Part 13 (1/2)

The first settler was C Loraine Ruggles He was so his own adventures during the Rebellion, which he called ”The Great American Spy” The toas named after him N B Bull and Chas Anderson were the next settlers

WM WALLACE GALLESPIE was born in Louisville, Kentucky; lived in his youth in Illinois and ca,of Charles Turner, of Taylor's Falls In 1878 he ood farhter

LUCK

Luck includes townshi+p 36, ranges 16 and 17 It is a good agricultural region and contains already inally a rich pine wood region Much of the ti The town is atered by Upper Trade and Straight rivers and has many beautiful lakes, the principal of which are butternut and North Luck was organized as a town Nov 9, 1869 The first supervisors were Wm H Foster, M C Pederson and J J Bille

The first settlers were Wm W Gallespie, W H Foster and D F Se was that of W H Foster, and his oldest child was the first white child born in Luck Wm Gallespie raised the first crops D F Smith built the first saw mill W H Foster was first postmaster At present there are two post offices, one at the village of Luck, the other at West Denht the first school in Luck The town has been settled chiefly by Danes, h school was established in 1884, K Noregaad, principal, at which different languages are taught

The building cost 3,000 It is beautifully located on butternut lake

The Lutherans have three flourishi+ng church organizations in this town

WILLIAM H FOSTER was born in Bangor, Maine, in 1828; came to St

Croix valley in 1844; settled in Luck in 1857 and engaged in far the Rebellion, and was posthteen years His father, Daniel Foster, came with him to the St Croix valley in 1844 and died in 1876 His native place was New Hampshi+re

MILLTOWN

Milltown includes townshi+p 35, range 17 It is a good agricultural and stock growing town It is watered by the s into Balsam, Half Moon and other lakes The timber is mostly hardwood

There is pine in the eastern part The Patterson post office is located in section 7, Milltown in section 36 Milltoas set off fro was held Jan 8, 1870 The first supervisors were John Lynch, M Fitzgerald, Sr, and John Hurley The Roanized here in 1864 Their new house of worshi+p was built in 1870 The first settlers were Jagie Crawford The first school house was built in 1866 A grange was organized in 1884 The town has now a good brick school house and a saw and flour mill

PATRICK LILLIS was born in Ireland in 1807 He came to Polk county in 1856, and, with his a sons, made a claim on as afterward styled Milltown, an inappropriate naiven by Mr Lillis himself, as he huh for a mill site in the town,” and Milltown it reood home He died Feb 26, 1886 Mrs Lillis died December, 1885

They left six sons John C is in Greene county, Texas, Simon C is in Southern California, and Richard is in Meed twenty-nine years, has for the past six years been a resident of Tacoton Territory The residence of Martin and James is not known

OSCEOLA

Osceola contains all of townshi+p 33, range 18, except the eastern tier of sections, and ten whole sections and soular by the St Croix river boundary, and the obtrusion of three sections of Farricultural town, consisting chiefly of prairie, the whole for ard on the precipitous bluffs of the St Croix It has a good steaood water powers, Osceola and Close's creeks These are both fine trout brooks

The bluffs overlooking the St Croix are bold and high, and, for a great part, precipitous Most conspicuous of these bluffs is the prole Point, situated just below the Osceola landing An escarpment of limestone, about two hundred feet above the river, projects over its base, not ara Falls A tall and solitary pine tree stands upon the extre a conspicuous landmark, visible to a distance of several miles down the river The cascade on Osceola creek, a few rods above its st the waterfalls of the West It has sometimes been called the Minnehaha of Wisconsin, but while it resembles somewhat in the lower part of its descent that celebrated cascade, the scenery around it is reat height, while the upper part of the fall is over an inclined plain, broken into steps It is a favorite haunt for artists and photographers

There are several reat beauty in the vicinity

The trap rock formation crops out in the eastern and northern parts of the town, rich in species at East Lake

The first land claim in the town, made May 14, 1844, by Milton V

nobles and Lucius N S Parker, included the cascade and the present site of the village The clai a saw anized in 1841, consisted of M V and W H nobles, Wm Kent, Wm O Mahony and Harvey Walker Mr nobles sold his interest and removed to Willow River; W timber in 1845 It was run at first with a small flutter wheel, which was replaced by a an overshot wheel, 30 feet; that by another, 45 feet, and that by one 50 feet in dia house, also a shop and office, near the mill After the completion of the mill Walker withdrew from the firm and Anson Northrup was for a short time a member Kent & Mahony for a nu lumber in Galena and St Louis

Mahony left for California in 1852 Around this e were built up The mill, with its immense water wheel, for sosince disappeared

Osceola has hadandmill was built by Kent Brothers in 1853, just above the cascade This ed owners several times, and was burned in 1880 It was rebuilt by Lovejoy & Sutton in 1883 Its present capacity is one hundred barrels per day The second flouring mill was built by Dresser & Wilson in 1867 It is situated on the saed owners several times Its capacity is fifty barrels per day The first merchants were Wyckoff and Stevenson, in 1856 These have been succeeded by Rice, Webb, Clark Brothers, Ar & Co, Talboys & Staples, Dresser & Wilson, Lacy & Johnson, W A Talboys, Gridley & Co, Heald & Thing, Dresser Brothers, and others Dr Gray was the first practicing physician After him, at different periods, came Drs Hilton, Brooks, Gaskill, Garlick, Marshall, Searles, Cornbacker and Clark The first deed recorded of Osceola property was a quitclaim from Wm H nobles to Anson Northrup, consideration 3,250, in 1847 The first lawyer settled here was I P

Freeland His successors were button, Dowling, dyke, McDill, and others The first sermon preached in Osceola was by Rev Lemuel nobles, a Methodist anizations; each has respectable church buildings The first Baptist preacher was Rev S T Catlin, in 1854 The Baptists built the first church in the county in Osceola, 1856 The first log house in the toas built by Richard Arnold in the locality of the fas This house was built in 1848 Mr Arnold raised the first crops in the town of Osceola The first school house was built in 1852 A high school building was erected in 1868 W A

Talboys taught the first public school in 1852 Until 1861 the schools were under the town systeh school was established The first post office was established in 1854, and W C

Guild was postmaster for twenty years The first town election was held April 5, 1853, when the following supervisors were elected: Wm

Ramsey, chair the town voted a tax of thirty dollars for school and fifty dollars for town expenses The first Sunday-school was organized by W A Talboys in 1852

The first e, that of John Buckley to Elizabeth Godfrey, was in 1853 The first white child born was John Francis, in 1847 The first death was that of Leroy Hubble, by accident, in 1845

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