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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 ...
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 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 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 of those who were born, lived or died in Sibley County, Minnesota. Official Website The county was created on March 5, 1853 and was named for Henry Hastings Sibley. Adjacent Counties McLeod County Carver County Scott County Le Sueur County Nicollet County Renville County Cities, Townships & Communities Alfsborg | Arlington | Assumption (part) | Bismarck |...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Meeker County, Minnesota. Official Website Meeker County was named after Judge Bradley B. Meeker of St. Anthony. County government was set up on May 6, 1856 by the County Commissioners at Forest City. Adjacent Counties McLeod County Wright County Renville County Kandiyohi County Stearns County Cities Cedar Mills ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Brown County, Minnesota. Official Website Brown County was founded in 1855. It was named for Joseph Renshaw Brown , a member of the Governor's Council of Minnesota in 1855. Adjacent Counties Nicollet County Blue Earth County Watonwan County Cottonwood County Redwood County Renville County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Beltrami County, Minnesota. Official Website The county's name comes from Italian adventurer Giacomo Beltrami, who explored the area in 1825. The county was created in 1866 and organized in 1896. Portions of the Leech Lake and Red Lake Indian reservations are in the county. The northernmost portion of the Mississippi River flows th...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Fillmore County, Minnesota. Official Website Fillmore County was created on March 5, 1853. It is named for Millard Fillmore, the 13th President of the United States. Fillmore County was an early destination for Euro-American settlement following the United States' 1851 treaties with the Dakota nations. Norwegian immigrants were part...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cass County, Minnesota. Official Website Cass County was created on September 1, 1851 by the Minnesota Territory legislature, although its government was not organized until 1897. The county was formed of areas partitioned from Dakota, Mahkatah, Pembina and Wahnata Counties. It was named for Lewis Cass, a Michigan political figure o...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Sherburne County, Minnesota. Official Website Created in 1856, the county is named for Moses Sherburne (1808-1868), a prominent area attorney, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Minnesota Territory (1853-1857), who retired to the county and spent his final year of life there (in Orono). Adjacent Counties Mille Lacs Co...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Anoka County, Minnesota. Official Website Anoka County was organized by an act of the Minnesota Territorial Legislature on May 23, 1857, the year prior to Minnesota 's admission to the Union. It was formed from parts of Ramsey County and Benton County ; the Rum River previously divided the line between the two counties. The boundari...
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 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...
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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 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 ...
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...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Becker County, Minnesota. Official Website Becker County became a county on March 18, 1858. It was named for George Loomis Becker, one of three men elected to Congress when Minnesota became a state. Since Minnesota could only send two, Becker elected to stay behind, and he was promised to have a county named after him. A portion of ...
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 Clay County, Minnesota. Official Website The county was formed on March 8, 1862, although its government was not organized at that time. In 1872 the organization was effected. It was named for nineteenth-century political figure Henry Clay, member of the United States Senate from Kentucky, and US Secretary of State. The county was o...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Crow Wing County, Minnesota. Official Website This area was long occupied by the Ojibwe people, known as Chippewa in the United States. In addition, numerous Dakota people lived in central and southern Minnesota before European settlement. European Americans established a trading post by 1837 in this area, on the east side of the Mi...
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 Traverse County, Minnesota. Official Website The county was founded in 1862 and organized in 1881 and received its name from Lake Traverse (Lac Travers in French), a translation of the Sioux name. Adjacent Counties Grant County Wilkin County Stevens County Big Stone County Roberts County, South Dakota Richland County, ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Douglas County, Minnesota. The territorial legislature created Douglas County on March 8, 1858, shortly before Minnesota attained statehood. It was named for political figure Stephen A. Douglas, who was serving as a US Senator from Illinois at the time of the county's creation. The county organization was completed in 1866. Adjacen...