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Stiles, W L+ Taylor, J L

Taylor, Jesse W

Taylor, N C D

Terry, J C

Tinker, W H

Thompson, James (colored)

Trask, Sylvanus

Trower, John+ Thompson, G W

Terry, Robert

Van Voorhes A

Villaue

Whitaker, E H

Whitney, J C

Wilkinson, M S

Wilkin, Alex

Wells, James

Wilson, Harvey

Woodbury, Warren

Willoughby, A

Wright, Thomas+ Williamson, T S

Willim, Williaha, Henry

Welshance, M

Williams, D D

Whalen, Patrick

Yorks, J C

[Note:Deceased]

[Note: + Unknown]

OBJECTS AND ORGANIZATION

The society was organized in 1849 by a few of the pioneers of the Territory, and incorporated by an act of the first territorial legislature, approved Oct 20, 1849, this being the first literary institution organized in the Territory; and its ”library,” then only a few voluinal charter of the society stated its objects to be: ”The collection and preservation of a library, ical specis connected with, and calculated to illustrate and perpetuate the history and settlement of said Territory” The amended charter of 1856 enacted: ”The objects of said society, with the enlarged powers and duties herein provided, shall be in addition to the collection and preservation of publications, s pertaining to the social, political and natural history of Minnesota, to cultivate ae of the useful and liberal arts, science and literature”

The work of this society may therefore be formulated thus:

I (1) The collection, (2) the preservation, (3) the publication of materials for the history of Minnesota and its people

II The collection anduseful works of reference on the e

III The diffusion ae

ITS PROGRESS

In the early days of the Territory, owing to its want of means, the sparse population and its poverty, and the infancy of the coenerally, the society accoarding the early history of this region, and printing the saht hundred and forty voluanized, and with the aid of a sed, has been able to ress

ITS PRESENT CONDITION

It has now co believed to be fireproof; a sufficient incoranted partly by the State and partly contributed by its est and22,000 voluether with a cabinet or ical curiosities, and a nus, manuscripts, etc An endowifts and ibly situated, on which at no distant day, will be erected a fireproof building