French Lake Township Land Records
1860 - 1879
Township 120, Range 28
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
1860
10-Thomas
O. Laughlin, June 6
12 - James Grimes, September 22
C. Grimes, September 22 |
14-Hannah
O. Laughlin, July 7
15-Ernest Howart, October 27 |
1862
| 22-G.
Mathewson, April 11 |
1866
13-J.
Chevalier, February 14
15-Antone Guntire, October 12
P. Rasseau, October 5 |
1868
4-D.
Mulqueeny, June 26
24-A. McDonald, June 19
10-M. C. O. Donohue, February 21 |
1869
1870
4-S. M.
Dorman, October 16
12-J. Meloin, October 6
24-D. McDonald, April 26 |
Margaret
O. Shea, October 6
P. Kennedy, October 6
26-F. G. Foster, December 14 |
1872
15-P.
Charlet, January 2
34-C. A. Reed, September 25 |
C. A.
Pauley, October 17
J. G. Bogar, October 17 |
1873
2-John
Proctor, February 17
4-J. Blackburn
12-J. Capeon, April 11
26-D. Dykeman, July 10
J. Z. Cochrane, August 1
A. Peinceince, November 15 |
F. B. Ide,
March 28
32-J. F. Sunden, October 23
C. F. Straw, October 22
34- T. D. Groves, July 1
J. Ditty |
1874
2-P.
O'Laughlin, March 18
P. Shorry, April 18
J. Hartnett, February 2
3-P. Mooney, January 6
14-J. O'Laughlin, February 2
18-L. Borg, October 22
20-J. Jackson, October 20
J. L. Lundberg, June 22
N. Nilsson, June 22
O. Peterson, March 20
P. E. Oslund, March 18 |
28-J.
Morris, May 20
O. Nystrom, October 20
G. Jansson, March 17
O. Anderson, March 17
30-P. Skoog, October 20
E. E. Oslund, June 22
J. Ash, March 18
O. Palmquist, March 20
32-J. Lonsdin, March 18
33-J. Carlson, July 31
34-S. Reed, July 14 |
1875
2-M.
Murray, February 17
20-S. Lingblod, March 18
28-A. Lind, January 1
J. Jonson, October 5 |
30 -E.
Peterson, October 6
32-P. J. Bjorklund, October 5
C. J. Anderson, October 5
34-F. Guin, January 1 |
1876
2-M.
Murray, February 17
19-1. Gutzweller, Jr., November 27
L. G. Pendergast, May 19
27-E. Boxell, March 24
29-P. Westtund, March 21 |
33-J.
Johnson, October 3
L. Harrington, December 18
B. Thurstenson, September 1
O. Swenson, April 30 |
1877
19-N.
Nilson, March 10
21-Ole Dohlgren, February 6
23-P. Norberg, October 31
27-C. Isaacson, March 17
A. Corbin, August 7 |
29-P.
Skoog, April 3
31-H. Mattson, December 28
W. R. Merriman, January 29
33-C. J. Johnson, January 30 |
1878
25-J. F.
Chevalier, December 18
31-J. Floren, February 12 |
E. J.
Anderson, April 25
33-T. Anderson, July 24 |
1879
30-K.
Johnson, April 1
19-N. Nelson, February 20
33-J. Morris, January 23 |
Wright County |Minnesota
AHGP
Source: History of Wright
County, Minnesota, by Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge, Volume I,
1915
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