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I, ---- ----, do hereby declare thatthis State Nor, and that it isin the schools of the State

_Fourth_--No person shall be entitled to a diploma who has not been a ranted, at least one year, nor who is less than nineteen years of age; a certificate of attendance ranted by the president of a normal school to any person who shall have been a ment such certificate is deserved

As an addition to the work of the norents are authorized to expend a su 5,000 annually, to sustain teachers' institutes, and arded as important auxiliaries and feeders to the normal schools At present one professor fro institutes every spring and fall

The normal school fund now amounts to over 1,250,000, and yields an annual income of about 100,000 It will be increased by the further sale of swamp lands, and will prove ample for the objects for which it is set apart

In 1865 the legislature divided the swamp lands and swae purposes, the other to constitute a normal school fund The inco, supporting and eents of normal schools, with a proviso that one-fourth of such income should be transferred to the common school fund, until the annual inco the sa aid in establishment of a normal school, and propositions were received froents was incorporated by the legislature

JOEL FOSTER--Judge Foster was born at Meriden, Connecticut, Dec 15, 1814 He was liberally educated He came to Edwardsville, Illinois, in 1830, and to Hudson, then known as Buena Vista, in 1848 After a careful exploration of the country he made choice of the valley of the Kinnikinic, and made him a home in the fall of 1848, at the junction of the two branches of that stream, and within sound of its beautiful cascades He was the pioneer settler of the River Falls of to-day He built the first dwelling house, raised the first crops, and ever proved hiood work and enterprise He was a ence and acious and independent He has filled e of St Croix county During the Mexican War he served as a quartere Foster was o in 1856 to Charlotte Porch He died at his ho 9, 1885

JESSE B THAYER was born Oct 11, 1845, in Janesville, Wisconsin; was educated at Milton College in 1870, and is by profession a teacher

During the Rebellion he served in the Fortieth and Forty-ninth Wisconsin Volunteers as a private He served five years as principal of the public schools in Menomonie, and since 1875 has been connected with the State Normal School at River Falls as conductor of institutes In 1885 he was elected to represent Pierce county in the state assembly

A D ANDREWS--Dr A D ANDREWS was born in Lowell, Maine, Sept 21, 1830 He graduated at the Chicago Medical College in 1860, and in 1861 was coeon of the Sixth Wisconsin Infantry, of the faade, hich he served up to the battle of Gettysburg After retiring fro, in which business he successfully continued until 1880, when he retired He was elected state senator in 1878 He was appointed a regent of the Fourth State Normal School in 1877 He died at his home an River Falls, after a short illness, July 23, 1885 He was mayor of the city at the time of his death

JOSEPH A SHORT--Mr Short was born in Madison county, New York, April 16, 1806 He learned the trade of a ht He visited the East and West Indies He came to Milwaukee in 1842 In 1849 he went to California, but returned in 1854, and settled in River Falls, where he built a saw and planing e and in various ways promoted the interests of the settlement Mr Short was a member of the Methodist church sixty years, and of the Masonic fraternity fifty years He was25, 1831, in New York, to Olive Prossen He died at his ho a son and three daughters

ALLEN H WELD--Prof A H Weld, widely known as a pioneer educator, and as the author of an excellent grae He caraded school in the village For two years he was principal of the high school at Hudson, and for six years was superintendent of schools in St Croix county He was a ents nine years, and was pri the location of the State Normal School at River Falls The excellent character of the schools in St Croix county, and the high educational position of River Falls, are due to his untiring effort and wise direction Mr Weld was a ational church and a consistent Christian as well as a progressive, public spiritedaand one son, Allen P

ALLEN P WELD was born in North Yarraduated at Darte He studied law and was adht school at Albany three years, and came to River Falls in 1859, where he is a dealer in real estate He was hter of Lyman Powell

GEORGE W NICHOLS was born in 1795, at Braintree, Vere of seventeen he enlisted and served in the war of 1812 He lived in Vermont fifty years, in Massachusetts ten years, and in 1855 ca until he was eighty years of age He was married in Vere H and Willia the war of the Rebellion His son Isaac N was a member of Capt Samuels'

company, and was killed at Perrysville, Kentucky The Grand Army of the Republic post at River Falls has his name He died in 1887

W D PARKER--Prof Parker was born in Bradford, Orange county, Vermont, in 1839 He received a coe of sixteen years he entered the Janesville High School, and four years later graduated He taught two years in Janesville, four years at Delavan, and one year in Monroe, Green county, Wisconsin In 1867 he visited Europe, after which he taught two years at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin He was superintendent of schools five years at Janesville In 1875 he was elected to the presidency of the Fourth State Normal School at River Falls In 1886 he was elected state superintendent of public instruction Prof Parker was o, in 1869

THE POWELL FAMILY--William Powell, the father, came to River Falls in 1849, where he lived with his sons until his death, Nov 30, 1865 His second as theof ---- Taylor, and the mother of Horace and Lute Taylor, the well known journalists Mrs Powell died in July, 1884

LYMAN POWELL came to River Falls with his family in 1855 He was married to Lucinda Taylor, sister of Horace and Lute Taylor Mr

Powell died at River Falls, Nov 9, 1872, leaving a wife, two sons and five daughters

NATHANIEL N POWELL, the second son, born May 11, 1827, in St

Lawrence county, New York, came to River Falls in 1849, and pre-empted the northeast quarter of section 1, now a part of the site of River Falls city He was married to Martha Ann Hart, Sept 28, 1842, at Hudson He died at River Falls, Sept 28, 1862, leaving one son and one daughter

OLIVER S POWELL, the youngest son, was born June 19, 1831, and caht years He had no great opportunities for gaining an education He ca with hi rain threshed in the county in the fall of that year, for Fiske, on a farm three miles below Stillwater In Nove the south half of the southeast quarter of section 36, town 28, range 19, lands lying just north of those claimed by his brother, and which afterward became a part of River Falls Mr Poas a representative in the state assembly in 1870-71-72, and was a county commissioner many years He was married in 1860 to Elmira Nichols They have three sons, Harvey C, Newell N and Lyhters, Lucy M, Sarah H, Amy E, and Miriam

NILS P HAUGEN was born in Norway in 1849; caraduated in the law departen was phonographic reporter of the Eighth and Eleventh Judicial circuits for several years, and a member of the assembly from Pierce county in 1879 and 80 He was elected railroad commissioner for Wisconsin in 1881, and re-elected in 1884

In 1886 he was elected representative to Congress

H L WADSWORTH was born July 10, 1821, in Erie county, New York He learned the trade of a shoemaker, came West in 1846, and settled at River Falls so He has filled many positions of trust in the St Croix valley, and in 1867 represented St Croix county in the asseht children have been born to thee 15 It was organized as a town Nov 16, 1866 The first townwas held at the house of J prickett The first commissioner was Sylvester Fox, chairman The post offices are at Rock Elm, on the western line of the town, section 19, and Rock Elm Centre, sections 16 and 17 At the latter place is located Rock Elrade, founded in 1880 Harrison Lowater is the principal The town is well supplied with schools, there being asits first settlers were Loo, Charles A Hawn and Sylvester Fox