On This Date in Minnesota History: September 21

September 21, 1957 – Filmmaker Ethan Coen was born in St. Louis Park, Minn., on this date.     

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

Ethan Coen, left;  Joel Coen, right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:COEN_Brothers_(cannesPH).jpg

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On This Date in Minnesota History: September 20

September 20, 1905 – Two men were dismembered and instantly killed by the explosion of a threshing engine boiler on the two and one-half miles east of New Market in Scott County at sunset this evening.

Example of a thresher explosion¹

Another man will lose his sight from fearful scalds about his head and face. Three others have injuries, principally scalds, and two horses were killed.

The dead men are Ole Hagen, a farmer and owner of the engine, and Andrew Gilbertson, who was working for Hagen.

Hagen was decapitated and his trunk horribly mangled. He was married and had a family of five, his age being about 40. Gilbertson was 45 and single.

Andrew Cryer is the name of the farmer who will lose his sight. Oscar Tourson, another farmer, was seated in a buggy behind the threshing rig, and was badly scalded. His horse was killed and his buggy smashed to pieces. It is difficult to understand how he escaped alive.

George Gilbertson, son of Louis Gilbertson, was also scalded, but not seriously hurt. The tank tender, whose name is not known, was blown 15 or 20 feet and seriously injured by the shock. All of the living are expected to recover.

The engine was being taken under its own steam to a nearby farm, where it was to drive the machinery of a corn shredder. It was of 16-horsepower and had been in use many years.

The force of the explosion seemed to blow out both ends of the boiler. Steam escaped in all directions and pieces of the boiler and machinery were found in fields rods away.

The Minneapolis Journal; “Decapitated in an Explosion. Two Killed and Several Injured in Boiler Accident on the Highway.”; Sept. 21, 1905; p. 1.

¹https://www.farmcollector.com/farm-life/boiler-explosion-zm0z17sepzhur

New Market, Scott County, Minn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Market,_Minnesota#/media/File:Scott_County_Minnesota_Incorporated_and_Unincorporated_areas_New_Market_Highlighted.svg

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On This Date in Minnesota History: September 19

September 19, 1970 - “The Mary Tyler Moore Show with Ed Asner debuted on CBS TV and ran to 1977. Mary Richards threw her hat at 7th St. and Nicollet Ave. in Minneapolis for the opening credits.”

http://timelines.ws/states/MINNESOTA.HTML

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scene_1_from_the_Mary_Tyler_Moore_Show_1977.jpg

Mary Tyler Moore Statue on Nicollet Mall, downtown Minneapolis

 

Photo taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain July 7, 2012, 

as long as acknowledgement included.  

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On This Date in Minnesota History: September 18

September 18, 1881 – “Property on the northeast shore of White Bear Lake finally came before the public eye. Augustus Kirby Barnum…registered the plat. It was a family affair, as Barnum's wife, Carrie Josephine, cosigned the document, and his half-brother, William Hewitt, acted as witness and notary. Named the plat Dellwood.”   

http://projects.wchsmn.org/reference/events/dellwood-named/

Photos taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain Aug. 23, 2013,
 as long as acknowledgement included.  

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On This Date in Minnesota History: September 17

September 17, 2011 – “The only daughter of Joan Mondale and former Vice President Walter Mondale,” Eleanor Mondale (Poling) died at her home in Minn. of brain cancer, which was first diagnosed in June 2005.

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

  http://article.wn.com/view/2011/09/17/Eleanor_Mondale_daughter_of_
Walter_Mondale_dies_e/

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On This Date in Minnesota History: September 16

September 16, 1889 – Robert Younger, in Minnesota's Stillwater Penitentiary for life after the failed Northfield Raid, died of tuberculosis on this date. “Brothers Cole and Jim remained in that prison.”

http://timelines.ws/states/MINNESOTA.HTML

Bob Younger

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Younger#mediaviewer/File:Bob_Younger_mug_shot.jpg

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On This Date in Minnesota History: September 15

September 15, 1977 – The George R. Newell House, just south of downtown Minneapolis, was put on the National Register of Historic Places on this date.¹

It was originally built for Sumner T. McKnight, a businessman who had interests in lumber and real estate. McKnight sold it almost immediately to George R. Newell, one of the founders in 1870 of the grocery firm Stevens, Morse and Newell. When Newell died in 1921, his son L.B. Newell inherited the company and changed its name to SuperValu. In later years the Chateau was owned by the Freerks family and run as an apartment complex.<sup>2 

1</sup>http://nrhp.mnhs.org/NRDetails.cfm?NPSNum=77000744

²http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._Newell_House_(Minneapolis,_Minnesota)

George R. Newell House

Photo taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain Sept. 15, 2014 , 

as long as acknowledgement included.  

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