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Curtis, came to Stillwater in 1851 He held the positions of postmaster and justice of the peace

FRANCIS ROACH DELANO--The ancestors of Mr Delano came to America in 1621, and were active participants in the stirring scenes and controversies preceding the Revolution Francis Roach, after whom Mr

Delano was named, was the owner of the shi+p Dartmouth, one of the vessels out of which the tea was cast into Boston harbor, on thethe affair of the tea, the family, ere ardent patriots, have preserved as a precious relic soeneral destruction

Mr Delano is one of sixteen children in his father's family He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Nov 20, 1823; received a common school and academic education, and was ee of twenty he was e corps and served two years He was for two years superintendent of the Boston & Worcester railroad In 1844 he came to St Louis, Missouri, and was variously eed for a year in St Anthony (now Minneapolis), in running the government mill The mill had been leased for five years

Mr S released from it, came to Stillwater in 1851 and entered into contract with Jesse Taylor, Martin Mower, Jonathan E McKusick, and Jacob Fisher, under the firm name of Jesse Taylor & Co, to build the territorial prison

Mr Delano was appointed first warden, March, 1853, and served until 1858 He was intrusted with the expenditure of publicfor and ianized he was released He was afterward aand selling lumber J E McKusick and Robert Simpson were members of this firm

Mr Delano ed in railroad employment In 1862 he was co the Indian outbreak The cowatana, Pine county He died February, 1887 He was married Oct 11, 1846, to Calista Ann Cavander, ith two sons, survives him

HENRY W CANNON was born in Delhi, New York, Sept 25, 1852 He was educated at Delaware Literary Institute He came to St Paul in 1870, and in 1871 to Stillwater, where he accepted the position of cashi+er of the Stillwater Lumberman's Bank In 1882 he was appointed by President Arthur United States bank comptroller He was removed by President Cleveland He is now a resident of New York City, and is engaged in banking

DWIGHT M SABIN was born at Marseilles, La Salle county, Illinois, April 25, 1843 The ill health of the father, as an extensive land owner and stock raiser, necessitated a removal to the seaside in Connecticut in 1856 In consequence of the continued ill health of the father and his death in 1864, young Dwight was deprived of the thorough education to which he aspired, and, being the oldest son, found the cares and responsibilities ofhis father's business thrown upon his shoulders while he was yet a boy In 1867 he reer brother to Minnesota, the year following to Stillwater, where he engaged in business with the firm of Seymour, Sabin & Co This firm contracted for the convict labor in the state prison, and engaged in the e The business in 1874 was extended and ricultural i also a machine, boiler shop and foundry, until it is now one of the most extensive establishments in the country

Mr Sabin is also interested in otherthem the C

N Nelson Lumber Company and the Duluth Iron Coanizer of the Northwestern Car Company, with a capital of 5,000,000 The company was to receive a bonus from the city of Stillwater of 100,000 in bonds, on certain conditions The company purchased the interests of Sey into possession of their ied under the prison contracts, and elected Mr Sabin president, and was ress toward the coency of the financial world, it was cone establishments, he has been no less active and conspicuous as a public spirited citizen, ever taking a great interest in the affairs of his adopted city, of the State and country at large, and his talents and efficiency have been recognized by his fellow citizens, who elected him to the state senate in 1871-72-73, and to the house of representatives in 1878 and 1881 He has several tiate to the National Republican convention, and was chairman of the convention at which James G Blaine was nominated for the presidency He was elected to the United States senate in 1883 as the successor of Hon Wm Windom

CHAPTER XVI

STEARNS, ANOKA AND SHERBURNE COUNTIES

STEARNS COUNTY

Stearns county derived its name from Hon Charles T Stearns, a prominent citizen of St Cloud, a representative of the precinct of St Anthony Falls in the fifth and sixth territorial councils

It is bounded on the north by Todd and Morrison counties, on the east by Benton, Sherburne and Wright counties, the Mississippi forainst Benton and Sherburne, and Clearwater against Wright county, on the south by Kandiyohi and Mecker, and on the west by Pope county It contains an area equal to thirty-six townshi+ps It is a fine agricultural county and is atered by the tributaries of the Mississippi, the principal of which is Sauk river It has also an abundance of small lakes Its oldest settle its es are Sauk Centre, Fair Haven, Clearwater, Melrose, St Joseph, Albany, Paynesville, Richanized in 1855, under the legislative act of that year Gov Willis A Gor commissioners: David T Wood, John Ferschniller and John L Wilson They held their firstat the house of John L Wilson, April 9, 1855 J L

Wilson acted as chair county officers: Charles Ketchum, clerk; Robert B Blake, treasurer; L B

Hae of probate; R B Blake, surveyor; and John Harry Weltshi+mer, assessor The board established three precincts, viz: St Augusta, St Cloud and Tausta were John M Feble, John G Lodenbeck and Anton Emholt; for St Cloud, Joseph Demil, L B Hammond and Battise arsenan; for Tamarack, Henry Foster, Louis Aranted to Joseph P Wilson, George F Brott, L B

Hammond, and O Carter to run a ferry across the Mississippi river

April 30, 1855, Farton precinct was established John M Lindees of election July 5, 1855, the first rate of taxation was fixed for the county at one per cent

The first license to sell spirituous liquors was granted to Anton Edelbrock The first order issued was to pay for county books, 3186, to John L Wilson Ordered that Washi+ngton avenue and St Augusta street be adopted as county roads Aug 27, 1855, it was ordered that Chippewa Agency precinct (now in Crow Wing county) be and remain as it hen a part of Benton county, and J D Crittenden, Trues of election It was ordered that Long Prairie precinct (now in Todd county) remain as it hen a part of Benton county, and Anson Northrup, Lewis Stone and Hares of election On Jan 6, 1856, a new board of co of Anton Edelbrock, chairman, Reuben M Richardson, and M J Orth H C Waite was appointed prosecuting attorney The county was organized for judicial purposes in 1855, and the counties of Crow Wing and Todd were attached The first term of court was held June 25, 1855; Hon Moses Sherburne, presiding, Taylor Dudley, clerk, and Joseph Edelbrock, sheriff The writer is indebted to the efficient clerk of court of 1887, A L

Cra data, as the old records are quite unintelligible

Judge E O Haanization At the session of the commissioners in July, 1856, the first bonds of the county were ordered for building a court house, aht years The bonds were offered in New York City by an agent These bonds were lost, and only two of theust, the donation of John L Wilson of four blocks of ground, containing eight acres, for court house purposes, was accepted Three-fourths of the ground was sold by the county, and the funds received froether with 6,000 in bonds issued in 1857, and other bonds issued later, were used in erecting the court house

ST CLOUD

The eastern side of the Mississippi river was the first settled As early as 1848 David Gil the ensuing year, Jere trading posts at Sauk Rapids In 1849 J Q A and W H Wood, brothers, located there In 1854 the Rapids had beco posts, its stores and its United States land office A the early residents were many subsequently identified with the interests of St Cloud In the spring of 1854 John L Wilson crossed the river at the point non as the upper landing, then covered with a dense growth of trees and underbrush On the adjoining prairie, a Norwegian, Ole Burgerson by name, had staked out a claim and put up a shanty Mr Wilson purchased his interest and in June of the sa) near the railroad bridge Nicholas Lake put up a blacks this year Ja for Gen S B Loho platted the townshi+p of Acadia, nory's addition to St Cloud A post office was established here through his influence The same year Brott & Co laid out St Cloud city The earliest clai on the river, were S B Lowry, Ole Burgerson, Martin Woolley, and Michael Zoerson, platted the village of St Cloud, and this was the first recorded of any of the St Cloud plats The village of St Cloud ress until 1856, when a hotel known as the Stearns House, now used in connection with the normal school, was built, a ferry established and other improvements made A notable incident connected with this ferry is the fact that the Rev Abbot Alexius Edelbrock, now president of St John's University, then a lad of thirteen years of age, was ferry the son of the proprietor of the ferry The craft ung back and forth like a pendulu fastened by a long rope some distance up the river It was not therefore beyond the ability of so youthful a ferrye The post office, established first at Acadia, became the St Cloud post office and Joseph Edelbrock was appointed postmaster He was reappointed by President Cleveland to the same position in 1886 The first newspaper in St Cloud was the _Visitor_, established in 1857, by the gifted and somewhat erratic journalist and reformer, Jane Grey Swisshelm This paper had but a brief and troubled career--the advanced views and dictatorial style of its publisher and editor proving soe Mrs

Swisshelm, who had already won a national reputation, went to Washi+ngton, became a contributor to the New York _Tribune_, and had thereafter a somewhat variable, and upon the whole brilliant, career as a lecturer, editor and reforh not the hts She was not a woist, but directed her efforts chiefly toward establishi+ng the legal identity of married women She was also very pronounced in her anti-slavery views

The first records of the organization of St Cloud as a village have been lost It was reorganized by legislative enact were the first officers: Mayor, Judge L A Evans; councilmen, H C Burbank, John W Tenvoorde, Joseph Broker and Barney Overbeck; clerk, A B Curry