Minnesota Family History Research: 3/20/16

Saturday, March 26, 2016

On This Date in Minnesota History: March 26

March 26, 1973 – Actor T. R. Knight, best known for “his role as Dr. George O'Malley on ABC's medical drama Grey's Anatomy,” was born in Minneapolis on this date.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._R._Knight

T. R. Knight

http://gawker.com/5104793/rumor-tr-knight-walks-off-greys-anatomy-set

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If you are interested in finding out more about your family history in Minnesota, I specialize in researching genealogical and historical records in Minn. and western Wis., including: census records, birth records, death certificates, obits, grave site photos, ship passenger lists, marriage records and declarations of intent/naturalization records. I will visit locations to research local history and county records, as well as take photos. Quick turnaround on MHS records. Both short searches and family history reports.

Website: TheMemoryQuilt.com ® click on Family History

Contact me at: pjefamilyresearch@gmail.com

Friday, March 25, 2016

On This Date in Minnesota History: March 25

March 25, 1963 – “Karl F. Rolvaag was sworn in as governor, having beaten Elmer L. Andersen by 91 votes in the state's closest gubernatorial election. The recount took four months.”

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

Gov. Karl Rolvaag

http://www.wtip.org/sites/default/files/images/Rolvaag,%20Karl.jpg

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If you are interested in finding out more about your family history in Minnesota, I specialize in researching genealogical and historical records in Minn. and western Wis., including: census records, birth records, death certificates, obits, grave site photos, ship passenger lists, marriage records and declarations of intent/naturalization records. I will visit locations to research local history and county records, as well as take photos. Quick turnaround on MHS records. Both short searches and family history reports.

Website: TheMemoryQuilt.com ® click on Family History

Contact me at: pjefamilyresearch@gmail.com

Thursday, March 24, 2016

On This Date in Minnesota History: March 24

March 24, 1859 – “Samuel Frisby Snively was born [on this date]. A lawyer and Duluth's only four-term mayor (1921-1937), he was devoted to extending Rodger's Boulevard - later renamed Skyline Drive. A perennial bachelor, he loved children and provided an annual picnic for all orphaned children of Duluth at his personal expense.”

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

Samuel Snively

http://www.amitycreek.com/sevenbridges/bio.html

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

On This Date in Minnesota History: March 23

March 23, 1915 – The charges of gross extravagances against the Range mining towns are credited with causing the defeat of the St. Louis County Division Bill, which was killed in the House today by a vote of 84 to 32.

The opponents of the division bill claimed that the Range towns are controlled by officials who exact great sums of money in the form of taxes from the mining companies and spend this money in the most out-of-control manner.

The proponents of division answered that Duluth wishes to continue in control of St. Louis County government to use a majority of the county funds for roads and other improvements in the Duluth end of the county. Also it was charged that the steel company now has control of the county government and resists every effort made to wrest it away.

Many of the figures and comparisons used last night in the House Cities Committee in support of the John H. Harrison Bill to fix a maximum for expenditures of municipalities and villages were transferred to the floor of the House in opposition to the County Division Bill, for it is charged that the desire for division merely is a plan to extend the extravagances charged against the villages into county government.

The vote against division was 84 to 32. As the arguments against division are for the most part the same as are used in support of the Harrison Bill, the vote on division was taken as a favorable forecast for the Harrison Bill, scheduled to be a special order of business on March 29.

Representatives Charles T. Murphy and Samuel Scott, both from the Range, made the fight for county division. Outside of their charges against Duluth and the steel company, they argued that the county is too big, that it is a great inconvenience for the Range people to make the trip to Duluth for court business, and that as the Range has the big share of the assessed valuation it is entitled to be separated from Duluth and the southern half of the county.

William J. North, Anton Borgen and Edward R. Ribenack, all of Duluth, made the fight on behalf of Duluth. H. H. Harrison of Stillwater aided them. He said he had been present at the committee hearing on the limitation bill the night before and was absolutely astounded at the freedom with which the Range towns squandered money raised by taxing the mines.

The Minneapolis Morning Tribune; “St. Louis Division Bill Is Turned Down. Range Towns Lose in Their Effort for a New County. Charges of Extravagance Against Cities Said to Have Been Cause. Similarity of Issues Indicates That Harrison Bill Will Pass.”; March 24, 1915; p. 1.

St. Louis County, Minn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis_County,_Minnesota#/media/File:Map_of_Minnesota_highlighting_Saint_Louis_County.svg

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

On This Date in Minnesota History: March 22

March 22, 1941 - Game Warden Charles Masoner suffered a fatal heart attack while conducting deer feeding operations in Itasca State Park.

He and other employees had been tasked with moving 80 pound hay bales through deep snow in order to prevent deer loss and to ensure a sustainable food source for local residents during the extreme winter months. Other wardens noticed he was feeling ill and began driving to Bemidji to seek medical treatment. He died while being driven through Hubbard County, approximately 10 miles south of Bemidji.

Game Warden Masoner was a U.S. Army Air Service veteran of WWI. He was survived by his wife and two daughters.

https://www.odmp.org/officer/22520-game-warden-charles-masoner

Game Warden Charles Masoner

https://www.odmp.org/officer/22520-game-warden-charles-masoner

Monday, March 21, 2016

On This Date in Minnesota History: March 21

March 21, 2005 – This morning 16-year-old Jeffrey Weise (Ojibwe) killed his grandfather and his grandfather’s girlfriend. Taking his grandfather's police weapons and vest, Weise drove his police vehicle to Red Lake Senior High School, where he had been a student some months before.

He shot and killed seven people at the school, beginning with an unarmed security guard at the entrance, and wounded five others. The dead included a teacher and five students. Weise exchanged gunfire with police who quickly arrived at the school; after being wounded, he committed suicide in a vacant classroom.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Lake_massacre

Red Lake High School

http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/criminalminds/images/3/32/Red_Lake_scene.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20131125212646

Sunday, March 20, 2016

On ThIs Date in Minnesota History: March 20

March 20, 1858 – Kandiyohi County was created on this date from Davis (eliminated Feb. 20, 1862), Meeker, Pierce (eliminated Feb. 20, 1862), Stearns and Renville Counties.¹

The name comes from the Dakota name for one of its lakes, meaning “where the buffalo fish come.”²

¹https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Kandiyohi_County,_Minnesota_Genealogy

²Upham, Warren; Minnesota Geographic Names, Their Origin and Historic Significance; Minnesota Historical Society (St. Paul, Minn., 1969); p. 268.

http://www.co.kandiyohi.mn.us/images/General/kandi_logo_sm.gif