Frankfort Township Land Records
1855 - 1870
Township 120, Range 23. Fractional
The following transcriptions from the land office
records gives the original owners of all the land
pre-empted and homesteaded in Wright County. This is the
roll of honor of those who dared the rigors of a pioneer
country and started the first developments. The list is
in the main accurate, though, through carelessness of
the land office registers and their clerks, the original
entries are often misspelled, and transcriptions of more
or less illegible handwriting since that date have
distorted some of the names in various ways. But
especial efforts have been made to insure accuracy in
this printed list, and the names of thousands of old
pioneers will be recognized.
The first claims in the Congressional township
1855
| 3-Anthony
Clippen, July 11 |
1856
1-John
Baxter, September 3
Samuel Reem, July 24
Alexander J. Borthwick, July 16
2 -Patrick Burke, July 19
3-Patrick Wood, July 28
4- Francis Weaver, November 2 |
Daniel
Carrigan, November 30
6-John Humal, October 8
8-L. Ayd, November 4
9-Thomas Dean, September 2
10-Patrick Ward, July 28 |
1857
1-P.
Meddlestead, May 4
2-Henry Dryer, December 7
A. Stenglein, March 6
3-W. Butterfield, April 28
F. Chute, May 7
F. Weaver, November 2
4-M. Kreimer, July 30
5-J. B. Weideman, July 6
6-A. Lindenfielsen, July 21 |
7-T.
Reigling, October 19
John Schultz, May 15
X. Denler, March 4
8-J. McAlpine, March 27
James Butterfield, March 14
H. Dupsey
9-R. Clarke, June 29
R. Quinn, April 28 |
1859
1860
3-E.
Canigan, October 20
4-J. Campbell, September 10
Neil McNeil, September 10
5-M. Kriemer, October 19
6-A. Barber, October 20 |
J. Nelles,
October 18
8-J. Zackman, October 18
9-W. Dean, October 22
10-Heirs of W. Butler, October 6 |
1865
3-W.
Foster, March 23
7-B. Raster, March 17 |
1870
Wright County |Minnesota
AHGP
Source: History of Wright
County, Minnesota, by Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge, Volume I,
1915
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