The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-07

Inc county OF MCLEOD received Its
first settlers in the spring of 1855,
when John H. Stevens, Martin Mcleod,
for whom the county was named, A.
j. Bell, Robert Vinton and several
others put up claim shantieS and be-
gan what is now the town of Glencoe.
In the fall of the same year another
party of settlers, including Asa, John
and Judson Hutchinson, R. H. Prender-
CAST and others arrived in the coun-
ty and found a desirable location on
the banks of the Hassan, or what is
on the map as the south fork of the
Crow river, and laid out a village to
which the name of Hutchinson was
given, after the famous family of vo-
calists who had been leaders in the
movement.
Nothing disturbed the serenity and
growth of the community until 1862,
when Hutchinson was the scene of
one of the tragic incidents of the great
Sioux Indian war, nearly half of the
village being burned, and several per-
sons killed and wounded, a general
massacre being averted by the prompt
action of w. w. Prendergast, Lewis
Harrington, Andrew Hooper others
in organizing a military company
and gathering the villagers and
neighboring farmers into a hastily
built stockade, 447 persons in ALL and
then driving away the Indians, whom
they fought in Indian fashion.
1t was over a year before peace was
fully established and residents could
feel perfectly safe, meanwhile a large
part of the population had fed, but
they came back and brought others
with them, until now the county has
over 10000 people. while Hutchinson
is crowding up to the 5000 mark.
The wigwam long since ceased to be
the palace of the ruler. Now is seen
DIV
of hunting grounds" The trim habi-
tation is on the site of the log hut. In
stead of the patient, enduring band
of those first years of white settle
ment is found the strong majority, the
power, the capital, to shape circum-
stances. The sturdy impress of New
England is here, the result of the
former energy and patience being
found in the descendants who are earn
est, ambitious, progressive, liberal and
self-reliant.
Only one of the three Hutchinson
brothers is now living, John, who has
fine home, known as High Rock, at
Lynn, Mass. He still has an abiding
interest in his Minnesota namesake
and gives freely to every deserving
enterprise in the city.
Hutchinson is an absolute example
of Western enterprise, ability, thrift
and energy 1t is not the county seat,
but it is the metropolis and center of
business activity. 1t had natural adj
Vantages that gave it an impetus. All
about are rolling and undulating lands,
rich of soil with sufficient TIMBER
sweeps of prairie, patches of forestry
streams and lakes fringed with foli-
age, and stretches of meadow grassi-
ness, all forming a continuous sue
cession of pleasing scenes.
Founders Used Eorethouoht
The founders of the town had
thought of the future in laying it out
The, streets are wide, and under a wise
system of management they are all
macadamiZed, and mud in the sense of
mud in most other towns is scarcely
known. Many of the roads leading
into the country are also macadamized,
and many Of the farmers and team
SterS about the city have wide tired
wagons which do not cut up the streets
and roads, fashion that could be
adopted universally with happy results.
A park of ten acres of natural forest
is one of the attractive features of
Hutchinson, not to speak of the smaller
park in the business district in which
the Carnegie library building is now
being erected. There was objection to
building the library in the park, but
the citizens followed the old New Eng
land town custom, gathered in public
meeting, discussed the matter, took a
vote and settled it then and there. The
majority favored the park location and
the minority gracefully accepted the
decision.
Hutchinson, we believe, is the only
city in the state, not a county seat, that
sustains an agricultural society, the
thirty-first annual exhibition of which
comes off Sept. %, % and "a. The
society owns grounds and goods build
ings, and has always paid it's premiums.
The city is built on both sides of the
Hassan, or Crow, river, which is here
damned and supplies power for several
mills and factories. Flowing artesian
wells furnish excellent water for gen.
eral purposes. The residences of the
city are tasteful, many of them ele-
CANT The business district is sub
stantial, with nearly every commercial
interest well represented. There are
dozen church organizations and
schools that do credit to the heart and
high character of the people.
The Ansgar College.
An educational institution of which
the people are justly proud is the Ans
gar college, now in it's second year. 1t
is the only Danish American Lutheran
college in the Northwest. That it fills
want is shown by an attendance of
over 200 students the first year, and
the second year, which begins on the
18th inst. will have an enrolloment of
over 400 names. 1t is doubtful if an
other school in the state can show such
q good record. The main building
burned last February, but it has been
rebuilt, and will be ready for occupancy
with the new school term this month.
1t has a faculty of twenty-five pro-
fessors and teachers. The president is
Harold w. Foght, who can be ad-
dressed for catalogues and terms of ad-
mission The college has its name
from ST. Ansgar. the patron saint of
Denmark.
There is an efficient Commercial club.
of which Carl Schallinger, of the
Hutchinson Produce company, is pres
ident, and Carlos Avery, editor of the
Leader, secretary. The Commercial
club is now a feature in every live
town, and the one here is the real
thing.
Hutchinson has two excellent news
papers, the Leader, now in its twenty
second year, with a circulation equal:
Ing a hundred for each year Of its