Articles on St. Louis County history, undated and 1937-1941.

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Articles on St. Louis County history, undated and 1937-1941.

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Typewritten and photographic copies of articles written by Wieland about the following topics: early Beaver Bay (Minnesota) residents and the Lake Vermilion gold rush and iron ore explorations in northern Minnesota; the land and townsite boom in the 1840s and 1850s in northern Minnesota and St. Louis County; the first coal burning locomotive to come to Duluth (Minnesota); early settlement in Beaver Bay; missionary activities of Methodist minister James Peet; and the mail service on the North Shore (Minnesota) of Lake Superior in the 1850s and 1860s.

1 folder containing 8 items.

Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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Wieland, Otto Ernest, 1870-1943.

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Eames, Richard M.

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Northern Pacific Railroad Company

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These documents are duplicate copies from the papers of George A. Brackett, now part of the Northern Pacific Railroad collection at the Minnesota Historical Society. From the description of Papers. 1864-1914. (Tri-College Library). WorldCat record id: 18832082 Isaac "Ike" Gravelle was born in Canada in October 1871. He came to the United States in 1886. He was sent to the Montana State Prison in May 1891 on a conviction for horse stealing. After his release in 1893 he worked...

Wieland family.

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Peet, James, 1828-1866.

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James Peet was born in Palermo, New York on November 18, 1828. He came to St. Paul, Minnesota, as a Methodist missionary in 1855. From 1856 to 1861 he was located in Superior, Wisconsin and Oneota (Duluth), Minnesota. At the same time he ministered to missions in Bayfield and La Pointe, Wisconsin. During the Civil War, Peet was chaplain for an African American regiment, the 12th Louisiana Volunteers, which later became the 50th Colored Infantry Regiment. He was appointed...