North Dakota Magazine: The State's Resources--agricultural, Industrial, & Commercial, Volume 1, Issue 6Agricultural Department, 1907 - North Dakota |
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Page 90 - He was reared on a farm, and received his education in the common schools of Prince Edward county.
Page 24 - ASLE J. GRONNA, Republican, of Lakota, was born at Elkader, Clayton County, Iowa, December 10, 1858; at the age of 2 years his parents moved to Houston County, Minn;, where he was brought up on a farm and educated at the public schools, finishing at the Caledonia Academy; taught school for two years at Wilmington, Minn.; moved to South Dakota in 1879, where he was engaged in farming and teaching; in 1880 moved to Buxton, Traill County, Dakota Territory, engaging in the mercantile business; moved...
Page 66 - He learned the trade of a carpenter, and followed it until the breaking out of the civil war, when he enlisted in the 17th Connecticut volunteers, and served as private until the close of the war.
Page 134 - ... attended the public schools of that city and Friends School of Providence. He has been active in public affairs all his life and enjoys the confidence of the people in his district who have honored him by electing him State senator, representive, treasurer and town collector. For twenty-five years he has been a member of the Republican State Central Committee. He is a Mason, IOOF, 7th degree National Grange. He was President Pro Tern of the Rhode Island Senate five years. He was instrumental...
Page 99 - Grant county, Wisconsin, where two years later he was elected a member of the constitutional convention of the state. In 1848 he was elected to congress, and in 1853 accepted the nomination of the Whigs for attorney general of Wisconsin, but withiFor the ten months ending September 30, 1903.
Page 62 - ... academic education, studied law with JG Shipman, esq., at Belvidere; entered the Union Army in 1861, as Second Lieutenant, in the Eleventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, was promoted to First Lieutenant 1862, received two brevet ranks from the President, one as "Captain, for gallant and meritorious service in capturing from the enemy a full rocket battery...
Page 102 - July 16, 1838, and received his education in the schools of that city. At the age of...
Page 103 - Elks, the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of America. He is also a member of the Phi Chi and Phi Rho Sigma medical fraternities.
Page 10 - Sully' s expedition, passing on west to the gold regions. Sargent : For HE Sargent, general manager of the Northern Pacific Railroad, interested in the development of the agricultural interests of the Red River valley. Stark : For George Stark, general manager of the Northern Pacific railroad, owner of the Stark farm, near Bismarck, opened to demonstrate the fertility and adaptability of the Missouri river region to general farming. Steele : For Franklin Steele, an early trader at Fort Snelling,...
Page 10 - Ramsey: For Hon. Alexander Ramsey, governor of Minnesota, United States senator, secretary of war. He introduced the first bill in the senate for the territory of Pembina. Ransom : On account of Fort Ransom, named for General Ransom, a distinguished soldier. Richland: For Hon. MT Rich, a settler of 1869 at Wahpeton and because it embraced a land that was rich indeed. Mr. Rich visited the Red River valley in 1864, in connection with Sully' s expedition, passing on west to the gold regions.