Ruth Gage Thompson papers, 1909-1949.

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Ruth Gage Thompson papers, 1909-1949.

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Thompson's compositions commenting on the history of Lake Minnetonka, St. Anthony, and Minneapolis, and Rosendale, Wisconsin. They include quotes from Elizabeth Fries Ellet, one of the first white women to see Lake Minnetonka (1852), and Swedish novelist Frederika Bremer, who visited St. Anthony in 1850. There is information on the Minneapolis park system and schools, early settlers of Lake Minnetonka's Birch Bluff, and Thompson's family. There is also a bibliography of contemporary architecture sources in Twin Cities libraries (1931), and a letter from Edward E. Gillam recalling Governor John S. Pillsbury's role in the 1870s grasshopper plagues.

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Thompson, Ruth, 1880-1950.

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Robinson, George W., 1843-1913

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Thompson, Paul Jennings, 1875-1950.

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McGee, John F. (John Franklin), 1861-1925

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Peterson, James A. (James Alsak)

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Swenson, John S.

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Barnes, Joseph U., 1858-

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Andrews, Arthur Chase, 1854-1951.

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Ellet, E. F. (Elizabeth Fries), 1818-1877

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Author and historian Ellet wrote fiction, poetry, and women's history. For further biographical information, see Notable American Women, 1607-1950 (1971). From the description of Letter, 1856. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007250 Elizabeth F. Ellet, the first American historian of women, was born in upstate New York in October 1818. She became well-known for her collective biographies of women, most notably, The Women of the American Revolution (1848). ...

Pillsbury, J. S. (John Sargent), 1827-1901

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John Sargent Pillsbury was born in Sutton, New Hampshire, and came to the village of St. Anthony MN in 1855 to open a hardware business. 15 years later, he began his flour milling enterprise, which became one of the largest in the world. In 1863, Pillsbury began to take an interest in the University of Minnesota, which had been closed by debt. Pillsbury accepted an appointment as a University Regent, and began the first of several successful rescues of the University. He served as a Regent until...

Gideon, Peter M., 1820-1899.

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Thompson family.

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Bremer, Fredrika, 1801-1865

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Fredrika Bremer was an internationally-known Swedish writer and feminist. Her early domestic novels and travel writings were popular in Swedish and English, and her later novels, advocating the emancipation of women, influenced reforming legislation that advanced the status of women in Sweden. From the description of Fredrika Bremer letters, 1848-1859. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 49848570 Author. From the description of Fredrika...

Gillam, Edward Ellsworth, ca. 1861-

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Mann, John W. W.

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