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CHAPTER VI.DAWN OF CIVILIZATION
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Sudden Transformation by Which the Arts of the White Took the Place of Centures of Aboriginal Life—Stearns County's Share in the Evolution of Society—Completing Dr. P. M. Magnusson's Chapters on "The Realm of Stearns County Before Minnesota Was Minnesota" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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CHAPTER VII.TERRITORIAL ORGANIZATION.
Minnesota Admitted as a Territory—Ramsey Arrives and Perfects Preliminary Organization—Stearns County Included in Second Judicial District—In Sixth and Seventh Council Districts—Territorial Legislature Meets—Original Counties Created—Stearns in Dakotah and Wahnahta Counties—Attached to Ramsey County—Stearns in Cass County—Cass Attached to Benton for Judicial Purposes—Other Sessions of the Territorial Legislatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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CHAPTER VIII.COUNTY REPRESENTATION.
Constitutional Convention—Minnesota Admitted as a State—Men Who Have Represented Stearns County in the Law-Making Bodies of the State—Congressmen Who Have Represented Stearns County in Washington—Boundary Lines of Legislative and Congressional Districts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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CHAPTER IX.BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW.
Important Incidents in the Lives of Several Men and Women Who Have Been Prominent in the History of Stearns County—Causes Which Have Contributed to Their Success—Family Genealogy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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CHAPTER X.COUNTY GOVERNMENT.
Stearns County Created—First Commissioners Meet—Election Precincts Established—Board of Supervisors—Government Again in Hands of Commissioners—Doings of the Successive Boards to the Present—Nearly Sixty Years of Official Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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CHAPTER XI.COURT HOUSE AND JAIL.
Early Efforts to Erect a Court House—Main Building Erected in 1864—Additions and Alterations—Efforts at Securing a More Modern Building—Bond Issues—County Jail—Old Log Jail—Present Jail Erected in 1878—Title to Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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