Autobiographical answers to a Minnesota Historical Society pioneer questionnaire, [1872].

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Cole, Gordon Earl, 1833-1890. Autobiographical answers to a Minnesota Historical Society pioneer questionnaire, [1872].

Autobiographical answers to a Minnesota Historical Society pioneer questionnaire, [1872].

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Handwritten autobiographical information supplied by Gordon Earl Cole, an early Faribault, Minnesota lawyer, state attorney general (1860-1866), state legislator, University of Minnesota regent, and a member of numerous civic organizations. Includes a typed biographical sketch of Cole by his daughter, Stella F. Cole, covering Cole's settlement in Faribault; his part in the settlement of the state's railroad bond controversy, which began with the Five Million Loan Bill in 1858; and the introduction of the middlings patent purifying process into Minnesota's flour-milling industry by Nicholas and Edmund La Croix and a subsequent lawsuit between the flour mills and the patent holders (14 pages, undated).

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Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts