Bio of STREETER, Levi W., Wright Co, MN ======================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. If you have found this file through a source other than the MNArchives Table Of Contents you can find other Minnesota related Archives at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/mnfiles.htm Please note the county and type of file at the top of this page to find the submitter information or other files for this county. FileFormat by Terri--MNArchives Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by: Diane Hanson Submitted: April 2004 ========================================================================= 409 HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY Levi W. Streeter was born in England, and was brought to this country by his parents at the age of nine years. He was reared in New York state and there married Margaret Griffin, a native of that state. The young couple then started westward, and just before the Civil War located on section 11, in Woodland township, where they secured forty acres. They erected a house of unhewn logs, started to clear the land and started an agricultural career in the wilderness. In their latter life they moved to Montrose, where they died. The children in the family were Stella, Nellie, Margaret, John and William.