Excerpt from The History of Faribault County, Minnesota: From Its First Settlement to the Close of the Year 1879
This book is not a narrative of the lives and deeds of those whom the world usually calls its heroes of great achievements, its Genuses. Statesmen, Warriors, Scholars and Princes of wealth.
It is rather the unpretentious story of plain people, in the hum ble walks of life, who have come to this fair portion of God's earth, from almost every land under the sun, to found homes for themselves and their children, and here fill the measure of their lives, and who. Facing and conquering the hardships of frontier life, have in the course of. Years, taken up the lands. Opened productive farms, insti tuted civil government. Erected numerous churches and school houses and factories, established newspapers, built railroads and telegraphs and thriving towns. And organized all useful associations, converting the wilderness into a rich and populous county, in which are found all the blessings of an enlightened, Christian civilization. And such deeds too are worthy of historic record.
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