Silver Creek Township Land Records
1858 - 1879
Township 121, Range 26,
Sections 1 to 18, Inclusive.
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
| Henry D.
Wood, December 22 |
1859
9-Ira H.
Stockwell, December 8
17-James W. Hamilton. April 22 |
1860
5-Elizer
Hibbard, October 9
James Hibbard, October 9
6-John McIntosh, May 29
E. J. Lambert, May 14
7- W. Walker, September 9
8-Moses L. Ridley, October 29 |
10-Jacob
Ertel. November 15
13-John W. Patterson, August 31
Jackson J. Smith, April 30
14-John W. Patterson, August 31
Conrad Schomber, November 3 |
1864
G. Martie,
October 22
15-John Marckart, September 29
Frederic Hitter, September 16 |
1865
5-Benjamin
Wakefield, August 19
7-Paul Kannady, July 28
J. B. Walker, August 19 |
8-H. E.
Ridley, October 29
9-Salsbury Rowell, November 17 |
1866
1867
1868
6-Levi M.
Gaskill, March 19
E. J. Lambert, May 14
Abram Simmons, October 3
8-J. S. Locke, July 3 |
George
Coombs, May 19
14-E. Holeher, April 18
18-Daniel McKinzie, July 3
John Allen, October 3 |
1869
1870
4-E. B.
Rowell, January 25
12-M. A. Bailey, May 30 |
Ira C.
Wade, May 30
18-Jacob J. Colvin, October 8 |
1871
1873
2-John G.
Baker, December 1
4-William Parker, January 25
5-P. Swab, December 18 |
15-G.
Martie, February 3
18-A. R. Ridley, January 18
N. W. S. Day, January 18 |
1874
Jacob
Flaknger, October 30
17-Charles H. Bryant, June 19
10-G. A. Deisler, November 16 |
1875
|
14-Valentine Gores, June 9 |
1876
2-Andrew
Thurstenson, November 10
Ole Anderson, November 10
Ole Oleson, November 10
Andrew Erickson, October 31 |
J.
Swenson, October 2
T. Spence, November 12
9-A. H. Braat, March 21 |
1877
14-Gatlieb
Gerenbeck
9-Peter Meyet, July 17
4-Joseph N. Lock, April 14 |
1879
2-O.
Johnson, March 31
12-Julius Planer, March 31 |
Wright County |Minnesota
AHGP
Source: History of Wright
County, Minnesota, by Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge, Volume I,
1915
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