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Book Title: History Of La Fayette County

THE FIRST FARM.

The first farm, or what is now claimed as such, was opened up this year. Its
location was at Gratiot's Grove, and the ambitious husbandmen were A. C. Ransom
and Kingsley Olds, who came into the county from the American Bottom, opposite
St. Louis. They planted a crop of corn, but an early frost nipped the growth
before harvest, and they were denied the profit of reaping their reward for the
industry and enterprise they had manifested.

In the record of names of those who came during 1827, the claim is not indulged
that it is complete. Far from it. There were others who ventured into the
wilderness, as stated, but who, having left no "tracks" behind them to guide the
historian in his search for facts and legends appertaining to their coming and
going. The deeds they accomplished, the trials they endured and the triumphs
which blessed their endeavors are reserved for future days to unfold and
elaborate.


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HISTORY OF LA FAYETTE COUNTY, WISCONSIN,

CONTAINING
AN ACCOUNT OF ITS SETTLEMENT, GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND RESOURCES; AN EXTENSIVE
AND MINUTE SKETCH OF ITS CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES—THEIR IMPROVEMENTS,
INDUSTRIES, MANUFACTORIES, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS AND SOCIETIES; ITS WAR RECORD,
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT MEN AND EARLY SETTLERS; THE WHOLE
PRECEDED BY A HISTORY OF WISCONSIN, STATISTICS OF THE STATE, AND AN ABSTRACT OF
ITS LAWS AND CONSTITUTION AND OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY.
MDCCCLXXXI. [1881]


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