Part 36 (1/2)
DANIEL LINDSTROM was born in 1825, in Helsingland, Sweden He had no early advantages for obtaining an education, and spent st the mountains in the north part of Sweden
In 1854 he ca a beautiful location, which has since been laid out as a village, and bids fair to become a place of popular resort Mr Lindstrom was married first in Sweden, and now lives with his second wife, the first having died in 1864 He has a family of three children He has filled official positions in his town acceptably
MAGNUS S SHALEEN was born in Sweden in 1796; came to America in 1855, and e 20, where he died in 1869 Mrs Shaleen died in 1873 John, the oldest son, resides on the fao county six years, and state senator eight years Peter, the second son, has served as postmaster of Centre City fourteen years, and clerk of the district court five years Sarah, the eldest daughter, married John Swenson They have three sons, John H, Henry A and Oscar, industrious, reliable young men, all in the employ of the St Paul & Duluth Railroad Coo Lake, in 1856 One daughter is uno City is located on a hardwood ridge, between Chisago and Green lakes, in sections 6 and 7, townshi+p 34, range 20
It was platted by Isaac Bernheimer & Co, of Philadelphia, on lot 4, section 7, townshi+p 34, range 20, in 1855 They built a hotel, several dwellings, and a saw and grist o lake, at an expense of about 7,000 These mills were burned in 1872 A stave factory was built on the site of the burned mills, which was operated successfully for e Nathan, Otto Wallave a new ie, under the influence of which the county seat was transferred to it Its subsequent growth, however, did not justify expectations It was for many years without even a post office In 1875 the county seat was removed to Centre City The Lutherans have here one of the finest church buildings in the county
The branch railroad depot is located one rown up around it
OTTO WALLMARK was born Dec 7, 1830, in the province of Halland, Sweden In his minority he was nine years clerk in a store He received a common school education In 1854 he cao City, where he liveda homestead, which has since been his pero county auditor He served several years as posto City, and in 1886 was elected state senator for four years
His first as Mary Helene, his second wife, Eva Palhter
ANDREW WALLMARK, brother of Otto, was born in Sweden in 1826; received a liberal education, and cao Lake from Sweden in 1854 He has filled several town offices; has been register of deeds for Chisago county nineteen years; was married to Mary Shaleen in 1856
They have two sons and three daughters
FISH LAKE
The town of Fish Lake includes townshi+p 36, range 22 It was originally well timbered, chiefly with hardwood, but 25,000,000 feet of pine timber has been cut from it and mostly manufactured in the town There are soest and finest are Horseshoe and Cedar The soil is black clay loam with subsoil of clay The toas cut off froanized in 1868 The first supervisors were Chas F Stark, Benjamin Franklin and John A Hokanson A post office was established in 1868; Benjamin Franklin, postland, in section 25 The first school was taught by Miss Mattison The first e was that of John Hokanson and Matilda Samuelson The first death was that of John Erickson The population is ood Swedish Lutheran church built near the centre of the town There are also a Swedish Methodist and a Swedish Baptist society The people are a well-to-do, independent class Fish Lake has a saw , the watchlish, in accordance with the rules, had ordered hilishman was arrested, tried for murder and acquitted
PETER BERG was born in Sweden in 1801; cao Lake in 1851 Some time subsequently he settled on the north shore of Fish lake In 1886, at the age of eighty-five years, he is still a vigorous, active hter, Katharine, who married Sam Hamilton, of Taylor's Falls Mr Hamilton died in 1871 She ren
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, though he bears the name of America's most illustrious philosopher, is a native of Sweden, whence he came with a Swedish colony in 1852, settled at Taylor's Falls, and subsequently removed to the northern shore of Fish lake By way of explaining how he came by his American name we add that soon after his arrival he came to the writer somewhat puzzled as to how he should write his Swedish naave it as ”Ben Franz Norel,” but pronounced it in such a way that it sounded rather like Benjaested that na hi about the illustrious man who had raced it
He is still a worthy, industrious and honorable citizen of Fish Lake
FRANCONIA
Includes the two eastern tiers of sections of townshi+p 33, range 20, and fractional townshi+p 33, range 19, including about fifteen whole sections, and four fractional The soil is good, and originally supported a growth of hardwood The surface is undulating It is atered by Lawrence and several other small creeks tributary to the St Croix, and has several small but clear lakes Ansel Se, which he named after Franconia in the White mountains He came here in 1852, and located a claie, on the St Croix river, section 10, townshi+p 33, range 19 He did e and town He raised the first crops and was the first postanized in 1858 The first supervisors were Ansel Smith, Leonard P Day and A J Adams The town is noell settled and has many excellent farms The branch St Paul & Duluth railroad has a depot three-fourths of a e of Franconia A German Methodist church is located near the centre of the town
FRANCONIA VILLAGE
Was platted in 1858, by Ansel Smith It was incorporated in 1884 Paul Munch, in 1860, erected a first class, three storied flouring mill on Lawrence creek A saw mill, erected in 1854 by the Clark brothers and Ansel Ses of ownershi+p It is now the property of Matthews & Jourdain Henry F and Leonard P Day built the first good dwelling in the village, on the banks of the St Croix, just above the steaht the first school The first death in the village was that of Neil Monroe
ANSEL SMITH caed in teaching In 1851 he helped erect the Chisago House in Taylor's Falls In 1852 he made a claie 19, and there platted the village of Franconia, clearing away the worst of the tietic, active business man, and took an interest not only in the affairs of his town and neighborhood, but in the country at large He represented his district in the fifth, sixth and seventh legislatures
He was appointed register of the United States land office at Duluth in 1870 and served till 1872 Mr S a wife and three pro attorneys in Duluth; one cashi+er of a bank in Duluth
HENRY F AND LEONARD P DAY--The Day brothers came from St Lawrence, New York, to the St Croix valley in 1849, and settled in Franconia in 1852 Henrythe Rebellion he served in Company C, Seventh Minnesota Volunteers He moved to Florida in 1886 Leonard P wasa o sons and two daughters
His(in 1886) is the wife of Henry Wills, of Osceola
HENRY WILLS was born in 1829, in Illinois, and married his first wife in Missouri in 1856, who died in 1878, leaving nine children Mr
Wills was one of the first far improvements in his town and county He moved to Osceola in 1886
THE CLARK BROTHERS came from Maine and located in Franconia in 1854, where they built the first e Subsequently they beca in the mercantile, livery, saw and stave mill business James, the oldest, married Carrie Jellison in 1863, and e,a , three sons and one daughter Charles, the youngest, was us Falls