Terms of office, 337. Third Minnesota Infantry, recruited, 181; at Murfreesboro, 182; at Wood Lake, 219; in battle of Fitzhugh’s Woods, 243. Thomas, M. T., appointed colonel of Eighth Minnesota, 189. Thompson, David, on Turtle Lake, 70. Tornado, at St. Cloud (1886), 348; in southern counties (1891), 349. Traders’ paper, 95. Transit Railroad Co., chartered, 161. Transportation to seaboard, _see_ Windom. Traverse des Sioux, treaty of, 95. Treaty, _see_ Indian treaties. Tweedy, John H., mentioned, 87. Twelfth Minnesota Volunteers, in Spanish War, 350. Tyler, Hugh, attorney-in-fact, 100. University of Minnesota, created, 144; land grant of 1851, 144; first board of regents, 144; preparatory school of 1851, 144; campus purchased on credit, 145; regents borrow money, 145, 160, 257; erect building, 145; state board appointed, 175, 258; state board recommend sale of land, 258; Congress donates lands reserved in 1851, 258; properties turned over to state auditor, 258; special board appointed, 259; “extrication” by same, 259; new charter, 260; preparatory and academic departments opened, 260; novel plan of organization proposed by the first president, the author of this book, 300; first commencement, 300; double land grant, 302; fed by high schools, 338; late prosperity, 353. Van Cleve, Horatio P., colonel of Second Minnesota, 181. Van Cleve, Mrs. Charlotte Ouisconsin, born, 55. Van der Horck, Capt. John, commands at Fort Abercrombie, 223. Van Sant, Samuel R., governor (1901-05), 340; opposes railroad consolidation, 340. Verendrye, Sieur de la, explorations, 28. Vermilion Iron Range, 358. Vilas, William F., secretary of state, endeavors to prevent use of Sioux scrip, 119. Wabashaw sends letter to Sibley, 217. Wabashaw reservation, 117. Wahpékutes, _see_ Sioux Indians. Wahpétons, _see_ Sioux Indians. Walker, Lucius C., Chippewa agent, mentioned, 225. Washburn, William D., declines nomination for Congress, 264; becomes nominee in 1878, 316; service as congressman, 318; elected U. S. senator, 342. Washburne, E. B., reply to Ignatius Donnelly, 263. Weiser, Dr. J. S., shot by Sioux, 235. Welch, Major A. E., gallantry at Wood Lake, 219. Welch, William H., appointed territorial chief justice, 1853, 108. Western fur-trade suspended, 25. Wheat crops of 1875 and 1880, 307; grading and inspection, 336. Whipple, Henry Benjamin, protests against wholesale executions, 229. Whitman, Allen, report on locusts, 304. Wilkin, Alexander, defeated for delegate, 1855, by Rice, 107; appointed colonel of Ninth Minnesota, 189. Wilkinson, Major M. C., shot in Pillager outbreak, 352. Wilkinson, Morton S., elected U. S. senator, 171; defeated for Senate by D. S. Norton, 252. Williamson. Miss Jane, missionary work, 67, 233.