Part 53 (2/2)

Includes the two southern tiers of sections of townshi+p 34, ranges 24 and 25 The first settlers were George Aranized in 1857, but the records have been lost Dwight Woodbury, who has been prominent in the history of the county, located a water power flour and saw e of St Francis has since been built, and surveyed the village plat The mills were destroyed by fire in 1869, but were ie across Rum river was built at an expense of 7,000 Mr Woodbury's investments have been over 25,000

Mr Streetly opened the first store and was first postmaster at St

Francis

AN INDIAN RIOT

In the fall of 1847 a Ger island, in the Mississippi, about two miles above the mouth of Rum river They were traders In March, 1848, in consequence of the revolution in Germany, the baron returned to his native land Noot reo Indians were reoespost, confiscated the whisky and provisions and fastened Noot in a stable and his wife and child in a small cabin, where they were found by S P Folsom the same day, surrounded by drunken Indians and in imminent peril Noot appealed to Folsom for aid The Indians, however, were furious and threatened Folso Thunder,” used his influence in a novel way to quiet the turbulent, by placing before theerly drank Folsom then released Noot

The wife, who had been previously released, ran with her child, frightened out of her wits, no one knehither After a long search the captain found her, and at great risk took her across a slough to the mainland in a canoe, which nearly sank before the shore was reached Noot afterent to St Paul and purchased eighty acres of land, now in the heart of the city He was a islatures At present he resides at Big Lake, Sherburne county

JARED BENSON--Mr Benson was the son of Jared and Sallie Taft Benson, and was born in Blackstone Massachusetts, Nov 8, 1821 The farreat, great grandfather His paternal grandfather, Benoni Benson, and his randfather, Ebenezer Taft, served in the Revolutionary War, the former as a lieutenant Jared Benson, his father, served in the war of 1812

Mr Benson had a fair co until 1844, when he joined the corps of engineers ere locating the Providence & Worcester railroad He was afterward agent for the company and superintendent of transportation In 1856 he ca chiefly in far He has served his townsmen as justice of the peace and county commissioner For some years he has been a director of the St

Paul & Pacific railroad He served as clerk of the house of representatives in 1859-60, and was afterwardthe extra session of 1862 He was revenue collector for his district in 1870-72, and was again elected to the legislature in 1878 He was married to Martha Taft, of Mendon, Massachusetts, Feb 5, 1857 They have five children

JAMES C FROST was born in Rumford, Oxford county, Maine, in 1816 He was raised on a far his majority he came to Jefferson county, Wisconsin, where he lived fourteen years In 1852 he came to St Anthony and in 1853 to Anoka He held the office of postain reappointed in 1888; served fifteen years as sheriff and as a islature in 1857-58 He was in the employ of the St Paul & Pacific Railroad Company for nine years

He was hters

A J MCKENNEY, born in Lowell, Maine, Feb 20, 1829, ca until 1854, when he came to Ramsey, Anoka county, and located in section 2 as a farmer He has been a pro, Germany, in 1830; came to America in 1837; lived in New York until 1855, when he came to Minnesota and located in what is now the town of Colu He has been a member of the Methodist church for twenty-five years He is in every way much esteemed as a citizen He was married in 1854, but has no children

JOHN R BEAN was born at Salmon Falls, New Hampshi+re, April 25, 1831; came to St Anthony in 1849 and to Ramsey, Anoka county, in 1850, where hedone in Anoka county From 1850 to 1859 he lived alternately at his home in St Anthony and his faraged in lu

WILLIAM STAPLES was born in 1815, in York county, Maine, where he was married in 1840 He came to St Anthony in 1850 He has lived in the town of Grow, of which he was one of the founders, for many years He is a farmer and brickmason

ABRAHAM MCCORMACK FRIDLEY was born May 21, 1818, at Corning, Steuben county, New York His parents were Pennsylvanians, of German descent

He received a coe of twenty-one years he was appointed deputy sheriff of Steuben county, and was afterward collector of canal tolls at Corning In April, 1851, he was appointed by President Fill Prairie, Todd county In that year he was also admitted to practice law In 1853 he removed to St Paul and was elected sheriff of Ramsey county The next year he removed to St Anthony Falls and was elected to the house of the territorial legislature A little later he removed to Manoislatures of 1869-70-71 and 79 For e farm at Becker For ten years he has been in the eent He is a Deate to the conventions at Charleston and Balti aand three sons, Henry C, Frank and David H

CAPT JAMES STARKEY was born in England in 1818 He came to America in 1849 and located in St Paul in 1850 He removed to the town of Colu its interests His first enterprise, the building up of the village of Columbus, was not successful In 1857, by order of Gov Medary, he coainst the Chippewas at Sunrise Prairie, the object being to compel them to return to their reservation, an expedition attended with soical results, as elsewhere narrated Capt Starkey took part in the Civil War as captain of a cavalry coh the country lying between St Paul and Lake Superior He was a representative of the first state legislature Since 1865 Capt

Starkey has resided at St Paul, and is at present prominent as a citizen and as an official in West St Paul

SHERBURNE COUNTY

Prior to its organization, Sherburne was part of Benton county It was nae Moses Sherburne, an appointee to the bench of the supreme court of Minnesota Territory The county is bounded on the north by Benton, on the east by Anoka and Isanti counties, and on the south by the Mississippi river It is soularly tis, rolling prairie lands and natural e of high land, from three to five miles wide, extends from Elk river in a northeasterly direction into Anoka county The county is atered by tributaries of the Mississippi, Elk and St Louis rivers, and has besideslakes The soil is ranite quarries are found in the northern tier of towns

David Faribault was the first settler or trader, he having established a post on the Elk river in 1846, where he arden and raised potatoes In Septeht Faribault's improvements, and Folso cabin on what is now Auditor's addition to Elk River village He was succeeded in the ownershi+p by Pierre Bottineau

The county was organized in 1856, under territorial law The governor, Willis A Gorman, appointed J H Stevenson, Ephria chairister of deeds; Andrew Boyington, judge of probate; John G Jamieson, county attorney; Orlando Bailey, sheriff