Saturday, November 26, 2016

On This Date in Minnesota History: November 26

November 26, 1905 – J. E. Faitz, 25-years-old, thought he would create a sensation in Minneapolis this evening by walking down Washington Avenue N. in female attire.

He was smiling happily to himself over the attention he was attracting when he was stopped by a big policeman and taken to the North Side station. There is an ordinance requiring men to wear certain models of clothing but Faitz didn’t know it and he thought he was having a great time with the boys.

The next day, he told Judge Waite in police court that he had attended a masquerade ball, but his excuse was not sound in the eyes of the court and he was fined $10 for his fun.

The Minneapolis Journal; “Wears Female Garb in Public; Pays $10”; Nov. 27. 1905; p. 6.




Photo taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain November 26, 2016,
as long as acknowledgement included.
 

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Friday, November 25, 2016

On This Date in Minnesota History: November 25

November 25, 1965 – Cris Carter, wide receiver for the Minnesota Vikings, was born on this date in Troy, Ohio. Carter left the Vikings in 2001 as their all-time leader in, among other things, receptions (1,004) and receiving yards (12,383), and touchdowns (110).

On Feb. 2, 2013, Carter was announced as an inductee into the Hall of Fame Class of 2013 along with Bill Parcells, Larry Allen, Jonathan Ogden, Warren Sapp, Curley Culp and Dave Robinson.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cris_Carter




Cris Carter

http://kfan.iheart.com/onair/vikings-blog-38526/call-to-the-hall-cris-carter-10762251/

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Thursday, November 24, 2016

On This Date in Minnesota History: November 24

November 24, 1986 – The Minnesota Twins hire Tom Kelly as the team’s manager. Kelly had been “named as interim manager when Ray Miller was fired on September 12.”1 At 36, he was the major leagues’ youngest manager.2

1Minneapolis Star and Tribune; “Twins hire Kelly, front-office help”; November 25, 1986; p. 1D.

2Minneapolis Star and Tribune; “The Book on Twins’ Kelly is that he doesn’t go by it”: November 25, 1986; p. 6D.




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Wednesday, November 23, 2016

On this Date in Minnesota History: November 23

November 23, 1922 – State Marshal Rudolph Maurer, 35, was shot and killed early this morning by two hobos in Wright County near South Haven, Minn. Mauer had ordered the two trespassers out of the Soo Line depot earlier yesterday, but found them later that evening sitting around a campfire next to the railroad tracks, and attempted to arrest them.

After shooting the marshal, the hobos escaped and are believed to have boarded a train for the Twin Cities. Residents heard shots about 3 a.m., but paid little attention to them. Three hours later, the body of the marshal was found near the depot with a shot through his chest. In his hand he clutched an empty revolver.

The Bemidji Daily Pioneer; “South Haven Marshall Killed by Two Hobos”; November 23, 1922, p. 1.

https://www.co.wright.mn.us/DocumentCenter/View/4567



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Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Om This Date in Minnesota History: November 22

November 22, 1936 – “First broadcast of 27-year old Dalton A. LeMasurier's Duluth 100-watt KDAL radio station (he used his initials for the last three letters), became a CBS affiliate September 5, 1937.”

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



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Monday, November 21, 2016

On This Date in Minnesota History: November 21

November 21, 1993 – “The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota opens. Sculptor and architect Frank O. Gehry won an award from Progressive Architecture magazine in 1991 for his design of the building.”

http://www.mnopedia.org/thisday

http://www.weisman.umn.edu/about




Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum 

 

Photos taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain Nov. 21, 2016, a
s long as acknowledgement included.

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Sunday, November 20, 2016

On This Date in Minnesota History: November 20

November 20, 1970 – This beautiful 1871 Gothis/Italianate house in St. Peter, Minn., was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on this date. It was built and lived in by the first mayor of St. Peter, Eugene St. Julien Cox.




The Eugene St. Julien Cox House




Historical Marker Text

The Eugene St. Julien Cox House


In 1871, Eugene St. Julien Cox, a man of eccentric tastes and “great vigor of mind” built this picturesque neo-Gothic Italianate house noted for its towered cupola, small balconies, and carved eaves.

Cox began his law career in 1857 and built a thriving practice in the frontier village of St. Peter. After brief service as a Union officer in the Civil War, Cox enrolled fifty men into the “Frontier Avengers and led this unit in the defense of New Ulm during the Dakota War of 1862.


After the wars, the “affable and genial and always daintly dressed” Cox was elected St. Peter’s mayor. This was followed by his election to the Minnesota Legislature, first as a representative, later as a senator. In 1877, he was elected judge of the ninth judicial district. Within four years the Minnesota House impeached Judge Cox and the Senate organized a high court for trial purposes. He was mainly charged with intoxication “caused by the voluntary and immoderate use of intoxicating liquors, which disqualified him for discharge of his official duties.” In 1882, after a sensational five-month trial which included seventeen hundred pages of testimony and a petition for acquittal signed by four thousand people. Judge Cox was convicted and removed from his office as district judge by a bare two-thirds vote of the Minnesota Senate. Nine years later, the legislature passed a resolution “vacating, annulling, and expunging all the proceedings of the impeachment and trial.” Nevertheless, E. St. Julien Cox left Minnesota and died in Los Angeles on November 3, 1898.

The house remained in the Cox family until 1969, when it was donated to the Nicollet County Historical Society for preservation and restoration. In 1969, this property received the first grant awarded by the Minnesota Historical Society, as a part of the newly created State Grants In-Aid program, created for the preservation and restoration of Minnesota’s historical sites.


Photos taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain Nov. 6, 2016,
as long as acknowledgement included.


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