Minnesota, the North Star StateFolwell, William Watts
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Minnesota, the North Star State
Folwell, William Watts
Minnesota -- History
Williamson, Thomas Smith, missionary of American Board (1835), 66;
translates Bible into Dakota, 67;
organizes the Hazlewood republic at Yellow Medicine, 169;
escapes from upper Sioux, 202;
ministers to Sioux convicts, 233.
Wilson, Eugene M., elected M. C., 264.
Wilson, Horace B., state superintendent of public instruction, 299.
Winchell, N. H., state geologist, 303;
reports on iron ore find (1878), 358.
Windom, William, reëlected to Congress (1862), 248;
elected U. S. senator, 292;
personal qualities, 292;
report of, on “transportation routes to the seaboard,” 292;
defeated for reëlection to U. S. Senate (1883), 338;
Secretary of the Treasury, 339;
death, 339.
Winnebagoes, established on Long Prairie reservation, 104;
stray from reserve, 104;
Rice contract, 104;
moved to new reserve, near Mankato, 120;
removed from Minnesota, 232.
Woman suffrage on school and library measures, 320, 347.
Wood Lake, battle of, 218.
Younger brothers, 315.
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