Rockford Township Land Records
1857 - 1877
Rockford and small part of Franklin
Township 119, 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
1857
10-John H.
Thomas, October 24
11-John C. Jones, October 24
24-David Cline, October 24
26-Henry Luther, October 23
27-Dorathea Hotzel, December 1
28-Josiah Stuart, October 28 |
George
Kechnell, February 28
29-Henry M. Ketchum, December 14
32 - Louis Vertum, October 24
Henry M. Ketchum, December 14
33-W. A. Coggeshall, October 31 |
1858
11-John
Atkinson, February 18
John Moffit, January 22
21-Henry Young, January 22 |
26-William
Knoble, February 22
32-Gottlieb Eppel, April 21 |
1859
4-Heirs of
E. J. Crawford, February 18
J. Ramsey, April 2
5-I. W. Freed, October 28
6-J. Taylor, October 28
9-J. Leeper, September 29
10-J. H. Thomas, October 24 |
George
Holdship, May 5
12-A. G. Thayer, April 19
22-G. Ruckholdt, December 5
31-J. Crawshaw, March 26
35-P. Christian, September 6 |
1860
6-S.
Bacon, April 5
10-H. Mills, November 20
13-C. L. Angel, November 21
H. Leaderbach, August 29
15-J. H. Dean, October 20
P. Lockwood, November 20
19-H. Haskins, July 17
22-J. S. Fredericks, November 26
A. B. Fredericks, November 26
24-W. H. Roberts, October 20 |
25- S. R.
Workman, May 14
26-C. Barth, August 27
31-M. W. Rew, November 26
32-J. O. Connell, November 27
Fred Schwerne, October 6
34-J. Dietz, August 21
T. Zeibarth, January 21
M. Schaust, January 21
35-G. Calodine, August 27
F. Mayer, August 27 |
1861
| 19-A. H.
Knaeble, July 16 |
1864
1865
1-C.
Brown, September 1
2-P. Darrow, Sr., May 12
N. E. Stewart, June 6
5-P. Boerner, September 6
12 - S. Parmeter, April 12
14-J. F. Burmester, June 16
15-A. A. Sisom, March 14
G. D. George, March 14
18-E. Nagle, August 10 |
J. Menz,
August 14
23-A. A. Sisom, March 14
25-L. Wens, March 16
27-L. Cook, September 16
33-S. Ziebarth, January 24
T. Ziebarth, May 23
J. Siebel, December 31
Jigler, January 24 |
1866
7-L. C.
Ilstrup, August 28
3-A. H. Cooper, December 13
12-G. W. Parker, February 8 |
1867
George
Sook, March 28
17-C. Boumer, May 27 |
1868
1-B.
Palmeter, December 15
18-W. A. Cronk, March 13
20-J. Samsell, Jr., March 13
Margaret Samsell, March 20 |
23-J. G.
Welch, February 12
30-H. Schultz, February 6
J. Kriedler, March 13
31-J. Quinn, June 17 |
1869
2-E. D.
Spaulding, September 15
E. S. Spaulding, September 15
W. F. Thompson, December 21
C. N. Cooper, December 21
3-C. Roberts, November 12
4-C. Barnzier, July 26
A. Roloff, January 20
8-C. Zimmer, February 1
W. Deckon, June 17 |
10-N.
Dyer, January 20
14-W. Sook, December 21
J. W. Silliman, December 21
J. Sheridan, December 21
18-E. Nagle, June 17
Mary Steinhiller, June 17
22-C. Ebel, June 17
24-W. Albitz, July 1 |
1870
W. F. Thompson, December 21
6-S. Ilstrup, April 11
14-J. M. Higgins, December 6
16-S. H. Dean, January 7
2-J. T. Van Valkenburgh, November 15 |
20-O. W.
Crawford, December 6
R. O. Crawford, December 22
A. Bucklin, December 6
27-Julia E. Breed, June 2
28-D. McCarter, November 7 |
1871
7-A.
Ilstrup, April 25
12-J. Crandall, April 20
16-S. H. Dean, February 4 |
30-G. W.
Kredler, August 10
E. Allen, March 2
T. Ziebarth, May 23 |
1872
J.
Johnson, January 3
6-N. Anderson, January 3
N. Peterson, January 3
8-N. Bengtson, January 3
11-H. Dyer, February 26
20-J. Meier, March 7 |
H.
Schultz, March 7
B. Peterson, January 3
24-C. T. Coverdale, March 13
26-J. Cook, December 2
28-S. C. Frederick, March 12
34-M. Ross, March 7 |
1873
18-J.
Rochlke, January 2
G. Leerson, January 2 |
28-C. D.
Frederick, August 15
30-H. Brandt, January 2 |
1874
1-A.
Hopkins, December 15
3-T. Seibert, April 27
20-C. Knall, October 15 |
24-C. A.
Sevear, October 8
36- J. H. Thompson, July 15 |
1876
| 12-A.
Mattson, January 14 |
1877
Wright County |Minnesota
AHGP
Source: History of Wright
County, Minnesota, by Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge, Volume I,
1915
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