. A half century of Minnesota as territory and state; a concise account of the principal events in the period of discovery, exploration, and settlement, and during the half century of territorial and state government . KEY. EDWAUD D. , Educator, Historian. services during two years in office, addedlargely to the debt which Minnesota oweshim as a leader during the formative peri-od. His efforts in behalf of education, thechurch, libraries and historical researchmade a strong impression on the develop-ments in the higher life of the state. It is to the credit of the pioneers of Mi
. A half century of Minnesota as territory and state; a concise account of the principal events in the period of discovery, exploration, and settlement, and during the half century of territorial and state government . KEY. EDWAUD D. , Educator, Historian. services during two years in office, addedlargely to the debt which Minnesota oweshim as a leader during the formative peri-od. His efforts in behalf of education, thechurch, libraries and historical researchmade a strong impression on the develop-ments in the higher life of the state. It is to the credit of the pioneers of Min-nesota that an institution of higher learn-ing was contemplated in the earliest whom the suggestion originated isnot a matter of record, but at the time ofthe Stillwater convention, in 1848, it ap-pears to have been the general understand-ing that the coming state was to have auniversity. In pursuance of the generalunderstanding, Gov. Ramsey recommend-ed in his message to the second territoriallegislature that a university be established. \ \ Jiljll 7^5 PrSV S^. !JS r 1 ^jij^V n 11) 1) |l1 11 1 ill 11 A HALl CE\TUR> OF MINNESOTA. 21 and a bill creating the institution was in-troduced by J. W. North, of St. shortly became a law. There was noappropriation carried by this act. and thefirst board of found itself withoutmeans to estabHsh the work a memorial to congress had beenpassed, and in the following year twotownships were reserved for the uses ofthe institution. As there was little pros-pect of realizing upon this grant imme-diately, Franklin Steele, in 1852, presentedthe regents with a block of land near thepresent site of the Minneapolis expositionbuilding, and erected a two-story framebuilding which was to Ue used as a pre-paratory school for the university. Withcheerful ootimism, it was believed that bythe time any students were university itself would be ready to re-ceive them. This preparatory school wasopened
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