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Chatting with a real pioneer
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It was 51} YC;lrs ago this month
Ihat I had an oppor!unily as a
young Ikrald H:porter-wrilcr-
l'tfiltlr -just a fcw years out of high
h(~IJ .. to sfA:nd part of a Sunuay
aftrrn(l(>n with a lcrritorial pionl'cr.
My rCl:ently acquired first cm, a
u<octl--{lf course-Model T Foru,
ofA:ned new horizons hcyond the
w;dking limits of Chaska.
With a Novemhcr wind (lnd
snOWn:IKCS gently mixing, I was
hcaded for what was then Ch:mhas-
sen Township, more specifj~lIy to
that area settled hy "Yankees" in
I he 1 1'<5 Os.
Al Ihe Ilcrh Ac;pdcn home I wac;
going 10 hccome acquainted with
his mother, Mary Wood Ac;fXlen, a
delightful lady grClccfully enjoying
hcr upper HOs.
She and her fiimily had the
experience of coming from
Massachusetts to Ihe frontier Iwice.
Abcl WlXx.! had worked in Ihe
A)\\on mills of thai Slate sinl.:e
coming from England as a boy.
Learning of new opportunilies in
Ihe new Midwest, he hrought his
family, including two-year-old
Mary, to Ihe Waukesh(l area of
WisConsin. However, it proved 10
he a malaria area. The family went
l1;lck cast.
Some German families had come
up Ihe Minnesota River in IH52
and pre-empled hOmesle(lds on Ihe
prairie and along the bluffs of what
would hccome Carver Counly, cast
of what would hc(Alme Chaska.
The steamboats lei them off al a
Januing Cllled Yorkville, During
Ihe following year, 10 families
from Mas..'\<lchuSCIIS got off al Ihe
same pJal.:e and headed north 10
claim land. In Ihe group were Arha
Cleveland, George Powers, H.M.
Lyman, Joshua Moore, J. C.alh~rl,
George Galpin, Lemuel Griffin,
JlImes Ryan, William Tilton <lnd
James Hillery.
A minister lAlme \0 visil Ihe
Clevdands anu was so favorahly
irnpre~<;cd with Ihe new area Ihat
he wrole lellers 10 Ihe Palmer
Journal. a MassachUSCllS pUhlic,l-
tion.
One of the readers who was
convim:ed and hccame exciled was
Ahcl W(xxI. He started west and
left enough money for his family 10
follow later. He landeu ;11 York\'ille
in 1854 and estahlished a home-
stead. After a year's rreparation of
lhe site, he sent for his f:lmily.
A c.:ontingenl of I () SCI oul from
Mas..c;achusells, making the first
legs of Ihe Irip by rllilrO.1d. In lhe
group Ihe W(Xx!s' cousins, Caspar
KnOll, John Ac;pden, and the
Hohson, Lynn <lnd M,xlre fllmilies.
On one leg of the journey Ihey nx.!e
in :J c.l111e car, just vac:J!ed hy
animals. Planks were PUI in as seats
for women.
After six days lhey arrived in
Chi~go on a Sunday. Trains did
not operale on Ihat day. The next
day they were back on the rails
headed for Galena, 111. There Ihey
got on Ihe steamhoal, Franklin,
hound for St. Paul. There Ihey
hoarded Ihe Anlelope <lnd reached
lhe Minnesota River Valley al
Shakopee by nighlfall. KnOll, a
tinsmith, was impres..c;cd with Ihe
selllcmenl at ShakofA:e and decided
10 SCI up husines.s Ihere. TIle
Anlelope stopped at Yorkville, a
snl\lering of log homes eaSI of
whal was 10 become Chaska. They
were greeted Ihere by John Mann, a
sclller. He had heen requesled 10
lake CMe of Ihe newcomers until
their friends arrived.
Mr. Wood arrived with a lumber
wagon drawn hy a yoke of oxen he
had purchased. Reuniled, Ihe Wo,x.!
family drove into Ihe nearby
Chaska selllement, slopped <It
David Fulkr's slOre on Ihe levee 411
Ihe soulh cnd of Walnut Slreet.
They purl.:hascd a harrel of salt
pork, a dollar's worth of sugar, a
harrel of nour and II gallon of
molas..c;cs. Wilh those purchases,
Ihe wagon <lnd oxen and a $60 cow,
Ihe Woods had $42.50 left ac; their
wealth. That would he contrihuted
to the COSI of a log sch,x)! neigh-
hors had decided to build. They
could Ihen gel educalion funds
from Ihe territorial government.
As the filrmsleau (;<Jme into view,
Ihere was the 16 hy 24 foot log
house wilh IwO windows. Inside
were ;1 Ilnl made with tamarack
poles, a cros..'\-Ieg pine hoard tahle,
some SllKlls and an iron stOve. The
family unpacked the two chests of
clothing Ihey hroughl from the
East.
Now thne .....en: eight hanus
insleau of two for further clearing
the eflt;mglement of brush, fern
growth and reXlls under which there
was rich soil for cultivating. While
the son helfA:d his father, nine-
year-old Mary aided her mOlher,
churning hUller and shooting
hlack hirds to prolect t he acre of
whe:lt her father had planled for
nexl winter's nour.
A young girl, Susan Hazeltine,
slarledleaching school in the
Clevelanu horne, hut, when the Jog
school was finished, Ihat he~lme
the euuc,llional, l.:ultural and socia!
center. The newcomers from
Ma~sachusclls were quite cultured.
In Ihe schlxllthey had such
aClivilies as spelling hces and
lyceums, including dehates,
recilal ions, singing, and reading of
prepared rafA:rs.
The Rev. Euwaru Eggleston,
aUlhor famous for "TIle Hoosier
Schoolmaster" and "'me Circ:uil
Rider," preacheu allhe school
while traveling as a txxlk salesman.
Mrs. A'\(xlcn rememhcred Ihe
occasion. She couldn'l aBend,
hccausc she didn'l have shoes.
There were no churches, hut in
the summer neighhors would
galher in thl: sugar maple grove
near Ihe Lyman home for services.
It was Ihere Ihal Ihe first Protestant
sermon was preached by Ihe Re\'.
Charles Galpin of Minneapolis in
June IH54.
The ASpUens and Wexxls being
neightxlrs led to ii rather nmural
romam:c, and Henry AsfXlen and
Mary Ann WOlx.! married. By Iha[
time Minnesota had hcmme a
stale,
There was so mUl.:h more
Grandma A<;fXll:n told me in Ihat
1933 visit. In a fUlure column I
shall relale some of her experiences
wilh Indians al home in Chanhas-
scn and while leaching ill
ShakllfA:e.
Lot 35.1
Grave Status Occupied
Update Date 9/22/1997
Name
Sex
Social Sec. No.
Date of Birth
Date of Death
Interment Date
Cause of Death
Place of Birth
Place of Death
Age
Marital Status
Mother
Father
Children
Occupation
Military Status
Baptized
Purchased By
Street
City, State, Zip
Phone
Date Purchased
Amount Fee Paid
Date Int Fee Paid
Interment Fee
Name
Address
City, State, Zip
Phone
Name
Relationship
Address
City, State, Zip
Phone
Occupant Information
Arba Cleaveland
Male
1/1/1819
7/5/1860
Drowning in Lake Calhoun
Massachusetts, possible Belchertown
Minneapolis, Minnesota
41
Married
Emmesette, Ella, Carrie, Harriet, Eva
9/7/1856
Purchaser Information
Arba Cleaveland
2/7/1861
0.00
0.00
Spouse Information
Clarissa Sikes Cleaveland
Next of Kin Information
Lot 35.1 Update Date 9/22/1997
Name Arba (Honorable) Cleaveland
Comments/History The Cleaveland family came to Chanhassen in April 1853 with the North Hampton
Colony of Massachusetts aboard the steamship "Time & Tide". Arba became a
member of the First Independent Church of Excelsior and Chanhassen on
9/7/1856. He was also baptized that same date according to church records. In
1855, Arba Cleaveland was elected to the Territorial House of Representatives
from Carver County on the Republican ticket. In 1856, he was Vice President of
the Territorial Agriculture Society. In 1855, the first school sessions in
Chanhassen were held by Susan Hazeltine at the Cleaveland home. Arba
Cleaveland is also credited with planting two potatoes from which he raised a
bushel-and-a-half of good merchantable potatoes. This information was taken
from "Personal Recollections of Minnesota and its People" by Stevens. In the
book "A Frontier Family in Minnesota" (p. 140), Theodore Bost describes Arba
Cleaveland as follows: "A tall, robust, hearty fellow, American (New Englander).
has a good head on his shoulders. Represents our county in the legislature. Very
polite, too." In a letter written home by Theodore Bost, dated 7/29/1860, he writes:
Mr. and Mrs. Cleaveland went away with their 4 children on the 4th of July to visit
their sister and brother-in-law who is a minister in Minneapolis (Reverend Henry
Nichols). On the 5th, the two families went to bathe in the lovely lake famous for
its rocky shore and gradually sloping bottom. The two older girls (Emmesette, age
12, and Ella, age 10) ran into the water, but all of a sudden one of them began to
struggle and call for help; the second one went to give her a hand and also lost
her footing. Their 12 year old cousin ran to rescue them and also got into deep
water. Then Mr. Cleaveland threw himself into the water and his brother-in-law
too, then his sister-in-law and someone else. One after another, they sank without
a word. Mrs. Cleaveland wanted to rush in after the others, but two men who
came running up held her back while trying to save the drowning people; but one
of them got tangled up in a shawl and his friend had a hard time rescuing him.
Others who drowned were: Reverend Henry M. Nichols, age 36, of the Plymouth
Congregational Church; Nancy Sikes Nichols, age 35, who was Mrs. Cleaveland's
sister; Henry B. Nichols, age 12, who was the son of the Reverend. The Nichols
family was buried at the Pioneer Cemetery in Minneapolis on Lake and Cedar.
They were disinterred in 1921, and moved to Crystal Lake Cemetery.
Lot 35.2
Grave Status Occupied
Update Date 9/22/1997
Name
Sex
Social Sec. No.
Date of Birth
Date of Death
Interment Date
Cause of Death
Place of Birth
Place of Death
Age
Marital Status
Mother
Father
Children
Occupation
Military Status
Baptized
Occupant Information
Emmesette Cleaveland
Female
1/1/1847
7/5/1860
Drowning in Lake Calhoun
Massachusetts
Minneapolis, Minnesota
12
Single
Clarissa (Sikes) Cleaveland
Honorable Arba Cleaveland
none
9/7 /1856 (church record)
Purchaser Information
Emmesette CleavelandPurchasedBy
Street
City, State, Zip
Phone
Date Purchased
Amount Fee Paid
Date Int Fee Paid
Interment Fee 0.00
Name
Address
City, State, Zip
Phone
Name
Relationship
Address
City, State, Zip
Phone
2/7/1861
0.00
Spouse Information
Next of Kin Information
Lot 35.2 Update Date 9/22/1997
Name Emmesette Arabell Cleaveland
Comments/History Emmesette was born circa 1847-1849 according to the Massachusetts 1857
census. In a letter written home by Theodore Bost, dated 7/29/1860, he writes:
Mr. and Mrs. Cleaveland went away with their 4 children on the 4th of July to visit
their sister and brother-in-law who is a minister in Minneapolis (Reverend Henry
Nichols). On the 5th, the two families went to bathe in the lovely lake famous for
its rocky shore and gradually sloping bottom. The two older girls (Emmesette, age
12, and Ella, age 10) ran into the water, but all of a sudden one of them began to
struggle and call for help; the second one went to give her a hand and also lost
her footing. Their 12 year old cousin ran to rescue them and also got into deep
water. Then Mr. Cleaveland threw himself into the water and his brother-in-law
too, then his sister~in-Iaw and someone else. One after another, they sank without
a word. Mrs. Cleaveland wanted to rush in after the others, but two men who
came running up held her back while trying to save the drowning people; but one
of them got tangled up in a shawl and his friend had a hard time rescuing him.
Others who drowned were: Reverend Henry M. Nichols, age 36, of the Plymouth
Congregational Church; Nancy Sikes Nichols, age 35, who was Mrs. Cleaveland's
sister; Henry B. Nichols, age 12, who was the son of the Reverend. The Nichols
family was buried at the Pioneer Cemetery in Minneapolis on Lake and Cedar.
They were disinterred in 1921, and moved to Crystal Lake Cemetery.
Lot 35.3
Grave Status Occupied
Update Date 9/22/1997
Name
Sex
Social Sec. No.
Date of Birth
Date of Death
Interment Date
Cause of Death
Place of Birth
Place of Death
Age
Marital Status
Mother
Father
Children
Occupation
Military Status
Baptized
Purchased By
Street
City, State, Zip
Phone
Date Purchased
Amount Fee Paid
Date Int Fee Paid
Interment Fee
Name
Address
City, State, Zip
Phone
Name
Relationship
Address
City, State, Zip
Phone
Occupant Information
Ella Clarissa Cleaveland
Female
1/1/1849
7/5/1860
Drowning in Lake Calhoun
Massachusetts
Minneapolis, Minnesota
10
Single
Clarissa (Sikes) Cleaveland
Honorable Arba Cleaveland
none
9/7/1856 (church record)
Purchaser Information
Ella Clarissa Cleaveland
2/7/1861
0.00
0.00
Spouse Information
Next of Kin Information
Lot 35.3 Update Date 9/22/1997
Name Ella Clarissa Cleaveland
Comments/History Ella was born circa 1847-1849 according to the Massachusetts 1857 census. In a
letter written home by Theodore Bost, dated 7/29/1860, he writes: Mr. and Mrs.
Cleaveland went away with their 4 children on the 4th of July to visit their sister
and brother-in-law who is a minister in Minneapolis (Reverend Henry Nichols). On
the 5th, the two families went to bathe in the lovely lake famous for its rocky shore
and gradually sloping bottom. The two older girls (Emmesette, age 12, and Ella,
age 10) ran into the water, but all of a sudden one of them began to struggle and
call for help; the second one went to give her a hand and also lost her footing.
Their 12 year old cousin ran to rescue them and also got into deep water. Then
Mr. Cleaveland threw himself into the water and his brother-in-law too, then his
sister-in-law and someone else. One after another, they sank without a word.
Mrs. Cleaveland wanted to rush in after the others, but two men who came running
up held her back while trying to save the drowning people; but one of them got
tangled up in a shawl and his friend had a hard time rescuing him. Others who
drowned were: Reverend Henry M. Nichols, age 36, of the Plymouth
Congregational Church; Nancy Sikes Nichols, age 35, who was Mrs. Cleaveland's
sister; Henry B. Nichols, age 12, who was the son of the Reverend. The Nichols
family was buried at the Pioneer Cemetery in Minneapolis on Lake and Cedar.
They were disinterred in 1921, and moved to Crystal Lake Cemetery.
Lot 35.4
Grave Status Occupied
Update Date 9/22/1997
Name
Sex
Social Sec. No.
Date of Birth
Date of Death
Interment Date
Cause of Death
Place of Birth
Place of Death
Age
Marital Status
Mother
Father
Children
Occupation
Military Status
Baptized
Purchased By
Street
City, State, Zip
Phone
Date Purchased
Amount Fee Paid
Date Int Fee Paid
Interment Fee
Name
Address
City, State, Zip
Phone
Name
Relationship
Address
City, State, Zip
Phone
Occupant Information
Carrie Louise Cleaveland
Female
1/1/1858
10/1/1859
Unknown
Chanhassen, Minnesota
Chanhassen, Minnesota
20 mos.
Single
Clarissa (Sikes) Cleaveland
Honorable Arba Cleaveland
none
6/6/1858 (church records)
Purchaser Information
Carrie Louise Cleaveland
2/7/1861
0.00
0.00
Spouse Information
Next of Kin Information
Name
Comments/History
Lot 35.4 Update Date 9/22/1997
Carrie Louise Cleaveland
Date of death obtained from church records.
Lot 35.5 Update Date 9/22/1997
Grave Status Unoccupied - owned by Clarissa Sikes Cleaveland (deceased)
Name
Sex
Social Sec. No.
Date of Birth
Date of Death
Interment Date
Cause of Death
Place of Birth
Place of Death
Age
Marital Status
Mother
Father
Children
Occupation
Military Status
Baptized
Purchased By
Street
City, State, Zip
Phone
Date Purchased
Amount Fee Paid
Date Int Fee Paid
Interment Fee
Name
Address
City, State, Zip
Phone
Name
Relationship
Address
City, State, Zip
Phone
Occupant Information
Purchaser Information
Clarissa Sikes Cleaveland
2/7/1861
0.00
0.00
Spouse Information
Next of Kin Information
Lot 35.5 Update Date 9/22/1997
Name
Comments/History This lot was given to Clarissa Cleaveland by the Chanhassen Cemetery
Association in 1861. The Cleavelands had two other children. They were Eva
Ermine, born 1855 in Chanhassen, per the 1857 census, and Harriet Sikes
Mansfield, born in 1856 in Chanhassen, per the 1857 census. Mrs. Cleaveland
took the two children and an adopted nephew and moved back to Belchertown,
Massachusetts to be with her family in August of 1862. Sophie Bost in a letter
written in June of 1860, describes Mrs. Cleaveland as: "Most estimatable of all
women. Pious, lively, enthusiastic, well-educated, with attractive manners, and
charming family, four daughters and husband." The Arba Cleaveland farm was
located in Section 21, the southwest corner of Lake Hazeltine. In a letter to a
niece dated 6/15/1853, Mrs. Cleaveland wrote: "I live in a little log house with four
windows in it, the bedroom on the west end, and a parlor, sitting room, kitchen and
pantry all in one. At the east window, I have a beautiful view of the
lake...
1 have a
walk made from door down to brook, and my flowers on either side, they are all up,
and my dahlias all alive. It will look like home to see old Mass(achusetts) plants in
Minn(esota). I wish I had brought my white rose-bush with me, it would have lived.
We have an Indian canoe on our lake. Mr. Powers goes out and gets us pond
lilies: it is a pretty little sheet of water about a mile or more long; the children can
fish in it when they get a little older." Original letter among the Nichols' paper
University of Minnesota, Charles W. Nichols. Mrs. Cleaveland and her
brother-in-law, Reverend Henry M. Nichols, are credited with naming their new
settlement CHANHASSAN. She writes of this naming in a letter dated 8/22/1853.
Chanhassan is an Indian word signifying sugar-maple. From the papers of
Charles W. Nichols, University of Minnesota. The 1857 census lists:
Cleaveland, Arba/Age 28/Born: Mass./Farmer
Cleaveland, Clarissa/Age 22/Born: Mass.
Cleaveland, Emesett/ Age 1 a/Born: Mass.
Cleaveland, Arabelle (Ella)/Age 8/Born: Mass.
Cleaveland, Eva Ermine/Age 21Born: MN 1855
Cleaveland, Harriet Sikes/Age1/Born: MN 1856
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PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS
Minnesota and Its Pea
D
EARLY HISTORY OF MINNEAPOLIS,
BY
JOHN H. STEVENS.
WITH BIOGRAPHICAL MEMORANDA AND LETTERS
TO COL. JOHN H. STEVENS, SELECTED
BY MARSHALL ROBINSON.
Minneapolis, Minn.
1890.
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COPYRIGHTED 1S90
BY
Marshall Robinson.
THE LIBRARY
UNIVI:RSITY of CALIFORNIi^
SANTA BARBARA
INTRODUCTOKY.
I essay to write something of my personal recollections and
present knowledge of Minnesota and its people . Living alone,
as to white men, on the west bank of the Falls of St. Anthony,
I preempted a part of the present site of Minneapolis. I have
witnessed wonderful transformations. With such aid as I can
command, I commence the relation I have long contemplated,
as one of love and legacy to such patient and charitable readers
as I may have. A multitude of loved ones have gone before,
but many remain. In spirit they are equally present and in
view. Heroes of the past, brave men of the present, many of
them were, and are. Blessed is their memory, and their presence.
TABLE OF SOME OF THE CONTENTS.
Subjects. Page.
Introduction and Preliminary.
AVith the Army in Mexico, 1846, 1847 and 1848 - 1
Attention directed to Minnesota - - 2
The Wonderland of the Northwest - -3
On the way to Minnesota - - 4
Prominent organizers of Minnesota Territory - 6
Black Hawk battle-ground - - 8
From LaCrosse to St. Paul by the early river boats 7
Little Crow's village of Kaposia, five miles below St. Paul 9
First sight of St. Paul - - 10
Pre-Territorial Settlers - - 11
First visit to the Falls of St. Anthony - 13
First permanent claim at the Fall of St. Anthony 14
Expedition to Coon Creek 17
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The county of Hennepin, during the second week in July,
through the agency of the New York Excelsior colony, received
several permanent settlers of great merit. Among them were
Rev. Mr. Nutting, and his brother Gen. Levi Nutting, now
of Faribault, Eev. H. M. Nichols, Hon. Arba Cleveland, Geo.
M. Powers, H. M. Lyman, and Joshua Moore, all from Mas-
sachusetts ; and Burritt S. and Wm. S. Judd, from Ohio;
and Eev. Chas. Galpin, and his brother Bev. Geo. Galpin,
natives of Connecticut ; and Peter M. Gideon, who has since
become so widely known as a pomologist, and several other
men of moment, who have occupied high positions in the
country's history. Mr. Bertram, the leader of the colony,
was a native of Scotland, but for many years previous to his
coming to Minnesota, had been an enterprising business man
in New York. He certainly accomplished a good work for
Minnesota by introducing so many good men into the territory.
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On the 4th day of July an accident occurred at Lake Cal-
houn, which carried sorrow and mourning to almost the entire
community at the Falls. The pastor of the Congregational
church. Rev. H. M. Nichols, his wife, and son aged twelve
years ; his brother-in-law, Hon. Arba Cleveland, and his two
children aged eleven and thirteen years, were drowned in the
lake. Mr. Nichols was one of the most pleasing speakers of
the day, and greatly respected by all classes.
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The Northampton farmers, so-called, belonging to the
Excelsior colony, were wonderfully pleased with the jjroduct-
iveness of the soil. Arba Cleveland planted two potatoes,
from which he raised a bushel and a half of good merchant-
able potatoes. The members of the colony seemed thoroughly
impressed with the fertility of the section of country they had
selected for their homes. The average to the acre of spring
wheat was thirty bushels. These were .the days that farmers
made money ; more so than since that time ; probably more
so than they will in the future.
A German colony arrived from the old country and settled
on a lake some three miles west of Mr. Cleveland's place.
Sheriff Brown named the lake Bavaria. The colony was
headed by Joseph Kessler.
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FIRST AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTJIRAL FAIR IN MINNESOTA.
The annual meeting of the Hennepin county agricultural
society was held October 6. John H. Stevens was elected
president for one year i Col. E. Case, treasurer i Joseph H.
Canney, secretary. It was voted to hold the first annual fair
on the 20th of October, in Minneapolis. It came off at the
appointed time, and it was the first fair of an agricultural and
horticultural character that was ever held in Minnesota. It
was a success in every department. Speeches were made on
the occasion, by Governor Gorman, ex-governor Kamsey, and
Judge B. B. Meeker. Among the exhibitors were Sylvanus
Jenkins, Henry C. Keith, Allen Harmon, W. G. Murphy,
Charles Hoag, David Bickford, Arba Cleveland, Peter Poncin,
John Wass, Titus Pettijohn, Dr. A. E. Ames, D. M. Coolbaugh,
John Jackins, S. Bigelow, J. H. Stevens, William Hanson,
Alex. Farribault, J. W. Cormack, Isaac Wales, Norman Jen-
kins, W. D. Babbitt, James F. Bradley, B. E. Messer, Edward
Murphy, John Chambers, Anson Northrup, Captain John
Tapper, J. W. Dow, Clark Varner, W. H. Lauderdale, Mrs.
J. H. Canney, Mrs. Sweet AV. Case. Mrs. Charles Hoag, Mrs.
D. Bickford, Mrs. D. Elliott, Mrs. W. A. Hotchkiss, Mrs. S.
Hidden, Mrs. J. Boorbar, Mrs. S. Bigelow, and Mrs. Pauline
Clarke i Amasa Crafts, Davie & Calef, Geo. A. Brown, E.
Jordan, T._ Elwell, L. A. Smith, John M. Anderson, and
Prescott, Pettijohn & Moffett. The grain, roots, vegetables,
stock, swine, poultry, dairy exhibits, the mechanical and
domestic department, fine arts, ladies' department and mis-
cellaneous articles exhibited, were all of such excellence they
would have done credit to one of the oldest and richest agri-
cultural counties in New York. The premium list amounted
to several hundred dollars, and they were all paid. Fortu-
nately there were several strangers present representing
several of the eastern, middle, and western states, and the
extraordinary character of the grain, vegetables and stock on
exhibition impressed them so favorably with the farm pro-
ducts of Minnesota that most of them became, in after years,
permanent residents in Minnesota.
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BEGINNING OF A REPUBLICAN RULE.
In politics for the first time the issue was between the
democrats and republicans. The whigs did not put a ticket
in the field. After the election there appeared to have been
a Know-Nothing ticket, but it received only eighteen votes in
the county. A large majority of the whigs voted the repub-
lican ticket. The republicans had a majority of about twenty
votes. The whole number of votes polled in the county was
nineteen hundred and fifty-five. Two of the republican can-
didates for the house of representatives from Hennepin county,
Jas. F. Bradley and Thomas Pierce, were elected, as was
Arba Cleveland of Carver county. J. B. Bassett was the
republican candidate for the council. He carried the county,
but his competitor, Hon. D. M. Hanson, received a sufficient
majority in Carver county, which belonged to the same legis-
lative district, to overcome Mr. Bassett's majority in Henne-
pin. Alexander Gould was elected county commissioner.
Allen Harmon was elected treasurer by ten votes over J. S.
Johnson, democrat ; Lewis Harrington, county surveyor ; and
276 PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS
N. Jenkins and S. Coburn, assessors. There was a tie vote
between Horace H. Shepley and J.- Bohanan for the same
office. From the time of the first organization of the repub-
lican party in Hennepin county in 1855 to the present, as a
general rule, the county has been republican.
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CHANHASSEN: A CENTENNIAL HISTORY 33
The farms provided most of the necessities of life. There were few
cash transactions. Benedict Schmid kept a careful accounting. For ex-
ample, his total expenses for the year 1862 were:
35
85
25
2.65
3.85
75
4.20
15
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1.00
3.75
3.76
5.60
1.80
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9.70
7.15
88
1.80
60.00.
11.30
13.00
7.25
1.33
1.90
1.00
2.00
Shoe soles
Pants
Postage and thread
Shirt material and spoon
Income Tax
Wash kettle, copper wash boiler
Salt, shoes for child, pants
paper and ink
Starch and braid
School tax
Hat and other small items
Blacksmith
Smith's plow and trivet ax
Shoes and material
Harrow teeth, fork and other items
Agricultural paper
Poll tax
Calf
Caliper, schnapps, strap;'items
Cotton material
Boots, pants material, underpants
Fixing plow
Pig, bowls, string, glass
Wagon
Coat, underwear, pants, rope
Threshing, nails
Shoes, shirts
Linen for pants
Linen and small items
Geese
Midwife
Jan. 8
Jan 12
Jan 17
Feb7
Feb 8
Feb 11
Feb 15
Feb 22
Mar 8
May
May 8
May 20
June 1
June15
June 29
July 11
Aug 16
Aug 24
Sept 3
Sept 21
Oct.
Oct 20
Nov. 8
Nov. 15
Nov 23
Dec 20
For cash, he sold wheat, corn, rye, potatoes, green beans, and two
and a half pigs.
The farmers found that the land was good. Nature provided the
direst threats. Clarissa Cleaveland wrote about one danger.
The prairie fires...have been raging all the month. Some
nights, when there is no moon, the whole heavens are illumined
and it looks like one mighty conflagration. Other nights, when
the fire is near I can see to pick up a pin anywhere, but it does not
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will not, if they take the precaution they should to burn around
everything they have. I have heard of but one being burned out
near us and that was a German 3 miles west of us. The country is
so destitute of mountains or large hills that we can see the reflec-
tions of fires that are miles & miles, distant.
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The threat of prairie fire was real. A few years later, the Bosts lost
their stable, fence, and hay. Bost explained, "There was a man about
two miles from here who set fire to a pile of weeds in his garden and
then was unable to prevent the fire from spreading into the woods and
marshes. Several of our neighbors had their fences burned up. If the
unlucky wretch who did such a good job of burning his weeds had a
penny to his name, he would lose it all in lawsuits but he is a poor
Methodist minister." Rufus Cheeseman, the minister, remained in
poverty for years to come.
Since the New Englanders were all educated, the establishment of
a school was very important. The C1eave1ands brought Susan
Hazeltine to their home in 1855. She began the first school in Carver
County and made such an impression that two lakes were named after
her. Two years later, the county established official school districts.
The social life of the community centered around the new school-
house. Theodore Bost wrote, "Our surroundings are excellent; a
schoolhouse and church are half a mile away; there are social gather-
ings in winter where men and youths hold discussions on all sorts of
subjects....
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election. Those appointed by then Terri-
torial Governor Willi~ A. Gorman were:
John Koch, William F~ster, and John Allen,
county commissioners; Thomas B. Hunt,
register of deeds; and Levi H. Griffin,
sheriff. Hunt and Koch were Chaskans.
During that same fall of 1855, elec-
tions were held foX' county officers. Voters
went to the polls at the home of Arba Cleve-
land, 'West of Lake Hazeltine in what was'
to become Chanhassen Township.
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Co un ty Board Fred Greiner,
Chairman
Henry E. Wolff
Barrett S. Judd
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Treasurer Gustave Krayenbuhl
c.ounty At'torney Joseph A. Sargent
Judge of Probate Jacob Ebinger
County Surveyor Fred Hecklin
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George M. Powers
Jacob Byhoffer
Axel Jorgenson
Frederick Greiner of Chaska was
elected a county commissioner from his
area. The other two commissioners were
Henry E. Wolff and Niram Abbott. Upon
organizing, Greiner was selected chair-
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gregation that the building project
was undertaken. Talk of building a
new church probably began soon afte~
his arrival. During the eight yeaM
he was in Chaska, personal tragedy
struck his family twice. A two-yed:"
old daughter died of pneumonia in
1892, and a year' later his six-yea~-
old son was one of the victims of
diptheria. During his first year
in Chaska, the congregation gave h:~
a twenty-five dollar Christmas .
present. The gift was given with
the stipulation that the money be
used for a new overcoat, a reminder
of the often meagre financial posi-
tion of the early ministers.
A women t s group called the
Frauenverein" was organized in 1:"
Two years later the Yotmg People 's
Organ'ization, which apparently was
already in existence, became aff i:.
with the Christian ENDEAVOR Socic~ I
The latter was an inter-denominat: ~.
organization.
As the century was closin~. ..,.
church had overcome many of its
earlier problems. The worries W., I
accompanied those months of low
membership during the mid-1S 70' s ....
over. Sunday school attendance "..
at a high level, and one Sunday ~"
fore Christmas in l89B there we:'"
one hundred and sixty-five chil ~:"'f1
in Sunday school.
Earlier that year, the dl~:" ;'JiI.
also added a new set of bells. "...
forty years before, there was nc ...
cern that upon their arrival th.
congregation would be unable to
collect the money to pay the !':.... :
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EVENTS OF THE YEAR EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SIX.
Ou Wednesday the second day or Januaiy the Minnesota
State Agricultural Society held its annual meeting in St. Paul.
Governor Bamsey was elected president. The vice-presidents
were John H. Stevens of Hennepin^ John H. Hartenbower
of Olmstead, Clarke W. Thompson of Houston, Samuel Hull
of Fillmore, Arba Cleveland of Carver, William Fowler of
Washington, General James Shields of Rice, John Wakefield
of Scott, Prof. E. W. Merrill of Wright, Lewis Stone of Ben-
ton, N. M. Thompson of Dakota, William Freeborn of Good-
hue,- C. F. Buck of Winona, A. F. De LaVergne of LeSueur,
Chas. E. Flandreau of Nicollet, and B. F. Hoyt of Ramsey.
Treasurer, J. AY. Selby of St. Paul. Secretary, Dr. A. E.
Ames of MinneajDolis. Executive Committee, Charles Hoag,
Henry H. Sibley, N. E. Larpenteur, L. M. Ford, and Wm. H.
Nobles. It was voted that the first annual fair be held in
Minneapolis in October, at which time the election of officers
for 1857 should be had. Judge Norton H. Hemiup was
appointed postmaster of St. Anthony early in January, in
place of Hon. Lucius C. Walker.
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Scott County Democrat 1859-1861
Apr 16, 1859 District Court cases: Frank Giesler vs. Caroline Geisler, divorce, motion denied.
Charles W. Woodruff vs. Alexander Gould.
June 25, 1859 Frank Warner marries Jane Mitchell of E.P.
July 2, 1859 picnic at Mr. Kurtly's at Hennepin. (Lookout Point) R.G. Murphy erecting stone
mansion.
Feb 25, 1860 Article about E.P., mentions Mr. Terrel, Hennepin house.
Mar 24, 1860 C.B. Tirrell , secretary, Scott Co. Agricultural Society.
Apr 28, 1860 C.B. Tirrell, secretary, Scott Co. Bar Assoc., also admitted to the bar as practicing
Attorney.
July 7, 1860 Arba Cleveland of Chanhassen drowns in lake Calhoun.
Oct 20, 1860 Chief Shakopee dies, about 90 years old.
Dee 15, 1860 Fire at Hankins house, E.P.
Dec 27, 1860 Mrs. Starring dies, sister of Dr. David Daniels of Souix agency. (7) Dan Storer to
play at E.P.
Apr 27, 1861 Story about Riley boys.
June 8, 1861 C.B. Terrill at Fort Snelling.
July 6, 1861 Wm. Collins; letters at P.O. Ad for C.B. Tirrell and L.L. Baxter, attorneys at Chaska.
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20 CHANHASSEN: A CENTENNIAL HISTORY
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A More Desirable Community"
ON OCTOBER 26, 1852, A CROWD GATHERED IN THE VESTRY of
the Methodist Church in Northampton, Massachusetts. For months,
the citizens of the towns along the Connecticut
River had read about the glorious prospects in the
territory of Minnesota. On this day, Reverend
Henry Martyn Nichols and three brothers, Levi,
Porter, and Freeman Nutting, presented a plan to
form a colony to travel west and settle.
The descriptions ofthe territory lit the imagina-
tions on that autumn day. Reverend Freeman Nut-
ting of South Hadley Falls described the land that
awaited them. "Minnesota possesses a climate
which for purity and salubrity is not equalled by any
other this side of the Rocky Mountains," he wrote.
It is essentially New England...but free from our
sudden changes.. .rendering it the most healthful
climate to breathe that can be found. The land is of
the first quality-unsurpassed for all purposes of ag-
riculture by any portion of the West.. .having the
right proportion of prairie land, oak openings, and
woodlands." Nutting argued that the financial risk
was minimal. "A Colony can locate themselves to
their liking and have some two or three years to
raise crops, make improvements, & C. without pay-
ing for their land," he wrote.
Henry Martyn Nichols, a young minister from Belchertown, Mas-
sachusetts, joined with Nutting in praise of Minnesota. He wrote to
the Northampton Courier: "I have been led to examine the claims of
this new territory, and am so well convinced of its desirableness on ac-
count of its climate, soil, and facility of access as to make arrangements
for moving there next Spring." His sister, Harriet, had already moved
to Minnesota in the previous year to take up a missionary post in Belle
Plaine, teaching Chippewa children. Her letters encouraged his desire
to head west.
Nichols had grown up in the Connecticut River Valley and held a
series of ministerial posts in nearby towns. For several years Nichols
Henry Martyn Nichols)
President of the Minnesota
Colonization Committee
CHANHASSEN: A CENTE.\!NIAL HISTORY 21
The Northampton Colony
came from several towns in the
Connecticut River Valley. This
vista of the valley near
Northampton was painted by
David John Gue from the top
of Mount Holyoke. From the
collections of the Mount
Holyoke College Art Museum.
had been frustrated by the poverty, both spiritual and financial, of his
ministry. When one church steward advised him to live on faith,
Nichols told him, "I must have crackers too; faith without works is
dead." When the North Amherst church refused to raise a decent sal-
ary, he exclaimed, "I cannot stand it, I shall bolt. I cannot starve to
death...1 shall go to Amherst and preach tomorrow and tell the
people that unless they pony up, I can't stay." He read about the need
for missionaries in California and began studying Spanish. The lure of
Minnesota proved stronger, encouraged by several meetings with
Reverend Nutting.
By the close of the October meeting, the Minnesota Claim Asso-
ciation was organized. Nichols was elected President; Porter Nutting,
Secretary and Treasurer. The finance commitee included Levi Nut-
ting, C.S. Johnson, Charles Hayden, Freeman Nutting, and B.P.
Sears. The meeting approved a set of by-laws with promises to assist
the other members with their future land claims.
The Northampton Colony, as they became known, organized an
advance party to travel to Minnesota to make arrangements for the
main body and to scout prospective sites for permanent settlement.
Throughout October, Nichols met with the Nutting brothers and
Arba Cleaveland to organize their trip. They departed in mid-Novem-
ber, arriving in Saint Paul on December 2nd after poor roads delayed
their trip between Galena and Minnesota.
The Nuttings and Nichols faced the task of selecting land for their
settlement. They explored three areas-land along the Cannon River
to the south, the Rum River to the north, and near Lake Minnetonka
to the west. Nichols and Nutting seemed to be in agreement. Nichols
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wrote in his diary on January 13,1853: "Had some conversation with
Bro. Nutting about the location for our colony and with the know-
ledge we have at present we are both in favor of a place above rather
than below Saint Paul." They took a long excursion to see Lake
Minnetonka. Nutting was "perfectly enchanted with the place,"Nichols wrote in mid-February.
Nichols saw the colony as more than an attempt to acquire cheapland. It meant the planting of a New England Christian sensibility to
the wild and unsettled lands. "The advantages of going together in a
Colony are too obvious to be mentioned. The privations and inconve-
niences of an isolated pioneer life will thus be overcome and instead of
a seclusion of several years from society, we carry with us our own
New England society," he wrote.
New England society tempered the immorality of frontier life. "It
is very easy matter," Henry Nichols told his Massachusetts audience,
for an Eastern Christian to backslide in the West." Liquor was
among the most dangerous temptations. A correspondent assured the
prospective colonists that, "The Temperance men of the Territory are
generally firm and decided, and if those who come to settle among
us.. .exert the right influence, our Territory is safe." In this matter,
they were told that the territory's Catholics could be trusted. BishopCretinwasasoundtemperancemanandSaintPaulhadtwoCatholic
temperance societies.
Nutting and Nichols could not agree on the best location for the
colony, although the Saint Anthony Express of April 15 , 1853 reportedthattheyhad "both been spending some weeks at
Minnetonka and seem well pleased with the local-
ity." The final choice would await the arrival of the
colonists. Nutting sent home detailed packing in-
structions: pack goods in large boxes, pack a bottle
of water and a cup to avoid cholera, do not bring
parasols. They departed Springfield, Massachusetts
by train on April 6th, 1853.
Nichols eagerly awaited the arrival of the party,
frequently visiting the docks in Saint Paul. On April
19th, the Steam Boat Time and Tide pulled up to
the docks with the first seventy-five colonists. To Nichols' chagrin, his
wife was not on board. He continued to greet each arrival. "Sure
enough," he recorded in his diary, "at eleven o'clock last night the
S.B. Dr. Franklin came in and I found my dear wife on board nicelyasleepinherberthandwhatcouldIdobutlieinherarmstheremain-
der of the night." Mrs. Nichols remembered, "Arrived in Galena at
dark Friday. Staid there till Monday Eve when we started for Saint
Paul.. .Had one of the richest finest rides that we ever enjoyed. Got to
St. Paul Thursday night at twelve o'clock. We did not expect to getintoPortuntildaylight, so I had gone to bed and was sleeping quietly,
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passenger and freight steamer
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through Carver County) the
river trade died out.
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when I was awakened by some one kissing me, and starting up in
fright I was clasped to my husband's anns."
The Minnesota papers caught wind of their impending arrival.
The Saint Anthony Falls Express stated:
A large number of Northampton colonists arrived in Saint
Paul this week. Livery stables were in requisition and a steam boat
chartered by the city fathers... to give the colonists an opportunity
of observing the manifold and extraordinary charms of the Terri-
tory.
A choice oflocation had to be made. Many of the group wished
to see the area that Nichols favored near Lake Minnetonka and an ex-
pedition was organized. Nichols recorded their progress:
April 25. Started with six others, to visit the region around
Lake Minnetonka. Went on, as far as Steven's mill [Minnetonka],
and put up for the night...
April 26. Started in two boats, with Simon Steven's for a pi-
lot, passed up the creek into the lake, and up to the narrows at the
entrance of the big lake, where we camped for the night in the
open aIr.
April 27. Started early, and went back three or four miles,
from the lake. Found a splendid section of country, that pleased
our whole company well. Came back to Steven's mill to spend the
night.
Nutting, however, refused to commit to a location. Nichols
lamented, "We are almost discouraged about selecting a good place for
our colony. There are many speculators and land pirates." There was
money to be made and Saint Paul was full of sharp dealers. On May
6th, the Saint Anthony Express printed an unsigned letter:
Mr. Editor: A few days since I met with some of the
Northampton colony on their way to Minnetonka. They had pre-
viously been out to explore, and had made a selection which
pleased them well. They are intelligent men and will make valu-
able citizens. But the manner in which they were stopped and
treated in Saint Paul was anything but neighborly. They were
stopped and told that the Cannon River country was the best part
in the territory.
The relationship between Nichols and Nutting deteriorated.
Nichols wrote, on May 23rd, "Came back and
found.. .Nutting-
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following day. Nichols wrote, "Nutting has fully blew off and left me
in limbo." Nutting took a group to Faribault for settlement. He tried
to justify his course to readers in Massachusetts. "The planting of a
New England Colony in Minnesota is not a failure," Levi Nutting, his
brother, wrote, "although the colony...most foolishly broke up be-
fore they reached the country selected for them by their agent with so
much care."
Others chose the land just south of Lake Minnetonka. They in-
cluded Arba Cleaveland, George Powers of Belchertown, Henry
Lyman and Joshua Moore of Easthampton plus George Galpin,
Lemuel Griffin, James Ryan, William Tilton, Joshua Hillary, and
J ames Cathcart. Nichols looked on the results with satisfaction. He
wrote to his friends in Massachusetts, "The members of the colony
who settled here last spring and made claims and went to work are sat-
isfied and have done well, most of them extremely well, for the first
year. Mr. A. Cleveland of Minnetonka.. . raised one bushel and a half of
potatoes from two single ones. There is a soil in that region."
Henry Nichols accepted a call to a pastoral position in Stillwater
and never lived in Chanhassen. But he visited frequently and spoke
proudly of the new village in a letter to the Minnesota Republican.
Was you ever at Chanhassen, Mr. Editor? Two years ago,
Chanhassen was nowhere. Now, or rather last fall, it polled some
fifty votes; and there is hardly a vacant claim left in the township.
The settlers are far above average of new settlements, in respect-
ability, morality, and intelligence; and rarely can a pleasanter or
more desire able community be found, than that now settled in
Chanhassen. Nearly in the center of the township is Lake Owassa,
or Lake Hazeltine, as Surveyor Adams has named it,-a lake con-
taining some two or three hundred acres, and surrounded by
fenced farms under good cultivation.
The face of the country here differs from almost every other
portion of the Territory. It is not a prairie, neither is it timber, nor
yet is it openings, such as we call openings in other places. There
is a plenty of large heavy timber, maple, ash, oak, bass, & c., but
the trees stand alone, as if a part of what had once been a heavy
forest, while the rest had been taken off, without leaving a vestige
behind.
Sometimes not more than a dozen or twenty of these trees
will be found on an acre; while again, on an acre or two they stand
like a forest. They shade the ground but little, being tall with
small tops, like forest trees, as indeed they are, with but little of
the forest. Thus a man has the strong soil of a timber farm, with-
out the labor of clearing off the timber.
A Lyceum is well sustained, with debates every week, and the
Portfolio" published weekly. I had the pleasure of being present
CHANHASSEN: A CENTENNIAL HISTORY 25
last week. The gathering was at the spacious log cabin of one of
the farmers, who by the way is a daguerrean artist of no mean
skill, and who still pursues his business, as the sides of his room
amply testified. Here the Lyceum discussed with much anima-
tion, the Land Limitation Bill, after which came the cream-the
reading of the "Portfolio" by Mrs. Bingham.
The picture is the realization of Nichol's dream that he carried
from Massachusetts. That of "a more desirable community" that
meant good land with prosperous farms lived in by moral, literate
people. A government agent concurred. He wrote, "A Post Office is
established bearing the name of the township. A schoolhouse and
church are now nearly completed. Every thing indicates thrift, indus-
try, and intelligence."
The place now had a name. Mrs. Cleaveland leaves us with the first
record of the town's new name. She wrote to her niece, Mariah
Bardwell, on August 22,1853 with the address of "Chan-has-san." In
the margin, she added a note, asking, "You see we have named our
place. It means maple-wood. Do you like it?" Although one source
suggests that Nichols gave the town its name, Theodore Bost, a local
farmer, gave Mrs. Cleaveland the credit. He wrote, "Strictly speaking,
Chanhassen is the house belonging to the Lymans, who have a big
farm. He is our postmaster. Mrs. Cleaveland gave the post office the
Indian name Chanhassen and the whole township is beginning to be
known by this name." They all thought it meant maple tree or sugar
but it is a combination of the Dakota words for tree [chan] and hassan
berry juice]. Although there were some variations in spelling in the
early years (some wrote "Chanhassan"), most used the spelling that
lasted.
The name was popular at once. The Saint Anthony Express noted,
Chanhassen] in our opinion is tlle most beautiful of all the names
that have as yet been bestowed upon the fine and splendid rural dis-
tricts of Minnesota." The Minnesota Republican newspaper noted in
November, 1854: "Chanhassen is the name of a post office and settle-
ment midway between Excelsior and Yorktown on the Minnesota.
Like Excelsior and vicinity, the population are mainly from Massachu-
setts and are nearly all Republicans."
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Cleaveland
Arba and Clarissa Cleaveland were a respected couple in the newcommunity. Clarissa was Henry Nichols' sister-in-law. Theodore Bost,a neighbor, described Cleaveland as "a tall, robust, hearty fellow. Hasagoodheadonhisshoulders. Very polite, too." His wife, SophieBost, wrote about. Clarissa, "Mrs. Cleaveland is, I believe, the most es-timable of all the women near here-pious, lively, enthusiastic, welleducated, with attractive manners and a charming family of four well-behaved daughters and an excellent man for a husband..." ArbaCleavelandwaselectedtotheterritorialhouseofrepresentativesin1855asamemberofthenewRepublicanParty. He held the post ofvice-president of the State Agricultural Society as well.Their home was on the shore of Lake Hazeltine. Mrs. CleavelanddescribedittoherniecebackinMassachusetts. June 18, 1857:
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I live in a little log house with four windows in it; two bed-
rooms on the west end and a parlor, sitting room, lGtching, and
pantry all in one. At the east window have a beautiful view of the
lake. I have made a walk down to the brook, and my flowers on
either side, they are all up, and my dahlias all alive. It will look
some like home to see old Mass[ achusetts ] plants in Minn[ esota J.
We have an Indian canoe on our lake. Mr. Powers goes out and
gets us pond lilies: it is a pretty little sheet of water about a mile or
more long.
Aspden
John Aspden was one of the oldest pioneers. He was born in Eng-
land in 1808 and came to America in 1849. He brought two sons with
him, Henry and James. Henry Aspden was born in England in 1837.
They lived for seven years in Massachusetts where he attended college
and worked at a weaving establishment. He settled in Chanhassen in
1856 when his father purchased 160 acres. He would serve as assessor
and treasurer, as well as town clerk and treasurer of Chanhassen. His
brother, James, was born in 1840, and served in the Civil War.
Lyman
Henry Martyn Lyman was born in Easthampton, Massachusetts,
September 13, 1828. He was educated in the public schools and
Williston Seminary. Henry took over the family farm after his father's
death. In 1850 Mr. Lyman landed at Taylor's Falls, remaining a year
after which he returned to Massachusetts. In the spring of 1853 he
headed west again, landing at Saint Anthony Falls. He purchased
some oxen and drove west. He built a log house of tamarack. He, too,
came to stake his claim and then return to take a wife. He returned to
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Prairie, the congregation faltered. In 1866 the building was moved to
a site on Pioneer Trail in Eden Prairie. With the demise of Saint
John's, the township went without a Protestant church until the
1970s.
Farewell to the Nichols and Cleavelands
Nichols served for several years as pastor of the Stillwater Presby-
terian Church. He became well known for his fiery speeches against
slavery and for temperance. "I come to you tonight as an agitator," he
began a powerful abolitionist lecture. His interest in improving the
moral life of the state never diminished. In 1859 he accepted a call as
pastor of Plymouth Congregational Church in Minneapolis. On
March 26,1860, Parker M. Edgerly, a twenty-three year old clerk at a
local hotel, died from delerium tremens with Henry and Nancy
Nichols at his bedside. Deeply moved, Nichols preached the most
powerful sermon of his life on the next Sunday. The house was
packed. He told the young men to "dash away" the
beer glass before it was too late. He called on the
mothers to close up the bars. On Monday morning,
impromptu "Dashaway Clubs" were formed and a
committee of women began calling on every saloon
in the city. Weary of the emotional pitch, Nichols
visited his sister's home in Chanhassen for a few
days. On his return, he learned that Plymouth
Church had been burned to the ground. The Palls
Evening News reported that the fire had been set on
both sides of the church. The State Atlas declared,
The liquor traffic in this community having writ-
ten its history in letters of blood, it was no more
William Sarver house was
completed in 1859. It is still
standing on Hwy. 41 just
south of Hwy. 5.
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than proper. .. that it be read by the light of burning churches."
Nancy Nichols wrote in her diary that friends "would not let him
walk the streets alone. There is a watch set over the house last night to
prevent its being fired, as there is such a feeling against Mr. N by the
saloon keepers." He began carrying a revolver.
But the congregation chose to rebuild. In late June, Nichols
wrote in his diary, "prospect brightens for a new church." It was his
last entry. On July 5th, he joined Arba Cleaveland for a picnic at Lake
Calhoun. The two oldest Cleaveland girls and young Henry Jr. went
swimming and stepped over a steep slope into deep water. The two
fathers dashed into the water and sank beneath its surface. At the last
minute, Nancy reached out her hand to her husband, the hand that
had held her on the S.B. Dr. Franklin seven years earlier. She called
back to her sister to head for shore then sank clutching her husband.
The next afternoon, six coffins were placed on the lawn of the Nichols
home. Thousands attended his funeral. It was the great tragedy of the
era before the Civil War, the moment when a city stops and searches
its soul.
Theodore Bost, who thought so highly of the Cleavelands, wrote,
So there was Mrs. Cleaveland in a strange town, alone in a hotel with
the dead bodies of her husband, her oldest girls, her sister, her
brother-in-law, and her nephew, with nobody to console her except
for two little girls of seven and four years of age."
Life went on, even after a tragedy. Sophie and Theodore tried to
watch over the widow and offered to take her in for the winter. They
wrote to his parents on September 22,1860,
Mrs. Cleaveland is not going to spend the winter with
us.. .
She has decided to go back East to her family. So now the
most delightful family around here has been lost and destroyed.
Mrs. Cleaveland has been selling her furniture and so on, we have
seized the opportunity to buy for not much money a lot of things
we should otherwise have had to buy a few at a time-a lovely,
solid dresser, a good sofa, a kitchen stove, a small worktable, and a
number of other things.
A year later, several of the neighbors met at the schoolhouse to
organize the Chanhassen Cemetery Association. The initial members
were Hiram Eldridge, John Murray, Theodore Bost, Henry Lyman,
William Sarver, George Powers, and Harlow Langdon. They selected
a piece of land owned by John Murray, probably selected because it
held the grave of Nirum Abbott. After they divided the lots, they re-
served one for Clarissa Cleaveland. Her husband and daughters are
buried there. It was the final step for the Northampton colonists.
Chanhassen was now their final resting place.
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alongside her husband in a
drowning at Lake Calhoun.
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minder of their stay-they named Lake Lucy after their five-year-old
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Theodore Bost came from Switzerland and settled in Chanhassen
in November, 1855. He was a regular correspondent throughout his
life and his many letters provide us with the most detailed look at life
in early Chanhassen. Mter landing at Chaska, he began walking
through the woods, checking possible claims. "The claim I've just
bought was occupied by a railroad engineer who thought he'd like
farming but got tired of it.. . .Another good point of this claim is that
the people round about are English or American, either Christians or
at least churchgoers, ready to lend a hand to their neighbors and to
protect one another's claims."
Bost was a strongly opininated man from a strict Protestant family.
Along with Cleaveland, Lyman and Powers, he immersed himself in
Republican politics.
Life on the Frontier
The pioneers remembered the early years of Chanhassen as hard
yet Edwin Aldritt wrote, "Those were happy days. We were all good
friends and every man helped his neighbor. Frequently we would drive
ten or twenty miles to visit some family and if a new homesteader
came to the country we would all help him build his cabin." There
were no tradespeople, no shopkeepers. Everyone farmed the land.
Theodore Bost described his home to his parents in Switzerland:
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four feet high at the north end, and seven feet high at the south
end. Before moving in I took some earth from the cellar, mixed
water with it, and then threw it with all four fingers and my
thumb between the logs of the cabin walls so that I am cozy and
warm and in the morning when I wash I have hardly any ice in my
room instead of seeing my drinking water turned to ice.
The cabin is now my bedroom, living room, dining room,
pantry, etc. and if I stay near the door I can spin around three
times in a row. . .without knocking anything over. Seated on my
empty nail keg, I can do everything I need to do without getting
up; I tend my fire by leaning over to my right, where I also keep
my kettle; then I keep my lamp, a tin can, a cup, ete.; then still
perched on my keg, by leaning over backward I land on my bed
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