned the carpenter's trade, which has since been his ocenpation. In 1871, he came to Minne- sota and located in St. Paul, and for three years was with the Lake Superior and Mississippi Rail- road Company, as carpenter and machinist. Then went to the Northern Pacifie Junction and was in charge of the round house at that place till 1876. He came to Littlo Falls in the latter year, and has since been engaged in earpentering and building, employing from twelve to fifteen men in the sum- mer season. Mr. Harting has a son who is a part- ner with him in business.
ELVIN G. HILL was born in St. James Parish, New Brunswick, on the 9th of May, 1833. When he was six years of age, his parents removed to Maine, and in 1855, he came to the town of Belle- vue, Minnesota. He served three years in Com- pany E, of the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry. In the spring of 1867, he went to California and returned in tho fall. In 1870, Mr. Hill bonght three hundred aeres of land, on which was a good water-power, grist and saw-mill. In 1879, he sold the grist-mill to E. S. Getchell who removed it to Swan river, where it has been remodeled and rebuilt. He also sold the farm to his brother, HI. S. Hill, and is now living in Little Falls village. llo was married on the 22d of Jannary, 1873, to Miss Isadora A. Mix, of Vermont. They have four children.
HENRY HARRISON was born near the city of Charleston, Virginia, on the 4th of November, 1829. His father moved to Arkansas in 1836, nnd three years luter, to Covington, Kentucky, where our subject received his education and afterwards attended the high-school at Georgetown for a year. After leaving school, he learned the printer's trade, and in 1857, was employed on the "Cincinnati Daily Commercial" until the 15th of April, 1861, when he enlisted in Company F, of the Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. On being discharged he re- enlisted as n veteran in the Heavy Artillery, under Captain Webb. On the 30th of July, 1864, he was wounded, taken to the White Hall hospital nud kept for one year, since which time he has received a pension. On his removal from the hospital ho went to New Jersey, where he published the "New
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Jersey Mechanic " two years, after which he came to Minnesota and selected his prosent farm in Little Falls. He did not move here, however, until after an engagement of several years on the "St. Paul Evening Dispatch," and about two years on the "Sibley County Independent." It was then, in 1875, that he located in this place, : and has since been elected to the office of Assessor three times. In 1867, Miss Annie MeCoy, a na- tive of Ireland, became his wife. They have had three children, two of whom are living.
PATRICK W. HAYES was born in Limerick coun- ty, Ireland, on the 15th of Angust, 1842. At the age of eleven years, le came to America with his sister, two years his senior, and joined their father in Canada. In 1857, Mr. Hayes came to Minne- sota, and, thongh only fifteen years of age, was employed as traveling salesman by Temple and Baupre, wholesale grocers of St. Panl. He con- tinued in the business until 1873, making trips to the Indian Agencies at Crow Wing and Leech Lake at regular intervals, usually having charge of six loaded teams on these trips; also traded at stores along the route. In 1873, he came to Little Falls, and two years later, removed to Long Prai- rie, Todd county, where he was County Commis- sioner five years and held some town office every year. He came to his present farm in 1881. On the 20th of December, 1866, he was married to Miss Alice E Churchill, of Little Falls. They have had six children; one died in infancy, and five are living.
WILLIAM H. HARKER is a native of Dubuque connty, Iowa. Since 1879, he has been Assistant Station Agent of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, at Little Falls, excepting six months, when he was at Jamestown Station in Dakota.
Louis HAMLIN WAS born in Canada, in 1833. When he was a child, the family removed to Northampton, Massachusetts. In Belchertown, Massachusetts, he learned the blacksmith trade, at which he was employed until 1856, when he came to Little Falls. Here, for eight years, he followed the humbering business, but since 1864, has been engaged at his trade.
THOMAS J. HAYES, Sheriff of Morrison county since 1872, was born in Ireland, in 1846. The family came to Canada in 1853, where Thomas remained till 1861, and came to Port Huron, Mich- igan. For two years he was engaged as elerk in the Post-office, then removing to Kentneky, he was employed as elerk in a store. In 1866, Mr. Hayes
camo to Little Falls, and for six years, was em- ployed in drawing freight for the frontier Forts, but has since acceptably filled the position above mentioned.
ELLIOTT J. KIDDER, one of the pioneers of this town, was born in Allegheny county, Pennsylva- nia, on the 5th of June, 1831. When six years of age he removed with his parents to Iowa, loca- ting near Iowa City. The winter of 1847-48, he spent at McGregor, Iowa, and in 1849, he, with his father, John M. Kidder, after looking about St. Paul and St. Anthony, visited Big Meadows. In 1853, they came to Little Falls and opened a store, which they carried on until the death of his father in 1864. Then he carried on the enterprise alone until sometime during the summer, when he closed the business, but resided in the village until 1877. He then removed to his present farm, lis land being entered at the first land sale, in 1855. Mr. Kidder was one of the first County Commissioners of this county, has held several local offices, and always taken an interest in pub- lic affairs. He was married on the 25th of De- cember, 1853, to Miss Matilda A. Trimble, of Iowa City. They have had nine children, six of whom are living.
CHARLES H. LAIRD was born on the 5th of Jan- uary, 1848, in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1862, he came with his parents to Wisconsin; served for eight months in Company D, of the Fourteenth Wis- consin Infantry, after which he was engaged in a carpenter shop at Eau Claire. Mr. Laird spent a few months at Fergus Falls, Minnesota, in 1880, and later, was in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, and also one winter engaged as a clerk in a hotel at Black River Falls. In the spring of 1881, he came to this township, where he has been oeeu- pied at his trade. On the 3d of April, 1868, he was married to Miss Mary Keenan, who has borne him five children, only two of whom are living, a boy and a girl.
MOSES LEFOND, a native of Lower Canada, was born on a farm on the 7th of March, 1836, where he remained until nineteen years old. Then, com- ing to Minnesota, he was engaged in the lumber- ing business on the Mississippi and Rum rivers. In 1856, he came to Little Falls, where, for six years, he devoted his time to various occupations. The thirteen years following he was in a butcher shop, where for seven years he supplied Fort Aber- crombie with beef. He then became engaged in the mercantile business, which he still follows. In
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1880, he built a small saw mill, which he also op- erales. In 1874, Mr. Lefond was a member of the State Legislature, and to him is mainly due the passage of the act protecting settlers who had lo- cated on the railroad lands.
J. D. LACHANCE, present County Auditor of Morrison county, was born in Canada on the 19th of October, 1845. In May, 1865, he came to Lit- tle Falls, where he has since resided. Mr. La- chance has been County Auditor since 1872, has also held the offices of Justice of the Peace, Dep- uty Sheriff, and Clerk of the District Court.
W. T. LAMBERT, present Traasurer of Morrison county, was born in Aroostook county, Maine, on the 24th of January, 1838. In 1856, he came to Minnesota, and in 1861, enlisted in the army, serv- ing three years and ten months, returning to his home in this county. He was elected Treasurer in 1877, which office he has since filled.
SAMUEL LEE was born in Somersetshire, Eng- land, on the 23d of February, 1823. He learned the trade of a mill-wright, and at the age of six- teen, came to America, loeating in Madison county, Illinois, where for five years, he was employed at his former ocenpation. Then, coming to Little Falls, Minnesota, in 1855, he was engaged at his trade for two years, and in October, purchased a farm in section eight, and remained for a year or two, moving to Todd county, and in 1860, returned to his farm. In September, 1863, Mr. Lce enlisted nt Fort Snelling, in Company I, of the Independ- ent Cavalry, under Captain Boyd. During his en- tire service of three years, he was at the frontier Forts. Mr. Lee, in company with his sons, is now engaged in building a flour mill in Swan River township, which is the only one in the town. The machinery will be propelled by n fifty horse-power engine, with a capacity for grinding twonly-five barrels of flour in twelve hours. Mr. Lee was mar- ried in 1848, to Miss Jane Green, of Somersetshire, England. They have had fourteen children; eight of whom are living, four boys and four girls.
SAMUEL MCCAULEY was born on the 9th of August, 1853, at St. Hyacinthe, Canada East. On the 22d of November, 1865, he came to Concord, ' New Hampshire, where he learned the carriage painter's trade with Abbott and Downing. He remained with them for eight and a half years, at the end of which time, he came to Little Falls and started the Concord Carriage Works.
F. W. MONALLY was born on the 22d of March, 1844, in the state of Rhode Island. He came to
Wisconsin in 1846, and when the war broke ont, enlisted in Company 1, of the Second Wisconsin Infantry, serving till after the first battle of Bull Run. Two years later, he went to Erie county, New York, and re-enlisted in Company D, of the Forty-ninth New York Infantry; served nearly three years, and re-enlisted in the same company. Was wounded at Cedar Creek, Virginia, and dis- charged, but on the 25th of June, 1866, he again enlisted, this time in the Forty-fourth United States Infantry and served three years. On ae- count of the loss of a limb, while in the service, Mr. McNally receives a pension. On the 9th of September, 1877, he came to Little Falls, where he is engaged at his trade, that of a painter.
ROBERT C. MASTERS, a native of Virginia, was born on the 26th of April, 1809. When but an infant, his parents removed to Kentucky, where our subject attended seliool. In 1828, the family removed to Springfield, Illinois, Robert attending school there two years, then engaged as teacher one year, and afterwards devoted his time to farm- ing and surveying. Since, 1855, Minnesota has claimed him as a resident, he first locating in Da- kota county, where he was twice elected to the State Legislature by the Democratic party. Came to his present farm in 1878, and has since held the office of Justice of the Peaee two years. Was married in 1833, to Miss Nancy Am Traler, a nafive of Kentucky. They have had eight chil- dren, seven of whom, three girls and four boys, are living.
WILLIAM NICHOLSON, the oldest living settler of Morrison county, was born in Venango county, Pennsylvania, on the 28th of March, 1828. When he was a child his parents removed to western Ohio, where his mother died, in 1St4. The follow- iug year, William leff home, and came with friends to the Platte Mounds, in Wisconsin. In Septem- ber, 1847, he came to Minnesota with a surveying party, and was engaged in surveying north of St. Paul. In the fall he joined a crew who came up the river, near this vicinity, for timber for the dam then about to be built at St. Anthony. Returning to St. Paul, he spent the winter on the survey, and returned to Wisconsin in March. In July, 1848, on the removal of the Winnebago Indians from Wisconsin and Iowa, he engaged as Goverment teainster at Watab and Long Prairie. In the lat- ter place he found the Indian agent, Fletcher, and remained in his employ until October, puffing up a building for a trading post. The winter of
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1819 50, was spent in the pineries. The follow- ing Angust, he came to Swan River, remaining until 1858. After the Indian outbreak, at the time of the treaty with the Chippewas, he was taken prisoner, not being held long however. During the period of anxiety and alarm, Mr. Nich- olson was of great service to the garrison and settlers, making several secret trips, and once, at a great risk, guiding James Whitehead and Lafferty, the former bearer of a very important dispatch, to Crow Wing Ageney. In the fall of 1862, Mr. Nicholson went on a trapping and hunting expe- dition, and then settled at Little Falls, remaining seven years, and removed to his present farm. In 1851, he was married, at Swan River, to Miss Mar- garet Anoka, who died in 1853, leaving one dangli- ter, Mary, now a milliner at Brainerd.
JOHN F. ONEn is a Canadian by birth, his nativity dating the 5th of August, 1858. In Oc- tober, 1879, he came to Minnesota, and has re- sided with, or on the farm of his consin, T. J. Hayes. Mr. Oneil has purchased a farm on section thirty. He has two brothers, Thomas and Michael, and also a sister, Johanna, in this place. His mother eame here in 1880, and died during the winter.
JOSIAH PAGE is a native of Hampton, New Hampshire. He received a good education in his native place, and afterward learned the currier's trade, at which he was employed in New Hamp- shire and Massachusetts until the 4th of January, 1864. He then enlisted in the Twenty-third Mas- sachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Company A, serv- ing till mustered out in North Carolina, on the 25th of June, 1865. During his service, he par- tieipated in several active engagements, and when discharged, returned to his ative State. Came to Minnesota in the spring of 1866, and located on a larm in Freeborn county, which was his residence till coming to his present farm on the 10th oľ June, 1875. Miss Cordelia Bumpns, of Massa- chusetts, became his wife in 1850. They have had three sons, two of whom are living; Warren L. and Charles W.
MILO PORTER, a native of Watertown, New York, was born on the 7th of July, 1818. When he was young, his parents moved to St. Lawrence connty, where he remmined until abont twenty- four years of age. fle then went to Allegany county, where he was engaged in farming. In 1851, he came west, locating in Sauk county, Wis- consin, being engaged in the hotel business be-
tween Reedsburg and Baraboo, and was also en- gaged in farming. He then moved to Junean county, where he married Mrs. Anrelia Wirtz in 1863. The following year he eame to Little Falls, residing for four years on the east side, one year us landlord of what is now the Vasaly Honse, and the balance of the time in the lumber business. In 1868, he settled in section seventeen, where he still resides. Mr. Porter served for about one year in Company E, of the Sixteenth Wisconsin In- fantry, most of the time as Color Sergeant. He was wounded at Tallahachee, and discharged on account of injuries received at the battle of Shilolı. They have fom children; Asa, Hermon, Warren, and Leslie.
WILLIAM PEDLEY was born near London, Eng- land, on the 4th of January, 1836. Leaving his birthplace when abont sixteen years of age, he came to America, located in Ohio and remained until June, 1855, when he came to this place. He took a elaim in section nine, and built a house in the village where he resided two years, and then came to his claim. Mr. Pedley was one of the or- ganizers of this county as well as of the town, has been Connty Commissioner and held several town offices. He was married in Cleveland, Ohio, on the 31st of May, 1855, to Miss Elizabeth Ragan, formerly of Cambridgeshire, England. They have had ten children, eight of whom are living. Two daughters are graduates of the Normal school and teach in this county, and one has yet, but par- tially completed her course.
HON. NATHAN RICHARDSON, one of the early set- tlers of Morrison county, and its first Register of Deeds, was born in Wayne county, New York, on the 24th of February, 1829. When Nathan was about six years old, his parents moved to Michi- igan, and settled in the town of Conneree, Oak- land county. He received his edneation at the district school, and at the Romeo Academy, teach- ing school five winters before leaving Michigan. In the autumn of 1854, he came to the territory of Minnesota, and after remaining a short time in St. Paul, went up the Rum river, and spent the winter in lumbering. In the spring of 1855, he located at Little Falls, then containing little more than the site of a town, three families being there, living in log honses. A saw mill was in opera- tion, but Chippewas were much more ndundant than white people. The first work Mr. Richardson did here was to go into the woods, ent the trees, und hew und haul the timber for a hotel, which he
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and his cousin, Lewis Richardson, erected. When the county was organized, Mr. Richardson was elected Register of Deeds, and was therefore, ex- officio, Clerk of the board of County Commission- ers, which ineinded also the duties of County Audi- lor nud Treasurer. He held the office of Register between seven and eight years; then engaged in mercantile trade till 1871, studying law mean- while, as he could command the time. In 1872, he commenced legal studies with more earnest- ness, was admitted to the Bar iu 1876, and is now engaged in the practice of law. He was a mem- ber of the State Legislature in 1867, 1872, and 1878; was Chairman of the committee on Indian affairs during the second session; of the commit- tee on towns and counties during the third; and was also on the committee on publie lands and sev- eral special committees. He is quite active in polities, and is usually a delegate from his county in district and State conventions. Mr. Richardson was united in marriage with Miss Mary A. Roof, of Morrison county, in June, 1857. They have five children; Clara, Martin M., Raymond J., Francis A., and Mary A.
IlON. PETER ROY, deceased, was born on the 23d of February, 1828, in what is now Itasca county. Minnesota. His parents were both half-breeds, and had a large family of children, six of whom are living. In 1875, Peter Roy came to Morrison county, remaining on a farm until 1857, when he moved to Crow Wing and opened a store. He re- turned to his farm in this eounty, in 1862, and four years later sold it, moved to Little Falls, and until his deatlı, devoted most of his time to the hotel business. Mr. Roy was three times elected to the Legislature, and at the time of his death was Town Clerk. He was married on the 3d of November, 1853, at the Chippewa Ageney, to Miss Philomon Chouinard, who was also part Indian. Fourteen children were born to them, ten of whom are still living. Mr. Roy died ou the 21st of June, 1881. Rising in the morning, he was ap- parently as well as ever, and while conversing with a friend, dropped from his ehnir, and before a physician could get to him he was dead.
WILLIAM H. ROLPH was born at Toronto, Can- ada, on the 14th of August, 1842. In 1860, he went to the Sonthern States, and when the war broke out was forced into service. After several umsuccessful attempts he made good his escape, and in 1863, came to Illinois, locating in Gales- burg, where he resided until 1870. Then, coming
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to Minnesota, he lived at St. Cloud for seven years, when he removed to his present farm at Little Falls. Mr. Rolph is a painter, and devotes a great portion of his time to that occupation. On the 10th of November, 1875, he was married to Miss Margaret Knettle, of Brockway Prairie.
JOSEPH H. ROY was born in St. Francois du Lac, Canada, in 1856. At the age of eighteen, he graduated in the Sorel College, after which he assisted his father, who was Collector of Inland Revenue. In 1879, he came to Little Falls, and was for a short time engaged in a store; but the past year, he has been employed in the offices of the County Auditor and Treasurer.
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