Bio of Luke Hillis STOKES (d.1886), Wright Co., MN

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Bios from:  Mitchell, William Bell, 
History of Stearns County, Minnesota.  Volume II.  
Chicago: H.C. Cooper, Jr. and Co.  1915.

Page 967

Luke Hillis Stokes, a pioneer, was born in England, and was there 
educated and reared.  He there married Mary Weilding , a native of 
the same country.  In 1849 they came to America, and located in the 
Bronx, Westchester county, New York, now one of the Burroughs of 
New York City.  Later they moved to the northern part of the state 
and a year later moved, to the westward and settled in Herkimer 
county, in the same state.  His trade was that of carpenter and 
joiner, and this is the line of work, he followed until 1866.  
In that year he came to Stearns county, Minn., and secured a farm 
of eighty acres in section 20, Lynden township.  He erected a 
pleasant home and good barn and outbuildings, and developed the farm.  
His character and worth soon caused him to be regarded as one of the 
substantial and representative men of the community.  He died in 1886.  
His good wife died in 1888.  In the family there were four children:
George W., a retired farmer in Lynden township, now living in Clearwater;
Mary (deceased); Mattie (deceased), wife of Isaac Philo (deceased);
and Samuel, who owns and operates the old home farm in Lynden township.