The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-07-14

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Landy are names which must not be foroot
ten but wish especially to-day to recall th4
name of DoruS Martin Owe, sixty wears .
age, he was determined to 90. II wa,
IN vain that we represented to him that hi,
age would be barrier-he persisted. Hi
| hair and flowing beard were white as snow
-e dyed them et black, and gave his ace a,
40. The examining board told him he was
| too old, and one of them undertook to laugI
at him. asking Kim what service he couIs
do? lie answered by inviting him out on
the floor, and if he did not in three minute,
fail him so that his mother would not know
! him, he would not ask another favor He
was Gdnaltted L was Of such stuff as thi.
that our army was largely composed, men
whose motive was love of country. and
whose valor was such as patriotism only can
inspire.
In coming down from the history of the
county at large TO that of the towns. Fond dn
Lac takes priority in point of time As far
back as about the year 1920 the American
Fur Company established post at this point,
and one OF their first erected BUILDINGS is
still stlnding, being occupied as a stable.
Ihe government afterwards adopted his
locality as an lidian Station and a Mission
Board AS Nilsson Station. Most prominent
among the names connected with Fond du Lac
is that of Col. I. E. Carlton Of fine phys-
ique and noble presence. he was a good ex
ample OF tie model fr0ntieIsman. Onep
hearted, generous, true, and bold, he prepos-
sessed you at otce in his favor His faiings.
and ne was far from being without them, lean
ed to virtues SHE We have a few of the
same type of men still left US, but they are
fast passing away.
The plat OF the tOwn-site of Oneota was
filed IN the OFF, of Register of Deeds April
l6th 1856. lt4 protector was Edmund F.
Ely. Mr. Ely came to this country as teacher
in the Indian Mission Schools more than
forty years age, and until his departure for
California three years since, had, with the
exception OF Short residence in st. Paul.
spent the whole Of that time in the country
adjacent to the bead of Lake Superior. En-
ergetic, hardxPrking, full of plans and pro-
Ject> wb ch Wen born IN his teeming brain
only to Aotten fdt and fail in their execution,
he has done mtch for the development OF
this section, both IN its physical, moral and
religious intereFts, and his name should ever
be held in homo rs its annals are recorded
Il. " Hheelei who still resides in Oueota,
was on Of thd original propretCrs OF the
town. and had ,rge Of the building of the
large steam saT atli there, which was after
wards owned bs 5.es-rs. MUNGER & GRAY, and
burned down sq.de three or four years since
the other pro'e ogs were b. " RAYMOND
OF Chicago. Wno Low owus the larger part
of the property there, f. Southworth, OF
Springfield, Mass, J. " Bass Of St. Paul
and Luke Aarv.a, then Of that City. The
earliest settlers Of Oneota embrace the
+. 4 Buckingham Freeman Keenc, Wn, c.
Bailey, John R Carey, since Judge of Pro-
bate and our present verv efficient clerk of
the District Cou't; Hon. +. G. Swanstrom,
orr chairman o. Board Of County Commits
sioners, and who has served US for two terms
in the Legislature with such signal benefit to
his constituents
In speaking Of The early days of Duluth
it may be well &c note that the original town
site of Duluth wes only that portion of the
present City vEish lies ON Minnesota Point
and was DIVIDED from that part formerly call
ed Portland, BY the claim Of Geo K. Nettle-
ton, which he he'd under an Indian Traders
Llcence. Duluth and Portland we're ccnsoli-
dated under the former name in the year
1860, by act OF legislature.
Duluth was named BY Rev. Joseph G. Viii
son, then Of Superior, after Capt Du Luth,
OF whom Neill ih his history says he was
considered the dBcoverer OF Minnesota. He
was soldier, trader, man Of talent and eX-
perlence and It'd dispatch announcing his
death to the Home Government expressive in
its sinlpllcity-"Capt. DulUth is dead-He
was an honest msn"
The plat Of Dauth was fled in May 1886.
4 saw mill was epcted by the proprietors
on the ground adjoining the present canal
Col. j B. Culver opened the first store in
the County, in tht building since owned and
occupied by Hora'e Saxton, and a number
of houses were butt and other improvements
made. The building in which Mrs Foster
now lives was ths Hotel; it was kept by Ed.
Rice, and called tie "Rice House" III this
building was the irSt Post Office in Duluth.
The house was Afterwards kept by Ruff &.
jefferson, who afterwards gave his lite to his
country during the war, as his brother. cur
fellow citizen, &. 2. Jefferson, gave limb to
the same patriotic cause.
Portland was surveyed as a town-site
about the same tine as Duluth, ant the most
notable Improvements made were those Of
dock, built by lie proprietors, and pushed TO
completion by our enc getic ciuzen-the
same unSeigsh, public spirited man then, as
now, Jas. ID, Ray, and a warehouse, recently
pulled down erected by man with whom
was very closely associated for many years,
and of whom | never had cause to change nv
first impressions, that he was the soul of
honor, ore of mtures nobemen. You know
TO whom reteb Sidney Luce, and here my
fellow citizens, -ou will please pardon me if |
stop momentto recall those hard times OF
seif-denlai, shut up in the wilderness as we
were; yet afterail those were pleasant times,
as we were worling in hope of the future,
but doubly pleasant in that we were working
in unison Besides the two already named,
there was that Ough but kind hearted, gen
erous minded, and shrewd "tall old settler
Bill Nettleton, there was the genial, enter
prising and holorable Col. J. B. Culver, and
the steady-golg persevering Judge D. T.
Carey. We had no rings, no cliques We
had one aim, one object, and We worked as
unit TO attain t.
Ny friends, lid you ever live in the same
community with a man whom You thought
you knew, unti, leaving the restraints OF s.
call life behlndvou on some frontier journey,
You found vtry ff1rent individual to the
one YOU had kiOwn surrounded by the con
ventionaiities .f life, the inner man appear
ed. II Is thusthat frontier life brings out in
strong relief tie peculiar characteristics OF
man. IL was % with our little community,
and | stand hee to-day glad of the opportu'