Buffalo Township Land Records
1858 - 1879
Township 120, Range 25
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
1858
18-N. N.
Taylor, October 5
19-Henry Varner, October 29 |
26-E. J.
Shumway, September 13
29-Daniel Gray |
1859
3-J. R.
Hill, May 11
5-S. Hatch, March 22
11-A. J. Riggs, March 18
15- E. Nagel, July 20
18-B. Ward, July 19
1-Jessie McCurdy, September 19 |
20-L. B.
Colver, July 19
29-J. F. Pickens, May 9
30-Jackson Taylor, in Trust, November 25
31-Jackson Taylor, October 28
33-W. H. Huggins, March 17 |
1860
2-W. O.
Weston, October 18
4-W. D. Leonard, October 8
John E. Baker, April 27
6-Peter W. Holmes, October 22
8-Joseph Goyette, October 19
C. W. Hudson.
10-Peter Glock, October 8.
11-Fred Stokes, October 20
12-William Weldell, October 8
Peter Barthel, October 1
13-G. Miller V. Wind, October 20
Fred Bereshaber
Paul Fredericks, February 21
14-T. Machtell, October 18 |
August
Newnert, Jr., October 20
15-August Newnert, Sr., October 27
17-C. Chamberlain, October 19
E. T. Tillotson
18-Jacob Varner, October 9
19-B. F. Thrift, October 6
John M. Keeler, October 6
28-O. L. Dudley, April 5
29-J. J. Odell, October 6
A. W. Dudley, October 18
30-A. Ackley, October 6
31-S. Bacon, April 5
33-L. E. Dudley, October 18
T. W. Hughes, October 17 |
1861
2-A. C.
Fairbrother, January 6
Avon Stook, January 22
12-N. Beck, November 8
18-S. D. Fuller, September 14
20-James Gilbert, November 6
22-Thomas Wren, November 18
23-W. Heilman, October 16 |
24-Henry
Kersehte, November 19
C. Hillman, October 16
M. Orth, October 8
32-H. Stewart, December 21
D. Gray, November 13
34-J. H. Dedrick, September 23 |
1964
3-A. S.
Gilchrist, October 22
9-August Prince, September 22 |
21-A.
Lawson, October 3
25-T. Schmidt |
1865
5-August
McAchrin, July 18
7-F. H. Wedstrand, March 22
11-John Link, October 28 |
23-Joseph
Steffis, August 4
27-Henry Kerscht, August 15
33-R. J. Parker, January 30 |
1866
| 13-Paul
Fredericks, February 21 |
1867
11-Jacob
Abel, December 19
21-T. Wren, April 13 |
1868
6-John
Allen, January 1
L. Ryan, January 1
14 - F. Silegren, December 17 |
John
Weller, December 17
22-K. Dorff, December 17 |
1869
6-Thomas
Hopkins, January 1
21-Peter Barrington, June 14
22-G. Marshall, January 6
John Steffis, July 8 |
28-R. O.
Cady, July 8
34-William McPherson, January 6
M. Otten, January 6 |
1870
12-J. Q.
A. Braden, May 20.
15-J. T. G. January 22. |
23-N. Orth,
November 21
25-Jacob Orth, January 12 |
1871
10-F. M.
Elletson, January 5
22-P. Cunningham, January 5
28-G. W. Melnturf, January 5 |
1872
27-G.
Pohl. July 8
16-S. E. Adams, April 19
28-LaFayette Melnturf. February 25 |
1873
| 11-P. F.
Ayder, November 5 |
1874
21-T.
Wren, March 2
21-S. E. Adams, July 17 |
1875
35-N.
Sehug, January 24
21-W. H. Cady, February 19 |
1876
25-T.
Schmidt, May 8
4-A. Grant, February 22
21-J. F. G. Ordorff January 5 |
1878
| 5-George
Covart, February 27 |
1879
| 35-Sarah
Cannon, March 31 |
Wright County |Minnesota
AHGP
Source: History of Wright
County, Minnesota, by Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge, Volume I,
1915
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