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Anthony Mr Beaupre built a log house in 1851, and was continuously engaged in trade until succeeded by his sons He assisted in for e of the probate court, and since as collector of customs at Pembina In 1851 he was married to Teresa de Noyes, of St Louis, and has a fa in Benton county

DAVID GILMAN--Hon David Gila, New York He was left fatherless at the age of six months, and his hbor to be brought up and cared for until the age of twenty-one

As he grew older he was not pleased with this arrangee of fourteen left his ho an education were lian In 1844 he married Nancy W Lamb, of Woodstock, Vermont

In 1848 he ca himself a useful, influential and public spirited citizen, filling overnst the offices filled by him were those of deputy United States islature, and of the constitutional convention He was postmaster at Watab from the establishreatly lamented by his friends and honored by all who knew him Mrs

Gilman and four children survive him

JAMES BEATTY was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, April 27, 1816 When fourteen years of age he went to Cass county, Michigan He faro Indians near Fort Atkinson, Iowa, for several years, and co to Minnesota in 1848 located at Sauk Rapids, which he ed as Indian trader, hotel keeper, merchant and farislatures of 1851, 1853 and 1854 He was married to Eliza Foscet, of New York, in 1854 They have three children living

ELLIS KLING was born in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, Oct 15, 1824

He was brought up as a farh life He came to Sauk Rapids in 1851 In 1854 he was married to Lucy Lewis, of Belle Prairie They have five sons and one daughter

GEORGE W BENEDICT--Mr Benedict was born at Rochester, New York, in 1827 He served an apprenticeshi+p to a printer in Canada for five years In 1851 he was married to Anna Cronk, a native of Prince Edward county, Canada For four years he published the Tecu removed to Sauk Rapids, established the _Frontiersman_ for Jeremiah Russell This paper he conducted for three years He then conducted the _New Era_ for one year In 1868 he established the Sauk Rapids _Sentinel_, which he conducted four years, when he started the Alexandria _Post_ and also became a member of a company that published the St Cloud _Press_, hich he was connected one year In 1872 he re-established the Sauk Rapids _Sentinel_, which he sold to W L Nieman, but repurchased after the cyclone of 1886 Mr Benedict was in the United States revenue service ten years, and served as a member of the state senate one term

J Q A WOOD was born in Chichester, New Hae, New York, in 1843; studied laith President Franklin Pierce; was admitted to practice in 1846, and made his home at Sauk Rapids in 1854, which has been his home ever since, with the exception of some years spent in Kentucky as editor of the _Southern Kentucky shi+eld_ This paper was suppressed in 1862

Returning to Sauk Rapids in 1864, he engaged in the practice of law, in which he has since continued During this period he served eleven years as county attorney, and also a terreat cyclone, having been buried in the debris of the court house, froreat difficulty, he extricated himself Mr Wood is a poetical writer of so been received with great favor A Old, John,” ”Ode to New Hampshi+re,” and ”The Wine of Cyprus” He has one son, a resident of Dakota, and one daughter, the wife of D C Roberts of West Superior

WILLIAM H WOOD was born in London, New Hae his father reraduated at Darte in 1839 and afterward took a course in Union College, New York, graduating in 1843 He then returned to Tecue Stacy In 1845 he was ad the presidential ca he edited a paper in Kentucky, the _Rough and Ready_, advocating the claims of Gen Taylor for the presidency In 1848 he located in Greensburg, Kentucky, and in 1849 was married to a lady of refinement, known to the literary world under the _nom de plume_ of ”Minnie Mary Lee” In 1849 he removed to Sauk Rapids, Minnesota He was there editor of the pioneer paper, the _Frontiersifted wife edited, the _New Era_, in which he was an ardent supporter of Mr Lincoln for the presidency in 1860 Meanwhile he practiced his profession and held the office of county attorney for many years When the land office was established at Sauk Rapids he was appointed receiver and served a nuislature In 1869 he was elected president of the New Athens College, Greensburg, Kentucky, and served a short time, when he contracted the disease that afterward terminated his earthly career Mr Wood was a man of more than ordinary ability, an eloquent speaker, a fluent and gifted writer, whose influence will long be felt He left aand three children

MRS W H WOOD has been a liberal contributor to azines and the author of several volumes, of which a list is here appended: ”The Heart of Myrrha Lake;” ”Into the Light of Catholicity;” ”Hubert's Wife;” ”The Brown House at Duffield;” ”Strayed from the Fold;” ”Three Times Three; or, Basil, Beatrice, Ethel;” ”Story of Annette;” ”Hazel Green's Rival”

A DE LACY WOOD, son of Mrs W H Wood, edits the Two Harbor _Iron Post_, in Lake county

P H WOOD, second son of Mrs W H Wood, edits the Sauk Rapids _Free Press_

REV SHERMAN HALL was born in Weathersfield, Vere and Andover Theological Seminary He was married to Betsey Parker in 1831, and ordained the same year as a missionary to the Chippewa Indians at La Pointe With them he remained until 1854, when he transferred his residence to Sauk Rapids and organized a Congregational church, of which he continued pastor until his death, Sept 1, 1859 Mr Hall ue He was greatly beloved ast his people for his firnized as a e of probate court and county superintendent of schools

JEREMIAH RUSSELL was born in Eaton, Madison county, New York, Feb 2, 1809 He received a common school and academic education, and learned to set type in the office of the Chautauqua _Gazette_ He subsequently taught school and worked for awhile in printing offices Re to Palmyra, he clerked in a store several years In 1835 he caan, and thence to the Lake Superior country, where he superintended a copper mine for a couple of years, at Left Hand river, near the head of the lake In 1837 he ca, and in 1839 accoed in building a saw overn up of the Pokegama mission in consequence of Indian disturbances, he purchased the old Connor trading post and farm In 1843, with Elam Greely, he went down the St Croix and up the Mississippi and Ru for pine timber They found Rum river blockaded at one place a distance of three-quarters of a ether by the roots of grasses and water s, the accues Around this raft they e, and ascended a tributary of Rum river to its source, thence down the Kanabec or Snake river to Pokegaent for Borup & Oakes, Indian traders and fur dealers In the autumn of 1849 he established himself at a point two miles above Sauk Rapids, and opened up a farm of one hundred and thirty acres At the end of four years he moved down the river andthe water power of Sauk Rapids He owned an interest also in the water power on the east side In 1854 he was one of the coe of Sauk Rapids He established the pioneer newspaper, the Sauk Rapids _Frontiersman_

Mr Russell for several years held the office of county auditor and treasurer, and in 1849 was elected to the territorial legislature His name appears in the list ofsessions, and voted for but a single measure He had told his constituents before his election that he would not serve At this time he was Democratic in politics but in later life voted the Republican ticket Mr Russell possessed a warrity of character, which gained for him the love and estee hand to those in need, and, as far as lay in his power, to assist those in distress, he will ever be reh exposed to all the te in contact with all kinds of social conditions, he never departed from the path of christian rectitude, and those hom he came in contact will ever re

Sept 20, 1843, he was united in hter of the late Chas H Oakes), who survives him Seven children were born unto them, but only three are now alive These are Mrs W L Nieman, Miss Julia A and Mr J A Russell Mr Russell died at his home in Sauk Rapids in 1885

EDWARD OSCAR HAMLIN was born at Bethany, Wayne county, Pennsylvania, June 12, 1828 He received his preparatory education at his native place; entered Haraduated in 1858, third in his class, and in three years received the degree of AM He read law first at Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, with Hon Geo W Woodward (afterward one of the judges of the supreme court of Pennsylvania); at Honesdale, Pennsylvania, later with Earl Wheeler, Esq, and was ad for two years at Honesdale, he decided to go West, and in 1855 settled in Sauk Rapids He was admitted to practice in the territorial courts, and in 1856 was ade Hamlin was elected the first mayor of the city of St Cloud He was noovernor, and subsequently for judge of the supreme court He was also, in 1860, appointed by Gov Raent of the University of the State of Minnesota,” and was subsequently an efficient and zealous member of the state board of normal instruction

Soon after the outbreak of the Rebellion, in 1861, Gov Rai defective, he was obliged to decline it In 1864 Judge Haates to the Democratic national convention He was appointed as one of the committee on platform, and openly denounced, with three others, the platform before it was adopted, because it declared the war for the Union a failure Judge Ha out the stars and stripes over his residence in Sauk Rapids, the first one in that town to do so In 1873, being an only child and yielding to the solicitations of his parents, Judge Hamlin returned to his native county and opened an office in Honesdale After a short residence there he removed to Bethany, which has since been his home He continued the practice of his profession in Honesdale until June, 1885, when failing health coe Hahter of Judge Eldred, who for a quarter of a century graced the bench of Pennsylvania She died at St Cloud, Sept 27, 1868 In October, 1870, Judge Ha, Esq, for years clerk of the district court of Stearns county

MORRISON COUNTY

Morrison county is soular in outline It is bounded on the north by Crow Wing and Cass, on the east by Mille Lacs, on the south by Benton and Stearns, on the west by Stearns and Todd counties The portion east of the Mississippi originally belonged to Benton county, and the portion on the west side to Todd county It contains 1,139 square miles The eastern part is well covered with pine and hardwood forests The west and central portions consist of oak openings and brush prairies The groves are interspersed with poplar The surface is generally level, but is well drained by the Mississippi and its tributaries, mostly small streams It has some fine lakes in the northern and central parts The soil is well adapted to fare of Sauk Rapids and St Cloud, passes through the county

William Nicholson was probably the first settler in this county He first came to Swan River in 1847, in company with ten other men They forded the Mississippi near the mouth of Swan river, made a raft and floated down the river a few miles, where they abandoned it on account of loater, and returned south, whence they came The next summer Nicholson returned with twenty-two men, crossed the river at the saency at Long Prairie