A child of the sea and life among the Mormons.
By: By Elizabeth Whitney Williams
Publisher: E. W. Williams
Published: 1905
Place of publication: Harbor Springs, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Strang, James Jesse, -- 1813-1856; Mormons -- Michigan; Beaver Island (Mich.)
Description: At the age of twelve, Frank G. O'Brien (1843-1920) moved from Maine to Minnesota with his father and siblings, settling in Anoka County in 1855. After a difficult winter, the family moved to St. Anthony's Falls where O'Brien spent his adolescence combining a variety of manual and entrepreneurial jobs with education. Minnesota Pioneer Sketches is a collection of newspaper feature articles written by O'Brien that are here published in book form. The articles describe his own youth as well as notable events during the second half of the nineteenth century in Minnesota. He discusses farming, transportation, the U.S. mail, politics, Indians, the Civil War, religious practices, lumber camps, education, and other topics associated with pioneer life and the growth of the state.
Notes: Life on Beaver Island and at other places near Lake Michigan, with an account of the "Mormon Kingdom" on Beaver Island