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Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in Ramsey County, Minnesota. Official Website Ramsey County was created in 1849 and was named for Alexander Ramsey, the first governor of the Minnesota Territory. Adjacent Counties Anoka County Washington County Hennepin County Dakota County Cities, Townships & Communities Arden Hills Bald Eagle Bellaire Blaine ...
The Minnesota Legislature is the bicameral legislature of the U.S. state of Minnesota consisting of two houses: the Minnesota House of Representatives and the Minnesota Senate. Senators are elected from 67 single-member districts. In order to account for decennial redistricting, members run for one two-year term and two four-year terms each decade. They are elected for four-year terms in years ...
The goal of this project is to document everyone that is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in New York Mills, Minnesota.
Wikipedia =Fort Snelling National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Minneapolis in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Find a Grave
This is a project for Finnish-born immigrants and for their descendants in Minnesota, USA . Brief history of Finns in Minnesota Over three hundred years ago the first Finnish immigrants came to North America and more than one hundred years ago the first Finnish settlers came to the upper midwestern States of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota (Wasastjerna, 1957). Finns immigrated to Minnesota ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in St. Louis County, Minnesota. Official Website This area was long inhabited by Algonquian-speaking tribes: the Ojibwe (Chippewa), Ottawa and Potawatomi peoples were loosely affiliated in the Council of Three Fires. As American settlers entered the territory, the Native Americans were pushed to outer areas. The Minnesota Legislature ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Official Website Prior to European contact, the Dakota Sioux were the region's sole residents. In Dakota, the city's name is Bdeóta Othúŋwe ('Many Lakes City'). Fort Snelling was built in 1819 by the US Army at the southern edge of present-day Minneapolis to direct Indian trade away from the British-Canadian...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Official Website Hennepin County was created in 1852 by the Minnesota Territorial Legislature. Father Louis Hennepin's name was chosen because he originally named St. Anthony Falls and recorded some of the earliest accounts of the area for the Western world. Adjacent Counties Anoka County Ramsey Co...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Official Website On March 18, 1858, the outgoing territorial legislature created Otter Tail County from areas partitioned from Cass and Pembina, another of the original counties created in 1849. The county was named for Otter Tail Lake and the Otter Tail River. The county was not organized in 1858, nor...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Aitkin County, Minnesota . Official Website Aitkin County was established in 1857 as Aiken County. The current spelling was adopted in 1872. It was named for William Alexander Aitken , a fur trader for the American Fur Company, under John Jacob Astor . Aiken County originally consisted of the 17 townships closest to Mille Lacs Lake....
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wilkin County, Minnesota. In 1849, the newly organized Minnesota Territory legislature authorized the creation of nine large counties across the territory. One of those, Pembina (later renamed as Kittson), contained areas that were partitioned off on 8 March 1858 to create Toombs County, named after Robert Toombs (1810–85) of Georgia...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wright County, Minnesota. Official Website The county was founded in 1855, and was named for New York politician Silas Wright. Most of the area's first settlers were of German and Swedish origin. Adjacent Counties Sherburne County Hennepin County Carver County McLeod County Meeker County Stearns County Anoka County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wadena County, Minnesota. Official Website The newly organized Minnesota Legislature created the county on June 11, 1858. A settlement began at the future city of Wadena in 1871, and by 1873 a post office was in operation there. The settlement was designated the county seat when the state legislature organized the county on February...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Cottonwood County, Minnesota. Official Website The county was created on May 23, 1857, named for the river in Germantown Township ("cottonwood" is the English meaning of the Dakota Sioux word "Waraju"). Adjacent Counties Redwood County Brown County Watonwan County Jackson County Nobles County Murray County
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Dakota County, Minnesota. Official Website The county was the site of historical events at Mendota that defined the state's future, including providing materials for the construction of Fort Snelling across the river and the signing of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux which ceded land from the native Dakota nation for the Minnesota...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Duluth, Minnesota. Duluth is the county seat of St. Louis County and lies on Lake Superior. Official Website Situated on the north shore of Lake Superior at the westernmost point of the Great Lakes, Duluth is accessible to oceangoing vessels from the Atlantic Ocean 2,300 miles away via the Great Lakes Waterway and the Saint Lawrenc...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Stearns County, Minnesota. Official Website The Stearns County area was formerly occupied by numerous indigenous tribes, such as the Sioux (Dakota), Chippewa (Ojibwe) and Winnebago (Ho-chunk). The first large immigration was of German Catholics in the 1850s. Early arrivals also came from eastern states. The county was founded in 1...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lake County, Minnesota. Official Website The county was formed in 1856, with the name being changed twice from Superior County, to Saint Louis County, to the current name of Lake. At the time of European contact, the principal Native American groups in the region were the Dakota (Sioux) and Ojibwe (also called Anishinabe or Chippewa...
This subportal is part of the State of Minnesota Portal . Wikipedia Please go to following link for further information: United States with Counties, Areas & Communities Project . Projects on Geni Cities Dayton Duluth Minneapolis Rochester St. Paul Stillwater
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Itasca County, Minnesota. Official Website Itasca County was first formed in 1849, upon the creation of the Minnesota Territory. The county is named after Lake Itasca, which is in turn a shortened version of the Latin words veritas caput, meaning 'truth' and 'head', a reference to the source of the Mississippi River. Portions of the...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Goodhue County, Minnesota. Official Website The county was created on March 5, 1853, with territory partitioned from Wabasha County. It was named for James Madison Goodhue (1810–1852), who published the first newspaper in the territory, The Minnesota Pioneer. The county was originally settled exclusively by "Yankee" settlers, mean...
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Carlton County, Minnesota. Official Website Under a 1854 Treaty of La Pointe the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation and other reservations were established in exchange of all of the Lake Superior Ojibwe lands in the Arrowhead Region. In 1857, Carlton county was formed and organized in 1870. It was named for Reuben B. Carlton, a member ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Roseau County, Minnesota. Official Website Roseau County was once the home of many Ojibwe, Sioux, and Mandan tribes. More recent history includes fur trappers and European-based explorers. By 1822, a fur-trading post was established in the area. The county was created on December 31, 1894. For a complete list of Townships & Comm...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Polk County, Minnesota. Official Website The county was created on July 20, 1858, but did not organize it at that time. It was named for the 11th president of the United States, James Knox Polk, who signed the Congressional Act that organized the Minnesota Territory and was organized in 1872 and 1873 Adjacent Counties Marshall C...