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Book Title: History Of Marshall County, Dakota

SISSETON—125-57.

    The west half of this township lies on the same plateau as the east half of
Hickman township, and with the exception of several deep coulees is quite level.
The east half lies up in the hills, and in places is considerable broken and
stony, and contains numerous marshes and meadows and oecassionally a large pond.
The settlers in this part of the township have considerable good tillable land
by removing a few stones. In the spring of '85 was organized as a school
township, and this year built two good school-houses. Has not yet been organized
as a civil township. Richard Dunne, a native of Ireland, came here from Prairie
du Chien, Wis., in May, 1883, and located on sec. 7 on the west bank of the
large coulee, where the old fort trail crosses the same. He built a log hut, the
only one in this part of the county; the coulee near his house contains
considerable brush and young timber. Of his children, Frank A. and daughter Mary
E., settled on sec. .7; and John B. on sec. 18.

    Geo. McIntosh and his mother came here from the Lisbon country, but
originally from La Salle Co., Ill., and settled on sections 8 and 5. John
Stewart, from Nova Scotia, settled on sec. 6. The above parties came here in
June, 1883. John Scheidt, a native of Thurgan, Switzerland, came here from
Bangor, Wis., in June, 1883, and settled on sec. 18. His son Andrew died March
28, 1885; his wife died Jan. 13, 1886, and only remaining son died May 28,1886.
Thos. Hughes, a native of Wales, came here from Bangor, Wis., and settled on
sec. 5; his daughters located as follows: Katie, sec. 8; Sarah, sec. 19, and
Lizzie on sec. 9. C. H. Loveland, from Michigan, first located in Hickman and
later here on sec. 30. N. W. Coppock and son Charles, from Chicago, sec. 4.
Theodore Ziegelmeir, from Nauvoo, Ill., sec. 9. D. R. Eaton, from Eau Claire,
Wis., sec. 2, on the west slope of the Coteaus.

    The following is a list of the Scandinavian settlers, nearly all from
Minnesota: Daniel Youngquist, sec. 17; Swan and August Anderson, sec. 20; John
Linquist, sec. 29; Swan Johnson, sec. 30; Swan Ogren, sec. 32; Mr. Carlson, sec.
30; Chas. Anderson, sec. 31. His son Joseph, a grown young man, died in the fall
of 1885. H. P. Strandberg, sec. 6. Mr. Strandberg does general blacksmithing for
settlers.

    Warner R. Gregory and sister Sue, from Decatur, Ill., located on sec. 11 in
July, 1885, and were the first settlers in the hills; their nearest neighbor was
five miles distant. Since then the settlers given below settled in this part of
the township. In September, '85, three colored soldiers called at Mr. Gregory's
for breakfast, stating they had been at Britton, and were now looking for their
strayed horses. While they were eating, two Indian scouts dropped in upon them
and took them prisoners. They were deserters, and in all probability had
wandered about the hills all night, and had been trailed by the scouts.

    Mr. Ferris settled on sec. 1. Mrs. I. C. Stowe, from Illinois, and Edwin
Whipple, from Michigan, sec. 2. Rev. J. C. Adams, from Marcellus, Mich., settled
on sec. 2 in 1885. Harvey H. Smith, a native of New Hampshire, emigrated to
Wisconsin in 1849 and has lived in Minnesota and Kansas; settled on sec. 12 in
1885. Bernarl L. Marpee settled on sec. 13. Mr. Jensen on sec. 24. Carl Ogren,
sec. 19, in fractional addition. Holmes and Moore live in the eastern part of
the township. Miss Katie Hughes taught the first school in a claim shanty during
the summer of 1885.


Additional Comments:
HISTORY OF MARSHALL COUNTY, DAKOTA.
ITS TOPOGRAPHY AND NATURAL HISTORY, SKETCHES OF PIONEER SETTLERS, WITH THE NAMES
OF ACTUAL SETTLERS, WHERE THEY ARE FROM, AND WHERE THEY LIVE; ALSO THE MILITARY
AND SISSETON RESERVATIONS.
BY
GEORGE HICKMAN.
BRITTON. DAK.: J. W. BANBURY, PUBLISHER. 1886.


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