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Wolves and bears were plenty at this tie, and once when I was yarding my cattle, I was followed for over a nus

Several homes near New Ulm had been burned by the Indians The women and children left without hoht the uard They lacked a lead in a teaspoon to ht an infant cried incessantly until finally ere afraid it would cry itself to death There was noI said I would go out and uard uns, stood around the cohile I got a cupful of milk for the baby

Mrs Orin Pike--1864

We left Buffalo late in September, 1864 for Rochester As ent on, soldiers ca to the country's service, as they said; after a brief furlough at home; votes were then taken from time to time to ascertain the , as I recall it now, each tireatly disturb an elderly er, he denounced the government as despotic, the draft unconstitutional, the Emancipation Proclamation as an effort on Lincoln's part to flood the whole North with ”niggers,”

characterizing Lincoln as a tyrant, who ought to be shot

Then there stepped out into the aisle a fine looking young man, ore shoulder straps and in distinct tones said, ”There are three things in this world that I hate--a thousand legged worm, a rattlesnake and a copperhead A copperhead is theto the old ray hairs have been your protection while you abused the government This is a land of free speech, but if you traduce Abraham Lincoln farther, I will not be answerable for the consequences”

Votes were afterward taken but the oldo We stayed all night, going on early in thethe cars to take the boat for Winona The Mississippi was very low and the night was spent ere we reached Winona

Monday ain took the cars for St Charles The railroad then called Winona and St Peter, was not co froons with one and soe barrels in thee took us safely to the ”American House”

at Rochester

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Minneapolis

MARY FRANCES PARTRIDGE

(Mrs M E Partridge)

ANNA MACFARLANE TORRANCE

(Mrs Ell Torrance)

Mrs Mary E Partridge--1854

The pioneers were brave souls, able to cope with ee was verified, ”As thy days so shall thy strength be” In 1854 I left Wisconsin, a bride, with overnh what is now the beautiful city of Faribault, there was only one fraed to a half breed frohtcabin with bark floors, as there were at that time no saw mills in that locality

Soon our simple house was crowded to the ut for claims in this rare section of the state There was a scarcity of neighbors, no schools nor places for church or holiday s It was years before I heard a ser in those years of self-denial Only necessities could be gotten, but soon all this changed Neighbors began to settle near All illing to share, ever solicitous for the other, all were on a level, simplicity and cordiality prevailed There were hardshi+ps, hard labor and trials of th of character All were in the pri manhood and joyous woleams, with its illusions, aspirations, dreams” There were no coladly To my home came three before the oldest was four years old

In 1857 cas the far money We ithout many comforts heretofore deemed indispensable

A little later this first home was sold and another in a southern county better adapted to cattle raising was bought and thither wein horses and cattle and an experience in farh hopes and bright promises, but, alas for human expectations, the Civil War coer and unent,

”Cease to consult, the time of action calls