History of Clay and Norman counties, Minnesota : their people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families . and proceeded on out to Minnesota, settling in Becker county,which not long before had been opened for settlement, and there made hishome for five years, or until 1877. when he moved over into Clav countv. CHARLES LAMB. SR. THP NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY astor. LENes. CLAY AND NOKMAN COUNTIES, MINNESOTA. 185 and hume:^teade(I a quarter of a section of land in what later came to beorganized as Elkt
History of Clay and Norman counties, Minnesota : their people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families . and proceeded on out to Minnesota, settling in Becker county,which not long before had been opened for settlement, and there made hishome for five years, or until 1877. when he moved over into Clav countv. CHARLES LAMB. SR. THP NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY astor. LENes. CLAY AND NOKMAN COUNTIES, MINNESOTA. 185 and hume:^teade(I a quarter of a section of land in what later came to beorganized as Elkton township, tiie first permanent settler in the same time he bought the tree-claim right to an quarter sec-tion, the original claimant having become discouraged and willing to dis-pose of his claim, and later bought an adjoining tract of one hundred acresof railroad land, thus making him a i)!ace of four hundred and twenty acres,which he gradually improved and which he still owns, now one of the mostvaluable farms in the townshi]). As the premier pioneer of that section ofthe county. Air. Lauib look an active part in the organization of the town-shij) when increasing settlement jiresently necessitated the organization ofthe community for civil purposes, and was elected a member of the first boardof township supervisors, a position he occupied for twent}-four years and
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