Albin Township
Albin Township is formed of congressional township 108,
range 32 west. On June 23, 1870, a primary meeting was
held to organize a township, which was finally effected
by the election of officers as follow: E. J. Root,
chairman; Charles Armstrong and John Teas, supervisors;
E. T. Jones, clerk; W. H. Sweet, treasurer; O. I. Owens
and John Egbert, justices of the peace. By appointment,
the offices of assessor and constable were filled by
Caleb Foot and E. Hammond, respectively. The first
township meeting was held at the house of Mrs. S. Rima,
and when a name for the township could not easily be
agreed upon she was allowed to name it, and called it
Albin.
This township is without railroad and has no villages
within its borders. The long, narrow lake known as Lake
Hanska extends from the east over into this township
almost four miles, touching parts of six sections of
land. The population of Albin Township has been for the
last thirty or more years as follow: In 1890 it was six
hundred; in 1900 it was six hundred and twenty-nine, and
in 1910, according to government reports, it was six
hundred and sixty-two.
The pioneer settler here was S. G. Edsell, who located
in 1866, in section 2, and was followed in 1867 by
William Harrison and Anton Katen. Other early settlers
included these:
Burton Armstrong
C. E. Armstrong
Frederick Koenig
W. W. Minor, of Vermont
L. D. Rice, of Massachusetts
Solomon Rima, of New York
William Rossbach, of Prussia
Lorens Schneider, of Indiana
A. E. Somerville, of Pennsylvania
William Sweet, of Vermont
John Teas, of Indiana
George Troxel, of Pennsylvania |
Early Events
Gunder, a son of Martin Johnson and wife, was born on
August 19, 1869, and was the first to see the light of
day in this township.
The first to die was Mr. Upson, in 1868. E. J. Root and
Mary Armstrong were the first to unite by marriage in
this township.
Brown County |Minnesota
AHGP
Source: History of Brown County,
Minnesota, L. A. Fritsche, M.D., Editor, Volume I, 1916
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