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His original homestead claim extended from the Big Sioux to the Floyd River, land that became the original town of Sioux City, a French settlement, about 1852. [1] [2] Bruguier continued in the trade business, and was a wagon freighter and an Indian commissioner. In August 1853, he was one of 17 people to vote in the first election in Woodbury ...
Blanchard, California – Rosie M. Blanchard (first postmaster) Blanchard, Maine – Charles Blanchard (landowner) [72] Blanco, Monterey County, California – Tom White (settler); "Blanco" is "White" in Spanish; Blandford, Massachusetts – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (also held the title Marquess of Blandford) [72]
When Michael was 21 years old, he moved to Iowa and married a 15-year-old girl named Elizabeth Kindred. Five years later, the couple moved to Missouri and Michael built a gristmill . [ 2 ] At the age of 30, he decided to abandon the Midwest and came to the Puget Sound on a wagon train with a group of settlers (including his friend George Bush ...
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The first white settlers in the area around Paris were the James Lytle family, in 1841. Paris was founded and staked out on the west side of the Wapsipinicon River, in sections 19 and 20 of Jackson Township, in 1845. A school was established just west of Paris in 1850. [2]
Norwegian immigration to Iowa began in 1840 [52] with settlement at Sugar Creek [90] in southeastern Iowa, and continued with immigration to northern Iowa in the late 1840s. [91] The Sugar Creek colony in Lee County was the result of a failed Missouri colony, and has its origins in the second Norwegian colony in the United States, that of Fox ...