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An interesting feature of pioneer life was the presence of the Indians in 1857. A band of Sioux and Winnebago camped a short distance below Norden. One day they killed three elk on Beef River. Bear, wolf, deer and elk were then plentiful, and an elk was killed by Russell Bowers as late at 1865. In the fall of 1857 the Indians, about 100 in number, moved to a site just below the present village of Eleva. From there they had trails all over the country, through the most accessible, and over the most con- venient crossings of the rivers and creeks. These trails remained for many years thereafter.
The Indians were peaceable and friendly and often called at the Gibson home, where they were never turned away unfed.
Unity Township was not settled until after the two townships on either side. A number of claims were taken in 1856, but so far as is known, none of the claimants were living here at that time. Nearly all the first settlers have moved away. Probably the first two settlers were Dennis Lawler, who settled south of the Buffalo River in the eastern part of the township, and P. B. Williams, who settled in the central part of the township and had land on both sides of the river. These settlers came about 1859. It was not until 1870 that the real influx of settlement came to this township. Among the pioneers may be mentioned Esten Johnson, Ole E. Johnson, Engebret Pederson, Anders Larson, Even Evenson, Martin E. Rognlien, Simon Rise, John Rise, Ole Svendson, Simon Olson, Peder Inislund, Ole Dahl, Paul Christopherson, Nels Kleven, Peder H. Bjornstad, Ole Thomasgaard, John Christianson, Hans Paulson, Martin Olson and Andrew Call.
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Sumner was settled in 1856 in the vicinity of the present village of Osseo. The first settlers were E. M. Sexton and W. A. Woodward. A year later a postoffice was established at Beef River Station, a mile from the present village, and George Silkworth appointed postmaster. The present village had its beginning in 1858, when W. H. and C. G. Thomas built and operated the first store. Excellent articles on the subject are found else- where in this volume.
Land Office Records. The land office records are of but little value in determining the names of the early settlers. Many people filed on land which they had never seen and which they never occupied, others who were early settlers filed on land a year or more before their arrival, while on the other hand there were those who did not file until they had occupied their land for a considerable period. The list is, however, here appended, as it gives the names of the first land claimants, resident and otherwise, of the various townships in Trempealeau County.
Township 18, range 7. 1852-Feb. 21, Charles F. Legate, 5. 1853- Dec. 29, Charles G. Hanscome, 6, 5. 1854-Aug. 10, Richard Grant, 4.
Township 19, range 7. 1852-June 28, Henry A. Wiltse, 26, 25. 1853 -Dec. 13, John Irvine, 30; Dec. 23, William B. Hanscome, 31, 32; July 22, William W. Patrick, Jr., 31. 1854-Oct. 25, Dan Kennedy, Jr., 7; Oct. 25, Michael Cullity, 7; June 16, Frederick Hearth, 19, 30; March 7, Richard Bibby, 27; July 22, Christian Niemeier, 28; Aug. 7, Julius Edwards, 29; July 17, Jacob Pass, 30, 31; July 22, David Grant, 31, 32, 34; Feb. 23, William Patrick, Jr., 31; July 29, Charles V. Spiegel, 32; July 29, John Stellpflug, 33.
Township 20, range 7. 1855-Aug. 6, Robert Thompson, 6; July 18, Richard Porter, 6; Nov. 22, Edward W. Estabrook, 10, 15; July 19, Mary W. Woodward, 14; Aug. 11, George Gale, 14; Sept. 4, Charles Pike, 17, 20, 29; June 14, George B. Newell, 17, 20; June 14, Thomas Wall, 19, 20, 29, 30; Oct. 10, Nathaniel Stearns, 30; July 19, William G. Bliss, 30; Nov. 1, Thomas H. Judd, 31 ; May 10, Albert J. Cary, 31; May 18, Franz Hoeppner, 32. 1856- June 4, George Gale, 11, 13, 14, 15; April 3, Mary N. Woodward, 13; May 26, William H. Wyman, 30; Jan. 2, Theo. Simonds, 31; Dec. 25, Thomas E. Woods, 1; Aug. 8, Franz Hoeppner, 32.
Township 21, range 7. 1854-Oct. 30, Bircher Olson, 13. 1855-June 29, Lars Olsen, 1; June 19, Syver Johnson, 1, 12; Nov. 14, Peder Pederson, 1, 12; Aug. 17, Henry H. Steinburg, 7; June 27, Simon S. Rice, 7; June 21, George Coburn, 7; June 21, John J. Scrafford, 7, 8; July 19, Mary A. Woodward, 7, 18; Dec. 17, Albe Upham, 7, 15, 31; Sept. 14, Ebenezer Thurston, 8, 9, 17, 31; June 14, Sam A. Beckman, 11, 12; Aug. 3, Robert Thompson, 11, 15; June 11, Julius Edwards, 12; April 14, Gullick Olson Storlee, 13; May 23, Birchard Olsen, 13; Nov. 14, Bert Danielson, 13; Oct. 29, Ninian E. Primm, 13 ; Sept. 19, William H. Conger, 14, 20, 21, 23,28,29; April 14, Niels Halverson, 14; April 14, Jacob Tennerson, 14, 23; Oct. 30, Hiram Walker, 14, 15, 23, 24; Aug. 18, John Fitch, 14; July 2, Richard Porter, 15, 22; Aug. 24, Ann Porter, 15; June 27, Chester Beswick, 17; Sept. 17, Lysander P. Armstrong, 17, 20, 28, 31, 32; Aug. 13, Frederick A. Moore, 17; Aug. 8, Robert A. Lake, 18, 19, 21, 22, 28, 30; Nov. 15, Edwin M. Jones, 18; Oct. 1, George W. Mallory, 20, 21; June 27, Susan H. Reynolds,
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21, 32; Sept. 18, Daniel Webster, 22; Nov. 7, Alex L. Collins, 24; April 16, Romanzo Bunn, 28.
Township 22, range 7. 1855-April 5, Fred Boardman, 10; July 12, Julius Edwards, 13; Aug. 8, Dougald O. Cameron, 18; Nov. 13, Bent Peder- son, 23; May 18, Gunder Anderson, 23, 25; May 23, Niels Halverson, 24; June 19, Lars Olson, 24; Feb. 6, Cornelius Griswold, 29; Nov. 13, Ransom Steel, 30; June 26, Dan Williams, 36. 1856-May 30, William B. Winston, 3; June 3, George Gale, 3; May 20, William H. Bailey, 3; May 30, Stephen T. Owen, 4, 9; April 23, Sam D. Hastings, 8, 9; May 2, John Larson, 8; May 31, William C. Butts, 9; April 19, Thomas Williams, 17, 18, 19; April 26, Richard C. Washburn, 18; May 20, Francis W. Newland, 18; June 3, George Gale, 19; April 3, Mary N. Woodward, 29; May 30, Leander G. Merrill, 30, 31; April 10, Cyrus H. Hine, 31; May 27, William H. H. Bailey, 36; May 18, Allen Overbaugh, 36.
Township 23, range 7. 1855-Dec. 12, Ezra L. Northup, 1; Dec. 12, George W. Parker, 1. 1856-May 31, Stephen T. Owen, 25; May 30, W. E. Fales, 25, 26, 34, 36; May 29, George Gale, 34, 35; May 30, William B. Winston, 34, 35. 1858-April 6, Chester Stoddard, 8; April 5, George Moyer, 20; April 5, William Moyer, 20; April 5, John M. Jones, 20; April 9, Lucius M. Sheldon, 22, 36; April 5, Ruth Hamilton, 26; April 5, Celinda A. Bliss, 26; April 5, Loren L. Knox, 26; April 16, Henry D. Aglesworth, 28.
Township 24, range 7. 1855-April 15, Charles W. McCormick and J. Rily, 1; Nov. 15, Charles McCormick, 1; Dec. 12, Ezra Northup, 1, 2; Dec. 5, Hiram Hill, 1; Dec. 12, Garwood Green, 2; Dec. 12, William Starr, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11; Nov. 20, Mortimer C. Caskey, 3, 10; Dec. 12, George W. Parker, 14, 15. 1856-Jan. 8, Andrew McCorkle, 1, 9, 10; Jan. 8, Ebenezer M. Saxton, 1, 2, 21; Jan. 23, Charles W. McCormick, 1; Jan. 8, Nathaniel W. Dean, 1, 4, 7, 9; Jan. 15, William E. Keafer, 2, 8; Jan. 19, Garwood Green, 2; Feb. 22, Andrew Billings, 2; April 26, Levi C. Fay and Prosper Merrill, 3, 10, 11; Jan. 11, Robert B. Griswold, 3; April 11, Jeremiah D. Jones, 3; May 24, William H. Chapman, 7; June 4, M. L. Strickland, 7; June 4, Harvey Cooney, 8; June 4, John Dunning, 8, 10, 15; Jan. 8, Linda Linsdale, 10; April 21, Charles F. Taggart, 10; April 15, Lorenzo and Jackson McCauley, 12; April 23, Thomas A. Tomlinson, 13, 14; April 23, Cyrus Woodman, 13; June 3, Edward L. Pierce, 14; April 9, Ezra L. Northup, 15; May 8, David Lewis, 17; May 8, Rowland Rice, 17, 20; June 2, Seth Baker, 20; May 7, William Morgan, 20.
Township 18, range 8. 1851-Nov. 10, Charlotte Vose, 1. 1852- Dec. 10, William J. Barney, 5; March 9, Stephen Hopkinson, 5, 6; March 9, Benning Hooper, 5, 6; March 9, Jacob Meyers, 6; Nov. 30, Thomas Smith, 7; June 26, Barnabus Snow, 7; Dec. 30, Parley Eaton, 7; Dec. 1, John M. Levey, 7; Feb. 20, William Wakefield, 7; March 31, Salmon Moore, 8; March 31, John Warner, 9; March 31, Richard Hall, 9; March 31, Francis Stone, 9; Jan. 31, Lewis Washburn, 18; March 31, Cornell Howland, 29; March 6, Abraham C. Meyers, 30; March 2, William Knox, 31; March 2, William H. Brooks, 31; March 31, William B. Murray, 31; May 10, Jacob T. Holmes, 31. 1853-Oct. 26, Absolom Cary, 1; Dec. 13, William B. Hanscome, 1; Nov. 12, George Gale, 5, 6, 10; March 24, Ira M. Moore, 7; Oct. 18, John
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Morris, 7; Oct. 12, Albert M. Olds, 8; June 24, William A. Cram, 8; July 9, Warren Adams, 8; Oct. 31, Theo. B. Edwards, 8; Jan. 15, Eli B. Richard- son, 17; June 6, Jacob T. Holmes, 30; Oct. 21, William Gray, 32; Oct. 9, Benjamin B. Healey, 32.
Township 19, range 8. 1852-Oct. 16, Parley Eaton, 7; May 3, Bartholomew C. Smith, 19; Jan. 1, Henry P. George, 29, 33; May 3, Preston Dugbe, 29; May 3, David French, 29; May 3, David Breed, 32; Feb. 27, Henry Stillson, 32; June 22, Elihu B. Washburn, 33; June 1, James Babcock, 35; Sept. 29, Charles T. Janson, 35; May 3, John Hulling, Jr., 21. 1853- Nov. 10, Julius Edwards, 8, 9; June 28, Joseph B. Tollingham, 21; Oct. 26, William Dick, 25; Aug. 26, Homer H. Benson, 28; Jan. 10, Edward I. Lidgeerwood, 29, 30; Nov. 21, Robert Bruce, 29; Nov. 12, Theo. B. Edwards, 29, 35; June 6, George Gale, 31, 32; Jan. 10, David Flynn, 31; Aug. 1, William A. Woodward, 32; June 28, Benjamin F. Heuston, 33; Oct. 26, Richard Collins, 35; Aug. 22, John Moore, 36; July 22, William W. Patrick, Jr., 36; Nov. 19, David J. Monroe, 36; July 9, Charles G. Hanscome, 36; Oct. 26, Sarah D. Monroe, 36; Nov. 12, George Shohat, 36; Oct. 26, Absolom Cary, 36.
Township 20, range 8. 1854-Oct. 25, Daniel Kennedy, Jr., 35; Oct. 25, Michael Cullity, 36. 1855-Sept. 17, William H. Congor, 1, 36; Nov. 30, George Coburn and John J. Scrafford, 2; July 19, Mary A. Woodward, 26, 27; May 21, William V. Clymer, 27, 34; July 2, Welcome A. Johnson, 34; July 7, Mary A. Roddy, 34; May 7, David W. Chenoweth, 34; July 7, Mary A. Rodolf, 34; July 14, Daniel Kennedy, 35; May 10, Albert J. Cary, 36; May 14, George Gale, 36. 1856-Aug. 9, Edmund M. Reynolds, 1; May 14, George Gale, 2, 34; May 20, Franklin B. Hawes, 22, 23, 27, 33; Dec. 25, Peter Dufficy, 25; Jan. 21, John Cance, 36. 1857-July 27, John Good, 26. 1858-July 2, Walter Webb, 14, 23; June 21, Morgan A. White, 15; Nov. 16, Theo. B. Edwards, 35; April 5, Cornelius Kennedy, 35.
Township 21, range 9. 1855-Nov. 17, Peter Dunning, 24; Oct. 4, Welcome A. Johnston, 35; Oct. 4. William Congior, 36; Oct. 1, Samuel Mallory, 36. 1856-April 10, Cyrus H. Hine, 1; Feb. 13, Angen Adams, 1; July 9, John Hopkins, 1, 12; March 31, T. S. West, 16; April 22, Herman Synder, 25; Aug. 8, Robert O. Lake, 24, 25. 1857-1858-Sept. 18, Collins Bishop, 31. 1859-June 22, Thomas W. Fuller, 12. 1860-April 24, Sophia Hopkins, 12.
Township 22, range 8. 1855-Oct. 31, Charles C. and William E. Crane, 11, 29; Oct. 31, Moses D. and Francis W. Ingalls, 11, 28; Sept. 21, Alvah Wood, 11, 17, 20, 21, 25; Sept. 21, Nathan Wood, 11; Oct. 31, Isaac H. Soule, 14, 15; Sept. 14, Hiram Stanton, 15; Oct. 29, Norman E. Primm, 21, 22; Sept. 27, James T. Banks, 21; Nov. 12, Warren H. Ellis, 21, 22; Oct. 31, Hiram Walker, 22, 25, 30, 36; Nov. 13, Edwin M. Jones, 22, 26; Oct. 4, Welcome A. Johnston, 23; Nov. 2, George Gale, 24; Aug. 11, William E. Cramer, 24; Aug. 27, Royal Taylor, 24; Oct. 31, Robert H. Wade, 26; Sept. 29, Niman E. Prim, 29; Oct. 31, William and Lyman Smith, 30, 31; Oct. 31, David W. Wade, 36; Oct. 31, Richardson Reeves, 36.
Township 23, range 8. 1856-June 4, John B. Ayer, 30; June 2, Oscar H. Young, 30, 31; May 30, Enoch L. Cummins, 31, 32. 1857-1858-April
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5, Ebenezer M. Sexton, 14, 24; April 5, Rufus Watson, 24; April 5, David S. Watson, 24; April 5, Albert W. Knowlton, 26; April 9, Peter Filkins, 26; April 5, Jesse T. Paul, 26; May 21, John Smith, 28; April 6, Frederick C. Moyer, 28; Sept. 11, Patrick Casey, 30; April 5, Christian E. Wyrick, 32; Sept. 8, Welcome A. Johnston, 32; Oct. 2, George H. Hale, 32; June 2, Leroy Stanton, 32; May 15, Seth Clark, 34; Sept. 29, Edward Brown, 34; April 5, Hosea Horsington, 34; May 14, Winchel Stafford, 34; April 6, Benjamin Watson, 36; April 5, Frederick Boardman, 36.
.Township 24, range 8. 1856-April 24, William N. Olson, 11; May 9, Daniel Leaming, 12; April 24, John Lawske, 12, 13; May 12, Albert F. Kellogg, 13, 20, 21, 22; May 12, Walter W. Wetmore, 13, 15, 17; April 19, Erastus Taylor, 13; April 19, Mary Rogers, 14; April 24, William N. Wilson, 14; May 9, Ebenezer T. Prentice, 14, 15; June 4, Thomas McTie, 17; June 4, Luther Irish, 17; April 28, John Evrens, 18, 19; April 28, James Power, 18, 19; June 4, Dan C. Barnum, 18, 29; April 28, Edward Scanlan, 18, 19; April 21, Charles G. Brown, 20 ; April 28, James Dwyer, 20; May 31, William P. Morse, 21; June 2, Luther M. Bates, 23.
Township 18, range 9. 1849-July 9, Edward Winkelman, 26, 27, 28; June 16, James Reed, 27. 1850-Nov. 25, Leander Beebe, 27. 1851-Dec. 23, Jonathan Jackson, 20, 21; Nov. 24, William Roberts, 22; Dec. 16, Fred- erick Eberhart, 22; Nov. 13, Mitchell Stover, 22; Nov. 18, Charles A. Stevens, 22, 23, 26, 27, 34, 35; Nov. 4, William Nichols, 25; Nov. 18, John Johnson, 25; Nov. 13, Andrew Constick, 26; Nov. 18, Chase A. Stevens, Francis M. Ruble and Timothy Burns, 27; Dec. 10, Cyrus Woodman, 36; Dec. 18, John Johnson, 36. 1852-July 31, John C. Higgins, 1; Jan. 7, John Henley, 1; Jan. 7, William Hyer, 1; Jan. 7, Richard Rosecranse, 1; Feb. 9, James Metcalf, 2; May 5, Frederick Andres, 4; Feb. 29, Jonathan Willey, 4; May 29, Mary A. Bright, 4; March 25, Mary Ann Norman, 5; July 2, John E. Lewis, 5; March 24, Sophia Blake, 6; Jan. 1, James Charles, 8; Jan. 1, Volney French, 8; Aug. 2, Dianthe K. Martindale, 9; Aug. 20, Elizabeth Baker, 9; July 2, Cyrus Woodman, 9, 13, 15, 22, 23, 26; May 4, Thomas Willse, 11; Jan. 7, John Wilkins, 12; March 3, John Thurston, 12; March 3, John Brickford, 12; March 3, Moses Young, 12; March 3, Mark Lucias, 12; March 3, John Nichols, 12; May 5, James Himes, 13; May 5, Peter Van Buren, 13; May 5, Horace Stow, 14; Feb. 20, Eliza Stevens, 14; Feb. 27, Henry P. George, 14; March 24, Alfred Earle, 15; June 22, Lucius G. Fisher, 15; May 3, Obadiah Bernis, 15; Feb. 19, Lewis Reneo, 17; June 11. James B. Gray, 20; May 4, Benjamin H. Buckingham, 20; July 14, Francis W. Woodward, 21, 22; Jan. 1, Francis M. Ruble, 21 ; Feb. 26, Stephen Bean, 21; April 17. William Campbell, 21; May 10, Charles F. Legate, 22; Sept. 30, David Flynn, 22; Jan. 28, John Quint, 22; June 26, Edmund Gondy, 23; Feb. 21, James Kun, Jr., 23; Sept. 25, Joshua Rhodes, 24; March 1, Samuel Payne, 25; May 19, Alfred Bruson, 26, 35; July 21, Mary Saunders, 26; Feb. 26, William Plaisted, 27; March 1, William Cheever, 36; March 1, Jason Ellis, 36.
Township 19, range 9. 1852-March 8, Lewis Cornell, 25; March 6, Soloman Leonard, 25; March 8, Joseph Hegeman, 25; March 6, Josephine Coffin, 26; March 6, Joseph Weeks, 26; March 25, John M. Johnson, 28;
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March 25, James Coyine, 31; April 5, Timothy Harris, 31; July 19, Francis Daniels, 31; March 25, Mary A. Norman, 32; July 19, William Higbee, 33; April 5, Thomas Scott, 33 ; March 6, John Fay, 33 ; March 6, Daniel Morrison, 33; March 6, Nathaniel Sanborn, 33; March 6, George Frost, 33; Feb. 26, Jonathan Willey, 33; March 1, Rachael Gilman, 34; July 19, William Higbee, 34; March 1, Mehitable Thompson, 34; Oct. 11, Peter Cochien, 35; Aug. 25, Wayne Clark, 35; Jan. 13, Richard H. Coolidge, 35. 1853-June 15, Hollister M. Wright, 29, 32; July 27, James Reed, 34, 35; Nov. 1, Loretta Woodworth, 35; June 17, Michael Bibeaux, 35; July 13, Charles Cameron, 35.
Township 20, range 9. 1855-Nov. 20, Porter Smith, 3; Nov. 12, David H. Sherman, 5, 6; Oct. 8, Noah D. Comstock, 5, 6; May 24, Jacob Handel, 19. 1856-April 11, Jesse Penny, 3; May 7, Harmon G. Tracey, 3; April 11, Phebe Penny, 4; Feb. 22, Charles Marshall, 4, 5; Feb. 22, James Broughton, 4; April 11, Walter D. Dewey, 4; Feb. 5, George Shelly, 5; Aug. 8, James O. Reiley, 6, 8; April 15, Nathan Corwith, 6, 7; Oct. 21, Noah D. Comstock, 7; April 7, Annie D. Bishop, 18; March 24, Collins Bishop, 18; March 31, F. S. West, 16. 1857-July 1, Phillip Hartman, 7. 1858-July 30, Stephen R. Roath, 1; May 3, Isaac Wesley Hull, 1, 12; April 7, Harmon G. Tracy, 2; May 17, Simeon Palmer, 4, 21, 22, 27; May 3, Christian Berry, 5 ; April 8, Narcissa T. Robertson, 6; April 7, Nicholas Meyer, 7, 8; May 3, Jeremiah Biddison, 9; May 3, George W. Hall, 11; June 23, Amassa Simons, 11; April 7, Noah D. Comstock, 8, 12; April 5, Clark Averill, 22; April 10, William E. Greene, 23; April 5, Ebenezer Holmes, 23; April 5, Frederick C. Goff, 23, 24 ; April 10, Giddings W. Keyes, 27; April 13, Ann E. Clark, 28.
Township 21, range 9. 1855-Nov. 12, Dennison K. Smith, 2, 3, 22; Nov. 13, Edwin W. Jones, 3, 11, 32; Nov. 13, Charles R. Steele, 11, 14, 15; Nov. 12, Warren H. Ellis, 22, 27; Nov. 13, Ransom Steele, 26, 27; Nov. 12, David H. Sherman, 28, 32, 33; Nov. 12, Charles H. Fox, 29, 32; July 19, Herman B. Merchant, 31, 32; Dec. 11, George Shelly, 33; Dec. 11, Collins Bishop, 33, 34. 1856-April 15, Milton Barlow, 14; June 3, William Abbott, 21, 28; May 31, William Smith, 21; June 2, Henry D. Elmer, 24; May 30, William Hollenbaugh, 27; July 19, Hiram B. Merchant, 31 ; March 24, Abner B. Bishop, 34; April 7, Rhoda Shelly, 35; June 2, Owen Roberts.
Township 22, range 9. 1855-Nov. 13, William B. Werden, 24, 25; Oct. 31, William and Lyman D. Smith, 25, 36; Nov. 13, Warren H. Ellis, 26. 1856-May 30, Enoch L. Cummings, 1; May 21, Walter W. Wetmore, 11; June 3, Statira C. Lakin, 12; June 3, George W. Lakin, 13, 24; May 8, Horace Young, 17; May 8, Sherman B. Look, 17, 21; May 7, Joshua Travis, 22. 1857-Sept. 22, Charles Lyne. 1858-Oct. 2, Giles Cripps, 12; June 26, Alfred L. Wright, 14; May 19, Moses S. Johnson, 18; April 28, Caleb F. Gates, 22 ; Sept. 29, Daniel Cameron, 24; Sept. 21, William E. Montazae, 34. 1859-March 22, John McBurney, 36.
Township 23, range 9. 1858-April 8, John Allen, 2, 24; May 19, Lucius M. Sheldon, 28, 32. 1866-Nov. 24, Martin W. Borst, 34. 1867- July 5, C. Moser and G. Hunner, 28; Nov. 26, Martin W. Borst, 32, 33; May 23, George Meigs, 34. 1868-June 18, John A. Hunner, 19; June 10, Martin W. Borst, 28, 33, 35. 1869-July 27, Virgil Borst, 32. 1870- March 21, Guri Herbransdatter, 4; Sept. 5, Timothy Brown, 10; July 27,
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William Z. Barnhart, 31. 1871-July 12, Osten Gonnufsen, 18; May 2, Petter Petterson, 18; May 24, Merit Petterson, 18; May 29, Virgil Borst, 28.
Township 24, range 9. 1856-June 4, Levi Beebe, 2; June 2, Elliot D. Barnard, 3, 13, 14; June 2, Harrison Stebbins, 3, 9; June 2, Sylvanus Morse, 6, 14; June 4, Horace Dickenson, 7; June 3, Richard B. Chandler, 8, 15; June 2, Jerome A. Smith, 8, 10, 22; June 4, Dan C. Barnum, 9; June 4, Hugh Henri, 10; June 4, William Maxwell, 10; June 4, Almon Steel, 11, 14; June 3, David R. Chase, 22; June 3, William Moon, 23; June 4, Frances E. Wolstenholm, 24. 1857-May 30, Richard B. Chandler, 23. 1859-May 11, Walter W. Wetmore, 24.
Township 18, range 9. 1852-June 26, Robert S. Haywood, 2; March 15, Abel M. Bryant, 5; March 13, John R. Tancill, 8; March 13, John Under- wood, 8 ; March 13, Charles F. Legate, 8. 1854-Oct. 27, Abzana A. Whiting, 1; Sept. 4, Elizah Brown, 1, 2; Nov. 13, Lawrence Rioney, 1; Oct. 27, Newell Whiting, 12. 1855-June 2, Caroline Atwood, 1; June 2, William F. Burns, 1, 12; May 11, Lawrence Rioney, 2; June 2, Sela Atwood, 12. 1856-May 28, Walter W. Wetmore, 1; May 13 Joseph A. Chase, 1; June 4, Simon Palmer, 2, 11, 12; Jan. 5, Lornhannah Marshall, 7; Jan. 4, George Gale, 17.
Township 19, range 10. 1852-Jan. 1, John Lynch, 36; Feb. 20, Charles F. Legate, 36; April 5, Timothy Harris, 10. 1853-July 16, Reese Whisler, 14. 1854-Nov. 8, Isaac Thompson, 12; May 20, Ira B. and Eli D. Hewett, 14; April 8, Benedict B. Utter, 24; April 10, Isaac Nash, 35; May 20, Jonathan W. Nash, 36. 1855-May 16, Giles R. Montague, 2, 11; Oct. 12, Constantine Blodgett, 12; Dec. 18, Isaac Thompson, 12; June 20, George W. Brewin, 25. 1856-Jan. 5, Isaac Thompson, 2; Jan. 5, Constantine Blodgett, 11; May 8, Samuel Whiting, 11; May 19, Joseph M. Hayes, 13; April 14, Milton Barlow, 13, 24; April 15, Henry Corwith, 14, 24; May 7, William Sutter, Jr., 24; May 19, Francis W. Newland, 25; Feb. 8, Katherine A. Wood, 25.
Township 20, range 10. 1854-April 28, Julius Edwards, 29. 1855- May 24, Jacob Handel, 14, 24; Oct. 18, Edward McFadden, 21; May 24, John Grozinger, 22; May 24, Christopher Grozinger, 23, 24; July 5, Dougald D. Cameron, 28. 1856-April 7, Sarah McMaster, 1; March 24, John Gleason, 10, 11, 12; March 24, Cornelius Gleason, 11, 12, 13, 14; April 19, Dan D. Lightner, 15; April 29, Michael Welsh, 33. 1857-May 27, William Hyde, 2; Aug. 28, Noah D. Comstock, 2; May 27, Augustus Hensel, 3; May 28, William Johnson, 9; May 27, Thomas A. Simpson, 10; Aug. 28, David Bishop, 10; July 6, Phillip Hartman, 12; Sept. 9, Hans Olsen, 35. 1858-May 3, Peter Case, 1; April 5, Thomas A. Simpson, 10; Dec. 1, Harvey M. Tucker, 15; Nov. 17, James Bingham, 21; June 18, Theo. B. Edwards, 23; April 8, Mahalia Waller, 25; Feb. 29, Franziska Kuck, 25; April 7, Lucius M. Sheldon, 26; May 19, Rudolph Siequist, 26; Sept. 30, John M. Kline, 27, 34; Aug. 6, Timothy Kirk, 28.
Tax Records. The early tax records, to a certain, are valuable in fixing the early settlers in the various townships. Their insufficiency, however, as a foundation in compiling the story of the early settlers lies first, the fact that "resident owner" on the tax books often meant resident of the county rather than resident of the township; second, in the fact that no
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effort was made by the assessors to secure a correct spelling of names, and, third, to the fact that many of the actual settlers were not payers of real estate taxes.
Township 19, range 7. 1854-John Irvine, section 31. 1855- Kennedy, 7; Alex. Valence, 23 ; Richard Bibby, 27; David Cook, 24 ; Christian Neimeier, 28; Henry Fakka, 29; John Stellpflug, 29, 33; Jacob Poss, 30, 31; John Irvine, 30, 31; Robert Summerville, 31; Rob. Oliver, 31; David Grant, 31, 32, 33; Richard Grant, 32.
Township 20, range 7. 1855-Franz Hoeppner, 32. 1857-Franz Hoepp- ner, 32; C. Smith, 31; A. Purvis, 31; John Cockran, 32; University, 11, 13, 14, 15 ; O. Olson, 12; T. Wall, 19, 20 ; J. Knudson, 24; J. Quinn, 30; N. Stearns, 30, 31; J. Mahoney, 30; T. B. Edwards, 30, 31; M. Purvis, 31; R. Cance, 31; S. McAvoy, 31; J. Cockran, 32; Franz Hoeppner, 32; D. Whalen, 32.
Township 21, range 7. 1859-E. M. Reynolds, 16; Ebenezer Thurston, 16; Lars Olson, 1; Sign Huson, 1; Peter Peterson, 1, 12; C. H. Hine, 6, 8, 17; Jas. Hopkins, 6; James E. Weeks, 6; Wessel Lowe, 6; Herman Snyder, 7; S. S. Rice, 7; J. R. Nourse, 8, 9; Robert Thompson, 10, 11, 15; Henry Shepard, 12; Syvert Johnson, 12; Turah Johnson, 12; Gullick Olson, 13; Birchard Olson, 13; Nels Halvorson, 14; Peter Tennerson, 14; Jacob Tennerson, 14, 25; Mrs. Ann Porter, 12, 22; Ebenezer Thurston, 17, 31; Chester Beswick, 17; L. P. Armstrong, 17; Henry Lake, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 28, 30; Ernst Rosen, 18; William H. Welch, 28, 29; Bennet & Quinn, 20, 21; John B. Dunning, 11, 12, 20, 21; E. K. Reynolds, 21, 28, 32.
Township 22, range 7. 1858-N. Halvorson, 24; William Van Sickle, 30; Nels Anderson, 25; Syvert Johnson, 26. 1859-Lars Olson, 24; Nels Anderson, 25, 36; Syvert Johnson, 26; William Van Sickle, 31; A. Swenson, 36.
Township 23, range 7. 1863-I. E. Grant, 8; I. E. Sutton, 20; Wm. Elison, 25; Ruth Hamilton, 26; Edwin Flint, 26; L. Knox, 26, 34; Wm. E. Fales, 26, 35, 36; C. W. Russell, 28; W. L. Wilson, 35; A. D. Curtis, 35; G. W. Fortellett, 35.
Township 24, range 7. 1859-F. Bowen, 1; E. W. Sexton, 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 21; Geo. Silkworth, 2; F. Coppel, 2; Wm. A. Woodward, 2, 8, 9, 10, 15; Levi Decker, 3; Wm. McCorkle, 7; W. H. Thomas, 10, 15; L. D. McCauley, 12; S. Brown, 13; A. B. Ayers, 24; - Field, 16.
Township 18, range 8. 1855-Charles Pickering, 5; Abram Terpena, 5; John Salsman, 6; Jas. D. Olds, 7; Roswell Bigelow, 7; John C. Laird, 7; Theo. Simmonds, 7; Wm. Olds, 8, 16 ; Moore & Carter, 8, 30; Warren Adams, 8; Pardon Wakefield, 8; Wm. Adams, 8; F. B. Clark, 18; Rufus Comstock, 18; T. B. Edwards, 18; Joseph Dale, 20, 21; A. McGilvray, 21; Gilbert Gibbs, 29; Bostwick Beardsley, 29; Dr. Lorna Brooks, 30, 31; Adams & Barnard, 30 ; J. T. Holmes, 31, 30 ; B. B. Heuber, 31; James Adams, 30; Edw. Barnard, 30; Wm. Bright, 16; Geo. Batchelder, 16; C. A. Stevens, 16.
Township 19, range 8. 1854-G. H. Smith, 8, 9; T. B. Edwards, 8, 9, 17; J. B. Tottingham, 21; - Benson, 28; G. Gale, 30, 31, 33; J. Hefs, 31; Isaac Noyes, 32; B. F. Heuston, 33; L. Hunter, 33, 35; William Dick, 34; John Irvine, 34; L. Cook, 34, 25, 26; Douglas Hunter, 35; Richard Collins, 35; Chas. Boyce, 35; W. W. Patrick, 36. 1855-Daniel Kennedy, 2; Cham-
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