1851-Wabasha-First Poll List

[peacekeeper]

A distant relative sent me a photo copy of a newspaper article dated February 4, 1909. It's heading is:

First Poll List
List of the First election Held in This City Nearly Fifty-eight years ago, then Wabashaw
the folowing is a pole list of the election held at the precinet of Wabashaw in the County of Wabashaw territory of Minnesota on tuesday the 14th day of October 1851.
Louis Rouque
Joseph Buisin
John Gilpen
Pierrre Bebo
Joseph Beandro
Baptist Grendow
Francis LaPoint
Pierre Lariviere
Baptist Rouque
Joseph Rouque
Augusta Asskeo
Alexis Bailey
F. S. Richards
Joseph Champigre
Mitchell Lariviere
John Campbell
Wm. Campbell
Oliver Monett
Jerry Campbell
Jospeh LaPoint
George Campbell
John Campbell Jr.
Pierre Ertibees
Oilver Cratte
Samuel Wells
Oliver Raccaco
William Whitmarse
Thomas Smith
Edwin Morse
Amos Wheeler
James Wells
Henry Bailey
Alexis P. Bailey
Charles R. Reede
Daniel Weaver
Thirty-five voters comprised what is now the city of Wabasha and probably Reeds and the prairie extending down river as far as the Zumbro river. This was about the first election that was held in this vicinity. Of this list of voters there is not one of them left, all have been called to their final home, but there are a number of old settlers that remember them, and there is a goodly number of their children that are living, some still residing here and others have moved away.
We are indebted to Samuel Hirschy for this list he having kept and it is well preserved, being very plainly written on an excellent quality paper.
We are unable to publish the list of officers that were elected at that election, no one that we could find being able to furnish us with the name, as it is before their recollections.

[tamara]

That is amazing. It reminds me of looking in a small town library and finding that a non indian lady had kept in the front part of a local history book she donated, newspaper clippings of stories that involved my Grandpa's family and their own stories of the period of the Dakota conflict. It even had pictures of his great grandparents. Why she did that I'll never know, and how I came to see it is also amazing because when the librarian showed it to me, she had no idea the clippings were there and that they were of my family.

Tamara

[hermin1]

it also reminds me of when I was searching for my dad's relatives and found that one of them a cousin wason the rescue ship USS Carpathia that rescued some of the survivors of the TItanic after it sank.