Minnesota, the North Star StateFolwell, William Watts
History
Minnesota, the North Star State
Folwell, William Watts
Minnesota -- History
Clark, Gen. George Rogers, mentioned, 37.
Clough, David M., governor (1895-99), 340;
his judgment on treatment of the Pillagers, 352.
Code of 1851, 91.
Cody, Capt. John S., killed by Sioux, 237.
Colbert, recommends a colonial system, 13.
College of Agriculture of the University of Minnesota, slow
development, 354.
College of St. Thomas, mentioned, 354.
Colville, Col. William, commands First Minnesota in Gettysburg charge,
241.
Compulsory school attendance, 337.
Conquest of Canada by British, 30.
Constitution of state, framing of, 139;
adopted, 141;
ratified, 148.
Constitutional amendments:
authorizing state officers to act before admission to Union, 156;
five million loan, 158;
expunging amendment of 1858, 173;
requiring referendum of special railroad bonds, 173;
fixing official year, 345;
loan of school fund, 345;
forbidding special legislation, 346;
ninety-day sessions, 346;
forbidding monopolies, 346;
ten jurors to render verdict, 346;
creating board of pardons, 346;
declarants not to vote, 347;
“wide open” tax power, 347;
woman suffrage in school and library matters, 347;
majority of whole vote to ratify amendment, 347;
creating highway commission, 348;
home rule charters, 348;
investment of school fund, 348.
Constitutional convention, election for, 135;
delegates, 135;
result of election, 137;
the split, 137;
efforts to unite the two bodies, 139;
conferees appointed, 139;
report of conferees, 140.
Convocation of 1641, 15;
1825, 61.
County government, change in, 175.
Crooks, William, appointed colonel of Sixth Minnesota, 189.
Cullen, Major, Sioux agent, mentioned, 148.
Dairy industry, development of, 356.
Dakota Indians, _see_ Sioux Indians.
Daumont, _see_ St. Lusson, 15.
Davis, Cushman K., antecedents of, 294;
secures governorship, 295;
balks Senator Ramsey of reëlection, 296;
fails to secure nomination for U. S. senator, 297;
address at celebration of two hundredth anniversary of discovery of
falls of St. Anthony, 325;
recommends arbitration of railroad bonds, 329;
elected U. S. senator (1887), 341;
reëlected U.S. senator, 341;
Spanish treaty commissioner (1898), 341;
address at laying corner-stone of new capitol, 343;
death, 341.
Davis, Jefferson, mentioned, 123.
Dead Buffalo Lake, battle of, 235.
Death penalty, changes in, 314.
Declarants for naturalization deprived of suffrage, 347.
Delano, Columbus, investigates Chippeway half-breed scrip, 115.
Detroit occupied by British, 32.
Dodd, Capt., killed in battle of New Ulm, 209.
Dodge, Henry, mentioned, 87.
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