Saturday, July 27, 2013

On This Date in Minnesota History: July 27

July 27, 1898 – “Alexander Ramsey, Minnesota governor during the Civil War, set the cornerstone of the capitol. Designed by Cass Gilbert, the capitol was meant as a memorial to Minnesota's Civil War soldiers.”

http://www.thehistorypeople.com/data/docs/timeline-part1.pdf




Minnesota Governor Alexander Ramsey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alexander_Ramsey,_Brady-Handy_bw_photo_portrait,_ca1865-1880.jpg



Friday, July 26, 2013

On this Date in Minnesota history: July 26

July 26, 1974 - Genevieve Gorder, the host of Dear Genevieve on the HGTV cable channel and one of the original decorators of the TLC's hit series Trading Spaces, was born on this date in Minneapolis, Minn.1

In March 2013 she began a partnership with Minnesota-based Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group, one of the world's largest hotel groups, to launch a new brand identity and a new generation hotel prototype for Country Inns & Suites.2

1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genevieve_Gorder
2http://www.hospitalitynet.org/news/154000320/4059931.html?goback=%2Egde_2702169_news_5720151813060063325



Genevieve Gorder
http://celebexperts.com/talent/genevieve-gorder/

Thursday, July 25, 2013

On this Date in Minnesota history: July 25

July 25, 1793 or 17951, 2  –  Jacob Fahlstrom, born on this date in Stockholm, is considered to be the first Swede to step foot in Minnesota.1 He left Sweden at age 12 as a cabin boy on a ship captained by his uncle to London, but chose not to return to Sweden. Instead he “followed an expedition [that] Lord Selkirk was fitting out for Hudson Bay, Canada.”1

Once there, he often took “roving excursions into the surrounding country. During one of these he went so far into the woods that he was lost and was unable to find his way back.”1 Trying to find his ship, he accidentally drifted farther south, away from the ship and finally came upon an Indian camp of Chippewas, which took him in. “He continued to live among them for a number of years, [eventually] marrying a Chippewa maiden [named Marguarite Bongo, the daughter of the head chief of the Lake Superior Chippewa Indians,1 in 18232].” They had nine children.4



Jacob Fahlstrom and his wife Marguarite

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/27552418/person/5012460111/photo/d4a1be75-cdf5-4a73-ae63-c15acbc8c04e?src=search


After his marriage, Fahlstrom moved his family to live at Leech Lake and then to Lake Winnipeg. The family also lived at “Sandy Lake, Mississippi and Mille Lacs Lake and other places, all this time [Fahlstrom was] in the service of the American Fur Company for which he acted as trading agent. He finally came as far south as Fort Snelling. The first Americans who located in Minnesota, as Gen. H. H. Sibley, N. W. Kittson and others, who came here in 1832, said that Fahlstrom was here long before themselves and that he was at Fort Snelling already in 1827. At this fort he supported himself by supplying it with wood. He was also mail carrier for some years between Fort Snelling and Superior.”1

Around 1837 he was converted to the Methodist faith and became a member of the Methodist church at Fort Snelling.1 Shortly thereafter, Father Jacob as he was known, became a sort of missionary to the Indians and also to the men of the lumber camps in the north woods. 3

Fahlstrom died July 29, 1859, at 64 years of age and was buried near his last home in Afton, Minn.,5 where he had set apart a burial place for himself and family.1 His wife Marguarite died in 1880.


A memorial for Jacob and his wife Marguarite was placed in the Fahlstrom Family Cemetery in 1964 by the Minnesota Methodist Historical Society. Erroneously, the headstone lists Marguarite’s birth year as 1787; most records list her birth year as 1797.5

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

On this date in Minnesota history: July 24

July 24, 1998 – “Pitcher Ila Borders of the Duluth-Superior Dukes was the first woman to win a men's regular season professional baseball game. The Dukes beat the Sioux Falls Canaries 3-1, in Duluth.”

http://www.thehistorypeople.com/data/docs/timeline-part3.pdf





Pitcher Ila Borders
http://www.thestrong.org/online-collections/nmop/5/40/112.8075 /




Tuesday, July 23, 2013

On this date in Minnesota history: July 23

July 23, 1997 – Serial murderer Andrew Cunanan committed suicide aboard a private houseboat wharfed along the exclusive Indian Creek Canal about “2 1/2 miles from the Versace mansion” in Miami Beach, Fla. Cunanan began his cross-country killing-spree April 27, 1997, in the Warehouse District of Minneapolis.

http://infoweb.newsbank.com.ezproxy.hclib.org/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_product=AWNB&p_theme=aggregated5&p_action=doc&p_docid=0EAF0FE571B63E80&p_docnum=23&p_queryname=4


FBI Wanted Poster for Andrew Cunnan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Andrew_Cunanan_FBI_Wanted_Poster.jpg


Monday, July 22, 2013

On this date in Minnesota history: July 22

July 22, 1934 — “FBI agents led by Melvin Purvis and Samuel P. Cowley gunned down John Dillinger in front of the Biograph Theater in Chicago. That night, [Homer] Van Meter and his girlfriend Marie Comforti fled to St. Paul.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Van_Meter



Homer Van Meter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Homer_Van_Meter.jpg




Sunday, July 21, 2013

On this date in Minnesota history: July 21

July 21, 1856 – “James J. Hill arrived in St. Paul to work as a shipping clerk for J. W. Bass and Company. He would eventually find his fortune as a railroad baron and business tycoon.”

http://www.thehistorypeople.com/data/docs/timeline-part1.pdf




James J. Hill
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:James_J._Hill_at_35.jpg