Bio of Garrard, L. H., M.D. Wabasha Co., MN
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Garrard, L. H., M.D., is a native of Connecticut. His first visit to
Minnesota was made in 1854, in company with General Israel Garrard, but
his actual residence in the State was not made until four years later -
1858. Dr. Garrard received a liberal education but did not complete a full
classical course. He graduated from the medical department of the
University of Pennsylvania in 1853, and the following year came into
Minnesota with his brother Israel, as before stated, intending to go to
Puget Sound in Gov. Steven's line of survey. Through some malarrangement
they failed to find the military escort and so took a tour through
Minnesota, finally bringing up at Frontenac, (then called Western
Landing), on Lake Pepin. Here they took up several thousand acres of land,
buying claims from the squatters, most of which was afterward settled with
half-breed scrip. In 1856 Dr. Garrard went to Europe and spent two years
traveling and studying upon the continent, returning to America in 1858.
The same year he returned to Minnesota, and from 1858 to 1870 was a
resident of Frontenac, engaged in looking after his landed interests
there. In the fall of 1859, he was elected a member of the State
Legislature and served during the sessions of 1859-60. In 1870 he removed
to Lake City, was one of the organizers of the National Bank here that
same year, and its president during the first three years of its
existence. A man of liberal culture and decidedly interested in all
questions of moral reform. He was the candidate of the temperance party of
Lake City for Mayor on the no-license ticket in 1876, and was elected on
that issue. In 1862, Dr. L. Garrard married Miss Flora, daughter of Mr.
Eli Van Vliet. They have two daughters, Edith and Annie, both attending
school in Cincinnati. The Doctor is a gentleman of broad views,
cosmopolitan in his tastes and ideas, charitable and kindly in his
disposition, of genial social temperament, and one of Lake City's most
popular and public-spirited citizens.
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