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This county, a rich far district, lies on the west bank of the Mississippi between Rainally well diversified with timber and prairie lands, and is atered by the tributaries of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers Verh this county, has near its junction with the Mississippi a picturesque waterfall, now somewhat marred by the erection ofnear thecity, beautifully located on the banks of the Mississippi It has a fine court house, good hotels, s & Dakota railroad has its eastern terton & Northern railroads pass through the city The river is bridged at this place

FARMINGTON,

Near the centre of the county, on the Chicago, St Paul & Minneapolis railroad, is a thriving business village West St Paul has encroached largely upon the north part of the county

BIOGRAPHICAL

IGNATIUS DONNELLY--The parents of Ignatius Donnelly ca in Philadelphia, where Ignatius was born, Nov 3, 1831 He was educated in the graded and high schools of his native city, graduating at the latter in 1849, and taking his degree of master of arts three years later He read laith Benjamin Harris Brewster, and was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia in 1852, and practiced there until 1856, when he ca from time to ti, not so busily, however, as to prevent hi a pro and fluent speaker, and besides a man of far more than ordinary native ability and acquirements, he was not suffered to reovernor of the newly ad four years He served his district in the thirty-seventh, thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth congresses During his congressional ter an advanced position in regard to popular education, and the cultivation and preservation of timber on the public lands For his advocacy of the last named measure he was enerally understood, and his reat extent adopted inthe law relating to railroad land grants, so as to require their sale, within a reasonable period, at low prices

When he entered Congress, he gave up his law practice, and since his last tereneral literature In July, 1874, he became editor and proprietor of the _Anti-Monopolist_, which he conducted several years Within the last decade he has published several works that have given him both national and transatlantic fanarok” prove him to be not only a thinker and scientist, but a writer, the charht His last work on the authorshi+p of the Shakespearean plays has attracted universal attention, not only for the boldness of his speculations, but for the consued cipher by which he assumes to prove Lord Bacon to be the author of the plays in question The book has excited much controversy, and, as was to be expected, much adverse criticism Mr

Donnelly was married in Philadelphia, Sept 10, 1855, to Miss Catherine McCaffrey of that city They have three children living

FRANCIS M CROSBY--The ancestors of Mr Crosby were of Revolutionary faton, Windhah school education and spent one year at Mount Caesar Seminary, at Swansea, New Hampshi+re He studied law and was adton, Vermont, in 1855 He served in the Vermont house of representatives in 1855-56 He continued the practice of law until 1858, when he caed in the practice of law He served as judge of probate court in 1860-61, acted as school commissioner several years in Dakota county, and was elected, in 1871, judge of the First Judicial district coton, Chisago, Pine, and Kanabec He held the first courts in Pine and Kanabec counties

Judge Crosby is held in high esteeentlemanly in his manners, yet prompt and decisive in action

He was ue, in New York, May 13, 1866 Mrs

Crosby died in 1869 He married a second wife, Helen M Bates, in New York, in 1872 They have two sons and three daughters

HON G W LE DUC was born at Wilkesville, Gallia county, Ohio, March 29, 1823 His father, Henry Savary Duc, was the son of Henri Duc, an officer of the French Ar to assist the colonies in the Revolutionary struggle The grandfather, after so ro insurrection, escaped and came to Middletown, Connecticut, in 1796, where he was hter of Col John Suade, Continental Troops, and a member of the Sumner family which came to Massachusetts in 1637 The father was married to Mary Stewell, of Braintree, New York, in 1803 The faed to Le Duc in 1845 The grandfather removed to Ohio and founded the town of Wilkesville G W Le Duc, the grandson, spent his early life at this place, but was educated at Lancaster Acadest its scholars Gen W

T and Senator John Sher brothers, and others proe in 1844, graduated in 1848, and was employed for awhile by the firms of H W

Derby & Co, of Cincinnati, and A S Barnes & Co, of New York

Meanwhile he studied law, and in 1850 was admitted to practice in the supreed in selling books, supplying the legislature and the governradually turned his attention to practice in land office courts At the breaking out of the Rebellion he enlisted, and was assigned to duty as captain A Z in the Ar his terrades of lieutenant colonel, colonel and brigadier general by brevet Since the war his most iriculture through the ads, and has ever since been identified with the progress and prosperity of that city, and is the owner of large property interests there

[Illustration: HON G W LE DUC]

GOODHUE COUNTY

This county lies on the west bank of the Mississippi river, between the counties of Dakota and Wabasha It derived its name from James M

Goodhue, pioneer editor and publisher in St Paul It is a rich and populous county The county seat is Red Wing, a thriving city of 7,000 inhabitants, located on the banks of the Mississippi a short distance below the mouth of Cannon river, and at the outlet of several valleys forer valley, well adapted to beco the city are high, bold and e, coe isolated bluff, a half ht, stands between the lower part of the city and the river Part of the county lies upon the shore of Lake Pepin, and includes the fa far out into the lake, with a curve so gradual that the eye of the person ascending or descending the lake is unable to define the Point, which appears to recede before hi backward he sees it in the part of the lake already traversed Cannon river, a considerable streah the county from west to east

Cannon Falls, on this river, once a picturesque and aterfall, is now surrounded by the e, naanized under territorial law In 1845 the principal point was Red Wing There we found a Swiss missionary named Galvin, an Indian farmer name Bush and the noted Jack Frazer, a half-breed trader, all living in log buildings Mr Galvin had a school of Indian children Near by was an Indian ceround it could not be called, as the bodies of the dead were elevated upon the branches of trees and upon stakes to be out of reach of animals The bodies rapped in blankets and exposed until the flesh had decayed, when the bones were taken and buried Red Wing's band of Sioux Indians had their enca, the chief for whoe and city was afterward named, chose for his burial place the summit of Barn Bluff, and that when he died he was buried there, seated upon his horse, with his face turned to the Happy Hunting Ground, the Indians heaping the earth around hiend may need confirhest part of the bluff, and the high spirited chief could certainly have wished no nobler grave

Red Wing city bears few traces of its huin It is a fine, cos It was for some years the seat of Hamline University, now removed to St

Paul

BIOGRAPHICAL

HANS MATTSON--Col Mattson is a native of Onestad, Sweden He was born Dec 23, 1832 His parents were Matts and Ilgena (Larson) Mattson, both now residents of Vasa, Minnesota The son was educated at a high classical school in Christianstad, and in his seventeenth year entered the military service as a cadet and served one year