Saturday, May 21, 2016

On this Date in Minnesota History: May 21

May 21, 1934“The Minneapolis Teamsters' strike erupted between picketers who blocked trucks driven by non-unionists and an army hired by the Citizens Alliance, a union of local employers.”

http://www.thehistorypeople.com/data/docs/timeline-part2.pdf





 Minneapolis Teamsters' strike
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Friday, May 20, 2016

On This Date in Minnesota History: May 20

May 20, 1856 - After a tedious journey by steamboat down the Ohio and up the Mississippi, Reverend Demetrius di Marogna, Father Cornelius Wittmann and Bruno Riss along with two lay brothers, Benno Muckenthaler and Patrick Greil, arrived in St. Cloud on this date. “This arrival inaugurated one of the more fascinating chapters in the religious history of St. Cloud, [Minn].

“St. Cloud prior to the Benedictines arrival in 1856 was a scene of change. About the middle of the last century, the part of central Minnesota lying west of the Mississippi was thrown open for settlement and a stream of settlers poured into the area. In a short time the face of the primitive wilderness was changed. The Indian tribes had been induced to move northward and their former hunting grounds were soon transformed into promising fields; roads were constructed across country; stage routes afforded facilities for travel by land and small steamboats passed up and down the Mississippi River between Minneapolis and St. Cloud.

“A great number of these immigrants who arrived between 1854 and 1855 were Germans and Catholics. Their spiritual care immediately became an important subject of attention. In all the northern part of the Territory of Minnesota there was at the time only one priest, Reverend Francis Pierz (1785-1880). Reverend Pierz became the first spiritual leader of the Catholic Community in St. Cloud, serving both the Indians in the northern and eastern parts of the territory along with the new Germans immigrants who settled in Stearns County. It was a laborious task for an older man who was called upon to travel great distances to care for the spiritual needs of the predominately German Catholic population of the area. The work exceeded his powers. Thus he appealed to the bishop of St. Paul to secure German priests for the new settlements.”


Reverend Francis Pierz1

“The request was relayed to Reverend Boniface Wimmer, who ten years prior had come from the ancient monastery of Metten in Bavaria to the United States and founded the Benedictine monastery of St. Vincent’s in Pennsylvania. Upon receiving the request from Father Pierz he sent out the brothers who arrived in St. Cloud on May 20 with a mission to attend to the spiritual needs of the populous.

“Their arrival marked the beginning of the great progress made with the help of the Benedictine Order. Without delay these Benedictine Fathers proceeded to establish a monastery to tend to the spiritual needs of the Germans who had been attracted by Father Pierz’s articles. From this monastery the Fathers visited the settlements in Stearns and neighboring counties, gathered the people, formed congregations, began erecting churches and schools and soon had the satisfaction to learn that their labors were not unrewarded, for the people responded eagerly, and soon log chapels were reared, which in many instances named the settlements, as St. Joseph, St. Augusta, St. Wendel, St. Martin, etc. The establishment of a Benedictine monastery in central Minnesota led to an even greater influx of German Catholics.


St. John’s University2


“Among the ecclesiastical goals of the monastery, the Benedictine order wished to establish a means for educating the citizens of the settlement. The Benedictines began to establish a school system, although not originally accepted by the German immigrants, and organized the first private institution for higher education in Minnesota. St. John’s University, founded on November 10, 1857, remains today the oldest continuous establishment of higher learning in the state. The Benedictine monks influence is still felt today in both their religious and community endeavors to serve the Catholic presence in Stearns County.”

http://minnesotasnewcountry.com/benedictine-monks-arrive-in-st-cloud-on-this-date-in-central-minnesota-history/

1http://minnesotasnewcountry.com/benedictine-monks-arrive-in-st-cloud-on-this-date-in-central-minnesota-history/

2https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/23/03/e3/2303e3298d8a248102db314af13b432b.jpg
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Thursday, May 19, 2016

On This Date in Minnesota History: May 19

May 19, 1915 – Minneapolis Officer Otto G. Ostby was killed when his police motorcycle struck the rear of a streetcar on Bloomington Avenue as he responded to a burglary call. As he attempted to pass the streetcar an automobile suddenly turned into his path. Officer Ostby attempted to avoid striking the car and struck the rear fender of the streetcar.

Officer Ostby had been with the agency for five years and was survived by his wife and 5-year-old daughter.

http://www.odmp.org/officer/10250-officer-otto-g-ostby




Minneapolis Officer Otto G. Ostby 
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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

On This Date in Minnesota History: May 18

May 18, 1929 - Julius, Ida, and Ernest Schuch were found beaten to death in their Waseca County home by Julius' daughters, Elizabeth, 18, and Wilhelmina, 16,, who had gone into town around 7 p.m. to meet some friends and run some errands. Upon returning home around 10 p.m., the girls found the door open and the lights on in the house, unusual for that time of night. Much to their horror, they also found their little sister Ida, 11, unconscious and bleeding on the floor.  The phone lines had been cut, forcing Elizabeth and Wilhelmina to drive into town to contact the police.

A search by police and neighbors of the farm eventually located their father Julius who “was found dead by the front gate of the farm. He had wounds to his arms and head. His head had a hole in his skull where his right eye was supposed to be. Julius was also found with clenched fists. The clenched fists plus the condition of the grass around where Julius laid, led officers to believe Julius had put up a fight.  Ernest was also found dead in a wheat field east of the farm. His skull was crushed and beaten into the dirt of the field. Ida was taken to the hospital where she died the next day at 10 p.m. She never regained consciousness.”

The only thing missing from the Schuch house was a small safe from the girls' bedroom, which was “used for insurance forms and farm papers. However, when the murder occurred the safe held at the most $25.00 and possibly some school books. To this day the Schuch murders remain unsolved.”

http://www.waseca.k12.mn.us/vhm/1919-1940/schuch.htm

http://www.lakesnwoods.com/images/Waseca43.jpg




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Tuesday, May 17, 2016

On this Date in Minnesota History: May 17

May 17, 2013 – Clayton Moore, better known as TV’s Lone Ranger, was inducted into Golden Valley, Minn.’s Hall of Fame on this date, along with three other inductees:

Chester Bird (Ptaszek)—World War II hero who died in combat after the D-Day Invasion in 1944 (the American Legion in Golden Valley is named after him),

Lawrence Brown—World War II hero, active volunteer with many local and international humanitarian activities, and co-founder of the Ronald McDonald House in Minneapolis, and

Christopher Ewald—early pioneer whose dairy farm and milk route developed into the well-known Ewald Brothers Dairy, which provided milk and other products to homes and stores throughout the area.1

The Golden Valley Hall of Fame honors those who have been affiliated with Golden Valley, made contributions to the community, and become renown.

In 1957 after “The Lone Ranger went off the air, Moore’s wife Sally talked him into moving to the Twin Cities because that’s where her family lived, and she wanted their daughter Dawn to get to know them better. They lived in Golden Valley for a number of years, and Moore opened a real estate company. He called it Ranger Realty. According to Blair Tremere, “a founder of the Golden Valley Hall of Fame and the point person on Moore’s nomination,” Moore concentrated on “developing the area just north of what is now the Menard’s store on” I394.2 


1http://www.goldenvalleymn.gov/newsarchive/index.php/2013/05/14/golden-valley-inducts-four-to-hall-of-fame/

2StarTribune; “Who was that masked role Model?”; Minneapolis, Minn.; July 2, 2013; p. E1.




Clayton Moore,TV’s Lone Ranger
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Monday, May 16, 2016

On This Date in Minnesota History: May 16

May 16, 1910 – This morning (Tuesday) a coroner’s jury in Pine County pronounced that  the deaths of Fireman Frank St. John, Duluth, and Head Brakeman W. E. Young, Gladstone, was the result of the opening of a switch by an unknown person who possessed a switch key.  The two men were killed in a wreck of the fast freight over the Northern Pacific road at Finlayson, Minn., Sunday morning.

Railway detectives are conducting a rigorous investigation and every effort will be made to discover the culprit’s identity. Railway officials say they have no reason to suspect anyone and that there was no apparent motive for the crime. It was learned that two trains assed the switch at Finlayson in safety a few hours before the wreck. One passed at midnight, while the wreck occurred at 1:30 a.m. The charred body of Young will be taken to Gladstone today for burial.

The Minneapolis Morning Tribune; “Trainmen’s Death Planned. Switch at Finlayson, Minn., Was Opened by Person With Key, Coroner’s Jury Finds.”; may 17, 1910; p. 1.




Northern Pacific Depot, Finlayson, Minn.

http://www.west2k.com/mnpix/finlayson.jpg

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Sunday, May 15, 2016

On This Date in Minnesota History: May 15

May 15, 1969 - The Lake Superior agate was adopted as the official gemstone of the state of Minnesota (Minnesota Statute 1.147).

http://www.leg.state.mn.us/leg/symbols.aspx



Lake Superior agate
http://www.leg.state.mn.us/leg/symbols.aspx

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