The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-06-07
|0Ll. BOYS Will have
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pioneers and early settlers in Mr..
neapolis and ST. Paul will have a
series of busy days, beginning June
1, the anniversary of the organiza-
ton of Minnesota as a territory. The
lHennepin County Territorial Pho
lneers association will have it's an
nual meeting and picnic June / at
the Godfrey house, Chute square,
and the Minnesota Old Settlers as.
sociation will meet the same day
in st. Paul. The unwilling of tht
| Colonel John Stevens bronze statue
will take place June TO-, and the
Native Sons of Minnesota will, on
June Is, dedicate the Peter M. Gid
con Memorial park at Manitou for
est, Lake Minnetonka, and erect a
bronze tablet to the memory of the
| pioneer hortiCulturist. 500
/ Sixty-Third Anniversary.
The sixty-third anniversary of the
/ organization of Minnesota territory
will be celebrated Saturday by the
! Hennepin County Territorial Pho
neers' association, and invitation
! has been extended to the Pioneer
Women's club and Native Sons OF
Minnesota to attend. The picnic
will be on the lawn of the Godfrey
house in Chute square. Officers ol
! the organization are: President
Caleb Dorr; vice president Mrs w
| J. Dean; secretary treasurer, Edwin
Clark; executive committee, j. B
GiIfillan, Fred l.. Smith and Sena
tor James r. Elwell. "
! The bronze statue of Colonel
John Stevens, who made the first
settlement on the west side of the
river and has been called the
! founder of Minneapolis, has been
erected on Stevens square at the
| junction of Portland and Sixth ave
nues S. This was provided by his
daughter, Mrs. Philip B. Winston
1t will be unveiled by Miss Newell
Chase, his youngest granddaughter
and addresses will be made by A
Rankin, his nephew; Edwin
Clark, secretary of the Hennepin
County Territorial Pioneers associa
tion w. w. Folwell, first presi
dent of the university, and G.. M
Loring. ~"+
Native Sons of Minnesota.
Arrangements are being made by
Charles G1ueck, DR.. w. E. Leonard
and David C. Gorham for the an
nual picnic of the Native Sons OF
Minnesota. This will be June Is al
Manitou forest, where tract OF
! land 100 by $50 feet is to be
decided to the Sons and upon which
is to be placed a bronze tablet in
honor of Peter NJ. Gideon. ManitOr
forest was the original homestead
of Peter Gideon, and the tablet viii
record that he was the grower o.
the Wealthy apple The Armstrong
Burgess company is to give deco
| to the strip of land that day. DR.
Leonard of the committee on ar
rangements said he expects 500 per
sons will attend the picnic ant
| ceremony. Any person born il
Minnesota, who is 35 years old, is
eligible to membership in the Ma
tive Sons of Minnesota. "
( -N Only Eight Survive.
Only eight members survive O.
the 234 that have enrolled in the
! Minnesota Old Settlers association
which will meet at the old capito
/ in St Paul Saturday at noon ant
later at the Merchants hotel fol
luncheon. They are A. L. Larpen
teur, ST. Paul, the only survivor o.
! the charter members who organized
the association in 1857 Eli Petit
John, Caleb Dorr, Games McMuller
and John Kingston of Minneapolis
! Benjamin H. Randall, Winona; e
w. Durant, formerly of saltwater
now of Charleston, S. c., and Char
] les s. Stimson, Elk River. The
association is composed of mel
who were twenty-one years old ant
residents of Minnesota in 1S49, wher
the territory was organized. Since
the last reunion three members
have died, Sylvester Statelar, War
saw; Oliver Parsons, Minneapolis
and James X. Humphrey, ST. Paul
/ Memorial sketches of their lives
will be read by Warren Upham, as
isistant secretary, and mention viii
he made of N. P. Langford, who
was an honorary member.