Waseca County, Minnesota - Chapter 17, 1905

On the 1st day of January, 1856, Jack Turnacliff, Dr. Ambrose Kellogs', and William Young, from Iowa, arrived at the Sutlief plantation on Norwegian snow shoes.

Mr. Young was a native of Scotland, and claimed one quarter of section 26 in Wilton. He was an original thinker, a man of more than ordinary intelligence, a persistent hater, a steadfast friend. He was a single man at that time, and divided his time for four or five years between Fillmore county and his farm in Wilton. He then married a lady in Fillmore county and afterwards removed to Iowa where, when last heard from, he dwelt with his family.

Dr. Kellogg made a claim on section 35, in Wilton, which he sold in the spring. He prospected around for coal the next spring, but finally went back to Iowa where his brother Silas resided. At the last account of him, he was in Kansas.

Jackson Turnaclifi: made his claim on section 7, town of Otisco, where he made his home until the time of his death. Jack was one of the young men who was known as being well-fixed - that is to say, his father could and did furnish him with a farm and an outfit. And Jack jn-oved himself worthy of it.

A man named Wm. Wells, familiarly called Xucky Wells, came with his family in the spring and settled on section '2'i, in Wilton. His wifi', after remaining a year or so, ran off with a "handsomer

B. F. Weed came up from Iowa, accompanied by Silas Kellogg, and settled on section 23, in Wilton, with his young wife, daughter of Hon. Will. Brisbane. At this writing, he is a resident of Montana.

Hon. Jesse I. Stewart, from Indiana, took up his residence on section 7, in Otisco, in the summer of 1856, and became some- -what prominent as a politician. He served one term as county treasurer, being elected to that office in 1857, and to the legislature in 1859. When last heard of by the writer he was in Oregon.

]\Ir. Jacob Brubaker and family, from Pennsylvania, came to the Le Sueur settlement in the fall of 1856, and settled on section 28, AVilton. The family then consisted of himself and wife, the sons Abram and Geo. E., and two daughters, the elder now Mrs. Whitman, of Iowa, the other ]\Irs. Tom Eldridge, now of Nebraska. The old gentleman died at Waseca. The older son, Abram, went, into the army from Pennsylvania and was never after heard, from. Geo. E. Bri^baker is still a resident of the county,

Among others who settled in the county in 1856, were Patrick Kenehan, Xoah Lincoln, H. P. Norton and C. F. Lincoln, of Wilton; Joseph ilanthe, Gottlieb Krassin, John Jordan, Anthony Gorman, Michael ilcGonagie, Sr., Geo. H. Reibling, and a lawyer, by name McCarthy, of St. ]\iary ; J. W. Hosmer, H. P. Chamberlain, John F. Allen, Wm. Lee, John Minske, Fred Minske, August Minske, Gottlieb Kanne, Fred Kanne, August Kanne, Gottlieb Kanne, Wm. ^Mar/ahn, John Reed, David Hutchinson, Thos. Bishop, Thos. Gibson, Wm. Allen, John G. Ward, Silas Ward, John J. Fell, Richard Toner, H. W. Peck, Geo. Leonard, Daniel Tripp, Benj. W. Gifford. A. A. Cotton, M. S. Green, William Long, Seth W. Long, Geo. Long, A. Wilsey, Jim Chadwick, S. J. Willis, Henry Thwing, Nelson Thwing, Jacob Hagadorn and Peter Farrell of Iosco ; Hon. Lewis McKune, Hon. J. L. Saufferer, E. R. Conner, Geo. Dean, John Walker, James Walker, Wm. Donaldson, Hon. Philo Woodruff, Patrick Healy, Cornelius Hand and his sons, Hon. J.N. Powers and his father, John Gibson, Daniel Riegle, Andrew Nelson, Patrick Murphy and sons, Jacob Oory, Henry,