Part 43 (1/2)

Tyler was the first post benevolent and social societies: Masons, Golden Rule Lodge, No 65, organized in 1867; Teanized 1877; the Independent Order of Good Teregational church

HENRY W CROSBY was born in Albany, New York, in 1819 He spent his youth in Buffalo In 1840 he came to St Croix Falls, and in 1842 to the banks of Lake St Croix, and located on the site of the village of Lakeland where he resided ten years During the ensuing thirteen years he followed his trade asthree years as a volunteer in the Eighth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry

He was e Grove in 1845, to Hannah Waterhouse He has four sons

REUBEN H SANDERSON--Mr Sanderson was born in Genesee county, New York, in 1831 He received a coiate Institute He came to Lakeland in 1855, and followed the business of a house carpenter Mr Sanderson has filledof the state constitutional convention in 1857

NEWTON MCKUSICK, the oldest son of John McKusick, was born in Stillwater in 1850 He received a good education in the city schools, completed at the Minnesota State University, and located on a farm in Lakeland in 1871 He was married to Jennie L Green, of Stillwater, June 6, 1872 His home and farm display taste and thrift worthy of commendation

CAPT JOHN OLIVER--John Oliver was born March 9, 1796, at Land's End, England He was bred to a seafaring life, and the early part of his life ell spiced with adventure He escaped from the British service to enter the American, but ice captured, and after the second capture suffered a rigorous iland

At the close of the war he came to the United States and beca which he followed for thirty-three years He came to the West in 1848, and settled in Lakeland In 1819 he was married to Sarah Spear, whose father was one of the celebrated Boston Tea Party in 1774 Capt Oliver, after his re He died on the ho a ho survived until 1883, and five sons, two having died prior to 1869 Of his seven sons, six were in the Union Ar the Rebellion: We A, Walter J, and Howard F Walter J

died in the army

ASA BARLOW GREEN--The name of Capt Green was once familiar on the St Croix He was acharacteristics, who, in a public life extending over a period of e, steamboat captain, minister, chaplain, andhis minority lived at home He had a common school education, and by his own efforts attained a knowledge of the law and was admitted to practice in Minnesota and Wisconsin in 1858 He served as sheriff in Washi+ngton county, held the office of probate judge, and some minor offices He commanded the steamer Equator in 1859, when that boat recked on Lake St Croix He was part owner of the boat In 1860 he was ordained as a minister of the Calvinist Baptist church In 1862 he entered the United States service as chaplain of the Third Wisconsin Volunteers, and served three years, after which he devoted himself to ministerial and missionary labors He died in Whitewater, Wisconsin

L A HUNTOON located in Lakeland in 1857, and engaged in mercantile pursuits He served as town clerk and post the latter position fifteen years He represented his district in the house of the seventh and nineteenth legislatures He died suddenly at his ho a wife and three children His oldest son, Sah school, and fitting hie, was drowned Oct 9, 1872, in Cutter's lake, at the age of twenty-one He was much esteemed and lamented

MARINE

The town of Marine includes townshi+ps 31 and 32, range 20, and fractional townshi+ps 31 and 32, range 19 The surface is so, and before settlement was timbered chiefly with hardwood It is dotted with beautiful lakes, some of which have abrupt and hilly shores The , Carnelian, Square, Bony, Terrapin, Long, Fish, and Hay

Next to St Croix Falls, Marine contains the earliest settlement in the valley In September, 1838, Lewis Judd and David Hone were deputized by a co in Marine, Illinois, to visit the Northwest and exaion recently secured by treaty from the Chippewas, and to return the saes of climate, soil and other resources They were authorized also to locate a claim for a future settlement, if they found one entirely suitable They embarked on the steamer Ariel at St Louis, Septe the head of Lake St Croix, whence they proceeded in a flatboat propelled by poles up the St Croix as far as the falls, and thence to theby birch canoes, they stopped at the site of the present village of Marine, and there made a mill claim They then returned to Marine, Illinois, where they arrived November 10th, and reported favorably on the location chosen

During the follointer a verbal agreement was made by thirteen persons, all of Marine settle and build a saw mill on the distant St Croix On April 27th this company left St

Louis on the steamer Fayette for the new settlement, which they reached on the thirteenth of May The Fayette was chartered expressly for this voyage They took with theoods, three yoke of oxen, and cows

The e and Albert Judd, David Hone, Orange Walker, Asa S and Madison Parker, Samuel Burkelo, Wm B

Dibble, Dr Lucius Green, Joseph Cottrell, and Hiram Berkey When they landed they found Jeremiah Russell and Levi W Stratton in possession of the clai winter These men demanded and received three hundred dollars for relinquishi+ng the claihtful owners

The colonists set to work i cabin as a te coy that it was finished in ninety days The first wheel used was a flutter wheel, which, not proving satisfactory, was replaced by an overshot with buckets This mill sawed the first lue Walker was the first clerk and chieftain of the concern, and when anything anted a call of the company would be reement existed Only one book was kept for a series of years--a unique affair, no doubt The first installment was 200; second, 75; third, 50; all within two years, after which the co No partner forfeited his stock One by one the partners sold out their interest, until Orange Walker and G B Judd were the owners The company was first known as the Marine Lued to Judd, Walker & Co, the fire Walker, Sae Walker was sole owner, he associated with him Samuel Judd and W H Veazie, and the firm name has since been Walker, Judd & Veazie

The colonists raised, during the first year, corn, potatoes and garden vegetables They found the Indians peaceably inclined toward the settlers, though the Chippewas and Sioux kept up a constant warfare with each other During the winter of 1839-40 four members of the company, Parker, Berkey, Green and Dibble, were sent to the anized as a town in 1858, with the following supervisors: J R M Gaskell; John E Mower and B F

Allen

MARINE MILLS VILLAGE

The settlee of Marine Mills, which was not platted, however, until 1853, nor incorporated until 1875 The folloas the first board of officers: President, Orange Walker; councilreen and Asa S Parker Until 1842 theby private conveyance, when a las, and Samuel Burkelo was appointed postmaster

The first jury trial in the St Croix valley was held at Marine, in 1840, before Joseph R Brown, justice of the peace The case was that of Philander Prescott against Chas D Foote, plaintiff charging defendant with jue Walker, H Berkey, David Hone J Haskell, J S Norris, A

McHattie, A Mackey, H Sweezy, Francis Nason, and two others The claim in dispute was located near Prescott The court adjourned to allow the jury to visit Prescott to ascertain if the clai the preree, and the hty acres of the claim

The first white child born in Marine was Sarah Anna Waterht, the first physician, located in Marine in 1849 The first e was that of Wm B Dibble to Eliza McCauslin, in 1842 The first death was that of a child of W H nobles, in 1843 The first sermon preached was by Rev J Hurlburt, a Methodist ht by Sarah Judd, in 1849 The Swedish Evangelical Lutherans built the first church in the town of Marine, in section 27, in 1856, a log structure afterward used as a school, its place being supplied by a new structure in section 14 in 1858 In 1874 a large church 50 80 feet, ground plan, and with steeple 80 feet high, succeeded the second structure A fine parsonage was attached This church was blon by a cyclone in 1884, but was rebuilt

The Swedish Methodists built a church on the south side of Long lake in 1856; C P Agrelius, pastor The Congregationalists coanization in Marine village, in 1857 The church was co was the first pastor The second Congregational church was erected in 1878, in section 21 The Swedish Lutherans have a church and congregation in the village of Marine The church was built in 1875 Rev L O Lindh was the first pastor Oakland Ceanized in 1872 and the cee

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